Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-02-14

The following coiioQuial decate.
took place in the House on Wednesday
evening dusing the consideration OF
the Joint resolutions on rcconstruc-
ton.
Mr.. Barr's amendment, ,pronouncing
the agitation of the subject embraced
in the originalrcsolutions as unwise
and ill-timed, and calculated TO shake
the confidence of the people in the
Government, was read. v
Mr.. MAfee preferred this amend
mcnt to the one presented by Mr..
because it was more
practical but he was opposed TO both
and in favor OF the
original resolutions. The Republican
party had carried the war 10 glori-
GUS termination, and il should not,
with its immense majority IN
Congress, ever place it IN the power
ofthe Democratic party in the North
and the Southern rebels TO reconstruct
the Union. The so-callcd Democratic
party had deserted every time-honor-
ed principle of their party. But when
he spoke of the Union Republican par
ty, he did not by any means assert
that all who voted the Union Rcpubli-
can ticket were pure and honest men.
He knew there werc rascals in his
party also.
Mr.. Koons said that in May last we
were told that the war was ended.
We had been assured by the party in
Producing these resolutions that all
that was necessary to the end that
peace might be established and all the
States restored to their rightful pos
ition, was for rebels to lay down their
arms and surrender to the Govern
ment. But now VIC have different
construction Of peace and States
rights This bloodthirsty party in its
revolutionary movements, had given
the lie to everything they had said.
lie thought there was no necessity
tor another amendment to the Consti-
tuition. There were now seventy odd
amendments pending,and if the Abol-
Iition thinkers keep on, the Constitution
will eventually be in the condition of
the beggar's pantaloons, which, having
been patched and repatched, the orig
inal fabric could no longer be recog-
nized. The Rump Congress had no
power, especially in time ofpeacc and
in the absence from lis floors OF eleven
States Of the Union, TO pass laws re-
constructing the States and amending
the Constitution. 1t is better that
the Uuion should be restored, even
though in its restoration the Republi-
can party should fall to pieces.
1t was only by blood and revolution
that she Republican party camc into
power; and now that peace had been
restored, their doom was inevitable.
Mr.. Wingard said he would not
scold his friends on his side of the
House, with whom he had sat as conn.,
fortably, experiencing at their hands
so many personal courtsies, though
they we're still laboring under the de-
lus;on that they still belonged to the
Democratic party. He belonged to
that party once, but when the war
broke out he, with a number ofothers,
left the organization and supported
Abraham Lincoln. He congratulated
his Democratic friends on their on
dorsement of President Johnson. With
what disgust must they now look
back upon the Chicago cabal. II
Andrew Johnson were coming here
o-morrow how our Democratic friends
would vie with each other for positions
on the reception committee. There
is not one proposition inthe resolutions
before the House that Andrew has
not fully endorsed. Ho scorned this
loathsome sycophancy.
1 Mr.. Pcrshing said that topics had
been discussed here tonight that had
no earthly connection.withtbe subject
before the House. The very violence
of the Republican speeches and the
charges preferred are refutation in
themselves OF the base allegations.
The gentleman who had Just taken
his scat Mr.. Wingard) had made
wild assertions, which could not be
supported by facts. In the convcn-
ton that framed the Federal Consti-
tuition, all the grcat minds of the ma
tion held the doctrine that the Gencr.
al Government could not make war
upon State. Edward Everett reiter-
ated il in 1860; and Mr.. Buchanan,
when he, in his message, repeated. the
doctrine, had Republican prcccdents
to guide him. Much of the abuse
hcapcd upon Mr.. Buchanan's head
was the result and the fault of the
acts Of the Republican party. Did
the Republican Congress do one single
thing TO avert the evil fthe crisis in
which Mr. BuchanaH found himself!
Did that Congress even do ono single
thing for the defence OF the nation
Did not Mr. Buchanan recommend
such action on the part of Congress
Did not Mr.. Lincoln. when he took