The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-02-23

We take the following cytrr. ..
official report Of the speech oI lI..
lard Salisbury, Of Delaware. oa t..,
gia Senatorial question, delivered ...
Senate ON the 3lt ult.
Ii may be that some uoH.ur..
bier may say that 1 am D raa'. ......
cause l ana suggc sting Legal uH...
legal minds. ! DO not know. .r
or your habits Of life DIP tluu.HI...
you % deeply study the pruer..
but / know that Mr. JeNu.n O#..
Attorney Gencralship ol u.
States "a any man who distinct.
broadly laid down the doctrine I'M
treaties that was ever written Hr.-
Constitution Of the United em.l. ~.
State had the right 90 reccde. r.I
there was no power In the GurrI .
eminent 20 eoerce H. That vas o..
cognized doctrine Of this country r..
first twenty years of its as. tgU.
the same commentator, when Dr.
nounced the principle, warmed L. ..
trymen against ever attempting .....
else Of such a power, ns J.. iu mg I.....
sphere, warned my fellow clifton.
no act or word did ever onooem. If.
exercise Of such power ral +. 4.
sumptiye.
But, sir. it show. bow Die. .r
lines dividing Federal and -lltrrr..
", and il is for that reason that ....
As for those Southern men urr ..
their State had seeded, FOLLOWED
hammer Of their State. in uar. / .....
as my deliberate judgement I...
nothing, excepting nothing. uatu.u'.
require twelve butchers fora iun r.|.
JeiIereys for judge % try dm N.
doing. Sir, protection and dufr N.
ciprocal and when you dId u. ..
protection TO those Southern r.
when they were living undra O.
ment having the power 90 compel ...
obedience and 10 punish their .
once, and you had not power U r...
them from the consequence. 0. ...
ence, they were no traitors I.v.
not traitors in God Almighty eha...
They are not traitors according tI.
glish law They are NOT traitors
ding 10 the instincts of human ua.ur
Ii was so decided by the English
and before sou were tho United Shin.
America and within less Cham 4 t...
after Pennsylvania bad dissolved tf
legiance 10 the British cromit ua. .
dided by the American court hM.
man who adhered to Pcma.w +
against the King was NOT uyIm
What, hang a man III hc does mI .
him if he does mott There s ul n .
principle Of law there b. u1 aoh r
pie in moral ethics.
And now, in this Che Iai tn
though it be an imprompiu aIlu. Ill.
/ make 10 my brother SENATOR, t.u .
expect 10 address them, ] beg um .
beg the American people / Deg t
great engine Of public opinion vhohD
trolls and governs 20 "a great rN'm' T
lie sentiment, 10 Danish from your u
the idea that the men of thc South
traitors. They are traitor uo moro a
you are, sir Their States Weut 0H-
Their States had the power to unH
obedience and 10 punish dieobcI.ww
You did not protect them WHOM thy
defenseless. / stand here now NJ 4.
last moments Of my Senatorial. ..t
proclaim throughout the length m
breadth of this whole country North m .
South, so far as my feeble ut.muo w .
reach, that those gallant noble Ia
were not traitors.
"Such graves as their arc pilgrim au
Shrines 10 no code or creed tuuHUr.
The Delphinu wales, thc Palestine.
The Mcccas Of the mind
And when your rude al.diery a
away the humble yotmy who bring
ers TO deck the graves of the Nonl.IH
soldier, who sleeps side by side H..H
own honored dead, the man by H
order that was done was q traitor
the instincts Of nature, traitor ar
the promptings which the Almighty DIM
self has put into his heart and WHu
stands before the great and eternal M
nal before which We must all ana
be adjudged by the eternal God ~ DE-
heartless wretch il he b. living n
when he dies let him be buried h
and over IL lot thcV w
scribed the words, "llcrc lia maM
Sir, / do not say this because VA
favor Of secession. There Wa H1 r
here more panied and more u.ey0l.
who disapproved IL more than ] a'.
saw then the wrctchednc aud rn 81.
secession was going 30 bring u0.
upon their country, but particularly
the border States. But, sir whom
tell me that the descendant of ODE
old Virginians, who did more 90 Day
Of this Government deep
the principles Of constitutional I'1
regulated by law, than all other
traitors, j protest against % in beHli
the honorcd dead, their patriotic .1"-
In behalf Of their living rcIai.y" .I
test against it. In the name OF Coy
mighty's eternal mercy, which D. NJ.
safed in exhuberant Abundance % H
kind, j protest against A.
Sir, not far from this place b. ...
terry, where lie the bones Of mmy .. l
soldiers; and did any one who efH sly
ed that place read the inscription oNe .
gate through which he pu cl l.
very inscription over the gate of ilol..
terry in which you entered 10 dcclr..
graves Of your own dead va. DOB u
words:
son flames eternal camping Ff'NN"
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards, with solemn i'.'
The bivonac OF the dead
And you marched under thai .a
ion 10 decorate your own fedora. a.
md denied the right Of a poor 7oa....
% cast n flower upon the grave 9i '
'ederate: And who wrote that Ia.I
ion 2 Was il a Northern man, DO
It was a Southern man who wrote 3D.
You use the words Of Southern nh
)ut an inscription over the gate ~
cemetery through which you maraael
decorate the dead, and denied the
Southern soldier the humble pnu
# having his grave deckcd wilma ~.
lower. / make this remark nOt 20 \.
Ipon the gallant soldiers Of tbe Ao..h .
he gallant Union men of the ~"
hose who fought, but because the .
ions are pertinent, and are no h'..