Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-01-22
Mr.. .YEAMAN srr. Chairman.

into four sections, one OF which was to be |
called the section of the South, and was TO
consist of the fifteen slave States and of
such additional States as might be there |
after organized within the limits Of the same.
Now, sir, it would require the testimony
of one risen from the grave, Of whom II
could be said death is past, and he has be-
come immortal and free from the errors of
this mortal life of ours, to make me believe
for moment that to incorporate that pro.
position into the Constitution would not dis
sever the Union and destroy the Govern.
ment. Consider, il you please, that at the
very time that proposition was peuding in
the House, at the very time that il was in.
people of that section which it was proposed
should be the section Of the South was in
rebellion against the Government, Under
the Constitution as changed if this pro.
position had been adopted, these rebel
States named would only have required the
consent Of the Legislatures of the said States
to secede from the free States and from each
other.
Mr.. HOLMAN. desire to ask the
gentleman from Ohio the single question
whether he intends by that language to i'm
ply that any gentleman on this side of the
House-any Democrat-except the man
who introduced that proposition himself, is
either responsible for it or indorsed its priD-
ciples, or that it received the sanction Of
any Democrat in Congress or out of Con-
grcss2
Mr.. BINGHAM. l have not said any
thing OF that sort yet and the gentleman
has no right to call upon me TO answer such
a question until do 30.
Mr.. HOLMAN. The gentleman should
be little more particular about making
charges against this side of the House.
Mr.. BINGHAM. The gentleman should
be little more particular about what im
putations he casts upon MISUNDERSTANDING
in our faces that we sat here silently and
heard the uttcrances of the chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee, after we
had denounced those utterances here. am
speaking of fact. And believe that after
that measure was introduced, the gentle
man from Indiana followed tho lead of the
gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. VALLANDIa.
HAM so far as to sign the call for Demo-
cratic organization.
Mr.. HOLMAN Docs not the gentleman
know that, however much may have ap.
proved of the principles Of that instrument,
my name was not attached to the call at all.
Mr.. BINGHAM. did not know it.
| am glad to hear II.
Mr.. HOLMAN. And docs he not know
that more than majority of the members
on this side Of the House declined to sign
it2 .i l'Ht ..4
Mr. BINGHAM. am glad to hear
that, too.
Mr.. HOLMAN. Because it proposed
the reorganization of the Democratic party,
which had never been dsorganized.
| Mr.. BINGHAM, Mr.. Chairman, I am
not going to be diverted from my remarks.
There was the proposition. think there
was, probably, council held about that
time. do not believe, Mr.. Chairman, that
you were present at that council, and Cor
tainly was not. l do not believe that an,
Of the gentlemen who have stood by tho
hag OF the country were present. do moi
say that my colleague was at it.
Mr.. COX. What colleague? .
Mr.. BINGHAM. Why, my colleagu,
who presented the amendment
Mr.. COX. We never heard of tha
council. :f .i....
Mr.. BINGHAM. Isuspect very strong
ly there was council held about that time
for it is little extraordinary that that pro
position TO dismember tho Union, by way
Of amendment to the Constitution of tn,
United States, should strangely enough
include in the section of the North all tn,
New England States, New Jersey, New
York, and Pennsylvania, and exclude Della
ware and Maryland, which lie side by sid,
with Pennsylvania. 1t is strange that wher
they come to make the section OF tho Yves
tho provision should include Ohio and OK
clude your Kentucky, Mr. Chairman, which
lies side by side with Ohio, and that /
should run tho line by the boundary O
slave States, and embrace within the South
ern section oil tho slave States in the Re
public, providing that any State nigh
secede by the assent of the Legislatures o
tho section to which it belonged, and re
serving to the President Of tho Unite,
States only the power to adjust with seced
ing States oil questions arising by reason O
their secession, and submit the adiustmen
to Congress for approval 1t seems to me
sir, that most likely about that time ther
was a conyocation held in this capital
not to advise upon the measure, to congrat
ulato themselves on its introduction.
Those conspirators who have sinca gon,
across the water to conspire with the despot
Of the Old World against the life of thei
native country, were ut that day in thi
Capitol. That Virginia Senator who is th
day creeping through all tho lanes an,
avenues Of the Court of st. James, askin,
our ancient enemy to strike hands with tn,
rebels against our common country, wa
then here. That hatchet faced consprato
from Orleans, who is this day trying :,
make case for this rebellion at the Cour
Of st. Cloud, was then here. That copper
oolored gentleman, lineal descendant O
Judas, and who bears his name, Judah p
Benjamin, and who, like his ancestor, wa,
ready to take thirty pieces of silver for tn,
betrayal Of his master, was then here. AL
though not admitted into the presence O
that council, think l may be allowed I,
say that they cried well done" to that pro
position OF the gentleman from Oaio. :
"You leave out these six New Englan,
States In the cold" That is a pestien
country. Every mountain and hill is crown
cd with temple Of religion, and every vail
adorned with temple Of learning, whiol
stands open from the rising to the setting
:. !, Of the sun for the instruction Of all th,
children Of the Commonwealth,
There is Massachusetts, with the rock o
Plymouth, which was made sacred and hal
lowed by the footsteps of the Pilgrim Faith
era, who came to lay anew the foundation
Of civil and religious liberty at the goin,
down of the sun Listen md haar AZ a.