The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-06-25
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displaying on many fields their courage,
SKIN, and science, ave net trusted upon
the policies.
lhis whoie Government is being run to
day on the question Of making all Inter>
ests yield to that Of the negro. IfIwers
to bring bill that weuld cost the Gov.
ernmsnt the same amount this will for
the benefit Of the widows and orphans of
the white soldiers who have been killed
or died, | could not obt ain for il over ten
votes in this senate. You will pas. this.
fear. | wish we could defeat it. !. i.
true the bill and anaendmen. both. be-
lleve, propose to pay over into the Treasu-
ry the residue of the monoy to be raised
by leasing abandoned estates, DC No
dollar will ever GO into the Treasury from
this sou,ce, but every cent that freedmen
want for food, for clothes, for every neces.
cary OF life, will be drawn from the Treas.
ury as it is now. When the contisca,ion
bill was passed there MAS a like provision
in IT. When the advocates Of that meas>
ure were urging Its passage, they said it
would pay the interest on the national
dcS, and after while pay the debt Itself
| he truth is that all the sales OF contisca-
| ted property do not Eor pay the expenses
and never will. Each year millions are
drawn from the Treasury to keep that in
motion. But the Senator from Mas ssachu-
,e',s tells Us we nustsuPport these people
ey charity, and provides in the bill 10 pay
the balance into the Treasury.
1nr SrGSER. / have not said they
should sc supported The Senator suts
words INTO my mouth which ! did not
say | said We owed to then, care a.d
protection during the translto on period
from slavery 10 liberty.
Mr.. RICHARpnsoS | beg the Senator's
pardon. ] accept what he says; but the
Senstor will permit nae to call his atten-
ton to one remark in his speech, that this
was 4" 4 great national charity" The Sen.
ator will remember tha, lie used these
words
Mr. SUMNER Certainly. | said it was
at once a charity and duty.
Mr. RICHARDson Of course he thinks
it a charity and a duty Why the provi-
sion in the bill that the residue Of the
money is to be paid into the treasury
1t is TO mIslead the public mind With
your charities and duties" in this direc-
ton You have brought US to bankruptcy,
the nation 10 ruin, and our people once so
happy and prosperous ia toll and woe
This charity and duty" has united
the South and divided the North At the
commencement or these difficulties we
had, CT thought we had, a large party in .
the South who opposed this rebellion. /
Mr.. Lincoln notified US that there was /
very large majority against secession. 1t
wss claimed that every State was dey oted- /!
~ attached to the Union except South I.
Carolina. | believe that was true Where
are they now? This policy OF YOURS has
united them so completely tina: southern
women are in the ranks, discharsIng the
duties Of soldiers, handling the Tusket
az tiring the cannon.
But s.... you say, let Us 90 on. It does
seem 10 ne that. as reasonable men, We
ought TO stop, we should paus-, Ne should
hesitate. | am not often in the habit Of
thinking that anything Wendell Phillips .
says is either oil or trge; but he .aid .
the other day what if any democrat Lad /
said he would have been confined in a
fort, cannot give his exact words-l .
quote from memsry-bu, he sand .ubstan-
italy that jeff Davis made a revolt, but
Crahaia Lincoln MADE southern con-
lederacy.
The reign Of those who disregard all
rights does often receive the popular APP
p!zuse, but sooner Or later eyen-handed
justice deals 10 them the violence they
have inflicted upon others.
The thought forces Itself upon MY mind
often that all this effort TO keep the negro
before the public is for the purpose cf at
tracing attention from tie effort to over
throw liberty and establish daspotism in
this country. The wicked rebel and the
negro, is the reply to any fear expressed
that we shall lose our liberty in ;hi. con-
test
Mr. President, in ne country was liberty
ever more menaeed and endan yred than
it is IN this country TO day Like all
countries in revolution, the people have
conceded little here and a little there on
the ground of necessity until there is but
little left. Cromwell in the revolution in
England turned out the Parliament upon
the plea of necessity. Napoleon when he
aseended the throne of France with the
bayonst drove the Assembly Of France
from its chamber He permitted none TO
take their seats but those who supported
him. \ minority of that convention de
c!ared for him as emperor. The bayonet
did the work
Sir. what ia our situation to-d.r p
Where is trial by jury, your h1teaS corpus,
y our freedom of speech, your freedom Of
press, your liberty of conscience? Where
are your free ballots, the first great bIrth-
right; Of Americans, and without which
liberty caanot exist anywhere tor = single
A few days ago certain news
papers in New York published bogus
and they were suppressed
BY an order from Washington and the
editors imprisoned.
Mr.. JOHNSON They were not imprison-
ed. They were ordered TO be imprisoned,
but Major General Dix did not do 1t.
Mr.. RICHARDSON. The order was given
frcn here. Not only do the President
Nd Cah o,s.y xrh N
committed no crime. but generals and col
onels and second lieutenants who de not
know the difference between Webster's
with the leaves all cut and
.he leaves all in, and it is justified and
sustained by the President The only
nope for liberty IN this country Is the Dc
eat of Mr.. Lincoln this fall.
Throughout the entire North to day, in
very congressional district, you have
provost marshals. You have them liz
Iour country, too, sir. To Mr. Johnson.
The provost marshals claim the right to
try all cases that arise, criminal and civil.
They doubtless have never heard that
there was provision in the Federal Con- 3
stitution that the military should be sub c
ordinate to the civil authority. They are 9
with our courts whether they
shall try any cases in the courts or not
That great right onferred by the Censti- {
tuition of the United States, that Lo man ,
shall be tried for his life OIL liberty unless .
upon due presentment by a grand jury, IS ;
zone A lieutenant, who has never seen .
he inside Of a law-book, who would not ,,
know what you meant if you told him ,
hat there was such a thing as liberty ,
PROCLAMATION in every article Of the Fed. .
'ral Constitution, he would tell yeu, :
Here is a military necessity" :
/ know it may be replied to nae, as it I
las been, that these things are done in /
pursuance Of q law passed by Congress.
rrue it is so; but before you passed your
aw before it had an existence you had t
'our provost marshals in every district
the country. Civil liberty, the