perheads in Butler county, as my
friends of the Cincinnati _Gazette_ and _Commercial_ are fond of
terming the Democracy of the country. I came up to tell you that
there are a good many of that stripe of animals in old Hamilton. I
have traveled about the country lately, and I assure you there is a
large crop of Butternuts everywhere: not only that, but the quality
and character of the nut is quite as good as the quantity."

Of course, Mr. Pendleton was applauded by his audience; and he
returned to his place in the House of Representatives at Washington
prepared to give expression to his views with the same plainness
and boldness which marked the utterances of his colleague, Mr.
Vallandigham.

On the 31st of January, 1863, he made an elaborate speech against
the enlistment of negroes into the service of the United States, in
which he said:

"I should be false to you, my fellow-representatives, if I did not
tell you that there is an impression, growing with great rapidity,
upon the minds of the people of the Northwest that they have been
deliberately deceived into this war--that their patriotism and
their love of country have been engaged to call them into the army,
under the pretense that the war was to be for the Union and the
Constitution, when, in fact, it was to be an armed crusade for the
abolition of slavery. I tell you, sir, that unless this impression
is speedily arrested it will become universal; it will ripen into
conviction, and then it will be beyond your power to get from their
broad plains another man, or from their almost exhausted coffers
another dollar."

In the same speech he says:

"I said two years ago, on this floor, that armies, money, war can
not restore this Union; justice, reason, peace, may. I believed it
then; I have believed it at every moment since; I believe it now.
No event of the past two years has for a moment shaken my faith.
Peace is the first step to Union. Peace is Union. Peace unbroken
would have preserved it; peace restored will, I hope, in some time
reconstruct it. The only bonds which can hold these States in
confederation, the only ties which can make us one people, are the
soft and silken cords of affection and interest. These are woven in
peace, not war; in conciliation, not coercion; in deed