The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
HEPRESIDENT's SECOND REMARK
ABLE SPEECH.
HIS IDENTIFICATION OF The RADICAL
LEADERS As RESOLUTION
lists.
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION INVOLVING
DISSOLUTION OF THE
UNION. ..
THE QUESTION OF THE RECOGNI-
TON OF A MAJORITY OF
THE SENATOR'S As
THE SENATE.
When Does the Ereedmen's Bureau
Become Extinct {!
DC. &C.. &c',
Special correspondence of the Chicago Times.

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Special correspondence of the Chicago Times.
WASHINGTON, March 4.
The speech which President johnson made
on the 1st inst in reply to the delegation
from the Maryland legislature, is quite as
remarkable that which he M de on the
22d ult. Il is evident from the language Of
these two speeches that the mind of the presi-
dent Is deeply impressed with the
magnitude of the crime which the radical
majority of the rump congress is committing
in keeping out of their seats the southern
members of congress. In this reply
thepresident calls attention to the
remarkable tact that the men who are
now the radical repu blcans were the very
men who at the north, in 1860, were trying
to dissolve the Union and break up the gov
eminent for the purpose of destroying slave
| ~. Comparing these men with the secea
| sionists of 1860, the president said, cal
though these parties disagreed in the object
| they wished to accomplish, they agreed in
one thing, and that was the destruction OF
the government; SO far as that point was
| concerned, one party was as cu pabls as the
other. He then went on to show why it was
| that the radical republicans and abolitionists
| of the north supported the war; and he
shows that they did not do it from any love
| for the Union, or in order to restore the Tn
| ion, but because they hated the southern peo
| pie, and the war gave them opportunity
| to crafty their hatred. He said that the
| spirit which, at the north. was making war
upon the government in 1860 and 1861, join
ed with those who were for the Union against
those whr were for the rebellion in order
that it might vent its hatred and spite upon
the south. He then show I'd, in conclusion,
that the same radical republicans were en-
gagged now 10 the same nefarious attempt to
break up and revolntioniZs the government
He SAID, 1--WE now find an attempt to change
the character of the government, which We
must equally resist
| The attempt now is to consolidate. TO con-
centrate power here, in the hands of the rep.
resentatives from the north alone. This at
tempt aims at the destruction of the govern
ment"
The report of this speech which was tele-
graphed by the associated press, and which
was published in all the principal papers
on Friday, is grossly inaccurate.
The work of the senate, on Friday last,
was most important. On that day the Union
was dissolved by the joint act of both houses
of congress, the senate concurring in what
the house had done before. The resolution
: of the committee Of fifteen, passed by the
senate on Friday, most certainly dissolves
, the L MON, far as 1t Is In the power of the
! legislative branch of the government to do
SO; for its effect Will be to deprive of their
representation in congress, and thus to keep
out of the Union, the ii southern states, and
this not only until the close of the presep,
congress, but until congress meets again
next December. An exception may be made
in the case of Tennessee, but all the rest
will be 50 excluded. When next winter
shall have arrived pretexts will not be want
ing to continue the exclusion until too late a
. | period for the south to take part In the mex,
presidential election.
All the democratic senators and lew OF
: the conservative republicans opposed the
passage of the bill in the senate with vigor
and RESOLUTION up 20 the last moment. To
his honor be it said. Senator Lane of Kan
sas both spoke and voted against it. Sena-
tor Cowan, of Pennsylvania, made q two
hours speech against 1t, which was one of the
most brilliant speeches of the session. Ii
was of no avail, however, and the senate, by
. vote of 90 to Is, dissolved, so far as j,
could, the Union.
By the passage Of this bill twenty sen
ators and eighty three representatives are tc
be permanently excluded from congress. LIE,
me beg your readers TO observe what it is
that the radicals have thus done. The TWEEN
ty-two senators would join the nineteen con.
sentative senators already in that body, max
ing forty-one democratic and conservative
: votes, while there would only be the thirty.
one radical votes.
The democrats would thus have large
majority In the senate. In the house the
eighty three southern members would Join
with the thIrty-six or forty democratic and
conservative members making one hundred
!, | and nineteen or one hundred and twenty
three democratic votes against one hundred
and twenty seven or one hundred and thirty
, one radical votes. The radicals would stil
have a nominal majority in the house, but it
would be very small, and a change of only
Eve votes would give working ajority t.
the democrats. Such is the state of things
f which the radical senators prevented by their
action ON Friday.
: 1t has now become a serious question with
. the president whether il is not his duty tt
| recognize the fact that the twenty two south
ern senator's and the nineteen conservatives
now in their seats, forming q large majority
of the whole body, are not in fact the senate
and whether he ought not to recognize the IL
IS such. Suppose for instance, that the
twenty two southern senators should come to
Washington aud call upon the president with
their credentials in regular form, Suppose
they should be Joined, in the east room of the
White House, by the nineteen aud democratic
and conservative senators, making body of
forty-one senators in all. Suppose that they
should claim to be the senate of the United
States. aad should send a message to the
president to that effect; and suppose the
president should recognize this body as the
senate; and should ignore the claims of the
| rump at the capitol, composed of the twenty