Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-17
Rambler Recalls Historic Debate in Senate on Distri

leries were daily filled with mob
nounced for slavery and to applaud
every utterailce OF treason. Senators
will remember the terrible scenes
| through which we passed when such
vile traitors as Toombs, Davis, Wig
fall and Breckenridge were lionized
| by the Shareholders of this city, and
when, Upon this floor, these men de-
| family proclaimed their treason, there
was no power to check them, for the
whole authorities of the city were on
! their side. The city police were in
sympathy with the traitors and there
was no security until the freemen OF
the North rushed to the defense OF
the Capital.
"Why was this? Had the Govern
ment been unkind to the people Of
this District? No; the Government
had built them UP. 1t had given them
all the prosperity they had. Why,
then, were they opposed to its ex-
istenee? There Is but one answer to
this question: This rebellion is the
shareholders rebellion, and this Dis
trict was under the influence Of the
shareholders. That is the reason why
so many of the people here were on
the side of treason. =. ,
I'VE all remember the fearful night
when members of Congress and other
citizens of the free States then in this
city met in one of the large halls in
one of the hotels here and organized
themselves into company under the
lead Of the noble and brave Cassius
M. Clay, and, sending to the War
Department for arms, resolved that
they would peril their lives in the
IoF1 - Cay
company was nearly all the defense
against treason that this city at that
time had. But, sir, they were not
long in suspense and the telegraph
conveyed to them the cheering in
telligence that the freemen of the
North were rushing to their support"
CENATOR WILKINSON went over
~ the attack on Union troops in
Baltimore and spoke of Maryland (the
emancipation in the DISTRICT as fol-
lows: "rhere is nothing in the record
to cheer the heart of the true patriot.
there is no bright spot here upon
which the eye of the lover of the
/ Union can rest. It Is said that Mary
land Is loyal slave State. IL she is
loyal, what made her so? Is her po-
sition In the Union to be attributed
to the Union-loving sentiments Of her
people? Is It to be attributed to their
! hatred of treason and rebellion? No,
sir, no. Maryland has been kept In
| the Union by the strong arm and
ma jestic power of the people and
Government Of the United States. Bal
timore was never loyal until the NOR
| tars of Fort McHenry were turned
upon her walled streets and her mag
nif1cent palaces. nor until the eagle
eye OF Gen. Dix sought out Federal
! Hfil and planted upon 1t the guns OF
the Union. Had Maryland been a free
StatA, had not her people been carried
away by the influence of slavery upon
them, we should need no forts and no
armed men today to guard the city OF
| Baltimore"
Senator's Garlic and Wiley had
been seated in the Senate as Union
lists from Virginia. They had been
| elected by voters In the western coun-
ties of the State and opposed enamel
patton In the District. Senator Wilkin.
son said:
| "Mr. President, considering the cir.
cumstances under which the Senators
| from Virginia were admitted to seats
on this floor and the condition of the
! state and the people which they pre-.
tend to represent, think common