Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-01-21

| He entered bis solemn protest against the Sena.
tors version. and asked candid sensible Senators
| 10 consider them for themselves. He denied that
he had said that the prmy had been subsidized by
The President, and that tho heroes OF our battie-
! fields were muqned. What he said was that if
| the present Executive indvrses the exchange al
luded 10 in his resolution, these leaders, in the
event oi the failure to reach their conclusions, to
| effect their nefarious and treasonable objen 8,
would throw themselves back upon the armed
power of the Government; against the lords oi
the land. He stood up tor his resolution and 70.
ten6ed to abide is fate He would read the hth
and 70 rieenlh and the section twelve upon which
the learned, etudite, and patriotic Senator bases
HE indictment. His resolution .or'ly proposed to
institute plain and frank investigation OF tho
\ members OF the Administration, and he intended
| to continue such Investigations until the Senate
| expelled him and il the Senate should do that,
he had higher mission as an American Senator
and freeman born under the Constitution, which
| he had imbued in his infancy and cherished IN
manhood lie would GO home among the people
/ vt his loved native Kentucky and raise the cry
| OF oppression, tyranny, usurpation and revolu-
tion agains the faitbless men who have charge
Of the Government. We had rallen on evil times
indeed. We have a great Rebellion; second only
in importance TO that when Luciier was thrown
from heaven. We have In this Administration oil
the Government; in all the Departments, man
1 who are sworn TO support and defend the Cons,i'
tuition not Tor the power II confers upon them,
but Tor the liberties 1t gives the people recreant 10
their high tones, and by the abuse OF power both
| civil and military trying to subvert tina. Consti
tutinn, and the proper liberty il secures TO the
citizen, and yet any man having the auiacity TO
question the wisdom and constitut utipnai,y OF ,he
policy OF the Administration is branded rs dis.
loyal. We have mad great men in the past; the
founders of the Government were great, wise m ~
and patiots When he desired to learn their prin-
cipas OF Government he went to the noble foun.
tain Of political knowledge established by them
Such men us the Senator from massachusetts
only perform the base Office of muddylng the
Ia g. 10 N.ea ntkn sfsNRk In
this subject Mr.. Webster held that il was the
"undoubied right Of Legislators to scan the acts
of public men, that this right was as undoubted
rs the right Of breathing, or walking the earth.
Ii Is the last right that he would abandon. lie
would exercise i, at all hnz,Ids. AT un humble
!, distance. and in his feeble way, he intended to
ollow the great expounder OF the Constitution.
The Senator from Massachusetts seems to have
installed himself as q sort OF everseer OF this
body, and he was not surprised at the dictator ial
manner In which he busiled about administering
, rebukes in this and in the other House. He had
persuaded himself that h, is the Government,
and is particularly assured that he Is the Senate,
at least the largest and most important part OF it.
, daughter But do Mt think there is person
in or ou! OF the Sena:e who hugs such delusion
, TO his breast except himself, lLau Ihter.I He
would read the resolution Of tins learned Senator
this able M IN who distinctly understands every.
thing in jurisprudence, admin istratiun, aH1 of
{ war matters in the field, to expe him. II the
: Senator had power commemorative with his pur.
pose, it would have been done, but he thanked his
stars there were juster. wiser, abier, more paIi.
otic men in the Senate and the country than the
Senator. II there were not, God save the mark,
the country would soon 20 to ruin. How long did
The Senator sit uIder the reasonable utterances
ot leaders in the Rebellion three years ago, at the
!. time he was engaged in his avocauon at homo
He occasionally adverted TO the debates In iht
Senate, and read the reasonable eHIsions OF the
. band OF traitors who have organized the Rebel
O lion. He read the avowal Of Toombs that he wa:
IaR Raxat nd tho uprtd aSv n latta In hs
I declaration OF the sudacious Mason that he owe
0 no allegiance to the Government, and TO Wigtal
8 and others in their reasonable ut'erances Al
> this was done in the presence OF the just, pure
d courageous, patriotic Senator, who remainad as
y dumb as fish. lLaughterl There was the
. chance for the display of the m,ral aad ,,hysica
}. courage o! the Senator. When he read thss
It declarations, his blood boiled in his veins, an
8, have kept silent like the Senator from Massach
o se,ts Now the Senator has a majority here
4. backed by hundreds OF Thousands OF soldiers an
?. officers who hold their places ut the will OF tn
they are ordered do the bidding OF tina, power
70 do it or suffer Incarceration court. .martial,
/. death. The Senator was so all suffi :isnt. sell
g sufficient, and insufiicien! tlaaghte-l that be d
d all the glory. [L,ughIsr. tie calls the ProPo,i
tn lion for a Convention treason. He was told til
at Senator boastrd that he wa. the succe sor {
,e Webster Ys Gods! What a succession
III tLaugnteT) no senator ls dWulu IL Wouiu btt
ir the war. There is where the shoe plnchss. Il
does not want The war to be stopped till tt
" Rebels should have submitted 10 the Constitute
n and laws OF H., United. States. He would NJ
al prove recreant to the Gvernn' mt. but wou
10 support those who were administer ng il, hJwev,
10 incompe tent hs deemed them. This graod pu
Is pIse Oi the senator was TO carry on ths war I,
the destruction OF Slavery and ID pervert the WI
" power and all other powers OF the G)vernmsnt
1t; this end. He asked the Senator II the Rebels
a Il The SIuthpru States Oflbf to bal
~ with their rights under the Constitution, sa'
n where II iorielts to them the ir rights Tor The
st rebellious action. would no agree that they shou
el come back The S.nator is sill snt, but his h "a
l. answers the question. There Is no Senator b,
,ir what knows that he Is more devoled TO the d
,ls sruction Of Slavery than to the vndica,hn Of
l,s Ia ws In the Seeded States. He would swe
do away the Constitution and ST ate laws TO aboli
he Slavery, in violation OF his oath, as a Senate
80 and yet to hear him prate oi ioyalty one wou
sr think that there was no Loyalty In the Unit
ed States save his. lie tMr. Dav is) assumed that
si convention OF all the States were called togett
ds and should resolve to do away with the u OOver
or ment, tina, they had the right and power to do
he He was opposed, OF course, TO any such sxerci
ly OF power as practical thing. lie considered d
n. compact political partnership.
ID M. HewAaD would inquire if the Senator hs
10, that such a convention would have The right
Is abO ish the present Government and establish a
OF ethe r, from what source il derived tho rgh
'ls does Il arise from the Constitution
4, Mr.. DAVIS said that while opposed to such
course, as an abstract prop ostion tho j)itv
nd the States had . right Z, meet together In Co
~, Nv vealion and do awav with the best Governms
y, = on earth. This political partnership could
.n ' cancelled by the consent of the Sattners. | a
~ that the people oil all the States go into Conve
v ", tion 10 take this cruel war into their hands
sa ~ close the bleeding wounds Ci the nation-reco
he struciing it upon the principles OF compromi
mJ mS aud liberty upon which Washington and his
hs socia,es acted. 1t was the Senator'S intention
mo ,n put him in q state OF suspension here, hi
", ~ Mohammeds coffin, between heaven and ear
,s, tEaughter.l He was in durance and any duran
ass the Senator would establish was vile enough
~ ~ Gods name. lLsughtsrl He was Tor the pros
81 cuion Of the war to an honorable peace. but nC
~, prefer that il should close by tho psacsabe sr
ha mission OF those in rebellion. Mr. Davis CO
o,, inued At great length TO refer TO the course
az Massachuse tts In Shays rebellion, in the war
hsj 1917, IN the Mexican war, and in her resistan
10 the Fugitive Slave act He referred TO spec
~ ~ Of the Senator from Massachusetts, during I
p ~, Kansas tronbe. In whiciWe North Is called up
~ TO come forth and ov erlhrow the slave propagar
"J nr lists Mis- languag GO was stronger than mine, q
~, yet he has the audacity TO introduce resolul
ue 10 expel me Tor using language less signi6ca
- and less subversive than his In 1858 the pesli'
~. Slate of Massachusetts, had passed q law ann'
'aa' ling the Fugitive Slave Law-she was coveI
M ~, all over with treason in 1912. | had not been
oeo this body hut n laS daya be fore received an