The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-08-01

csse OF this sort. A ,mss By the name OF
Mitchell owns . large quantity Of stock IN
that railroad He was raised and ed Gated
bv the Government of the United States.
Stby DE- lit that he was twenty-five years
10 the Navy. When this rebellion broke
90 wees South He -eomussude ed the
Louisiana, rsbel vessel. in the fight II
New Orleans the other day: and when, he
found that be would be whipped. he blew
jo Fort Warren; and yet he 10 receiving
sverv ak months bis dividends on this
railroad stock And this 10 but one Of ten
thousand such examples; and the face of
such facts, shall We continue, as we have
. done, shall we carry on this war in this
beautiful way, passing over to rebels in arms
The profits of stocks and property in the
North, or loyal States. to lead them and
strspgthen their bastard government? The
Marshal ofmy State owes an existing debt
ofS2O, 900 to . gentleman who is com
. missionary in the rebel army; and every six
months that man gets his interest. Can you
tolerate these things? If these things are to
go on. do you ever expect to restore order
in this country? ~ g
Mr.. President, for the last five or six
weeks have sat in my seat and heard gen.
tlsmen, hour after hour, and day after day,
talk about what we could not do. Ii would
have been gratifying to me il some gentle
man had told US what we might do. 1t
would have been far more gratifying 10 me
to hear that. / know that there is rebellion
in the land (; I know that there are traitors
in the North as we'll as in the South; aud /
know that they are living on the fat OF the
land. l know that in this city to-day,
where you are taking temples Of God IS
hospitals, there is more property belonging
to rebels Than would be necessary to furnish
hospsSl accommodations for every sick man
in our Army. Sir, would march with this
Senate in body to night and say to The
President, "before to morrow's sun shall
rise take every III, OF it," IL is not the
mere value OF the property look TO. but to
the example you would show to the coun-
try that you mean to sustain this Govern
nent; that you mean that he who rebels
against il shall lose his property altogether
and you will never have peace until you do
il. always begin to suspect any mans
loyalty when he talks to me about the vio-
lstion OF the writ of Aabeas corpus, or this
thing or that thing done to sustain the Gov
eminent.
desre to make remark on another sub
ject; and hope the Senate will pardon me
for abiding to it. listened the other day
with great deal Of interest to speech of
the Senator from Delaware. Mr.. Saulsbu-
~ I in which think, for about half an
hour, he summed up what he believed to be
the causes Of this rebellion. Ofcourse men
viii differ on that point, but | have made
up my mind that this is not the time to find
fault. I listened TO the gen tleman talking
about remark OF President Lincoln's. that
the Union could not stand with half the
a. r. 4 IL 80 - L 7 -
tell the gentleman thas there is one sentence
which have in the book before me which
has done far more injury TO this Union.--.
When n certain President Of the United
States wrote these words: .'Kansa is there
fore 1t this moment as much Of a slave
State as Georgia or South Carolins;" and
when that was followed up by decision of
the Supreme Court, the highest tribunal 81
tho fsu1, vnar your fathers and mine made a
Constitution that carried slavery where
there was no law for-I was not in tue
country at the time: but l think l under
stood the popular heart Of the people--it
struck the hearts Of millions of freemen as a
falsehood and SANDER. The people were
told that Kansas was IS much OF q slave
State as South Carolina, where they have
. been legislating on the subject for eighty
years, and ID was expected that the honest,
loyal men Of this country would swallow a
doctrine so monstrous. 60 for the doc
trines of the lsmented Douglas, the expoun-
der of the Constitution, and one Of the best,
the ablest. and most faithful public men this
country has ever produced. l go for no
such power as is stated in that decision. If
my friend from Delaware desires to find
the causes OF the present rebellion, he will
find one Of them in that celebrated message
Of James Buchanan: -.
Mr.. Saulsbury-I hope my friend will al
low me to say one word. tssr
Mr.. Wright--Certainly. st.s -
Sau!sbury-I know it is generally pop
ular TO attack man who is out of power,
who once had friends dancing attendance
upon him, but who has retired from place
and is no longer in any public POSITION
When Mr.. Buchanan was President of the
United States he never did any act at my
solicitation. He never made an appoint
ment at my solicitation. never asked for
but ono favor, aud that was to make an APP
pointment to my State. lie refused to graf
fly my wishes. Bus. ST. without attempt
ing to indosSe AL the acts Of Mr.. Buchanan's
administration, let me say 10 my friend.
perhaps IL is little unjust to attack man
who is not in condition to defeud himself.
Mr.. Wight certainly have not made
any Sttack upon Mr. buchanan. nave
spoken Of a message Of a President of the
United States, but made no allusion to him.
I think il was fatal blow. think it led
to disastrous results. The gentleman Knows
what I mean, and I am not going to repeat
IL. have no desire to enter into political
oontro OVERSEES. particularly at the present
time. / believe We have had a Democratic
csucus, asd believs We have had q Repub-
lean caucus. know one man who has
attended aoae ofthem. and know one man
who, while this rebellion lasts. will 60 into
political caucus of any kind. This Gov
eminent does not belong to caucuses, nor to
parties. Il bslongs to the loyal men Of
this whole souniry. am determined. SO
far - this question is concerned. that
shall never be party to any organization