Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

= sudil Oe Fdilu 10 AL lntenLs anu purposes as
g part of the said Constitution, namely
: ART. XIII.-Section 1. Neither SLAYER
nor involuntary servitude, except as punish
ment for crime, whereof the party shall hav,
been duly convicted, shall exist within th
e United States, or il any place subject to thei
E Jurisdiction.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to en-
foEcO this article by appropriate legislation.
D1sLoYAL7Y IN CoNGREss.-Great excite
ment has during the past week prevailed il
the lower house of Congress, growing ou
OF ftreasonable utterances on the part Of severa
members and efforts TO expel them Gor dis
loyalty. On Saturday ALEXANDER LONG
representing the I'd district of Ohio, read q
speech in which he emphatically declared in ia
vor of acknowledging the independence of the
rebel States, and clearly manifested his sym
Pathy for the SOath in the pending struggle.
Speaker CoLFAx, calling Mr.. ROLLINS to the
chair, rose to question of privilege, and offer
cred tie following preamble and resolution,
which gave rise TO an exciting discussion and
up to date of last advices had not been dis
posed of:
Whereas, On the 8th day Of April, 1854.
when the House of Representatives was in
Committee of the Whole on the State of the
Union, Alexander Long, Representative in
| Congress from The Second District of Ohio, de-
clared himself in favor of recognizing the indie
| pendent nationality of the so-called Confeder-
acy, now in arms against the Union and
Whereas, the said so-caled Confederaey.
thus sought to be recognized and established
on the ruins of a dissolved or destroyed Union
has held as its chief officers, civil and military.
those who have added perjury to their treason,
and who seek to obtain success for their par
ricidal efforts by the killing of the loyol up
holders of the nation, who are striving to save
it from destruction;
And whereas, the oath required of all mem
bers, and taken ythe said Alexander Long on
the first day of the present Congress, declares
that 81 have voluntarily given no aid counte- |
nance, counsel, or encouragement to persons
engaged in armed hostility to the United |
States" thereby declaring that such conduct |
is regarded as inconsistent with membership |
in the Congress of the United States there |
fore, be it
Resolved, that Alexander Long, Repre-
sentative from the Second District of Ohio, |
having on the 8th of April 1864, declared |
himself in favor of recognizing the independ- |
ence and nationality of the so-caled Confed-
eracy now in arms against the Union, and /
thereby given aid, countenance, and encour-
agement to persons engaged in armed hostil-
IfU n the TTuIfod States ig
Fernando Wood of New Y ork, Harris, of
Nd, and several other members, came to the
rescue of Long. Harris (who is notorious
traitor and weuld be more at home in the
Richmond than in the Washington Congress J
not only endorsed what Long had said, but far
exceeded him in reasonable utterances, ex-
pressing the hope that the north would nev-
er succeed in suppressing the rebellion
whereupon Washburne, ofIIlinois, introduced
a resolution to expel him, on which resolution
through the previous question the House was
brought to vote, the result being ayes 81,
nays SO, the resolution failing from a lack of a
two-thirds vote. Thereupon resolution was
introduced by Mr.. Schenck declaring Harris
to be ''an unworthy member of the House,
and is therefore severely censured," which res.
outiOn was adopted by vote of 90 yeas to
Is nays.
In the debate on the resolutions introduced
by Mr.. Colfax, Mr.. Garfield of this State
spoke in scathing terms of the course of Long,
who at the noror,a,oav,o,,. - ~ -.
was fierce war man, and at the time of his
election declared himself in favor of vigorous
of the war till the rebellion was
crushed. Mr.. Garfield said that in the Reyolu- !
ionaTy war there was man who Joined his :
ortunes to the struggling country and re- I
NAMED with it till the war was well nigh over
nut as in the darkness which precedes the !.
morning that man Matched treason and sur r
endered to the enemy all that had been gained. | '
hat man was Ben. Arnold. But now when P
undreds of thousands of brave soldiers have
scended TO God, under the shades of the ban s
er which now waves over us, and when ),
housands more have gone into a state of de-
repltude, when three years of terrific war has I
cen raging and our armies have pushed back 3
ne Rebellion, and now when the uplifted arm y
majestic power is ready to let fall the fo
ghtnlngs Of a vigOurous execution, here in en-
le quiet Of this hail. raises the dark purposes ID
Arnold, which would surrender the nation
ID its flag aud honor and glory TO the bitter
lrses OF traitors 10 our country. For the ch
ST time in the history Of The war it is pro- So q.
'sed to give up the struggle, and abandon de
e war, and let treason run riot in the land ex
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