Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-05-15

Conservative Men of all Parties--LOu5oy ant
Stevens Leading on the Abolition Cya'dd
Aoain,t the UniOn--C Combination Of Conssrpa
tine Men of all Parties Against Republican
Ssdition and COrvupiiOn-Debats IN Congress
etc. FpH ~
WAsHIsoToN, D. c., May II, 1862
Nh. EDrroR: am something OF veteran
! observer in politics. There are changes nov
going on In our National aud | may say, socla
systems, which It would be we'll TO heed. IL n
very we'll understood now, that all the Republi
can members Of Congress, with but few excep
tiona are committed 20 the abolition, or emanci
nation schemes, which Loveoy, Elliott, Sumner
Trumbull and others have generated in theii
frenzy, 1t Is observable that according as the
Union Ia being assured by our armies, so 10 the
zeal of the ultra men increased. Hoping thai
Mcclellan would fail; knowing that he was
! Union man; fearing that the army wac, IN theiI
phrase. "pro- slavery" they now urge with all
their might, their bils OF prescription and eman-
olpatiop. to prevent Union Of the old States
under the old Constitution, as interpreted by our
| courts and acted upon for three generations.- -
But their zeal has run little beyond their dis
cretion. When the con6scation bills were
sent to the Judiciary committee, 1t was known
that they could not agree on any, and were not
desirous to report any. This did not suit the
Lovejoy majority. So Arnold, Of Chicago, re-
ported bill to carry out the Chicago platform
and make "slavery sectional and freedom ma
tional," which was to abolish "slavery wherev-
or the Federal Government was supreme. =
Supreme, mark you! That meant territories,
dock yards, States, and even the high seas were
included.
The House had just passed the Arizona bill,
with the Wilmot Proviso in it, which abolished
slavery by congressional action, in oil terrific
RES. Although there was not particle OF dan
ger of blacks or slaves going there; although
the territory Is held by savRges; yet such "fan
| cy" legislation helped to swell the general alb
olition howl, and il went through. Nearly all
the Republicans voted for il The Ohio Re-
publicans, even those of so called conservative
tendencies, had not the courage to stand up
against IL. There are l believe three eoRserua-
tipe Republicans from Ohio. They occasion
ally vote TO postpone action on these anti slave.
ry movements. They are afraid OF straight
blow at them, between the eyes, Horton is the
brayest of them. Harrison does pretty we'll,
but sometimes does not vote, when bothered
Trimble, since his visit home, has be,n chang
ing his tune to a more conservative tenor -
These are all Of the conservatives from Ohio.
Ashley, Hutchns, Gurley, Worcester, Blake,
Shellabarger. Cutler, EdgertoD, Riddle and
Bingham, 20 in pile the entire negro Shell
labargtr sometimes holds his vote till the roll
is called, and then timidly goes the 1gure. l
suppose they represent WADE and his notions,
and perhaps the majority Of their party at home.
| The Republicans 10 the House, who are bold
enough TO speak and vote against abolition, do
not number twenty; and think that embraces
all shades of Conservatism" Kellogg, of llli-
nois. Granger, of Michigan, Owen, of New
York, Thomas, of Massachusetts,, Horton and
Harrison Of Ohio, McKnight, OF Pennsy ylVania,
Fisher, of Delaware, Sheffield, Of Rhode Island,
and Dunn, Of Indiana, are the only mep, whose
names / can recall, that can be distinguished
from the mass of Republican destructives, as
they are called, who are determined to have
no Union If slavery remains 10 any State; who
prefer disunion to the old Union.
You have seen that the Lovejoy bill was in
trodueed last Friday. IL was an overdose Of
the black poison. Lovejoy opened the ball with
| it, and the Border State men and Democrats,
with few Republicans, fought it. A motion
was made to table IL. Ii received but fifty votes
All the Ohio Republicans voted against Il but
| Horton. Harrison did not vote on Thursday
against it, though he did aftsrWard. Finally,
| il was about to pass, or eeemed about to pass,
when an adjournment was moved by q "conserv-
| ativeb Republican These men would not meet
It squarely and kill It. They had it in their
power to do so but did not like to 60 on the rec
ord against such legislation. Why7 For fear
the Abolition portion of their districts would
see 1t, and give them the cold shoulder in their
nominations or electors this fall. The adjourn
meut was carried. On Tuesday, when the
House met, Lovejoy began the proceedings by
resolution of thanks to Mcclellan! at which
there was general surprise, as he had been loud
est in braying against him. When Ii was read,
members looked at the burly hypocrite and
said, "Great God, what nexLm The next thing
was bis Abolition mire in which be proposed to
walloS with his black litter. The wallowing
began. On motion to lay his bill on the ta-
BILE, the folio wing vote appeared. IL was test
vote:
Yeas--Messrs. ALLEN, Joseph Bsily, Biddle
Jacob B. Blair, George H Browne, William G.
Brown, Calvert, Casey, Clements, Cobb, Cox.
Cravens, Crisfield, Cfittenden, Delano, piveD,
Dunlap, Dunn, Fisher, Order, Hall, Harding,
HARRIsoN, Holman, HORTON, johnson, William
Kellogg, Knapp, Maynard, Menzies, NORRIS,
NOBLE, Noell, Odell, Pfice, Alexander II. Rice,
Richardson. Robinson, Segar, Sheffield, John
B. Steele, William G. Steele, Sratton, Benja-
min F. Thomas, TnMBLE, Voorhees,, Ward,
Webster, Wickliffe and Woodbury-50
Nays-Messrs Aldricb, Alley, Arnold, ASH
LEY, Babbitt, Baker, Beaman, BNoHAM Francis
P. Blair, Samuel S. Blair, Blake, Bnffinton,
Campbell, Chamberlain, Clark, Colfax, Freder.
ick A. Conkling, Roscoe ConkliDg, CUTLER,
Davis, Dawes, Duell, EDdERToN, Eliot, Ely,
Fenton, Feesenden, FranchOt, Frank, Gooch,
Goodwin, Granger, Hale, Hickman, HUTcalss,
Julian, Lansing, Loomis, Lovejoy, Mcknight,
Mitchell, Moorehead, Anson P Morrill,, Olin,
Porter, John H. Rice, RIDDLE, Edward H Rol-
Inns, Sargent, Sedgwick, Shanks, SHELLABARGER,
Stevens, TroWbFidge, Vandever, Van Horn,
Verree, Wall, Wallace, Charles w. Walton, E.
P Walton, Washburne, Wheeler, Wilson and
Windom--65.
White, VallanGigham, Pendleton and Nugent,
of Ohio, were away from the city. Horton,
Harrison and Trimble voted conservative, as
you see. Honor to them J1a 1at g
Lcvtjoy then called the previous question, but
failed. Why Because there were no ayes
and noes called; and certain members who dare
not vote openly against abolition. when they
can they quietly dig il under the fifth rib. The
vote was 43 for the previous question and 6l
against IL; so the House would not hurry it
through. Then Lovejoy turned whtte for his
bantllng, and moved TO recommit ii. Cox NOV
ed to recommit, with instructions not to report
ct all, or, If at all, not till after the next
election. He opened the debate against it,
Diven Of New York, Wickhffe Of Kentucky,
0lin Of New York, ChrisReld of Indiana, and
Thomas Of Massachusetts. followed in attack
ing it. Arnold, Loyejoy, Bingham and Fessen-
den spoke for It. The latter, from Maine, gave
your member lecture on lecturing, which
seemed to have bad the effect Of drawing no re-
ply
"I listened with as much patience as could
to the lecture given Us this morning by the gen.
tleman from Ohio Mr.. Cox For one, do