The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-04

under the orders OF the War Depart
ment He was in no way responsible
for anything that happened at that
massacre. He had not only the au-
'thority of the War Department, but
he had telegraphed to the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, and resigned
the administration into the hands of
the officers sent there by the General
Government.
Now, you see the entire unfairness
of an attack upon one Of the Senators
elect, growing out of this state of
things; and / am utterly astonished
that the Senator from Massachusetts,,
without having read these documents
and looked at these facts, which are
incontrovertible, should have gone
out of the. record to make an attack
upon Senator elect, who has noright
upon this floor to reply. | speak, as
an act of Justice for one who has no
right to speak for himself. | give
voice to the dumb, and voice to my
sense of right and of duty, in rebuking
such an attack as this. | can see no
possible reason for it. Suppose there
was a personal objection to one of. the
Senators elect, Is that any reason why
Colorado should not be admitted as Il
state? Try personal objections to the
member. when the member presents
himself; but it does not in the slight
est degree affect the right of Colorado
to admission as a State upon this floor.
| can not see any possible object in it,
except as a mere make-weight.
The Senator from Massachusetts, it
seems to me, too, departed from his
usual courtesy and prudence in an
other thing, when he said there were
known and -avowed arguments, and
there were arguments whispered In
this Chamber, tl1at those men should
be admitted because we needed their
votes. Now, I know the Senator
from Massachusetts, would not say
that his fellow Senators, all of them,
or any Of them, or any one of them,
would be Influenced by an unworthy
partisan motive to admit any State
not entitled to admission, simply to
carry partisan measures. | know he
would make no such charge. | have
done but little whispering since my
wooing days were over, and | speak
here in language heard by all present.
Whatsoever | think to beright / avow
it. | did say the other day that /
should vote for the admission of Colo
RADIO for this, among other reasons,
that they were organized upon a
thoroughly loyal basis; and [ shall
vote in view of this very identical
reason. IF / thought they were or
ganized upon disloyal basis, ii per-
Ahaps should not be quite so ready to
admit them on this floor; neither.
am persuaded, would the distin-
guished Senator from Massachu-
sets. They are organized on
loyal basis, and that, to
my mind, is one reason why we
should admit them We may need
their votes; we may need the votes of
loyal men; we shall need their votes.
doubtless before this great contro-
versy is over; and if they are entitled
to admission on other grounds, that is
surely no reason, to my mind, why
they should be rejected, simply be-
cause they have been elected, and
their State has been organized on a
loyal basis. The great controversy is
transferred from the field of battle to
this high Chamber, and we need votes
and support here as much as we ever
did during our military campaigns /
believe that Colorado should be ad-
mittedg / shall vote to admit her for
good and substantial reasons. and
among those reasons is the very fact
that / regard her people as essentially
and intensely and. thoroughly loyal.
For no mere. partisan purpose my
purpose rises higher than party-for
the good of the country, the safety of
the country, and to prolong the life
time of the nation, [ wish loyal votes
to be multiplied here, hsr
But the distinguished Senator, in
order further to disparage this pamph-
let of Senators elect from Colorado.
take the grounds that the SURVEYOR
General has said that agricultural in
terests cannot be successfully. prose-
cuted in Colorado except by irrigation,
and from that he argues that no great
s. COLORADO. Boelast FRg slsys 81 f;a
world prove that2 Look at the ag-
riculture of ancient Egypt, the. gran
airy of the world, upon which were
built the great cities of Cairo, Mem
phis, Thebes and Alexandria, which
made that little peninsula the store.
house of the whole ancient world
Every grain raised and every vegetable
sold there was the result of irrigation
That civilization which built those
wonderful pyramids, the grandest con
ceptions of architecture of human
genius, which have outlived the mem
orv of their founders, was based upor
an agriculture, the result of irrigation
| How was it with the agriculture upor
the Euphrates, the original site o
our civilization, perhaps the origina
birthplace of the human family
and Babylon. wonderful Baby