Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1866-01-04
Extract from the speech Of Nr,
salisbury. Of Delaware, In re.
ply To Wilson Of Mass

MIR. Salisbury Mr.. President, the ref
erence Of the honorable Senator from Mas.
sachusetts to n remark which [ made yes
terday constitutes my apology for trespass-
ing Tor moment, upon the attention of
the Senate.
The honorable Senator seems to labor un-
der very great mistake. He seems To
have understood men as saying that the De-
mocratic party Of this country was to come
into power again through the agency of the
present Executive. said nothing of the
KIND. Since the commencement Of this ses-
sion the Democratic members of this BODY
have sat in their seats in perfect silence,
without saying one word in reference to any
OF the issues that seem to distract the coun-
ellis of the Republican party | did say,
however, yesterday, that the apprehension
seemed to exist in the minds Of some in the
other end of the Capitol and in this Cham
Der that the Democratic party Of the coun-
try was again to come into power, and thro'
the agency of the present Executive. |
was. expressing no opinion of my own, but
stating the simple fact that such an appre-
henslon seemed to exist. Was | not ilsti-
fed in that remark? | recolect reading in
the newspapers a speech made in this city
by Mr.. Tbaddeu5 Stevens, a distinguished
CltlLCu vi VI WHICH lie ODen-
y advocated the exclusion of the Southern
states from representation in the Congress
OF the United States on the ground that
such representation would be destructive
Of the Republican party. He is high in
authority in that political church, I believe,
| appeal to the honorable Senator from
Massachusetts to know whether, in the
speech made by his colleague (Mr. Summer
yesterday and the extracts read private let
letters which he said he had received from
southern people, the same apprehension
did not seem to exist
But | will say to the honorable Senator
from Massachusetts, that, with or without
the agency of the President of the United
States, the Democratic party is not in such
hopeless condition as he seems to suppoSe.
He volunteers his kind advice that it needs
reconstruction. Let me tell that honorable
Senator that however offensive the word
Conservative may be to him, that party
is conservative party. IL does not make
sudden changes; it does not require frequent
reconstruction; it needs no new or modern
architects build it up:
1--WE know what masters formed the keel,
What workInen wrought its ribs ofstrel,
Who madc each mast, and sail, and rope,
In what foru" and what u heat
Were shaped the anchor of it's hope"
Sir, it was formed by the great and the
good men of the country who formed the
Constitution of the country which this Con-
gress, and some of the party to which the
honorable Senator belongs seem soanxious
to reconstruct and improve. Why, sir, |
believe it was only yesterday that an amend
ment to the Constitution of the coun-
try-the work Of those ''old togies" oe !
former age who did not seem to understand |
their business, the men who laid the deep |
Of this Government firmly in |
The principles OF constitutional liberty
was offered in the other branch of Congress,
md passed through without debate under
he previous question, and hurried into this
body The Senator does belong to pro.
sres,ive age and Il progressive party! The
work which cost such men as George Wash
ngton and James Madison and the found
RS of the country months of anxious delib-
,ratlon, is now every day the subject of
patchwork in the Congress of the United
States; and there is no statesman. however
'oung or inexperienced, orunknown to fame,
hat does not feel himself perfectly CONNIE.
tent to amend the workmanship of such
men as the founders of the Government.
Mr.. President, let me say to the honors
bic Senator from Massachusetts that how
ever offensive the word conservative" NAV
be to him, it this work of amending the
fundamental law Of the land is to be pro-
tocded with so rapidly and is to continue,
apprehend that the number of the Dem
Dcratic host will SWELL and there will be
more conservative men who, venerating the
work of their fathers, will soemnly pro-
est againt the inconsiderate and hasty leg.
station Of the present times.