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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Eloquent extract. (search)
Eloquent extract. The following is a specimen of Southern eloquence from a late speech in the Confederate Senate by the Hon. Gustavus A. Henry, the "eagle orator" from Tennessee; the question being on the joint resolution, introduced by him in the Senate, defining the position of the Confederate States, and the determination of Congress and the people to prosecute the war till their independence is acknowledged: "Re-union with them? No, sir, never! There is a great gulf that rolls between us. It is a gulf of blood, without a shore and without a bottom, and is as inseparable as that which separated Dives from Lazarus. The mute objects of nature; our desecrated churches and altars; our sweet valleys, drenched in blood and charred by fire, forbid it. The dead would cry out against it from their gory beds. The blood of my own sons, yet unavenged, cries to Heaven from the ground for vengeance. The thousands who are resting red in their graves would awake and utter their sol