Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-08-17
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ON THE EVENING OF AUG. 9th, 1866

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ON THE EVENING OF AUG. 9th, 1866.
The Hall of the johnson Democratic
| Union Association, at 206 Eighth avenue,
was completely filled on the evening of the
9th of August, by aHhighly entertained
audience. to listen to an address upon the
work and infamies of the late Rump Con-
gress.
II At o'clock Mr.. Andrew d. Hoagland,
having been elected Chairman, arose and
said :ltr. s .f..,..-....... ,i. n.r.I.t
GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW UNIoNIsTs
This is but the first Of a series of Union
meetings to be held In this place during
the ensuing campaign, and to be addressed
by able and eloquent speakers. Applause. ]
| sincerely thank you for the honorable
position to which you have assigned me,
and esteem itunnecessary to state the OBJ
ject of our coming together. You are all
aware OF that, and will be addressed, in
language eloquent, able, and exhaustive,
upon the deeds and misdeeds OF the late
Infamous Rump, by the gentleman whom
| have the pleasure of introducing toyou,
the Hon. S. S. Cox. Loud cheers n .
r,. SPEECH OF HON. s. s. cox. ,.
The rstsession of the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress has ended. The best thing it did was
to die. Laughter Not altogetherlovely
| in its life, it's death was its chief merit.
| POsterity will remember with gratitude,
that spark Of patriotism which led it to
the tomb. But tits not altogether dead.
Non omniS mortar. 1t survives in the mem
ories of men and in 5000 pages of COnqes-
StOtdl Globes! [Laughter.] Upon five VOL
umes of immortal type, piled quarto upon
quartO, sits as on asublime pedestal of talk,
this American Rumpl [Laughter.l 1t is,
therefore, monumental! ! Let me lay my i'm
n'OrteLleS on its tomb. Nero had his friend,
and his affection, after death, has an his
tOric fragrance! l would lay my little for
get-me-notatthe OfthiscOngregatiou
OF petty Neros. [Laughter,l My sadness
is very similar to that of the minister who
was requested to preach the funeral of a
very bad young man. After giving his
characteristics, he ordered the body remov-
ed, while the choir sang the hymn:
with rapture we, delight to see,
This wicked cuss IemovedW
Great laughter.
was Rump. 1t was misbegotten and mis-
shapen. But itwas all ours. The mother
loves more dearly her mutilated offspring.
True, it was not angelic in disposition. 1t
had in its nature more temper than reason
more wickedness and less love; more gall
and less milk. But the charity cOndOnes
TOR such inrmities in aricketty organism.
Laughter,l- r.... |. a ...- ...., ..'.
Its composition, motives and acts were
incOngruOus and extraordinary. Before
reviewing them, let me tell you what the
Thirty-ninth Congress should have been.
The war had ceased. Its object, the restor-
alton of federal authority, was achieved.
The incubus of secession had been thrown
from the national breast, where it had been
coiling for four years; and the good men
of the land were pouring balm into the
half-healed wounds. 1t was under these
peaceful omens that this Congress met.
By the law of the 4th of March, 1862, it
was declared that after the 81 of March,
1868, "the number OF members of the House
of Representatives of the Congress of the
United States should be Al.n Could this law,
passed since the war, be carried out after
peace came? Why not? 1t was as much
Of law as that which gave to the Clerk Of
the House the right to ignore States, in
making his roll. 1t remained unrepealed.
The al members never all took their seats.
Only fraction secured them. Hence it is
called a aRump. To make up this number
of 24l, Virginia was allowed 8; Ten
nessee, 8; Georgian; North Carolina, z;
South Carolina, 4; ArkansaS3; Louisiana,
5; Mississippi, 8; Alabama 6; Florida, i
and Texas, 4. Here were 5S members
ready to sit in the Federal Legislature.
They were anxious to serve the interests of
great peoples to beaffected by its tslegslation.
Two Senators were ready, or soon would
have been, to represent each of these
eleven States. They were not exclnded for
disloyalty; for noinquiry was cOndescend-
ed upon that point Disqualification. Nevada
California, Oregon-tar distant and neWly-
made States, linked to us by no historic
only by their shining ores and
grand adventures-these were represented;
but on the call of the roll fifty eight men,
bers and twenty-five Senator'S, from States
full of all revolutionary and fraternal
memories and anxious to be inbound again
in the same destiny, were debarred. If
these eleven States were in the Uuion on
the 4th of March, 1862, when the Republi-
cans passed the law fixing the number of
were they not In on the 4th
OF December, 1865, when, sitting under the
painted escutcheons of the States in our
Capitol halls, ytwenty-fOur usurped the
rights of thirty-fve? [Cheers. Those
gilded and colored ceilings, each panel of
which framing the emblem of State SOW
but all irradiate with the lustre
of "a common central orb, glowing through
them upon the hall beneath, should have |
been far more significant appeal for rep
resentaioh than even the emptyseats of the |
tif6y-eight members OF the vacant chairSof !
TWENTY-FIVE absent Senators. Why was |
this? History will in vain strive to an
swer until she brings her microscopic ken
to bear upon the partisan inTiisortg which |
have wTiggled their hour in, this Congress |
sional element. In, the analysis of this sing |
ular unrepresentative body, where one |
third of the States were not, propose first
to glance at the men and then at the meas
ures of this Congress. r -l rigg.l.
l. AS to the men; they are classed as
partisans. Over two-thirds in each House
were of the Republican party, and known
rs Radicals. With the exception Of three,
md perhaps four, of the Republican, mem-
bers from the North, there was nearly all
ways concert of action and votes among |
,hese two-thirds. IN the Senate there were |
Jowah, Dixon, Doolittle, and Norton,
II Who, amid the reign of error, " 7 bf
mS Daredsublimely to be true IDITHf III
They stood zundaunted among their vim
lictive brothers, holding up the hands of
he President Ia his patriotic efforts to
snkindlel love and inspire patriotism. In
he House can recall but one whose
of policy leaveme in doubt as
10 his classification. That doubt9aL trust,
8 vet to be clearedup. IrefertO Mr. Ray !.
hond. He has been harshly 9cdticisedu
iisown friends; but Iwih not copy their