Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-02-06

Chief left the Senate his last words were
to utter his determination to fight il peace
lul rebellion could not be accomplished
In that speech Of the Senator from Missis-
sippi. Davis. the arch rebel declared.
that If they could not have a peaceful re-
bellion. they would trust themselves to
the Cod of Battles and their own right
arms. Let us pass by this offence Of the
Senator from Indiana. and go out among
the troops AMI urge them TO fight and drive
away the enemy which beleaguers Wash
ington. What will they reply? Urge
us to fight. when you keep in your coun-
sells men who are guilty of sending their
friends to the South fire. that might
be put in the hands Of rebels TO murder us ?
What answer have we to make them
Gre and ask this Administration for more
vigor; ask them to turn out from the De-
partments any man who is tainted with
treason. What will they s,yl $50 back
and turn out from the Senate the men who
write letters to JEFF. Davis" Sir, if you
had here little page who was guilty OF
any such disloyalty. or his father even,
you would turn out the rage and father
both; and yet it is proposed to retain the
Senator from Indiana. Sir. an outraged
people. in my opinion. will receive no such
excuse as is presented by the Senator and
his friends. They demand that this REBEL
ion shall be crushed. and they will not be
triaed with by any such pretense, that such
a letter as the Senator gave was a thing Of
course. and only inconsiderately done.
To allow arms to be used against the
Government. or to propose to do so, is q
thing so atrocious that it would have excl
ted the indignation Of the Senator from
Indiana, if he had been loyal man. and
would have made him denounce Lincoln
as mercenary traitor, instead Of sending
him as trustworthy man, to the chief reb-
ell. This is the charge make upon these
facts, against the Senator from Indiana,
that he aided. or intended to aid. those two
rebels. Lincoln and Davis--knowingly
aided them in the prosecution of their
schemes of treason. And here take is
sue with the Senator from New Jersey
Mr.. Ten Eyck. who alleged that It does
not appear that Lincoln ever visited jeff
Davis. I DO not care whether he did or
not. The Senator from Indiana, when he
gave him the letter completed his offence.
That the rebellion existed and was in arms
the Senator knew. He knew that Davis
was its leader and that they wanted arms,
for the Southern troops were seizing and
stealing all the arms they could get; and
he knew that Lincoln had arms to SELL
These two rebels did not know each other.
The Senator from Indiana knew the pur-
pose Of one was to sell arms and the pur-
pose OF the other was to overthrow the
Government by force, If necessary and yet
with that guilty knowledged he deliber-
ately commended this traitor to go and
sell this improved fire-arm to the rebel
chief. But in oil this the Committee think
there is nothing to justify US in expelling
the Senator. Sir, we owe it to ourselves
to drive him from this high place. Will
we receive him into our counsels to per-
NIT 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 country? We owe
it to 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 10th regiment has been
nearly decimated Her sons lie dead upon
the ground. slain in defence of their coun-
try, and shall we retain here Senator who
would aid to furnish the rebellion with
arms that are 10 kill and destroy her own
citizens?