. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . two parties in thiswar—patriots and traitors. Second: Thatwe hold it to be the duty of Congress to passall necessary bills to supply men and money,and the duty of the people to render everyaid in their power to the constituted author-ities of the Government in the crushing out ofthe rebellion and in bringing the leaders there-of to condign punishment. The third resolu-tion tendered the thanks of Congress to thesoldiers in the field. The first resolution waspassed by a party vote of ninety-three to sixty-five ; the second and third were passe
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . two parties in thiswar—patriots and traitors. Second: Thatwe hold it to be the duty of Congress to passall necessary bills to supply men and money,and the duty of the people to render everyaid in their power to the constituted author-ities of the Government in the crushing out ofthe rebellion and in bringing the leaders there-of to condign punishment. The third resolu-tion tendered the thanks of Congress to thesoldiers in the field. The first resolution waspassed by a party vote of ninety-three to sixty-five ; the second and third were passed unani-mously, with the exception of Mr. B. of Maryland. Several times during thesession this battle of resolutions was renewed,but always with the same result; the Demo-cratic party constantly favoring negotiationsfor peace while as constantly declaring theirdevotion to the Union, and the Republicansrepudiating every suggestion of negotiation orcompromise so long as the enemies of theRepublic bore arms against it. THE WESTERN *HEN General Sher-man said to GeneralGrant, Your belief invictory I can compareto nothing but the faithof the Christian in theSaviour, he specifiedone of the leading characteristics of the typicalWestern soldier. At no time, from Sumter toAppomattox, did that devoted servant of thedemands of courage and fortitude doubt thesuccess of the Union cause. It was a part ofhis temperament, of his f)hilosophy,to look fortriumph. Not that he was simply a good-humored optimist, unregardful of adverse con-ditions, nor yet a victim of blind superstition,political or theological, but that heredity andexperience had equipped him with a sense ofconfidence in himself, in his country, and inthe force called fortune that was alike heroic and logical. He came of a stock that hadconquered the frontier wilderness through along and hard discipline of toil, vigilance, andsacrifice, and in so doing had exalted self-re-liance as the first of virtues. His idea
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