Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-15

,o "r,p,unce allegiance TO "TebelP' Does
be moi know that the word revolt. means an
stinaurrectIon =, a rebellion" "desertton,'
"sedition," an ''endeavor 70 overthrow legitl-
mate authsrityf'
IT he knots what that word means, he knows
that in The connecllon ID which he uses IL u
means TO inciio or attempt 70 inclte the people
10 take the powers of the Government into their
own hands. The Senator tells them to revolt
and take this great matter into their own hands,
What great mstteri The conduct Of the war
the questions concerning peace and the ad'
justment of questions growing out OF the re-
bcllon. Ho tells them to revolt, TO take the
power into their own hands. How are thoy TO
revolt, and take the power into their own
hautsl Why rush Into q national convention
and exercise the powers they have taken into
their own hands, hni terminate the war.
Tho Senator tries 70 tell us--although he can
hardly utter the word, for II must choke in his
throat If he does-that this word "rcvolt " does
not mean dissolying allegiance, does not mean
lnsurrcction, but the going iuto party con-
vontlon. The Senator from Michigan Mr..
Howard brought The Senator from Kentucky
TO tho confession that his convention was
revolutionary convention. He admitted on the
ioor OF the Senate that tho convention was
revolutionary convention, the exercise OF n
revolutionary right. What does he say TO
every man 7 Revolt; take the power Of the
Government OF the United States; take these
matters into your hands; 20 into a convention
to stop this war, and adjust the policy OF the
Government and the Institutions Of the couu-
| try.
That means throw away the President, throw
away the Cabinet, throw away Congress, throw
away tho Supreme Court, tramplo tho Consu
| tuition and laws Of the country under your feet
and 20 into a national convention and settl'
these questions for yourselves. nationa
convention that should attempt to touch thes,
I - - -.
of the United States, would be, must be, rev
Olutionary tribunal. II would be the first dut.
Of the GoYernment TO arrest, try, convict, an
execute Its members as traitors. The Senate
Confesscs--ycs, sir, he cOnfesscs In the presonc
of the Senate that the convention lie asked th
people to go into is a revolutionary convention
He knows that If IL assumes to act as he toll
the people to act II must be a rcvolutionar
convention. This is the meaning and impor
OF the Senator's proposition.
lie cannot explain II away, he cannot argu
II away. He has occupied three long hours to
day In running around 1t; in climbing over II
ln crawling under IL ; but there stands tn
proposition, fixed fact. A proposition s.
wicked, SO revolutionary, so instinct with trca
son, was never before made in the presence o
the Senate of the United States by mortal man
Sir, we have heard Jefferson Davis on this foo
eXpound the theories of Calhoun in words O
clearncss and precision that often eXtortcd tn
|
reasonable utteranccs OF the pompous Mason
we have listened to the threats ofthe blustorinl
, TOombs, and the bitter words Of the malignAn
, Clay.
We have heard these men and their compccr
= eXpOund the false theories Of the school O
, Calhoun, but you will search the Journals O
f the Senate aud the records Of the Governmen
, In vain to find proposition so reasonable a
this. If anybody doubted before the transccn
dent wickedncss OF this proposition, they cal
doubt no longer after the admission wrunl
from him to-day by the Senator from Michigan
Sir, the Senator from Kentucky knows wha
tho word "rcvolt' means. Ho knows, too, wha
the phrase "tako that great matter Into YOU
own hands" means. lie knows what "na
| tional convention" that shall assume TO cnd
the war and reconstruct the Government is.
| No man in America can mistake the obViou
meaning and import Of the words and phrases
The Senator from Kentucky is not quite so ig
norant as We should judge him 10 be when WI
listen, as we often do, to his long, discursive
and illogical haranguos, that are so often in
1icted upon the Senate. In his sixteenth
resolution the Senator charges the Presiden
with ignoring the constitutions of Tennessee
and Arkansas, and others that have not beer
altered in any particular. When the Senato
speaks of jefferson Davis's insurrection he call
ii a "revolt," and "revolt" of JEFF. Davis Il
no more a "reyOlLn than is "revolt" of Gar
rclL Davis.