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

The amendment to increase the pay Of the Assistant
Secret,ry Ct a'e o "a 900 excited rome debate.
1 MIR THOMAS of Massachusetts, was in favor Of pay
Ing good salaries 10 the oeerso the Government being
the most econ mical.
Mr.. KELLOGG, Of Illinois, though. there too much
rockies issues il the public expenditures.
Mr. STEVENS said thar, all The other sala OF kin
died cfiicers had bsen increased hs why
there should exception made this case unless from
some personal objection to the present incumbent of tue
Office Of tie Assistant Secretary
| The amendment was put and agreed to.
The committee then rose aud the bill was reported to
the House
| The bill then passed
The House again went into Committee of the Whole for
the purpose OF general debate, Mr.. MALLORY In the
chair
| Mr.. NORTON, of Missouri proceeded to address the
committee He believed thst ii the farewell warning of
Washington against sec nalsm had been regarded the
pres mt revolution would not have been nauguratd If
the Republican party had organized as sectional
party ON the single idea OF the utter abolition of slavery
and the destruction of the property of the people of fifteen
Ststes we would to-day be united and happy people.
The Democratic thu conservative party of the country
had been denounced the purity who had long maintain
cd the country IN peace harmony and prosperity; main
1t 10 that high career which it again attain
until the reign OF reason Of ntce mercy ard right s re-
established. AMI superseding the feelings OF prejudice and
hatred which exists So long latter feeling pro-
walls bitter deselatpg war will be rampant 10 the land
Inc country has now been engaged for twenty mon
IN desolatng war agoWedly for the purpose of tong
the Unon AID asserting the authority If the Federal Gov
eminent the revolted States. To accomplish this
there had been lack Of men and money and The
largest army ever in modern times in the field
with all the most destructive implements OF warfare back
ed by magnificent navy Aud yet after these twenty
one months of contest, what had been done How much
nearer are to restored Un0n than when the army
first marched to the conflicts What the OF fail
ure7 Thousands of negroes had been turned out free
wanderers over the face Of the EARTH without homes
ney or toOd at tina public expense The people of the
Southern States had suer in oss of comfort properly
and life in those portions Of the States held BY forces
These are soma OF the suits far the rebellion
cerned We have spilled blood freely spent our rea
and what follows? We hear the wall of tho orphan
and the widow rising from every hamet and town in the
land and Yet We are to restored Union than
we were at the beginning OF the For This failure
many and advanced by different people
1t was said that the army not large enoueh that the
navy WAS not large enough; that The army was ineff
| ciently commanded, &c But the result could not be
traced to any Of these particularly, In the Ian
guage of Lord Chatham, the army accomplish any
thing but an impossiblity From the beginn ng OF the
war the President AID Congress have been acting under
dea TO w.t. that there large Union SEN
tment in the South which only wanted the protection Of
the Union army to make manifest If he had the power
he would disband both armies and call for National Con-
venton through the State Legislatures to whom the ques
tons at issue should be referred
Mr. BINGHAM could not let the sentiments of the gen.
eman go before the country There was no
duty incumbent upon the representatives. of the pao
pie than to keep watch and ward the ETY. of the
public when it endangered and asaed by ts friends
in this House The speech of the gentleman blr Nor
TOM disguise it you may by party names an ipo-
tent apo ogy for The most wicked infamous and inexcuss
Of And expected to sit silent under utter
of this sort If it had sprung from the heated
brain OF the gentleman by convictions resting there
there might be for his wild ut,ersnces But
wien conned by him in the privacy Of hs chamber
deliberately written and delivered ia this Houss is but
meet it should receive the condemnation deserves end it
is but right and proper just denuncaton Of them should
accompany their appearance before the country. He
charges the Executive and the people Of this country with
being engaged and intent in saving party than Ia
saving the country from the ,hroes Of rebellion How does
pe 10 sud tn I he
thinks he has right to utter that his opinion but
trust his acts will bear witness that such arc his honest
convictions If he bell ves then be should prefer mo-
ton Of impeachment against the Executive. whom he has
here arragnfd He undertakes to dispose of the question
however, by finding it apology in aid Of the rebellion
and he has added the very sagacious remark if there
could bs shy apology for it, that in his Judgment if the
Republican party had never organized itself as it did
there never had been any rebellion at all He t,
say thaD while the land being drenched with the bio d
OF her chidea that these people would not have commit
ted these murders woui not have msde this beautiful
land desoate but for the fast that very great proportion
OF the American people had chosen exercise the right
guaranteed them under the Constitution Does the gen.
teman really this that party has the right under
pains aud penalties to organize ana Id opinions unless
that party fist comes to him and humby asks what their
line Of conduct shall be
Mr. BlDDLE. The warning against the evil and
danger Of seconalsm originated with Washington to the
American people, for he oIeshadowed AMI oresaw the
very results that have happened
Mr.. BINGHAM. Washington, doubt, did utter this
warning but the question was, what he meant by
uphO1erS OF slavery sb0uld be ashamed
10 refer TO the immortal Washington in this c,nnexio
One OF the first bills to which Washington appended his
name for approval under the Constitution President of
the United States against slavery Talk to me of the
advice of Washington. We were walking directly in his
footsteps when said Republican organization that
by the fundamental law of the land speaking through stst
tory enactmens the broad territories of the Republic
heritage broad enough to furnish homes fer hundred mil
lions If free men, should turn pale beneath the
manacled step of the bondsman Ponder upon this fact
that Washington cons1mm ated under bis Administration
that sublime act which the Republican party sought to
consolidate by re-enscting in 1860 say, without fear OF
contradiction in the light Of the decision OF the Suprems
Court that by the net Of 1885, under your Constitution
and signed BY Washington slavery swept from every
foot Of the public domain and forever prohibited not only
during the Territorial organic ,tin, but forever-aye till
the empires of the earth persisted and the heavens should
be no more forever.
Mr.. BIDDLE The gentleman speaks Of the authority
exercised under the Articles of Confederation
Mr.. BINGHAM. no, sir but in the language Of the
Supreme Court speaking through the mou6pece of the
Chief Justice The acts passed under the ordinances Of
confederation persisted with that and ceased be
The six articles Of tho ordinance of 1897 law OF the
Republic almost transcript far IA they related
to the act OF 1889 passed by the first Congress under the
Constitution, and approved by Washington. Washington
had something to tobecause il his party that con-
trcled the frat Congressn eubodyng in the Constitu
ton fundamental law Of the land the chief provision
OF t1e six articles If the ordinance of 1857 and was I'M
der his administration they embodied in the form Of
amendment 10 the Constitution and to the States
for confirmation And too under his lead the States
confirmed, principle of the ordinances of the Cons-
tuition that the ordinance Of 1897 far applicable
here made law with regard to the Territories
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