Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-07-20
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Have you done thai In States thai
never pretend 90 soncdci Sir hold
up before the majority Of this body
u night this declaration, % tho beau
ties Of which thcy have invited our
attention. as tho strongest condcmna.
ton that could bo poszlhly made
against them.
"for protecting them, by amock sfi.i. frod
punishment for any murders Which thoy should
commit upon The inhabitants Of these sisiss."
Again sec the llncaments Of your
own countcnanccs depicted 10 this pa
per to which you have invited my at
tcnlion to day Sir, if there had been
no existing evils at that time, and il
the wiscst man in that day bad been
called upon TO write Tint which men
combined against human liberty
might do, aud tolwIite their condems
nation, and to say what they would
do in the future, he cosld not moro
powerfully and cmpbalically have
portrayed the cnormitics to which the
party would come. Have you pro-
teclcd no murdercrs When peace.
ful citizens in States that never refis.
ed to discharge their just obligations
TO the Federal Union have been shot
down in cold blood what have you
done? Have you not protected the
murderers from the consequences OF
their crimes 0
"For cutting OF vur trade with an parts vf the
world"
Have you not done thatY Did you
not undertake to establish trade reg
ulations for States TINT never secededf
Did you not require 0aths to be taken
by men even to carry on The ordinary
business of buying and selling goods
wares and merchandise
"For imposing taxes on rs without our con
sent
Sir, let the s2,50O, 100000 which
you have imposed upon the people of
this country to carry on a war for
the Liberation Of the negro not for the
preservation of the Union a war
waged for the purpose of accomplish
ing party triumph aud freeing negr0esj
as we sometimes hear it denofninhted
ia this body, war of ideas--let the
imposition of The burdens of taxation
under which the American people rest
TO night answer the question whethor
in this Indictment that is not count
which can be sustained by proof and
in the light of history. ala
"For depriving is in many cases Of the benefit
Of the right Of trial by jury
Why, sir, had Thomas Jeffersofi
when called upon to draw that instru-
ment been told that no circumstances
had ever existed in the world TO that
time that would justify such an ar
rangement, but that in the history of
the race and in the history of this
people the time might come whom
men might do outrageous, illegal and
things, be could not possi-
bly, have drawn up an instrument
that would more exactly photograph
the dominant party of the present
day than his declaration does
"FOr transporting us beyond seas to be tried
for pretended offences"
] do not say that you have trans,
ported anybody literally beyond seas,
but have you not dragged innocent
men away from their homes, from
their wives and from their children,
and incarcerated them in forts and
kept them in suffering, under which
some Of them have died, for pretended
offences.
~, AOoiizhing the free system Of English
laws in a neigbborng province, establishing there
In an arbitrary government, and onlarging its
boundaries 40 as to render il at once an example
and ft instrument for introducing the same abb
soluie rule into these colonies"
! invite my fellow members of the
Senate to consider whether your party
have not abolished the free system Of
English laws throughout the whole
southern States; whether you did
not place those people under the alb.
solute control of a military chieftain,
making them the mere subjects of his
will; with poNer-I say it deliberates
ly in the light of your reconstruction
acts-to hang every inhuman being
within those States, 10 deny to them
the possession of any and every spo-
cics Of property, making them abso-
lutely subjects and not citizens.
"For taking away our charters, abolishins ouf
mos, valuahle laws, and altering fundamentally
the forms Of our government H-rrr
Have you not blotted ont by nero
legislative enactment the charter OF
every southern State? Have you not
declared that those States have no
valid existing legal governmental p
Have you not placed them absolutely
under your own arbitrary will or the
will of a man whom you call Com.
Chief of the armyg
But, Mr. President, | will not pur-
sue this subject i should not havo
referred to it if | could have been al.
lowed the poor privilege of voting
upon the question before the Senate.
But since this declaration Of the rights
of man aud of the rights of tho
American citizen has been held up to-
day by more than one, by several SEN
ators TO our admiration, and we were
invited TO contemplate its provisions
and look upon its beauties, | thought
| would stir up at the close of this
debate your pure minds by way Of
remembrance and having aswerod
that purpose, | will resume my seat.
No PREJuDtcE AGAINST WHfTE
PEopLE-Grace Greenwood has been
giving some recollections of Charles
Dickens. She relates a conversation
with him in regard to "Uncle Toms