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MISCEGENATION
Beautiful word, and more beautiful thought !
None but the wise have its origin sought;
Webster 1 hunted all over iu vain—
Over and over 1 searched it again.
Looked in the books and the cloSsicEl explored ;
Sought, where toe learning lit ages woo stored ;
Fumbled old veluwes, but found it not there,
Thought 1 have to give up la deripair '
•
Talked with the Parsuu, but nothing, knew he,
'Couldn't bud out Waal. the •auing should be;
Out of My wile, with all patience expended,
Thus, tar a season, my labor woo ended.
Beautiful word, so 'sublime and so pretty—
Charming it woo Cur a nice little ditty;
Raituony flowing in every loiter,
Nu other word could or rhyming be better;
Sounding !Hie music ' s voluptuous strain,
Thrilling my bosun and haunting my brain;
Sweeter than sung, so 1 could nut rnfrain
Searching to fled out us weaning again..
Lexicons ancient 1 their did exprure,
Tuuwg thrudge reels that 1 nieVer before
'Thought to examine, but nothing could bed
Giving a meaning that suited my mind.
Asked a Professor, and he didn't. know;
SatiStied learning was nothing but show.
Went to the clime, about, to despair,
Found au cid -Copperhead" waiiiug me there.
Put titut the gnesinuit, out naught lie replied,
Solemn and tneughif ill he re and sighed;
boon he looked up torn, Into Ito he Mil: ill
Tears 01 deep anguill were ailing his eyes;
"God of my laurels'!" he r, ournthlty
i! Whither, uh ! whore has Scent Liberty fl :d'
Death to our Ili:tlon/1, and death to the nation,
This is the weaning lit
Did nut believe it and 01,1 VII my Way,
Thinking what lireeley . , , O.e Wt. 1.11,1
CU/1W Ili /US noise there in the Arcade,
Found hi' in phi pie and linen arrayed;
Flippant and witty, Le tallied wan a grace.
Crimsoning Over toy innocent lace;
Spoke c 1 his own intellectual vigor,
Than the old n•Oopperheall'' feeling much bigger ;
Mentioned the avid %itch presumption and rigor,
Said it meant blending the wraith watt and nigger
Making a race tar mere lovely and fair,
Darker little thou whoa people are ;
Stronger, and nobler, and better in form,
Hearts more voluptuous, kinder and warm ;
Busutus of beauty, that heave with a pride
Nature had ever to wnite bulks dented.
mice Gree , ey had coined the Lein ward,
Sending lurth joy wucrn us acceo.o were beard;
Biessing the aorta WWl] a heti reVi_lation,
118801/Ing the people lit lots Wiehed
Ail toe ueuiguted ut earth aid ere, in
Through the donut Worn ill LUocegena'ion,
Truths more sublime than the U ,pei reveals,
Grander than comic in,,, out.CCals.
Man wee tient Lunde a LolliallU or hi.,nk
Bence no hest piteciple., we LliuLit Cultic back ;
Waite folks are out in the line Lit . progretkiliM,
Therelure, the preaeut ie cheer rearogre.irion.
Leek at the happy ungtual pair,
God made thew darker than wuite people ore ;
Yet they war clawed with perieTion arid grace,
Model divine tit the whole bumf. race.
Tneu, iu accurciaarce alto Hcaven's Wise plan,
Blot out forever the race of white man;
Duty to Gad and to ClViii2
Veils for a social reurgeLLlZ ail On.
(hive no a race with a Hale more vigor,
Give u 8 a race with a little worn lit
Dark lu complexion, like Adam and Eve,
impress of Heaven that all suould receive.
Tam will retina and 01.1118nteu lase nation —
Tuis is the meaning ill tutscegenath,n
Then in sweet union the races should
No mere fond weicletie will need to live single;
Each has a nice sainiug darkey to Share,
Sweet as the morning, With floe woolly hair;
Thought most delicious to lady retin'd,
Negro tor husband to wake up and bud !
Mothers, loud mothers, you know your duty,
Give up your darling to same negro beauty ;
Give your lair daughters lice angels that are,
Beautiful, lovely, ter DinCR Lunn to share;
Give up the maidens 8u Meowing and sweet,
Reared with precision and nurtured complete,
To a course darkey devoid of all grace,
This will produce a superior race!
Listen to reason, the Higher Law plan,
Mingle with negroeii, deluded white loan ;
Take to thy home the dark ebony nigger,
Take ti thy bosom the swear-scented r nigger;
Cherish and honor the beautiful wench,
Marry and love her regardless of stench ;
Fill with mulattoes itml mongrels the nation,
THIS IS THE MEANING OS tsc Env:NATION!
!New York Day Book
A Brace of Tough Yarns.—B--y is principles held by a representative? Who
noted among his friends for his big stories. is to be the arbiter upon this great ques
,The other day some one was relating in his non 1 There can be but one—his con
hearing, a remarkable feat of strength
stituents. tie stands upon the Constitn
which he witnessed.. lion. By it his freedom of opinion and
That is nothing to what 1 saw in New speech is made secure. It . cannot be
Orleans in the winter of forty-nine," said abridged or disturbed. He can defy the
B--y. The load of shot I saw a man , world, as we here defy you, to lay the
carry on that occasion beats everything in weight of your finger on this inherent and
the lifting line that I ever heard of.' immortal privilege. We yield to you
Tell us about it,' urged a listener, your rights, and you shall yield to us ours,
knowing that one of B--y's tough yarns
or it at once becomes a question of physi
was coming. cal-conflict. I toll you not for a moment
Why, sir, I saw a man shoulder eight to suppose that a gag can be placed upon
bushels of shot and carry it a square—car-
the mouths of the free American people
without blood running, from the hills of
tied it a whole square, sir, although he
sank up to his knees in the pavement at New England to the mouth of the Colum
every step !'
bia—all over the northern land. It is the
' 06, B--y, take off a bushel or two.' last bulwark of liberty ; it is the hope of
freedom. Give us free speech ; give us a '
Can't take off a shot.'
free ballot-box, and we will stand all else,
But that is no more wonderful, ' contin
ued B--y, who was it a story telling Liu-
and respond to every call made upon us.
mor, than what happeued to me last fall Seek to strike these down, and the last
hope of the country will go down in blood
while hunting onPeoria Lake.'
and darkness.
His listeners drew their chairs closer
around him, and lighting a flesh oigaer' Sir, I desire and intend to discuss this
B--y went on. great question in a proper temper. I have
discovered a fine, large buck ou the ' laid down the reasons why I do not feel
bank of the lake. I crept cautiously within myself called upon to vote to expel any
good range, and taking delberate aim, man from this House for the decorous ex-
fired. Down went the buck and duwu I pression of political opinion. Neither will
went—the gun being heavily charged had I vote to censure him for such an act.—
kicked me over. I was consideraioy Let me state this issue clearly and proper
stunned,
but when I recovered and got up, ly. I bold that the rules of the House
I found that I. had killed a covey of quail. protect its decorum, its per-onal relations,
The concussion of the pa had thrown and, whether men are gentlemen or not,
the ramrod ou , and looking tor i t, 1 s a w it enforce a strict regard for gentlemen in
floating on the surface of the lake a few feet whose presence they are and with whom
from shore. Passing the dead body of the they associate. 1 hold that a man observ
buck, I waded out to the ramrod, the watet ing those rules has a right, under the
being up to my arm pits, when judge of
Constitution, to express his political sen
my astonishment to Ea the ramrod strung timents with the .utmost freedom.
full of the finest kind of fish which it bad This is all I understand the gentleman
impaled as it darted through the water. from Ohio has done. You ask me to ex-
As 1w is about to wade out 1 felt some- pel him. Is he my representative I Am
thing crawling inside of my pants. I responsible for him ? Are you ? An-
Curious to know what it was I took off my other people sent him here. With that pep
suspenders, tied them arouud.uhe bottoms ple I leave him. He is their mouthpiece.
of my pants, and waded ashore: Reaching What is this Government? A represen
dry land, I extracted a bushel and a half of tative means the voica of the people speak -
eels ° from my pantaloons ! it was the big- ing here by every member upon this Nor.
gest shot I ever made.' The voice of your people of New York
There wss silence for some time, when , speaks through you (to Mr. Fer. Wood,)
- 1111.8., who had been au attentive listener,' and the voice of the - constituents of my
simply remarked : 4ugh, you friend from Cincinnati speaks through him.
won't do.' 1 The people are 'hire in their majesty
FREEDOM OF DEBATE.
Remarks of the ilon. D. W. Voorhees, of
Indiana., in the Stooge of lieprese"ta
fives. on the Resolution of Mr. Colfax,
to Expel the Hon. Alexander Long.
MR. SPEAKER : I had not the pleasure
of hearing the gentleman from Ohio, nor
have d yet read his speech. The position,
therefore, which I assume to-day has no
reference to the merits or demerits of his
sentiments. I stand upon the naked right
of an American representative in Congress
to utter his own views. He is not there
to utter my views. He is not there to
utter your views. He is here to utter his
own, responsible in a political sense alone
to the people who sent him here, and in a
moral sense to the God before whom we
all hasten. And when I find a one
seeking to become the judge of his brother
in a matter of private conscience, I find
one who would have burnt John Rogers
at the stake and have piled the fagots
around the shrieking victims at Smith
!fi .Id. The gentleman front Ohio, (Mr.
Sctienek,) who has just taken his seat,
would have led the mob which pelted the
Saviour for the freedom of his opinion. He
would have stood among the Scribes and
Pharisees before the .tribunal of Pilate,
crying, "Release Rarrabas," but as to the
1 N..zarene, "Crucify him. Crucify him!"
Free speech was as odious at that time on
the hills of Judea as it is now in these
halls, and had the gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. Schenck) lived then he would have
been its enemy, as he is to-day.
Mr. Speaker, this is an old ciestion..—
There is nothing new about it. The whole
history of the world is written over in let
ters of blazing light with the cherished
deeds of the champions of free speech.—
The same great record contains the eter
nal, withering, blasting iufamy which for
ever clings to those who, as the champions
of despotism, aro to-day seeking to strike
it down. I stop not to inquire whether I
indorse a man's opinions. I indorse his
right to utter then here and elsewhere.—
The man who will not do it is himself a
coward, and deserves to he a slave. Sir,
such men are fit instruments to crush out
lilerty, and in the hands of a tyrant to
mike slaves of the people.
Let me read from an authority before
which the puny light ( - 4* the gentleman
from Ohio (Mr. Schenck) pales like That
of s reel, candle held up to the sun at its
fi•ree meridian. I read from Daniel Web
' stet-, whose great intellect is almost a full
atonement to the country for all the faults
of New England :
When this and the other Hasty, Ohnll itta tin'
freedom of speech and debate; when ihey shell
6Urrei,let the right of publicly end freely canvass
ing all important measures of the Executive ; when
they shall not he allowed to maintain their awn au
thority and their own privileges by vote. declara
tion. or resolution, they will then hen longer free
representatives of a free people, but slaves them
selves and fit instruments to make slaves of others."
Sir, I take my stand on this doctrine. I
will defend it in behalf Wit only of any
man on this side of the Home but just as
readily in behalf a political opponent. In
toy opinion, I !rive heard from the oppo
site side of this chamber during my ser
vice in Coogtess much of treason. No. not
treason—l withdraw the word ; treason
enn.'STS not in language, but in acts
but I have heard much that was calculated
tode-'roe and disrupt the itov?rnment
much that. tended to the extinction of lib-
cry and the oppression of the citizen ;
wuch that 1 firmly bell-ve is aimed at the
en etion of in absolute despotism. I. do
not. however, propocte to expel members
for uttering those outrageous sentiments.
They exercise an unquestionable right in t
giving them expression. And on the'
other hand I will allow no man to cl.ll t
quostien my exercise of a smilar right.—
I
am alone responsible to my constituents.
Who is to be my judge? Who is to be
the arbitrator here Who is to say when
I shalt •peak and when I shall ho silent—;
what I shall say and what T shall not say
The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Schenck) .
dreg us of the consequences if be
experts to crack his whip as the satrap of
this House, here or elsewhere. There
are a million and a half of Democratic
voters in this land who will be convulsed
with au agony of irrepressible rage when
it is proposed that their Representatives
shall be silent at the bidding of an inso
lent party, bloated with unlawful power
and steeped in the blood and tears of the
. nation.
I again a,di who is to judge the
TaAT 00UNTUY IS THA HOST PROSPAROUS WMAEI LARGE OGILEANDS Till GREATEST EAWARD.”-
LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1864.
sp iaking through their representatives.—
Ask your people to make war upon the
people of my district, and we will meet
you at the threshold. Let any represen
tative seek to silence the representatives
whom my constituents send here, and it is
their insult as well as mine. The princi
ple of representation is immediately de
stroyed by such a course. A large por
tion of the American people, perhaps a
majority, are at once disfranchised. Their
voice is hushed in the halls of legislation,
and they are simply allowed the poor privil
ege of paying taxes and fighting at the
bidding of a master.
Sir, I do not expect to agree with every
man's sentiments, but is that a cause for
me to seek to purge this House of all con
trary opinion ? that a. cause for me to
arraign men for the political scaffold ? Is
that a cause for me to follow in the wake
of a modern Robespierre on a small scale
in intellect and on a large scale in venom
—the Gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Schenck)
The same gentleman now cannot tolerate
the gentleman from Ohio. His virtuous,
pure, unstained patriotism is shocked ; and
he rushes from his Speaker's chair, springs
t the floor, before anybody else can get in
a resolution, with the appearance of saying,
1 cannot be held any longer ; this thing
will not do." And yet this is the gentle
man whose voice was for disionorable war
when the country was in a condition of pro
found peace ! The gentleman, lam sure,
will not complain at this little .episode in
his political history. Those who are swift
to accuse should not complain if their own
deeds make retort upon them. I would
be the last man to throw my'colleague's
record in his face but for the spirit he has
shown here. Sir, let him compare faith
and works upon the subject of the Union,
upon the subject of peace, upon the sub
ject of fraternity, upon the subject of the
preservation of the Government, with the
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Long), and he
will have no ground to hurl thefirst stone.
The admonition of, the Saviour comes with
peculiar force' to an indorser of the Helper
book, to an inciter of riot, blood, war and
disunion. Let him that is without sin
cast the first stone at the gentleman from
Ohio for daring to express his sentiments
upon this floor. If that injunction had
been obeyed, my. colleague would have
stayed his hand and remained in the
Speaker's chair.
But let me inquire a little further in re
gard to the right of my colleague to desl
harshly with the political frailties of his
fellow-members. This hell was, a few
evenings ago, given up to the great Aboli
tionist and Disunionist, George Thompson.
I do not know whether the Speaker pre
sided on that occasion, as he did upon
a former occasion of a somewhat similar
character, but I have no doubt he gave
the light of his handso re, his amiable, and
most beneficent couutertanc. Sciil be
cannot endure that the gentlemen from
Ohio and Maryland should have their Ir - -
term:ices upon this floor from their own
seats, whatever they may be. My dis
tinguished colleague, the Speaker, says
they were for disunion. For the sake of
the argument, suppose they were. Let
us see what kind of company the gentle
man himself keeps ; let us see who it was
to whom he gave aid and encouragement
in his work of destruction and career of in
famy. I hold in my hand the resolutions
of the American Anti-slavery Society,
passed some time about the year 1850, and
Live of them read as follows :
Resolved, That while we would express our
deep gratitude to all those earnest men and women
who find time and strength amid their labors in be
half of British reform to study, understand and pro
test against American slavery, to give ua their sym
pathy and aid by munificent contributions, and by
holding our Union up to the contempt of Europe,
we feel it would not be invidious to mention Wil
liam and Mary Howitt, Henry Vincent and George
Thompson, as those to whose untiring advocacy our
cause 18 especially indebted in this country as well
as for [he hold it has gained on the hearts of the
British people.
"Resolved, That the discriminating sense f jus
was wr - mg lice. the steadfast devotedness, the generous ILIUTIin-
St) it will be as to the industry, skill, tasty
gentleman from cause, ee
g ,
etinhie.unvtdiru h
which e
British Abolitiucista
Ohio. (Mr. Long.) But whi e he lay in have co-operated with us for the extinction or sia
fe,tering irons on the floor of the dun-
o vr E y n ee i m ,rd aril o o t a i r a gratitude r e From
s. th e, c h a a
s h , o o I i r t e i c ozi v r e '
s
go he exclaimed to himself, Toe I renewed and inereasing assurance an d pried's of
world still moves " Chaining his person their constant and enlightened zeal in behalf of the
t A r a L eric f i a a i rl m el g alte eb
it li , lb n er o a n l e g u 7ts ti f e ro m m os a t il bo th u e n s t e co co u u s D oi
did n,.t chain his thought, could not con
trol his opini n, nor contradict the fact former years, helped to fill the scanty treasury of
which he had discovered. Thought is the slave."
noundlesq, eternal, and cannot he chained Cluster round him, you men of' the
nor controlled. You are. making a vai t latter day' Your lova of the Union is a
att,uipt. You are committing a sacrilege modern invention. It palms to you late
;gluiest the divinity of human nature. in life. It is a thing intended to deceive.
You invade the very holy of holies with You may as well stand by your old tits
m olean feet, the inmost recesses of man's union colors. R illy, I say, round this
nobility, the right to think for himself. English standard-bearer of the American
You arc actuated by the same fell spirit Anti-Slavery Society, who holds •up our
which a few years ago struck down men Union to the contempt and derision of
because they worshipped God accordiner ' to Europe, and receives public thanks for it.
the dictates of their own consciences, be- Oh, how would the authority and power
cause they worshipped Him with a crucifix which these men now invoke roll back
of His S ivionr in their hands. It is the upon them if it were proposed to punish•
sum: murderous and proscriptive spirit thetn for their disunion principles But I
which in Puritan New England whipped, would not punish them for even that ex
scourged, branded, and seared men and Pressiou of their sentiments. Not at all.
women of the Quaker persuasion. It is If you want a monarchy, you have the
the same infamous and damnable spirit right to say so. If you want disunion,
which has stumped undying, coniigu, say so, and discuss it like men. Truth is
loathing, and abhorrence for all succeeding never afraid when left . free. Error is
ages, on ail the names that were ever con- never a dangerous element when truth is
netted with an attempt to crush the free- left free to combat.. So I Hay to you here,
dow of thought and the freedom of speech. what you have to say, say it., hut do -not
But, Sir, let me go a little further in enjoy your right thus to speak your send
this connection. I have a kind regard for merits, and then meanly deny to others
the Speaker of the House (Mr. Colfax). the same right. The Speaker, however, is
Nothing hut. personal kindness and acts of doubtless satisfied with the political com
personal courtesy have ever passed be- pany he keeps, and I have no right to c nm
tween him and me. I regret exceedingly, plain. If George Thompson, of England,
however, that he has placed himself in the or Wendell Phillips, of America, suit his
attitude of public accuser on this occasion. tastes, he is only accountable for that sort
I think on a short review of the antece- of patriotism to those who sent him here.
dents of his own political history he will If tie wishes to hug to his bosom those two
come to the conclusion that I did when I unrighteous monsters of disunion and civil
heard lie had fathered this prosecution, war, it is nu concern of mine. And indeed
this accusation. I thought that a little it may meet with warm approval in Nor
charity would well become him, a little of therit Indiana. It miy be that he is cor
the kindness of his natural nature, if I j irectly, representing his constituents. I
may be allowed to use a tautological ex- Ifdiffer from him widely, and in doing so 1
prissioe. I remember that at a time 4a) perfectly sure that I properly repre
when this country was all at peace, when sent the principles of the district in which
it was moving on a happy, almost un- I live.
rutli ol sea, a piratical croft •was suddenly According to the views of the Speaker,
launched on the political waters by one the people who sent him here are sortie-
Hinton Rowan Helper who, if lam not what old fashioned in their ideas. They
mistaken, now holds office as Consul to live in a beautiful country. They are set-
Buenos Ayres under the Administration tied in one of the oldest and richest por
you so much love. His book of infamous tions of our great State. The old men
notoriety, recommended assassination, re- *ere familiar with Harrison and Taylor,
commended cowardly slaughter, recona- who both fought Indians on the fertile
mended that slaveholders be killed by I banks of the Wabash, and both died in the
strychnine administered by their slaves, I mansion of Presidents. They have seen
recommended the torch to the roof and the the country prosper and become great
knife to the throat of men, women and under the old Constitution and principles
children, declared total exterminating war of the fathers. They do not think that
against slaveholders in express terms. Abraham Lincoln can make a better gov-
If anybody disputes this I have the book ernment than the OEla which suited George
here to convince them. I lamented, I Washington. They are content with what
bowed my head with grief, when that j a _ they have. You think you can do better
cendiary book appeared with some sixty- than Jefferson, Hancock, 'Madison and
eight names of - the Republican members Adams. The people I represent do not
of this House appended, and the name of , think you can. If they are to choose be
the present distinguished Speaker at the tween two forms of government they would
head of the entire list. It was recom- j take that of Washington instead of that
mended by these signers as
,a work of 'of Lincoln. Sir, I too hold, and shall to
very great public merit, and approved for the last, to the Constitution of my fathers.
general circulation. But I would not ex- Its great principles sustain me while
pal him for that. No, I would not'even standing here in the face of a tyrannical,
censure him for that, except to differ with insolent majority, clinging, like a mariner
him as one member may differ from at sea with hope almost fled, at times in
another. I would argue the question with despair for my country, distracted with
him. I would tell him that he gave his the darkness overhead at the storm around,
s
name in a time of profound peace for war ; still clinging to and willing to perish on
that when the smoke and carnage of battle that Constitution, unchanged in letter and
were not, ascending, when the sky was spirit, believing that it will better restore
clear and the sun shining, he gave his this Union, if duly administered, than any
voice for strife and desolation—for the other instrument which the wisdom of man
war of John Brown—of servile inattrreo _ can give this down-trodden people.
lion ; not an honorable war, not a civilized ' You cannot oome to me with your
war, but a war of murder, of barbarism, charges about the war. I have done nay
of the slaughter of women and children in duty. No dollar.of moneyhas been paid
their... beds. .B_noh w4is the, vg . ioo of the mkt.* feed and clothe the eoldietif for which
„.,.
—who say , men should be shot for their
opinions ! I know nothing in the charac
ter, nothing in the military or civil career,
including his movement on Vienna, which
gives him the right to assume superiorty
over the members on this side of the
House. I listened to his low talk about
Copperheads creeping out of their holes.
It was not language becoming . the place
where he stands ; it was becoming the
precincts rather of a bar room political
gathering Indeed, to judge from his al
lusions to Gulliver's travels, he would be
more at home . there than lie is in the so
ciety of gentlemen. Sir, he volunteers
this assault on this side of the House.--
We have not sought it. Every man who
has served with me in Congress knows
that I dislike and avoid personal contro
versy,with my peers on this floor. But
the tenor and tone of the remarks of the
gentleman from Ohio seem to invite, to
challenge, to provoke unpleasant contro
versy. S 3 far as lam concerned and
those who sit around me, we respond with
&ft ince.
Mr. speaker, the 'general principles
which 1 have thrown out on the subject of
freNdirn of debate apply to every person.
I am discussing now, not merely the right
of a Democrat on this floor, I am discuss
ing the right of every Republican on this
floor. Igo further. lam discussing the
right of the humblest citizen of America,
the rizht to escape the galling yoke of
tyranny and oppression, the last right,
what Mr. Webster properly called a home
bred light, a fireside privilege, on the ea
whieli lc,• lie
~r, d not he calla. in
mlywhere. Run your mind's eye
ov,ir the i.f thiTi w.irH : The
d :spirit of bigotry and intolerance once
vii ,in d da.ee Gaiiloi) for saying that the
world moved, laic him on rho damp floor
.•f a dnuzeon, as the gentleman from Ohio
Selicakl would do with Lis political
oppousnts. Opinion was divided. Some
that was right, some said he
present Speaker of the House at that
time.
I have not yoted, unless detained by sick- those resolutions, that is, upon condition
ness from my seat. • I did not want this that they should be withdrawn from the
war, it is true. I thought it might have enemy's country. No pay was to be given
been and ought to have been avoided. I them while they were there. • The meanest
think to-day that peaceful remedies will I vote that any man, in my judgment, ever
better restore the Union than the prosecu- gave is a vote to stop the rations of the
tion of war under our present Administra- soldiers. It matters not whether the war
tion. - But while we are in war I stand by be right or wrong, the soldier must be
the soldier in the field. The domineering paid. To starve him is no statesmanlike
gentleman from the third district of Ohio plan by which to stop an unjust war. .Yet
(Mr. Schenck) cannot say as much. I that was precisely the vote given by the
will now attend to him for a few moments. gentleman from Ohio,!who now delivers a
Mr. Speaker, I will send to the Clerk's lecture to the House upon the subject of
desk, to be read, ,a curious paper, which American patriotism. There "it stands re
shows how the gentleman from the Dayton corded. There is a Nemesis of politics
district gave aid and comfort to the enemy which comes bank to avenge injustice and
in time of war at a former period .of our iniquity. It comes now to torment and
history. How violent was that gentlem n plague the gentleman from Ohio. It
a while ago ! How unsparing his denunci- avenges the wrong and outrage which he,
ations ! How fiercely he glared upon this seeks to inflict upon his colleague ; it
side of the House ! If he had the power comes now in the face of the soldiers of this
to wreak the wishes that were inflaming war, and tells them that the gentleman
his soul he would have waged a more dan- from Ohio would leave them to beggary
gerous war upon us here than he has ever and want if he should become dissatisfied
been able to we rte upon the enemy in the with this war as he was with the war against
field. How savagely he menaced this side Mexico. What man has done man will do
of the House ! Aid and comfort to the again.
enemy ! I will prove the gentleman him- Sir, I accept no lecture upon the subject
self guilty of that crime by his own state- of patriotism from such a sourse. But at
ment. the same time I freely admit that the gen-
You say that speaking against war gives tleman from Ohio had the right, the moral,
aid and comfort to the enemy. You say legal, and political right to introduce the
that voting against supplies gives aid and resolutions in regard to the Mexican war
comfort to the enemy. I will send to the if they embraced his sentiments. I would
Clefk's desk a series of resolutions offered have neither expelled nor censured him for
by the gentleman from Ohio in 1847, one his action. They were wrong in my judg
month before the glorious battle of Buena merit, but if they were right in his, then he
Vista was foughtr--one month, Sir, (to was right in offering them. I am for
Mr. Cravens), before you and other gallant toleration in all matters of opinion. We
gentlemen upou this floor charged the cannot 211 think alike. God did not make
enemy through a hail of death on that us so. You remember the parable, some
field, a battle-field which gave a President times thought to be taken from Scripture,
to the Republic. but said to have been uttered by Benjamin
It will be seen that whether or not the Frankin, on this great question of freedom
gentleman from Ohio had a Mexican face, of opinion. Aram was sitting one evening
he had a Mexican heart at that time in his at the d for of his tent when a wayfaring
breast.. He was then on the side of the man came by. Aram invited him to go in
enemies of the country. He offered reso- and sup with him. The wayfarer did so.l
lotions to withdraw our army from Mexico, Aram asked him to bless God before he 1
to h,r :rim, harrassed and scourged by the broke bread. The wayfarer said no,that he
enemy hanging upon its rear. We were was not his way of thinking. Immediately
fighting 'a foreign Power then. Are the Aram arose in wrath, took his stick and
S 'inborn people worse than a foreign peo- beat the stranger, wounding and bruising
pie ? Will you wage more relentless war him, and driving him from the shelter of
upon them than upon foreigners ? Are his roof.
Mexicans better than the people of Vir- In the silent watches of the night, how
ginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and the other ever, the voice of God came to Aram, ask-
Southern States? At the expense of being ing him, " where is the stranget ?"
declared disloykal, I say that I would be " Why," said Aram," I asked him to bless
willing to take them back into my frater- and return thanks before he partook of
nal embrace under the terms of the old bread, and he refused, so I drove him
Constitution. Aye, Sir, gladly and fondly, hence." " But," said the voice of the Al
-1 would rather make peace with them than mighty, " 1 have borne with that man, 1
with the filthy, broken, fragmentary, have known his opinions; I have allowed
diluted race of Mexicans. , him to live ; 1 have never beaten him and
[The Clerk then read, at the request of sent him into- the wilderness. Go, Aram
a
Mr. Voorhees, a long series of resolutions and find the victim of your miserable con
d
offered. in the House of Representatives duct, bring him back, and pour oil in his
wounds, feed him, and lay him on your
by Mr. Schenck during the war between
the United States and the Republic of best bed, and take care of him until he
Mexico. These resolutions being too lOW , is well." Such is the voice of divinity in
for our space, we iuserr only a portion of favor of freedom of speech, freedom of
them as follows :] thought, freedom of private conscience.
I implore gentlemen not to attempt to
'• IZe.solved by the Senate and House of liepre
sentadtves of the United :States of Amen= In strike it down. Let the error, if error it
Congress assembled, That in order to terminate the be, exist so long as truth is left free to
war unhappily existing between the United States
and Mexico, with due regard to the rights and Combat. it. In the beginning of time
national existence and independence of the two Re- these two principles were mae. They
publics, and with a view to bring about an honor- have walked on the earth together ever
able peace, the President of the United States be re
quested to withdraw all troops and military forces since. They have roamed the earth for
of the United States now• west of the Rio Grande in six thousand years. Truth and error have
Mexico to toe east side of the river.
That all volunteers now in the service of the been combating on fields of reason, on
United States be discharged, taking due care, in the battle fields, evorywhare.
order of discharge, that provision be made for the
return of all such volunteers to their respective
You, of the Abolition party, go back
homes, nr to the States in which they were mustered thirty years to the beginning of your own
inti ' t f il h e at " th v e le : t ,
... re o s r ia a li n e ! (i a u e v r e e r q fl u w e e st n ed and aadvised to organization. W. rat was it you then most
keep all, or such portion as he may deem necessary warmly contended .for? What but the
fur that purpose, of the regular army under his corn- right, the immortal right to speak your
mend, along or near the western frontier of the
United States, prepared to repel or prevent any en- sentiments, to denounce your political ac
craachment or depredation by Mexican citizens or cusers, and to stand before the world as
soldiers on the territory, property, or people of this
freemen ? Suppose this gag law, this in-
Union, while any question or controversy shall re
main unsettled between the Governments of Mexico strument of tyrants, this odious relic of
and the United States. * * * barbarism, again revived in this Hall, had
That no further increase of the present Regular
army of the U. S. shall be made by enlistment or been applied to some men now sitting
otherwise; but as fast as the terms of enlistment of around me ! I protest before the living
sh i a d ll th b s e n r o lu i c n eal h u e nt s i e l r i't ic is e l ' ) . o a r Y ig 't"tioreihtehenuamrlyr God that I never knew a man wearing the
that was in the service on the first of January, 1847. shape of man whom I would not stand and
" That it is against the policy and interest of this protect in his right of free speech, were he
Government to wage a war for the conquest of terri
tory, and there should not be acquired, by any to utter his sentiments in a decorous and
treaty to tie negotiated and concluded between becoming manner. Your party inscribed
the United States and Mexico, any territory what
everywhere on their banners, " Free
ever additional to the territory now lying legally
an'a properly within the present limits of the United speech." Deny it to-day if you dare.
States, or within the boundary of any now existing Trample it in the dust. Spit upon it and
state of this Union.
“ That no application of any money appropriated, despise it if you will. The world will do
or to be appropriated, by act of this Congress, for epise you when you do the act. History
carrying on the existing war with Mexico, or for in- •
creasing, strengthening, or in any way supplying will rake up the deed and preserve it, and
the military or naval defences or forces of this gov- the historian will despise you as he writes
eminent shall be made, nor is any expenditure I it down. Posterity will despise this day in
thereof authorized, except such application and ex
penditure be strictly in accordance with the declare- all the calendar of time as the one on which
tion rend provisions of these resolutions." liberty was murdered in the Capitol.
Mr. Voorhees continued. The House The heart and judgment of the world
has heard the resolutions that I sent up to will execrate you for the deed, just as it
be read. I have simply to say in regard j to-day execrates the memory of the bloody
to them that if members upon this side of monster Robespierre ; just as it recalls the
the House are traitors in consequence of form of St. Just to loathe him. These are
their opinions antagonistic to the present your models. Go back further. Nero was
war, the gentleman from Ohio was a trai- an early founder of your school of politics.
tor in January, 1847, when he introduced Some one man, I suppose, is to do all the
these resolutions, if there is aid and thinking here. So Nero thought. So the
comfort to the rebels in arms in the posi- I blood-stained monsters of the French
tion of any gentleman here, then there Revolution thought. So the odious tyran
was aid and comfort thrice over to - the meal bigots of the English Revolution of
Mexicans in the resolutions just read.' 1640 thought. These are your examples.
Every Mexican lancer that murdered our I implore you to discard them. Walk out
-wounded men hailed the name of the gen- in the light of liberty, and appeal to the
demon from Ohio as his friend. Every people. Pell them you will trust them.
guerrilla that preyed upon our trains, What a commentary on the intelligence of
struck down and murdered weak escorts, the people.
cut off supplies from our starving soldiers, I You will not allow the gentleman from
hailed the gentleman from Ohio as a co- Ohio to speak. - Perhaps next you will not
worker with him in expelling the Ameri- allow me to spdligt, other gentlemen from
can army from Mexico. The Mexicans Ohio, and others around me. Why ?
were working to get our army out of tl eir Are you afraid you cannot meet us in
country, and the gentleman from Ohio was argument ? Are - you afraid that the peo
working to the same end. pie will not be just and true I Are you
Sir, Ohio seems unfortunate. If the afraid they have not virtue enough to fol
gentleman whom you seek to expel (Mr. low the right and discard the wrong? You
Long) be unfaithful to his country in time must believe that they have not that in
of war, he has very illustriouS precedents telligence, or that they will not be true to
in the former history of his State. Her their own judgment, or you would be wil
voice has been heard in the other branch ling to trust them to discriminate between
of Congress in tones forever memorable : right and wrong. Sir, I trust the people.
Aid and comfort to the enemy ! Corwin I challenge you before that great tribunal.
stands very high with this Administration. lam willing to stand or fall by its decision,
He is very properly a Minister to Mexico. and always have been. If you crush me
He invoked the soldiers of Santa Anna to before the Amerioan people,before that tri
murder our gallant troops, and lay them hi:mai where free speech has full sway, I
in hospitable graves in a foreign land. To will go down without a murmur. If I can
the best of their ability they obeyed his drive you from place and power in the same
bloody instructions. Such was the posi- arena by the same means, if you are honest
tion of these distinguished friends of the men you will submit also without complaint
Administration from Ohio during a war But if you think because you have the
with a foreign foe—Mr. "Corwin in the power to-day that you can gag me, that
Senate, and the gentleman from the Day- you oan dehy to me the right to speak,
ton district (Mr. Schenck) in the House. then woe to this nation. When you under-
They were cooperating together. By take to carry that purpose into effect, the
voice and vote they were encouraging the day of doom will be upon us. It cannot
Mexicans to fight, and to fight on ; and be done ; you' know it' cannot be done
while our troops were met in front by Mex- without a conflagration that shall light up
loans, they were assailed in the rear bythe very arches of the sky from ocean to
these distinguihed allies. •
ocean. Are you ready for this issue T
By the last resolution just read at the 'Do you want it ? If you do, it oan be
desk
. no money was to be paid to our troops made by the expulsion of the gentleman
'except in •accordance with the provisions;of 'front Ohio . . This Will no longer be an
..., „.
BUOBANAN.
American Congress. We .will be chained
slaves, and the next question to determine
Rill be whether as men of htinor we can
remain and wear the yoke:
Sir, this is a painful theme. to me. I
feel more of sorrow than of anger Over
such an issue. Let me appeal to the sense
of justice which I know animates some
breasts on the other side of the chamber.
Let us not misunderstand each Let
us not misunderstand each other. Let us
deal with each other as honest men, striv
for a common purpose—the restoration' of
our unhappy country. You may have your
views of what policy is most conducive to
that end; you have the right to your opin
ions'-'; I have the right to mine ; but be
cause of this difference of opinion in regard
to accomplishing the same °bd, by all
that we hold dear in the presen ', and by all
our hopes in the future, let us not out each
other's throats and precipitate strife and
vibleneo here and all •over the land. The
eivillized world would cry shame upon
such a scene, and the latest generations of
our posterity will heap reproaches on our
memory.
SOMETIME.-It 18 a sweet song, flowing
to and fro amongst the topmost bough of
the heart, and fills the air with joy and
gist ness as the songs of birds do, when
thelummer morning comes out of the
darkness, and the day is born on the moun
tains. We have all out possessions in the
future, which we call sometime.' Beau
tiful flowers and sweet singing birds are
there ; only our hands seldom grasp the
one, or our ears hear, except in faint far-off
strains, the other. But, oh, reader, be of
good cheer for to all the good, there is a
golden sometime !' When the - hills and
valleys of time are passed, when the wear
and fever, the disappointment and the sor
row of life over ; then there is a place and
the rest appointed of Gad. A homestead
over whose blessed roof falls no shadow of
even clouds; across whose threshold the
voice of sorrow is never heard ; built upon
the etern it hills, and standing with the
spires and pinnacles of celestial beauty,
among the palm trees of the'city on high,
those who love God shall rest under the
shadows, where there is no more sorrow,
nor pain, nor sound of weeping—sometime.
11 It is as hard a thing to maintain a
sound understanding, a tender conscience,
a lively, gracious, heavenly frame of spirit,
and an upright life amid contention, as to
keep your candle lighted in the greatest
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