Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-16

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Remarks Of senator Wilson on tho Motion
20 Expel Senator Davis Of Kentucky.
The Senator must net trihs here. He
must remember that this is the Senate Of
the United States, and not a barbecue in
Kentucky. The senator's cannot fall to
comprehend the import and meaning Of
the words and phrases Of statesmen, and
lnot the babblings Of fools. When by the
express words Of his resolution the sena-
tor from Kentucky declares that The peo-
pie Of the North ought to revolt sFsinst
their Eer-leaders, and take this great
matter Into their own hands, he must be
held to have intended that they should
rise in insurrection against their war
leaders, and sbjure their allegiance 10 the
government Of their country. for that is
the precise import and meaning Of this
word Hrevolt' in the connection in which
the senator has used it. That the senator
from Kentucky means by the term "Tsr-
leaders the President aud others subor-
dinate 10 him in authority, and that the
people should revolt against them, is not
and cannot be open TO doubt. 10 make
coed these charges Of the subversion Of
the Constitution and tbs laws, rights and
liberties Of the people, and to FIRE the pop
ular heart Of the North for The revolt pre-
posed and advised to be high duty, it is
further declared in the resolutions that
the President OF ihs United States and
the civil and military oficers thereof may
commit treason against any State whose
government is In performance Of its duties
under the federal Constitution, by levying
war against It or sdhering to its enc
mics, giving them aid and comfort, IS re-
sisting with an armed force the executions
Of its laws, or sdhering TO such an armed
force, giving it aid and comfort. That no
man Of the millions Of the North thus in
vited BY the senator to revolt and take
the powers Of government into their own
hands msy be mistaken as to the Ewar
leaders" against whom they are told they
ought to rise in insurreotion, in the seven
teenth resolution Il is further declared
that the people Of the loyal States are re-
solved into two great parties, the destruc-
tives snd the conservatives; the first, the
destructives, consist Of Abraham Lincoln,
his ofiee- holders, contractors, and other
followers. Their real objects are TO per-
petTate their party power and to hold POS.
session Of the government, 70 continue
the sggrsndizement ef their leaders, both
great and small, by almost countless OH :
ees and emplOyments, by myrisds Of plum
dering contracts, and by putting up to
sale the largest amount Of spells thst were
ever offered to market by any government
on earth. Their object is to de-
stroy and bsnish or strip Of their property
all the pro slavery people, secessiOnists,
and snti- -secessionisis, loyal and disloyRl
combatsnts and -combatsnts, and 10
distribute the lands Of the suhjugsted peo-
pie, IS was done by the Roman conquer
ors, to their own countrymen; also to en-
slave tbs white men by trBmpling under
foot the laws and the Consultations Of the
p United States and the States by the power
Of his subsidized srmy; and lest Il should
faiter, by hundreds Of thousands OF negro
janiEsries, organized for that purpose by
the Secretary Of War AID the Adjuiant-
General. Bat, ER5s the Senator, verify
the people ought 10 revolt against the
President and his followers, because be
has thus suppressed the freedom Of cleo
tions IN Delaware, Maryland, Missouri
and Kentucky, because his object is backed d
by q subsidized army and hundreds Of
thousands Of negro janiEsIies to perpe-
trate his power.
II the Senate should pass these resolu-
Hons, as the Senator from Kentucky pro
poses it shall do, can any man doubt thai
the Senators voling for their passage
would, before God and their country, b,
guilty Of ineiting or attempting to ineite
the people to revolt against their dull
chosen President and the executive officers
clothed with authority under him7
The Senate ought not, in my judgment
to tolerate for day or for an hour in thil
chamber any man who dares thus to be
tray the high trust Of the people.
The Senate Of the United States, in thi
Hdark and troubled night" Of our history
owes it to the country Whoae Constitution
It has sworn ts support, to see that pros
poets Of conspiracy against the constitu
ted authorities shall not be thrust upon
By it's own members.
In other days these chambers rang viii
mensees Of disuniOn and civil war. Tn
men who uttered these words Of meditatet
treason told the people Of the South Whs
the Senator from Kentucky now tells tn
people Of the North, that they ought to re
volt against .he government and take tn
matter into their own hands. Under th
lead Of these rebel chiefs, whose treason
sble words once rang through these ball
Of legislation, the people Of the South di
revolt against the government, aud too
the power into their own hands, an
plunged the nation into the crimes kn
horrors Of civil war.