Year: 1864




smiles. You cannot send commissioners
down to Richmond, as the gentleman
from New York, Mr.. Fernando Wood


proposes, to smile away the horrible facts
of this war. Not by smiles, but by thun
dering volleys must this rebellion be met
and by that means alone. am reminded


of what Macauly said in regard to the
revolution in England. He said:


at is because we had preserving rev
olution in the seventeenth century thai
we have not a destroying revolution ii
the nineteenth. 1t is because we hao
freedom in the midst of servitude that
we have order in the midst of anarchy
For the authority of the law, for the Sc


curity of property, for the peace of oul
streets, for the happiness of our homes,
our gratitude is dEe, under Him who
raises and pulls down nations at Hi:
pleasure, to the Long Parliament, to the
Convention, and to William of Orange


Mr.. Speaker, if we want a peace that is
not a hollow peace we must follow that
example and make thorough work of this
war. We must establish freedom in the
midst of servitude, and the authority OF
law in the midst of rebellion. We must
fill the thinned ranks of our armies, as
sure them that a grateful and loving peo-
are behind them, and they will go down
against the enemy bearing with them the
majesty and might of great nation. We
must follow the march of the Army with
a law that will sweep away the cause OF
the whole terrible revolution. The war
began by proclamation, and it must end
by proclamation. We can hold the in
surgent States in military subsection hall
q century if needs be, or until they are
purged of their dross and poison, and
leave them to stand up clean hands if
they come at all. Iwant to seein all those
States the men who have fought and suf-
fered for the truth tilling the fields on
which they pitched their tents. l want
to see them, ike old Kaspar of Blenheim,
on the summer evenings, with their
children upon their knees, and pointing
out the spot where brave men fell, and
marble commemtores.


Let no breath of treason be whispered
there. l want no man there, like one
from my own State, who came before the
great struggle in Georgia and gave US his
views of peace. He came as the friend
of Vallandigham, the man for whom the
gentleman on the other side of the
House worked and voted. We were on
the eve of the great battle. l said to
him, "You wish to make Mr.. Vallandig-
ham Governor of Ohio. Why Be
cause, in the first place." using the Ian
guage of the gentlemen from New York,


Mr.. Fernando Wood, you cannot sub
jugate the South, and we propose to with
draw without trying it any further. In
the next place, we do not want anything
to do with an abolition war, and will not
give one dollar for that purpose" Re
gentlemen, what occurred on
the conscription bill this morning. ITO
l continued, 1--WE may be en-
gagged in death struggle with the rebel
army that confronts US, and is daily in
Where is the sympathy of
your psrtyf Do you want US beaten, or
Bragg beatenr He answered they had
no interest in fighting, that they did not
believe in fighting.


Mr.. Noble. A question night here.


Mr.. Garfield. cannot yield; | have
no time. He was the agent sent by the
Secretary of State to distrib-
ute election blanks to the army of the
Cumberland.


Mr.. Noble. A single question.


Mr.. Garfield. l have no time to'spare.


Mr.. Noble. l want to ask the gentle
man if he knows that Mr.. Griffith has
made question of veraeity with him by
I positive denial of the alleged converse
lion published in the Cincinnati Enquir-
er.


Mr.. Garfield. No virtuous denials in
the Cincinnati Enquirer can alter the fact
Of this conversation, which was heard by
3 dozen officers.


asked him further, ''How would 1t at
feet your party if We should crush the
rebels in this battle, and utterly destroy
them?" 1--WE would probably lose votes
by it." How would it affect your party
# we should be beaten ?" ''It would
probably help US in votes"


That, gentlemen, is the kind OF support
The Army is receiving in what should be
The house of its friends. This, gentle
men, is the kind of support these men
some of them are inclined to give this
country and its Army in this terrible
l hasten to make honorable
l know there are honorable
gentlemen on the other side who do not
belong to that category, and l am proud
10 acknowledge them as my friends. But
say that the effect of what the majority
IF them are doing will tend to pull down
he fabric of our Government by aiding
heir friends over the border to do it
TReir friends, 1 say, for when the Ohio
election was about coming of, in the
lrmy at Chattanooga there was more
anxiety in the rebel camp than in our
OWN. The pickets had talked face to face
md made daily inquiry how the election
n Ohio was going. And at midnight of
he 18th of October, when the telegraphic
news was flashed down to US, and an
to the army that the Union had
sixty thousand majority in Ohio, there
arose shout all along the line on that
rainy midnight from every tent which
rent the skies with jubilees, and sent de
spair to the hearts of those men beyond
our lines who were waiting and watch
ing across the border" 1t told them
their colleagues, their sympathizers, their
friends, | had almost said their emlssa-
-ies, had failed to sustain themselves in
turning the tide against our friends in the
contest. And from that hour, but not
illl lndI uOuT, Ine army Hdu lcAt SdAS
rom the enemy behind it.


deprecats these apparently partisan
remarks; it hurts me to make themi but
It hurts me more to know they are true.
would not make them, but that / wish
to unmask the pIetext that We are work
ng along all in body for the vigorous
of the war and the mainte-
nance of the Government. cannot cas-
lily forget the treatment the conscription
bill met this morning. Even the few men
in the army who voted for Vallandigham
wrote on the back of their tickets draft,
lraft." That was the voice of the Army.
[ conclude by returning once more to the
resolution before US. Let no weak senti-
nents of misplaced sympathy deter Us
rom inaugurating a measure which will
cleanse our nation and make it the fit
nome of freedom and glorious manhood.
Let us not despise the severe wisdom OF
,ur revolutionary fathers, when they
erved their generatio n in similar way.
Let the Republic drive from its soil the
.raitors that have conspired against its
ife, as God and His angels drove Satan
md his host from heaven. He was not