Year: 1864

to every call made upon Seek TO STRIKE 'heso gown
snd the last hope OF the country VIII 30 down
darkness. ~.


Sir desire aud intend discuss this great question 10
proper temper. have laid down the REASONS why uo
feel myself called upon 10 vote TO expai any man Hon
this House for The decorous xpression OF political opn
ion Neither will vote TO eensure MN ior s9ch an aol
Let state this issue clearly aud properly noiu a'
the rules OF the House protect its decoru ts poSona
latons aud whether gentlemen or NOT, enorce
strict regard gentlemen in whose presence lhey are M
with whom they associate hold that man observing
those rules has right, under the Constitution "oAPi


has political sentiments with the utmost freeuoh' o


This is all understand the gentleman from ONO mas
DONE Youask to expe him L. no my n",hsr
/ tive? Am responsible for him Are your Anotnor
people sent him here With that people leave MN he
| is their moubpece. What is this Governmen.i a TO
preventative Government means Inc voice " '"1 popo
every member upon this noor ne voice
of your people of New York speaks through you ITO Mr
FERNANDO WooDD and the voice OF the constituents OF
my friend from Cincinnati speaks through MN, ne poo
pie here their majesty speaking through their repre-
senatvs Ask your people to make war upon the people
of my district and we will meet you at the threshold
Let any seek to silence the representatives
my constituents send here and 1t is their insult as
well as mine The principle OF representation Is mme-
datey destroyed by such course. large portion OF
the American people, perhaps ms]ony, are AZ once aus
tion, and they simply allowed the poor privilege OF
paying taxes and fighting at the bidding OF master


SIR do not expect to agree with every mans senti-
mens but is that for to seek to purge this
House of all contrary opinion Is that cause or me 10
arragn for the political scaodf Is that cause LOT
To follow the wake OF mOdern hODtspcfIo oh
sma scale intellect and large scale III venomthe
gentleman from Ohio, (Mr SCHENcK)-who says men
should be shot account of their opinions know no
thing character nothing in the civil military ca
reer including his movement Vienna, which gives him
the right sup eriory the members ON this
side the House listened his low talk about copper
heads creeping out of their holes 1t was not language
becoming the place where he stands IT was becoming the
precincts rather of bar political gathering Indeed,
Judge from his ausions to Guvers travels, be would
be more at home there than he in the society of gentle
ha vnluu hIa ault
House We have not sought 1t. Every man who mas
served with in Congress knows that dis ike and avoid
controversy with my this hoor But the
tenor and tone of the remarks OF the gentleman from ONO
to invite to challenge to provoke unpleasant cono
versy So far concerned and those who sit around
me- respond with defiance


Mr. Speaker the general principles which have
thrown the subject of freedom OF debate apply TO
every person discussing not merely the right of
Democrat on this floor; am discussing the right OF
every Republican this floor. / go further am dis
cussng the right of the humbest citizen of America, the
right escap the CALLING yoke OF tyranny and oppression
the last right what Mr. Webster properly called home
bred right resde privilege the extreme boundary
OF which he declared he stood, and which should not be
called in question any where We are asked to strike
of the world The dark spirit of bgory and intolerance
chained down Calico for saying that the world
moved laid him the damp floor OF dungeon, as the
gentleman from Ohio Mr. ScHENcK) would DO with his
political opponents Opinion divided Some said
that Calico right; some sail he was wrong SO 10
will be the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. LONG But
while he lay in his fostering irons on the hoor OF the dun
geon be exclaimed to himself " The world still moves.
Claiming his person did not chain his thought could not
control his opinion contradict the fact which he had dis
covered Thought is boundess, eternal and cannot be
chained controlled You making vain attempt.
You committing sacrilege against the divinity OF hu
man nature You invade the very holy of hoes with
clean feet the inmns OF mans nobility the right
to think for himself You actuated by the same fell
spirit which few years ago struck down because
they worrhpped God according to the dictates Of their
| own consciences because they worsbipped Him with
/ ofh hia in ia he
derous and proscrpve spirit which in Puritan New Eng


land whipped, scourged, branded, and scared men and
women OF the Quaker persuasion tits the same Infamous
and damnabe spirit which has stamped undyng condign
loathng and abhorrence for all succeeding ages, on all


the that were connected with an attempt to
crash the freedom Of and the freedom of speech


But sir let me 20 little further in this conneIon


have kind regard for tie Speaker Of the House, (Mr


CoLFaX) Nothing but personal kindness and acts of
personal courtesy have passed between him and me-


regret exceedingly however that be has placed himself


10 the attitude of public aecuser this occasion think
on short review Of the antecedents Of his political
history be will come to the conclusion that did when


heard be had atbered this prosecution, this accusation


/ thought that little charity would well become him,


little OF the kndiness OF his natural nature, IL may be
allowed a Pathological expression i remember


that at time when this country all at peace. when
it moving happy, almost unrulsd sea, prstical
craft suddenly launche the political waters by
/ Hinton Rowan Helper, who, if am not mistaken now
holds Office as Consul to BUenos Ayres under the Admin
istratiun you much love- His book of infamous noto
rety recommended assassination recommended cowsrdy
i
srychnine administered by their slaves recommended the
torch the roof aud the knife 10 the throat of men,
men, aud children declared total extermnang war
against shareholders in express terms III any body dis
putes this have the book here TO convince them. la
mente1, bowed my head with grief when that incen
diary book appeared with Ktyeight Of the
Republican members Of this House appended, and the
Of the present distinguished Speaker at the head OF
the entire i6t 1t recommended by these signen


work Of very great public merit, and approved for gen
era circulation But would not expel him for that
would
with him member may differ from another
would argue the question with him. would tell him that
he gave his in time Of profound peace for war
that when the smoke and carnage OF battle not
cendDg when the sky clear and the shining
he gave his voice for strife and desoatonfor the Of
John Brown-of serve insurrection; not honorable
war, not civilized war, but Of murder, OF barba


sn, Of the slaughter Of and children in their beds
Such the Of the present Speaker of the House
at that time.


The same gentleman now cannot tolerate the gentleman
IRON Ohio His vrtuous pure, unstained patriotism s
shocked and he rushes from his Speakers chair springs
to the Oor, before any body else get in resolution,
with the appearance Of saying cannot be held any


longer; this thing will not do" And yet this the gentle
man whose voice for dshonoTabe war when the
country in condition Of profound peace The gentle
man, cure, will not complain at this little episode
his political history Those who swift 10 accuse should
not complain if their own deedsNma retort upon them


would be the last to throw my colleagues record in
his face but for the spirit he has shown here Sir let him
compare faith aud works upon the subject Of the Union
upon the subject Of peace upon the subject Of fraternity
upon the subject Of the preservation of Government
with the gentleman from Ohio, (Mr LoSG) aud he will
have ground To hur the first stone The admonition Of


the Saviour with peculiar force to ndorser Of
il