War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.

The war now is away back in the past, and you can tell what books cannot. When you talk, you come down to the practical realities just as they happened. You all know this is not soldiering here. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come, I am there.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.