Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-10-31
HON. LYMAN TRUMBULL ON
THR WaGTUATION." .

The following extracts from = spesen
delivered by Senator Trumbull. at Fair
field, Illinois, on the 18th Of September,
will DO read with interest BY our Washoe
readers, as the principles involved apply
Just as forcibly here as elsewhere:
And now, I want to know from my
Democratic friends Of Illinois, what your
principles now ares Why are you war;
ing with the great Union Republican
party What do you want to accom-
plishs What are you consending for ,
Have you allied yourselves with the peo-
| pie and do you indorse such men ~ met
in Philadelphia Have you any sympa-
thy with them Are you for the rebels ,
Do you believe they have any rights a.
rightss Don't you think we have dealt
gently with them' Again I would ask
you what are you in the Democratic party
eontending fori The principles Of De-
mocraey have been given up body and
soul, BY going into the johnson party.
It has no justifying principles. Can you
stand up before the community and say
that our population Is not entitled to the
same power according to numbers a. the
population in Georgia? Will you say
that q voter in Illinois has less power than
q voter in Alabama? Can you take the
position that the Union men OF the South,
who were driven from their homes and
struggled for four years by your side to
establish the Government, and now
that you have the power, can you turn
them over into the hands Of the same men
who drove them from their homes? Will
you turn the men over, after the shacklss
Of slavery by your arms were thrown OF,
into the hands Of rebel masters? Or do
you want the national debt repudisted,
tina, requires tho payment OF the bounties
and pensions due to the soldier or his
widowed family Do you want to pay
the rebel debt incurred in trying to destroy
you. Or do you want this Government
10 the hands Of those who brayely carried
it through tho wsr-in the hands Of the
men who have proclaimed liberty through.
out the land? Arc you for equal rights
to all, and equal representation in the
Congress Of the United Statess We are
too far advanced, the progress Of tho age
10 too rapid to 60 back to the dark ages Of
slavery and despotism, Of wrong and in
Justice. cannot for my life see what
motive there can DO for any patriotic fair
minded man to connect himself with men
who have made an alliance with rebels
and traitors. think it an insult to every
loyal man in the land, to every soldier, to
every mother who sent . son to tho war,
and every boy whose father fell In
defense OF his country, now to ask OF
them and the loyal people Of these States
to turn this Govsrnmsnt ever int the
hands Of the men who sought to dsstrey
il. That is the question now. And what
10 required on the part Of the people:
Your duty 10 to sustain your rsprsssnts-
tivss in Congress. Sustain your Con-
Krsss in the stand they have made, and
you have nothing to fear from any dssps-
rate aos Of Andrew Johnson. Should he
resort to violence, who is to help him . I
have no apprehsn,ion Of r~iolsnes from
him. The violence would bring him to
the sesfold. II he turns traitor to his
country, I hope il will bring him to the
punishment his trelron deserves. ZAP
plauas.I It would have been better for
this country had the traitors Of 1861 been
brought to the punishmsns their treason
de~servsd-if the leaders had been pun
ishsd than that the lives Of loyal and trus
men should b. sacrificed, a. 10 now being
done all over the South, in consequences
Of our lenisncy to these leading traitors.
Therefore. I say there 10 nothing to fear
from Andy johnson, If the people sustain
Congress; aud, my friends, there 10 no
doubt on my minds that they will. The
President speaks Of seeing the finger Of
Providence. guess he did. Laughter.
And it wrote 40 il did to Bslshazzar,
Thou art weighed in the balance and
found wanting" I reckon he saw that
Anger when he read ths ~slantinn rsfuyns
from Vermont, with an increased vote for
the Constitution, and not to BE- turned
over into tho hands Of the men represented
in the Philadelphia Convention. What
impudsnes to be going through the coun-
try p%roclsimins his devotion to the Con-
stltution and the Union, and having 30
much OF it that he can scatter it wherever
he goes, with one hand and with the other
trying to destroy both. Fins guardian
Of the Constitution and the Union.
L.ughtsr.l He talks about the flag
with t~hirty.six stars. He would have
had no flag had it not been for the bravery
and endurance Of our troops, and he would
have had no restored Union but for the
great Union Republican party he 10 trying
now to crush. Yes, we prevented these
States from going out Of the Union, but
they succeeded in destroying thsir State
Governments, and they have to BE- recon.
!, structsd again, and when rsconstructsd it
will DO on the principles Of loyalty and
liberty BY loyal men and not BY traitors.
The election in Maine has gone also to
confirm Congrsss. I wonder II tho Anger
was not visible again when the President
saw that thirty thousand majority in favor
Of the Union Republican party greater
majority than she ever gave In her whole
~history-tsn thousand moro than we ever
claimed. The Democrats undertook to
carry our district, for it was doubtful,
and Doolittls went up there to canvass il.
It was represented by = Democrat in the
present Congress. but hs got in BY . small
vote. They made the effort and their
candidate was beaten BY 1000 majority.
And In Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri il will DO tho same
thing. I tell you the current 10 setting
with Us in favor Of freedom, and loyalty,
and equality in civil rights and reprsssn-
tasion. These are great principles and
are inherently right, and thsy must
In the end prove triumphant. Demo-
Gratis, got out Of the way. II you do not
unite your dsstiniss with Us you will BE-
crushed 90 deep that no political rssurTsc-
ton will ever find you. (Laughtsr.l This
10 the current. There 10 . great ground
swell going through the country. It could
not BE- otherwise, because we are contend
ing for principles Of right and justice. The
Radical Congress will DO sustained BY the
people, and the Democrats that do not 20
with Us, will be crushed by this ground
swell. There will DO no civil war, for
Johnson will have no power when the
people are against him. These rebels do