Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-21

is the strangeri" why" said Aram. II asked
him 20 bless and return thanks before he por,ook !
OF bread. and he refused so drove him hence"
But said the voice of the Almighty. Il have
borne with tina; man. have known his opinions. |
! have allowed him to live: have never beaten
him and sent him forth into the wilderness. Go,
Aram. aud hud the victim Of your miserable con
duet, bring him back. snd pour oil into his
wounds. feed him. aud lay him on your best bed,
and take care of him until he is we'll
Such is the voice of Divinity in favor Of free
dom Of speech. freedom Of thought. freedom OF
private conscience. implore gentlemen not TO
attempt 70 strike il down. Let the error. II error
il be exs, so long as ruth i leli free 10 combat
il IL the beginning of time. these two priuci-
pies were made They have walked the earth
together ever since They have roamed the
earth for SIX thousand years Truth and error
have been combating on telcs OF reason. on
battlehelds, everywhere. You of the abolition
party, go back thirty years TO the beginning OF
your own organization What was il you then
most warmly contended for. What but the
right, the immortal right. 10 speak your senti
ments TO denounce your political accusers aud
to stand before the world "a freemeuI Suppose
this gag law. this instrument of tyrants. this obi
Gus relic of barbarsm. again revived in this Hail.
had been applied 10 some men now sitting
around me-
protest before the living God, that never
knew "A man wearing the shape of man. whom |
would not stand by and protect in his right of
free speech, we're he TO utter his sentiments in a
decOrous and becoming manner Your party in
scribed everywhere on its banners, "free speech.
Deny II to-day. if YOU dare Trample il Ia the
dust. Spit upon AMI despise 1t, If you will The
world will despise you. when you do the &C,
History will rake I'D the deed and preserve il,
and the historian will despise you as he writes il
down Posterity will despise this dav in all the
! calendar OF time. the one on which liberty was
murdered in the Capitol The heart and udg
ment of the world will execrate YOU for the deed
just as II TO day execrates the memory of the
bloody monster kobesDierre. just as it recalls the
memory of Marat to curse il, just il recalls the
form OF ST. just to loathe him. There are YOUR
models. Go back further Nero was AN early
founder of your school of politics. Some one
man, suppose. is TO do all the thinking here.
So y ero thought. So the blood-stained monsters
OF the French Revolution thought. So the odous
yrannlcal bigots OF the English revolution OF
1910 thought. These are your examples | i'm
plore you TO discard them. Walk out in the
light of liberty, and appeal to the people Tell
them. you will trust them What "a commentary
on the intelligence Of the peoplei
You will not allow the gentleman from Ohio
TO speak. Perhaps next you will now allow me
to speak. other gentlemen from Ohio. the gen
tleman from New York. and Others around me.
WhyE Are you afraid you cannot meet in
argument? Are you afraid the people will not
be just aud truel Are YOU afraid they will not
have intelligence enough TO see that YOU are
! right and We wrongl Are you afraid they
will not have virtue enough TO follow the right
and to discard the wrong? You must believe
they have not that intelligence, or that they will
not be true To their own judgment, or YOU would
be willing to trust them To discriminate between
/ right and wrong. SIR, trust the people |
challenge you before that great tribunal. | am
willing To stand or fail by its decision. and al
ways have been. Ii you crush me before the
/ American people, before that tribunal where free
speech has full sway. | will go down without "A
murmur. 1t | can drive YOU from place and
power IN the same arena by the same means, if
YOU are honest men YOU will submit also without
complaint.
But II You think because YOU have the power
to-day that YOU gag me. that you can tie my
tongue, that you can deny to the right to
speak, then woe TO this nation When YOU under.
dertake to carry that purpose into effect the day
OF doom will be upon US IL cannot be done:
/ YOU know II cannot be done without a conhagra
lion THAI shall light up the very arches of the
! sky from oce,n to ocean. Are you ready for
this issueI Do You want ity If YOU do, il can
tie made by the expulsion of the gentleman from
Ohio. This will no longer he IN American
Congress We will be chlned slaves and the
next question TO determine will be whether as
men OF honor We can remain and wear the
yoke.
Sir. this is painful theme to me. feel more
OF sorrow than OF anger over such an issue Let
me appeal to the sense of Justice which know
anlmates some breasts the other side of the
Chamber Let Us not misunderstood each other
Let Us deal with eich other as honest men. striv
l or no of
our unhappy country. You may have your
views of what policy Is conductive TO that
end; YOU have the right to your opinions:
| have The right to NINE but because of
this difference of opinion in regard to accomplish
ing the same object. by all that we hold dear in
the present. and by all our hopes of the future
let US not cut each Others ihroat- and precpate
strife and violence here ana all over the land
The civilized world would cry shame upon such
a scene and the latest generations of our posteri-
~ will heap reproaches on our memory