The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-04-27
cADlz OHIO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 81, 1864.
The Expulsion OF MB LOBg-The
|. New York Times Es, schuyler
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, The Expulsion OF HIrs LOUg-Th,
New York Times VS., Scbuyiel
fl COIfax, ct. nl. sys
That Administration organ, the New
York Times, declares itself ASHAMED
! of the supporters Of Speaker Coifax''
resolution : to expel Representativ,
Long. Itsays they cite the votes il
the House twenty years ago, for ex.
pelling Joshua r. Giddings, and pro
nounces such citation as an insult
E Again they point. to the expulsion O
Bright and Reed and Burnett. in the
last Congress. But these men, the
Times AYERS, were not expelled for then
opinions, but for their acts. They
(Colfax and his supporters) pour vir-
tuous indignation, says the Times, up.
on the doctrines Of Mr.. Longs speech,
as if it was only necessary to make a
speech odious to make it punishable.
1t adds: ra y7 @.s ae al.a Ill
"All this piling up of patriotic ago.
ny has nothing to do with the real is
sue. The question is, whether the
freedom of debate is or is not under
any other restriction than that against
'disorderly behaviour, which is desig-
mated in the Constitution as an offense
for which members may be punished.
1t is not pretended that Mr.. Long was
guilty of 'disorderly behaviour. His
speech was perfectly calm and decor.
GUS, and from the beginning to the
end he was not once called to order by
the Speaker, whose duty, under the
rules, it would have been to call him
to order, had there been any breach
of it. The ofense was not in the be-
haviour, but in the doctrine. Can OBJ
noxious doctrine justify expulsion?--
That is the vital point. 1t has not
been met. 1t has been evaded." +7
The same journal continues its ar
gumcnt by assuming that if two
thirds Of either branch of Congress
have right to expel the remaining
one-third, or any member oft for opin-
ions urgedin debate, then, our claim
to be representative Government is
a falsehood; and says: =.sH @H
eff the Second District of Ohio
have chosen to send, Alexander Long
to the National Congress as their Reps
resentative, he has right. to be heard
as such without intimidation or con-
straint Of any kind whatsoever. His
representative character is atan end the
instant that frcedomis inter fered with.
1t is useless to say that he has abused
his representative trust. That is
matter of opinion, and Of it his con-
stituents are the only lawful judges"
Referring to the great amount of
GAS expended about the itreasonable
characterof Of Mr.. Longs speech, par
ticularly in expressing his belief that
there are but two alternatives-the ac-
acknowledgement Of the independence of
the South, or their complete extermi,
nation-and declaring his preference
for the former alternative, The Times
says "there is no more treason in that
utterance than in the other utterance
made again and again in the House,
directly and indirectly, that disunion
would be preferable to restoration of
the slave power. ...'f' '.. .H".''e.
The Times is alarmed, as all the
supp orters and defenders, Of Colfaxs
Infamous resolution of expulsion may
we'll be, lest q turn Of tide may bring
its own party leaders under the ban.
1t gives this warning: .. '..
"What is Mr.. Longs case to-day
may, next year, be Mr.. Stevens case,
or Mr.. Conway's case, or Mr.. Grin.
nell's case, or some other Representa-
tiye's case, whose language two-thirds
of the body may choose to put down
as reasonable. No debater in that
body can in future be safe if this pre-
cedent IS established" ;" ".'
"LOyns" and Lawlcss Kansas.