The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-25
GRANT AND THE JEWS.
Effects OF His DisgracefGl Order in
Kennedy.

Reaarks Of Hon. i. ". POlceH, Of hen
tdcky, in the l.. =. Senate. on the Reso
luti0Rs Relating TO General Grants or
der ErpeltRg the JeleS from the Depart
meat Of The Tennessee. s.s .s
Mr.. Powell-Mr President, the day
after the resolution was introduced,
understood from General Haileck that
The matter had been laid before the
President, and that the order had been
promptly revoked. The conduct OF the
President and OF the COMMANDMENTS
chief in thus promptly oountermandinG
snrh an outrageous, unconstitutional
and inlIuniau order meets with my
hearty approval commend them for
81.
The order having been COunteriuand-
eel ( desire 10 move that the last clause
OF the resolution be stricken out; and
after that is stricken ont, l desire to
have the action Of the Senate upon the
resolution. Gentlemen may say, the
order having been revoked, II Is unnec-
ceSsary that this body should take any
action upon il. That seems to be the
irtimatian of the g.ntlewuu from New
Hampshire. | look upon the matter
otherwise. | have in my possession
Documents that go to establish tue TACT
beyond the possibility of donbt that
tire Jews, residents OF the city of Padu-
cali. Kentucky, some thirty gentlemen
I'm nun Der. were driven from their
homes aud their business by virtue, OF
this order of Gen. Grant. only having
The short notice of four and twenty
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children OF that city we're expelled I'M
der that order: that there was not jew
left man. woman or child, except two
women who were PROSTATE on beds
of sickness. ] have the evidence be-
fore me, set forth in a petition, and at
tested by some twelve OF fourteen OF the
most respectable Union citizens OF the
city of Paducah, among others the sur
vevor of the port, that those Jews OF Pa
dncah had at no time been engaged In
trade within the active lines OF General
Grant; that they had all the while been
engaged in legitimate business at their
homes. and that there was but one Jew,
4 resident of Paducah, who had gone
ont of the State into the cotton region,
and that one was not AZ home, and con-
scuuently was not expelled from his
residence by this ruthless order.
Mr. President, if we tamely submit
10 allow the military power thus to en-
croach on the rights of the citizen, We
shall be setting q bad and most pernl-
cious example to those In command OF
our army. We should administer to
those in command Of our armies the
sternest rebuke for such fragrant out
RACES upon the rights of the citizen.
These people are represented by the
most respectable citizens of Paducah to
be loyal men. Many of them are men
who were not engaged in commerce.
They were mechanics, attending 10
their daily avocations at their homes.
In nv Judgment, il is incumbent on
this Senate, as the matter is before
them, TO pass the resolution, and let
Gen. Grant and all the other command
ers know that they are not to eucroach
upon the rights and privileges of the
peaceful loyal citizens of this country.
Pass the resolution, and the example
will be of the greatest Importance, par
ticularly ut this time, when the eonstl-
tutional rights of the citizens are being
stricken down and trodden under foot
throughout the entire country by the
executive and military power. We have
submitted already too long and tamely
to the encroachments of the military
upon the civil rights of the citizens.
Many of these Jews who We're expelled
from Paaucah were knswn to me for
many years as highly honorable and
loyal citizens. This order eXpels them
as u class from the entire department,
and prevents them having pass TO
approach his person tn ask redress OF
grievance. General Grant might just
rs we'll expel the Baptists, or the Meth
Odists, or the EpiscopaHAns, or the
Catholics, as class, as the Jews. All
are alike protected in the enjoyment of
their religion by the Constitution of our
country. They are inotiensive citizens:
aud IL Is set forth in papers that have
before me, that two Of the Jews who
we're expelled had served three months
in the army of the United States in de.
fence of the Union cause
There is no excuse for General Grant
for issuing the order. II may he said
that some Jews in his department had
been guilty of illegal traffic. Ii so, cx-
mel them, I do not wish to shield Il
,Jow or Gentle from Just punishment
for the infraction of the law. He
should have directed his order to the
offenders, and should have punished
them; but, sir, so far from doisg that
he Furnishes q whole people as class;
without specific charge, hearing OF
trial, lie drives out inOtfensive, loyal
people, meH, women, and children, from
city far distant from his headquarters,
without giving them the least opportu-
nifty TO meet aud repsl charges that
might be brought against them. Such
conduct is utterly indefensible. re-
greet that General Grants conduct here.
tofore as sgfdier has been that of a
brave and gallant officer; he has fought
we'll on many fields; for that commend
him. But whileI commend him for his
gallant conduct must censure him fol
this most atroeious and illegal order. II
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