The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-02-13
Senator snulshnrn,a snAsoh.

~ Lnasteriy speech mas Deen ue'
livered, either in Europe or Amer
lea, since the day that Lord
Brougham vindicated the moral
character of Queen Caroline. We'll
may the monomaniacs ofthe Abo-
lition party, whether in Congress
or out OF it, tremble as they read
Mr.. Saulsbury's sublime and log
ical defense of the Hon.. j. D.
Bright. The ruling men in Con
gress are bent on the ruin and
total destruction of the American
nation. Again we say, read our
extracts from the speech of the
HonaSenator from Delaware.--ED.
PROPOSED EXPULSION OF MR.. BRIGHT.
The Senate resumed the consid.
Grafton of the resolution submitted
by Mr.. Wilkinson, for the expul-
sion of Hon. Jesse D. Bright.
Mr.. SALISBURY. MIR. Presi-
dent, | caunot permit this discus
sion TO close without submitting
some reflections which it naturally
suggests. When a people are
mad, their representatives are sell
dom wise. Amid the volcanic
throes Of revolution the voice OF
reason is too seldom needed, an1
passion too often rules supreme.
1t is ONLY when the storm has
Passed aud the natural calm sue
ceeded, that impartial history re-
cords her Judgment of the wisdom
or folly, the madness or sobriety,
of our actions. The extravagances
of the present will amaze the tu-
ture; and even we, who are actors
in our nations saddest drama will
wonder at our decisions and our
follies when time shall have sooth-
ed the passions and experience
taught us wisdom. The philo-
sophie student of current events
will only CLEAN from them the
same lessons taught in the expert.
ence of the past, and future ages
will be no more instructed by them
than we have been by the warn
ings engraved on the ruins which
strew the pathway of lost empires.
Our amazement should therefore
diminish and our prejudices some
what abate when we reflect that
those now temporarily clothed with
power abuse its exercise, and in
the name of justice and patriotism
blindly stab the one and betray
the other.
Of the same character as are
many of the inexplicable phenom.
ena of political and party action
which we of late have constantly
witnessed is the proposition now
before the Senate-the proposition
to expel the honorable Senator
from Indiana. Reason, justice,
common sense have nothing to do
with it; for the reason that reason,
justice, and common sense have
we'll nigh fled the land. We have
much of the reason of Robespierre,
Marat, and Danton ; none of the
wisdom of Washington, Jefferson,
and franklin. The Mountain
reigns, and woe to him who is not
of the Mountain.
MI. President, the administra.
ton of criminal justice, in no age,
and in no civilized country, can
furnish an example of injustice so
gross as that practised towards the
accused Senator in the Chamber OF
his peers.
The giving of a note of introduce
ton will, l presume, be admitted
not to be sufficient cause for expul-
sion. If you expel, therefore, you
will do it because the writer of the
note states what the bearer says is
the object of the visit. 1 submit
that expulsion for such cause is
expulsion without cause. and
wholly indefensible. Verify, the
Mountain reigns, and woe to him
that is not of the Mountain.
Sir, let the voice of party be
stilled and the strites of faction
cease, while we listen to the voice
of philosophy syllabled by the
muse of history. Says Macauly:
1--WE know of no great revolution which
might not have been prevented by compro-
mise early and %graciously made. Firmness
is a great~irtue in public affairs, but it has
its proper sphere. Conspiracies and insur.
r~ections in which small minorities are en-.
gagged the outbreakings Of popular violence
unconnected with any extensive project OIL
any durable principle, are best repreSSed BY
vigor and decision. To shrink from then
is to make them formidable. But no wise
ruler will confound the prevailing faint witt
the slight local irritation. No wise ruler
will treat the deeply-seated discontents of 6
great party as he treats the fury of a mol
which destroys mills and p%Ower-looms. The
neglect Of this distinction has been fata
even to Governments strong in the power o
the sword"
The neglect of this distinction