The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-27
6AfE CIT !:
KEOKUK.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY q. -


Rsssiusien 70 Ex1sl ofres lavis.
Mr.. Sumner lAdm~ No. } mossd, =
half-past twelve, - aaks y Mr. Wilson's
resolution expelling M. Davis. Adopted.
SPEECH OF Mr.. WILSON.
Mr. Wilson Bxid, on the Bth 81 Janua-
n The 6enater from Kentucky laid upon
your nblea series of seventeen resolu-
tons, and tbs Senate in compliance With
his request, ordered them to be printed.
These resolutions we're placed upon our
desks. and they have been read BY Seua-
tors. Who hsSe tn eosrsgea 10 IL pose up.
on Themselves task 20 calculatud to tax
their powers Of endurance, Having .
reasoaahlss degree Of confidence il ny
own Powess Of endurance, I entered upon
the task Of reading these resolves aimed
at the President and his Cabinet, the
majority in these chambers, the laws of
Congress, the Proclamation and orders of
the Commander-in.C Chief Of our Army
and Navy, and of all who were clothed
with authority to administer the Govern
ment. | CROPPED through this mass of
vituperAsive accusations with mingled
emouons of indignation and pity. In
this farrago of spleen and malice the
Chief Magistrate, his associates and sup
porters are accused, arraigned, condemn
ed. The heroes of Gettysburg, Vicks-
burg, Port Hudson. Chattanooga, and
fields made immortal by their endurance
and valor; the heroes who rescued Ken
tucky-rescued- even the hearthstones of
that Senator FROM rebel desecration-are
branded as subsidized armies and the
men who, at Port Hudson, Milliken's
Bend and Wagner. fought With heroic
valor. are stigmatized as negro janisaries.
After hurting his accusations at the Presi-
dent and his supporters in the Cabinet
aud in the field, the Senator turns to the
people of the loyal North, and calls upon
them to revolt against their war leaders,
take the power into their own hands, and
go into National Convention to termi-
nate the war. Should the loyal people of
the United States act up to his decIara.
ton; should they be melted to revolt
against the President and his coostitu-
tlonal advisers, and take the power in
tbCh oWu houut, hcscuuiS III q .NatIO04I
Con -ention, a convention unknown to the
Constitution and laws, TO terminate this
war for the preservation of the Union,
the fields of the loyal States will be red
dened with the blood of civil war.
he asks the Senate of the United
States. with their oaths OF fidelity to the
Constitution recorded. to proclaim to the
American people the unconstitutional,
revolutionary and reasonable doctrine
that they ought to revolt and assume the
powers they have delegated under the
Constitution of the United States to men
who now fill the executive, Legislative
and judicial departments of the Govern
nent.
In the sixteenth section he calls the
bloody Instruction of the rebels 81 re-
VOLT thereby showing that he knew the
meaning Of This word revolt when he
urged it as duty upon the loyal people
OF the United STATES.
The Senator must not trife here. He
must remember that this is the Senate of
the United States, and not barbecue in
Kentucky. The Senators cannot fail here
TO comprehend the import and meaning
OF the words and phrases embodied in
these resolutions, and they know that
these are the words aud phrases of states
men, and not the idle babblings of fools.
When by the express words Of his reso-
luton the Senator from Kentucky declares
that the people of the North ought to
revolt against their war leaders, and take
this great matter into their own hands,
be must be held to have intended that
they should rise in instruction against
their war leaders and abjure their allegi
ance to the government of their country,
for that is the precise import aud mean
ing of this word "revolt" 10 the connec-
ton in which the Senator has used it,
That the Senator from Kentucky means
by the term "War leaders, the President
and others subordinate to him 10 author
ity, and that the people should revolt
against them, Is not, and cannot be open
to doubt. 10 make good these charges
of the subversion of the Constitution and
laws, rights. and liberties OF the people,
and to fire the popular heart of the North
for the revolt proposed and advised to be
high duty, it is further declared in the
resolutions that the President of the Uni.
ted States and the civil and military off,
GERS thereof may commit treason against
any State whose government is in perfor-
nance of it's duties under the Federal
Constitution. by levying war against it
or adhering to its enemies. giving them
aid and comfort, as resisting with an
armed forced the execution Of its laws ~
adhering TO such armed force. giving Il
aid and comfort
That 10 man of the millions of tho
North thus invited by the Senator to ra-
volt and take the powers of government
into their own hands mar be mis-.
ken as to the WAR leaders" asainstv "A
they are told they ought to rise j. mon
reeton, In the 18th resolution 4 insur
Their declared that the peoplc ~ Is iur
States are resolved into tv = OF the ioys
the destructives and t 20 great parties
the trst, the destruc' Ae conservatives
ham Lincoln, his ives. consist Of Abr'
.~rs and Other office-holders, contrae
:oa, , a,e to followers. Their real OF
!.o.9 - perpetuate their party pow,
anu ~ old possession Of the Governmen