The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-16

nomination, we have every reason to be-
lieve, and receiving such support that its
candidates or a majority thereof, will be
elected we do not doubt. Let every Demo
crat but do his duty from this time until
the closing of the polls on the first day Of
April and we feel satisfied the result will
prove satisfactory to themselves and discom-
fitting to the Abolition Negro Suffrage
candidates aud their friends.
\ Meaning Warning-The Radical
POrtentS.
Whern the Hon Mr.. S~pAULDING, who e
resents the Cleveland district in Congress.
made his stern Illumination against the i'm
parchment crime which some'of his Radi-
cal associates were engaged in connecting,
not a few, who did not appreciate the
mental qualities Of the man, expressed
their surprise that he should go counter to
the revolutionary drift Of the conspirators.
They were not of the number. a lengthy
acquaintance with the Judge-pleasant to
Il high degree when he wa a leading Dem
ocrat ofthc oldcn time-told us bettet that
his large legal mind, and his unsullied
personal integrity, however his partizan
preiudices might direct would emphatical-
ly forbid his corporations with the trick
sters and malignants who. outsride Of all
law aud reason, are conspiring to decapi-
tate the President.
ASHLEY had SO fretted aud gassed aud
splurged in the m~atter-had occupied so
much of the attention ofthe House and the
country. in pressing his r~esolutions-had
so inflated his own vain and egotistical and
vulgar Importance, in Ills purile idveigh-
ings, that Mr.. S~PAyLDING, disguised and
indignaut-and somewhat irrascible, when
in these moods could stand it no longer;
therefore his manly rebuke OF the dastardly
scheme which ASHLEY was essaying, with
so much audacious impotence, to engineer.
The following is the brief official report OF
his remarks:
From the Colgr essioual Globe
Mr.. Spaulding-Mr. Speaker, | do not
boast of possessing any extraordinary de-
gree of courage, either moral or physical,
but thank my Creator that He has So
constituted me that | can rise upon the
floor of this House and declare my conyic-
tions, even though they differ from those
of the majority of the party with whom |
act,
Sir, | differ toto carlo from my colleague
from Ohio MIR. Ashley who has Just taken
his seat; and standing here in the very
place from which, less han two months
ago, he charged the Executive of the
nation with high crimes and misdemeanors,
| deuouuce the whole science of lmpeach-
ment rs one ofconsummate folly. ! say, sir.
that no one act amounting to Il crime or
misdemeanor has rs yet been proved
against the Executive of this nation, and |
challenge any n to reply to me when |
make the averment.
And l say more than that. 1t is not ex-
pected by some of those who charge the
Executive will high crimes and misde-
meanors that proof will be obtained. 1t is
only necessary, as has been said in high
places within the last week or ten days,
that it should be known that the President
is an obstruction in the way of what my
friend from Ohio calls progress" and the
Radical party of the country will feel it to
be their duty to remove him from office,
Sir, | hold to nc such doctrine. and | say
to my associates of the great Union party,
that they are mistaken If they suppose that
the Intelligent people of the United States
are going to uphold them in Il practice
based upon any such principle.
| had the utmost confidence in the Jul
dietary Committee as constituted in the
Thirtv-Ninth Congress. | doubt not |
shall repose an equal degree of confidence
in any committee that shall be constituted
by our present Speaker. | have no objec-
tiOns to this investigation being pursued
through the channel of the Judiciary Com
mittee l know in fact that it will take
that course. But nc the same time, in order
to be consistent, | must say hat | do OPP
pose it and shall oppose it, until | have
some satisfactory evidence presented to my
mind TO show that we can make an appeal
to the conscience of this great nation when
we seek to deprive it of its executive head
Sir, we are bringing our republican in
situations, our popular from of govern
ment. to q test such as no free nation eYel
yet imposed upon its government with i'm
punity. | trust we are not yet called L
exhibit the same temper with those whit
lived In the day of Oliver Cromwell il
England, or width R~obespierre and Mural
in France, when men who n day HdvOCa-
ted the most extreme measures of lIr Rad
icals were the next day brought TO the
block or guillOtine because they were no
far enough i'm advnace i'm the line Of p,o'
gress. Is that to be our condition in this
country?
Mr.. Ross (in his seat.l That is the roaC
we are travelling.
Mr.. Spaulding. l have in my place Yote'
for every Radical measure of reconstrue'
ton proposed IN this House, aud yet w
have not adopted measures radical enough
10 suit the purposes of some gentlemen
who are around me. They now cry for tn
head of the Executive.
Mr.. Wood, lin his seat) They wan
more blood.
Mr.. Spaulding. And for what good pur
pose? Is it to make way for some othe
man or set of men? Is this whole natiol
to be cOnvulsed; is u public credit TO b.
trifled with are our stocks to be brough
down TO forty, thirty, twenty, or perhap
ten cents on the dollar, Just to crafty thit
eagerness TO remove the Executive head o
the nation? | can, in conscience, sup
port nc such policy.
Why are young ladies kissing each othe
like the emblem of Christianity Beeaus'
they are doing unto each other as thel
would have nsn do unto them!