Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-03-09

| ham was arrested for violating Burnsdes
der that we had had Alexander the conqueror
and despot at the head of the Government
| instead of Abraham Lincoln. Despot as he
| was Alexander did not recognize indirect
high treason Not SO with Abraham, the
lst, All. but the Republicans misunderstood
the temper of the Democrats, just as they
misunderstood the South. We cannot give
| the exact words of the speaker and
anything short of that would fail to convey
the insinuations contained in this part of his
remarks, but, as we understood him, the
drift of what he said was to threaten that the
| Northern Democrats might at distant day
| follow the example of the South and rise in
| observation-disclosures
| He next referred to letter written in lS56
| by Theodore Parker to Salmon z. Chase in
| which he predicted that the North would rise
| in arms and establish a new Constitution
which he (Parker) declared was written on a
drum-head. Theodore Parker pointed out
1 the clause of the Constitution which declares
| that the General Government shall guarantee
| a Republican form of Government to the
States, as the clause under which the insti-
tutions of the States might be attacked.
| This was treason. And Abraham lincoln had
| adopted that very suggestion of the traitor
Parker in his Amnesty Proclamation. He
| (Mr. 81 charged Abraham Lincoln then with
| being a traitor, after the fact, and both he
and Theodore Parker, were liable to be con-
victed of treason in the courts of this country.
In conclusion, he said he would read Gen.
McClellan's letter of the It'll of July, 1862,
| and declared that he stood by McClellan's
civil and military policy. He went on to de-
nounce the conhscatlon policy of the Admin
| istration. He appealed to members to know
why We could not give up fanaticism and act
together to sustain the Constitution. He
denounced the filling of all civil offices by
Republicans, under the reasonable pretext
! that democrats are not loyal The war could
not be concluded in thirty years under the
present policy. 1t constantly strength
ening the rebels. Let us look at things can
didly without partizan feeling This Govern
ment is based the consent of the gov
| erned. The States must come back of their
| own free will, or they will not come at all.
/ In no other way could the Union DE restored.
| Will they so come back under the present
policy? 1t a singular fact that to day
| the North stands condemned by every nation
of Europe except despotic Russia, while the
| South has conducted itself in manner to
! secure the appreciation of all the rest. Oh,
! let US stand by the Constitution, and preserve
our liberties. Let US have the Union if we
can but, in any event, let preserve the
Constitution and our liberties.
| Mr.. JOHNSON said he desired to correct
one statement of the gentleman. He would
made misrepresentation. 1t was in rela-
ton to the action of Gen. Thomas down the
| Mississippi. The speaker was then in the
army, and heard the address of Gen. Thomas at
| Lake Providence. Others there present had
heard Gen. Thomas at other points, and told
! him that he had made the identical speech at
all places he visited, so far they could
learn. Now, it was not true that Gen Thorn
as used any such expression as was attributed
To hI-f h.a rn1tl bn had 1tSf
| ken. He used no threat in regard to the of
| hcers who would not endorse the Presidents
| proclamation or policy. What he did say,
was substantially like this:
eel have heard that negroes coming in side our
lines frequently ill-treated by Federal officers;
kindly received, ted and clothed. Such is the
| command OF the President, and his represent
alive will enforce it, and the ink shall dry up
on my pen in dismissing any officer from the serv
! ice, whatever be his rank, reported to guilty
of ill-treating, failing to protect these contra
| bands coming inside our lines
(Applause.)
| These remarks were received with hearty
cheers by the 9th Division of the 18th Army
| Corps.
1t being o'clock the House adjourned till
| u O'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
u O'CLOCK p NJ
| The joint resolutions introduced by Mr..
! STARkS were taken up.
| 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 conyic-
| tions freely and frankly. He should be very
! frank tonight, since the gentleman who pre-
| ceded him had been so 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 a
/ despot. / don't think this was in good taste
| | don't think it was just | 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 severe and denunciatOry, met with
| applause this floor, and / felt very sorry
as | thought those same passages would meet
with applause also, if heard in Richmond
| The gentleman assumed that he was loyal
| that there was no treason in his heart; but
| sir, there was a great deal of treason in his
! speech. Applause.
| The SPEAKER Order, gentlemen.
| ] have been in the South, have talked
| with rebels and traitors there, and they talk
| ed just as he talks. But | willing to be-
| lieve, because he says so, that he is a loyal
man, and earnest in his support of the Union
L went INTO the army as a Democrat. | was
! a Democrat from boyhood upward, and | am
/ to-day Democrat, if to bear in my heart
reverence for universal humanity constitutes
| a 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 abo-
| litionist. That was what he was.
word about Gen. Butler. An allusion,
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 had not been for TWEEN
ty years, for any man or woman to walk the
streets of that great, and wicked and Hcen-
tious city by night or day. He related how
the band of the 4th Wisconsin PLAYED
''Picayune Butler has come to town" That
was true now all over the country. Picayune
Butler had come to town in the form of a
more vigorous, determed and manly prosecu-
ton of the war. The Speaker then defended
the famous woman order" denounced by
the gentlemen from Dane Mr. Coo