Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-03-12

own school of politics, and which Ia unparallel
cd, II not In the history of man, at least in Oh,
history of political parties. And to cap the eli
max Of their folly and inconsistency, they or,
foolish enough to think that the people arc on
doWed with sufficient auserine verdancy az to be
lieve all this clap-trap, got up for the occasion
and Tor the sole purpose of carrying the coming
elections. will say to these gentlemen now
that II the present party In power will only keeI
their gllstening bayonets away from the ballot
box, and will, In their extreme benevolence and
kindness for their fellow man, permit the people
and the brave soldiers upon the battle and tent
ed field to vote at the next election, We will
read them such q Lesson of condemnation fol
their violation OF plighted faith as has never
been heard OF among men, nor dreamed of ir
their specions system of philosophy. II they
will but look, they can, even now, with theil
meagre vision and comprehension Of things, set
the handwriting on the wall, warning them O
the speedy departure of the sceptre from Judah
and of their overthrow uud bivu b5 Ill,
people through the ballot-box,
find myself, Mr.. President, under the nc
cessity of arguing this question in manner thai
10 not desirable by me; but lest my Republican
friends who preceded me shall, in their folly
conclude that they have made an unanswerable
argument, will for the once resort to it and
answer them in their own style, however dsa.
greeable 1t may be to me.
| 1t has been the constantly labored effort Of
the majority on this floor, since the COM
mencement of this discussion, to hold US re-.
sponsible for the sayings and doings of the OK.
treme men OF our party-the radicals, sir, if the
torn will suit You better. Now, sir, in the ar.
gument which am about to make shall take
the views of some Of the extreme men on their
| nd hafn II Lnx-n A. I 4
President, principal members of the Senate OF
Congress, and the leading members upon this
floor, directly with these extreme men ; and
slr' II l do not mistake my powers and abli
ty, will link them together 30 closely aud in
dissolubly that they, with all their specious
logic and powers Of pei suasOn, will not be able
to separate them.
Yes, sir, in your violated faith to the citizen
at home as well ss the brave soldier in the
held-in your open advocacy here upon this
noor, by some OF your prominent members, OF
violation of the Constitution which he went
forth to defend and to preserve-I will, if am
not mistaken, tasten you to Wendell PhillipB,
Parker Pilsbury, VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Stephen
Foster, Horace Greeley, Trumbell and others.
10 begin, quote from q speech recently
made In Washington city by Wendell Phillips
Mr. McBnrnie (Fusion Democrat t)-Belore
the gentleman from Monroe begus his quota
ton desire to ask him a question, il he will
give way.
Mr.. O'ConnOr-Certainly.
Mr.. McBurnie-The gentleman from Mon
roe has said great deal about tho part taken
BY the Democratic party in putting down this
| rebellion. Now, the question Idesire to ask ia
this: Did not the Central committee of tho
Republican party in this State In 1861 ask the
Democrats to unite with them and have but
one ticket and but one party, the Union party {?
Mr.. OConn0r-l believe they did. They
knew full we'll that without a'considerable vote
from the Democratic party they could not elect
q single man in October hence this specious
proposition. And my friend from Warren and
other Democrats wD had failed in getting of
fee in their own party, whose palms we're itch.
ing for the spoils, and who even then in their
hearts we're whoring after strange gods, left the
Democratic party and went over to the Repub-
iicans. In the language of one of old, "they
went out from among us because they were not
of US, for il they bad been of us, they would
not have went out from among u.s." Is the
gentleman from Warren answered If 30, |
will return to Mr. Phillips:
81 haue labored nineteen gears to take ninoteen
States out Of the Union, and If haoe spent nine
teen years TO the SATISFACTION of my Puritan con-
science, it iOas those nineteen gears.
"The child of six generations of Puritans,
was taught at mothers knee to love purity
before peace. And when Daniel w ebster taught
me that tie Union meant making white men
hypocrites and black men slaves that it meant
lynch law in the Carolinas and mob law in
Massachusetts that it meant lies In the pulpit
and gags in the Senate when / was told that
the cementing OF the Union was returning slaves
to their masters, in the name of the God
loved and had been taught to honor, L cursed
the Consttution and the Union, and endeauoyed
10 break il, and, thank God, it is broke"
Mr. Gunckel (Rep.)--If the Senator from
Monroe will permit me, I will say that Wendell
Phillips was never member of the Republi :
can party, and that we never indorsed him.
Mr. .O'Connor-1ft the Senator from Montpom-
cry will permit me will say that If there ia any
truth In the newspaper reporter who reported
the above sentiment of Wendell Phillips-that
his sectional Vice-President, Mr.. HamliI, 4, ,cas
present and dpplGuded the tTaitorous sentiment
| shall show the gentleman from Montgomery
If / do not fail in my object, that he and his
party, from the President down to the members
upon this floor, are following in the leading,
strings-yea, walking in the very foot prints Of
these men whom he would fain make us believe
are radicals for whom they are not responsible
Again, desire to quote from a speech dc
livered in Albany in 1862, by Parker Plllebury
"I do not ,oish 10 see this Government PROLONGED
another day in its present form. On the contrary
4 haze been for ttoenty gears attempting TO oper
thT0D The present dynasty. If dc
not misjudgo the Constitution, whatever may
have been its real character, 1t was neveT SO
much an engine of cruelty and .c,ime as il is al
the present hour.
/" IL seems to me the present Administration
is on the one hand the ioeaksst, and on the Other
the ,oicksdest, we have ever had Mr.. Buchan.
ans Administration is under infinite obligations
to it for casting it's wickedness and imbecility
80 far in the shade.
I" cannot join In the congratulations that
30 often hear as TO the hopsiulness of the signs
of the times-I do not want to see hopeful less
Il am not rejoieed at the tidinos of uictory Of
Northern arms. 1 icould far rather see de-
feat(D = Y
"I rejoice in defeat and disaster rather than
uiciory, because do not believe the North ia
in any condition to improve any great success
which may attend its arms. think the Abo-
litionisIs tail sufficiently to recognize one great
fact, and that ia the persistent, determined God
defying, heaven-provoking impalience of the
North. Holding these opiriopa
/ do not desire the success of Northern arms :
I* y l say let us have war; let us haze all
its disasters and defeats, If the condition of the
slave is not changed"
Twill not, Mr.. President, 80 far degrade my.