Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-06-20

NOW, young RentleueH, 4 hppoht
to you, and / ask you whether you
abide by the case as made by these
contumaoious correspondents ? Are
you willing TO admit, in face of the
American public, that your daily
occupation leadsyou into paths which
cannot endure the light of day, and
that you cannot reveal upon the
stand your ordinary business trans
actions without rendering yourselves
infamous shall wait with some
curiosity to see whether, when these
witnesses are released from custody
for violating those obligations which
the law lays upon all men and with
out the performance of which Justice
cannot be administered nor society
be held together, you will meet them
with the GOODNESS which criminals ale
ways experience from good citizens,
or whether you will hail them as
heroes and receive them back with
banuqetings and ovations. Your
course in this particular will indicate
your respect for or disregard of the
laws of the land will determine
whether you possess those virtues
which will adorn or those defects
which will disgrace your profession.
Mr.. President, while speaking Of
the morality of the press / desire to
refer to an editorial Of the Tribune,
of the date May Is, which 1 will ask
the Secretary to read.
The Chief Clerk read as follows:
eff Senator Carpenter would only indulge
in little silence he might have some chance
of impressing people with his own estimate Of
himself. But when he speaks he is absurd. He
asks, with lamentable lack of senatorial de-
cency, whether Congress or the New York
Tribune is the law-making power. No enc
Knows better than this new oracle that such
men as he are creations of the press and,
however he may strut and vapor on the floor
of the Senate, he will be quick enough TO ask
obsebuiously for the renewal of its fayors
when he is threatened with a return TO his
original obscurity. We must, however, adj
nit that the press in making Senator Carpen-
ter has little reason to be proud of its work.
at is certainly not worth while to have a
Senator so densely Ignorant of the powers of
the body he belongs osas to talk about forty
years of Imprisonment for contempti Con-
ud MS luCOACeNdUie loiiy WITH
the sensible remarks of Trumbull and Wilson,
veterans of many years of service, who know
at least as much Of the powers of the Senate,
and cherish its.dignity as deeply, as this pin
feather neophite Fl ON Wisconsin.
Mr.. CARPENTER-Mr. President,
| have caused this editorial to be read
that | may call attention to the pro-
fessional ethics which its writer en-
tertains. Giving the writer credit
for truth in all his statements, and
conceding my utter unfitness to be in
his place, in what estimation must
we hold the conduct of the press in
this particular Is it not q pretty
frank confession that q great fraud
has been perpetrated on the Ameri-
can people by the press a confess
sion that they have taken a man in
hopeless obscurity, destitute of all
the qualities required for public SER
vice, and puffed him, adorsd him,
elevated him, and finally palmed him
off upon the Senate of the United
States, knowing him to be q mere
pretender blown into public notice
by their sweet voices. Laughter
Young gentlemen of Fourteenth
street pointing to the reporters
gallery, call upon you TO under
take thorough reformation of the
press otherwise you may fill this
Senate with just such characters as
l am Laughter The Senate will
then lose its dignity, it's character,
its influence, and after while things
may come to sucn pass that the
Senate will not only be controlled by
the press of the country, but will have
to submit to the insolence and quail
before the threat of single newsps-
per correspondent.
The New York Tribune is an alias
for Horace Greeley, gentleman for
whom | cherish the highest respect.
He has shown me many acts of kind
ness (for in this cruel world Justice
is sometimes kindness), which | shall
never forget. During the discussion
in regard to Fundamental condi~
tons" to be imposed by acts of Con-
gress upon the states, wher certain
Senators Mr.. Yates and
Mr.. Morton denounced me as seces-
sionist and nullifier, and sought to
1iscredit me with my party because
[ would not vote for what / regard
I'd as violation of the Constitution,
and on several other occasions, Mr..
Greeley has done me justice. For
doing so | thanked him then, and /
thank him now and returning upon
this occasion the kindness he has
more than once shown me, | desire
10 say that during the period of this
while this newspaper
mas been filled with articles about
equally compounded Of folly and
all inspired by malice, the
New York Tribune has been away
from home, delivering addresses of
in the South, in obedience
to the impulses of his own good
heart. Still the paper goes on, living
and moving under the impetus given
it by his intellect, his wisdom, and
his great standing with,the press and
American people; and this, notwith-
5bdDulng III has Ue6H lcIJ 10 Inc man
agement of Whitelaw Ried, a fop and
frivolous pretender, Of whom a con-
journal recently had the
paragraph:
eWhiteIaw Reid was seen on the streets
again yesterday with mems clothes on.-
Where's the police? ?"
Laughter.
Mr.. President, | felt called upon
by the repeated and persistent efforts
which have been made to misrepre~
sent me in regard to this investiga-
ton, and to falsify the facts of the
case, to make these remarks to show
That | had merely performed duty
upon me by the Senate, and
to expose somewhat the malice which
is inspiring these attacks.
| desire now to speak for moment
in regard to the pending resolution
the entertainment which the
Senate has been furnishino m Maasrs