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In Reply to Senator Sumner of Massachu
setts, in defence of President Johnson.
[From the Congresalonel Globe, Dec. St.)
Ma. COWAN—Mr. President, I am not
disposed to allow the speech of the hon
orable Senator from Massachusetts (Mr.
Sumner) to go to the country without a
very brief reply. If that speech be true,
and if it be a correct picture of the South,
then God help us; then this Republic,
this Union, is at an end, then the great
war which we waged for the',Union was
a folly; then all the blood and treasure
which we have expended in that war in
order to restore ourselves to companion
ship with the people of the South have
been equally follies. But, Mr. President,
is it true ? Or is not this a series of ex
parte statements made tip by anonymous
letter writers, people, who are down there
' more than likely stealing cotton, people
who are down there in the enjoyment of
place and power, people who are interes
ted that the disturbed condition of things
which exists there now shall always con
tinue because they make profit of it ? Is
there any man who has had any experi
ence in the trial of causes, any man who
knows anything about the nature of evi
dence, who does not know that the hon
orable Senator could have sent his emis
saries into any one county in the lately
rebellious States, and gather the expres
sions of knaves and fools and disconten
ted, single idead people, far more than he
has given us in this speech P
We are told here of the exceptional in
stances of bad conduct on the part of the
people of the South. Why, what a large
volume it would take to hold all that ?
Ha man were to go about anywhere in
the loyal States and bunt up what he
might suppose to be treasonable expres
sions, heretical expressions, bow many
could he find ? And yet we are treated
to all this here as it was the whole of the
evidence in the case. One man out of
ten thousand is brutal to a negro, and
this is paraded here as a type of the whole
people of the South, whereas nothing is
said of the other nine thousand nine hun
dred and ninety men who treat the negro
well. One man expresses a great deal of
dissatisfaction at the present state of af
fairs, and that is paraded here while noth
ing is said of the other ten thousand men
who are contented to accept it and make
the most of IL
4 What, then, are we to do P We are to
suppose that the people of the Sduthern
States lately in rebellion have common
sense; and when their utterances are in
accordance with what is common sense
and the dictate of their own interest, we
have a right to presume it to be true.
But according to what we have just heard
everything that has come from the people
of these States, and from their public
bodies, from the representatives of these
people, is to be taken as false ; and why ?
Because some cotton agent, some corres
pondent of a radical newspaper in the
North, some office holder who has been
making a profit of the state of things
there chooses to say it is all false 1 The
heresy of States rights is net destroyed
there, the honorable Senator sa)s. Have
we not heard from almost all, the public
men of the South that that question was
put to the arbitrament of the sword; that
they have lost, and that they submit ?
Have they not acquiesced in the abolition
of slavery—that thing of all others which
was the last, in the opinion of many, that
they would submit to ? But still further
guarantees are wanted ; we are not told
what they are. What are they ? What
is wanted ? Everybody admits that the
negro ought to have his natural rights se
cured to him. I believe all the moderate,
conservative men of this Chamber are ful
ly agreed that every man should have his
natural rights secured—the rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the
protection of property, limbs and reputa
tion; that he should have the right to sue
and be sued, and to testify in courts of
justice. The negro has not hitherto been
allowed in the Southern States to testify
in courts of justice, and why P Because
he was a slave, and if I bad been a citi
zen of the Southern States when slavery
prevailed there, I would have resisted
I& right to testify in courts.
A witness, like a voter, ought to be a
free man; he should not belong to another
man. What chance would a litigant have
against the master of slaves, if the slave
could testify ? It seems to me that the
slaves ought not-to testify for the same
reason that the wife ought not to testify
either for or against the husband. Would
you ask a negro to testify against his mas
ter, to go back to that master and be sub
jected to his ill will because of his testi
mony ? Would you allow him to testify
for the master as against a party on the
other side ? Certainly not. But now
this state of things has passed away.
Now the people of the Southern States
themselves, so fares I understand them,
are in favor of opening the courts to all
these classes of,pcople. And, sir, they
inust , open them for their own security.
I am willing to leave that to themselves,
their own • interest will ,compel them to
allow all people to testify, unless they are
Great Bend, Pa
D. W. BEAILLX
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SENATOR COWAN, OF PENWA.
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, JAN. 23, 1866.
excluded by those disabilities that have
heretofore excluded witneges from testi
fying. If the honorable Senator from
Massachusetts, and those who think with
him, desire that these people should have
the right of suffrage, why not say so
broadly
Mr. Sumner—l do say so.
Mr. Coivan—Very well ; that is so
much that is clear; make it broadly; we
may differ from him, but the people will
decide. lam perfectly willing to acqui
esce in their decision; I do not care which
way it is ; but the people will decide that
question, and they will decide it prompt
ly. If the honorable Senator from Mas
sachusetts wants to hold the doctrine that
these States are no States, that they are
no constituent members of this Union,
let him say so; there is a tribunal to
which they can be referred. If he wishes
to take issue with the President on these
points, let the issue be made fairly and
squarely, and it will be met. Thank God,
in this Government, not like that of Rus-
sia, which ho has eulogized, there is a
power to whose arbitrament apd award
we can appeal, and who will settle this
thing conclusively.
Now, Mr. President, I am for reconcil
iation. I want to have this Union re-
stored; and a Union means a Union by
consent, not by force. I would like to
make friends of all the people with whom
wd have been at enmity heretofore. Ido
not want the contest to go on any longer.
But are we to make friends with them,
and are they to be reconciled to us, and
are they to behave better by such speech.
es as have been made by the honorable
Senator here, to day ? I very much
doubt it. .1 do not think that he will im-
prove the condition of the Southern heart
or the condition of the Southern mind, by
thus parading these exceptional cases to
the people of this country, and stimulating
and exciting their angry passions more
than they are now against this unfortu
nate people—nnfortunate in every respect;
unfortunate on account of the penalty
which has followed those errors, and
which they have suffered.
Mr. President, let us look at this test
mony. The honorable Senator, as I said
before, reads frotn anonymous letter wri
ters, from cotton agents, and people of
that. kind. Now, it does so happen that
we have some testimony upon this sub
ject; we have the testimony of the Presi
dent of the United States, not a summer
soldier or sunshine patriot.
Mr. Sumner—l have not read anony
mous letters.
Mr. CoWan—They are anonymous so
far as we are concerned; and I commend
the Senator's prudence in keeping the
names of their writers from the public,
because I have no doubt that if their
names were shown they would not be
considered of much importance. I very
much doubt whether there is a single man
among them who has ever wielded any
thing more than a pen during the rebell
ion. But I say that we have the testimo
ny ofmen of unexceptionable veracity; we
have the testimony of the President of
the United States, who was a Union man,
and who was in favor of the Union at a
time and in a place where there was some
merit in it. I do not suppose that there
was any great merit in being a Union man
in Massachusetts. I suspect a man would
have been very likely to get a lamp post
if he had been anything else there; but the
President of the United States was a Un
ion man in the very thick and storm of
the battle. He was waylaid while com
ing hither in order to attend to his official
duties in this body. He has stood by the
Constitution, by the Union, all the way
through, steadily and firmly; and, as a
compliment to him, the great party to
which I belong, and to which be did not
belong, and never pretended to belong,
conferred upon him the office which, in the
Providence of God, has made him Presi
dent of the United States.
Now, sir, you are told here that this
man in his official communication to the
Senate of the United States, whitewashes
the condition of things down below. Yes,
sir, "whitewash" is the void. The hon
orable Senator says that he will not ac
cept the definition of "whitewash" given
by the Senator from Connecticut or the
Senator from Wisconsin, but he has not
told tis what be means by the word
" whitewash." It is not necessary that
he should say what be weans by that word.
Everybody understands it. I suppose
evert his colored friends, in whom be
takes so much interest, would know.what
the meaning of the word " whitetwash"
was. [Laughter.] He says that this
man, who stoad firm when everybody else
faltered—this man, who stood almost
alone in the midst of an enraged popula
tion, and in the very storm and strife of
the worst civil war perhaps the world has
ever seen—comes here to " whitewash."
What does be mean except that the Pre
sident of the United States, in an official
communication to this body, comes hire
to lie; that is the plain English of it; comes
here either to suppress the truth or to
suggest a falsehood.
What does the President lay ? I will
read what he says as a sufficient answer
to what all these people down South re
port of the state of affairs there, and I do
not find it necessary to deny thousands of
instances of exceedingly berati6al talk
that may have taken place, and of trea
sonable talk if you please; and I have no
doubt that in a state of things unparal
leled in the history of the world, hereto
fore, wrongs and outrages innumerable
happen there; but that is not the ques
tion. The question is what is the condi
tion of the mass of the people in the
South; what is their disposition and ten
dency; not to love the North, not to love
the honorable Senator from Massachu
setts—because I very much fear that that
will not be brought about soon unless
there is a change in the temper of both
parties—not to have hearts overflowing
with love and gratitude to those who they
think persecute and hunt' them in their
submission ; who kick an , strike at them
after they are down, a r they have
cried "enough"—but the s lestion is what
is their disposition to o y the laws ?
Wbat do we care about t eir hearts or
their dispositions if they a s obedient to
the laws, and submit to th : laws P Now
they have submitted to i
pose the heaviest penalty,
traitors the law imposes
death and confiscation of es
of fine. I will read what
says now of the condition
from the information he
"In that portion of the Union lately in
rebellion, the aspect of a,Esirs is more
promising than in view of I the circum
stances could well have be expected."
I think there is no candid in who will
not indorse that sentiment. 1 4 The peo
ple throughout the entire utb evince
a laudable desire to renew do 'r allegiance
to the Government, and to r it the de
vastations of war by a promp and cheer
ful return to peaceful pursuit
..
Why should they not? o suppose
anything else is to suppose t they are
demented. That they have o kind of
common sense left; that four ears of the
most terrible war, and the m terrible
punishmeet ever inflicted u ' a people, ,
have been without their lesso . It can
not
be, Mr. President; it is no la the na
ture of things that it should b 'i.
" An abiding faith" on the of this I
t
man who suffered from these p Tole; who
suffered from this war and thedoctrine of',
secession, and the attempt to Illreak the
Union. ra says. "An abidi faith is
entertained that their actions wi conform
to their professions, and that in knowl
edging the supremacy, of. the Co illation
and the laws of the United S es, their
loyalty 'will. be unreservedly gi to the
Government, whose leniency tb cannot
fail to appreciate, and whose fos 'ng care
will soon restore them to a con 'tion of
prosperity."
And here, Mr. President, allo me to
ask when in the history of this *odd or
of the human family, has it liappolied that
severity, cruelty, persecution, refusal to
' recognize common rights, has reeonoiled
a people and pacified a distracted Country;
and when has it happened thatcrimency,
I leniency, as the President ex pluses it,
has failed to produce beneficial Oaks ?
' Is it not necessary to go very f ' back
' for instances to show this. Loo at the
treatment of England toward reland.
i ll
What has been the result of bold g the
people in a species of vassalage ? lok Pen
ian insurrection upon her han d now.
After hundreds of years of att, pt to
n
I dominate over that people. -Loo -.at Po
land; look everywhere. And if i i ;b e ne
cessary to see what clemency, wht leni
ency and justice, and trust and eon deuce
can do to to restore a people once n rev
olution, take the conduct of Hoche n La
t
' Vendee. There, by the genius 1 one
man, high enough to be above , gee
passion', statesman enough to look the
I future, La Vendee was restosed to oe
and is them now, part and pare of it,
' with every recollection of the rev ration
effaced.
~
Says the President :
" It is true that, in some of thet e e
the demoralizing effects of war are b e
seen in occasional disorders"—th ' ef
fects are to be seen in the North aiNall
as in the south,—" but these are to " i n
character, not, frequent in occurrent and
I are rapidly disappearing as the stab tity
1
of civil law is extended and susta ed.
Perplexing questions were naturall t o
be expected from the great and so dee
change in the relations between the, y e
races, but systems are gradually dev op.
lug themselves under which the freed
will receive the protection to whit he
is justly entitled, and by means of li" la.
bor make himself a useful and indepen at
member of the community in wide be
has his home. From all the informa on
in my possession, and from that whi I
have recently derived from the most e.
liable authority. I am induced to c r.
ish the belief that sectional animosit is
surely and rapidly merging itself int a
spirit of nationality, and that represen •
than, connected with a properly adjust
system oftaxation, will result - in a har ,
mons restoration of the relations of t
States to' the NaCional Union."
There is a little more testimony. y ,
Mr. President, and it is worth while
consider, while we are here to take con
set and to know what we ought to do
the extraordinary situation in which
find, ourselves, from whom will we tak
that 'Counsel. Are we to take it fro
men, the purpose of whose life seems tab
to wage war upon these people and tbeii
Institutions ?--Sball we tab it from met
whom they hatepersonally and by name,
and to whom it is almost impossible to
suppose they ever will be reconciled, or
in the nature of things, can be reconciled?
Or are we to take• 'it from the men who
have not made this a personal war, who
have treated it as a national war, and who
in their conduct of'it, have won the ap
plause of both sections ? The President
says that part of his information has been
received from Geo. Grant. Who is Gen.
oral Grant ? Who is to be put in the
scale with that sacred soldier, and whose
testimony is to weigh down his? Is be
" whitewashing" here too ? Has he for
gotten the position be occupies before the
American people ? With the highest
military character of any man to day up
on the earth, has be condescended to come
here to deceive the Senateof his country,
and to see about the condition of affairs
in the south, which he has recently visi
ted ? Let us hear what he says, and list-
en with patient reverence to the utterance
of a man of sense, a patriot, and a prudent
man, who desires not to embroil, not to
wa which lm
or if they are
e penalty of
,tee by means
embitter, not to widen the gap that al•
ready exists between the two peoples,
who ought to be fraternally united, but a
man who desires to heal and to pacify ; a
man imbued with the spirit of Hoche
when he went to La Vendee, and where
be President
that people
is received :
be succeeded when others bad failed.
What does be say ? It is not the tone or
manner of the letter writer but it is in the
manner of a man and a soldier.
" I am satified," says he ; and When he
is , satisfied who dares say that he is not
satisfied upon the score of honesty and
good intent toward this Republic ? "I
am satisfied that the mass of thinking men
at the South accept the present situation
of affairs in good faith."
That is what General Grant says. Is
that " whitewashing ?"
"The questions which have heretofore
divided the sentiments of the people of
the two sections—slavery and State
rights, or the right of a State to secede
from the Union—they regard as having
been settled forever by the highest tribun
es—arms—that man can resort to."
It is now said that they do not think so
—that they are only pretending, and have
a covert purpose of doing something
hereafter about this thing, nobody can
tell exactly what. Perhaps we will be
told that they will not abide the result.
" I was pleased to learn from the lead
ing men whom I met, that they not only
accepted the decision arrived at as final,
but that now, when the smoke of battle
has cleared away, and time has been giv
en for reflection, this decision has been a
fortunate one for the whole country, they
receiving like benefits from it with those
who opposed them in the fi eld and in
council.'
Why,
Why, Mr. President, the common sense
of that last utterance is worth more as a
testimony than that of a thousand scrib
blers who merely look at detached points
of this great field.
They have resolved to accept the de
cision as final ; and, what we ought all to
be glad to know, they have found that it
is for their benefit. They have found too
after the smoke has cleared away, that
they are really in a better condition than
they were before, that they have been re
lieved from the incubus which oppressed
them for so long a time, and they are rea
dy now to take their places in the Union,
and alongside of the Northern States who
have made liberty their great principle in
stead of slavery. Why should they not?
If any man can give a reason why they
should desire to keep up this strife longer,
with their devastated fields, with their
treasuries empty, with their society dis
organized, I should like to hear it.
I therefore hope, Mr. President, that
we may meet them in a different spirit ;
that we may show to them that we made
this war, not to make them eternal ene
mies of ours; not to humiliate them, but
to rescue them ; that we made this war
to go and get them opt of the clutches of
the bad men who had misled them into
the gloomy realm of secession , and rebell
ion; and that we intend after the great
military victory that we have achieved,to
achieve another by magnanimity - and
clemency in our conduct toward them.—
That we will win them back to be as they
were before—our friends and brothers—
of the same race and tbq same lineage.
I ho too that this angry,. irritating,
and exciting mode of treating this sub
ject, which is calculated to make us any
thing else than friends, will be discarded
hereafter, and that we shall calmly and
cooly, and in the spirit of the nation, (be
cause that is the spirit of the nation,) ex
amine this question, and do with it that
which will be calculated to restore the
old harmony and peace, and the old Un
ion again.
tarA jury baying been sent out on a
plain case of assault and battery, where
the evidence clearly convicted the prison
er, came into court with the intelligence
that they . were unable to agree. The
court inquiring how they stood, andwhst
Was the cause of disagreement one of
their number stated that It wail
fortune to be associate& with eleven of the
most obstinate, ignorant, beetle-headed
Isles he ever saw—they were all for con•
victim), while be was unanimous for as
I VOLUME XXIII, NlimBEA,
Singular Mulder. , .;„
The Printing Bureau of the Ticicikr,y..,
Department at Virasbington recently
made a blunder of snob a'stupid - obaraW
ter that it - is a wonder it was not distov:
ered by some one of the many amebae*
in time to save the reputation of the gem ;
talisbment.
The careless and slovenly 'tnaiinerld
which they do things in the I" rinting'llu=
reau would ruin any job printing otheilin
the United States in six months. , Think,
I
for instance, of them striking off, do,poj i
know how many thousiind dollars, bat as ,
much as they wanted, at any rate; of
cent fractional notes, and then disciiver;
ing, when the work was completed; that
in the engraving the word " cente!"
. fia4
been omitted, and that the bill ,Feig4,
mean ten mills, ten cents, ten'&glare, or
d—s, just as might be agreed Upon'be:
tween the holder and the redeemer of
It had tens over it, but, the, Nord
"cents" didn't once occur.
Thefaux pas was not discovered witil
the greater part of the notes had been
paid out of the Department. An atempt,
is now being made to call in theeirone
ons issue, but the work proceeds very
slowly.
The head of the Printing Bureau is Mr.
Clark, about whom a Congressional. In
vestigating Committee told so lieuy
naughty stories a year and a half ego.—
But there seems to be some hidden'virtui
in him that made him invulnerable:4CW
respondence Cincinnati Commercial, (Re-,
publican.)
Speaking extemporaneousl7 is faifit6t;
difficult until you get used to n. 'A mini
lawyer in New Hampshire, who bad:nev
er yet bad a case in court, was invited - 40
deliver an oration on the occasion °hi'a
dedication of a new bridge. It. was s fine
opportunity of establishinghis reputation.
He did not prepare himself, for he - had
an idea that that was unlawyer-like,,a9d
that a lawyer must be able to speak
,any,
number of hours a style of thrilling el
oquence at a moment's notice. He wick!
upon the platform, and amid the profound
attention of his hearers , commenced as
.
follows :
rzu.ow Crrtzess : Five and-forty years
ago, this bridge built by your enterprise;
was part and parcel of the " howling wilt
derness."- -He pauses for a , moment:' :
"Yes, fellow-citizens, oily five-and-ford
ty years ago, this bridge, where we now
stand, was part and parcel of the howling
wilderness." Again he paused. [Cries
of " Good, go on." Here was the rub. -
" I hardly feel it necessary to .repeat
that this bride, fellow-citizens, only five
and-forty years ago, wan part and pariiel
of the howling wilderness—and—ktad T
will conclude by saying that I wish it - waii
part and parcel of it now I" .
Another orator we have beard. tell Grp
in appealing to the. "bone and einew * ".
said :
"My Friends—l am proud to . eeo
around me to-night, the hardy yeomarje
of the land, for I love the agricultural in
terests of the country and well may I
love them, fellow citizens, for I was born
a farmer—the happiest days of my youth
were spent in. the peaeeful avocations of
the sun and soil. If I may be allowed to
use a figurative expression,
my friends,'
may say, I was raised between Vito
rows of corn."
"A pumpkin, by thunder," exclaimed
an inebriate chap just in front •of the
speakers stand.
In our opinion the pay of legislators et
Harrisburg as increased by themselv es=
from $7OO to WO for. services rendered
is entirely too high.
The West Chester Record say? 'that
one thousand dollars for fifty-two 'days:
service this year, with postage stamps
thrown in ad libitum, is certainly a'olee;
tie" too steep, especially as the pay in oth
er States is only from $2 to $4 a day, - for
sessions running from fifty to one hand%
red and thirty days.
We think with the Record, that the
Republican members of the Legislature;
should set an 'example by
. cutting down
the unnecessarily high salaries. Regrou&
ment should be the order of the day . bil
every departibent of government.. '"We
urge our exchanges to refer to Able eXj:
travagance and frown it down.--. Rep. Ihr;
larThe. following story is told: of
Rev. Dr. Morse:
__
At an association dinner a del:waitron,
as to the use of the rod in bringing,np,
children. The doctor. took the atEreliv
tive, and the chief opponent was a ydiog:
minister, whose reputation for, Variety:
was not , high. He maintained .thatinlF
recta often do barni to tbeit childOu
unjust punishnient, from , not kno_wtottimi•
facts of the case., " Why," said4o,"the
only time icy, father ever whipped me
WAS for Oiling tli* truth." "W 01 47
totted :the " it' naiad' you' of It;
didn't itl" — ~
_
Ir§rA boarder At one.nfour oity,,b9ard.
log-homes, on being asked , bow•theyiivot
there, replied ,that thtc.haish.'.la - .;rathirr
doubtful, but the beeflsratibully.,"!,Ttbri
dubious:indorsement. failed. tolltirget at!
new boarder.
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Two Oratorical
Too Extravagant,
t:0-ra