Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-11


The pending question being on Trum-
bulls amendment, Mr.. NYE said that
either the President was not now standing
on the baltimore platform, or his position
was not correctly represented by Mr.. Doo-
little yesterday. By the speech of Mr.
johnson on accepting his nomination trsi-
tors were ordered to the rear Whv did M
Doolittle beckon them forward after the
commander-in-chief had ordered them
back? In an evil hour the doctrine of that
speech had been departed from. Mr.. john
son had proclaimed that traitors had ceased
to be citizens, and loyal men said amen TO
that. How could It be that they had since
become fit to participate in the govern
ment? II they had since been purified, q
greater miracle tnan Paul's conversion had
been performed. Mr. johnson had said
that traitors must 60 through severe or
deal. What ordeal had they gone through?
Lewis F. Parsons had been appointed
Governor Of Alabama, q rebel who had not
taken the cath prescribed by Law. Oh what
change had come over ssmy policy"
He (Nye) hoped that Messrs. Doolit-
tie and Cowan would be able to exp,s-n
it. The Senator from Kentueky Davis lad
said that if he were President he would
turn out the present Congress and recognize
the Southern rebels as the constitutional
body. He knew not whose sentiments Mr.
Davis echoed, but he had seen them in
every newspaper in the South, and in news -.
papers ofthis city. If that issue is to come,
let it come, and the people viii settle the
question The man" says the Presidents
speech, "who Acknowledges his allegiance
70 the Government, who swesrs 10 support
the Constitution, must necessarily Ee loyal"
There is the trouble. There is the mischief.
As proposition, l deny It. Breckenridge
took the oath while perjury black as hell
was smouldering in his heart. The Presi-
dent of the late ConfederacY had taken this
same oath over and over again. WigfalI
had taken it. Are they loyal? Sir, deny
the proposition that swearing makes q man
loyal These rebels have committed double
perjury. They have broken both.
Mr.. Nye read further from the Presi-
dents speech to show that he was in favor
Of repeal Of the test oath. Here the gulf
became impossible. Here he must part
with the President. Here he (Nye) must
stop. -CApplause in the gsllaries.) He never
would cast vote TO admit single one of
The rebels
MIR. Nye in conclusion appealed to the
senate to stand firm and seq TO it that there
could be no recurrence of rebellion that
what twas done was well done. In the name
If the immortal dead and the mangled liv-
ng he demanded this Beyond the grave
We shall meet an army of 500, 600 dead that
FAA new 4dA4 duSACE W buo IOll C1A 0A
,arth, but, Sir, on the day Of judgment they
VIll be there. In their name, by their mem-
Try, by the immortal deaths they diod, and
he lives they lived, we demand that Con-
yress and every department of this Govern
nent tread cautiously upon this great work
VI reconstruction.
Mr.. D00LITTLE said there were tive
wings of deposition to the Republican party:
me the Universal Suffrage party, led By Mr..
L..
ion party led by Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsyl-
7ania, There was also, he might say, the
Universal Hanging party, led by Mr.. Eye,
md the Universal Amnesty in return for
Universal Suffrage party led by Mr.. Stew
art. Mr.. Doolittle spoke against exercising
the spirit Of vengeance towards the South
srn people. He asked Nye how many he
would have tried, and whether by military
commission or a court
Mr.. NYE-I would hang enough to make
reason odious and to make good the asser-
ion Of the President.
Mr.. D00LITTLE asked how many?
Mr.. NYE replied five or six. He would
not have kept Davis so long he would hare
hung him in hollow square Of the grand
Union armies when they were mustered out
here. Now he supposed he would try him
by law.
Mr.. DOOLITTLE said the President was
not responsible for delay in the trial. It
was admitted that court martial was not
The proper tribunal, and the judge of the
proper court had refused SO far to try him.
As for the trial of Lee, it was known Gener-
al Grants idea Of such thing, so long as
Lee obeyed the terms Of surrender. Doc
little said that the charge that the Presi-
dent or his supporters were in favor of ad-
mitting rebels to the councils Of the nation
was an infamous falsehood. The President
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that each House for itself was judge of the
qualification of its own members
Mr.. SALISBURY took the floor to reply
to Nye, but the latter being absent, post
pOned his remarks.
Senate adjourned.