Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-04-21

Ota Of wrong upon any individual among the rebels
which has didGsed larger measure Of freedom ana nap
piness among the people than any ever before instituted
which has guaranteed to tho humbest citizen more cer
tain aud substantial which 70 DO oyeroroed
the society propes aud protects desoated IN order
to enable few hundred thousand slave lords to impose
yoke OF bondage upon innocent helpless, and iso
| fonsIyo race 80 fL4stE tEtf i EtN
Surely it is an offence to approve or countenance
indirectly crime OF such magnitude aud Atr0ciy and
yet hold that the freedom of debate not to be nnged
to punish even such offender. Our laws the
intelligence aud good of the people, and allow every
man TO be heard. They not afraid Of discussion.
They demand indeed the fullest and rsest ventilation of
and he that chooses identity himself with foul wrongs
with injustice with slavery with oppression, and worst
Of all with unprovoksd bloodshed may be left g the
nfamy of his position to the contempt OF his contempo
rAres, and to the execration Of pOsterty. al sHg
We trust the House OF Representatives. will dispose OF
the petty psssona question now before II pos
sele and proceed earnestly to the consideration Of tho
great measures yet to be perfected 94tdi tE
From The ND York Commercial Advertiser of april l2th
FREEDOM OF DEBATE.--The Consultation declares
that for any speech debate either House. members
shall not be questioned in any other place. rule Of the
House provides that in certain the Speaker shall
and any member may call to order" Another rule pro-
vdes that member shall be- held to answer or be sub
ect to the Of the House for words spoken de-
bate if any other member has spoken or other business
ntervened after the words spoken and before exception
TO them shall have been taken" ~ rfifgan9E 1-s3sl
Neither of these rules observed in the of Mr.
Longlo He permitted to resd his speech through
without call to order, and rrepressbe members waited
until the next day. aud after much business had interviewed
before bringing the to the attention Of the House,
The true Of Mr.! Harris. There whisper
Of objection and call to order until he had about con-
clnded and when objection to his continuing made
he obliged to STOP but the mischief had been
tive. N 81 NJ 1og saaI M aEEsi a1 ~ ~
There il no question that the Consultation makes free.
dom OF debate great vital privilege essential to the
of liberties and to the action Of the gs
atve branch of the Government Ia It's full scope il
takes in the subject of Freedom of Speech" in the nd
vdua and involves the cardinal features that undere lib
era Institutions 1t is too sacred to be tempered with
and too precious to be made the foot ball of party the
pivot which political triumph may be made to turn
different from the freedom which may be used wisely and
we'll and which must be without restriction Naa
1t to be hoped that Congress have wisdom equal
TO this emergency.
/ From the Nep York Times of april 13h.
| How THE REBELLION IS ABETTED-THE FOLLY OF
THE Household IT'S. and Congress, with tax bills,
tariff bills bank bills, every financial measure, lfeles and
engaged putting down freedom of debate 10
the National Capitol In the name Of loyal people we
protest. 1t is disgrace and an outrage. 81 sajs
We tell these at Washington that passion is making
them mad 1t is absolute inflammation that has seized
them. Their words strike upon the of the people
like the gbbersh of Bedlam Where have the senses Of
Congressman gone that they don't realize the terrible bur-
dens that upon the people, and the fearful dangers
that confront the Government Do they call themselves
loyal men, and yet play these fantastic tricksi
1t is astonishing, is astounding that the House, after
this long and fragrant neglect of duty should turn upon
ous of its members in this fierce fashion for encouraging
the enemy by WORLDLY words which we're made of air
which they had been let aone would have straight
II Z. Az
loyal Of the people that is aiding the rebellion ten
thousand times than the called dsoyal speeches
| of the malcontents Of the House. t71.'
Not content with the fatal derelcon Of neglectng in
dspensabe action this body must superadd equally
fatal positive act Unsatsed with helping the South
rebels by deprying our Government Of the sound
credit which its e they must put into the handa of the
northern copperheads weapon of more deadly potency
than they have yet handled hoped for How is it
possible for true to misunderstand the American
people to suppose they will submit quietly to this de-
strcton of free debate the council halls Of the nsonf
What helebore have they been drinking in Washington
that has drueged their old perceptonsf Are to be
told that American berys OF the bastard type these
would make It'll Has 1t indeed so degenerated since it
was transported from ts native landf Is national
Capitol so much below Parliament House that may
only talk in il by the card and with bated BREATH For
ths last hundred years who has heard of parliamentary
expulsion in England for words spoken 10 debate the
House Of Representatives expel Mr. Long, attempted
it will prove beyond all possibility Of question cavltbat
the freedom of debate under boasted repubcansm is
what under the British monarchy against
the tyranny Of which we revolted. q 500 .tG a
Every American schoo-boy knows that the language
used in Parliament against the Government in favor of the
American rebels hundred times stronger than any
that been used in Congress against Government
favor Of the Southern rebels and that used with per-
fect impuny 10 the very face of overwhelming Govern
ment majortes. Said Lord Chatham, in the House Of
Commons in 1777, If were American, as am an
Englisbman while foreign troop landed in my coun-
try, never would lay down my arms-never never
never Has any thing like that been heard in Congress
from the sympathzers with rebellion Said Fox,
There s not American but reject and resist the
principle and the right" The worst that Mr. Long said
falls far short OF that
Nothing gained by saying that the American rebellion
right, aud the Southern rebellion @roDgthat Chat
hams arguments good and Longs arguments bad.
To the strong msjorites 10 Parliament rebellion was
just hateful and the necessity Of supporting Govern
ment in already undertaken for the maintenance Of
its authority, just imperative be here with
our Congressional msjortes in respect to
rebellion They did not cub the speech OF the sympa-
tbzers with rebellion, simply and solely because they
did not have the constitutional power to do It, Neither
does Constitution give any such power. iata3 s3
We use plain language, because the crisis demandst
1t is no time for honeyed speech either toward
parties. The cause of the country alone has claim We
will not look psssveIy while that cause crippled,
either by mistaken friends malignant foes. 4"
WASHINGTON NEWS, sa MS
From Dispatches to Northern Republican Journals.