The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
CONGRESSIONAL. .
WASHINGTON, March 10.


in legislation. Congress would pursue
its work. determined to do it right, re-
CARELESS of clamor, abuse or VeIupela,
ton. He held that the legislative Orancn
of the general gov eminent was alone
clothed with authority to recognize tne
State governments, and this was III az
cordance with the views OF the people'
The Union party of Indiana had re-
Gently given expression TO that SEMI
ment in State convention. The peol lie
were determined that traitors shall pe
punished. and treason made odlonS
that these words shall be living reali'
ty, words of power and majesty, and not
a mere figure of rhetoric or feeble pro-
mise made to the ear, but unto the nope
that the public man, whatever his OH
ciaI nos;tion who should endeavor to
buo traitors to his bosom, turn his back
on those who elevated him to power, and
forget in the delirium of that power the
sacred principles on which he was
elected. He proceeded to show that the
reconstructed States gave no evidence
of LOYALTY to the Government, In refer
ence to the test oath he declared that
the last traitor in the South should
sleep the sleep of death before that
should be taken from the statute book.
Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, next
obtained the floor, and commenced by
apologising to the House for the tame
ness of the remarks which he intended
to make. IL would be remembered that
at the opening of the session he, Stevens,
had made some remarks on the condition
of the country, which had been replied
to by the gentleman from New York, Mr..
Raymond, and the gentleman from Ohio,
Mr. Delauo, a recess had followed imme-
diately, and when Congress re assembled
for business on the Sth of January,
he, Mr. Stevens, had prepared some
replies, and had obtained the floor
for the purpose of making it, but on
that occasion the gentleman from West
Virginia (Latham) desired to make a
speech, and he yielded him the floor
and had never since been able to regain
# for general debate; but as this was q
school for debate, and as it had been in
timated to him that his time had come
he had dug up old manuscript, AMI al
though its contents were rather tame,
and had all been said by himself or
others long since, he did not wish TO
lose the paper, and would now read what
he proposed to say on that occasion. Re
ferring to the position which some .lour-
nails had assigned to him OF hostility 10
the President, he said that these jour
nails had done him too much honor, and
he would now say once for all that ill.,
stead of feeling any personal luminosity
towards the President he fell great re,
spect for him He honored lis integrity,
L. -. l.
intentions The President had stood
too firmly for the Union in It's midst of
danger and sacrifices to allow him este
vens) to doubt the purity of his inten-
tiOns; but all this did not make him less
free TO doubt the Judgment of the Pres
ident and critiCise his theology. When
no deemed the views of the President En-
roneous, he should say so. While h"
could have no hostility to the President,
he might and did have grave objections
to the course he was pursuing
Mr.. Speaker, does the gentleman from
Iowa Suppose for a single moment that
the speech to which | presume he re-
fers as having been made i'll front OF the
White House, was an actual fact ,
Naughter) | desire now to put the
gentleman. right What | am now 90
ing to say, however, don't wish TO have
reported it is a confidential communica-
ton (laughter), and | presume that mo-
body will violate the confidence which
repose in him by repeating it Sir that
speech, which has imposed upon the gen.
tleman from Iowa, and which has had a
considerable run, and which has made
some impression on the public mind, was
Of Ia hot hlg ne
been perpetratcd, and more successfully |
than any other, except the one which |
am told deceived many aStute aStrOn0- |
mers. (Laughter) | am now glad of
an opportunity, although | don't wish |
1t to go ont publicly, lest my motive may
be misunderstood, Of cXhOnerlting the
President from ever having made that
speech. (Laughter) 1t is the cunning
OF the copperhead party, |
which has been prosecuting our Presi |
dent since the lLh of March, l~G5. TAX |
ing advantage of an OppOrtune accident |
that occurred on that occasion, they have |
been ever since constantly dcnOuncing
him as addicted to low and degrading
vices To prove the truth Of what | say
about this hoax | send up to be read 4
part of that same SANDER taken from the
New York World OF October 9TH, lS65-
The following extract from the New
York World of October 9TH, 1863, was |
then read by the clerk:
The drunken and beastly Colegula, |
the most protligate OF the Roman En- |
perOTS, raised his horse TO the dignity of |
Consul an office that in former times |
had been filled by the greatest warriors |
aud statesmen Of the republic, the Sci |
piOs aud the CatoS, and Nby the mighty |
julius himself The Consulship was
scarcely more disgraced by that scan
delous transaction than is our Vice Pres
idency by the late election of Andrew
johnson. That office had been adorned
in better days by the talents and accom-
of Adams and Jefferson,
Clinton and Van Buren,, and now to see |
It filled by this insOleut and drunken |
brute, in comparison with whom even
COligula's horse was respectable, for the
poor animal did not abuse his own ma,
ture And to think that only one frail !
line stands between this insO-
lent, clownish drunkard and the
Presidency, May God sbless and spare
Abraham Lincoln"
Mr. Black, of Indiaua-I beg leave TO
inquire if that may not also be hoax
he same way as the speech Of the Pres
dent was. daughter
Mr.. Stevens-That was a serious and
insulting SANDER The New York World
was taking advantage of an incident
whleh 1t is thought by many was