Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-03-13


Paul's conversion. That is become an idle
tale. These rebels have been converted in
a mass, twice as quick as Paul was icon
tinuous laughter And they have not been
blinded. Renewed laughter. | think II
Is too quick. l have weighed their resolu,
tonsi l have carefully observed those pre-.
sented to the President, that have heen made
public, They pledge themselves unquali.
hedly to his policy, but have not seen any
approving of the principles of this Govern.
ment. lGreat cheering From what Rebel
state has come response, like the rushing
wind, to seize again the rich treasure house
of the constitutional Government of this
| country. Not one. They say they accept
the issue. So does the criminal in your
| Prison [Laughter.l For one reason, they
| can't help themselves. GRenewed laughter ]
Accept the issuel OF course So did Wirz
when they had the rope round his neck
What issue do you accept? You accept the
issue that you are whipped, and you are
| sorry for it. Laughter Do you long to
come back to your good old fathers house,
where there are many mansions, and bread
| enough and to spare? They say, 'tWhy don't
you come in spirit of humiliatlon?H Five
years l stood upon the floor of Congress-
and heard these people defy the power OF
the Government to keep them in the Union.
And now, sir, just as loud are they in their
NSAohSO Vi tho pOhCI Vi government 10
keep them out. [Cheering and laughter.
The plain INTENT the plain language is, now,
that you foolish loyal men who have turned
your blood like water upon your soil, and
have made the streams and the ocean purple
with your blood, 1--WE will fight you when
we please, and if we fail with the bullet we
will try you with the ballot" None of that
for me, not bit. Laughter and applause.
don't know how others feel, but as for me
and my house, l shan't vote for rebel to
come into Congress- [Great applause
shall not do it because dare not do ii.
dare not do it, and still think sometimes /
dare do'all that doth become man. dare
not do it, sir, because it endangers the per-
petuity OF our country and its institutions
Continuous cheering Believing so, and
having sworn to discharge my duties accord
ing to the best of my feeble abilities, l will
not do it, if other folks do tell me to. And
if my constituents don't like it, there is an
easy way to get rid of me. Sir, feel upon
this point as the lamented Lincoln telt rlone
sustained applause] with regard to again en-.
slavi2g this poor people. If it must be done
choose some other instrument than me to do
it. [Deafeuing applause But these amia-
BILE gentlemen say that we must confde in
this people-takc them to our bosoms. As
the Senator from Indiana said the other day.
81 don't want to do it," [Cheers. There
is an instance in history where an overland
man took a Copperhead into his bosom,
[cheeIs and laughterl and when he had him
there long enough to warm him into life he
stung him to death. Sir, when | am urged
to take these men back, and when l am on
the point of yielding, see passing before
my vision three hundred thousand that are
not rendezvoused or marshalled this side the
grave. They lie in your soil, and in the soil
of every State of this Union. Antietam is
yours, with all its rich rtreasure-house of
history. [Applause.l see the manly form
of my earliest and best friend-the tall, stall
wart form of a Wadsworth in the Wilder
ness. see in the same view the tall, manly
form of murdered Lincoln. l see the dag
ger barred for the bosom of our now Presi-
dent. ! see the scared and mangled form
of the Secretary of State. l see the habili-
ments of mourning all around me, and va
cant places on every hearthstone visit. Sir,
they have invaded my own circle; and all of
these scenes admonish me. If there is a
rebel here-[a voice-"hang him out'1-I
would like one, because my mission is "not
to call the righteous, but sinners to repent
ance." Mingled applause and laughter. ]
IL there should happen to be one here, let
me ask him one question; Suppose your arms
ha been triumphant, and the issue of this
war had been changed, your city desolated,
Philadelphia and the North laid waste, BY
sword, by flame, and by invasion, how long
do you think it would have been before YOU
would have let Yankee into Congress?
Laughter. But it is the other OK that's
hooked. Renewed laughter 1t is in ac-
cordance with the philosophy OF the treat
ment of diseases that chronic cases are cured
by slow processes. Immense cheering and
general laughter. This disease, affecting
all the social and moral qualities of men, is
chronic. [Continued laughter.
You have been taught, and teaching it for
tIi1ty years. There is not a sound spot in
one of you, from the crown of your head TO
the soles of your feet-all over diseased by
this fatal thing called treason. And yet they
are really getting impatient because the first
dose does not cure. [Great Laughter.
They fall back upon all the cries of ''Loy-
atty" "Taxation without representation is
awful" / tell you, Mr.. Rebel, that the
present cas- presents exactly the point where
subjugation and taxation 60 together. And
when you have ascertained that you are
neither EphraiIn nor cousin TO him-that you
cannot fill your Stomachs on east wind; and
when you have ascertained that there is no
nourishment in husks, come back slowly,
and if we do not kill the fatted calf, we will
kill lean one for you Laughter and ap-
plause.] You have beeu thirty years in
getting out, and you can't get back in thirty
days. Keeping eleven States out of the
Unionl what an outraged If distrust them
they have made me do it. In the hardware
trade everything is sold and bought by sam
pie; so with cotton; so with wool; and they
generally put the best article outside for
sample. Now, in the name of God and COM
mon sense, what would you think was in
side of package, to see that lean, lank trai-
tor, Immense cheering and laughter Alex
ander II. Stephens, on the outside of the
package? Uncomfortable laughter Il
should not open that package with the least
confidence OF finding anything loyal in it,
[ Renewed laughter. Herschel V. johnson!
what would you expect to find inside of that
package? / should expect to find il full of
dragons teeth and traitors fangs. You have
got the wrong article outside. On the prin-
ciple of representation the people OF Mary
land are like everybody else. They are liza
BILE to make mistake and send man that
don't represent the principles of the voter.
Now, l tell you, these traitors have not made
such a mistake as to send loyal men from q
disloyal constituency. [Cheering and
laughter But you will gather no wool in
that field. Pluck apples from the thornl 1t
is not there. These people have made no
mistake And, in the case of Tennessee, if
they had not disfranchised rebels, and say
they ought to be disfranchised everywhere
la voice, ''they ought, immense cheeringl
you would not have seen Maynard, or a
Stokes, or Fowler. Not one of them.
think before we enfranchise any more,
we had better begin to disfranchise.
should feel if l had been rebel that was
pretty well treated if they let me live quietly
under laws that loyal men made. Did you
ever hear of a criminal sitting on his own
jury when he was on trial? One person in
high place complains that they are not repre- |
sented to speak for themselves. have seen
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