The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-03-12

JuHs VAN BCRES on A RA1D.-That very for
chile and good -humored orator, Mr.. JOHN \AS
buren,, has been over among the Connecticut
peopIe making Il speech on national AFFAIRS
He spoke at Bridgeport. He sustained the Pre-
sident's policy thoroughly, and criticised the
Radical majority in Congress with effect. He
characterized the Freedmen's Bureau Dill
vetoed by the President as IN elemosyhary
institution for the benefit of blacks, which the
Government of the United States never
thought of establishing heretofore for any pur-
| nose not even for the widows and orphans oil
| the soldiers and sailors who fell i'll defending
the country; and as an extraordinary and
permanent tribunal unknown to common law,
by which proceedings We're had and condem'
nations made without appeal.
Speaking of the Congress which passed the
bill he said:
Now, it is flattery 10 call this Congress q
Rump Congress. [Laughter.l 1t is great
deal more like a Parliament that succeeded,
and which was known rs the Barebones Parma
ment, in which there were members WIN al
sorts of names, as described by Il writer OF thal
day, who says e. Browns lraNcls III Lhs
land" page 20:
Cromwell says Cleveland, hath beat up
his drums clean through the Old Testament.
You NAV learn the genealogy OF our saviour by
the names of his regiments. Inc muster
master has no other list than the iirst chapter
of ST. Matthew. The brother OF this Praise
God Barebones had for name, II Chris .had-
not died for you YOU had been damned Bare
bones but the people, tired OF TINS long name,
retained only the last word, ana commonly
gave him the Appreciation OF Damned bare
bones,
Now, one would not have to go long through
the present Congress and the Reconstruction
Committee before finding gentleman VINO
answers exactly TO the description OF " Damned
Barebones Laughter. But, as say, they
are the most extraordinary body that ever
organized, and 10 call them hump Parlla-
ment-which was, in fact, representation OF
England, however long it might have con-
tinued its sessions and its power-is 10 flatter
them Why, lust look ut il Eleven States
are unrepresented in that body, and about nall
of the residue are utterly misrepresented by
men elected in time OF excitement, when
there was no fair opportunity for an expires
sion of opinion, and under circumstances
that have entirely changed since their cleo
tion \ 4 = Under a Constitution
which requires each House TO Judge OF the
election and returns of its own members, they
pass q Joint resolution, by which they take
from themselves the power separately 10
Judge of the returns of their members, and
proclaim that neither House shall admit any
person from the States formerly IN reDeilon
till both Houses have acted upon the subject
by a legislative act or otherwise. What more
WHY while in this disorganiZed state, mutt
lated and imperfect, man gets up III the
Senate and charges the President with white
wishing the South, and another man says
that the conversation of the President,
believe with Mr.. Dixon of your own State, In
which he simply gave his views with regard to
the duties OF Congress, "would have cost
Charles l. his head In the day in which he
lived" Such a body as that, say, IS an iile-
pal. unconstitutional assemblage 1t Is, in
point of law, mob, aud in my Judgment the
Mayor of Washington neglects his duty every
day in not dispensing them as such fAppianse
and laughter.J