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SPEECH OF S. S. COX.
THE RADICAL ROMPERS REVIEWS.
THE PRAYERS, THE HYPOCRISY,
THE VIOLATIONS OF SACRED
VOWS, BY MEN IN HIGH
PLACES.
WHAT THE LATE RI'MP CONGRESB DID DU
RING EIGHT MONTHS.
SPEECH OF THE HON S B. COX.
The first session of the Thirty-ninth
Congres has ended. The best thing it did
was to die. [Laughter] Not altogether
lovely in its life,its death was its chief mer
it. 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
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