Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-01-21
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The Motion to EHgs, Gs.rsts s Bs- Bs-
vis. o'
The u. s. sensts, on "Wednesday OF last week,
had before 1t the resolution Of Sen,tor Wilson,
of Mass, for the expulsion Of Garrett Davis,
pestilential Copperhead Senator from Kentucky,
Tor Offering in the Senate long string Of reso-
lutons advising the people TO rise against the
Government, and take the power out Of the
hands Of those who have been delegated by the
people to exercise II. We present below the
telegraph reports o the debates Furnished the
New York papers
| Mr.. WIIsos tUn. Mass) said, on the 5th of
January, the Senator from Kentucky laid upon
your table series OF seven teen resolutions, and
the SeDae, In comp lance with his request, order
cd them 10 be printed. These resolutions were
| placed upon our desks, and they have been road
| BY Senator'S who have the encourage t. impose
1 upon themselves task calcula ted to tax their
1 powers Of endurance Having a reasonable de-
gree Of confidence in my own powers Of endur-
| snce. i entered upon the tsskeoi reading these
The majority in these Chambers. the laws OF Con
Rress, the Proclamation and Order OF the Com
mar dor-in.Chjef Of our Army and Navy. and OF
al who were clo,hed with authority to administer
the Government groped through this mass OF
vituperaiive accusations with mingled emotions
Of indignation and pity. In this inrrngo OF spleen
and malice, the Chief Magistrate, bis associates
and supporters are accused arraigped cond' y nm
Hudson, Chattanooga, and fields made immortal
by their endurance and ynor; the heroes who res
cued Kentucky-rescucd even the heart stones
OF that Senator from Rebel Dissertation are
branded as subsidized nrmies end the men who al
Port Hudson, Miikens Bend, and Wagner,
iought with heroic valor, are e'igmatized as
negro janizaiies Alter hurting his accusations
at the President and bis supporters in the Cabinet
and In the field, the Senator turns TO the people
Of the loyal North, and calls upon them TO revol,
agaii their war leaders, take the power into their
, own hands and 60 into National Convention TO
terminate the war. Should the Loyal people OF the
United States &C; up TO his declaration-shoud
they be melted to revolt against the President
} and his constitutional advisers, and take the
power in their own bands, assemble in National
! Conve ntion--a Convention unknown to the Con-
stitution and laws-to terminate this war TOT the
preservation Of the Union, the fields OF the loyal
] States will be Redeemed with the blood OF civil
war. lie asks the Senate ol the United States,
, with their oatlis oil fidelity to the Constitution
Recorded. TO proclaim to the American people the
, unconstitutional, revolutionary and reasonable
doctrine that they ought to revolt and assume the
i powers they have delegated under the Constiiu-
lion OF the United States to men who now nil the
Executive, Legislative and Judicial Departments
OF the Government. In the 10Th section he calls
the bloody nsurrection OF tie Rebels "a revolt
thereby showing that he knew the meaning oi
this word, ''revot," when he urged u ms duty
q upon the loynl people Of tho United States. The
Senator must not trife here. He must remember
+ that this is the Senate Of the Uniled States and
/ not barbecue in Kentucky. The Senators can
s not fai here to comprehend the import and mean
n ing Of the words and phrases embodied In tho re-
solutions and they know that these are the works
F aud phases Of statesmen and not the idle be6
bings of fools. When by the express words OF this
D resolution the Sena tor from Kentucky declares
that the people ftbe North ought to revolt agnins
their war leaders and take this great matter into
.L-.. L..I L. H.. ksiI has and.
" ed that they should rise in insurrection agains
their war leaders and abjure their allegiance to
j. the Government OF their country, Tor that the
IS precise import and meaning OF this word revolt,
e in the connection in which the senator has used
n II. That The Senator from Kentucky means b,
= the term "war Leaders," the President and other
subordinate him in authority, and that the peo
q pie should revolt agninst them 10 not and can no
- be open to doubt. To make good these charges
,. Of tie subversion Of the Constitution and laws
!, rights and liberties o. the people, and to feel tn
. popular heart OF the North forsasrevolt proposed
and advised TO be high duty, 1t is furherdeclar
U ed In tie resolution that the President Of tn
is United States and The civil and military officer
II thereof may commit treason against any Stat
"a whose Government 10 In performance OF its du
~ tics under the Federal Constitution ey levyin
against il or ndherins to lie snsmies, givin
10 them aid and comfort, resisting with an arms
rs force the execution OF its laws, or adhering
il such armed force, giving It aid and comfort Thu
te no man Of millions OF the millions OF tn
20 North thus invited by the Senator to revolt an
70 take the powers o! the Government into the
OF own hands may be mistaken - to the war lead
n. ers," against whom they are told they ought !
n rise in instructions in the seventeenth resolution
il is further declared that the poye of the loyu
States are resolved into two great parties, IN
Destruclves and the Conservatives; the frat, th
Oestruciives consist Of Abraham Lincoln, hi
D. office holders, contractors, and their follower
Their real objects are 10 perpstuate their part
power and to hold possession ot the Government
IN continue the Oraud thaiF LEADER
ar both great and small. by almost countless efics
"A and employmen,s, by myriads OF plundering c"r
~ tracts. and by putting up to sale the large
,h amount OF spoils that we're ever offered TO Innrk
ht by any Government on earth Their object
n. To destroy or Danish and strip OF the
ed property all the Pro- Slavery people, secessonis
o and anu. Seces ian, loyal and disoya'. combatan
.. ond non. .combat atants, and to distribute tina lanf
81 ol the subjugated people, us was done by q
d. Roman conquerors TO their own coun'rymen; aii
RS 10 ensavo tho white man by trampling unt,
,ir foot the laws and the Constitutions OF the Unite
,d Siales and the States b. the power OF his subs
died army, and lest il shou I'd taller, by hundre.
Nc OF thousands OF negro Janizaries, organized I
OF that purpose by the Secretary Of War and u
70 Adjutsnt General. But, says The Senator veri
,r. the people ought TO revolt against the PresideI
a and his followers because he has thus suppresse
r. a' the freedom OF elections in Delaware, Marvlan'
u Missouri, and Kentucky; because hls object
~. backed BY o subsidized army and hundreds
is thousands Of negro Janizaries to psrPetuate b
DOfueI. IL tNt Ctnuto onOulu pass neb6 T0sot
-, tions, as the Senator from Kentucky PROPOSES
ITO shall do can any man doubt that the Senate
IRE voting Tor their passage wonid, before God ar
lat their country, he guilty OF netting or atemp
an ing to incite, the people to revolt against the
IN duly chosen President, and the executive office
. clothed with authority under him 7 Tne Sena
a ought not, in my judgment, to tolerate for day
Is iof an hour in thIs Chamber any man who dar,
to thus to betray the high trust oI the people. tt
Ids Senate oi the United States, In this OZARK al
he troubled night" OF our history, owes 1t TO d
IT, country whose Constitution 1t has sworn TO su
uuo port, TO see that projects OF conspiracy again
ne the constituted authorities shall not be thru
ain upon IL BY I've own members. In other days the
ith chambers rang with menaces Of disunion Al
ciyi! war. The men who uttered these wo rds
meditaled treason tlld tho people Of the Sou
what the Senator from Kentucky now tells I,
people Of the North, that they ought to rev,
,cL against the Government, and take the matter Ia
~ their own hands under the lead Of these Rel
rue chiefs, whose reasonable words once rs
m. through these halls OF Legislature. The PeoT
, is OF the South did revolt against the Governme
has and took the power into their own hands; q
plunged the nation into the crimes and horrors
ny civil war. Who among US does not now reg
that the Senate Of the United States did not b,
ect he adlong from this chamber those Rebel chic
lit, even as the Rebel angels were hurled from I
on battlemens OF Heaven. But those disloyal leo
;s srs, these champions OF tho savemongers, who