Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-01-16
A siaoGguard castigstoa.

! nat the state oil Delaware is represented |
IN the Senate of the United States by IL
everybody knows who reads the |
Of the distinguished politician
aud beer house lawyer from Georgetown-
Willard Salisbury.
1t is no sufficient excuse for his friends to
plead drunkenness as the cause of his low
vulgarities and immoral behavior, at Wash
ngton. He should try to demean himself
with common decency and respectability, at
least while acting in his representative ca
pacity, and not let his growing personal
intirmities' so overcome him as to cause
him TO exhibit his political deformities in the
American Senate to his own disgrace aud
the injury of the good name and loyalty Of
our State.
The people of Delaware deplore the course
pursued by Mr.. salisbury. They grieve To
think that he so steadily persists in his eff.
forts to place the State on the side of treason
against the wishes and feelings of his con
stltuenis and would celebrate his expulsion
from the Senate, with demonstrations of Joy,
the firing of guns, and public resolutions OF
thanks. But inasmuch as the Senate does
not see proper to expel its vagrant traitors
from membership, we must be content with
whatever else is done, in lieu Of expulsion.
to keep them in check and prevent their
mischievous Ialsehoods from being injurious
or harmful to the cause Of popular Govern
ment. Wherefore, the people of Delaware
feel grateful to Senator Wilkinson of Min
nesota for the timely and well earned casti-
CATION he administered to poor Salisbury in
his remarks on Monday last. They made
the Delaware Senator reel as he knows 50
well--aiter much street practice--how to do,
and overwhelmed him in the contempt and
lerision of all honorable men
In order that our readers may know how
well the work was done, we here append IA
summary of the remarks on the occasion re-
lerred to. We quote from the National In
telligencer of Tuesday -
On motion Of MIR. WILKINSON, the bin for
the discharge Of State prisoners was tnk,n up.
and he proceeded to address the Senate. llr Wi /
be propose to notice the r,marks Of gone men
who seemed not to he very anxious 10 mniutnin
tie GOSeInmeui. II seemed Ia hun that I'M,
| speech ut the Senator from Delaware Mr.. SAuLs.
BURY) was made for the scle purpose of ni,hpp
those men waO were determined to gain posser-
| sion OF the ulvernmeht, or else to destroy H. ii
would seem there was uu arranged Ilan Of attack
ON the President ht Indianapolis, n, Lous.
Springfield, ILL.,, Albany, aud New York Con
,itierng the time aud the circumstances, he con.
e,derrf this speech IT the Senator lram p.l.
nwate To be the most outrageous ever uttetei IN
tie Senate of the United States ar in any nth, r
deiherahve body. When the Senator from Del
aware first cane 10 the Senate hc urteI In th.
majority with DAvis roomb4 und Wiefill every
department of the Governmrht was under theil
control, ani that Senator seemed 10 lie happy in
surrendering himself To their control and he H.,
lieyed the records of the SENATE would show III.
unilmehing devotion 10 Davis q Co. That at.
tack Of the Senator upon the President WINS AZ
w1hton and unjust ~ il was upntriotir; no
rlght-nnded man would have made such Il speeeh
AMI no patriot would have uttered 1t. IL "a III,
Judgment Of the country that the President IL n
pure and right-mnded man, aud the Setnt D.,
from Delaware knows it, nnd yet he seeks 10 de-
suoy ms Influence, not from ANY i'll will 10 the
President but from Ill will to the cause of FREQ
dom III this country And the Senator in tlp
progress oi his attack grows cold md becomes
utterly regardless Of tho truth in the statement
he makes. He states " that the President. after
bis inauguration, manifested no further interest
ln the country, except 10 procure otices for hi.
greedy followers, and try aud make the seceder,
sirise the hrst blow Vas ever more mon
strous iasehoud uttered. When that Senator
expressed himself thus he uttered and sent l.,
the country what was untrue, nnl what, if h,
had taken moments reflection, he must have
known was untrue
Inc rebels had been preparing for war for two
months before the Inauguration OF the President
and the Senator knew il Then the Senatoi
comes to the subject Of slavery, aud he charges
that the object Of The WAT WAS to abolish slavery
AMI the proclamation of the President has pledged
The country to "a war for the negro lie CNlr
WILRiNGos) was perfectly willing 10 see slavery
abolished, and he believed if the policy of Gen,
Butler had been adopted we should not have
heard the Senator from Delaware talking aboul
our armies being defeated. Then The Sennto,
hnaly says We ought to declare an arinistice .
this he believed to be the main object of th,
speech made. The late Democratic Victories had
probably induced this. lie thought there WAS a
plan originating with the Democrats of the N.rtl
to break up the Government
The Democrats, when the rebellion broke out
gathered abou, the President, claiming to be in
favor Of putting down the rebellion aud nsked An
equal share iu tue Offices. The President wa.
deceived by these men, and placed them in hieb
positions, and cast away many Of his old and
true llthus. No man can never succeed in this
way There are enemies in every department
Of the Government, aud these men must be re.
moved. Who Of all the loyal people Of tlt
North would have trusted the quarlermnsttr'.
department to such a man as Mvlgs! With hi.
anecedents, who wondered that the poptoons
were late at Falmouth Or who woud hnve
permitted Gen. Thomas to have remained at the
head OF the Adjulaut Generals OHicey The
friends Of the GuyeTninent must baud toe, tber ia
save the Government ia this lis lackest honr.
and 10 .helr whole duty, or the Government
would fall. nnl they tall with IT,
MIR. SALISBURY. This, sir, is in fI,. SeDot4
of the United States; md it is not my province
here To reply to the low bnebguurdi-m aud ,cm
rility Of the fellow irnm Minnesota.
Mr.. HALE. call the Senator to order
Mr.. SALISBURY. was sayinp-
Mr.. HALE. Order, order.
The CHAIR, (Mr. SmtnM,a in the choir
The senator from Delaware will resume bis sent
he Is out OF order.
MIR. SALISBURY, (aeain rising 1t mny he
IN order mean no dsrespcct to the Chnir.- for
the Senator from New llAmp-hnc In hsien
to what he hns listened Ia for tl,r last hour. md
II may not he in order to hear 1t charucicriz II ms
II should be. | did not intend To pursue ,r,v
extended remarks. was assigning iLa te,-on.
why cnuli not made "A speech rypre..ins
my honest sentiments, unl it dl hut occur 10 M.
TINT shenld GU for Instructions To some n,lvcn.
tnrer who bad -onght the wds Of Miune-ota.
PERHAPS from taste perhnps--
Mr. HALE. / Gull the senator to order.
The CHAIR. The duty Of the Chair is to prs
serve the rules Of the Srnate, nnd he hone. M,
in'raetion Of It's order will he made.
Mr.. SALISBURY. / Will sintoly sav as nv.
remarks seem dstssteful to the senator from
] New linmpshire, what 1 hone will he orlnr