Year: 1862




Il policy of conciliation which would have bee
our salvation, we adopted the policy of meet
4 ing them all with fire and sword, and the fata
Il consequences are not yet all told


i Now, l agree that it is right and proper i
i every government that, where you put down re
bellion like this you should punish the leaders


but no government ever adopted the policy il
relation to themselves that ours has. A fey
years ago tho Hungarians rebeled against Aus


tria. That is one of the most despotic govern


ments on the face Of the globe. The govern
ment succeeded in overthrowing the rebellion
howl They executed few of the leaders
sent. the remainder into exile, and passed am
nesty to the residue who were not leaders in thu
rebellion. There never was government tha
has not uniformly let the burden fall upon thl
leaders, while the great mass of the people were
permitted to return and resume their allegiance
| to the government. And will venture TO as
sert that if, after the battle of Fort Donelson,
! the government had adopted this policy of con-
citation, there would have been no rebel army
in the field to-day. But instead of that being
the case, they are at this moment confronting
us with an army more numerous and superior
to our own, and we are compelled to call for
more volunteers. Now, the volunteering now
going on, in view of the doubt already cast
upon the subject, stands fair; but it is evident
that our people are not rushing to arms with
the spirit and in such numbers as they did when
the former call was made, when there was a
hope that the war was to be conducted upon
more humane and conservative. principles. In
this State and in Illinois we shall probably sue
ceed after while in raising our quota of vol
unteers, but in many of the States they will be
forced to draft.--The Congressional legislation
of late has been fatal to us in every way.


/ hear a good deal said now and then about
the 'sStatesmen" of this Republican party, but
have never been able to put my finger upon
any of their Craftsmanship. I have served a
long with them in Congress, and have found
it invariably the case that, whenever any man
called by their namo begins to rise to the posi-
ton of true Statesman, they crowd him ont
Of the ranks. Take Mr. Cowan, of Pennsyl-
yania, as an example.-They hate that man
worse, and denounce him more bitterly even than
they do me; for they say Richardson is an old
sinner anyhow, and they do not expect much of
him.


comes t., LID; that ,tura histoyian
will group these men, with respect to Statesman
ship, and will say, "Here is a set OF one idea
fools, who permitted the government handed
down to them by their forefathers to fall to the
ground rather than give up an absurd notion
which can never be realized or carried out"


You cannot administer government success
fully with one idea and let me tell you that
these men, when, in the pursuit of their one
idea, they come to make the negro do everything
and have everything dwindle down, down, down,
until they become totally incapable of anything
like true Craftsmanship. Last winter when L
saw my venerable friend here from Kentucky,
together with Mr.. Crittenden-men who had
been associated in days gone by with Clay and
Webster and Benton-occupying seats upon
the floor of Congress amongst these intellectual
pigmies and one-idea men, the poetry OF Moore
suggested itself very forcibly to my mind as pc
culiarly applicable to their situation:


81 feel like one who treads alone,


Some banquet hall deserted,


Whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead,


And all but he departed"


When we pass into the page of history, as
we soon shall, l fear that not one OF all the
representatives of the republican party now IN
Congress will ever have been found to have
produced paper---that is worthy OF the great
cause and the great interests that are commit-
ted to their charge.


Now, if YOU send these men back to Congress,
the history of the Republic is written. Our
days are numbered, and we arc numbered with
the past. UNANIMOUSLY, ingloriously, without
struggle, we passed away, and became "a school
boys tale--the wonder of an hour"


have heard good deal said about the
conservative Republicans in Congress" These
so called conservatives are excellent men, judg-
ing them by what they say; indeed, they talk
the best, to vote 80 badly Of any set OF men L
ever saw. We did think at first that your Rep
resentative from this Congressional district would
vote with us all the time, but we were sadly
disappointed when the time for talking was pass
cd by and he was called upon to vote That is
the way with all these men. For time they
would make good Union speeches, talking toll
erably conservative all tie time, and voting just
exactly like Lovejoy and ais friends.


/ came to the same conclusion about theee
conservative Republicans that Yankee once
came to in regard to the Siamess twins. The
Samese twina had come to Boston, and the old
Yankee had paid his money and went into the
show He examined the ligaments that bound
the young men together, and, as soon az he had
satisfied himself that it was a real thing, and
no humbug, he said, 'Well, rather guess them
fellows are brothers, Just so, my fellow-citi-
zens, have been compelled to conclude that
these conservative" Republicans and abolition
lists are brothers. Cheers and laughter. One
is about as bad as the other, or, if there is any
difference, it is in favor Of the abolitionists.
Loveioy avowed his policy. | like bold man.
If he is on the wrong principle, can at least
admire the courage which enables him to avow
himself. always could understand Lovejoy,
but never could understand your Representa-
tive from this Congressional district. Laugh