Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-04-22
From the N. :. Tribune
FREE SPEECH" IN CONGRESS.

G0GG " GGOA AN NONd06o5'
Throughout the first or called Session of the
last Congress- several Members Of either House
sgnalized themselves by evincing most COM
pete identity of principles and sympathies, If
not of purpose, with the Rebels then and now
fighting for the destruction Of the Republic. OF
these members, Senators John Breckenridge,
Trusten Polk and Waldo P. johnson, after pock-
citing all the pay they could claim, with the
Mileage which was NOT legally due, went straight
way from Washington into the cOunsels and
camps of the Rebels they had been helping in
Congress. Messrs. Henry G. Burnett, John W
Reid and Elijah F. Norton of the House, did
likewise. Messrs. Ben. Wood, Vallandlgham,
and perhaps one or two others, staid within our
lines, and the first-named was re-elected by the
Democrats of this City. Mr. Vallandigham tried
to be Governor OF Ohio, and only missed it by
over 100000 minority
Now, Messrs. Breckenridge & Co. we're pre-
cisely the same traitors while in the last Con-
gress that they have since been within the Rebel
lines. Had they legal or moral right, being
traitors, to sit, speak and vote in the Federal
Congress- and draw pay therefor out Of the Fed
eral Treasury2 The good hook says, Where
mans tisasure IT,, there his heart will be also
and whom mems hearts are in Richmond, why
should they suck at our sorely overdrawH Trea-
suryP
At the last Session, Martin f. Conway, an
extreme Republican from Kansas, became pos
sessed with the notion that the War as actually
waged, would result in compromise whereby
the Slave Power would regain and extend its for.
feited domination over our country. Under this
impression, he proposed and argued that we
might better stop the War and recognize tho
Conrederacy. He said hepreferred that Slavery
should have half the country rather than the
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of Kansas, though Radical Abolitonists, would
not hear word of this. They utterly repuda-
ted his views by at least twenty to one. And
the House. on motion of Mr. Maynard of Ten
nessee, condemned his proposition by unani-
nous vote-Mr. Conway standing alone in the
minority.
Now, MIR. Alex. Long, on Ohio Democrat, in q
carefully prepared speech, likewise proposes
that the War be stopped as preferable alterna-
tive to subjugating the Rebels and thereby abol
ishing Slavery. Mr.. Colfax thereupon moves
his expulsion from the House. And this is wide
ly stigmatized as at war with the freedom Of de.
bate.
We do not so consider it, Nor do we consider
Longs case paralleled by Conwsy's, though su-
perfcially it may seem so. Mr.. Conway's mo-
tion was prompted by intense, unoompromisinE
antagonism to the Rebellion, its impulses, ideal
and objects. Mr. Longs has precisely antag
onistio impulse. conway so hateu the heDe
cornerstone that he wished to render impOssi.
BILE its ever being rolled against the door Of th
} tomb of Impartial Liberty in this Republic
Long would stop the War in order to save Slave
. ry from else inevitable destruction. Conway
Z error has no essential parity with Longs vita
T, sympathy with the aninating soul Of the Rebel
lion.
Q Here is Mr.. Longs carefully weighed, delib
8 erately uttered declaration:
o ~ DO not share in the belief entertained b
many of my political friends on this floor an
y elsewhere, that any peace is attainable upon th
basis Of Union and reconstruction. II the Den
ocrato party were in power to-day, have D
IT idea, and honesty compels me to declare it, tht
y they could restore the Union over thirty-for
States. My mind has undergone an entil
10 change upon that subject. l believe that thel
le are but TIVE alternatives; and these are, an a
q knovlsdgmsnt ofhs independence Of The South
b. an Independent nation or their complete subjuu
III tion and determination as people; and Of tht
IN alternatives prefer The former"
s, MIR. Colfax having moved his expulsion ther
i for, Mr.. Ben. @. Harris of Md.--a slavehOld
L, who has been rendered intensely savage by :