Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-02-02
Congress.

Congress.
sTRoia SPEECH OF SENATOR WILSON.
Thee was lively debate in the Sem
ate on 'londay of last week. between Sem
ator wilson Of Mass, and Senator Cowan
of Pa, q the Freedmen's Bureau bill. Mr.
Wilson box the floor and said:
From lie 22d Of July, 1861, when Mr. Trum-
bull of Illinois reported a bill making free the
slaves uset by rebels for military purposes, down
to the triumphant passage, the other day, through
the House of the Equal Suffrage bill, tmld
friends an6 opponents alike have INDUCED in pre-
dictons in regard to our legislation here Al
though in II cases their prophetic utterances have
been falsfid by time and the facts, and although
the recordsof the country will show to all coming
time that anti-slavery measures weakened the
enemies AMI strengthened the friends Of the coun-
try-that ,nti-slavery measures lifted up our
country in he eyes Of the Christian and civilized
world and brought down upon 1t The blessing Oh
Almighty Qod-they still continue to prophesy
and to oppose the completion Of the great work
that will establish universal liberty in our coun-
try.
The senaor from Kentucky, said Mr. Wilson,
tells us thathe is sorry TO find feeling OF HOSTILE
ty here toward the people of the rebel States that
he would act rs eory officers act-meet them as
the same thing. Tknow there is no hostility to
the people of the rebel States. l speak for my
own State, and declare that there are not thou
sand men in Massachusetts who entertain feel
ings of unkindness toward the people of the rebel
States. On the contrary, we want them back
here, and we want them with us just as soon as
we can have them with ample guarantees and Sc
curities for the rights of all men. Now, sir, /
know whereof l affirm when ! say that the people
of the loyal States, who have given their sons to
the putting down OF this rebellion desire that the
southern people shall come back again that all
the seats in these chambers shall be filed, but
we want them to come back when we have Sc
cured ample and irreversible guarantees for the
rights and liberties of all men, and tell the SEN
ator from Kentucky further, that we mean TO have
them.
Ikow continued Mr.. Wilson, that there are
some persons, and there ale some newspapers
starveling journals that exc out their precarious
existence upon the bounty we foolishly fling them
who tells us that the corrupting influence oil
public patronage should be used to arrest the
great ideas and practical measures we advocate
in the adjustment of these great questions Of re-
organization Now / say to all who have enter.
tanned that thought that the people of this coun-
try are in no temper to be sold. They have de-
cided that negroes shall not be bought or sold
and they are equally unanimous that their sena
tors and representatives shall not sell them foi
| government patronage If there is anybody in
this country who is disposed to be bought or sold
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r,ni " 'nen "in1.ins scorn anu ,h1s na.on',
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