The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-05-11

and that would say nothing Offensive to his
feelings Did the House agree with him =
/ Did any one eyer venture to cfer resolution
! to expei him? He believed it honestly, nc
said it legitimately, in the exercise OF con-
stitutional right. Sir, honor him foy speak
ing boldly, and honor this House for not
having presumed So violate his right to speak
| it. And yet cali the attention Of my honor
able friend from Ohio hr. Gariel9l who is
| so loud iu his denunciatiops of our colleague
! ENIr. LoDg1 for having uttered these s2nti-
NJ .nts in time of war, that even at the mo-
ment when the gentleman from PenasyIvania
sroke TIE hosts were marsEaied for the fight
| at Fredericksburg, that even then the pause
in the telegraph wire which he told us was the
certain signal that the dread contest of arms
| had begun, was 30 distinct that its very 81
/ lenoe was heard all over this land. It was
| then. when YOU had sent your soldiers to that
field under pretense of maintaining the Union
and supporting the Constitution that the gen.
tlcman from Pennsylvania rose and told you
and them and the country shat the Union
never could be restored, and with his consent
| it never should be.
On the 1lth of February, 1861, bfr. Cra:ge,
| OF North Carolina, Introduced resolution in
! 10 this House requesting tn, President to ac-
knowledge the independence OF the Southern
| Confederaey, to receive its ambassadors, and
to adjust terms OF comm srcial intercourse. By
! the concurrence of the gentleman from 1ndi-
ana mir. Coliax it was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations. Did We have
any resolution of censure or expulsion No
| member dreamed that it was his duty to offer
| one.
| Need dwell longer upon this subject ? 1
! had intended to go back to those splendid
! demonstrations of English liberty which oc
| CURED at the time of our Revolution. l had
| intended to recall to you the words of Lord
! Chatham uttered time and again in the Brit
| ish Parliament against the then pending war
| in America The inexorable hour rule bids
me be brief. In January, 1776, he said:
| "Tho gentleman tells us America is obsti-
nate, America is almost in open rebellion. [
rejoice that America has resisted. Threo mil
| lion people so dead 10 all the feelings Of liber-
| ty as voluntarily to submit 20 be slaves, would
| have been ft Instruments 70 make slaves of
| the. Test.''
In November, 1777, eighteen months after
the Declaration of Independence, after tw)
years of war, he said:
| Gas to conquest, my lords, repeat it, it is
impossible You may swell every expansc
and every effort still more travsgantly-pile
| and accumulate every assistance which you
can beg or borrow, traffic and barter With ev-
cry little pitiful German prince, that salls and
/
| cign prince-your efforts are forever vain and
| patent. IF were an American as I am an
| Englishman, while foreign troop was landed
| in Tny country [ would never lay down nay
arms, never, never, never.
| sBut in such war as this. un Just in its
principle, impracticablc in its MEANS and ru-
! inogs in its consequences, would not contrib :
ute single effort nor single shilling"
And Mr.. Burke, in 1881, after the surren-
der of Yorktown had sccnrcd the defeat OF the
British in America, exclaimed:
''The noble lord said the war was not dis
graceful was only unfortunate. For my part
must continue to call it dsgracefu, nor un-
fortunate I consider them all alike, victo-
res and defeats; towns taken and towns evacu-
atad new generals appointed and old generals
recalled; they are all alike calamities; they
all spur US ON to this fatal business. Victo-
rics give US hcpes defeats make US desperate:
and both iDstigate us to go on" X
"Give US back our force nor
protract this burdensome, disgraceful, for it is
not an unfortunate war;
And yet, were they censureds Did the
farst gentleman of Englaad' leave tie Speak
er's chair to move u vote Of censure or expul-
sion?
But why go SO far back Within this year
in the French Chamber, Theirs, returning af-
ter twelve years or exile from Office and hon
ors, raised his voice for the liberty of France
"Give us free press; give US free ballot;
give Us free debate in these halls-these are
the essentials of free gevernment-and will
be grateful and obedicnt subject Of the en-
pire. If you will not, warn you that, IS the
dauphin did not succeed Louis XVI, as the
Duke of Reichstadt did not succeed the great
Napoleon, as the sons of Louis Philippe arc
nov in exile, SO neither will this imperial
prince succeed to the throne of his father and
perpetuate the dynasty of the second Napo-
leon.'' And when, in the same debate, Count
Morny, the President, ,-rudoly assailed speak
er who uttered like sentiments, and Geun-
cilor Of State followed itup by the use of the
word "traitor," the indignant members with
one accord rose in their places and with ire
sistible authority demanded that the insolent
menal of despouc rower should recall and
apologize for the offensive word.
And shall it be said that in the American
Congress there is less freedom of debate than
in England under the house of Hanover, or
in France, when she lies helpless victim,
scarcely palpitating, in the grasp OF Bona
parte?
The eloquent gentleman from MARYLAND
Mr.. Davis told US last night, that when
Lord Chatham, aged, feeble, wrapped in fan
mel and suffering from disease, came resting
upon the arm OF his still greater SOD, to ad-
dress for the last time the British House
of Lords, and to die upon the floor, be came
to speak against the dismemberment of the
British Empire. 1t is true. and what did he
say? II told you this war would be disastrous;
l predicted It's consequences told you you
could not conquer America begged you to
concilate America; you would not heed my
advice You have exhausted the country /:
you have sacrificed It's men ; you have wasted
it's treasures you have driven these oooniea
to declare their Independence; you have driv.
en- them into the arms of our ancient and ha-
ted enen,y, and now, without striking blow.
without firing shot, cowardiy under difficult
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