The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-28

on the general principles of the biIl and i'm the
! course of his remarks spoke of the President OF
| the United States rs having become the leader
| of n negative Rebellion as hostile and as dam
! gctous 10 Jhe united STATES rs an armed open
| Rebellion would be If ne were at the head Of IL.
Mr.. f1NCK asked his colleague whether the
Hepubiican party IN Congress had agreed upon
! any definite plan OF recOnstructlon2
Mr.. ASHLEY replied, that so far as he knew
Mir, HIsE inquired whether the idea Of Mr..
! Ashley was that none but those whom he and
J his party deemed loyal-to wit the negroes
ana lnterlopers I'm the Southern States-weIe to
be admitted to suffrage, and that the great body
Of lhe people were TO be disfranchised?
Mr, ASHLEY replied that the great body OF
the people there had the entire forgiveness OF
the conqueror In the Constitutional Amend.
ment there were only certain parties excluded
gentleman from kentucky would favor the ad-
mission of those Senators and Representatives
who had abandoned their seats IN Congress TO
join IN the Rebellion?
Mr., HIsE argued that after they had laid down
their arms the people of the Rebel States came
IN under the amnesty entitled TO all rights as
MIR ASHLEY said that the position Of the
gentleman and Of Ills party was that Jefferson
Davis or any other leader Of the Rebellion,
could come here and take seats in this honored
nail. He MR. Ashley cared not how few loyal
men there were in state, whether black or
Whlle the nation would be diSSraced Ii IL
| turned Its back upon those who had been It's
friends
Mr.. CHAMBER asked whether, ifno loyal pao-
pie but negroes were found i'm state, he would
recognize that stale Government based on ne
gro votes alone?
I. a
MIR. CHANLER (venturing to finish the SEN
| tcnce)-1ou cannot answer. (LaughJer(
Mr.. ASHLEY tinishing it in his own wayl-
| Has no practical effect.
Mr.. CHANLER-You cannot answer; you dare
Mr.. AsHLEY-Yes I can.
Mr.. CHANLER-Then give the answer, yes or
| no, and do not stand palterng aboutit. Laugh-
MIR. AsHLEY-when the gentleman from New
! York talks about my not daring to answer he
knows nothing
Mr.. CHANLER-Then give us the answer, and
| that will settle the question.
Mr.. ASHLEY-Iake your seat, and Will give
| the answer. If there be single State of the
! American Union in which there is not loyal
! man except black men, ! would Clothe those
black men with the right of franchise, and every
| other right under this Government applause
! on the floor and in the galleries., with some
! hisses.)
! In continuation of his argum ent, Mr.. ASHLEY
| said he would not vote to-day to admit Horace
| Greeley as member from South Carolina, or
| any other man, however loyal, until the State
was restored TO its practical relations with the
! Government of the United States.
! Mr.. ELDRIDGE inquired jocuarly which Ho-
| race Greeley he meant-the South Carolina one
| MIR. AsHLEY-Either, sir, for that matter In
! continuation of his remarks he said-Ihe as
| sumption-the brazen assumption of men here
! who, during the entire war, were in secret
! alliance with the Rebels, coming here now and
! Joining hands with the apostate at the other
/ end of the avenue, who is the leader-the re-
! COgnniZed leader of a counter revolution or ne
! gaIive rebellion, as said q while ago, passes
After Mr.. ASHLEY sat down, Mr.. WINFIELD.
| N. ", who had in the meantime procured
J from the reporter q copy of the foregoing
! remarks of Mr. Ashley, rose and asked Mr.,
Ashley to whom he had intended to apply those
| MIR AsIILEY-I intended to refer to the great
| body of the men in the Opposition; to every
| man who opposed to the war, opposed to
! the draft, who discouraged enlistments, who
| harbored deserters, who went into secret socie-
! North against the Government
| Mr.. WINFIELD desire to know whether the
| gentleman from Ohio intends to charge that
| with the enemy during the Rebellion?
| Mr.. ASHLEY-I am unable TO say rom any
! personal knowledge whether there any
| sucn men here; but from general reputation,
! opposition during the war-"not announcer man
! and not another dolar"-and from speeches
made by gentlemen on that side of the House
| have no doubt that some of the men here have
been here during the entire war.
Mr.. WINFIELD do not propose to be tried
| myself and so far as / know for my associates
on this floor, of our school of politics, that the
insinuation that we are or ever have been, in
| alliance with the Rebels, is utterly untrue, and
if intended to apply to us it is false and un-
MIR. Hustler CN.Y)-AndI say that, so far as
l am concerned it is q base lie.
The Speaker Pro te IMT, Epson I'M IN t9e onair)
The Speaker (Mr. Colfax) then resumed the
Mr.. HILL Und) excepted to the language used
The Speaker-Those words are out of order.
| The Speaker-The gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania is out Of order in interpolatlng that re-
mark.
mark of Mr.. Randall, supposng 1t, however, to
| have been made bY Mr. Hunter.
| Mr. RANDALL Ha.)-I made that remark, and
if my colleague wishes to hear it again, Will
| repeat it.
Mr. HILL Gnd.) submitted the following reso-
| lutiOn:-
Resolved, That the gentleman from New York,
! Mr.. Hunter, in declaring during debate in the
House. in reference to the assertion of the gem
| tleman from Ohio Mr.. Ashley-"I say that. so
far as / am concerned, it Is n base lie'-has
transgressed the rules OF thls body, and that he
be censured for the same by the Speaker.
Mr.. ANCoNA Pa.), after some discussion,
moved to lay the resolution on the table. Mega
tived. Yeas, 30; nays, rs.
MIR. lie BLOND (OhiOl said that the gentleman
from Pennsylvania (1r. Stevens), and his col
| league mir. Bingham), had frequently during
the present session INDUCED in remarks which
would disgrace any community to listen to-
Mr.. STEVENS called Mr.. Le Blond TO order,
and
out of order.
Mr.. LIE BLOND resumng. asked the House
which was the most offensive. the language
used by the gentleman from New York (MT.
Hunter), or that used by his colleague (Mr.
| AshleyP The latter was language which no
| American citizen, willing to adhere to the laws
| and Constitution, would listen to- (Applause
| on the floor and galleriesD
The Speaker lectured the spectators who had
| violated the rules by manifestations of ap-
Mr. NIBLAcK intimated, in an undertone.
| that this time the applause was on the Demo-
| cratic side, and hence the Speakers rebuke To
| the galleries.
The Speaker overheard the remark. and in.
| timated that ii was unjust and uncalled for and
| Mr.. NIBLACK made due apology.
| Mr.. HILL asked for the reading Of the report
| Of Mr.. Ashey's and Mr.. Winheds remarks
They We're reproduced by the reporters and