The Placer herald., 1866-06-23
Senator Saulsbury's Speech.

sage OF the Clvll Rights bill over the veto Of
the President:
Mr.. Salisbury said: rise to say, that in
my judgment, the passage Of this bill is the
Inauguration Of revolution. 1t is we'll that
the American people should take warning
in time and set their house in order; for it is
impossible that the people will patiently
submit to such an act. Heaven knows we
have had enough of bloodshed, enough Of
mourning in every household There are
too many new made graves fer any one to
wish to see more. Attempt to execute this
within the limits Of the States of this Union,
and in my judgment this country will be
again plunged into the horrors of civil war
ln my own State, a small State, in point of
numbers, but State of gallant sons and
noble hearts, your law will not be observed
by the judiciary; although many of them,
indeed most of them, are of your party.
There is not Republican judge in Delaware,
and we never had judge there so deaf to
the teachings of the lumnaries of the
law as to attempt to enforce such tlagrantly
unconstitutional act as this. shall not
again enter upon the constitutionality or
uncons stiutionality of the act, but if it is not
grossly, pal pably, ha9rantly unconstitutional,
then five and twenty years of somewhat
diligent study of the law has avaled me
nothing.
Mr.. President, do you suppose, does the
Senate suppose, is there any sane man who
supposes, that if an honest State Judiciary
shall decide that free negro shall not tes
tify because his testifying is prohibited by
q II "a lox of h., hot
of that State will allow the agents of your
Commissioners to arrest those Judges anc
drag them from the bench?-lhat if the Leg
| lsla,ure ola State enacts law discriminat.
ing between the races, that the people are
going to allow their legislators also to be
dragged to prison, because you have so
stated in this bill Do you suppose, sir, that
the people are going to allow such an out
rage as that? No. sir. They would soon
say by their votes, as well as by their power,
that they would not submit to it. Sir, say
this, not because want these scenes of strife
to iranspire. May God avert them; but l say
it because you are entering upon the scene
of another revolution, the effects of which
the wsest cannot foresee. And if in any
solitary moment of my life, ever have
doubted that was right when opposed the
Inauguration of civil war in this country-if
ever doubted that war was disunion, am
convinced now, thoroughly and fully, of the
truth that every vote have ever given, aud
every word have uttered thereon has been
right, and 4 am convinced now that war al
ways was and is disunion; and thank God,
that during the stormy periods of that war,
t,1o n ~ n ha1 hrn tr,,
hend the meaning of what they said, charged
me with being disunionist; bu, have lived
to see the day when my political opponents
have not only become disunionists, but revo.
lutionists, and by every means lha. lies in
their power, are ruthlessly trampiug the
Constitution Of the country into the dust.
shall not detain the Senate, but will add,
that while will submit to the vote, and ad
wise peace, | can see nothing before the
country bnt pictures of horror and revolu
ton.
The MORTALITY IN WAR.-The report of
the Provost Marshal General, james B. Fry,
just issued, gives some interesting statistics
concerning the military resources of the
States which lately opposed the South in
men, together with an account of the mum,
bers losses, desertions, eurolments, &C., of
the Union armies during the war. A com,
plele exhibit of the resources of the North.
ern States in men thus given shows that
under the conscription law,of March Sd, and
its amendments, the aggregate number of
2,254,063, had been enrolled, not including
l,000,5l7 soldiers actually under arms when
hostlites ceased. The casualties in the en-,
tire military force of the nation during the
war, as shown by tie official muster'rolIs
and mouthIy returns, have been compiled
WITH in part, this result: Killed in action or
died of wounds while in service-Commis-
stoned officers, 5,22l; enlisted men, 9O,s5s
Died from disease or accdent-Commis
stoned officers, 1921; enlisted men, ] go, ,329.
Total less in service, 2SO,7 This is
fearful record of mortality in war, but of
course it is not to be presumed that all these
would now be living had they not entered
the military service; and when the Conted.
crate dead be added, the loss of human life
is increased perhaps 100000 more. In the
Federal service seventy-six thousand five
rested and returned to the army during the
war.
ALMOST AN AccIDENT.-The Cincinnati
correspondent of the S. F. Spirit Of the
Times gets off the following;
The cars of the Peoria, Pekin and Jack
sonville Railroad were recently thrown off
the track, fortunately without seriously in
juring any one. Among the passengers was
the we'll known Judge Harriott, who sat be.
hind blooming, buxom country lass, when
the train ran off and capsized the Judge and
the lady were thrown to the end of the car
alongside, and the bump threw the lady up
in the air, landing her with expanded crino-
line in sitting position saddle>fashion
across bis honor's face. Extrcatiug himself
with some difficulty, the Judge spit and
sputtered, blew his nose great many times,
and remarked, with great deal Of apparent
disgust, that mankind was reputed to have