Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-01-10
Hon. Lyman Tremaine.

This gentleman, by the united influence of
WEED and GREELEY, has been elected Speaker
OF the Assembly of New York. The Radicals
have done it, and it is regarded as great
Radical triumph. At i meeting at Tweddle
Hall, in ISGl, Mr.. TRENAINE spoke as follows
Look at tho past history Of the country.
What but the Democratic party has done So much 10
make our name feared and hOnOred in every land
What but the Democratic party has carried tins
country through the second war with Great Britain
What but the Democratic party has carried us
through the war with Mexico, when the ancestors OF
this party, who are now denouncing Us peace
party" were denOunciug Us for carrying on the
war; These gentlemen seem to be all at once I'M
bued with new zeal for war; and that war Is war
against your brethren, war against your country
men, a against those united with you by all the
ties Of consangunty by all the memories and tradi-
tons OF the past, by everything that can tend TO
strengthen and cement and bind the people OF the
North 10 the South. lCheersl That Is the war you
are goaded 10 initiate under cry calculated 10 m
fueHce the freak and ignorant, If " No BACklNG
DOWN, the Constitution must De preserved and the
laws must be enforced" The State of New York,
under Constitution guarding against debt Is called
upon TO inaugurate policy Of immense taxation, OF
untold millions of debt, in violation of the organic
law and for what ! To make war upon our breth-
rcn of the South.
For one, gentlemen ! desire to say that if the
cities OF our beloved country are to be sacked-U
our fOHriShiHg tOlrHS and riHGgeS are to be idid
lrdsie bg cruel deSOiGtiRg, cirit irRr-t theteet ~
soldiers are % be permitted 10 tread upon the Si
igg, fertile fields AID plantations Of thiS idHd-y
The yOli thiS glorious Republic IS 10 be cTiHSOHed
ruth the blood IF those united Ia by all the ties
that bind men t0getheT-if the street. notes of peace
Gai the busy hum Of industry must gre Iray 10 the
hodrSe sounds If raT, 10 the gr0aaS If the rOHHded
and dying and the railing and iameRtatiOa If Ieid
0lrS and orphans, made such BY the cruel hGror g(
/ bloody rar, WOULD HAVE no RESPONSIBLE
-, s,EN ,I.,.T
ers on yours, or those hare the honor 10 rep
/ resent Loud and lOng-cOntnued cheers And
think am speaking Tor the unterrifed brave con-
sentative citizens Of this State, when say we have
/ not only no responsibility in this but we give no.
tice now that that rli be lcgged ia spite Of our
/ opposition and against our eHdearors. Renewed
i cheers
| "Gentlemen, | will not consider the question
here whether that day shall ever come when we will
BE- justified in embarking in u war with our coun-
tymen. Sufficient unto the day is the evil there
| Of 1t Is enough that now | am prepared to take
/ the responsibility Of saying AM RESOLVED To
/ RESIST 1T HERE AND To RESIST 1T EVERY
/ WHERE AND IL THAT Is TREASON, MAKE
/ THE MOST OF IT. Prolonged applause.l Yes,
/ gentlemen, il that evil day has come (which God
forbid) that the days Of this Conederacy are to be
| numbered, and that now, in the very zenith OF our
power and glory, are to take our place among
the dshonOred republics that exist only on the page
OF history IT, after all negotiations, We lind that we
nave reached that point We OF the North can no
longer say To our brethren Of the South nor the
south TO the North in the language OF Ruth to Ma
ohil' W hither thou gOest will GO and where thou
NiseSt VIII lodge-thy people shall he my people,
ahd my "od my Cod it, repeat We have reached
.94S pm run M our I history then would say
| ,SFah6 tHE BLOOD OF MY BRETHREN, LET
rus C6SF ~ AZ aS, PEACEABLI DlSSoL W.
THIS UNI DEkACl ) AND No PART OF THE
RESPONSIBILITY SHALL REST ON Us" ZAP.
plause.l
why you talk about treason. Could Won punish
a single citizen Of a seeding State for trsoson a
You are in a worse condition than Burke was when
he said he could not frame an indictment for a
whole people in rebellion. Look at the Constitn-
ton and you that the party charged with treason
must be tried in the state and district where the Of
fence was committed Would you not hare a nire
time in South Carolina, in attempting 10 punish q
| man for this trcGSOa Laughter and cheers
In the first place the Judge has resigned, and then
! of course Won have no Court Again, the Marshal
has resigned, and the District Attorney also, and
] YOU can have no Grand Jury And when you have
| a Grand Jury, / should like to see the man who
would 90 down there and make complaint for
treason. Renewed laughter and spplause.l al