The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-12-28


one of the States, and the obira-
tion that rests upon ns is 10 guar.
antee to South Carolina Rapuo-
lican form ol government as a State
in this Union, AMI not rs terri.
tory. The doc'rino OF the territo-
rial condition o! those States. that
they are mere conquered, subjuga-
ted terri,orice, as if we bad con-
.q1errd Cana Ia and Mexico, will
not stand argument for a moment.
1t is utterly at war with the ground
ON which we stand aud have stood
from the beg nnin.,. The ground we
occupied was this. That no State
nor the people Of any State had
any power 90 Withdraw from the
Union. They could not do it peace.
Iiul,y they undertook TO de- it by
lOrms We crushed the attempt; We
Itrampled their armies under our
feet we captured the rebellion
the States are ours and we en-
tered them to save, and not to do
Istroy.
Mr.. President, ! do not wish to
be drawn now in the discussion of
these questions at length. ] may
have an opportunity on 9 me other
occasion to do so. simply now
'm stating the objections which |
had to this resolution rs it eame
from the House OF Representatives.
1t degra1cs the Senate; it robs it
otits Constitutional power it puts
the control of u question which is
exclusively ours INTO the hands of
the other lIouse it disso,ves the
Union by law Of Congress.
Mr. President. | have no idea
the House of Representative had
ANY such intontioD. am bound al.
was to speak with respect of tho
llousc OF Representatives ana of
thc intentions Of that body. sim
Iply say ---
/ The President pro tempOre- The
Chair will suggest that it is not
within the rules of order foi the
proceedings of the House of Rep.
resen.ativcs To ~ discussed here.
Mr.. Doolittle--Would it be in
order to make q statement that tho
resolution passed without debate in
the other House
The President pro tempore-
The Chair, thinks not.
Mr. Doolittle- That is all | do.
sisncd to say, that it passed the
House without debate. ! do not
Imoan any disrespcct to the House.
!, But, Mr.. President, there was
another assemllage in Washing
! ton which took place not long since
> and whose proceedings are pub
l lished to the world and known Of
| all men, of which | suppose | can
, speak with entire freedom: / refer
b. a certain assomblagc whose pro-
ceedings are published as the pro-
cecding5 of caucus of gentlemen
in the city of Washington. sup.
pose no rule of the Senate requires
mo to speak in any other terms of
those published proceedings than
20 speak the truth. To that | am
willing TO be hounl. BY the pub
lished proceedings of that assem-
blagc, it would seem that on Sat
urday night, without any discus
sion whatever, n certain resolution
which reads word for word Just
like this resolution, which is sent
here from the lloEsc Of Represen-
tatives, was adopted in that caucus
under thccleadcrship Of o certain
scn,leman--I will not speak OF
} nim as u member OF the House,
E hut a u man known to history
e who resides in the State OF Penn
. sylvana.
! refer to Hon. Tha1deus Stevens.
His history is known to all men /;
3 and enc Thing zoe knoU Of him
. certainly, that he is most bitterly,
Q uncomprOmisinJly hostile TO Tie
present AdminiSration IN the
subject Of Rec0nstruction. Ho
goes with him who goes the far
thcst, holding that even the State
Of Tennessee is ah alien State Mt
war with the United States and if
am not misinformcd, in the Con-
vention at Baltimore, which nom.
. mated Mcssrs Lincoln and johnson
= for prcsid nj and Vice President,
he INFECTED TO tie nomination oJ
Andrea johnson because he aods
an alien enemy! Sir, have seen
nothing in the history of that gen.
t tleman to lead me to suppose that
t he has in anv respect changed his
/ opinion, for it is not long since We
= read speech OF his, delivered in
: the State of Pennsylvania, marked
; with his usual ability, with his
4 great boldncss, with that cool as
t surance which sometimes almost
8 rises to the sublime, in which he
d proISps cd, If ! do not mistake, al
4 most the entire and universal con.
e fi.cat,on of the whole of the Soutn-
ern States.
d Now, Mr.. President, of the do
!, ings Of that assemblage in connec-
; tion with the resolution, l feel at
n perfect liberty to speak without vi.
r olating the rules OF this House. l
e will not speak with disrespect even
n of that assemblage l have not
dono so /; l do not intend to do so.
G | simply say that within three mi
nutes, by the clock. after the honr
, when that assemblage was called,
/, Thadd Stevens hal moved his
committee on resolutions and was