Decatur Eagle, Volume 9, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1866 — Page 1

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hour. p v Mi. Voorhees. Mr..S[i<aki‘r; I arise . to-day to disctKs the Anuu.nl Message of the President. In doing so, lam aware that to the majority on this fluor I may appear as a meddler jn .a family concern. It would seem fl oor the remarks of mem bers'heic, and the cdnimerits of the press in vniious quarters, that the right to approve or disapprove the policy of the Execulive is the exclusive monopoly of the M two now belligerent wings of the dominant party. Indeed, I believe it is a new and very dangerous phase ci dis.oyady for one of the minority to have any opinion at all on the subject, I can not, however, accept this position of silence and inactivity, Not that I wish to bringany . reinforcements which are not sought to, the aid of either of the jarring factions on ■ the opposite side of the Chamber, bat as a citizen loving my country, and as the'

< ’ 1 r. “Onr Country’s Good chall ever to our Aim—’WHlln® Praho and not afraid to Blame.”

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w-n-»xr-w •-•'w v-a-w w is u u ■ .< • Representative of a large and enlightened i constituency, it is my duty apd my right 'hero to'advocate what in uiy sight sems best as a remedy for the evils which s irI round us. And if this sense of public ■ duty leads me to adopt and defend the I policy ehth" f’r*s l d«nt, can' lit be 1.7 lai real or pretMidud ttiAnis in this body ? How indignant we were in 1 the days of «.:r childhood over that dog lin the manger, who would neither enjoy I the onmfons and Wesstnga of hfe himsel , i nor let anybo 'y else do so! And here | !in our mature manhood «3 behold tLo j I same principle <if action adopted by al | great party, ft refuses to endorse tno ! Pre.-ident of i’s own elycttos, and gtJWls: I and fiercely shows its teeth if anyone. 1 1- Ise proposes to perforin that negleefed ; duy. . ; i AHew me. air, another preliminary ob Iservati-n. I have no de-ign on this oc-lev-ion to violate the divine injunction; which sa;. s, “Thou shall not steal.” A few days ago, wbefi 1 intfoducc-1 the very brief and w ry plain rcsblu-iviu bo w un lei ( consideration, it was instantly heralded ' over the country, and especially in the joum 1 ton,ilisted by the gintl man troin New York, [Mr. RaymonJ,] that I had; atterupied to ‘‘steal the Ptesident” Sir, these, hungry, and sordid spirits I pay a poorer compliment to the President p than even they do to me, and I will hasten i to quiet their miserable apprehension-. It ' is no part oi tny purpose to attempt to' I step b tween the,a ands the tieili. pots of i j public pArtmage. I have no tye bn the i I | puolie crib at which they have fed so j ; long and grown so fat. Ido not covet j' ; their offices, their rich commissions, t'l iri ' utifaihotiiiihiu contracts, nor any thing i that is theirs. We of the rnini-n y h ive j t lived through storm and dink ess aid *■ fiery pers cuiiuiis without such assistanco' c to orr p .triotism, and at liar I ite day we ' shall not b-nd our knees because thrift ' may follow fawning. Oar action will be ' iud. pendent, with n > desire, line the t adroit animal in the iTbl , t., la te advan- , t tag# of the quarrel which 10-v rages, c among th-.- viciors to snatch away thejs f. ust over which they are contending. For j c rny part,'us in th-j past, so in the . future | ' I shall puisii- w at 1 conceive to ba 11.l 1 . e r gbt, ind.tf reut alike t > the allurements , t of reward or the terrors of reproach. i 1 And fpeakex. what are th- I ' issues wiiiuli.are submitted to the country by the policy of lhe Executive as declared in bis annual message? Are they 1 naw, str.uige, orgsujistyr, th.it they should 1 be received with infrgnatiou and ulartn! j j Is it a document bristling with dangerous | dogm is hitherto unheard of ia the ad- i ’liini-.'r-doll; df lhe JVrtrhrui-.il? Does’ Lcr. a! like a wide and violent d-paFini'' .’ | from llie teachings of our earlier and j. Lh ippi- r 4 .ys? Birt>it has been assailed l jin troth ends of the Capitol by lhe ablest! ~twi ohli'st veterans 'cl the dotpublieui’.! ‘partv, m :< e.-r'-ry -hue was’ leprous and . -very word fi led with contagion and | eatb. Indeed, prior to the Otterfing ol l Congress, as the poli'-y'id lhe President was developed in his treatment ot the Southern States, we be. eld the indicn t uM of an organized oonspiriuty to assail film with the masked face id friendship but with the treacherous sword of Joab, she insidious ki-s that betrays is neither ! new nor respectable in strategic wariare; tail in. n ar.'l parties. Liivo Otten li 'li-to I fore ra .de kindly salutation, “How is'it with thee, my brother?” when then- pi.in- j trd’s point was seeking a vital spot uudwr ; the fifth ribWe heard during all the summer and fall the murmurs and mutteiiagot angry > dissent, as each new uevefopment of the Piesident’s plan to restore the Govern j inent on its anpienlTouniiiitions, as neifiy is possible, came before the country. And ■ when my friend and colleague,the speaker i of this body, for whom I entertain none t but tbi-lic.gs of personal kindness, came to this city as the acknowledged heir-appa- ■ rent to the position which he now till, so ’ well, W.hiil was his language to the public? e> Did ha give the weight of bis voice to the e Administration? His words were care t fully stVdr-d, and yet it would bo hard to g discover bom that famous serenade speech

that the Ex-cutive had dene anything at all toward the pacification oi the country; He laid down a policy for Congress, but as far as possible ignored the policy and even the existence of the President. His position was the sign and the forerunner of the celebrated Sel.-ct Committee, created by the magic wand of the consciencekeeper of the majority, the able and veteran leader from Pennsylvania, [kit. Stevens] —that potent wand which has evoked from the vasty deep of political agitation more spirits of evil and malignant to .exorcise and put down. By this movement the whole question of restoration, with entire forgetfulness of the labors and achievements of the Executive, was placed in commission, and intrusted to I the keeping of a board of political trade ■ at whose head stands one who assert’ tllßl the Union was destroyed by the war, ai "‘- ' that it remains so to this day. By this

movement w« are culled upon to truusport ourse’vin hack to uiii caad js days .jl’ lasit . Ap.it, and to ttke no note as- tiina or events since thou. We ara suUuti to ravel ; Co pi'-ecs a’,! th it tire Presidon; has Jor.e and to cosou&i.-ac-a the knittiug process of reuntou for uurHelvee. The healing prmcip'es of the Constitution are, ia tay judgment, rapidly doing the naejad work of restoration, and yet we are ai tills so.agii of tha procem asked tq break again . tiia once fractured liiaba, and to tear sgapo the half cl ised wounds, and to cause the : whole land to bleed i.ir.sh. Sir, I shall I stiu.J by the physiciuu who is working I the cure, as against that blind i‘..;d I enapiriclsm which fust proaocuces the paiient dead sad then conjmetiocu gt<ing I ; awdicino. Let u-- indulge our-elves in a retro ' Hpejt, Jj.q u s j;f; ourselves Co a p ..-.ilien i wiiich history will occupy sera-! g«n<-ra-, t ni hence, and thou ask au I a;iew r the [ q lestion wh ch is involved In the issue 1 now m.ido n »-linst the President b.-cause ,of Li condu -t and policy. I am in n- ' sense Lis pirti-.au I did not support him for the ome? which led to hie p. esetv. p 'si ion. I drende 1 the use h<- would male • I of power when he attained i*. I feared j I the operations of a character which I i ■ h-.J 11'eard represent-d as strongly tena-j ci ra» of a seme of per ion-u injury which I kn-w he ha I suffered. But .-ince the day on which ha took the oatii of office, 1 have b.h 11 the public magistrate, not the private man. And who ev r. in all the tide of tfihe, became the h• id of n g - at ti t'.i a under eirea-nstanc s mor up;, illi.ig to ill ■ stoutest heart an I lb- . 10 st c jinin inding in'elkct th ill thosc w ;i.-li surrounded him? A wir wh .a- ! ti-men-!-isis blow ah::: saak-'u both h< n-i | spheres hud just closed, su.i night *-nd I eha-.i hovered over the f ic« of the deep B. il -s between brethren hal b<en fought which dwarf and belittle the w >rl kexploits of all ages, and which start L-d th u i-i vi-ili'e wo , i by th" 11 giit .d J.>-in bodied spiri 3. Tba psople and .he 6-ate-of the whole c-jua.ry, weiry, bio! s'.ained, n-id almost blir. 1 f roi3 the fury o lhe coufi.ct, fill ptliSed aan agr.e m it t.o fight no m iro. B it. in that dis astrou- c at st What imjcL ul principle o' t:,e Government hid e-scilp.-u pref-.ua lion? Who. had stopped to count how .oucii the object c.iot lor which the wager of bu‘ l- w > jjiin 1? Liw=, Lberiies, and consßuutk.ni h;l I ...‘.sorted lhe'toselv. s in vain. And I confess th.it, as I saw the fierce lightning which civil w.r en- ; genders strike an;! shiver ag .in an I again the household gods el fireside liberty, and blast almost every sacred inae of American '♦orsliip, I hid my hours oi almost absolute’despair—not d . spair over the unity of our territori d b->nu ’-»ri - but iliac whoa those buundaries shmil-i | be restored they would era .rice n 'thing | but .ho deal, cheerless Oil 1 cold a-htsj of the.forme: bright and g'ownig fires of| I freed bilk. : •£ chraiik from the 'd.Jhiemp.'a-J Lion ot a mine! R public aula triumi pliant .L-spotisiu with raoie unfeigned horror i.aan 1 >.?" ■ shrank irora lhe c >nletnpiaiicn of death and the grave. And when the sound of the last cannon died . ,w .y on the sorrowful and strick -a ti -lds of Virginia sad th*. Carolinas, he W .o, at the Lead oi affaiis, would breathe into the expiring firin of legal liberty tiie breath of lift), and by his touch revive and erect again in form and substance lira ancient form of tiie Republic, | although braised, maimed, and ia parts I Idefaced, and requiring time to renew its! str iigih—-that man, whoever he may be, | and whatever may be his political views on other questions, is, in aiy eyes, the savicr of his country. Sir, histort tel.a a melancholy story of usarp.o.tions at such periods, fney are the r>[ portunity . f iryairt’aril mad, imi practicable..innovators, lie who wtshoa lo mount to imperi il power on the ruins of civil liberty, or by a change in the , Government to carry out schemes ol > private hate or Utopian speculation, , woii'd embrace the month of April, 1865 in Aineriouu history as the point from ? which -o deal destruction. But starting 1 1 from that point, what direction did the

President purstlo. There are many ; matters of minor detail for which sun ordinate officials aro mainly resp insible,. which I might wish widely ditfireit, but I am now dealing with the main question of restoration. Upon his first utterance ho gave notice of the doctrine, then as now, that the American Union hal never been brolen, an 1 tiiat its States had never c ased to exist. This gave assurance to tho country that he was a conservative and not a destructive, a restorer of an ancient order of things and not a destroyer in the name of progress md reform. How can 1 fail to support him in tins position, when my own language, March 9, 1864, in tho midst of idle sound of arms, was as follows? I quote from a speech delivered by wo in this House: “The great leader of the Administration oa this floor, the gentlemen from

l i-'o-,-,'sylvl'da, fMr. SciiVens,] has do : : Lb.-r -.inly ;,« r ,i announced/ alter alt our I • -acrifioe-i, eurror.-s nil I Ib»a, lhet t'u i I Uni.>ll us out - la.her.s i; dead, and th u ire > «vh > eUelrtpl:■ h. i > e-,r-.rtl-cl r ,1 is ac> imf tni’.i instead ut a pltrl..t. Ho goes fuilhc-r ■ and a liniW aft UM seovd.-d Slates huv. ■ ever el-.ir»e,i—.h ir :> »i ,n Jity. They ’ bii-ve souglrt in vn.n ia the tour quarVirr <:( Ji.,;., for ; U engn. lor. They iiii'l it i.t last at the baads of ibo.<e who ‘speflk for the Administration on this I doo.-. “Sir I deny this doctiine. I plant ■ myself on th*. Cohsti 'l’io.n, which roc grms.'s «■> unbroken Union. I strinl slati'l ! there m every vict.-snu-*..i of f .rtane, mid I if I itul it -..-ill by wHvn the people UteiofselvrtS ab ind.-'fi ri th. ir owrt C./Usli UtioG. jßy the principles oi tins mighty ins.ru I in sit I feXtreot rtn illv a r-est.ira ion of t;iI union cf in- Stites. Ev rv hour tcbiei' { the p iny in poo r pro: mgs its control 'of ad it- p ,»|p .a. < the suspi ions da ; ■ out n« I b-hold the future, it w ill a- - conie. Material aed indie .it--table la'erl-st? unite every section exm-pit tiiht which prospers on fanaticism. And I I h> i’e to day, tn the spirit of one who j expects and des'ies bis posterity ano i thuii s to l.vha t.*g.th' r m the aitsi.rit and Uon-.rablo friendship .of their fathers. > warn thi Southern people not t<J look I forward O aep ir iti.rn and iudepm Itr-e out to einbru-rt every oppoiluuity .Ur co -■>p-:r .i.-o:i >j tim e.:a-< I'vatieo men oi too North; who wi.l al l v. i'.h their liv. s, it ti.-ed b , to secure then: ail t!,rir rights util ins itmiuiß iis ii-re nnl equd . cinz us ol llie United 8: ties.'' This dOv-iiine is theefaief corner stem 1 f ti.< message, a> l hi- i.ivi-j 1 the at- 1 ack of the tueor t cal refer-.>, but pract ' ieal di-iuiinjii. Sh ill I stop tit tin* d>; 1 and hour of Ane i--*il hieioty to Jhcu- ■ ' Ira right or power of a late to secede! ■ I never enteitaified -uoh a principle, :ior ■ did even in ny of the princtp 1 leader* I of the late Ht'gmpl- to eStisbr.fii the ecc-H ■ od. racy of the South. ThC-y i-tHel ted I * the right ofrevoluti n, i-.n i u oi the dr gH rjr: .i >U of St goveiilloents 111 til l jt t-is’tnov-ic uit. But who nov re- c q tiros ar.l noi if, s u iiut? lu-> ‘ *.-e n >; -.'l un igrsttvi 1 and know th’-t tin - 1 theory Oi d a I bi .V s is r.ow pre -.uiusd 1 simply b- iu*e its at p tin net:.4 give • rar .-.co.- t ill e .r ...•esigns ot v. .i geauce and rev..lll ».>n <ry drs'.ru t o >.' I. 1 is true that the gsh'le nau from Betrusyl- ■ vsni.i [Mr. .Ste/cii*] h>s been e tßsistont 1 in his d votion to it when Ira stoo lat ' raost if nit quite iil.iri' ; but lliit simply l.rt could : >roceo at a greater = dista.ico thia I.is f.-llow laborers the luewi-.s wliiuti would be required tone jl Icomplisli their prrty ends mlran lira war la cea- er. He k.i ;Ws tii'at “den I e .ruav .-s.” j i ill a s 0.v.-i s.ri'fing language, >.r.* more la I e.raily c .rvedito pfeci-ii, tula li i.b from i 1 I It mu', and d'evOui'. I by ■*'."■ htiiigry in . w j: |vt c.iutisca.rdft, Ifr ; ll living S-ates The 1. idea* Tea a m >k-- u<>-pA*:-eit- w-idn tho niuti- i t i-’-.tio r k'.U.v is applied, C'i t i’m 0 sets of i I prev, Wrt ate told, prefer to find their I quarry Italy sl.iin, ia ord- re to least i l upon it in -totulort and rep.eto. And s > i the radical party of the country won' !! i | find it faster tar to tavko i'B uniiaiin al | b.nquetonthe rights,‘privileges, laws, liberties and property of the B.nth by declaring at once that there is no living | politic*! e .rainuatty in all that wide re-; gion to «x hum ag >'ii3t the enormity, .is ; reasoning on t is point is that it ra s 'er i and less iroublcsonra to rob a corp*s t. lit is. l<> pick tics pockets cd the living. I This ii t;.e highwayrgan's doctrine ot c-mveoience, icarodceeil here now as a j party platiorm. It is roore an 1 wor-e ' It is an as,ectn.n that ths Aiaericsti ' Union itself is dead. Wade it claims i that ti.e loutliern S.a-es h ivo d< stmi ihsms-liis, yet it admits that, like blind; .SaeiSun of old, in their dying agonies' ■ Stray seized hold ot the pillars and tore j the teispiu ia ru.ns to its v.-ry found* i trans, and that they in their desolation to-day are only a pardon of the genera: 1 wreck, It is notice to the world tii.it the 1 war to restore lhe Union '.’a in utt.-i , ; failure—that the war is ov» r Rud y«» the .

Union is rent iu twain. We bare incur- , 1 red a debt which would sosorb for its < piVuienc u»w one fourth of all the tax i able property in titre United Status. Blood i has flown hso the torenia rd the moua- i tains, and lives' have been swept away; ■ like autumn leaves in t* ntorm, and ye> . neither people nor Suites, according to , the logic which assails the President, i have i-een brought bick into the Uni 'n <o repay these stupendous sacrifices. Bumill tin ther, in wna>. altitude before the ; eivibz e d nations does this pernicious, heresy place the Fudaral Government. II we were waging war on an iiidroendeut. Power, a separu’o existing nation, how was it that we refused ail negotiations, for pence excopt upca the basis of its utter m-nihilationi Wars between di tie lent civilized Pose r s we made to repair injuries, to resen t insults, or to reclaim rights which have been denied; but there i s no la* of nations which justifies one

j .Government, of it* Mperior I jklrtiigi.il, lu lulii./.ilg of/.' Iffcs/100 and i unid. rup.a ds ii'pe.-,../ n igldrav. T. i i.ratrkra r; . barbarlmn. in vh.c... the la v us wnM i.. lbw Uw of right. Mueii ;>ath<-tie tl..queue., cod in uiy bitter tear. iisve atiesu-d Bra «orjd's syta,pjjby with ?ul:.|iJ, Wi'.h Hungary, and with pour,. p*»ur lr. land, and piaradisiions a'.t-n.l up I on their destroyer*; but with w ist cur- j spl indignation wuuid a > eil.ghra-ne ! ' ppvt<-.r.ly and »□ luipailial history a»saii us for Uniting out by '-.ra*'. 0 force ufl iima a, nation of uni own Uindiyd, who I siisil.ly Je-irud t> pisses-; li'.eir own in' p-ratra all.l l.ia/e U» to .'u- 1d,,) c.sipe! loir, lu cye.'y up c; lira di-orv wl.i-.-h now! o-.n'r./s lira m .jority of this 11 ..use i* j ■raug’it w.t d"..„.i a.i i <li»g. -ora. to .iw ' R public. 1 turn from its co. t li>i;ip!a I -ipu to a tnoro clra‘i fil theme. I v.'ili ul’lti' ..-*. sg.iust it lira conduct and p.iu ciprao ol lira. Executive, foi w uicn, 1 tun.k ira d. serves W<l|il a'. Ura Hau .. of lira couu rymeu. i W ..si wis til?, wish, the hope, the j pray-r "f evei y heart uot fatally bent on ! .uiaciii'f, out an enemy tujjie uutnan { race, when the lust us the Sogtberu for ueslfkid down tluir arms? Vra* it that this bjltcr period of strife should be prolonged an ! lhe fi.os of hut. Kiid„uialic. k-‘pt a'uve fore-.ci? Wn» it that at lhe clora ot such a hurricatra, wit:, the b:llo'.vs yit swelling in angry com notion around us. we wire lu start afresh upon the, lung, yxsysgu ui puUtie 4 draco very and legisl ttivrt. piracy wh- h t'ra- b>»! t , mar a r ,'rem Pennsylvania [Mr. S evstnj i slid hi* rn lical .'.powers r.ov, l.he V il* ; Idg Li*o aUCiufjC k’tiaS, P*>i3t uu ; tu us? Was il not .rather that lira vessel j s.ioul' be brought bu-k and q iratly an : firmly anchored as nearly ns possible all, h-o-old moorings? Was it not r.-.Lerl that lira corner stones, bounnary linos, I and landmarks of lira lathers ..!' the Re-1 public should.lra traced out and rentpred .'i I here assert Ihtti when the pj-estdeai i; cloij d tile teinple of Janin, ret’u-ed tp.goi , o sca-ch o' traw priueipks by which to;; aJu.iuuur Lhe tjuvurji'nent, end extended the .land oi ftrandship an ! assistance ; to tile.crippled r.nd blceuiug tilo'igh living, vsa, living S.c »s us lira South, he , met lira domnad . ot tile popular will and ; raid claims to the gratitude of the pre seut und thU t’uiure. 'i’*ra gentleman tru,o Penn*virama [Mr. k evciisj says , such a r j;o.;j-.'.ton ot taeir existence coining troiu "a man of respectable .- is smuothiiig ursa tiiau ridiculous.” , Tiis .American people to d .y do not think so, nor will their pros'.enty. It is contended, however, that the ; Ex,-outivu. had ao pof - r to app; nt - . ■>■ * .bib-’. 11 * ■ J*’f■fc.’Hj.’i. iiixAlai ’.<J LhOdo in my ii p.irty jh w. li aj in thc,L vhti V/GJ m-iSi-'y lix4‘. thl-j WjU> A UaUrpUiorA I'U .1 <«i.OW U.': iO Uliidii'B iuL.l U loljrpU' Iran, ev«n if it be such, to restore, to uadd.up, yp.give be,»l‘.!i and strength to the -ich uu-l pro.t.r--ta is far euaicr to be I burn lbu|i a usurpation to cr.as.r and destroy. ,Bi»t I Jo-uot view the conduct of t.O Pro.si-.ieui as a usurpation nt all. -B) his until ho must euturce lira > .-os. H* lounJ .bi ilus without icg-tl e-a rars i-ud unable to move forward in the ciiairal oi their duties. AS' ate ol this Union when lira Federal laws are no longer obstructed Cm not ba in passive abeyance. It is ; an integral part o! the Federal body, and [ii t.o ouily t); sound ttram can Li nu i paralysis its members—they must nave vitality; nn-1 m lira pct'lormtutrae of h:s duty the I'iesidetit used tie bust meanin hi. power , to revive and restore t'.ieir ; iswul InncUc.-'j.. Anu .-such nr-»:-u vra-. i ' 1 lOcouO led to tiie Use us th; j power wheal ;i saw QU whom lhe selsc-ic s us the j i president toll. And I think, too Ihat ’ vvitii v hat I was pleased ul_ thra point lmy r. rail i/iuiids were ..-tiiiiely >. \:!. aled. Iba led s-.ich names ai S:>»:key , i Perry, Juuusou, and Pcrsqps, and iudee.t i ,»ti lurt provi.ioasl governors, ~s C.ighl o naris of a g >od adm nistratiun, as Lai - oingera oi peace and happiness lu th--.fi iailrai n pvsple, and us union, peace and I prosperity lu lhe whole country. But then w ..al a militant’ goveiou. ul South

U-irohui, for in trace tu.it idol oi tb-.-j radicals, Geuerai Bu'-ler would u.t>e made! Ay there iu die rub. What fat, unctuous, juicy picking hive been lust to the laithful but this cruel policy of the Pre-ilc-nl! What shoals of loyal, hdnn v sharks swituiat.ig around iu thus- , Northern waters have been cheated out I of their anticipated prey! Al! the wolves nod J icssis mat wait til! the L&.iie is over in order to mangle the deal and the w.mnJed so tried their disappointment and rage at the I’rc.i le.it, but will now open in lull chorus of joy over the de- , lighlful Vision which arieei before them troai the formation of the committee oi fiiluen. Tua gi-nile.T.eu from Pennsylvania, Mr. Sievaos,] siw fii to announce that the positiua ot tne P.c.idtul in regard to ‘ the S-ru'bern Elates was ‘‘not an arga 1 . meni. but a mockery.” I partly dissent 3 I think it is both. It is an uuanswtr «

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■ ai’i i ..hXilf of 1 1 j ; • • - , 1.. ran'., an .„-.-.iVir. fni'f.Y nn i c.j'n-u.mni? m >':lt' ry nf t!l« bloody d -signs, avritcious .‘iiip.fl, cud greedy exoealations oi aft 'jtliysu woo desired when lira war was ; u/.-r to rule tho peon e us thy South ; »i,hout tiie'restraint of law; to humilL lara tlram v ith an iron ru 1; •, confl-oa’a ; >ira'r lon Is and buy them at nominal i pi'ioes; w sh.irgu lira pr..pi iufurship us ■ die noil and drive into ex.Je u ,.d .deslitU’ Hi .ti its present owners ui.iil a n a w p O p'Iu! .lion sl.oilld take Control and, bv th« ni l of ihceufr .nchised neorw. plant a Pur* ican a .cenden-y nil over the South; who ; lira.- n v.v iiaiurj. <.;ra banu .r ol “te. r.itoriai i i-.oiid.ti in,’ l>- .n-,.- ..J[,‘li,.se c-rase.qui n-ras [L> !,.1-1.6 tiimuph. 'Ur, Ulis cUis lias I bo.ra’ in .-ked. s.:- an 1 aflgMs, nndnH ooi.i urao. rejmcO ii tn.-’r 00-ifii.-»i.)n. tirair aS'.'en L-ucy i.n tn.-, land would create a pan iem inium of dih..-ur > l and a car nival of aII th., d.u k and cruel .spirits oi’ i rate no I revenge for g.’m-r .t'i ms ;j come. I Fne Pn sident had them in his mind ravlicn, in combating lira preposition of imtliv.ry Governors for lira South, ho say-.:. •'Too chief persons who would have foil.wed in t!:e train oft: j i-.ro.y would have be.-n dependents .;,i the General Gwriitib-ht, or uivfi c.ipe.o’.ej proH 4 . from lhe turaeries of their erring Allow citic.-ns ' B it. Ur. Ch irman, a’low me to inquire whether t’-.is opposition to lira Executive ra not a r:..w discovery, an atran- ; though I, ra uiuraetura 1 for a upoci’kl pur- | pose cii tiie part us ihoso who adhered ;t. an 1 uphei' ths late raiminislratiou of ; .Jr. Lincoln tn tu tl.u <■ .ntuVii d existence and vitality of the Southern Slates during the lata rebellion. Are lh«y ijo- estopped from this assault, as thu gentlec.-u (rora Pennsylvania [Mi. S'.evjnsj sa.-s, -‘both by i:ratt-r of record and matter in pais/" In more than a iicnire; 1 . ways uad lortus, by m.l.rarv order*, in his annual prassuges, ins iuOtiuira to eur fo.ei;ju Ministers, in Itj.-.owi .o'l spue-.e; to ..3 u\/(i country man, and t-. ... c'f.diy by his numerous pruclamatio.is, lira hila Executive always an 1 at all times reuoginkt’d the eudurwg exrateuue ul ali lue Essies over which liu. Aiuerican fl ig Lid ev-.r !lu .ted, I quuk,i -i-.girt <>u'm the proclamation of omiac■ uiicti, Which, in my judgment, was an usurpation ot p »wnr, but b i t at .erat the oraiit ol .>ut autuiipung lu abolish States: “That ci the Ist day of January, in tho year of u'ur Lord 13G3, i.ll persons held aS slaves within any rila'r, t>r de-iig-h.,ti . part < ( a State, the ovoote whereof -.trail men ue in rebellion against thu Uoitcd S ashad b« then, ilitncjfor.vj.a, and J>rc7.-r free; ua-l itis Executive Government of tha Uuikwl Slates, including lira ui.'ilar.y au-I traval auflioritiira thereof, will recognize and uaiatain |ww freedom of s-.iou pursuac, a.i><j’?wsil do uo act or ira 3 to repress uiicii |rarsoas, u.' aay ol them, ir* any effurts they may inuk-i tor their actual iruedotn. “That the Executive will, on the Ist day ul January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate ibo Stales and par's of Scales, ii sny, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall th-.-n be in rebellion against tho United S-ates; and the fact that any State, or lira pecmie thcreol, shall oa that Jay bo in good faith rtpes.Ltod in the Congress of the United Stales by members chosen thereto at elec.iuna wherein a tnoioritv c.f the .imiilied vuler>. ot sucu nacos sbaii have p r* i iracpaiuvi, elrail. in lira absence of strong counter.'mluig testimony, be deemed oua- | CiUdive-evtdeMe that such State, au 1 tiie peopio thereof, k.u n-,t then in rebelkuu agaius’ the United Suites.” This was writ ; eu and promulgated after the pas-? ’3 of every ordinance ot seces i.nt; when tho party in rebe!li..noccupied and held in i. hostile manner a certain portion of territory; bad declared illeir independent: •; had l rat ol* their allegiance; h.ll org tnized armies; had com- ' mcacc: hosidnie i against their former I * ■ . . X* .

sovereign; and _>ot the gentleman from Pennsylvania and bis present ivilowcis uttered uo dissent to its doe rinev. Il was the subject of iudiserimiiiuie praise from those very organs wlucit now seek to blast aad runs li.j eaiue policy iu the hands of his successor. Tuere is no escape bore. The late chief of tho great | party of the North dealt with American I States, the people whereof were in rebellion, and net With a foreign power Subject to conquest; aud it his memory is oacrod to his followers, they should not insult it by prououuciug bis policy a dei lusiou and a mockery era his untimely tomb is fairly closed. Sir, I urn awaiu that many on the opposite side oi the Chamber do not indorse the destructive theory of the g-u- --' tieman from Pennsylvania, but who are > nevertheless assisting to carry its results - into practice. They deny bis premises ■ that iLe States are dead, but concur iu [CONTIXUXD ON TUX FUt' STU I'A'. E.J