Year: 1862

Mr.. ichardsOn-Fremont. Banks. Shields,
and fear McClean's army had the worst of the
fight before Richmond. The Secsetary introduces
the Austrian war tactics which Napoleon explo-
ded long ago, and made their failure so plain that
every schOolboy had learned it. These four di-
visions of our army were and are so scattered,
that no two of them can CO operate together and
when the great battle at Richmond took place,
three divisions which should have aided to win il
were inactive and not in situation to aid in any
particular. The future nav reveal the wisdom
of this strategy; at present it Is not perceptble.
The rebel commander could not have arranged
more advantageousy for himself and more dis
advantageOusly tor Us, these divisions of the army
| than done


Another of Buchanans Cabinet. and one OF
the best, too. General Dix, has division of the
army intrusted to his management. One of the
most servile Of Mr. Buchanan's followers, and
one of the most ardent of the supporters of
Breckinridge, General Butler. has had intrusted
to him another division of the army. He has
gained more notoriety by his order at New Or
leans than he has won fame by his sword.
This General cast his vote forty-nine times at
Charleston to make Jefferson Davis candidate
for the Presidency of the United States, and by
his course there did more than any one ese-Ca
leb Cushing always excepted = to induce the
Southern leaders to take the-rst step in rebellion
by leaving that Convention. General Shield, but
recently in command of division in Virginia,
was another of Breckinrdge's supporters The
/ Chairman of the Breckenridge Central Commit
tee. during the contest of 1860. has an important
command in the army in South Carolina. Du-
/ ring that political contest, Judge Douglas salts
/ fed that he had no chance for success. and that
Mr. Lincoln wO1ld be elected took the stump for a
single purpose; that purpose was to produce ac-
/ cord and unanimity everywhere that the person
elected according to the Constitution should he
inaugurated aud administer the Government His
canvass during 1860 had this purpose and none
other. For the utterance of these sentiments, Mr..
Chairman Stevens characterized Judge Douglas
as a "mOuntebank."


Two provisional Governors have been appoint
ed. One of them, Governor johnson. was a
warm, decided ,unbending Breckenridge supporter;
and for his election traversed the State of Ten
neSsee The Administration does not indOrse the
sentiment that Breckenridge men may not and
should not be called to place and power. During
the last campaign in the State of New York,
Daniel 5. Dickinson was nominated and elected
Attorney General by the Republican party. he
was one of the genuine Buchanan and Breckin
ridge men. 1t is true he never held Office by ap-
pointment from Buchanan, but that was not his
(Dickinson's) fault. He was, in days gone by,
great wOrshiper of those now in rebellion. He
has expressed regret that he was not born in Vir-
ginia; and if YOU can call to place response
BILE as that of Attorney General of the State of
New York such man. | think it does not be-
come you to speak write about Buchanan or
Breckinridge men here or elsewhere being called
to power You would not hesitate moment to
call Buchanan himself to any position in this
country, it thereby you could advance your own
selfish ends and purposes.


| have not alluded to these appointments to
civil and military offices, and to the election of
an Attorney General in New FORK for the pur
pose of finding fault. l have no complaint to
make; none whatever; and if had, it would be
unavailing and useless. do not complain, and
shall not | have called attention to these ap-
pOintments to relieve the address from an unjust
imputation sought to be cast upon it. Sir, It is
said the address meets with but little public favor
that it is not popular. About that we will see
hereafter. Ii is what l conceived, as did each
one who signed it, to be right and proper; that it
asserted correct principles to guide our course
1t is the path of duty, and ! shall endeavor to
walk it. though / have to trudge it alone


Popular favor generally comes 10 correct con-
clusions sooner or late On its march it often
consigns the hero of to-day to exile to morrow.
In passion il sometimes condemns to the block or
scaffold the guilty and the innocent Reparation
for the wrong done to innocence is made IN the
page of faithful history.


One other ground of objection is urged: that
the address is guilty of the reasonable act of





public expenditures. IL is true this is more by
insinuaton than by direct charges. 1t is init
mated or insnuated, here and elsewhere, that no
man is loyal who complains of speculation ex-
travagance in the expenditure of public money.
l had supposed that the reOorts of the committee
OF this House, of the Senate, of the commission
appointed by the President, composed as it was of
men eminent for ability, integrity, and patriotism,
was intended to suppress pecuatons upon the
l fraa nd hat oil dain hIio
service who aided in bringing the public mind to
condemn such practices From the course OF de-
bate here, and from the tenor of newspaper arti
cles from the press in your interest, it seems that
doubts are entertained of the loyalty of men who
expose and 5enOunce larcenies from or frauds
upon the public treasury My young and elo-
quent friend from Indiana has been suspected be-
cause he had the audacity to charge that thefts
had been committed upon the treasury, and that
our expenditures were enormous each day. Nei
ther the Democratic address nor the speech of
Mr.. Voorhees, charges one-half of what s al
legged by the Holt commission, the Van Wyck
committee by Republican members upon this
floor, and in the Senate Both here and in the
Senate it has been said by Republican members
and Republican Senators that we were in more
danger from those who were plnndering the trea-
sury than from the rebels in arms.


Believing that it was wrong to plumber the pub
lie money in this hour of my eountry's need, and
that economy was necessary, / have said so, and
still adhere to that opinion.


| am grieved to -hink that all this ado on the
/ part of Republicans about prodigality and to pre-
vent fraud was mere sham 70 deceive the pub
| lic l confess i do not comprehend how we,can
embarrass the Administration by exposing and
denOuncing fraud and peculation upon the treas
ury. by bringing the Government back to rigid
economy. l had supposed, until recently, that
/ this was the proper way to aid the Admnistra-
/ ton, TO help them put down the rebellion and
| preserve the Government. | am mistaken if you
do not find this the true and indispensable policy
to control your actions in future.


There is one single other point to which wish
to allude. and | will then take my seat. 1t is
said. both here and elsewhere, that no member
! Is loyal who did not support the tax bill il
passed this House. am ready to defend that
vote here or elsewhere; feel no uneasness upon
that point. To day might content myselfin de-
fense by saying that if the statements to our
Indebtedness and expenditures made by the
Secretary of the Treasury, by the gentlemen
| (Mr. Dawes and Mr.. McPherson) are true. we
do not need the vast amount that will be
raised under this bill. Ii the Secretary of the
| Treasury has not made truthful statement in
this regard, lie should not have control of the
amount, vast as il will be, which you propose to
raise.


But, sir, there existed reasons that were satis-
factory 10 nv mind for the vote given, that
shall hereafter elaborate and only briefly allude
| 70 now.


The amendments made by the Senate in some
respects greatly improved the bill in others made
il more Objectionable. The principle upon which
the bill is based is erroneous and wrong. By your
tariff as now arranged. and your tax bill as il
passed this House. the support of the Government
falls mainly and heavily upon tie laborer and
producer, not upon capital, which is capable to
pay aud should be made to pay. Under the ope
ration of the tariff as it now exists the poor la