Show I 1 BY IRY telegraph 1 1 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS t EXTRA SESSION C 71 t SENATE washl naton KaTON 10 neek beck moved that the reading of the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill be dispensed with to afford hill an opportunity try tsy to address the senate as he be intends leaving thrA ity fity and may ilot hot return before bhend th ead ot of the present session hill then spoke with reference to that part of the bill proposing new legislation with regard to jurors supervisors of elections etc he asked why the discus discussion siim slim had bad been thrust upon the countr country yi the legislation being very fimple simple nothing bathing nothing nathi but a of some borne portions ot of the laws enacted during and since bince the late lato war chehad he had watch watched eld the discus discua bian sian in order to arrive at themO the bouve uve UVO which prompted it and was now that a party in this country bad entered upon a well or rather ili ill considered but determined purpose of reopening sectional agitation which BO Q long disturbed tb the e people with the view of consolidating one section of the country against the other for the benefit of party without reference to the public good if inthe the bill should become law it would not affect in any degree the legislation pi previous evious to 1865 if the majority in congress declare from this thia time forward that the army and navy shall not interfere with election elections sj tiley but reenact re reen reon enact ennet act what the custom and I 1 law aw were before the act of 65 the country was to be told that the democrats wanted lo 10 destroy tho the power of government to enforce laws jaws the speech of the senator from vermont ought to bo be studied as it showed great quist questions fons of difference fe retice between the two great par lies des now struggling for the mastery f the president should approve the bill he would fora second time jn in hla hia administration show himself worthy of tho the position he holds but if he should veto the bill for party ends the time would come when the two parties would be face to face od great the democrat democratic ld party would meet with moderation but firmness the republicans will be repeated resort to a veto because they want the military force to control elections in order to keep themselves in power hill affirmed that the tremendous contest now before the country had its origin and meaning in the purpose of the republicans to obtain absolute control of the states by force whether the are willing or not the senator from new now york conkling had bad pointed out the number of senators sen re and who ae ere in the confederate esay ing that because of this people of the north were alarmed but ail all the charges that they were not loyal and therefore could not be trusted were on the assumption that they were enemies of the union and should the government pas pays in to their hands there would be great danger to public liberties if it the assumption was wag true the result was inevitable if it they wele were the enemies wies ties of the union they had no right in congress no business here and if they were honorable men they ought to leave the ie of ai he north ought to understand thebe these J e things t hin hid g he granted what conkling intimated this gust will not do the senator said baid and thia this walking arm in arm and snaking handa bythe by the confederates and union men in public assemblies was well enough for sunday school teachers tea ten chera but buot stat statesmen want reason the representatives of the bouth south were not enemies of the union and therefore ought to be pres present en there here the republicans oppose the repeal of the obnoxious laws under the pretense that the south was not to be trusted why because it was proposed to repeal laws that had not been on the sta tote tate book for 75 years before they were enacted was the south not to be trusted because it wanted intelligence and virtue in the jury box and b because because it the army taken away from the polls and because the south through its ita representatives wished d to prevent t the control of elections by deputy marshals and supervisors southern men went to war in vindication of their convictions vict ions the south did not secede from the union because they were the enemies of the constitution and the union it was driven into secession by the extremists of the north he hill had been making a count and strangely aa as a senator might think of it of the nine representatives and two senators from georgia certainly eight were were wera opposed to secession conkling asked hill replied till it canie came aud nud mid and then they stood up in that dark hour like men for their convictions they had na no apology 6 make of the hinty three thres southern bouthern thern represents tives and senators about seventy five were opposed to secession he mentioned this for tho the purpose of showing how the southern people are they are willing to be represented by men true toul to ns hill then related bomb some of his personal history to show how hostile be had been to secession while forty five others were rejo leing eing that the south had seceded needed his room was dark his heart sad and his bis tongue silent in 1868 he had a correspondence with that great and good man horace greeley who did more moro to build up the republican party than all any other man in amer america I 1 ca gre greeley iley illy was honest in his convictions and boldly declared them in his letter fo to that gentleman in reply to something that had bad been said concerning him he wrote that he was entitled to an audience of the readers of the tribune having having iu lu the winter of 1960 warned the people against secession and told them that war would come an unequal ej ual fierce vindictive and desolating esola ng war many of the free sollers said that if the south desired to secede it could do so in peace the people of the south did secede because of hostility to the constitution they pledged themselves to form a new one eon on the i model of the old one the south seceded because war was made on its ita constitutional bv by the ex tre mists of the north to destroy its prosperity and because the northern people through their republican leaders said that secession should be accomplished in peace greeley said sald they wanted no union pinned to gefner with bayonets bayoneta there were hundreds of thousands of persons who believed beli ball eved that the only way to avoid war was to secede they believed they had a right to protect and preserve theli their slave siave property if they had bad believed edwar war woula would result they never would have seceded the georgia convention sent him hill to the provisional congress the people believed if there could be a delay of a few months the war W would ouid be avoided virginia had not then gone out of the union and she ia Is sued a proclamation for a peace conference his heart warmed and he be hoped for success seven states had bad then gone out and therefore they could not participate in such a convention but they watched every movement with interest The thebe these bevery severy very men who make the charges of infidelity against the southern bouthern people went to washington to defeat the purposes of virginia in this connection hill read lead the following letter washington feb 11 1861 aty dear governor governor and myself telegraphed you on saturday at the request of massachusetts and a nd new york to send delegates to tag tap peace compro comero miss con gres greg they admit that wo we ire are aro right and they were wrong and that no republican state should have sent delegates but that they are here and and cannot get away ohio indiana and rhode island are coming in and there ia Is danger of illinois an and now they beg ua us for gods bake eake to comee to their rescue and save their republican party from rupture I 1 hops hope they will send tend stiff backed or none bone the whole thing wag was gotten up against my judgment and wilted in their smoke I hope aa as a matter of courtesy cour cout tesy to bome some of our erring brethren that yo you u will ivill send dela dele gates truly your friend signed Z CHANDLER to HA hal excellency zine biair blair the representatives of the south must be trusted the south sought to avert the war while the north tried to bring it on he hill knew the republicans claimed to have saved the union but if there had been no republican party the union would not have been in peril and there would have been no secession secession no returning boards nor electoral commissions if you must have war they would maintain their rights in the union but he trusted there would be no war the men of the south would go with the stars and stripes striped the flag of their country chandler said kaid this was the third time since 1861 that allusion had been made to the letter written by him to the governor of michigan it first appealed in a detroit newspaper the ther letter was a private oneana one ono and aud no copy was retained by him himSel Senator benator lAtor lowell rowell brought a copy of the newspaper to him and asked if ir the let iet letter ietter teras tenas as printed was correct chandler told him he did not know having kept no copy senator powell then said if it was a correct copy he wished to make use of it it if not he did not wish to use ute it chandler told him he would adopt it and allow him bim to make any use of it he pleased so today to day the letter if not originally mr chandler Is his by adoption chandler then described the circumstances under which ithe the letter was written he had been in ln ibe senate four years listening to treasonable utterance s the daily and hourly threat was gidd do this or we will de 1 stroy the union there was treason in the white house in the cabinet in the senate and hoube house both outspoken and rampant the threat was made on the floor of the senate in his presence by byn n senator from texas you may give us a EL a blank biank sheet of paper and let us nill fill it up as we please and then we will not live with you treason teason i was applauded in the senate galleries gali gaii talked 0 on n the streets discussed in circles there was treason in the departments tr traitors altora in the white honse house traitors in these galleries traitors every where the flags of rebellion had bad been raised the union was ws already dissolved the rebel government of alabama was established upon what basis could negotiations have been made or a peace convention called with rampant rebellion staring us in the face it was no time to negotiate the time for that had passed we had bad offered in the way of negotiation and cornis comis prom e and every proffer had been beer indignantly refused this was the situation when that letter was written after powell had bad made his hia assault upon him in the senate ohan chan chandler d ler len instantly responded relating the facts aa as he now related them and said be he stood by the letter what was wad there in it michigan wab was known to be in favor of the constitution the union and the enforcement of the laws even lo 10 the letting of blood if need be and that is all there w was and is in the letter alst the most be made inside of it the benator senator from georgia thought the bouth south had bad a right to be solid but bat a solid north would destroy the union the south was no more dolid today to day than in 57 and ever since and no nd quarrel with the north made it solid it was solid because it was determined t to 0 rule or ruin the nation it 16 tried the rufu ruid scheme with arms and failed it comes back to ruin it by withholding supplies to carry on the government men have changed since 57 but not measure measures the other side then fought to overthrow the government now they vote and talk for the selfsame pose you are to day as you were then concluded chandler determined either to rule or ruin this government and you cant do it windom wished to refer to a scrap of history suggested by senator hills eliis assertion that secession was brought about by the extremists of the north who threatened the property of the south in february 1861 a republican house of representatives by a two thirds vote passed an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the pas sage of any constitutional amendment giving congress power to interfere with slavery in any state whose laws recognized it windom said he was not here to defend that amendment amendments but etwas it was passed and submitted to the people afew days afterwards lincoln in his hia first inaugural alluded to dihe the apprehension among the southern people that the accession of the re publicans public ans to power would mean danger to their property and assured them such apprehension was groundless and that interference with slaveholding was not contemplated ample proof of the correctness reet ness of his assurance was open to inspection that was the manner said windom in which the dextre extremists mists of the north compelled the tho people of the south to secede recede because they feared they would lose their property windom gave way for a motion to adjourn adjourned washington 12 consideration was resu resumed of the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill 1 windom ad addressed re sd the senate in regard to the policy of the democrats as revolutionary and unconstitutional hebald he said sald the wiser men of the party were overruled by their vicious party associate |