The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-09
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Hon. j. +. Wilson, of Iowa. The bill
provides for the right of every citizen
of the United States to move into, pass
through, or make his permanent abode
in any State or territory thereof, with
the right to acquire and hold property,
and the full protection of the Courts
After ably arguing the necessity and
constitutionality OF the bill, Mr.. Shell.
labarger closes as follows: =
And here, Mr.. Speaker, l leave this
measure, submitting it to the calm and
careful deliberation and Judgment of
Congress. | would gladly hope that
it might meet with the unanimous APP.
prevail OF both houses The power to
pass it into law is plain and unques-
~tIonable. 1t aims at no sectional or
partisan purpose. It's benefits, like
the benifcences of all good Govern
ments, are meant for all the people
alike. The high and the lowly, the
weak and the powerful, take alike of
its, protection. 1t is for the East and
the West, the North and the South
All of the States and all of tho people
thereof will equally enjoy the protec.
tion il affords. Each child of the Re-
public, wherever he may go, however
alone, frail or defenceless. may, by his
touch, start into action the provisions
Of this short and simple law, and in
stantly he is neither alone, frail or de-
feneeIess, but has summoned to him
the sublime presence and power of his
Government, all of whose energies
that touch has started into irresistible
force and activity for his safety.
The necessities which demand the
enactment of this law are so obvious,
OF such permanent duration, and are
so overwhelming as to make the pre-.
sentation of them now and here an i'm
proper consumption of the time of the
House. Since the period of modern
civilization, | know of no nation which
has presented such q spectacle as our
own. | know of no other in whose do.
minion was embraced an area. large
as half its territories, which had be-
come to neal one.halt OF its own citi-
zens, Il ezra i~nc0gnitd. In our coun-
try there came to DO a land into which
its " children could not 90 and
live. In that land, for a quarter of a
century, could not be safely uttered
that Sublimest aphorism of our own po.
litical faith, and the very one with
which we had propitiated the ear of
Heaven in our imprccations of nation
al life-"that all men were created
eqnal 1t was a land made of Heav-
en- rich and beautiful as the vale of
Cashmere, but whose moral horrors
had become us terrible and as deadly
as the tabled horrors of the land of the
Britons, when the ground was covered
with serpents, the ar such that none
could breathe it and live; whittier fish
ermen ferried COLLINS at midnight, and
whore the speech OF the dead was con-
stantly heard by the mariner. 1t was
a land where the best prccepts of Will.
berforce and Washington could gener.
ally not be uttered with safety to life;
u land where the experiences of the
citizen who would avow, or would not
discard the best precepts of his own
nation faith and religion, can, without
exaggeration, be told in that strongly
sublime recital of tho suffering of the
good men of ages, who arc described
us having suffered fortunes, cruel
%mockings and scourgings, bonds and
lmprisonments; as being stoned, sawn
%asunder, slain with the sword; as wan.
dering in the deserts, mountains, dcns
and caves of the earth; AS being desti.
tutc, afflicted, %tormentcd.' And now,
Mr. Speaker, since the people have
poured out an offering of blood such us
Liberty never beforehand upon her al
tar, to the end that the people be freq
and safe throughout the country, the|
heart of the nation is again already
sinking and sickening Mt the reap.
pearance OF that same reign of violence
ana terror which so cursed the land
before. Tho sad and unwcIcome factl
Is again beng forced upon the atten.
tIon OF tho nation, that its own truly
citizens cannot safely dwell or 90
Into all parts of their own country. 1t
Is becoming more manifest each day
that the higher tho evidence of the cit.
lzen,s loyalty, and tho greater his past
sacrifices of blood made for that coun.
try, tie less secure these citizens arc
now in attempting TO abide or even to
90 INTO vast portions Of the country
their own blood has Just deliv.
ored.
Ono sad proof of this has Just been
at Memphis under the order of
House It's horrid enormities, in
The massacre of II de~lenceless people, IN
The exposure and mulilation of their
lead bodies, in the burning OF their
homes, schools aud churches, make ono
the darkest country, and in every
the grave OF the nations soldiery
been tho nations shrinc--a shrine
Gratitude and Religion SIT together as
NestalS turever-a shrine where
"--Honorc comes q pilgrim gray,
10 deekthe sod that wraps their clay"
But, Mr., Speaker, already to-day,
when the first daisy which God plant
upon the grave of the American
is scarcely dead, their com
AIDES dare notgo thither to strew them
With new flowers, because treason and
officer of the American army forbid
t! Sir, from nearly everypar of that
beautiful land-land OF the orange and