Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-01-10

dsband both armies and call National through
the State Legislatures.
Mr., BINGHAM What ansndalents would you have
MT NORTON. would submit all matters 10 dispute
betwoen The two fec.ons
Mr.. BINGHAM. A Convention is not called TO settle
dispues il Ia cailoi 10 amend the Consultation What
amendments would you bavei song had been heard
here Ia the progress uf this rebellion When the res of
this rebellon frs kiGded it the desire Of those
with whom he acted toproviie legislation adequate for the
cn;ls 30 that the people, wita0us thu restraint of law,
might be summoned irrespective numbers aud that the
world might the sublime sing of nation to put down
rebellion before lis flag dshonoed aud before blood
bad lowed Standing IA my place in 1861, when the
belion being organized la this city when com.
par iss bring drilled between here and the residence
Of tho President under OF the darkness who after
wards bore against asked the House to enact
law to enable the Government to put this rebellion down.
Your answer, "Oh no; let amend the Consultation
Let US settle the difficulty by merding the Constitution"
charter OF human liberty aud change it to des-
poism This desire for amend ment altogether from
the other side OF the House and yet they cry out for the
Constitution as 1T is and the Union it The gentIe
man. notwithstanding this cry for amendment to the
Constitution arragned in his speech the venerable chair
man OF the COMMITTEE on Ways and Means because he
dared tn say that the Union it could not be res0red
under the Constitution it is When declared that
there would be no difficulty in settling the question be-
yond passing constitutional law with ut relation to pecu-
liar cnatte but simply authorizing the President TO sum-
all the people without any Of the restrictions imposed
upon hun by the act of 1885, ard let him put down the re-
belon and maintain the Union and the Consultation az It
Constitution it ID" Who taught you that lesson Some
time ago you, by your acts in this House, which spoke
louder than words declared that you would not have the
Constitution as it is Where did you learn that les
sou Maintain the Constitution as it Isl" IL it not on
record that in 1850 Convention of Governors met in the
south'he Yanceys the Quitmans, thu Browns &c and
entered into conspiracy against the Union, declaring
that they would not live undsr the Constitution Of the
United States as ts2 They would not doit. 800
The Constitution which Washington gave was not good
enough for them to live under And 10 1861 gentlemen
here who for the Constitution as il concurred
with them that it not fit for them to live under It
was not fit for men who had slaves to fan them men who
enjoyed the wealth for which they ab0red not men who
resembed the lilies of the field in innocence or purity
but in this that they neither toed spun nor gathered
INTO barns These men must be accommodated and gen.
temn would change the Constitution for tha-change it
from what our fathers made it, the great written charter
OF liberty which is respecer of Persons and which de-
care that the poor and rich are alike the stranger within
gates and h beet citizen in the land before
the majesty of the law. They said they would change it,
How So that they should give special parpetua pro-
lection to that ns inton of slavery which Warrington
said was Disgrace to human nature These the men
who belong to that party which all the country sym
pa;hzed with the rebellion which 10 New York passed
resolution to the effect that the secession of the Southern
States constitutional arrangement to preserve the
Constitution it is against the desp0tsm of Abraham
LiucOln who to be-. Was it proposed by eeute-
men on the ether side that the Uaited States should be
divided into four sections? tck
Mr. cox called attention to the fact that his colleague
was not present The gen'lemans remarks doubt al
nded to Mr. VALLANDIGHAM. HIS colleague would put
MIR. BINGHAM said he referred to the resolution PRO-
poad BY Mr. for the division of the coun-
try into fonr sections
Mr. cox ard Mr. HOLMAN reminded the gentleman
that they individually and large body Of the Democratic
members, had not supported that proposition
Mr.. BINGHAM One Of these sections was to consist
of the fifteen Slave States and such additional States as
might be organized within the limits OF the same and adj
mted into the Union What oher Interpretation could
beput on that proposition 1t would require the test-
mony OF risen from the dead who hud become i'm
morab by having tasted DEATH and who had been released
thereby from all corruption and tendency mirepresen
taton which hangs about mortal e to make me believe
that the effect of such proposition would not dis
member the Union for at the very TINA that that PROPOSE
ton was made an overwhelming majority of ths people Of
that section in rebellion against the Government
Mr.. BINGHAM reviewed the conduct of Southern men,
bers and Senator'S previous to accession to show that was
long formed and systematic plan to take the South out
OF the Union, in which they aided by the who
Low cry ont for the Constitution it is and the Union
az It was" His hour having expired lisa
The committee aud the House adjourned till
Monday.