. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . was by William S. GroesbeckOF Ohio, one of the counsel for the accused. It was comparatively short, but compact and full ofmeat. His style of delivery was superb, graceful and dig-nified, with a grand diction and deep sonorous voice, andlittle gesticulation—a splendid-appearing, scholarly gentle-man. I give but a brief excerpt from his peroration: What else did he do? He talked with an officer about the is the Emory article. He made intemperate speeches, thoughfull of honest, patriotic sentiments; when reviled he should not re
. Civil War echoes: character sketches and state secrets . was by William S. GroesbeckOF Ohio, one of the counsel for the accused. It was comparatively short, but compact and full ofmeat. His style of delivery was superb, graceful and dig-nified, with a grand diction and deep sonorous voice, andlittle gesticulation—a splendid-appearing, scholarly gentle-man. I give but a brief excerpt from his peroration: What else did he do? He talked with an officer about the is the Emory article. He made intemperate speeches, thoughfull of honest, patriotic sentiments; when reviled he should not revileagain; when smitten upon one cheek he should turn the other. But, says the gentleman who spoke last on behalf of the man-agers, he tried to defeat pacification and restoration. I deny it inthe sense in which he presented it—that is, as a criminal act. Here,too, he followed precedent and trod the path on which were the foot-prints of Lincoln, and which was bright with the radiance of hisdivine utterance, Charity for all, malice toward none. He was. THADDEUS STEVENS, M. C, OF PENNSYLVANIA the great commoner Civil-war Echoes—Character eager for pacification. He thought that the war was ended. Itseems so. The drums were all silent; the arsenals were all shut;the roar of the cannon had died away to the last reverberations; thearmy was disbanded; not a single enemy confronted us in the , he was too eager, too forgiving, too kind. The hand of concil-iation was stretched out to him and he took it. It may be heshould have put it away, but was it a crime to take it? Kindness,forgiveness, a crime? Kindness a crime? Kindness is omnipotentfor good, more powerful than gunpowder or cannon. Kindness isstatesmanship. Kindness is the high statesmanship of Heavenitself. The thunders of Sinai do but terrify and distract; alone theyaccomplish little; it is the kindness of Calvary that subdues andpacifies. What shall I say of this man? He is no theorist; he is no re-former. I have
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