Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-04-27
Their Latest Phase.

Il
,ratic' or Conservative party" becomes
the opposition in Congress exhibit
more violence and more malignity than ever.
They evidently think that in a Republic
without slavery the occupation of politicians
like themselves would be gone, and their love
of party triumphs over their love of country.
They seem to think that if the Union were
broken up there might be an opportunity to
combine the fragments under slaveholding
rule, but they begin to despair of preserving
both the Union and slavery.
As an Indication of their sentiments we
subjoin a few utterances of these "conserva-
tive" members of Congress. Ia speech
made in the House of Representatives on the
Sth inst, Mr. ALEXANDER Lone of OHIO, said
But, Mr. Chairman, how do we stand in the
eyes OF the civilized world to-day, IN Waging
a war Of subjugation and conquest against the
Confederate States which have seeded from
US and set up a government OF their own!
Are we not inconsistent with all our former
acts? Have we not been early to admit this
proper with regard TO Others? There never
was people on the face of the earth that
demanded an independent government that
did not have the sympathy of the American
people, and ought now to shrink from the
doctrine we have been so willing to apply to
others.
Ii the Democratic party were in power
to-day | have idea, and honesty com
pels me to declare it, that they could restore
the Union of thirty-four States. My mind
has undergone an entire change upon that sub
iect and l now believe that there are but two
alternatives, and they are etef. an ack1aopl-
edge37e1t Of tie Independence Of tie South as
i,sde e,tdest nation, or their complete sju9atio1s
and determination people and of these alter
r,atiyes 7 prefer the former
On the 9th, in the same House. Mr. HARRIS
of Maryland, used this language-we quote
from the Congressional Globe:
II am peace man, radical peace man
and / an for peace by recognition of tie
South, for tie recognition Of Tie Southern Con-
tecieraeJ; and ar. for the acqeeiesce,.ce IN tie
doctrine Of secession. | feel through
the rustling of the winds there is a tornado
coming that viii sweep away the present ma
.jority from power and give it into the hands
of men who viii settle the affairs of this
country; men who have sonnet thing like hui
mainly men who have regard for the princi-
Piles of our forefathers. Ay, | recollect how
my blood curdled when | heard the discus
sion on the confscation bill. The gentleman
from Ohio 'dr Garfield said let them be
expatriated like the Tories of the Revolution.
The Tories of the Revolution had the mother
country TO run to, and were protected there
But where would the gentleman send those
whom he would expatriate from the South,
as gallant and noble eUer a0alked upon
mas Of 10'9y and men Of pti''eip'e-ge'tle9'e''-
'Sir, the Union is dissolved and there is a
gulf of blood lying between the two sections;
but upon my honor, upon my soul, | repeat
shat every drop in that gulf is on the souls of
the Northern people.
Mr.. Speaker, in the early part of this Sc
cession movement there was a resolution of
f9red pledging men and money to carry on
the war. My principles were then and are
now against the war. | stood solitary and
alone in voting against that resolution, and
whenever similar proposition is brought here
it will met with my opposition Not one dol
Tar nor one man, / sUear by the Eternal, agiH
yote for this internal, this stupendous folly,
more stupendous than ever disgraced any civ
ilized people on the face of Gods earth. If
shat be treason make the most of it.
81 1t is the right of the cOmmoner of Eng
iond TO say that he will not intrust the money
TO carry on war to the king, VINO has the
entire war power l do not know that a
commoner of the American House OF Repre-
sentatiyes ever lost that right. That propo-
sition meets with my approval. If you will
not make peace in any other way, and If
hare tie castu,g gote here against furnishing tie
si-sescs Of ,vu1, you shall not haze them.
The South asked you to let her 90 in
peace. But no, YOU said you would bring
them into subjugation. That is not done vet
and God Al1niglatJ grant that it 1aeger mar 6e-
Ihope that yoes cH nere' sat6jugQte the Souh-
If she is to be ever again n the Union hope
that it will be with her own consent and
hope that that consent will be obtained by
some other mode than by the sword 'IfH5s
be treason, make tie most Of IT,"
On the 18th inst. MIR. Rogers, of New Jer-
sey, made speech in which he uttered the
following sentiments: 1895
"There were men here who would MAIN
tain their rights. They we're the representa-
tives, not of Old Abe Lincoln, but of the
free people who sent them hither. You are
not content with Slandering ValJdadSgtdm an /
other true patriots. God bless the exile He
prayed the aIro1c Of HeaUe73 7co1ld pierce Hehea1t
Of the de$pot, (meaning the President of the
United States) You are bringing soldiers
here to keep Old A6rabana, King Of -Anaerica,
from being encroached upon by JeferSon
Darts of the Southern Confearacg. This is no
archy and 9espotism. | go, be said, for a
dissolution of TIE Union in preference to a
war of determination
1t is true that other members of the oppo-
sition on the floor Of Congress disayowed en-
tertoining such sentiments, but no one can
read the debates of Congress, or the leading
opposition journals of the day, without OBJ
serving strong tendency, on the part of the
opposition leaders generally, to symFathize
with or extenuate these treasonous sentime ats
The Washington correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette in describing the scene while
HARRIS was promulgating his infamous senti-
ments, says:
''The scene is curious one. This man is
standing in the House of Representative of
the United States surrounded by the Demo
Gratis and border State men of what claims
to be loyal opposition He is talking the
boldest treason and get they haze clustered Ia
delighted circles around him almost egeyy mans
face aoears a qyatifed smile, and at every ex-
tremely extravaganza declaration they burst
out into open laughter and applause. \ few
look glcomy-they are thinking of the record
all this is making--but the great mass are in
the highest glee. Some of them think it a
capital joke that these dsgraeeIul utterances
should be made on the heels Of an effort to
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