The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-04-14
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Expulsion OF NJ. Long.
AZ. Long, member Of Congress from
this county, took occasion on Friday, as
the representative cf his constituents
TO deliver his views upon tho proper
National policy 10 be pursued az this
crisis. 1t seems that his sentiments not
agreeing with those Of the Speaker, Mr..
Colfax, of Indiana, that the latter has
had the temerity and audacity 10 offer
n resolution for the expulsion OF Mr..
Long from his seat IN Congress.
Il Is difficult to speak Of the pFoposi-
ton and OF its author III the terms IN
which they deserve, ana maintain a due
regard for that dccorUm Of language
which should always characterize jour
nalist Suffice II to say, that the mem
Der who introduced such q resolution,
Is ignorant or regardless Of the purpose
for which Congress was Organized Is
either through Incompetence or corTup
ticn. unable to perform his duties, and
is only worthy Of general scorn and de
testation. The sentiments Of Mr.. Long
are those Of large majority Of the
thinking and intelligent portion Of the
community. But even If they were not
Il is Mr. Colfax's duty and the House,
duty. to give them respectful consld-
Grafton.
II members are to be expelled or call
ed 10 an account by the House, for their
views on Legislative topics, the majority
could keep expelling the minority until
the House ceased 20 exist; for there are
always differences Of opinion upon every
question. As we'll might Mr.. Long in
troduce a resolution for the expulsion
of Mr.. Colfax, as that Mr. Colfax should
introduce a resolution for the expulsion
of Mr.. Long because they have differ
ence Of opinion. ANY member who will
sustain Mr. Goliax proposition Is guilty
of the greatest atrOclty which II Is pos
sible for q member of Congress to com
mit--CincinnGti Enquirer.
1t is amusing to see the maiden OK
hibitions Of devotion to free speech,
which characterize the columns Of
oopperhead journals, and the harangues
of copperhead speakers at this time
But they are excusable; they are new
In the business like Biddy, who wanted
q situation as wet nurse-they can
learn.
Do copperheads recsllect oxpelling
Hon. Joshua R Giddings, at the demand
of the slaveocracy for merely protest
ing against the evil of slavery? And
do they forget that the resolutions OF
expulsion were offered by Jno B. Wei
Ter who resided but twenty miles from
CINCINNATI and have they forgotten
the fact that thor party unanimously
applauded him for it, reelected him to
Congress, and afterward made him their
candidate for Governor, to which Office
he lacked but three hundred votes of
an election
Has tho Enquirer forgotten the weeks
employed in trying TO expel the veneer
able John Quincy Adams, for propo-
sing 10 offer a petition signed by some
negroes2 And is it aware who were
the parties who supported the motion
for expulsion All these were out
rages-real outrages-because neither
of the members referred TO, proposed
to do aught in violation OF the Consti-
tuition; neither Of them breathed a
sentence Of treason
But how is it with Mr.. Long7 At a
time when he knows that words of com
fort to the rebels from the halls Of Con
gress can only prolclg the war and
consign thousands more of young men
to the earth, he talks treason as vile as
ever uttered by JET Davis or Yancey;
and Mr.. Harris, Of Maryland, utters
prayer that this nation may not be able
to enforce the laws Should not such
men be expelled2 Is treason an offence
50 slight, that traitors can sit in the
National House OF Representatives
with impunity2 General Jackson
always regretted that he did not hang
John c Calhoun; and the country has
regretted with him; Mr. Lincoln now
sees the evil consequences which re-
suited from not arbitrarily arresting'
the traitors who left Congress, to aid the
rebellion; he will always be censured
by patriotic people for his leniency
Yet these men never, in the halls Of
Congress, uttered anything more trea-
sonable, than have Long, Harris, and
Wood nor have they done more than
these miscreants will do, if they get an
opportunity, and have the courage.
Wood was responsible for the New York
riots; Long, and his associates attempted
TO arouse similar oJabreak ia Cincin
natl, and would have done so, but for
the vigilance of Mayor Harris and ali
they are now waiting for, to inaugurate
civil war in the North, is favorable
opportunity.
They should DO expelled from Con
gress, and then locked up in some
prison, and kept at hard labor till the
end Of the war. Nomurderer was ever
for the destruction of so
many lives as have these men been
French View or the Rebel Congress.
Mr. Malespino, the well-known
Frenchman, who holds such an able
pen on American affairs, discourses
thus, in a recent number of the / Opin-
lone Nationale, on the recent manifesto
OF the members of the Confederate
Congress: "Never has the Richmond |
Congress proclaimed so solemnly in tho I
face Of the world that the principal OBJ |
leet of separation was the establishment 1
Of an indeDendent State which should 1