Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-01-09

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force should follow these rascally raiders
across the border into the conterminous ji-
risdiction of England, where they have been
sheltered--are we TO be told we have nc
business to meddle with II, asit Is ''purely
/ an executive qnestionfn The true doctrine
as Ii is laid down by Yattel, Phillimore
Wheaton, and by all'international writers
and assenfed TO by Webster in the Caroline
\ case, would give this Government theright,
for self-protection, OF pursuit across the
border, In precisely case of this kind
Where In civil war, rebels are harbored on
one side, and make incursions upon the
other; and II we report such resolution as
-serting this right, are We then to be told II
Is not within the purvlew OF our powers
Yet this matter has been referred to us, and
If we make report upon it, Is that report
to have any emphasis? Has Congress any
right or control over the matter? If not,
why did the House refer this matter to the
} committee on Foreign Affairs? Why pass
on such matters atall, and then table reso-
luton which only yindicates our rights and
privilegesp
Ihave no doubt that the House would will
ingly excuse me from serving on that COM
mittee. If fthey excuse the gentleman from
Maryland, of course they will excuse the
mittee; but hope that they will not pass
avote of censure upon the committee by
excusing him. If they do, this House sinks
to the lowest level of any national Legsla-
ture that ever assembled here or in any
other country. They deserve only to be on
their knees perpetually In the dust at the
footstoOl of power, and to be kicked and
thrust aside by the Executive whenever he
chooses to exercise any of its functions,
diplomatic or otherwise. Let us vindicate
our own rights. II we lIave the right to
pass upon these matters let us exercise that
right. If we have not let us stop this
mockery of sending to the committee on
Foreign Affairs these and kindred resolu-
tions pertaining to Canada such as you sent
to us yesterday. shall, therefore, in cour-
tesy to the honorable chairman of the COM
mittee to which belong, vote against eX-
cusing him. can testify to his ability, to
his earnestness, to his energy, and to his
outspoken integrity and, so far as these
foreign questions are concerned, to his
nationality; and, Mr. Speaker, we need
such man, and may need him more here
after, upon that committee.
Mr. Cox was followed by Messrs. BLAINE,
STEVENS, boutwell,, FARNswoRTH, SPALD-
ING, WAsHBURNE, and DAWES, who all
spoke in terms of commentator of the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and opposed
the motion to excuse Mr.. DAVIS, the Chair
man; but these gentlemen differed as to the
action Of the Committee and of the Execii-
tive, respecting foreign affairs. Mr.. STE
VEINS characterized the course of Mr.. Sew
ARD in fitting terms; but we have space for
only the following paragraphs:
And are we to be intimidated because a
foreign monarch chooses to find fault, and
shall an agent of this Government humble
the nation before him, and say that the ac-
ton of this body means nothing; that the
of the people recently cho-
sen from all the districts of the nation are
nothing; that their sense of policy means
nothing; and that he need not trouble him |
self any further about it, but that the Sec !
retai,y of State will take care that these i'm |
pertinent boys shall do no harm? For that |
Is precisely what he said; not perhaps in
exactly that language for / do not remem- |
Der the language exactly.
If we are mere nobodies in this matter, if |
we are mere mischief-makers, then let our
lord and master in the chair of State rule |
and control us, and let us ask the pardon of |
the world for endeavoring tointeriere some |
what in one of the most vital questions |
which can ever affect this patton.
FURTHER REMARKS FROM MIR. cox.
Mr.. Cox again obtained the floor, and |
said:
/ would not have troubled the House |
again but for the illusions of my friend from |
Nature has so constituted |
him that he has been the first of all the |
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by referring to our side of the |
House as the defeated portion of Congress.
The gentleman might have had an opportu-
nifty to display his vindictive feeling upon
that subject, and perhaps have done it lit
tie more in order on question a little more
with parliamentary decorum.
But it Is true, as the gentleman intimates,
that the places which now know many of
rs will soon no us no more forever; and we
bow to it, If not with political yet with
Christian resignation. We do not see any
hing in the Constitution by which we are
bound to quit at the end of one year, after
being elected for two. On the contrary we
seemed to be compelled by the choice of
,ur constituents, constitutionally made, to
erve out the full term. 1t would be a little
nconvenient In pecuniary sense for a
member, after serving here one year,-to go
i
TRANCE freak of fancy OH their part, by
ONE popular fallacy, by some ingenious
ophistry sent there, perhaps, by the gen.
leman from Massachusetts,, and finding
lis constituents against him, suddenly to
esign. rt
But, sir, that is not pertinent to the mat
er before us. Whether remain here any
onger or not is now the question. / have
,een here about as long as my friend from
thus far. New England con-
rolls this Government now, and he may be
lere for eight years longer. l remember
hat when he first came to Congress with
myself we we're both placed upon the same
committee. was chairman OF that COM
nittee, and the gentleman was then my
ubordinate. [Laughter.l He ought TO re-
all those past associations, and not be so
evere upon his former superior. Laugh
er.
Mr.. Speaker, the gentleman from Massa-
husetts has done what no other gentleman
N that side of the House, venture to say,
would have done: and that was to remind
IS here that we are beaten, to trample upon
IS again after we are deceased. [Laughter]
That is not brave. You will find only one
Illustration of it i'm all history and litera-
ure, and that was old Sir John Falstaf
vho killed Hotspur after he was dead.
Laughter.
But the point in the debate to which | c
gish to reply was something more perth 4;
ent than this. / do not mean by that to ,
ny that the remarks of my friend from
Massachusetts, were impeftineRt in any bad
ense, though they might be considered
D be so by persons who do not understand
ur amicable relations. Laughter.l
The other gentleman from Massachusetts !