Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-03-18
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| Mr.. Welch-Will the Senator please pive us
the reason why the word "laudable" Ia more
susceptible of varied construction than tbe
word ''constitutional2h
Mrl Lang-f will endeavor to, and If the
Senator had listened to my remarks, he wonld
have seen in them an honest endeayor 10 shov
| the difference. The Senator's question am !.
braces the very trouble now between the Dam.
| ocratc party aud the party in power. Your
disregard for the Constitution, your hiaher law
doctrines, your despicable heresy of militarv
necessity, claiming under your war power rights
not secured by the Constitution and never sur-
rendered by the people: all these have made
you odious amongst the masses, and thew are
determined to bring you back to the Constitu-
tion, and they will do it. It is laudable in the
view OF the Senator when, in violation of the
Constitution, ctizens are dragged from their
families, in loyal States, kidnapped, in the
dead hour of the night, and without legal pro !.
Gees taken beyond the boundary OF their Ststea
and Imprisoned in some filthy fort, and after
being kept there for months, and treated worse
than murderers, without trial, without extend.
ing to them the ordinary rights of American
citizens, discharged again. Ii is laudable with
| the majority here to have the Executive of
violations of the rights Of our citizens hut
boast OF his backbone when he himself order.
ed the arrests Of these citizens, and threatens
to suppress the freedom of speech and The
press Ii is lAudable when the President bv
proclamation and in violation of the Constitu.
tion invades the rights of large number of
States OF this Union, whom by the waste of
millions of treasure and thousands upon thous.
ands OF the best lives, We seek to bring back
into the Uaion with their rights unimpaired.
it ia laudable in the estimation of the majority
here, at time like the present. when the
larger portion OF the slave States are not rep.
resented in Congress, to abolish slavery in the
District of Columbia, aud pass acts pro.
hibiting ite introduction into the territories,
and all this done, while you deny that the
Republican party has becOme abolitlonized
II is laudablo to suppress the freedom of the
press and of speech by men In authority, lie itf
Have you not educated the people by your q IA
Of violations of law and the Constitution into
disregard Of both, and when a mad mob de,
stroys the property OF citizens and endangers
their lives, are they not in the service of the
party In power2 Ia it not laudable in the Sen.
ator from Fsyette, Then he regrets on this
floor that those poor men who were arrested
without law, were not huDg2 Are not these
internal mobs doing your laudable work of per-
secutioD; are they not executing your orders
and move according to your advice? The Sen.
atoF from Lawrence tells us that no man was
arrested who was friendly to the Administrs-
tion. Certainly not. They were only those
who undertook 10 complain when their dearest
rights were trampled under foot, when, instead
of statesmanship and patriotism, fsnaticlsm
and madness seemed to rule at Washington.
Yes, Mr.. President, when the country was
weeping and mourning, and trembled 10 fear
for her Institutions, men spoke out against
wrong, aud they were those who felt the iron
rod OF this Administration. don't know what
the Senator means when he makes the asser-
tion that the ftiends OF tho party in power we're
not arrested. Very true. The friends of the
Administration are not those who have dared
to cry aloud against it's wroDgs. They are too
much Interested in its enpport. The thing pays;
and as long as II pays, and as long as the chains
are only drawn on those who are not the friends
of the Administration, men who bask in the
sunshine of the White House can afford to
laugh at the misery Of others, and the ravenous
maWs of the army contractors arc much greater
than their love OF freedom. Yes, Mr.. Presi
dent, we are aeked to consider IL laudable when
army thieves are permitted to swallow up the
treasury of the nation, and the poor soldier in
the ned ls neglected, and his pay is withheld
from him for months and months, compelling
him and his loved ones at home to suffer and
weep. You have by law suspended prosecu-
tions against army thieves, and you have placed
Law Of Congress between an outraged citizen
and bis prosecutors. Beautiful, lsudnble en-.
deavors, indeed.
will not attempt to enumerate your viola
tions Of constitutional liberty that you call laud.
able; and when the Senator claims that the word
iaudable lis no more easily construed to suit
snyhody whim than the word "constitntlonal,"
can excuse the Senator In his disregard for
the Consultation, for he never was Democrat.
lie is go much devoted to his party tnat he
must either indorse all the acts of his party
friends, right or wrong, or subject himself to be
denounced as a"copperhead." When leading
men In his party lend all their powers to sup
press tne popular voice, and the people quietly
submit, II 10 not to be wondered at that Sena.