The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-03-17

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URiOn Democrats on the Administra =
ton.
We promised in our last issue to give por-
tons of the speeches of Messrs. BARRY and
HUBBELL, of the Assembly, in the debate on
Mr. Starks, Resolutions which we publish
ed last week.
The following are the remarks of Mr.. Bar
ry of this county, in reply to Geo. B. Smith
of Dance
Mr.. BARRY said he had no personal de-
Tense to make. In the discharge of his duty,
he did not care whether men smiled or frown-
ed 1t was his practice to utter his convic-
tons freely and frankly. He should be very
frank tonight, since the gentleman who pre-
ceeded him had been 50 outspOken. For
three long hours we have listened to his
speech full of denunciation of the Admins
tration, and to his taunts to the majority on
this floor for their servility to a tyrant and d
despot. / don't think, sir, that it was true
1t may be that there are timid and weak
kneed men on this floor, men who have
not the courage and manliness to say what
they honestly believe. Many parts of the
speech Of the gentleman, and those most Sc
we're and denunciatory, met with applause on
this floor, and felt very sorry,as thought
those same passages would meet with APP
plause also if heard in Richmond The gen
tleman assumed that he was loyal, that there
was no treason in his heart but sir, there
was great deal of treason in his speech.
Applause.
The SPEAKER, Order, gentleman.
have been in the South, have talked
with rebels and traitors there, and they talk
ed just as he talks. But am willing to be-
lieve, because he says so, that he is loyal
man, and earnest in his support of the I'm
ion. Invent into the army as a Democrat
! was Democrat from boyhood upward
and | am to-day Democrat, if to bear
in my heart reverence for universal hu-
manity constitutes q Democrat When
came back from the war, my Democratic
friends said that / talked as if were crazy.
He was crazy,as Gen. Butler said of Gen
Phelps crazy about ten days in advance of
the majority. He was body and soul, through
and through, an abolitionist. That was What
he was.
A word about Gen. Butler. An alIusion.
not very kind or complimentary to Gen. But
Ter was made here this afternoon. At New
Orleans he brought order out of confusion
and made it safe, as it has not been for TWEEN
ty years, for any man or woman to walk the
streets of that great, and wicked and Iicen-
tious city by night or day. lie related how
the band OF the 4th Wisconsin played 'Pica-
yune Butler has come to town. That But
Ter had come to town i'll the form of a more
vigorous, determined and manly prosecution
Of the war. The Speaker then defended the
famous woman order" denounced by the
gentleman from Dane, (Nlr. Geo. B. Smith,
and declared from his personal knowledge
that 1t was a necessary and most salutary
measure, relating instances of the conduct of
the women prior to its PRONUNCIATION.
lie assumed that we were all in favor of a
vigorous prosecution ofthe war, to put down
the slavhoders rebellion, and really to aid it
with men and money. 1t was pleasant to see
patriotic feelings oversteeple political con
siderations, and uniting men for a common
cause He thought we should all agreee to
the arst resolution, this was a wicked rebel
lion, plotted and meditated for years at the
South, and that the election of Mr.. Lincoln
was a mere pretext for its outbreak.
The speaker then pointed out the numer-
Gus concessions made to the South, and show
ed that she had suffered no wrong at the
hands of the general government He re-
cited at some length the aggressions and in
solent demands of the South, and demon
strated that but for slavery there would have
been no civil war. Therefore we must put
an end to slavery in order to end the war
We shall not have to disregard the Union in
order to do this, for it was formed to perpet-
uate the blessings of liberty and not the ours
es Of slavery. Besides the slave barons have
raised the issue and elected how it shall be |
tried. They have taken up their cherished |
institution and exposed it to all the ieopardv |
OF civil war. When we say we are in favor
of a vigorous prosecution of the war and are
ready to contribute hundreds of thousands
of men and millions of money,do we not adj |
NIT that it is on the power of the sword that /
we rely, just as is stated i'll the first resolu- |
ton, on the power of the sword that along
that bloody path we must march for the re. /
storation of the Union. Rebels in arms leave |
us no other chance but to fight our wav |
through. They tell us they will consider no |
proposition for peace that does not recognize
them as an independent nation. 1t is now
a question Of heroic strength and brave en-
durance. The struggle must be terrible IN
deed. There will be darker DAYS perhaps
than we have yet seen. He knew what war
was, and could not pray for it, but only for
the return of halycon days. But this GOV
eminent and its Institutions, blood-bonghti
and enjoyed by the humbIest are not exciu-
siveIy our own. They are a legacy in trust.
We have no right to surrender them to a
foreign or domestic foe Noble men, heroes
and martyrs have placed them in our hands
for safe keeping, Better that war blight the
land, better that commerce perish, than now
to waver and let this star in the heavens oo
out in military despotism.
In the main he endorsed cheerfulIv and
heartily the resolutions. Though he might
ditfer somewhat in the eulogiunns Of the
last resolution, he would never play the
curby swapping and snarling at the heels of
the President. applause
The speaker then took up the plea of
the opposition that the Constitution is in
danger, and characterized its absurdity in
fitting terms. He defended the doctrine of
military necessity; yet in the exercise of