{"1": {"fulltext": "E 668\\n.S49\\nCopy 1\\nA new commaiulnient I si\\\\*o unto you, That vo love one another.\\nS P E E C II\\nHO:^^. E.= Ev^ SETTLE,\\nOF KENTUCKY,\\nHOUSE OF PvEPRESEJ^TATLVES,\\nWedkesday, June 1, 18D3,\\nON THE BILL TO REMOVE DISAIULITIES OF CONFEDERATES\\nOF THE LATE WAR.\\n\\\\Vy\u00c2\u00abLSIITTSrGXOW.\\n1808.", "height": "3737", "width": "2252", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "i\\n4\\nssssg", "height": "3636", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "or\\nDC\\nSPEECH\\nOP\\nHON. E. E. SETTLE.\\nThe House having under consideration the bill (S. ISTS) to remove all dis-\\nabilities imposed by section 3 of the fourteenth amendment to the Consti-\\ntution-\\nMr. SETTLE said:\\nMr. Speaker: I tliiuk when the permanent Record of this clay s\\nsession is made up it would be incomi^lete indeed if some Repre-\\nsentative from the South, some man who is supposed to be in sym-\\npathy with the Southern people in their present and their past\\nrelations to the General Government, did not avail himself of the\\nopportunity to respond to the generous sentiments that have been\\nuttered on the floor of the House by the gentleman from Ohio and\\nthe gentlemen from Iowa and Wisconsin in the conduct of this\\nbill to-day, for notwithstanding we may all say this is a just bill\\nand ought to have become a law years ago, yet we from the South\\nmust agree that it is none the less a generous bill; and Southeru\\nRepresentatives should not hesitate so to declare in their places\\nhere, for had we been the victors we might not have been so gen-\\nerous as they.\\nThis bill is but the culmination of the course of events that have\\nbeen gradualh approaching this point for ten or fifteen years\\npast. I have seen it in the present session. I have heard the\\ngreat battle hymn of the South\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -Dixey receive as generous\\napplause in Northern capitals as was accorded to the Star-\\nSpangled Banner and Marching Through Georgia. And it\\ncame not from Southern sympathizers, but from the generous\\npeople of the North, who took that occasion to say, in this way,\\n3115 3", "height": "3636", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "to tlieir brethren at llie South, We embrace you and have learned\\nto forget all past differences. [Applause.]\\nI happened to be at a down-town theater the other evening. In\\nthe interval between the acts it has become the custom not to go\\nout, but to remain and hear the orchestra discourse patriotic\\nanthems and airs. After the band had ceased inlaying some gen-\\ntleman arose and proposed Three cheers for McKinley, The\\nvast audience gave them with a will. Then three cheers were\\nproposed for Dewey, the hero of Manila, which were also responded\\nto. And then some gentleman, whom I took to be a military offi-\\ncer of rank, arose in his place, and waving his hand in the air\\nsaid, Three cheers for a united country! Gentlemen, that sen-\\ntiment caught me; and it caught that vast house. [Applause.]\\nI thank God that I have lived to see this day. We sometimes\\nthought that the great war between the States was an unmitigated\\nevil, but in the providence of God it, accompanied by other agen-\\ncies, has proved to be a great blessing. That war was not of\\nchance or of accident. It came as the winds come and as the\\nstorms come and as all things else come\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in response to the eter-\\nnal purposes and behests of Him who holds the wind in His fist\\nand the hearts of men in the hollow of His hand. [Applause.]\\nThe beginning of the war was the acme of that sectional hate\\nwhich had been growing and increasing in bitterness for thirty\\nyears. The North had no love for the South, and the South had\\nno respect for the North. The contlict was irrepressible. The\\nworld looked on at the magnificent display of courage and forti-\\ntude exhibited through four years of battle and strife, and while\\none rebel could not, as he thought at the beginning, wipe out\\nfive Yankees, the sequel showed that he could put them to con-\\nsiderable exertion. [Laughter and applause.]\\nWhen valor and courage and endurance shall no longer com-\\nmand the praise of men, when tribute shall be denied to those\\nwho endured privation without complaint and suffered all man-\\nner of sacrifices without murmur, then we might hesitate to\\nunroll the curtain of that past and let its scenes pass in panorama\\nbefore us. But heaven forbid in this day, when one touch of\\nnature has made us all akin, that I should fear in this presence to\\n3415", "height": "3636", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "hold up for admiration the prowess of the gallant boys in tho\\ntrenches and the field, wearing the blue or wearing the gray, who\\ngave to the cause of their country their lives, their fortunes, and\\ntheir sacred honor. [Applause.]\\nBut the end came at last. These Southern knights went down\\nto their home, and many of them can not be reached by any pro-\\n.vision of earthly statute now.\\nMany of those good knights are dust\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTheir good swords rust,\\nTheir souls are with the saints, we trust.\\nThey went down to their desolated homes and despoiled fields,\\nand without complaint they set about the task, the herculean\\ntask, of rebuilding those waste places and restoring their ancient\\nsplendor. Her sons laid down their arms in good faith, and in\\nthe same spirit they laid their hearts upon the altar of their coun-\\ntry and took their step to the music of the Union. I do not be-\\nlieve, gentlemen, that the American people were ever so iinited\\nas they are to-day. The men who stayed at home were the last\\nto forgive, but the men who fought have alv/ays been the first to\\nforget. [Applause.]\\nAnd now we are hastened to this era of good times by the war\\nin which we find ourselves involved. We shall free Cuba, but we\\nshall do more than that. We shall free ourselves. The greatest\\nof English poets, in speaking of the divine quality of mercy, has\\nsaid that\\nIt is twice blest:\\nIt blesseth him that gives and him that takes.\\nIf we shall confer a gracious boon upon the people of that un-\\nhappy island, we shall receive a blessing from Heaven, such per-\\nhaps as we may not bo ^able to contain. Out of this baptism of\\nfire and blood wherewith we are now being baptized we shall come\\nforth, I doubt not, new men and new women, clean every whit,\\nwith sectional hate and sectional bitterness clean gone forever.\\n[Applause.]\\nThat were a consummation devoutly to be wished; that were\\nthe summum bonum, the great desideratum; that were well worth\\nall the treasure we may expend and all the blood that may be\\nshed. In the language of the great Kentucky editor, this war has", "height": "3636", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n1,1 :,l l,\u00e2\u0080\u009e,|,||,\u00e2\u0080\u009e M\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\n013 789 946 2\\nalreadj- forever eliminated tiie sectioual contest. There are thou-\\nsands of old Confederates who are to-day happy in the thought\\nthat before they have been called to join the silent bivouac of the\\ndead, they have seen the North and the South united in battle\\narray beneath the Stars and Stripes.\\nFlag of the free heart s hope and home!\\nBy aBgel hands to valor given:\\nThy stars have lit the welkin dome,\\nAnd all thy hues were born in heaven.\\n[Applause,]\\naii5", "height": "3636", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3636", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "lillllll\\ne 013 789 946 2", "height": "3636", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "speechinhouseofr00sett_0008.jp2"}}