The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-03-06
tion, and to make report thereon.
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Mr.. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speak
Asr, | want to hear nothing about
disloyaIty on this side Of the House
while there is q class of members
here upon the other side of the
House who have declared that they
will vote for no proposition to car
ly Oh the war unless it is prosecu-
ted in particular line, and for the
abolition of slavery. They would
subvert the Constitution and the
Government, and | denounce them
as traitors, and they ought to be
broughttotrial, condemnation, and
execut556. ',''-
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Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM. In re.
ply to the specification, and the
only one which the gentleman has
been able to point out, relating to
a public diGner in Kentucky, allow
me to tell him that my foot has not
pressed the soil Of Kentucky since
the 10th day of July, 1852, when
as q member Of u committee APP
pointed by the common council OF
the city where | reside, | followed
the remains Of that great and noble
man, true patriot and Union man,
Henry Clay, to their last resting
place. | have partaken Of no dim
ners there or elsewhere, of a polit-
ical character, nor did | ever attend
any Breckinridge meeting at Bal
timore or elsewhere, at any time
This is my answer to that, the
only specification. And yet the
gentleman dares attempt to sup
port that faIsehood, which | here
dcnounce as such, by illusions to
suspicious which have been created
and set ahoat throughout the whole
country, not merely against me
but against hundreds and thou
sands of others, in whose vein.
runs blood as patriotic and loyal a
/ ever flowed since the world began
tell the gentleman that, in year
past, | have heard his loyalty tt
the Union questioned. | hav
= known of things which would hay
+ justified me-had l relied on au
thority similar to that which h
has attempted to give dignity
: introducing similar resolutions t
make inquiry into his purpose t
disrupt this Union by the doc
4 trines which he has held and tn
i. opinions which lie nas cxprcsse,
e And yet opinions and sentiment
Il uttered here, are 1.-The head an
o front of my offending" 1t hG
!. "this extent, no more"
: And sir, l replied, some tim
n ago, to two others which doul
II not the gentleman would hav
r dragged now out Of the mire an
e slough into which they had flllel
but that they were answered whe
t thrust into debate by the gentle
! man before me, Mr.. Hutchins] l.
e refer to the charge that had ono
IS uttered the absurd declaration thu
5; the soldiery Of the North and We
p should pass over my dead body b.
e fore they she uld invade the Soutl
st ern States. l denied it then, an
; will not repeat the denial now.
!; Nor need refer again to thi
3 other charge that [ had uttered,
l. debate here or elsewhere, the sci
it timent that | preferred peace
the Union ; | have heretofore m
r that charge with prompt and Ell
J. phatic contradiction, and no ev
d dence has been found to sustain
% Referring to that and other charg
and insinuations on the 7th
1t January last, l said to my &C
's league:
If ''Asto my record here at tn e ext
~ session or during the present Sc
le sion, it remains, and will remain.
Is And just here, sir, IN referen
to the speech to which the gent
man alluded, delivered on ii
floor in the exercise of my cons
tutional right as q member Of Il
House, on the 10th Of July last,
a defy him-I hurl the defiance in
n his teeth-to point to one sing
to disloyal sentiment or sentence
it. | proceeded to say, further, {
the 7th OF last month
er II do neither retract one sen
lg ment that | have uttered, n
would | obliterate single vc
,s- which l have given. | speak
lie the record as it will appear herc'
nd ter, and indeed stands now up
It, the Journals of this House and
rd the Congressional Globe. A
nd there is no other record, tina
of God, and no act or word or thong
in Of mine, and never has been frc
d. the beginning, in public or privs
ms of which any patriot ought to
le- ashamed. Sir, it is the record a
made it, and as it exists here
he day and not as a mendacious a
H. shameless press have attempted
Of make it up for me. Let us see W
lst will grow tired Of their recc
of first. Consistency, frmness, a
for sanity, in the midst of gene