Year: 1863

Mr.. WRIGHT. II the gentleman get!


on the jacket have BEEN wearing, he will


have better Democratic JACKIE. than hi


was ever wrapped up in during his whole


life, and am Of the opinion he will fee


so comfortable that he will wonder in


amazement that he was ever without one


like it,


Mr.. vALLANDIGHAM. Perhaps the


gentleman will have the kindness TO loan


it to me little while.


Mr.. WRIGHT. There is reckoning


in store for men on both sides Of this ques


ton. There is record made up of the
men who sustain their country in the
hour Of its trial. I grant you that the
Cowboys of the Revolution might have
been very respectable people, if King
George had but succeeded in maintain
ing his government over the colonies, but
as he did not happen to be successful,
the name Cowboys and Tories has become
somewhat disreputable. Let their men,
ory be warning to those men now. who
in the dark hour Of peril and danger, lend
their sympathies to their country's foe
Let them profit bv history.


So your peace men, when this great
Government is restored, as it shall be,
you who cry "peace," and stay at home
in the enjoyment Of ease and luxury,
while the sons and brothers of loyal men
are doing battle manfully in the field and
for the great cause Of human liberty,
shall hear sound rung in your ears; from
the voices of indignant men, as terrible as
that rung in the ears Of the Cowboys and
Tories of the American Revolution. They
need not think that by your crying
peace" our Army is to be disbanded,
our country destroyed. Our army went
into the battle field for the express
purpose Of the preservation Of the Union.
| differ from the Executive of the nation,
and | always differed from the ultra men
of this House, who want to make this
war Of negro emancipation, instead Of
war for the restoration of the Union.-
Here WAS the grand error-here arose halt
our troubles. The Army went into the
ield for the purpose Of restoring the Gov
Its numbers have reached to
over eight hundred thousand men. larger
Than any army which ancient or modern
lines have seen. That army is still in
he field, and its destiny is to preserve
The Union and protect the aag-and it has
The power and the courage to do SO, and
will do SO. Applause on the floor and
n the galleries. do not care how ma
~ men there may be singing peace an
hens, or crying out at the North that
,lunders have been committed in the man.
lgement and conduct Of the war. The
act that there have been blunders does
,ot furnish to loyal men any reason why
hey should turn their backs upon the
country, and quickly stretch out their
rms to embrace its enemies. We must
ret along with these bluhders tue best
vay we can. We must appeal to the ul-
ra Republicans to let the negro alone, and
0 stand by the Constitution and the
Union. Then you will have such uni
ed power at the North as. when brought
0 bear and concentrated against this re-
ellion, viii put an end to it forever.


Mr.. Speaker. when ] cast my eyes
round the galleries Of this House. when


enter church on the Sabbath day, or
,ok around me in the hotel, how glaring-
! do I see the evidence Of motirhing
here. It strikes home to my heart that
here is some great pestilence stalking
trough the land. Perhaps out Of every
IN families at the North, there are not
hree of them that have not upon the do
,cstic hearth'stons, the bloody footprints