Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-01-22
Senator W,l.on On e.rrs, Davis.

In the course Of his peech on the rssolutiou
to SxpeI GArref Davis. Mr.. Wilson, said:
Sir, the Senator frSm Kentucky is PreSun n
ed to knew the meaning Of the language be
uses, when he says the people ought ts revolt
against their war leaders, and take the natter
into their own hands.
" Worcestor's DsfntionS.- To re-
nouace aIlegiancs . reHuRsiGlion OF allsgi-
anes; an GndeaVSr to overthrow ligimatO
authority +; IA iHsurrsetiOn, = rsbslliSn de-
sertiOa sediIiORs dsIectiOB."
In the sixteenth section he calls the bleOdy
inSuTFeetios Of the rebels d" rSVOlt," thereby
showing that he knew the meaning Of this
wSrd " revSIt VIXEN he urged ii as a duty up
o. the loyal PeSple Of the United States. ThS
Senator must net trife here, he mast rsmsm-
Der that this ID the Senate Of ths United
States, ARd not G barbaous in Ksntueky.-
Senators cannot fail, here, te comprehend the
meaning Of The Werds and phrases embedded
in these reSOlUtiOns, and they kAOw that these
are the words aHd phrases Of statGSmss, and
net ihS idle babblingS Of foOlR.
Sir, nen are held - intend the natural and
necessary consequences of their words and
acts. When men organize. revolt, and levy
war against the Unitsd States, and takO the
lives Of Hnodending citizens, they are, upOn
the facts, to be held guilty Of treason and mur-
der. Common sense requires nc farther eVi-
dencS of q mans intent than the fact that, de-
liberately and with dOSiEn and forsthsught he
doOs the act forbidden, to the injury Of the
citizens aud the State. IF a magazine be
placed beneath this Capitol, and train be
laid connected with it, and the same band
that places the magazine and lays the train
applies the torch by which it is ignited, and
the strusturS il thereby riven into fragments
from tHPrst to iOundatiSn stone, it will net do
10 insult the understanding Of intelligent men
by tOlling them that the eontrivsr and doSr
el this did not intend to destroy the Capitol
of his eSantry. So, sir, whoever, in the Sen
ste or eat Of the Senate, by apt and deliberate
words, carefully written and published, adVi-
Ses any portion of the people to revolt against
the Executive Department of the Government
he must be held by the Judgment Of mankind
TO have Intended what he advises.
When, by the express wsrds of his rssolu-
tions, the Senator from Kentuky declares that
the people North ought TO revolt against the
their own hands" he must be held TO have in
tended that they should rise 10 insurrsseion
against their war leaders and adiurs their ale
giance to the Government Of their country,
for that is the precise import and meaning Of
this word '' revolt " in the connection in
which the Senator has used it.
The Senate, Mr.. President, ought not in
my judgment. to tolerate for day or for an
hour in this chamber any man who dAres thus
to betray the high trust of the people. The
Senate of the United States, in this dark
and troubled night Z" of ear histsry, owes it
to the country whose Constitution it has
sworn to support, to see that projects of con-
spiracy against The constituted authorities
shall act be thrust upon it BY its Swn members.
1t was long age settled in the case ofa Sen
atOr, by large majority Of the Senats, that
one Of its neRbsrs might be expelled fer
treAROnable acts, even though committed else
where than in the Senate. 1t is, therefore,
too late to say that the Senate is net autho-
rized to sxpel at once and forever frsm its
councils member who openly proposes revolt
against the Executive Department of the GSv-
srnment, and dsnOuncsS as = subsidized army
hOmGs Rad hearth-sIoAes-aEaiast armed trea-
sen. In ether days these chambers rang with
menaOes Of disuniou and civil war. The men
WhS uttered these words Of meditAted treason
tOld the people Of the South what the Senator
from Kentucky nov tells the people of the
North, that they Ought to revolt against the
Government and take the matter into their
own hands. Under :hG lead of these rebel
chiefs, whose reasonable words sHce rang
through these halls of legislation, the people
Of the South did revolt against the authority
OF the Government, teOk the pOWeT into their
own hands, and plunged the nation ints the
grimes and horrorE Of civil war. Who, among
Us, does not now regret that the Senate of
the United States did not hurl, hsadlong from
this chamber, these rebel chiefs, even as the
rebel angels were hurled from the battlenents
Of Heaven. But these dislsyal leaders-these
champions Of the slavemongers, whose hearts
were EWelteriag with treason, never made in
the Senate = proPoEitisn Sc unconstitutional
and revolutionary, reasonable and wicked, as
is this proposition Of the Senator from Ken
tuGky. Never, air never. URroll the re-
eOrdS Of the Senate and yeu can end no pro-
position Of Davis, Sf SlidSlI, Of Mason, Of
TOOmbs, Of Benjamin, or their cOmpesrs in
crime, SO inSurrsctionary, revolutionary, and
Infamous as iS this appeal Whsn the nation is
staggering under the blows of armed treason.
to the people ts "revolt against their war
leaders" HOW subIine thing it would be,
ia this crisis of eur country for the Senate Of
the United States to rise to the nights Of a
stern and lofty duty aud cast cut one who has
dared to tell loyal people to revOlt against
their Government and take It's powers into
their own hands. Such an act OF avenging
patriotism would fire the heart of America,
silence the mntterings Of treason, aAd nerve
the arms of the heroes who are battling and
bleeding for the unity Of the Republic.