The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-01-28
A well Merited Rebuke.

Mr.. Grow, OF Ia, administered the fol-
lowing scathing rebuke to the disunion De-
mocracy of the House on Friday last:
You want to enjoy holiday sports, while
the public creditors of the government are
being bankrupted for want of their honest
dues The faith of the nation is pledged
to pay these men what it Justly owes them;
you have kept this House disorganized for
three weeks, while thousands of public
creditors are suffering, and many of them
on the brink of financial ruin. And now
you propose to run off home like pack of
school boys to your holiday amusements
A precious set of Legislators you are. The
country is profoundly obliged to you. This
body was hardly called to order on the frs:
day of the session when you thrust the me-
gro question upon it. Your pretext was a
pamphlet of 112 pages, written by a South
ern man, and addressed exclusively to
Southern men. You pretend that it is a
dangerous book. It had lain in obscurity,
unheard of and uncared for, during eight
months, until you took it up and spent three
precious weeks in advertising it. You
have sown it broadcast over the whole land
There are one thousand copies now read
where there was one before you began to
smoke, this noise and confusion were about
The book will now go into every house,
hamlet and cabin in the North and South,
and if the effect of this tremendous circu-
lation shall prove baneful to your institu-
ton, you alone are the cause of the mischief,
and on you rests the responsibility. On
our side Of the House, we have RETAINED
from speech making; we have labored earn
e. fill
we have patiently borne your vituberations
and SANDERS, you have basely, purposely,
maliciously, misrepresented our purposes
and principles. The Congressional Globe
of the last six years, which is in all your
hands, contains record of our true posi-
tons and sentiments; but this authoritative
exposition you have passed over, and have
substituted the vile libels of your party or
gans, you have quoted the Constitution, the
States and the. Enquirer for your authority
The New York Herald has furnished brains
for you, furnished words, ideas and slang.
Each evening we read its editorials, and
each afternoon you rehash them to the
House; you give stale limitations of Ben
nett, but you fail to reproduce his spice or
terseness. Your diatribes are below the
Herdid'S style of rhetoric, but surpass its
XIII anu " uSn the
House gets organized we will have a reck-
oning with you. We will not be the first
to cry "hold, enough p We will not shirk
from the severest examination of our polit-
ical faith; nor will we permit you to shirk
from the consequences of the reasonable
disunion language you have uttered on
this floor. for the past three weeks. Mr.
Clerk, am told that if relief is not afford
O. tn IA H.
January, to whom the government owes five
millions of dollars, they will throw up their
contracts en- naasse and stop carrying the
mails of the nation! How will you like to
have that go out before your constituents
and the whole country, as one of the effects
of slavery agitation which you have forced
within these halls, and persist in retaining
to the exclusion of needful business, and to
the sacrifice of thousands of public credi-
tors, and TO the shame and scandal of the
nation