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Posterity w ill remember with gratitude that spark of patriotism which led it to— the tomb. But it is not altogether dead. Non omnis mortar. It survives in the mem ories of men and in 5,000 pages of Con gressional Globes ! Upon five volumes of immortal type, piled quarter upon quarto, sits, as on a sublime pedestal of talk, this American Rump ! [Laughter.] It is,there fore, monumental 1 Let me lay my immor telles on its tcmb. Nero had his friends, and his affection, after his death, has an his toric fragrance. I would lay my little for get-me-not at the shrine of this congrega tion of petty Neros. My sadness is very similar to that of the minister who was re quested to preach the funeral of a very bad young man. After giving his characteris tics he ordered the body removed while the choir sang the hymn ; ' With rapture we delight to see This wicked cuss removed !" True it was not a symmetric body. It was a rump. It was a misbegotten an! misshapen. But it was all ours. The mother loves more dearly her mutilated offspring True, it was not angelic indis position. It had in its nature more tem per than reason ; m ire wickedness and less love ; more gall and less milk. But chari ty condones for such infirmities in a rickeU ty organism. [Laughter.] Its composition, motives and acts, were incongruous and extraordinary. Before viewing them, let me tell you what the I hirtv-niiith Congress should have been.— The war had ceased. Its object, the res toration of Federal authority,was achieved! Ihe incubus cf secession had been thrown from the national breast. where it had been coiling tor four years ; and the good men of the land were pouring balm into the hall healed wounds. It was under these peaceful omens that this Congress met. By the law of the fourth of March, 1862, it was declared that after the 3d of March, 18<>3, "the number of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United Mates should be 211." Could this law, passed since the war, be carried out after peace caine? Why not? It was as much of a law as that which gave to the Clerk of the Uou.se, the right to ignore States in making his roll. It remained un repealed. The 241 members never all took their scats. Only a fraction secured them. Hence it is called a Rump. To make up this number of 241. Virginia was allowed 8 ; Tennessee, 8 ; Georgia, 7; North ( aiolina, 7 ; South Caioliira. 4 ; Arkansas, 3 ; Louisiana, 5 ; Mississippi. 5; Alabama, b ; Uloiida, 1 ; and Texas, 4 ; Here were 58 members ready to sit in the Federal Legislature. They were anxious to serve the interests of great peoples to be affected by its legislation. Two Senators were ready, or soon would have been, to represent each of these eleven States.— They were not excluded for disloyaltv ; for no inquiry was condescended upon that point of qualification. Nevada, California, Oregon—far distant and new ly made States linked to us by no historic associat:on—on ly by their shining ores and grand adven tures ; these wore represented ; but, on the call at the roll, 58 members and 22 Senators, from States full of all revolution ary and fraternal memories and anxious to be imbound aeain in the same destiny, were debarred. If these 11 States were in the Union on the 4th of March, 1862, when the Republicans, passed the law fixing the number of members—why were they not in on the 4th of December, 1863, when,sit ting under the painted escutcheons of the States in our Capitol halls, 24 usurped the rights of .35 ? [Cheers.] Those gilded and colored ceilings, each panel of which train ing the emb'em of a State sovereignty, but all irradiate with the luster of a common central orb glowing through them upon the hall beneath, should have been a far more significant appeal for representation than even the empty seats or the 58 members or the vacant chairs of 22 senators, Why was this ? Ilistorv will, in vain, strive to answer, until she brings her microscopic ken to bear upon the partisan infusorice which have wriggled their hour in this Congressional element. In the analysis of this singular unrepresentative body, where one-third of the States, were not,l propose first to glance at the men and then at the measures of this Congress. 1. As to the men ; they are classed as partisans. Over two thirds in each House were of the Republican party, and known as Radicals. With the exception of three and, perhaps, four of the Republican mem - bera from the North, there was always con cert of action and votes among these two thirds. In the Senate there were Cowan, Dixon, Doolittle and Norton. Who, amid the reign of error Dared sublimely to be true. Tbey stood undaunted among their vindic tive brothers, holding up the hands of the President in his patriotic efforts to enkindle love and inspire patriotism. In the House "TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAIf*S RIGHT. "—Thomas Jeflersou. TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5, 1866. . I can recall but one, whose vicissitudes of policy leave me in doubt as to his classifica tion. That doubt, I trust, i 9 yet to be clear ed up. I refer to Mr. Raymond. He has been harshly criticised by his own friends ; but I will not copy their dispraise, as he is my Congressman. Though elected by the opposite party, I will do him the justice to say lie is half right all the time; for he has given some votes in vindication of a patriotic President and a democratic policy although he voted for the Directory and negro suffrage qualified. TFe will discuss him hereafter. The paity ascendant were led by men of the French revolutionary type, like Robes pierre and Canaille Destnoulins, the attor ney general of the lamp post. They were full offine theories, which they illustrated in "bloody instructions." They lacked the courage of Marat, Danton and Mirabeau, and the purity of the Girondists chiefs.— Sumner,Fessenden and Wade furnish types of the dominant Radical, while Stevens, Boutwell, Bingham, Washburn, Wilson, Davis, Colfax and Wentworth furnish sam ples of the unconsionable, vindictive, incon gruous, pietislic parliamentarians who,with out heeding the warnings of history, the sanctions of law, or the interests of Union pursued their course regardless of their country's need. [Cheers.] But the ruling spirit of these Jacobins was Thaddeus Stevens. . He is a man of iron will, strong convictions, unfailing sar casm, and vindictive feeling. His familiar speeches consist in references to the abodes of the damned, as if familiar with their ru ler. He has been likened to that prince.— But he resembles not the Satan of Milton, whose sublime courage we respect, and whose intellect we admire—nor the Mephis topheles of Goethe, whose insidious disgui ses and tempting lure led German scholars like Faust and lovely Gretchens, like Mar garet to ruin. Rather he resembles the devil of Dante, who is represented as a three-faced devil —one red with anger, one pale with envy, and the third black with vengeance; having three mouths— Aud at every mouth • sfoner champed. After which he swallowed his colleagues ii diabolical gl> e. [Laughter.] This was the geniuswho presided over the junta of fif.ecn, and gave impression to the mis deeds of the Thirty-ninth Ctngress. The minority, led by such constitutional statesmen sis lieverdy Johnson and Hen dricks, had but little opportunity to chal lenge these champions to debate. By lung force, by previous questions, by expulsion of the minority members, Voorhecs, Coff roth, Baldwin and Brooks—following the sad and bad example of the Senate in ex pelling the truly honorable Senator from New Jersey, to gain a two-thirds majority to cripple and thwart the President—this majority illustrated the cowardice of the bullyj and made its legislation the counter part of that generous spirit which strikes the fallen foe. 2. From the composition of the body, you might well infer its legislation. Rev eling in the spirit of war after peace had come, breathing bitterness instead of broth crhood, giving reproaches for reconciliation, and penalties for pardon, (cheers,) it at once,before its session began, crossed swords with the humane and generous policy of the President. This body began its wicked career in a bidden caucus ol obligarchis to foil the President's good work and circumvent his plans. Determined to keep out the eleven States, it recked not of the commerce, in dustry, and happiness of the people. By its fruits let it be judged ! Men do not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles. Patriotism is not bom of sectional asperi ties, nor does healing come from the poignatd's point in the brigand's hands! Let me pluck some of the Irait of this Congress; whether it suit your taste or not, you have to pay for the planting and nurture, ; From the 4th of December to the last of July, there has been offered by the Radi cals constitutional amendments, forty-five bills and resolutions for keeping up disunion seventy-three ; bills aud resolutions as to the negro exclusively, forty-nine. That these were not all passed is no credit of the Congress, but proceeds from the feeble ness of iutellect, which could not frame co herent parts to the system of destruction and vengeance they designed. More than two thousand pages of the Globe are taken up with discussions about the negro ques tion of suffrage and representation alone.— So common became tins ncgromania that the galleries were thronged with ignorant Africans, hoping for the most impossible Utopias from these soi distant,les amis des ?ioirs\ and a member from Illinois moved to set apart one day of the week as a "white m.in'p day." (Laughter.) When the Congress met it was under secret and caucus control and with hypo critical pretenses. On the sth of Decem ber last, the Senate was called to order.— Its chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Gray, gave glo ry to God that the republic survived ; that the desolation of war had ceased, and the ground no longer shook beneath the tread of armies; that the statue of freedom —a colored female, by the bye [laughter)— looked down from the Capitol upon the entire nation of freemen, and that this was the acceptable year of our God I Tbi6 prayer had scarce been uttered be fore Senator Wade offered a bill to allow the negroes to vote, Mr. Wilson one to main tain the freedom of the blacks, and Mr. Sumner seven bills and resolutions to make this a republican form of Government!— How? By prescribing oaths and guar antees, penalties and constitutional amend- ments! (Globe, p 2.) A beautiful com ment on this acceptable yea* of our God! The house met. It dispensed with the mockery of such a prayer. It proceeded to call the members of only twenty-four States! The republic had survived! — Then the clerk halted, when the tall, gaunt dark-haired member from Tennessee, Mr. Mavnard, loomed upon his vision, holding aloft his credentials from the Governor of Tennessee ! The clerk, under caucus or ders, closed his eyes to the intruder. He was called upon to recognize the member who had, even since the war, sat for his State. "No?" He was asked to give rea sons for thus disowning a State. He said, iu reply to Mr. Brooks ; "Let my record stand." And there it stands, Mr. Mc- Pherson ; and for that act of yours there is no amnesty from the muse your court. 1 would not do you injustice. History, even your own, will only place you behind the caucus which you served, blowing the bellows while Thaddeus Ste vens touches the keys of the great party organ! (Laughter and cheers.) That Mentor and Tormentor of the House com ing to the clerk's rescue, said : "It is not necessary to give reasons ; we know all," Mr. Broojcs still pressed the matter, chal enged debate, and charged that a private caucus had aranged this partial and atro cious legislation; but at last, being choked down, upon the same arbitrary principle upon which he .was afterwards crowded out, the House proceeded to elect Schuy ler Colfax as Speaker. Amid the hurrahs of fattening parasites iu the galleries, he organized this tumultuous and revolution ary assembly—telling them, while even yet the musterings ol the eleven disfran chised and enslaved States were echoing in the hall, and before Mr. Maynard had folded bis credentials with their seal and ribbon—"that the war had melted all fet ters, and that the stars on our banner which had paled in rebellion now shone with a more brilliant luster." Eight months roll away,-and the pallor of these brighten ing stars—all except one—has gone into another eclipse under the opaque Radical ism jwhicb, to Mr. Speaker, was growing so luminous. As is to make this absurdity more pal pable, the speaker caused at once a tele graph to be read, that the State, the btutc of Alabama, had just voted for the consti tutional amendment abolishing slavery ! the huzzahs again rang forth, and sleek, ration-fed negroes from the galleries joined in the indecorous acclaim! fLaughter.) "Wo know all;" well said Thaddeus Ste vens, for had not the caucus arranged ev erything ? No sooner had Alabama been cheered as a State, than the caucus resolu tion was drawn from the pocket ol Mr. Stevens, It appointed fifteen members from both the Senate and House, to stand guard over the halls ofCongress, and keep back the States from representation in eith er House. Two thirds voted to receive it in the House, and 138 voted for it—not one Republican, not even Mr. Raymond, voting no. (Globe 6.) This was what constituted that junta which has usurped the functions of the House and Senate, having under the Constitution the right to judge each for itself of the qualifications of its members. The record shows how this junta, which was afterward confirmed by the Senate, kept their rights till the last hours of the session, when Ten nessee was suddenly jerked in, with a rope around her neck, in degradation and shime The House having been withontthe unc. tion of prayer, on its first day, and feeling its necessity (laughter,) proceeded on its second day to elect a chaplain. Ten fight ing gospellers were at once nominated— all anxious to interlace their orisons with suggestions to the Deity about regulating human affairs, and lectures to the House about reconstructing the negro race.— (Laughter.) Most ol the ten were urged because they had worn the mail over the cassock, had smelt gunpowder, and were regular devils in the way of fighting, and good at fighting devils, thus fitting them for prayer to the prince of Peace! Surely now the House is baptized in the spirit of fraternity ! Accordingly, on the day fol lowing, the chaplain thanks God for a uni ted country; that there is not one star missing; that the wounds are healing; that there is no slave, master, nor chain, in ' the whole country. This in the face of the House which had erected an oligarchy of fifteen to fetter eleven conquered States! Such hypocrisy is only equalled by its au dacity. (Cheers.) hor it was but a few days after this, that a Senator from Michi gan while in debate (p. 24) declared that these States were conquered communities - communities in which the right of self government does not exist. (Globe 24,] lie demanded that there should be a decla ration by the Executive that hostilities had ceased, before be would recognize them as States. But when that proclamation was made on the 2d of April last, he still held that these States were in provincal bond age 1 The war, it seems, had not melted all fetters and the stars were all on the flag! TUlien this unprecedental legislation came before the Senate on the 12th of De cember, 1865, Senators Cowan and Doo little protested against this veto, by one branch of Congress, through this Commit tee of Fifteen, upon the action of the other in reference to the admission of members. But their protests were unheeded. That committee locked the doors of Congress in the face of approaching States, not once or twice, bnt continually through the largest part of the year past. This, the record I produce, will show. When Mississippi appeared with the credentials of Senators, Alcorn and Sharkey, they were laid on the table, preparatory to being swallowed like all the rest by the Directory. (Globe 7.) When again, on the 12th of December, Mr, Raymond presented the credentials of the Tennessee members, Mr. Stevens waiv ed him to the committee which he had too fatally helped to erect Said Mr. Stevens: "The State of Tennessee is not known to this House nor to Congress. " % a vote of 132 Republicans to 35, Tennessee was committed to the Morgue for some 8 m'nths before her friends recognized her as the old familiar State of Jackson and John son. On the 13th of December, 1 865, Mr, Guthrie made an attempt to bring in the Louisiana Senators ; but it was folded by Mr. Grimes. On the I4th Mr. Wilson, in the House, offered a resolution, sending all the papers lie could into the grave dug by the caucus for the States. A Republican member, Mr. Davis, with great simplicity, inquired whether it was in order to pa>s a resolution like that tor the Committee of Fifteen, in conflict with the Constitution. [Laughter.] This naivete produced an outburst of Radical laughter ; and it seem ed by the vote that followed that it was considered in order to abolish the Consti tution. The directory were sustained— -107 to 55. Again, on the 18th, Clay Smith presented a luval soldier, with his credentials from Arkansas, for admission' He found himself quickly, with his friend, in "the cold obstruction of the grove," and earth piled upon him until his utterance was choked, by the previous question.— (Globe, 08.) After three days, to wit, on the 21st of December, the hand of resurrection seemed to be at work scraping away the inhospita ble earth. (Laughter.) Clay Smith reach es from the sepulchre, with skinny fingers, I shakes the "great seal of the State of Ar kansas" [page 11C] on the face of the ! House, and "begs the poor boon for bis i friend Col. Johnson, member elect, of be ing recognized as gentleman, (laughter,) and a claimant by sitting on the floor!" Even this grace was denied hiin, and Clav became again, with his liiend,of the earth, earthy. This recognition of gentility un der such plau.-ible introduction was with held! Nothing discomfitted, the member from Kentucky attempts to withdraw Ten nessee from the directory and send her to the more sprightly committee on Elections (p 116;) but a shovel full of gravel from the inflexible Sexton, Thaddeus Stevens, settled the spasmodic effort. He, subsid ing until the 13th of February, 1866, (page 812,) when he again makes a post-mortem attempt; but seventy-eight Radicals, with an energy which would have made an im pression upon a cornfield, or a canal, united tbeii shovels, and raised a mound over his i perturbed spirit. (Laughter.) Singular spectacle 1 Dead and not dead ; alive, and yet not alive; entomed, yet ever restiess ! What absurdities ! Consider ! On the 13th of T lay, 1862, lUest Virginia was ad mitted, in pursuance of a clause of the Constitution, which required that the Leg islature of the State of Virginia should give its consent; yet when\irgiu:a comes to he represented, she is not a State ! An drew Johnson, jk oclaiintd \ ice I'resident, from the State of lennessec, by Vice Pros iden' Ilamlin. on the 18th of February, 1865, when President, lo! is from no State in the Union ! By the law of 1862, all these dead States are taxed as States bv a direct tax ! By the decision of the United States Courts, first, in the case of the Cir cassion from Florida; aud secondly, in Harvey against Tyler, from X lrgioia, by Justice Miller, these States were held to be vital in every part. By the speeches and proclamations of President Lincoln, by his appointment to federal offices in these States, the fallacy of their death bv suicide is scouted. Surely these jackals wish to consider their prey dead,that they may fatten on them, to whet and gorge their appetite for power and plunder.— [Cheers.] Dead for representation, but alive for taxes 1 [Cheers ] Dead for a President, but alive for a Vice ! Alive for dividing old Virginia, but dead when Virginia is a link in the cordon of the Union ! Alive to walk outside the Cap itoi, hut dead when they ask to ho admit ted to its equal honors! So it goes on to the end of the session. But at last radical ism grew anxious an exposition of these incongruities. The people are not satis tied. Even some Republicans gj-ew anx ious, I find Mr. Davis of New York in troducing a bill making it an offense to cre ate Jacobin clubs to control Congress. (471) On tho 18th of December, 18G5, Mr. Ste vens propounded in a speech his proposi tus for the government of the conquered provinces, as he styled them. (74.) Con gress, he held, was sovereign, and it was time she "should assert something of the dignity of a Roman Seriate." [Laughter.] Denying that this was a white man's gov ernment, as political blasphemy, he pre ferred that the slaves should have been left in bondage, rather than free without suffrage. "A white man's government," lie exclaimed, "is as atrocious as the infa mous sentiments that damned the late Chief Justice to everlasting fame, if not to everlasting fi re. This exposition seemed n poor excuse for excluding States re deemed from secession by blood. On the 19th of December, 1865, this "Roman Senate" were compelled to listen to a message from the President and Gen. Grant (Globe 78,) in which they were in formed of the restoration of the Federal authority and the obedience of the people in the Southern States with willingness and promptitude; the anxiety of tho peo ple there to resume peaceful pursuits, and TEnMS, 02,00 Pin AimDM that sectional animosity was rcsolviDg it self into a spirit of nationality. The President confirmed Gen. Grant's state ment, that representation would result in a harmonious restoration. This was not palatable to Congress ; and the Committee of Fifteen went to work to obtain counter testimony from the Covodes, Schurzes and other morbid people whose impressions were colored by their politics, and whose politics were regulated by their pockets and spite. Mr. Sumner denounced the message as a whitewashing affair, and on the 20th dragged from bis repertoire all the accumulations of months written bim by the bureau-crats, cotton stealers and other agents, who were disgusted with the Southern people for desiring to be friend ly to the Union. Mr. Sumner pretended not to speak in "anger vindictiveness, or harshness oh, no ; but "solemnly and carefully, that peace and reconciliation should prevail!" Thus do words mock deeds. Mr. Stevens pretended to no such Joseph Surface sentiments, when on the same day in the House (p. 100) he intro duced his bill to wreak out of the deso lated South double pensions for soldiers and pay for damages done to his iron forges and property of other Northern loyalists. His was r.o sweet Christiau ap peal, [Laughter.] It proposed to take only five hundred millions of what was left of the South, for the above purposes, and the remnant left to desolated hearths and homes be proposed to apply to the national debt of the conqueror! In op posing the confiscation bills in Congress I showed that the property of Ireland had changed under the vengeance of English confiscation eleven times; hut this was through several hundred years of oppres sion. Mr. Stevens proposed yokes of iron, where Cromwell only proposed yokes of wood. He never brought his proposition to a vote; but I believe that had he en forced it by his satanic rhetoric, he might have obtained in that House a majority of human tigers on the yeas and nays. Aft er these exhibitions, do not be surprised to find other sextons at work digging other graves for others of the Southern States. On the 11th of January, 1866, (Globe, 196,) South Carolina was buried; on the loth (233) Arkansas; on the next day, t lorida, (312;) soon after North Carolina (661 on the 7th of February (714) Al abama, with a few more shovelfulls of dirt thrown inon the 12th (800;) another effort on Arkansas on the 26th of February (1,025,) on motion by Senator Lane of Kansas; a few days after, North Carolina was doubly buried (1,083) in that cemetery for all—the Committee of Fifteen. Ou the 4th of June the State of Mississippi was entombed (2,249) in the same sweet spot, and on the Ist of March (1,131) Louisiana also, in the per— sou of Senator Boyce. Meanwhile the directory, which "carried at its girdle the keys of the Union," began to be cajoled by some Tennessee patriots of the Brownluw pattern, eager for admis sion. On the sth of March (1.180) Mr. Bingham reported a bill declaring Teunes see a State ? on equal footing with other States! on condition, however, that her people would never do certain things which the fifteen immaculates thought bad ! There was an explosion on this, and the bill was shelved. It lay upon the shelf sleeping, sweetly embalmed in the frankincense of Republican sympathy, until the 20th, when Mr. Raymond asked Mr. Bingham gently, when he proposed to lead her in, as be would like to be there to see. He receiv ed for reply : "Next week, if it was tho pleasure of the House." On the next day a member offered to insert a little gunpow der under the committee (1,553) to blow them open on Tennessee; but that stern statesman, the Hon.S. M. Ashley, "poured on water," and the fuse failed, " (Laugh ter.) Another attempt was made to discharge the committee (2,110,) but the discharge did not "go off." The speaker ruled the resolution out of order, and Tennessee still remained in the crypt of the Capitol. Mr. lioss of Illinois, on the 28th May, attempt ed to litt Mr Maynard in by main force, but what was that " man of Ross" to fif teen men ? lie, too, failed, and the lifeless skeleton again dropped into its sepulcber, (Laughter,) (2,850.) It was not until the 10th of Julv that the joint resolution admitting Tennessee came before the House. It no sooner appeared, lack-luster ami shadowy, than Mr. Ste vens endeavored to table it for dissection, lie only got thirty-one 70tes against ninety two,but soon after he increased his strength to forty nine, when Mr. Bingham who 6till had charge of it, reported a fresh resolu tion, superfluous and void as a resolu tion and with alio as its preamble.— The preamble recited that Tennes see had ratified the constitutional amend ment of this session, and the resolution pretended to restore her to those relations, which she had never forfeited, by a void secession ordinance. Yet the House voted the preamble, 87 to 48 (3 976,) in spite of the truthful men of the House. The reso lution was passed with the preamble (3,990) and the Senate afterwards modifying both (4,000), Tennessee, by the action of both lionses, became, by some wonderful Radi cal magic, a State, and members elected more than a year before were graciously admitted to their seats! They were usher ed in under thegard of a transparent false hood, and this, too, by the party which, Senator Wilson declared (Globe, 341), "planted itself on the rock of ases, and had all the measureless moral influences of the universe to sustain it." [Cheert and laugh ter I .] Then followed the general law that VOL. 6 NO.
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