Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-05-12

EctTdctS from has speeches before the Var
-HOlo he Regards Treason and ats
Proper Punishment
We print below extracts from speecbes
delivered by President johnson In Con
/ gress just prior to the outbreak of the war.
In his speech to the Illinois delegation.
few days since, the President stated to
them that his past course In public life
would be guarantee of his future action.
What that future action will be. NAV be
judged from these extracts. They breathe
the spirit of constant and answering de-
votlon to the Union, and of fixed and un-
alterable determination that treason must
be punished. These were his views before
treason had waged four years war-had
starved and tortured our prisoners-bad
murdered the head of the nation. 1t is
not probable that he will change his views
much, now that treason has perpetrated
these enormities. The following are the
extracts alluded to:
EXTRACTS FROM SPEECH IN THE UNITED
STATES SENATE, MARCH 2, 1861.
But there are men who talk about
towards, courage, and all that description
of thing; and in this connection [ want
to say, not boastingly, with no anger in
my bosom, that these two eyes of mine
never looked upon anything in the shape
of mortal man that this heart feared.
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Mr.. President, I was going on to re-
mark, IN reference to a general allusion to
treason, that if individuals were pointed
out to me who were engaged in nightly
cOnspiracies, and secret conclaves, and
issuing orders directing the capture of our
forts and the taking OF custom houses, [
would show who were the traitors and
that being done, the persons being pointed
out coming within the perview and scope
of the provisions of the Constitution
which I have read, were I the President
of the United States, [ would do as
Thomas Jefferson did, in 1906, with Aaron
Burr would have them arrested and
if convicted within the meaning and scope
of the Constitution, bg the Eternal God,
I WOULD EXECUTE THEM. Sir, treason
MUST be punished. Its enormity, and the
extent and depth of its offense must be
made known. The time is not far distant,
If thiS Government IS preserved, its Com
Stifuti0n obeyed, and as l0acs executed IN
eUe7y department, WHEN SOMETHING OF
THE KIND MUST BE DONE.
EXTRACT FROM A sPEECHIN THE UNITED
STATES SENATE, FEB. 9th, 1861
have been told, and I have heard it
repeated, that this Union is gone. It has
been said in this chamber that it is in the
cold sweat Of death that, in fact, it is
really dead, and merely lying in state
waiting for the funeral obsequies to be
performed. If this be so, and the war
that has been made upon me in conse-
quence Of advocating the Constitution and
the Union, is to result in my overthrow
and my destruction and that flag, that
glorious flag, the emblem of the Union,
which was borne by Washington through
a seven years struggle, shall be struck
! from the Capitol and trailed in the dust
when this Union is inferred, [ want no
more honorable winding-sheet than that
brave old flag, and no more glorious grave
than to be inferred In the tomb of the
Union. For it l have stood; for it I
will continue to stand; I care not whence
the blows come; and some will find, be-
fore this thing is over, that while there
are blows to be given, there will be blows
to receive; and while can they thrust,
there are others who can parry. They
will find that it is game that two can
play at. God preserve my country from
the desolation that is threatening her, and
from treason and traitors
ais there not some chosen curse,