The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11


was delivered. and few Of those who
listened to it remain, but with them
the scene, the impression and the eff
feet are as vivid as if it were but yes
terday. Its reproduction here could
not fail, even after this lapse of time,
to profit those who might read it, how
ever much would be lost for want of
the fire, the vehemence and the lofty
mien of the orator. l shall make no
apology for the space occupied by the
meager extracts cannot pass over:
IF it be said that a time may come
when the question of recognizing the
southern confederacy will have to be
answered, 1 admit it. y
When the people, exhausted by taxa
ton, weary of sacrifice, drained of
blood, betrayed by their rulers, de-
luded by demagogues into believing
that peace is the way to union, and
submission the path to victory, shall
throw down their arms before the adj
Vanclng foe; when vast chaSmS across
every state shall make it apparent to
every eye when too late to remedy it,
that division from the south is anarchy
at the north, and that peace without
union is the end of the republic, then
the independence of the south will be
an accomplished fact, and gentlemen
may, without treason to the dead re-
y
wherever it may then be in America,
and declare themselves for recognizing
their masters at the south rather than
DISCRIMINATING them. Until that day
in the name OF every house in the land
where there is one dead for the holy
cause, in the name of those who stand
! before us in the ranks of battle, in the
name of the liberty our ancestors have
confided to us, l devote to external
a f0t1 l. Ii ii,
propose to destroy this blessed land
rather than it's enemies. But until
that time arrives it is the judgment of
the American people that there shall
! be no compromise; that ruin to our
selves or ruin to the Southern rebels
are the only alternatives It is only by
resolutions of this kind that nations
can rise above great dangers and over
come them in crises like this. 1t was
only by turning France into a camp
resolved that Europe might eXtermin-
ate but would not subjugate her that
France is the leading empire of Europe
| today. 1t is by such a resolve that the
American people, coercing a reluctant
government to draw the sword and
stake the national existence of the
! integrity of the republic, are now any
! thing but the fra gments of a nation be
fore the world, the scorn and the hiss
of every petty tyrant. 1t is because the
people of the United States, rising
10 the height of the occasion, dedicated
| this generation to the sword and pour
ing out the blood Of their children as
of no account, and vowing before high
! heaven that there should be no end to
| this conflict, but ruin absolute, or abSo-
| lutte triumph, that we are now what
we are; that the banner of the re-
public, still pointing onward, floats
proudly in the face of the enemy.
s. 1t is only by the earnest and
abiding resolution of the people that,
whatever else shall be our fate, it shall
| be grand as the American nation, wor-
thy of that republic which first trod
! the path of empire and made no peace
but under the banner of victory, that
! the American people. will survive in
| history. And that will save US. We
shall succeed and not fail. 1 have an
abiding confidence in the firmness, the
/ patience, the endurance of the Ameri-
can people, and having vowed to stand
| in history on the great resolve to ac-
cept of nothing but victory or ruin,
victory is ours. And if, with such he
roic resolve, we fall, we fall with hon
or and transmit the name of liberty
committed to our keeping untarnished
to go down to future generations.
II We must fall let US stand amid
| the crash of the republic and be bur-
led in its ruins, so that history may
take note that men lived in the middle
of the nineteenth century worthy of a
better fate, but characterized by God
for the sins of their forefathers."
A RUPTURE BETWEEN DAVIS
| AND LINCOLN.
One element in the leadership of Mr..
| Davis was the positiveness of his con-
I xrilsti
! he asserted them, regardless of per-
/ sonal consequences. Men love such
leadership, but it has its limitations
L have already alluded to the antag-
onisms which gathered round the path
OF this leader In the closing months
of this, the last Congress in Mr.. Lin
! coins administration, very difficult and
| delicate questions sprung up over the
| restoration of states or parts of states
! to their old relations to the Union in
the rear Of the retreating rebel forces.
| Upon these questions, the House, fol-
! lowing Mr.. Davis, who was chairman
of it's committee upon that subject.
differed directly with MI Lincoln.
claiming for Congress exclusive iuris
| dlctlon. against a like exclusive claim
| on the part of the executive. This diff
terence, persisted in and pressed with
all the energy Of this bold and uncom-
promising leader became serious and
at one time threatened disaster to the
cause A bill was carried through Con-
gress, under the lead of Mr.. Davis
taking the whole matter out of The
hands OF the President, but was killed
by pocket veto.
ms acton of the president aroused the
! hostility of Mr.. Davis to the extent of an
Tgea rupture b1 e, ana ID declaration of war
majority OF the House he threw off all
restraint, and appealed from the presi
aent 70 the people in manifesto which
empodled everything extreme in his ma
lure, concise, clear, denunciatory. menace
ing, declaring the act of President Lincoln
r&sn ana fatal a blow at the rights
Oh humanity and the principles of republic
can government and reminding him
that the people were supporting a cause
ana not man. that the authority of
obey and execute, not make the laws"
and must suppress armed rebellion by
arms and leave political reorganization to
Congress"
Upon this appeal the people decided in
favor of Mr.. Lincoln, quite as much be-
cause with him there was safety and
merits of the question itself. But the con-
troversy showed the qualities of leader
ship which gave Mr.. Davis the power he
eNerted in the House of Representatives,
almost from the day he entered it.
RETIREMENT FROM CONGRESS AND
SUDDEN DEATH.
He retired to private life at the end of
this Congress and died very suddenly,
after few days illness, on the Goth Of
December following. The public had not
been apprised of his illness till it was
startled by the announcement of his !
death There was universal mourning and |
the feeling of great public loss found |
expression in almost every quarter All |
criticism and harsh judgment was silenc-
ed in the recollection of great deeds and |
patriotic service in hours of greatest peril |
and need. Mr.. Sumner pronounced his |
death national calamity, and Mr.. Blaine |
Congress, has left this testimonial on |
record. Had he been blessed with length |
of days the friends who best knew his |