Excerpt from Read and Preserve: Select Speeches of Hon. Geo; W. Julian, of Indiana, Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Since the Beginning of the Late Rebellion
The friends of Mr. Julian in the District he has so long and so faithfully represented, earnestly desiring his continuance in Congress, have deemed it proper to republish the following Congressional Speeches, delivered since the beginning of the late rebellion, and circulate them in the Counties now united with Wayne, Union, and Fayette, as the new Fourth District. The reason for this is their desire that his sagacity, statesmanship, and faithfulness to his trust, shall be judged in the light of present events, and by his own principles, publicly avowed long before they were accepted by the Government. His ablest and most elaborate Speech, delivered January 14th, 1862, on the "Cause and Cure of our National Troubles," is omitted from this series, having been considerably circulated already in the counties referred to. His next Speech, delivered in May following, on "Confiscation and Liberation," is similar in style and character, and is the first of the series. That delivered in February, 1863, on the "Mistakes of the Past, the duty of the Present," is a merciless review of "Democratic policy," as seen in the facts and figures which had been supplied by the investigations of the Committee on the Conduct of the War. The next is a very thorough one, delivered in the winter of 1863-4, on his bill to provide "Homesteads for Soldiers on the Lands of Rebels," which was followed by another on the same subject, involving a controversy with Mr. Mallory, of Kentucky, who met with a most humiliating defeat. The next of the series was delivered the following winter, on "Radicalism and Conservatism," closing with a handsome and eloquent tribute to the Anti-Slavery pioneers. The remaining Speeches, all delivered during the Thirty-ninth Congress, on "Suffrage in the District of Columbia," on "Amending the Constitution," on "Radicalism, the Nation"s Hope," on "The Punishment of Rebel Leaders," and on "Regeneration before Reconstruction," add still further to his reputation as a thinker, and a perfectly independent man, who knows how to say what he thinks. All his Speeches breath the same spirit of freedom, and have the merit of careful thought, methodical arrangement, and a remarkable clear and forcible diction.
The leading facts of Mr. Julian"s career as a public man, are so well known, that no particular recital of them is needed by his old friends and constituents. He was an active leader in the Great Free Soil Revolt of 1848, which made California a free State; saved Oregon from Slavery; gave cheap postage to the people, and launched the policy of free homes on the public domain, which finally prevailed so many years later. He was a member of the memorable Thirty-first Congress, and bravely resisted the Great Compromise, by which the Wilmot Proviso was sacrificed, and the principle of popular sovereignty inaugurated, which ended in the raid into Kansas and kindred aggressions of Slavery. In 1852, his services and reputation received honorable national recognition in his nomination by the Pittsburg Convention for the Vice Presidency of the United States, on the ticket with the Hon. John P. Hale. In the years 1854 and 1855, he encountered the relentless hostility of his opponents and his former political friends, by his earnest warfare against Know-Nothingism, which he waged till this strange movement ceased to trouble our politics. In 1856 he was one of the Vice Presidents of the first National Republican Convention ever held, and Chairman of the Committee on Organization, through whose plan of action, the party, as a national one, first took life. He has been the unflinching advocate of freedom under all circumstances, and regardless of consequences personal to himself; and this honor, we believe, is now accorded to him, by men of all pa. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Read and Preserve (Geo; W. Julian)