Year: 1859

make them certain that all the old, genuine, ! gentiemanfy, Wing principles and feelings were out of me, and that 1 really had the true reli-

 zion, and was converted. They might put me ? Tn the kitchen of the household of the Loco } focos until they believed was really Christ ian, aud showed it evidently. do not know how should be treated. think 1 shall look a little further before I go in,

 say platforms are fixed up in that way for } the Presidency. Now, do not know what

 may be the result of the next Presidential cleo ton. expect to take no part in it. I have 4 been favored much by my own State of Ken

 tucky, cherished beyond my merit, upheld all ways, except recently, when my successor was

 elected. 1 love her, even as strong hearted

 man loves his own mother Whatever may be

 her waywardness in politics, or my own for

 tunes, I can only say that hope that all day

 long the dews of Heaven may fall lightly upon her fields and upon her forests, and the sun-

 shine set brightly upon them.s - I Mir. President, my strength is failing me, but

 l must say something more utterly condemn

 this rampant spirit and cry for war. It is

 wrong cry it is wrong teaching for the coun-

 try and 1 predict that, if we get into ca

 lamitous war with France and with England

 on this account, we shall repent it to the latest day of our lives. Do not pass this unnecessary

 bill, and insult neighbor by this proposition,

 which is every way unadvised and uncalled for ] " Whcn you get into war, you will find that

 fighting John Bull is not talking When Eng,

 land sent men here in the last war, and burned this Capitol, it was a mere by-play for her

 She was upholding all continental Europe then,

 against the colossal power of Napoleon and

 yet she came here just as a by-play, and troub-

 led us as she did Our people think we whip

 ped England, and you hear them say through

 out the country that we whipped Wellington's

 inviHcible and they believe that we absolute ly whipped the veterans who fought the battle

 of Waterloo, although that battle was not

 fought until the 18th of June after the 8th of

 January, when the battle of New Orleaus was

 fought. They are stuffed up in that way, and

 infamed with war spirit.

 Old John Bull, as 1 said, is bloody old

 hruiser. If the Senator from Georgia was

 here, would ask him if he did not see how

 Spain and Sardinia sent off their quota to the

 Crmean war at the request of England, al

 though they had just about as much interest

 in it as l had England just said to them,

 if you do not fight on my side l will whip "you." That is the whole of it. They follow

 England in that kind of way. John Bull, if i i-may use familiar illustration that will be understood in the country, is like a great url- rnly mastiff, bull dog. Old Bull goes prowl- ) ing about, hunting up fights. Along in his } train follow Caesar and Pompey, Jumper and

 Jupiter and though the first two are Romans of high degree, aud the last god they follow ill his train with fear and trembling. When he nails dog, they leg him, and nip him, and down they get him until he is throttled to death,

 and there is nation plotted from the map of the earth or if after worrying him and crip- ping him and wounding Eim, they send him

 home, it is in pain to work the balance of his days to pay the expenses of the fight

 ; Well, sir, l do not know the Senator from Georgia's idea about it but take it that in making up fight, there ought to be some sense about it, as there is about anything else. There ought to be some reason about it. Now, , sir, the United States comparatively is bull terrier that is as game as ten thousand lions, and superadded to his natural pluck, he has the ] spirit of the seven devils that were driven out

 of Mary Magdalen. Do you suppose I would 9 hiss him on that old bulI if thought anything of the dog ? and l know l love my country : better than could any dog I do not want , tO uldht up u HSul ol tIlaG kllu.

 Sir these men who are so ready to talk about

 fighting, very often are the last men to do it.

 Whenever see man out in the muster field

 or in the courtyard, clustering and talking

 about his willingness to shed his last drop o

 blood, would rather see somebody who would n be willing to shed the first drop Laughter : If we get into this war we must go through with it at all hazards, at every expense, and at lncc nnp t thing would be loss and ruin to us We, with h our insufficient navy, should be utterly unable t to cope with those two powers They do not l. see inclined to fight us /; they do not want tc e fight us they were willing to share fairly with r. us. l suppose the talk about fighting just d means this, and no more men know that there

 is in this country a deep-rooted popular senti t ment of dislike, an inveterate feeling of hatred l toward England-I mean with the lower or e ders. 1t comes down traditionally from oul Q revolutionary war; It was revived by the last ] war we had with her. It is safe thing in any - ignorant crowd to curse England, and you will t not find any body of any party who does not d back you. suppsose it is popular theme fol y Reclamation but think it is time we had quit F it. l believe that is the prevailing, dominant + feeling with the ignorant portion of our popu 2 latlon. Whether it is just or unjust, will moi y pretend to say, but it is an element in the Anne d rican character ; an element like their ignoring y the rights of a Mexican or Spaniard. It is 2 d feeling they have They hate red-coat ane t Brtisher Mir. Dallas and Lord Napier may d have as many suppers and feasts as you please l they may talk about the same language, and e reading the same Milton and the same Shaks h peare and about common blood and frater e nity and all that. Very wel that is just as 't nice as two ladies who hate each other like th' + Devil, gossiping very pleasantly over tea ta 7, b!e. Laughter. This is what it amount c- tO Fofkc do no4s foai fbof IT ic o