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Any limitations whatever will be better than tlie absence of all limita tions in the proposition as introduced be fore us. But, sir, there are two reasons which will induce me to vote against this amend ment. In the first place, lam opposed to the proposition which it contains upon a consideration of the merits of the proposi tion itself. lam averse, from thorough conviction, to the introduction of any State into this Union, or to her rehabilita tion withal! her former politica* powers, upon the condition that she shall make suffrage within h*r limits universal and unlimited among 1 lie male inhabitants over twentv-one years of age. 1 need not go over the argument on that point. I have stated it upon a firmer occason. In the next place, I know perfectly well that a vote for this amendment, although given under circumstances which do not commit me to the proposition as a final one, will be misunderstood and perverted It will be said throughout the country of each of t' ose who stand ih the position in which I stamUthat we have departed to some extent at least from that position which we have hitherto maintained, and maintained against all the influences ot the time, against tlie pressure of circum stances which have swept many from our sid''s and carried them into the large and swollen camp of the majority. Sir, I tor one am ambitious of being known as one j among that number of men who have kept their faith ; who have followed their con victions ; who have obeyed the dictation of duty in the worst of times; who did j not bend when the. storm beat hardest j and strongest against them, but kept their honor unsullied, their 'faith intact, their self respect unbroken and entire. I shall not vote to degrade suffrage. 1 shall not vote to pollute and coirupt the fiiiiiidations of political power in this coun try, either in my own State or in any oth er. I -h I! r sist it everywhere and at all tunes. It n\ei borne, if contrary and op posing opinions prevail, I shall simply submit to the neeesitv which I cannot re sist, h aving to just men and to future times the vindication of my conduct. The consideration of this amendment does not involve debate upon tlte bill it s' If ; it is quite distinct from it. or at least it may be considered distinctly. 1 am of op nion that the debates of the Sen ate would be gready improved if that course were taken ordinarily or unitoualy which has been suggested in the discus sion of this bill, to wit, that when an, amendment is pending debate shall be con fined to it according to the strict rules ot order, and that debate upo . tbe principal proposition upon the oiigmal bill itself shall .-land otct; and bedetcired until the amendments are disposed ot. But, sir, my experience in the Sen-He has instructed me. I have upon several occasions delay ed speaking upon a measure until amend uieiits offered to it should be disposed ot, and found myself at the end of a debate attempting to speak to an exhausted and impatient Senate and v\ hen my own fresh ness of feeling and physical energy had departed During this week those of us who are not endowed by nature with vigorous physical coiistiiutions have been sucjected to a severe strati by constant sessious day and night, besides other duties very numer ous, harassing, and exhaustive outside of the Chamber. And now, sir, nearly at the end of the week, at an additional night session ordered with special reference to this measure we are called upon to con-| sider it, and to consider it filially. \S e are told that if it be within the power of those who give direction to tile action of the Senate to force a final vote upon he bill to night, that vote shall be obtained, tbe giving of it shall be covered. And when did this bdl come to us?— Within about twenty.four hours, 1 believe. 1 found myself able to give it only a hur ried reading before it was called upon tor debate. Is it n.-t a iiitle remarkable that a lull in which ttie social and political con dition of eight or ten unliiotis American people i> involved should be driven thro' one branch of Oongre?s under the pre vions question without opportunity for any extended debate, and should then be driv en throngb the Senate under the discipline of an organization confined to a poilion only of the members of our body, with some twenty-four or forty-eight hours on ly of consideration, amid the pressure of other duties that crowd upon us, and when our own overtasked physical powers scarce ly enable us to give the subject even that attention which is necessary to vote upou it iutcll gently, much less to exauiim and discuss it properly ? What judgment will be formed of us, who are charged with the legislative powers ot ibis Goveromcui, by TUNKHANNOCK, PA-, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 27, 1867- our countrymen and by men of other na tions, who observe our proceedings, when measures of this gravity, magnitude, im portance to millions of people, interesting to our whole population, are to be acted upon in this manner, to be determined un der these circumstances, adverse to cor rect and proper reflection, which I have described ? N"W, sir, what is this measure? I shall be anxious in all that I say to be brief and to speak only on points which are ma terial. Sir, the bill is prepared and intro duced to confer upon five military officers of the United States the power to fine, to imprison, and to kill American citizens in one third of the territory of the United States without any restraints or limita tions such as are written in the most sol emn manner in every fundamental law in the United States, both that of the Feder al Government and those of all the States; ay, and of every Territory, too, whither our hardy pioneers have gone and estab lished republican governments, fashioned and modeled, after the examples of the States from which they went. With no right of trial by jury nor challenge to the tribunal which tried the accused, no com pulsory process tor witnesses, no right of appeal, the victim stands defenseless before arbitrary power; he must bow to its man date and submit to its decree. Not a con stitutional principle, hitherto regarded sa cred in this country, is written down in Ihi.s bill or covered by its vague and gener al phraseology, more indefinite, vague, and indeterminate than that ot any statute now upon the records of this Government; ay, or of England, abused and traduced Eng land, of whom we complained because her Government was arbitrary, arid therefore took up aims to throw off its jurisdiction and vindicate American freedom. The General of the Army is to assign to the command of each of the military dis tricts created by this bill "an officer of the Army not below the rank of brigadier gen eral," and to detail a sufficient force to give dignity and effect to the jurisdiction con fi-nvd upon him; and there is conferred upon each district commander, in the thud section, power ' 4 to punish or cause to be punished all disturbers of the public peace and criminals" of every description and grade. He may in his pleasure, by no rule of law, by no regulation of statute, by no principle known to the Constitution or created by Government, but according to his own unregulated pleasure and will, condescend to turn cases over to the courts— Or when in hi jujgment— his .supreme and unchallenged judgment — it uiay l>e ne<-e*.=ary for the trial of offenders, he shall have power to organize military commission* or tribunals (or that purpose, unytiiiia; in the con stitution and laws of any of the so-called confeder ate states to the contrary notwithstanding. And then the Supreme Court of the United States, which your fathers estab lished as the supreme tribunal of justice ir. this country, with appellate powers fiom inferior tribunals, with the great power of the writ of habeas corpus in its hands to correct injustice upon the citizen, is to be restrained from meddling in anyway what ever with this new, unexampled, .and abominable jurisdiction which the bill es tablishes, lam mistaken, sir ; there is an exception. The judges of your supreme Court nor any judges of that court or of the district court can issue a writ of habeas corpus or look into the legality of anv pro cetdiiigs in which this m li.ary jurisdiction is concerned I'dleM soma commission ii officer— Some dignified lieutenant of the 6econd degree possibly — Unles* some commissioned officer on doty in the district wherein the person la detained skill indorse said petition 11 statement certifying, upon honor, that he ha* knowledge or information as to the causa and circumstances of the alleged detention nnd that he believes the s<m to be wrongful; and, further, that he believes that the indorsed petition is preferred in good faith end it furtherance ol jus tice, and not to hinder or delay the punishment ol crime. The wealthy criminal, for bis fee of SSO or S\oo or SSO(J, can get a lieutenant'scer tificate to his petition, and goto the courts of the United States and be heard under the laws of the United States, and have some little protection from the Constitu tion of'your fathers, from that instrument under wcich you are assembled here, and which you are sworn to support. This is the manner in which judicial power may take hold of am case, no matter how enor mous, of outrage or iniquity, in one third of the United States, under this bill. The fifth section provides— That no sentence of any military commission or t.ibunat hereby Authorised, affecting the life or lib erty of any person, shall be executed until it is ap proved by the officer in command ot the distric;. There, sir, shameful as the fact appears, the power over the life of an America citi zen is confided to either one of five military commanders, who are to be selected, not by the Commander-in-Chief of the armies of the United States, as the Constitution requires, tut by a General selected bv your bill ; and you might just as well, instead of having selected the General of the Army for this purpose, have selected the hero of Big Bethel or any other general, or even a civilian, if indeed this fearful and unexam pled power of creating military rule resides in Congress at all. The commanders of these departments have the power of life and of death, the po ver to imprison at their pleasure, the power to fine, to confis cate property, and to plunder or kill the citizens, and that without any redress.— Why, sir, what are the military commis tiona that are authorized ? Are not the members selected by this officer in cora . tuaud selected to do bis bidding—organiz- Ed to convict, if be desires conviction, and their proceedings subject to his approval ? Nay, sir, even sentence of death by thera is to be carried into execution according to his will, because this b.ll contemplates the capital execution of a citizen tried before those tribunals simply upon the approval of the officer coraraandinjr the district. Such, sir, is the bill introduced here, for the passage of which our votes aie solicited, and to pass which we are driven into the hours of the night, hurriedly and unprepar ed, while some expectant persons outside, perhaps, look with impatience upon the de lay which is taking place, this unnecessary delay, this protraction of our proceedings, this waste of lime, this foolish appealing to old records and to principles which we have advanced tar beyond in our revolutionary career. Yes, sir, a spirit of impatience and intolerence surrounds us and finds voice even upon this floor. I will state objections to tbe bill in gen eral terms and conclude. I arn not inclin ed to speak at length, but I should take shame to myself if such a bill as this could be passed or be under consideration here without uttering some few sincere words in opposition to its enactment. Sir, this bill, in the first place ; is an open confession in the face of the world that republican government is a failure.— It is an open and shameless confession, made by us in the presence of our own countrymen and in the presence of the woild, that our republican institutions are not as they were supposed to be, destined 10 immortality or to future renown ; that their period of life has about closed, that w.* are to he added to the list of republics of former times and of other countries who ran hurried, but some of them not inglori ous careers, to end HI what this bill sug gests, in the rule of a master, in the estab lishment of military power, in the chastise ment of crime, of violence, and of private wrong, not by civil la v, but military force. You propose to put io command of one third of the United States generals of your armies. You propose to confer on them dictatorial powers. That is the word.— Thi> bill establishes a military dictatorship by congressional enactment for one third of the United States, and its grants are in the largest and vaguest terms. Under thein any act pertainii g to civil government, anv act p rtaining to the punishment of crimi nal offenders, may be authorized and may be performed by the military power which yon set up. That is a dictatorship. No matter by what name it be designated that is its nature, That you establish by this bill. Whatever you propose, that will be the authority created ; it will be known as a dictatorship in all future time, Mr. President, at what time is it propos ed to set up this military dictatorship in the United States ? Is it not nearly two years after the conclusion of the late war ? Is it not at a time when complete reigns throughout the United States, when there is no resistance to the authority of the Government, and when we apprehend no fcuch resistance in future unless that re sistence be provoked, possibly, by our con duct and policy ? There can be no vindi cation of this measure upor. the ground of its connection with the war. There can be no vindication of it upon the ground that it is necessary in the conduct or management of military operations, in the subduing of a fierce arrayed against our authority in any portion of the country ; nor that it is ne cessary to guard agaii.st renewed revolt and renewed resistance in any place or section subject to our jurisdiction. The Long Pari.ament,to which reference has been made, established a military force of its own, independent of the Crown, and it placed over that force military comman ders, It armed them and sent them forth upon a mission of resistance to kingly pow er. That was during a time of civil con vulsion, w l, en parlies were to be arrayed against each other in deadly conflict, when the irreat battle between executive, prero gative, and popular freedom was to be fought out upon British soil. There was some reason, some excuse then for a Par liament which rlaimed omnipotence to con fer enormous powers upon military com manders selected by itself. There is no reason now why an American Congress whose powers are carefully and grudgingly p irceled out to it in the Constitution of the country, a Congress whose powers are sub jected to neces.-ary and extensive limita tions ; it is not now a time for an Ameri can Congress to assume to itself those om nipotent powers which will be implied by the passage of this bill. It is not now a time foi the American Congress to set up military power and a military dictatorship in any portion of the country. The duties of the hour of which we hear so much are to heal the wounds of conflict, to restore real peace and genuine concord throughout our country, to return to the pacific debates which in former times char acterised the proceedings of the legislative department of the Government, to restore by sound measures that prosperity which was interrupted by the war, and by a care ful and provident statesmanship to make provisiou against those dangers to which the pecuniaty interests and the liberties of our country are liable in the future. If I read apght the duties of the hour they may be thus described : they do not consist in prosecuting in a time of peace the projects enterprises, and measures of a time of war. They do dot include the injecting into our councils elements of commotion, of hatred of antagonism. What is now required,and particularly what is required in the consul tations of the legislative department, which is the great branch of Government, is a ' spirit of Christianity and of justice, which TXRMA, TSOO FBH A •FJYXYIL' shall put behind UB the works of war and the passio is of war and incite us to works of restoration and peace. Possessing this spirit, we shall perform our mission nobly and grandly ; without it, our labor will be vain and our future inglorious. fiecau* this bill asserts a congressional omnipotence which we do not posses, and which, if we did possess, it we ought not to exercise ; because it disregards all the con stitutionai protections of tbe citizen, and, without necessity or reason, subjects him in his rights of property, liberty, and even life itself to the pleasure of military power, I shall vote against it,as I shall vote against all simi ar measures which may be intro duced hereafter. ■♦. A DIVORCE. —A correspondent of the "Volksfeutid," writing from "Indiana Prai ri"," relates the following :—"ln Sullivan County, a young married pair, who had been united in the bonds of wedlock about six years, having become somewhat mutu ally disagreeable, of late, the husband, in his anger, hastened to a lawyer ar.d took steps to obtain a divorce troin his Wife.— One day he came home to his wife and said to her,' Betsy, I have fulfilled your wish ; you said you wished you were sep aratvd from me —here is the decree of di vorce. His wife was at first surprised, but far too indignant to betray any emo tion She sai 1 she was ready to leave ; she only needed to pack up her goods; she wished he would be present to see that she took nothing except what was her own. lie stepped into the adjoining room, where the bureau and clothes press were. The wife proceeded in silence to take out the clothe-, when sudden y her eyes fell upon a small dress, and, quite overcome, she broke out in convulsive weeping. The husband, hitherto, an indifferent observer, remarked her emotion and discovered the cau<e. It was the dress of their only child, a little' daughter ot three years, who had died almost two years ago. The hus band was not less affected than his wife.— He embraced her with emotion, begged her pardon again and again, tre the de cree of divorce into a tnonxand pieces, has tened to the Clerk's office, took out a new marriage license, and was married immedi ately to his late wife," A SLIGHT MISTAKE. —A capital story is told of a young fellow who one Sunday strolh-d into a village chu-ch, and during the service was electrified and gratified bv the sparkling of a pair of eyes which were rivitcd upou his face. Alter the service lie saw the possessor ot the shining oth leave the church alone, and emUildened by her glances, he ventured to follow her, his heart aching with rapture. lie saw her look b'-hind, and fancied she evinced some emotion at recognizing him. He then quickened his pace, and she actim ly slackened her's as if to let him come up with her —bill we will p rmit the young gentleman to tell the r-st in his own wav : "Noble young creature 1" thought U "her artless anil warm heart is superior to the bond of custom. 1 had reached within a stone's throw of her. .She suddenly hault cd and turned her face toward me. My heart swelled to bursting 1 reached tin spot where she stood ; she began to speak, and I took off my hat as if doing reverence to an angel." "Are yon a pedler?" she asked. "No, my dear girl, that is not my occupation," "Well, 1 don't know," con linued she, not Very bashfully, and eyeing me very sternly, "I thought when I saw you in the meeting house that you looked like a pedler who passed off a pewter halt dollat on me three weeks ago, and so I de termined to keep an eye on you. Brother John has got home now, and says if he catches the fellow lie II wring his neck for him ; and I ain't sure but voo're the good for nothing rascal, after all.". THE HONEY MOON —Why is the. first month after marriage called the "honey moon?" Doubtless on account of the sweet lucany which controls the heads of the parties during that brief and de lightful period. What a pity that they should ever get quite rational again? Tiiat sentimentality should give place to *enti ment, sentiment to sense, love yield to h-gic, and fiction to fact, til' the happy pair are reduced from the Eden of romance to the Sahara of reality—from Heaven to earth —and perhaps a p> g lower ! Strange it may sierii, there have been couples who have quarreled in the first month of matrimony, and have got back to their astonished parents before the ggod mother had fairly got done weeping, (and rejoicing too) at her daughter's departure. Their "honey tnoon" soured at tbe fuli of her thorn and become a moon of. vmegir instead. A bad onrv-n that! There was much sense and propriety in the text which the ancient clerygman chose for a wedding sermon. It was taken from the Psalms of David, and read thus; "And let there be peace, wb.le the moon endureth." £W '-Charles. dear, now that we are' married, you know we must have no se crets; so d<, like a dove, hand tne that bottle of hair die; you will Qud it in rav dressing-case " An exchange tells of an editor who went soldiering, and was chosen captain. One day, on parade, instead of giving the orders, "Front face, three paces forward," he exclaimed : "Cash, two dollars and a I half in advance/* VOL. 6 NO. 33 THE CONDITIONS jOF SUCCESS. It matters not what business you may follow, the great fundamental conditions of success are Mime., By übserviug the same general principles, a nlati may obtain an eminent and controlling position at the bar or in the pulpit, in the workshop or on Itie farm. If you take earnes ly life, as capacitated and destined to a high and exalted purpose and end; if you watch closely the mind's bent and the nat ural aptitude for employment adopt early some pursuit and follow steadily through days of darkness and discouragement aa well as when everything of an external na ture looks inviting and prosperous, you will inevitably win success.. The wise choice and the persistant pursuit are al most sure to bring, if not wealth, then that which is better, an unfailing competence. When a merchant has succeeded in build ing up a splendid trade after years of la borious devotion to bis calling, the multi tude are attracted by the outside show the* look upon his large and choice assort ment of domestic and foreign fabrics tbey see the throngs of in and out; they el ivy the merchant's ele gant turn-outs, bis well furnished mansion, his stocks ioHhe bank and that general air of confidence which success give®.— They declare, perhaps, that if tbey had only gone into tiade on that spot, their for tunes would have been secure. But sup pose thev had ! In all human probability ihey would long ago have been whereas tbey have just managed to keep their heads above water, and may be thank ful * I .at they aieour of the p„or house,— The tact is. they lacked the verv essentials of business success. They exhibited nei ther earnestness, patience or persi verenca —indisper.-able elem- nig, all, of that life which wins inwhattver direction its en ergies are turned. They were content to wish and dream, while others were striking telling blows for themselves in life's great laboratory. > There was a time when the well-to-do merchant crawled, when, by industry and fiugalitv, he laid the founda tions of his abundant estate. But the en vious man who imagines that* he might have done the same thing, jumps this day ot small tilings, and looks only ou success aeh eved. Th-' steps leading to it were toilsome and oftcD disheartening in thtt extreme. THE SKT AN INDICATOR OF THI WTATFF ER* —Tiie color of the sky at particular times afFrds wonderful good guidance.— Not only does a rosy sunset presage good weather, and a ruddy sunrise bad weather, hut tin re are oUgrr t nts which speak with equal clearness and accuracy. A bright ve low >ky in the evening indicates wind ; a pale, yellow, wetj a neutral gray color constitutes a f*Torableign in the evening, a 1 d an unfavorable one in the moining.— The clouds are again fuil of meaning in themselves. If their forms are soft, unde fined, lull and loath. ry, the weather will lie fine ; it their edges are hard-sharp and definite, it will be f>ul. Generally speak ing, any deep, unusual hues betoken wind and rain, while the more quiet and delicate tints bespeak fair weather. These are simple maxims, and yet not 60 simple but that the British Board of Trade has tho't fit to publish them for the use of sea-faring meu. Scientific Americnn, HUMOR OF LIFK INSURANCE. —Most peo ple are hwAre that applicants for life in surance are questioned pretty closely as to their state ol health. Sometimes the MM— swers incline to the facetious, like the fol lowing, for instance, in a recent applica tion to the Traveler: Question. What are the particulars, character and duration of the disease tbe person has had ? Answer. ( W/r—Probably had when a baby, after eating green apples. Insantity No, unless the company should regard my taking an accident policy in |he "Prov ident of Chicago,'' or holding ptplic office, an indication ot that or something worse. Polpita'irm. —Only wluen in love.tr>me fif teen years ago ; have recovered since. Question. Is there, to the person'# knowle "ge or belief, now existing any dis order, or any infirmity or weakness, tend ing u impair his constitution ? Answer. Nothing exc-pt adheienceto tho Kt-publioau party, ul which he is bein l * rapidly cured. JCif" When Franklin was amhossador to the French court, a lady, who was about to be presented to the king, noticed his exceedingly plain appearance, und asked win. he a On bring tld that he was Dr. Benjamin F< anklin,the American ambassador, she exclaimed,- — "1 .e North Araericau ambassador so shabbily Or ess. d !" "Hu*h, Madam, for heaven's sake," whisp red a friend, 'he is the man that bottles up thunder and lightning." At a religious meeting among the blacas, a coloied preacher requested that some brother should pray. Thereupon half witted Moses eounneiiced a string of words entirely without meaning. At this the pastor raised his head and inquired Who'sdat prayin ? Dai you brudoer Muse? Jest hold on, biu ider Aiose, you let some* ' body pray dal's better acquainted wid de Loid." Some weeks ago Thad Stevens said he was ' tired of lite " What, had ho #ud hie "yellow gal" fallen out ?
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