New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-28
,,o1rSE nv REPRESENTATIVES,.

at 1890.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The House considered the Senate bill providing
for the oay of certain persons over 10 years OF age
who entered the military service.
Mr.. HOLMAN Dem, lud.) offered an ainehu,
soldiers az per month"; and to pay TO those who are
honorably discharged before the expiration OF tnen
term of service proportionable amount OF bounty
Daring the discussion the justice OF suen IeSiSia-
tive action was urged; while on the opposite slus
was contended that if the soldiers were woInue 1
they received hospital attention, besidea beng placed
on the pension rolls. In addition TO ths' many Va
them had received State bounties, aud II was heces
eary to pay debts already contracted hsteio oi III
earring additional obligations. <...... -
The bill was recoinmfted 10 tue Oomuii'ec on
Mr.. WICKIFFE (Un., Ky.( rose 10 question
Of privilege lie had been charged with being nstru
mental In violating the rules OF thus House lie eA
ranel that in consequence of his crippled condition
lie Uoorkeepers had been in the habit OF inviting
into ,he Hall persons wishing to see him, instead OF
oompelling him to 90 out for that purpose. Inc
o. her day he received card signed by man named
Garnet. The business was unpleasant to hln. Gar
nett wanted to borrow money, and she bad none to
lend; and, therefore, he soon dsmlssed him. lLaush-
This statement was written TO The Cincinnati
Gazette by the Clerk to the Committee OH Foreign
Affairs. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr Nalandlg-
Garnett, paroled Rebel .oifcer, around the hail,
after he Mr.. Wiokllfie) bad been deprived Of his
Confederate companion. He thought that the writer
Of that letter ought to be expelled from the COM
mittee.
MIR. VALLANDIGHAM Dem, Ohio disclsimed
apy knowledge Of Garnet, and characterized the
statement as nnqualfedly false, without the shadow
Of foundation. . -
The House went into Committee of the Whole on
the Deficiency bill.
MIR. CONWAY REP. Kansas said IN his judg-
Iaent this war had not been conducted with eny
purpose of securing triumph TO the national arms or
The subjugation OF the public enemy. AL no stage
of his progress had the Executive sought the con-
ouest Of the South. His exclusive aim had been 10
restore the constitutional relations Of the people Of
the seeded States to the Government OF the Unions
and this be had endeavored TO accomplish rather by
holding back than marching forward the armies OF
| the Republic into the enemy's country and putting
\ him down. The President had not seemed
to regard himself authorized to make war
on the Shareholders, if by other methods he
could induce them 10 return 10 their allegiance. lie
had therefore sought 10 exhaust every other agency
before showing even deposition to resort to vigor-
ous action in the field. Even Tor bis late proclalna-
ton of emancipation, be sought justification on the
exclusive ground of it's absolute necessity 10 the end
of restoring the Union. 10 this policy he Conway
/ had been strenuOusly opposed from the oommeuee
ment of this war. lie had regarded " as ulsery W.
sound in principle and calculated to produce con
seQuencee the most disastrous lie had not regarded
the seeded States during the period OF civil
war as having any constitutional relations what
ever. Nor he'd he regarded the lemency
and decentralization Of the Executive as calculated
10 have any other effect than TO bring defeat to Us
and ultimate triumph to them. he was not III favor
of restoring the Constitutional relations OF the slave
holders TO the Union, or OF war TO mat END. On
the contrary, he was utterly aud forever opposed TO
81 lie was in favor of the Union as it existed to-
d. ana in favor OF recognizing the loyal States a.
the American nation, based, as they tfc on the
principle of freedom to all, without distinction Of
race color, or condition. He believed it TO be the
manifest destiny OF the American nation 70 Ui-
maely control the American continent Gu this prnci-
Die lie conceived therefore, that the true object Of
this war WAS TO revolutionze thus the national Gov
eminent by resolving the North into the nation, and
the South into distinct public body, leaving Ne in
the position TO pursue the latter NJ separate State
lie believed that the direction OF tho war 70 another
end was perversion of it, calculated 10 subver the
very object it WAS designed 70 effect. 10 bis appre
bension tins war was "a manifestation Of Northern
power impelled by natural forces, seeking embOdi.
ment ia national form, aud aspiring to the domin-
/ ION OF this continent. II was the result Of
an idea-of Northern growth and character.
1t sought 10 create anew. Until recently the
/ North had never protested any other than
merely subordinate political existence. 1t
had had no distinctive political character. 1t was
more Southern than NOTthern-nay, II was altOgeth-
or Southern. The idea of the South was Slavery
and the Of Slavery required 1t 70 subordi
nate all parts Of the nation to It's own Will and pur
pose aud 80 the North was overruled by aud assim-
ulaed with the South. But this eventually pIecip-
itated revolution. 1t furnished the North with the
motive, the justification aud the fundamentally
of acknowledgment. Tie work Of the North was TO
organize the nation the identical principle Of the
Jeeronian ordinance Of 1901 TO the end Of ultimately
bringing the whole continent under its beneicent
sway. Tie first step, therefore, which should have
been taken in the progress OF the war. was TO- ac-
knowledge u revolution, 10 recognize the South III
its new character, 10 the North TO DO exCla-
syely the nation, and then 70 pursue the wal FOR con-
quest, pursue it at ALL us might have seemed
expedient ana proper for the tlme being. IL WAS
evident that all the forces Of tho counry--civil mill
tary, POLITICAL diplomatic, and other-had been
manipulated III way 10 defeat the legitimate result
of this great progressive movement OF the North. The
Administration seemed 70 endeayor, fret, TO restore
the Union on the terms Of the "ConstitutOn as it
Isl" and, failing In that TO dispose Of the ele
nents TO insure the ascenCency OF the Democratic
fusion party in the next election, maintaining the
question undetermined long enough TO be able TO de-
liver it over to the new Administration for settle
lnent on the bssis of compromise; thus making the
power Of the savehoders in the nation and over the
continent supreme and paramount.
Mr. SHELLABARGER (Rep., Ohio said that
the effort Of his colleague DIR. Vallardgham in bis
recent attack upon the Government OF the United
States to discourage persistence i'll the struggle
against rebellion. This innocent, If IL could 10
snid 10 have no other element in IT than mere
nladness Ii was than mere mad
ness. lie would not stop to prove it. lie would
warn the country, and declare that these attacks,
made 10 the North upon tie Government, were acts
in conspiracy in con unction with the Rebellion
Itself, TO destroy the Government The keynote of
this conspiracy was struck by Alexander IL.
Stephens ut Savannah, when he said tho
process Of disintegrati0n in the old States would
90 on, until the States Of the Northwest would
gravitate toward the nucleus of the Seeded States
Dnt not until they are ready to assmilaie with us
IN pIIncllle.n And thesa aIlncks orc a naId Of n