The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-08-05

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ell fought at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
three brigades of Johnston's com
mand, and at a time when Ricketts,
battery was knocked to pieces by a
Virginia regiment and started stam
pede, and Beauregard's army was off
on the left and was not in contact
with the army Of Mcdowell at the
time. Therefore, if Johnston's nine
thousand men had not been on that
ground and fought the battle in con-
nection with BeauIegard's, Mcdowell
would have been successful, for up to
4 o'clock he was successful, and had
driven the enemy during the day, and
the stampede was caused By one brig
ade Of Johnston's troops, which came
in and struck the flank of Mcdowell.
Therefore. [ am justified in the as
sertion that by Fitz-John Porter per-
suading Patterson with $4,000 men to
retreat from Winchester where John
ston had but 5000, instead Of attack
ING him, caused the failure Of the first
battle of Bull Run. Why did he do
this? He did it, in my judgment, be-
cause Mcdowell was in command, as
he showed up to the time he was dis.
missed lis enmity to Mcdowell and
Pope by sneers, by CRITICISMS, and, in
every way possible that he could show,
his vindictiveness and his feeling
toward these men
So I insist that it was part Of the
programme that no man should COM
mand the army Of the East unless of
their own choice, and as long as either
Mcdowell or Pope did command they
were thwarted by Porter and his
friends. | shall show when | come to
that point what one Of those gentle
men stated in telegram on the very
day of the second battle of Bull Run
to President Lincoln in reference to
Pope getting out Of his own scrape.
It will not do for Senators to say that
this man is being prosecuted, when in
every case where either Mcdowell or
Pope were in command he caused their
defeat by his own improper conduct.
So [ assert that he caused the loss
of the first battle of Bull Run as well
as the second. The sworn statement
that | have read, given by the officers
under Patterson, who were present,
sworn to by men who wanted to at
tack Johnston, sworn to by men who
had troops prepared for the assault,
shows that Patterson was dissuaded
from giving the order through the in
fuence of Fitz-Jo ohm Porter. There
fore [ say he caused the disaster Of the
first Bull Run, as we'll as the second.
Yesterday we were told that there
was a change of sentiment on this
subject. There may be, but / have
not discovered it. [ have not treated
this case by sending resolutions up to
the desk to be read from some army
post, or the letter Of some soldier. |
have treated it from the testimony.
When Senators speak about a change
Of sentiment [ can show in my room
to-day thousands Of letters and hun
dreds Of resolutions to their one, from
Grand Army posts, if [ was so dis
posed; but [ do not argue cases in that
way. | argue this case from the facts,
and not from outside letters claiming
that Porter is being prosecuted.
do not consider that it is persecu-
tion to defend the action of men like
Lincoln and Garfield and other men
who condemned this man; and, as God
is my Judge, [ would stand over the
dust OF Lincoln and swear to his act
being honest and just; and, sir, | will
take my chance of being judged by
honest men to-day and by my God
hereafter by the side Of men who will
to-day defame the name Of Lincoln
for the benefit OF man guilty Of base
treachery, and especially when men
will undertake to distort or change
the evidence for such purpose
All, sir, strange times these! The
evidence Of that is that if inan is a
Democrat, and wants relief through
Congress, he will always fnd Rppub-
licans enough on this side who will
join that side to pass whatever bill is
necessary for the purpose. You gen.
tlemen on the opposite side make this
a party question; and why? You
gentlemen who were down in the con-
federacy know nothing about this
case except what you have read. You
did not know anything about the trial
when it went on, about the feelings
Of the people. about the facts as then
known, but now distorted. You come
now and vote without reference to
facts, out of pure sympathy for this
man and out of a feeling against any
act Of Lincoln's. There are men on
this side who are always ready to do
apparently the same thing, and yet
they claim great admiration for Mr..
Lincoln.
It is strange, however, Mr. Presi-
dent, that every person who has been
restored to the Army with high rank
who was dismissed from the service or
resigned because he was in sympathy
with the rebellion was a Democrat and
has been restored by votes Of Repub-
licans, who are ever ready to restore
to honorable position Democrats, and
at the same time to sneer at and crit
icise their own friends who made hon
orable records for themselves in de-
fense Of their country.
Why, sir. the highest pensions yet
given have been given to Democrats,
and your restorations to high places
in the Army have been Democrats
1t seems that in the minds Of some
that everything that the Republican
party did during the war was wrong,
and everything that Democrats did
was right. We were told a few years
ago that the legislation of the war
should be reversed. It is being done
every day, and it is being done by the
votes of a few Republicans who seem
to think that the way to sustain their
friends is to declare everything done
by them to have been wrong.
To-day we are sitting on the trial of
Lincoln, Garfield, Hunter, and all of
those men whose acts we once ap-
plauded, with Fitz-John Porter, the
condemned man, as the prosecutor;
and he finds his defenders on this side
of the Gh IN hn,. He dnns not nnnd