The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-30

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for his expulsiouf II IN open rebel ossAS r
be s1psllsd, ought not the person 10 b sx.
pellsd VINO furnished aid TO the open rebel e
make the rebellion succsssfuli He contsnded
that he went with the intsntiou to cell i'm
provements in firearms, nor of the fact tha,
the rebels intended to make war. He read q
long list Of cts Of war commit tied by trai.
New York, characterizing the acts Of the
| rebels a. treason by levytng war. So mach
Tor the war and the stats Of the country,
need not quote Blackstone on the Presidents
upon the facts solennly considered and made
upon the very case ITSELF. The rebellion has
now burst into arms, and when the rebsl
chief left the Senate his last words were to
rebellion could not be accomplished. In
that speech Of the Senator from Mis-
sissippi (mr. Davis) the arch rebel de-
ciared that IL they could not have peaceful
God Of Battles ana their own right arms
Let us pass by this offence Of the Senator
Hom INDIANA, and go out among the troops
ana urge them TO night and drive away the
will they reply3 Surge us to fight, when
you Keep In your counsels the men who are
guilty ofsending their friends to the South
with hre-a3ms that might be put into the
swer nave we to make them? Go and ask
TINS Administration for more vigor: ask them
to turn out from the departments any man
VINO Is tainted with treason. What will they
say "do back and turn out from the Sem
ate the men who write letters to jeff Davis ;"
Sir, II you had here little page who was
guilty OF any such disloyalty or his father
even, you would turn out the page and father
Senator from Indiana. Sir, an outraged peo-
pie, In my opinion, will receive no such ex .
cuse as Is presented BY the Senator and his
friends: they demand that this rebellion
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be trined with by. any such pre-
tence that such a letter as the Senator
gave was thing Of course, and only incon.
siderately done. To allow arms to be used
a9ainst the Government, or to propose to do
SO, is thing so atrocious that it would have
excited the Indignation Of the Senator from
Indiana, ii he had been q loyal man, and
Woula nave made him denounce Lincoln as
mercenary traitor, instead of sending him,
As trustworthy man, to the chief reDel.-
Xhis Is the charge I make, upon these facts,
against the Senator from Indiana: that he
aided, or intended to aid, those two rebels,
Alncoln ana Davis-kno wingly aided them
In the prosecution of their schemes Of trea-
SON. And here take issue with the Senator
from New Jersey, lMr. Ten Eyck,) who al
legeo tnat 1t does not appear that Lincoln
he did or not The Senator from INDIANA,
When ne gave him the letter, com pleted his
offence. That the rebellion existed and was
IN arms, the Senator knew. He knew that
arms, for the Southern troops Were seizibR
and stealing all the arms fhey could get
and he knew that Lincoln had arms 10 sell.
These two rebels did not know each other.
Of one was to sell arms, and the pur pose Of
the other was to overthrow the Government,
by force If necessary; ana yet, with thai
guilty knowledge, he deliberately com.
proved fire-arm to the rebel chief. hut in
all this the committee think there is no.
thing 70 justify " in ex xpelfing the Senator,
Sir, we owe 1t to ourselves to drive him from
TINS nigh place. Will we receive him into
our connsels to permit him to take part in
| the legislation which is to preserve the
country A man who aided or who would
aid to arm the rebellion against that coun.
ny we owei 70 the country to expel him,
and, above all, we owe it to the patriotic
| State OF Indiana. Even now the telegraph
| flashes the news that her Tenth regiment
has been nearly decimated. Her sons lie
| dead upon the ground, slain in defence of
| their country, and shall we retain here a
Senator who would aid to furnish the rebel
| lion with arms that are to kill and DESTROY
| ner own citfzens? Almost every day the
Government seizas some persons in CORES.
pondence with the enemy and sends them to
| Fort Warren. would deal more SUMMARY.
" with such men If 1 ad the power.
| wonld bring them up before mar .ial law,
| and, II found guilty, would hang or sho0t
them, and would say to all persons hereafter
In like offences, such shah be your due.
Some time last j uly letter was found in the
Post.O Offce of this city-a letter directed to
| the Richmond Enqutyr-inquiring whether
| the Confederate Government wished to
| purchase any improved cannon That
| letter was from my own State, and
my own city-I blush to say it;-but
| though all efforts were used, Its write, could
1 not be found If we could have found him
| he would have gone forth an execrated ran
derer and an outeast, If no severer punish.
ments had befallen him. There are men even
tn the free States who are 40 unpatriotic they
| would coin money out Of the last drop OF
blood of the Government. They have shown
| 1t by their acts. or lwould not believe it. /
bear NJ .unkiLdness. sir, toward the Senat tor
| from Indiana, but am grieved that one SO
| long In the service Of his country, and 50
| much honored, should so descend as to do
her this injury ! only know what are the
facts; and II 1t was my own brother should
| feel IL my duty to do the same. / would ex-
| claim, ''Thy people shall be my people. The
Lord do so to me; and more, also, il aught
| but death part thee and me-" Ths first day
| of March, 1851, was an eventful day On that
| day the Secretary Of War struck tho name OF
| Gen. Twiggs, who had surrendered the army
| In Texas, from the roll OF the army. On that
same day the gallant Anderson wrote that he
| could not hold out much longer, and on
that same day the Senator from Indiana
wrote a letter to JET. Davis, telling him thai
Mr.. Lincoln had an i'm poI tant i'm proveme ent
| in fire. arms to sell. Senators, look at the
picture! The Sens from Indiana delibe.
| rately furnishes, or aids TO furnish, an impor-
| tant improvement In firearms to the rebel
chief. Over the doors Of the old Hall OF
Represen tatives there stands the finest de.
sign Of art, in my udgmsnt, to be found
about the Cap.tOl-it is that of history riding
| in the car OF Time, making her record "
| she goes. Oh, what a record she made ON
that lst day OF March, 1851! l have some.
/ times fancied that I could see a veil Of sad
ness over her countenance for the misery ot
the nation. We can only make atonemept
by completing the record, and bidding her
make 1t, that when we know of the act of the
Senator from Indiana, we drove him from
the Senate and expelled him from this floor.
The Senate went into executive session, and
afterwards adjourned till Monday.