Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-05-22
Helmont Ghrnnitle.


Mr.. W0de's speech, Concluded
of battle. and all brought about by this
sl;nrrrv. sl;mv traitor. There are men who
would set up afterwards in this Senate, and, I
with tears in their eyes, plead the cause of
inst snch A wretch AS that who, with all the
evidence Of puilt upon him, was sent of for
= LITTLE while 10 soiourn in one of our forti- |
6cations. and call il inauisitoral, tyrannical, !
dsv;l;sb
Sir the man that makes use Of these
srgu,nents need NOT tell mo he is loyal. RI
teil vou the danger TO our institutions is not
so great from traitors in the field with arms
In their hands ss It is from the nimbe.
toneued, slippery hypocrites who 90 forth
apoloeizins for them, branling every ener-
getic measure of the Administration a.
,srapoical and wrong, and endcavoring to
deceive the people and stir them up to
hostility against this wise, this Just, this
most moderate Administration. | do not
believe the people are going to be deceived
by il. / do not believe that your night
meetings to reconstruct the Democratic
party, YOUR resolutions of censure accusing
them of tyranny here and int midation
abroad-I do not believe all these things
and all your machnations will be able to de-
ceive an awakened people who understand
all your arts, and are determined to back
wise Administration iu the course it shall
pursue.
] noticed that the Senator from Kentucky,
mir. Powell, in the speech he made here
The other day, mourned over the dcgencracy
of this Senate He was horror stricken or
sorrow stricken with the comparison of the
great men who were here in former times,
referred TO Massachusetts. Well sir, Mas.
pachusctts is my old mother. and | DO not
like TO hear her assailed without saying o
word in her behalf. | tell him Massacbu.
setts was never more adorned; there never
was more patriotism, there never was more
efficiency to extricate the country from the
difficulty in which it is plunged, than there
is from Massachusetts, to-day. How is il
with old Kentucky? Did the Senator thinI
of that in the remarks he made? His for
mer colleague stood here year ago pr aching
these same doctrines OF conciliation anC
anti coercion, invoking the Constitution il
favor of traitors, taking his pay out of th
Treasury, holding up his hand TO God an,
swearing he would he loyal to tho Constitu
ton, and then sneaking of into the robe
army to stab your Constitution to death. =
That il the successor of old Harry CLAW. q
glorious memory! Is not that degeneracy
The Senator himself confesses he has bee
suspected, at least. Should be, standin
upon ground ike that, have made this il
quiry into the standing of present and pas
Senators?
Mr.. President, ! have said. perhaps all
ought 20 say. and more: but mark, this cor
troyersy was not provoked by me. Tn
Senator from Calfornia-withw whom hav
always lived here on the most intimat
terms OF friendship, or if not the most il
timate. the most cor,lial-thought it propt
TO assail me, and the committee with whic
| act; to assail us violently, as inauistor
as men that went about accusing aud slar
dering and stabbing men in the dark. 1t
true that he revised the speech that cause
nv spcukinp at all, and, I believe, struc
ovt every single word that related to III
committee of which am member. 81
this is all wrong. do not know but it
permitted in the course of remarks va max
here that man may revise strike out, M
put in whatever he pleases. care nothir
about that. II he says anything here thu
no is not willing to 40 to the country | pi
him, or anybody else in that position.
He has endeavored to impcate mo in q
serting that tho Constitution and the gro
guarantees of liberty should not be invoke
In behalf OF men in judicial tribunals. 81
] never alluded to any such thing. kno
their value. Ny zeal is stimulated becau
l see them endangered by this gigantic I
bellion. It's to preserve these great ba
riers of American liberty that | am zealo
in the defence of my country, when tn
are sought to be overthrow by the
traitors with arms in their hands. But, $
isit not marvellous that they who are so 20
GUS of this Constitution, and OF these tin
honorod guarantees, should not have u sins
word to say against those who ara in on
hostility to overthrow and destroy them a