The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-03-22
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4 spicy and interesting debate transpired
IA the United States Senate, the 18th of
February, on the Navy appropriation bill,
when Mr.. Hale dwelling at length upon the
astounding corruptions of the Navy De-
partlnent, paid his parting compliments to
the venerable Secretary Welles. We copy
from The Daily Globe, the pithy points in
the discussion on the political parties Of the
day and their history.
MIR. Hale said:
Let me say word now about our Repub-
llcan Party or our Union party. | know
that the chairman of the Committee on
Finance is growing a little impatient, but |
beg his pardon while | continue little lon
ger. Mr.. President, the history Of that
party which has controlled this country re-
Gently, do not say it controles it now, but
the history Of that party which made the
great revolution in politics is a very curious
and very instructive one. We began when
We were but handful. recognize around
me now but very few faces that We're fani-
lar III those early conflicts and struggles; but
VIC went on. We were defeated; we ex-
pected to be, and We went to work and pre-
pared to he defeated again the next year
we expected 1t and we got it; we were not
disappointed. We were not a 'healthy
political organization, as was said on this
floor. BY and by, however, we began to
Increase little by little, but still we only in.
creased to be defeated. The party with
which | acted at that time wanted candi-
date Tor the Presidency. They wanted a
man who was ready to be abused, vilifed,
denounced sneered at. They wanted a
man who should be mark, butt for the
ridicule of Wings and Democrats. thank
my friends that they did me the honor to
select me for that place | stood up at the
time when igndmy and reproach was all
that was within my possible reach. Still we
Increased. In the first place We beat the
Wing party in 1852, or we did very con
siderable part toward it. Do you remember,
sir, a remark that Mr.. Hunter, Of Virginia,
iuade on this floor? There was no Wing in
the United States who dcplolrd the destluc-
tlon OF the Wing party more than Mr.. Il.
NJ. /. Hunter, of Virginia, for said he, and
1t did IL great credit to his sagacity, IF you
put down the Wing party, the probability
Is that you will get another party in its place
tliat 1t viii not he so easy to beat
Mr.. DAVIS. will ask the honorable
Senator if Mr. Hunter expression was not
in this form, that if they put down the
Wing party they would get another party
il its place that would have no such honest
principles and purposes as the Wing party.
Mr.. HALE. | have no doubt that is the
way the Senator from Kentucky would have
expressed it if he had been talking about it
at that time, .aughter, but that is not the
way | understand it, that is not according
10 my recollection. However, sir, VIC cen
tinued to inc,case, and y and ly it began
10 Hook as If this new party would at length,
at some time, have the loayeS and fishes OF
Office to dispense Then it seemed as if a
new political PentecOst came on the land.
Converts came faster than we could discl-
plinc them. The doors Of the party were
wide open like the sanctuary OF God to all
offenders, and the thief and the hypocrite
did not stumble on its threshold, but i'll they
came; and the prof1igate in life. and the ven
II in politics, the malignant at heart, and
the brutal in manner, all came in with the
great multitude Of the poor and the honest
and the dsinterestcd and the PATRIOTIC
But, sir, when the apostles went fishing and
throw out their nets and made great haul.
they caught fish of every kind So all these
people came In and We were great party.
1t happened to us just as it has happened
to great many before, and will happen
great mauy times again: the converts that
were the most recent and from the most
bitter Of our opponents were the most noisy
in profession Of zeal for their w-found
faith confess, Mr.. President that was
astonishcd beyond measure when | found
out after we actually came INTO power that
all the officers at the other end Of the ave
nue, in the Treasury. the Post Office, the
War, and all the other Departments, had
always been Republicans, and the great
trial of their life had been to smother their
deep convictions upon the subject OF anti
slavery, and their great joy was that in the
there was no obligation on them to be hypo-
with the party with which they had always
sympathised. Laughter. t-
That has been our experience Well, sir,
these new men got it, and they began to say
to the older, though certainly not the better
soldiers: 'tYou have performed your mis-
sion; the Opposition was Il good place Tor
YOU you were capital for denounclng the
Democrats, and you put tn I'm down; but we
do not think upon the whole that you are
quite SO good to run this machine as we. -
Very good, sir, we acceed to the propriety
of the proposition, and the history OF the
country is demonstrating the truth that his
tory has demonstrated Il thousand times
betore-it is the history of politics, it is the
history Of humanity, it is the history Of the
world.
:. Mr.. CONNESS. A law of nature.
Mr.. HALE. Yes, it is with some natures.
That is u fact, it is q law OF nature. do
not mention these things to find fault with
thean, | am perfectly content that things
shall be as they are. believe that we are
not governed entirely by accident, but that
there isa Providence in these matters, that
Providence shapes our ends and guides the
means by which they arc to be brought
Mr.. SALISBURY Mr. President,
do not know how the speech of the hoiora-
BILE Senator from New Hampshire MIR.
Halel has impressed others, but one thing
know, that have been very much delight
ed att. Sir l reccollect that when this
party came into power, and when it was
struggling for power, the good old glorious
Democratic party and its representatives
told the people Of the country not to lister, to
its siren song. We. told the people then that
the Republican party was trying to get po-
session of the Government of this country
by false pretenses. The Republican politi-
clans were telling the people that the .Ad-
ministrat;on OF Mr.. Buchanan has cost 800, :
900, 900 in single year; that there were
great cofruptioas in the Democratic party
and they therefore appealed to the people in
their indignation to rise up and turn the
corrupt Democratic party out of power
We told them that If they listened to these
political adventures, and they got control
OF. the Government Of this country, fraud