The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-08-24

backs on the house after all that bad
been done, aud passed the resolution by
vote OF twenty-three TO thirteen TO ad
init Mr.. Patterson and swear him in. aud
it was done.
Each house by the constitution itself
| is 10 be the judge; and | said in the first
speech that | made in congress this
winter in opposition to this resolution,
which was 10 compel the senate to ash,
permission of the house when they should
admit senators from these states, de-
! nounced that resolution and protested
against it as a violation of the coustitu
ton Of the United States, 10 deroga,ion
OF the power OF the senate, and unworthy
of senators TO consider for moment.
( MAKISG PEACE.
But here is another point ia this case
which is equally important
Every patriot should frown upon all
those acts and proceedings, everywhere
which can serve no other purpose than to
rekindle the animosities Of war, and the ef
feet of which upon Cur moral, social and
material interests at home, and upon our
standing abroad, differing only in degree,
is injurious like war itself
Now, what is the meaning Of that!
Now that the war is over, that blood has
ceased to flow, that there are no more
sons TO be sacrificed and laid in prema-
ture graves, what does it mean 1t means
that every honest man, every patriot, and
every christian should by his language
and his conversation and his conduct, do
al! il his power to heal the breach and
not to tear open the wounds afresh.
! (Cheers.)
But what have we heard, iellow-cti-
zeps? Almost from the very beginning
of the session, the dominant men who
lead the faction in congress have been in
opposition to the administration of the ma
tiona union party, and what do we hear
, from the beginning to the end bat denun-
ciations-the spirit Of hate aud war
breathed out day after day and poured up
on the people Of The south who bave no rer-
resentatives to defend them from the be-
ginning of the session to the end. Why,
fellow citizens, the wild Indians of the
plains could teach these men better how to
make peace. Go among the Cheyennes,
the Arrapahues, the Camanches, the Ap
! paches, even, the wiIde,. Indians of the
! plains They may fight with each other
and commit all sorts Of atrocities upon
each other, but whom the time cones 10
make peace, what do they do They get
together they bury the tomahawk; they
smoke the pipe of peace; hey shake
hands. They say-we ars no rno'e enc
mics, now we are friends. Cannot
statesmen in the 10 h century, cannot
men VINO have read the whole history OF
the world, cannot christians who profess
the gospel Of the Lord Jesus Christ, can
not they do as well IN making peace as the
wild Indians on the plains ? (Applause.
THE WAR on TIE PRESIDENT AND HIS
FRIENDS.
We must look upon facts, fellow ci,izens
as they are. The present congress was
elected in the midst Of war anh colHa
grafton. They were elected As a war con
gress. |! was lhe spirit of war which
breathed into i the breath of ife A wal
they must have, and if it could not be wa,
upon the rebellion ii the rebellion had
given way ard it could not be wrecked
upon war, war must be waged upon thel!
own administration which they themselves
had elected aud placed in power. Aud
from the beginning of the session to the
end, with unrelentin9 hostility theI wageC
war upon the president a d upon every
man that sustained the president, incIud'
ing AS humble a person as mysel: among
'he number. BIT, do you suppose tina, th'
waging OF this war Upon Andrew Johnson
upon the man who in the senate of tic
United Sales stood like Il rock aud rolieC
back the mad waves If secession which
dashed against him. (Applause) Do yor
suppose that Andres Joh nson, WHO ha,
suffered more for the Union than all Tho
men IN congress who denounced him, tia
Andrew Johnson is 10 be driven from the
performance of his high and sacred duty
as statesman, as christian, as man
Or, is it TO be supposed that by the de-
nunciations Of newspapers, here in Wis
consin or elsewhere, that faithful hand
WHO stood by him in sunshine and in
storm, will talter now. assure YOU, fel
low citizens, those men who make those
denuncations, don't know the spirit tina,
actuates the mvn who stand by Andrew
johnson. (Cheers) How easy for me
as an individual, to have iloated with the
passing excitement of the present hour
and 10 have avoided all these denuncia
tionss My term in the senate does not
expire for some years to come. How easy
to have avoided all this controversy--tc
have acted with this dominant faction and
party.
RULING THE COUNTRY IN CAUCUS.
Oh, no, fellow citizens, tell you-and
| assure you in my judgment it is as sure
as God lives and reigns-that unless the
people of this country sustain Andrew
Johnson now, in bis determined spirit
10 sustain this Union and to arrest the
mad career of this wild tendency to cen.
tralization, your constitutional liberties
are engulphed in vortex from which they
will never, never rise. (Chee.s.) That
tendency is to despoism, to centrai
zing despotism, to the despotism of ty-
rannical caucus, the meanest Of all despot-
isms from the days of the Thirty TyraDts
down. (Applause) And that has oc-
cnrred this session in ralat,on tn caurus