Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1864-01-14
CIV g lexauaria Gazette
THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 4.
Spicy Debate.

tor the expulsion Of Senator Davis. Of Ken
lucky, was taken ur.
Mr.. Wilson proceeded to address the Senate,
in favor Of the expulsion He said that on
the 5th Of J anuary the Senator from Kentucky,
Mr.. Davis had introduced series OF resolu,
lions aiming at the President OF the United
States the members of his Cabinet, the laws
of CONGRESS- Commander in Chief OF the army,
the naval authority, and all WHO are clotned
with power to administer the Government:
These resolutions are levelled against the
ic. the heroes of Gettysburg, Nloksburg, CHAT
tanooga the heroes who rescued KENTUCKY,
and rescued even the hearth stones OF tnaC
Senator from desolation, are branded as SUP,
sidized armies. The men OF Vlcksburg ana
Port Hudson are stlgmatlzed as negro ]anlza,,
ries He calls upon the people OF the loyal
North to revolt against their war leaders ana
take the power into their own hands-1o eau
national Convention, and to terminate the war
Shoujd the people be induced to revolt (sald
Mr.. w. against the constitutional authorl-
ties. ard from national convention which
wonld be a mere revolutionary tribunal the
fields of the Northern States would be redden-,
ed with the blood Of civil war.
The Senator must not tritie hcre-he must
remember that this is tt e Senate OF the United
States, and not barbecue in Kentucky. Ihls
is place for the language OF statesmen, ana
not of vain Labblings
Mr.. Wilson went on to characterize the res
olutions of Mr. Davis, their purposes, &C.,
charging that they were calculated, like the
langnage of the secession leaders before seces-
sion took place, to mislead and excite the peo.-
ME to reasonable and violent action, and
therefore the author should not be a member
of the Senate. n.
Mr.. Davis called for the reading Of his reso-
buttons Of the 5th of January. Mr.: ~ then
said that those resolutions received bis delloe,
rate thought and approval. Ihe ,laundlced
and narrow minded Senator from Massachu-
sets is wholly incompetent to give proper
rendition to those resolutions. HIS heart ana
his reason both disqualify him tor that task
Mr.. D. denied that his resolutions charged the
President with subsidizing the army, and that
the heroes of Y icksburg and Gettysburg were
maligned by him in the terms used Dy the
Senator.
What said, continued Mr.. D., vas this,
that if the President and his political ADVISERS
persist In their schemes, the army Would nave
70 he subsidized In order to carry them out
And lest they should fail in their netarlous
and treasonal Objects they would throw them
selves back upon that army OF black janlzarles
which the Secretary of War and Adjutant
General had mustered, and were mastering,
into the service of the United States. That
was nv proposition, and abide by it. He
said he would continue to hold and approve
those resolutions until the Senate expelled him
from it as one of it's members. Ii he was ex-
pelled he had higher opinion than that OF
Senator of the United States as an American
citizen under the Constitution. He would 60
home to old Kentucky and raise that cry OF
tyranny and usurpation against the netarlous
men who have charge OF our Government. -
ANY man who spoke in favor Of constitutional
liberty is branded as dsloyal. He had been ex-
ceedingly amused at the dlctatoral manner 10
which the Senator trom Massachusetts rebukes