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lolitical pstotg,
The Political Parties of the
Country Spier Debate In the
V. 8. Senate John P. Hale on
the Abolition Party lie De
nounce Km Corrupt lonn Sena
tor gaulsbury In Reply Sena
tor Doolittle on the Antiquity
of the Republican Part)-.
. A spicy and interesting debuts transpired
a tho United States Senate, the 17th of
ehruary, on the JNavy appropriation bill,
when Mr. Hale dwelling at length upon the
astounding corruptions of the Navy De
partment, paid his parting compliments to
the venerable Secretary Welles. We copy
from 'Jhe Daily Globe, the pithy points in
the discuioti on the pulitical parties of the
day and their history. . . ..
Mr. Hale said: "'
lof me say a word now about our Repub
lican 'arty or our Union party. I know
that-the chairman of the Committee on
Fiuaueo is growing a little impatient, but 1
beg bis pardon while I continue a little lon
ger. Mr. President, the history of that
party which has controlled this country re
cently, 1 do not say it coutrolng it now, but
the history of that party which made the
tfreut revolution in politics is a very curious
and a very instructive one, We began when
wo were but a handful. I recognize around
mo now but very few faces that wore famil
iar iu those early conflicts and struggles; but
ve went on. Wc -were defeated; we ex
pected to he, and we went to work and pre
pared to he defeated again the next year.
We expected it and we got it; we were not
dixrtpiH'inted. We were not a "healthy
political organization," as was said on this
poor. By and by, however, we began to
increase little by little, but still we only in
creased to be defeated. The party with
which I acted at that time wanted a candi
date for the 1 "residency. They wanted a
man who was ready to be abused, Vilified,
denounced. sneered at. They wanted a
man who should be a mark, a butt for the
ridicule of Whigs and Democrats. I thank
my friends that they did me the honor to
oleet mo for that place. I stood up at the
time when ignomy and reproach was all
that was within my possible reach. Still we
increased. In the first place wc beat the
Whig party in 1SS52, or we did a very con
siderable part toward it. Do yon remember,
sir. a remark that Mr. Hunter, of Virginia,
made on this floor? There was no Whig in
l-he United States who deplored the destitu
tion of the Whig party moie than Mr. 11.
M. T. Ilrrntvr, of Virginia, for said be, and
il did a great credit to his sagacity, "if you
put down the W hig party, the probability
is that you will get another party in its place
libit it frill hot be so easy to beat," '
( Mr. DAVIS. I will ask the honorable
Senator if Mr. Hunter's expression was not
in this fV.rin, that if they put down the
Whig party they 'would get another party
in its place that would have no -Mich honest
jniticiples and purposes, as the Whig party.
Mr. 1JALR 1 have no doubt that is the
way tlie Senator from Kentucky would have
expressed it if he had been talking about it
at that time, daughter, ) but that is not the
way L understand it; that is not according
to my recollection. However, .sir., we con
tinued to iiicu-asc, and ly and ly it begun
to look as if this new party would at length,
at s.une time, have the loaves and fishes of
office to dispense. Then it seemed as if a
new political Pentecost came on the land.
Converts came faster than .we could disci
pline thuin. Tho doors of the party were
wide'op'eU Kko tho sanetuaiy of God to all
offenders, and the thief and the hypocrite
did not stumble on its threshold, but in they
came; andthe profligate in life, and the ven
al iii polities, the malignant at heart, and
the brutal in manner, all came in with the
greafr multitude of the poor mid the honest
anil the disinterested and the patriotic.
But, sir, when the apostles went fishing and
throw out their nets and made a great haul,
they e.uight lish of every kind. So all these
people eaiuc In and we were a great party.
It happened to us just as it has happened
to a great many before, and will happen a
great many times again: the converts that
-were the most recent and from the most
bitter of our opponents were the most noisy
in profession of zeal for their new-found
'iiiith. 1 confess, Mr. President, that I was
astonished beyond measure when I found
out after wo actually canto into power that
all the officers at the other end of the ave
nue, in the Treasury, the I'ost Office, the
War, and all the other Departments, had
always been IlepublieaiiH, and the great
trial of their life had been to smother their
deep convictions upon the subject of anti
slavery, and their great joy was that irl the
providence of (.iod a time had come when
there was no obligation on theia to be hypo
crites any longer, but when they could act
with the party with which they had always
sympathised. Laughter. '
That has been our experience. Well, sir,
these new men got it, and they began to say
to the older, though, certainly Hot the better
soldiers. ''You have perlbrmed your mis
sion; the Opposition was a good place lor
you; you wore capital for denouncing the
Democrats, and you- put th mi down; but we
do, not think upon the whole that you arc
.quite so good to run this muehino as we."
Very good, sir, we acceed to the propriety
of the proposition, and the history of the
JQJintry demonstrating tho truth thathis
tory Las demonstrated a thousand times
before it is the history of .politics, it is the
history f humanity, it is the history of the
world.
- Mr. CONNESS. A law of nature. -Jl&Ik.
HALK. Yes, it is with some natures.
That is a fact, it is a law of nature. I do
not mention these things to find fault with
them, I am perfectly content that things
shall bo as they are. -1 believe that we are
not governed entirely by accident, but that
there is a, Providence in these matters, that
Providence shapes our ends and guides the
means .by which they aro to be brought
About.
. Mr. SAULSBUEY., Mr. President, I
do not know bow the speech of tho honora
ble Senator from New Hampshire Mr.
Hale has impressed others, but. one thing I
know, that I have been tcry much delight
ed at it. Sir, I reccollect that when this
party auio into power, and when it was
struggling lor power, the good old glorious
Democratic party and its representatives
told the people of the country not to listen to
its wren song. . We told the people then that
the Republican party was trying to get po
eessjan'of the Government of this couaatiy
by iulsb pretenses. ' The Republican politi
cian were tolling the people that the Ad
miniytxauou oi' Mi Buchanan has cost $ 90, -000,
Out) in single year; that. there ..were,
great corruptions in the Democratic party
and thcVj therefore appealed to the people im
their indignation torise up and turn the
corrupt Democratic party ouE 'of.rp6wei.
We told them that it they listened to these
political adventurers, and-they got control
o( the Government oT' this country, ..lhrad
and corruption would bo their stock in trado.
Apd now, sir, we hav been delighted to
day in hearing ono Of tho earliest-champions
of that part' ame" On tho flaor of the Senate
of the United State, and in Methodistic
love-feast make confession of the tins of
himself and his whole party.
Mr. ' President,, the honorable Senator
Irom New Hampshire raid that hewas in the
position of the Methodist who had relieved
his mind. Let me tell him that speech re
minds me of a scene that I have been in
formed once occurred in a Methodist love
fcast; and wc all know who the Methodists
are. I think they are among the best peo
ple in the world. We know that they have
a habit of having class-meetings and love
feasts, and in'my State on one occasion they
met in a little R-hool-house and held their
class. The leader came along and akcd
brother A how he was progressing in spirit
ual life. Brother A rose and said that, he
must confess that he was a poor insignificant
creature: that from the crowu of his head
to the soles of his feet he was naught but
wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores;
and down he sat. A cruel picture he had
given of himself. There was no song sung,
but the leader passed on in mournful mood
to the next brother and asked him to give
an account of his spiritual life, and he rose
and said, "As to myself, brother Leader. T
have nothing to toy, but. 1 can bear most
willing testimony that everything that broth
er A has said in reference to himself is liter
ally and strictly true." Laughter. I So,
sir, on nils occasion i nave notlnng to say
myself further than that every word that
brother Hale has said in regard to his party
; . .1 .... 1?. 1,.. , . ., w.
in mj- jucigmem is inerany aim strictly true.
I Laughter. 1
Now, sir, I wish the country to take note
of this. We gave them full warning four
years ago that if the now dominant party
dominant in power but not more numerous
in numbers, as would have been shown if
thefe had been a fair expression of the pop
ular will at the late election obtained the
reins of power, instead of some sixty, or
seventy, or ninety millions of dollars being
spent in a year, the amount would reach
hundreds of millions. And we faid more
I mean no personal offeuce; but the honor
able Senator said that however unpopular it
was lie must speak the truth, and I am now
simply speaking the truth we told the peo
ple then that if this party ever got into pow
er they would steal more in one year from
the public Treasury than any Democratic
Administration had expended during its
continuance. And let me say bote that the
thanks of the country are due tp a distin
guished member of the other House from
Massachusetts Mr. Dawes who admitted
the fact that in the first year "of this lle--pnhiicaii
Administration more hud Lccn
stolen from the public treasury than had
been expended during the whole of Mr.
Buchanan's Administration:
Mr. President, let me say to-day, in my
place in the Senate of the United States, in
the presence of the country, that such ex
positirns as the honorable Senator from
New Hampshire has made of his party this
day caused me to be glad and rejoice that I
was horn in the good old Democratic party,
that pure and glorious party that commen
ced almost with the birth of the country
and never ceased to exist until its eountrv
died. I have sat here day after day and
from year to year, and heaid the party
whose portrait the honorable Senator from
New llamp.-hire lias so justly drawn rep
resented as the 'great. Union party of the
country, and 1 have heard the party to w hich
liaccstor I ever had since the birth of parties
in this country belonged, the goed old Dcui
ocratie party into which i was born and incon
neetion with which I mean to die denounced
as a disloyal and a disunion party. Sir, I
say again, looking at the photograph pre
sented to the Senate by the great artist liom
New Hampshire, that 1 and every other
Democrat have cause this day to rejoice
that we belong to that good, noble party, for
thank ( Jod! though its counsels cannot now
be heeded, the history of the country hav
ing shown that itand it alone is able to guide
the ship of State through the tempestuous
billows into havens of safety, it shall yet
rim, and rejoicing thousands shall say to it
when again it shall launch forth on the
broad ocean:
"sinil on, sail on, oli ! ship of State,
Soil on, oh! purty strong and greiil;
lluiminity w ith all its tears,
With nil its hopes,of future yours;
Is liKiiging breallik'sson thy into.
Wo know what masters laul thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy Vi Ins of steel
Who made each must, and sail, and rope,
What nnvils rung, w hat hammers bent,
In what a forge in want u hent
Were shaped Hie anchors ol thy hope.
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
"lis of the wave and not the roek.
"lis hut the flapping of the sail, i
And not a rent made by tho gule,
In spite of roek and tempest's ronr,
In spite of lalse lights on the shore,
Kail on, nor fear to breast the sen,
Our hearts, our hopes aro ull with thee;
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears
Our hopes triumphant o'er our feuj's, . .
Are all w ilhlhee, are all w ith thee." ' '
The satle party shall again, sir, in the
providence of tied, if Ho has not entirely
forsaken this people, be restored to power,
and its counsels yet shall be the. counsels of
the nation; for a grateful people, after being
instructed by afflictions, humiliated by suf
ferings, will lecollcct that when that party
assumed the helm of power wo numbered
five million people, and wo numbered only
about tifteen States, but in the brief period
of sixty years we increased to thirty million
people and to thirty-four States. And, sir,
let me tell you that the history of the Bc
publican party is written' in the words dis
memberment and destruction, and that of
the Democratic party was written in Ufion,
in strength, in the addition of star to star
to our national galaxy. .
Ami wrong, sir?,. That same old Demo
cratic party took the banner of your Union
and planted it upon the territory of Florida,
and it was annexed to the 'Federal Union.
That same Democratic party took the tame
good old banner of Union and planted it on
on the virgin soil of Louisiana, on empire in
itself, and that was annexed to the national
domain- .Texas, a vast empire, was added.
Westward still the star of empire took its
way, and true to its great mission of nation
al development and national glory, took that
same noble flag of the Union and planted it
upon the Pacific shore, and California, Utah
and New Mexico are yours-forevsr, unless
by your own unwise counsels you deprive
yourselves of them. Every foot of national
territory .that has ever been added to the
American domain lias been under the couh
sclsaiicl guidance of the same good old Dcm
ocratic party; and now that you have suc
ceeded in displacing-tt and you have inau
gurated a new party, boisterous and loud in
its professions ef retrenchment and reform,
we nave tho spectacle of ono of its earliest
champions rising upon the floor of tbe Sen
ate and confessing for it that it is naught,
from the crown of its head to the sole of its
foot, but wcunds atid bruises,' and putrefy
ing sores. ' . It is just what we Faid of your
party before it came, into' power'; it is just
what the judgment of future age will say.
Mr. DOOLITTLK. Mr. President I
had intended to inakei some remarks in re
ply to the honorable Senator from 'New
llaTiipstiirc.'coiifimng' myself "entirely to
those matters of inVestiaation wluch.
entered urori by the committee of tbe StU';"
ate of which he was chairman and I was a
from Delaware for a moment challenges my
attention, and a few facts briefly and very
concisely stated will t-how that the whole
speech of that gentlemen is founded upon
nothing; it is mere declamation, sound,
withoutany foundation in truth.
Now, 1 say to my honorable friend from
Delaware, for personally these aie our rela
tions, that the Democratic party by name,
is a party of very modern origin. 1 remem
ber long before it was Lorn. 1 was present
at its christening. 1 propose in a moment
to strip off this veil which covers what aie
claimed sometimes to be the glorious ante
cedents of the great Democratic 1 artv.
What is the fact, Mr. President? In i?98
the Republican party was originated, and
Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and the
great statesmen of that period wcie its
lounders. In lMKl tho Bepublican party
elected J flerson President for lour years.
In 1 804 the Republican party elected Jef
ferson again for four yiats more. In 1808
it was the Bepublican paity which elected
Mr. Madison as President of tho United
States. In 181L" tho Bepublican party a
second time elected Madison President of
the United States. In 1816 the Ri publican
party elected Monroe as President, and
again in 180 elected him without any oppo
sition whatever. The party opposed to the
Bepublican pa'ty during all that jcriod
from lbtHI to 1811 was the Federal party,
and in 820 the Fcdeial party as such yield
ed up its existence, and in 1824 there were
four candidates for the Presidency, every
one of them running as Republicans, not
as Democrats. Mr. Crawford was the nom
inee of the regular caucus in 1824; (ien.
Jackson ran as an independent Bepublican
candidate from Temictsce; Mr. Clay as an
independent Republican candidate from
Kentucky; and Mr. Adams as an indepen
dent Republican candidate from New En
gland, lor he at that time had given in his
adhesion to the Republican party. In 1824
there was no choice for President by the
people; it went to the House of Beprescnta
tives, and Mr. Adams was chosen President.
In 18l!8, (.Jeneial Jackson, nominated by
the people, not as a Democratic candidate
but as the people's candidate and as a Re
publican, was elected President of tbe Uni
ted States; unci in 18;i2, for the first time in
the history of the country, was the assump
tion given to the Bepublican party, or that
branch of it which supported General Jack
son, of the Democratic Republican paity.
It was a contrivance of Mr. Van Bureu to
secure net the muiiiuatiou of Gen. Jackson,
but his own iioininatioii as Vice President
under him. It was whin the first National
Convention that was ever held in the Uni
ted States, called also at the instigation of
Mr. A'an Buren and" bis friends, and then
for the first time that branch of the Re
publican party which supported Gen. Jack
son assumed the name of Democratic Re
publicans. InlSutiit a.-Mimcd the same;
in 184U the same; and from that period
giadually it began to diop the iiaii'e "Re
publican" and it was called the Democratic
party. But, sir, as the Whig parly, in 1850,
by the issues of that day. w as dissolved una
buried in the tomb of Webster mid Clay,
its great champions and representatives, so
the Democratic party, when it drew that iii
tal knife which severed the silver cord and
broke the gilded bowl of pence, whin it
diewtbat fatal knife which destroyed the
Missouri C liipromise, dissolved also and
went into fiagments. mid Upon the luins of
all those j nrties sprang into cxistt nte with
the newness of lite the Rept'.blii an arty
based upon the ideas of the old Bepublican
party of Jefferson and Madison, and to those
ideas it stands pledged and has from the
Icgiiiniiigaiid 1 tell my friend from Dela
ware that the true, real Republican partv,
based upon truth as its foundation, in tiic
nature of things never dies, and it never
will. And, sir, if wo wl o represent that
party this day in the admiuistiatieii of af
fairs are hut tiue to the principles upon
which it i-o-oigan'zrd itself in isM, and
again in l86t, and triumphed in 180O, it is
to hold the destinies of this country for a
generation to come; but it it is false to those
principles we shall pass away the false rep
resentatives of the true, genuine Republi
can party, ay, sir, the real Democratic par
ty of this country, as it is this day, its tiue
Representative and champion.
Mr. SAULSBCRY. It was my purpose,-Mr.
President, to submit a few re
marks in reply to that portion of the speech
of the honorable Senator from Wisconsin
w hich referred to the remarks I before sub
mitted to tho Senate ; but since that he l as
gone off on a very cold scent, and the con
troversy has lost to me most of its interest.
cordially agien with the honorable Senator
in his statement that our relations are those
of personal kindness, and therefore lam
sure he will take no personal exception to
what 1 am al out to say, 'J he course he has
pursued on this occasion only verifies a re
mark made by the photographer of the Re
publican paity, the lionerable t-enator from
New Hampshire. That honorable Senator,
iii the course of the remarks in which he de
lineated so tiuthfully and so bcautifullv the
character of the Republican party, said that
he was one ol its earliest chain. tens, and
now he found that the new coin erts to the
party, and especially that portion of them
who came from tbe Democratic paity, were
its most zealous defenders.
The honorable Senator from Wisconsin,
in the remarks which ho intended to he dis
paraging to the Democratic party, denied
that the history of that partv was as old.
that it.reeord was- as honorable, as I had
avowed it to be before the Semite. How
many years has itTbcen since that honorable
Senator was a high-priest in P"inocratio
councils? Sir, he has not tarried at the
political Jericho of the Bepublican party
sufficiently long for his beard to attain full
growth. If 1 mistake- not, he bore honora
ble commission to the national councils of
the Democratic party. If I misike not, he
was one of its fiercest champions, and he
bore aloft its banner in his own State atone
time. Sir, I have never known it to fail,
when a member of the Democratic party has
left the, party, tthat he has not said that he
did-not leave tho party, but that the party
lgft him.
Mr. DOOLITTLE. The honorable gen
tleman is mistaken. . ..The real Democratic
party did not leave me; they camo right
along with me aud helped to make the Re
publican party, and they are almost all in.
Mr. SAULSBUBY. My only reply to
that is that the old Republican party to
which the Senator alludes had everything
in the head and iot ''nigger on the biain,
and tho Republican party of tho present day
I wean r.o personal offense has nothing
except ''nigger on the brain."
Mr. LANE, of Indiana. I do not wish
to interrupt, tins interesting discussion ; but
1 will at tills period make a point of order.
My point is that it is out of order, it is ille
gal, to hole an inquest over the corpse of the
Democra tic party when the coroner is t ot
present; (Laughter. J .' . .; ". ,:i .
Jh. SAUIjSBURY.. I will answer the
Senator iri the course of the very few ro
uiftrks which. I propose to summit. '
Sir, we-have had a beautiful exibition
hcr to-day. An honorable cotor, whose
j effusions, or rather whose patriotic, noble,
and thrilling eloaueiice ill the other House
as the champion of the Democratic cause I
read mheu I was a school boy, rises and ex
poses the criminality of his new associates,
while still professing to belong to the party
in power 'which has succeeded the Demo
cratic partv. Another distinguished Sena
tor, who but very rcccutly was baptized in
this fountain of Republicanism, comes forth
its champion Mr. President, with those
kind feelings that I know exist personally
between the honorable Senator and myself,
1 can only hope that, as Peter denied his
Lord and Master, repented, and was forgiv
en, he is not too old yet, notwithstanding
his political sins of the last few years, to re
pent of them and be forgiven also.
But tile honorable benitor from Indiana
raises a point of order: reasserts that it is
not in oider to hold an inqntost over the dead
body of the Democratic party when the cor
oner is not present. Sir,' if the Democratic
party is dead, what a gantic corpso wc
nave tetore us. tine mtllinn seven hun
dred and fifty thousand voters in this coun
try constitute t hat corpse, if corpse it lie.
Where is the living man that is to summon
the coroner to hold au inquest over that
dead body? By your owu confession, and
notwithstanding all the means to which vou
resorted, you bad only some two hundred
or two hundred and fifty thousand majority
in the last presidential election ; and 1 now
sny here, in the hearing of the country,
that it is my solemn conviction that bad
that election been rightfully and legally de
termined, George B. McClellan, in favor of
wboso nomination I never was, would at
this dav be the declared President-elect of
the Lmtcd States.
Why do I say so? Why, sir, I. with oth
er Democratic Senators, incompliance with
the law of the land, in compliance with our
duty, went over a few days ago to witness
tho most magnificent farce that I ever saw
exhibited at the other end of tbe Capital;
and that was to heir tho vote for President
of the United States declared. I listened
to it. It went on; and all tho votes from
the land of steudy habits and, with all re
spect for the honorable Senator who sits bo
fore Mr. Wih-on, the land which not many
years ago thought it pious to burn old wo
men for witches, and which now thinks it
equally pious to whitewash a negro and
make him equal to a white man were re
corded for the present incumbent. It went
on until it came to the gallant State repre
sented by my friend from New Jersey, and
then there was music in the sound. That
vote gave out the true -utterances of the
voters of that State. Then came tbe vote
of the smallest State now in the Union in
population ; and let me correct history lor
one moment. It has been said that Virgin
ia is the mother of States; but, sir, 1 say
then came the voice of the mother of States,
the little State which land my colleague re
present on this floor,, the State w hich was
the first to adopt the Constitution, and
w hich, by the action of her sons, has show
ed herself more faithful than any other so
far heard from the compact of the fathers,
by being the first promptly to reject the un
constitutional proposed constitutional a
mendmeiit. Then, I say, came the voice of
that State, and though there were but three
votes cast that sound brought joy to the ear
ami gladness to the heart.
Mr. President, I said that in my judge
ment had that vote been legally ascertained,
George. B. McClellan would have been de
clared to be the President of the United
States, I was not in favor of his nomination;
and foreseeing that he would be nominated,
although a delegate to the Convention, 1
would not attend, becacuse be had identi
fied himself with certain principles and had
a record and a history which wcie antago
nistic to the votes that I had given in this
body, and I did riot desire to condem my
own actio by an indorsement of his record";
and yet when he was presented bv that
Convention, welcoming any breeze that wo'd
bring happiness and prosperity, and in some
measuie restore constitutional' liberty to this
country and get rid at once and forever of
the mad counsels of the piesent incumbent
that controls the destinicsof this country, I
supported him; anil 1 repeat my belief that
had that election been rightfully and legally
determined he would have lccn declared
the President-elect. Why do I say so? I
have said that I was called upon to "witness
a farce in the counting of the votes in the
House of Representatives. What were
some of the evidences that it was a farce?
1 heard the State of Maryland announced
as voting for Abraham Lincoln. A number
of tbe counties of that State border on the
county in which I live. I have traveled
through them; and I lune yet to find any
evidence in favor of this Administration
among that class of people with whom I be
came acquainted in that portion of the State.
Will you tell me that Maryland voted at .a
fiee election for tho present Executive of
the United States when I know the fact that
the armed military were at the polls; when
I know that when, notwithstanding the un
coils titutieiml act passed by a bogus Legisla
ture, and enforced by a bogus Government
in the State of Maryland, gentlemen against
whose character not a word could be said,
went forward and undertook to take the
oath prescribed in that Constitution, they
were driven from the polls, and not allowed
to vote?
Then came in Missouri, voting for Abra
ham Lincoln. Who belieics that the peo
ple of Missouri, at a free election, would
vi te an endorser nt of bin policy? 1 do not
refer to theyoungStatecalled West Virginia.
Her Senators know more of the sentiment
of that portion of the State of Virgiim than
I do; but I have met representatives in the
national council, even from that portion of
Virginia, who have told me that if the op
potients of the Administration had had any
fair chance they could have carried that
State.
Mr. WILLEY. The honorable Senator
from Marvland
Mr. SAULSBUBY. I do not belong to
hat province. Abraham has not got our
State as a "province," exactlv.
Mr. WILLEY. Well, sir, from the
"province'1 of Delaware.
Mr. SAULSBUBY. No, sir; tho "State"
of Delaware. .
Mr. WILLEY. ; Well, then, the State ol
Delaware; anything to satisfy the honorable
Senator. I have the pleasure to inform the
Senator, and I have no duubt it will be a
pleasure to him to learn, that there was a
regularly nominated tickot at the late Presi
dential election in West Virginia of the
party with which he is connected, and of
which he feels so proud, a party adorned so
highly on this floor, and in order to revive
tli Democratic jiarty in our State they pla
ced before tbe people five distinguished old
line Whigs, and gave them the whole vote
of the Democratic party in the young Stato
of West Virginia; that there was fair vote;
and that they were beaten by more than
three to one.
Mr. SAULSBUBY. IMiaye witnessed
in person some of these "fair elections"
where there has been a regular Democratic
ticket running. 1 recollect that only a year
ago last fall tho Democratic party iu my
State nominated a candidate for Congrew,
unci tho Republican, rartj nominated their
candidate. I recollect that election day
came, and that handbills were thrown in the
yards of farmers by armed soldiers passing
by, cautioning them in reference to the ap
proaching election. I recollect that they
had SQuads of soldiers around the voting
places, and that they had certain oaths stuck
up, the paternity ot which belongs to one
renowned general, who is now a member of
the other House, who has shed his blond up-
on many battle-fields, and illustrated the
patriotism of his country not by accepting
civil position in war, but active campaigns
in the field. He was once in command of the
Middle Department, and had his headquar
ters in Maryland, and I believe represents
or misiepresents, in part, the State of Ohio.
I lccolleet that notwithstanding there was a
regular Democratic ticket in the field there
were but fburtceu Democratic votes cast ;
and why? We bad tbe privilege of making
a ticket; but wo were notified beforehand of
pains and penalties to be attached to voting
in a particular way. I presume, therefore
when the Democrats of West Virginia had
the privilege of making out a ticket they
had some means of understanding that it
was not exactly safe to exeicise their right
to vote accoiding to their own judgment.
Mr. WILLEY. The Senator's supposi
tion is entirely unfounded. There wcie
scarcely any troops in West Virginia, and
no influence of the kind brought to bear up
on the people. There never was a more
free or fairer election in any State in the
Union.
Mr. SAULSBURY. I understand it all.
On the occasion of the election in my State
to which I refer I did not approach the polls.
I thought I knew the terms upon which I
could vote. I have no doubt there were
Democrats in West Virginia just as intelli
gent, and who understood the whole matter
just as well as 1 did.
1 have made these remarks in response to
the playful pioints of order raised by tho
honorable Senator from Indiana, to assure
him that if this Administration had appoin
ted a coroner to sit over the dead of body of
tho Democratic party he would have found
the largest corpse over which an inquest was
ever held.
One remark more, sir, and I shall con
clude, liet the Democrats of the country
take heart. To them I. say, though your
enemies may charge you with being disloyal
and in favor of disunion, with your glorious
Union record, with the vast numbers who
went to the polls, notwithstanding the arbi
trary measures resorted to to deprive you of
tbe exercise of the highest functions of the
American citizen, when you see that you
oniv fell some two hundred or two hundred
and fifty thousand votes behind in a popular
election in the States now in the Union and
said to be loyal, tbe record is most encourag
ing; it gives nopes ot the lutiire. J"orsako
not your principles, but rally around the
same old standard under which you wore
wont to fight. Remember that in all your
history and throughout your entire adminis
trillion ol national atiairs no citizen ever
complained that he had been illeeallv arres
ted and placed in a Bnttile. Remember
that you have n record w Inch shows that un
der your administration of the Federal Gov
eminent no man was ever deprived of life,
iineriy, or property, except by due process
ot law. Recollect, that throughout your en
tire history no press was forbidden to nub
lish its views to the people of the country;
that no executive hand was laid upon tho
freedom of the press. I tay to the members
ot that glorious party, 1 recollect that no
President whom you ever elevated to that
high position ever dared to claim tho power
of 'suspending the bulwark of liberty, the
writ eif littbcit cornvs. and then come before
the Congress of the United States asking to
oe relieved troiu the consequences ot the
act. Recollect also that during the entire
existence of your party, instead of dismem
berment and disintegration, there was noth
ing but the addition of State after State
Contrast that with the record of this Re
publican purty, and yon have a platform of
principles upon which you can safely go be
fore the people of thejeountrv. if indeed
Abraham the first Republican President is
not become Abraham the first Emperor, and
you may meet your political foes, and not
by military force or a resort to unconstitu
tional means, but by the free exercise of
that sufiiage which is secured to you by the
Constitution, Federal and State, achieve a
noble triumph in the future.
Extract IVom a Speech delivered
at rfew Bedford, Magsacliuselts
by the deader or the Kepubll
can Party, Wendell Phillips,
Aps il 1, 1M1, Justif ying South
Carolina.
The telegraph is said to report to-night
that the guns are cither firing out of Fort
Sumter or into it; that to-morrow's breeze.
when it sweeps from the South, will bring
to us the echo of the first Lexington battle
of the new revolution. Well, what shall
we say of such an hour? My own feeling is
a double one. It is like the triumph of sad
ness, rejoicing and sorrow.
I cannot, indeed, congratulate enough on
the sublime spectacle ot twenty millions of
people, educated in u twelvemonth, up to
being willing that that their idolized Union
should risk a battle, should risk dissolution,
in order, at any risk, to put down this rebel
lion of slave states. But I am sorry that
a gun should be fired at-Foil Sumter, or
that a gun should be fired from it, for this
reason. The administration at Washington
does not know its time 'J here are a series
of states girdling the gulf who think that
their peculiar institutions require that they
sliold have a separate government. They
have a right to settle that eiucetion without
appealing to you ornit A' large body of
j eople, sufficient to make a nation, hare
come to the conclusion that they will have a
government of a certain form. " S:ho denies
them the right? Standing with the princi
ple of '76 behind us, who can deny them
the right? What is u matter of a few mil
lions of dollaars or a few forts? It is a
mere drop in tho buckets of questions. It
is theirs just as much as ours. I maintain
that on the principles of '70, that Abraham
has no light to a soldier in Fort Sumter.
But the question comes, secondly, suppose
we had right to interfere, what Is the gooel
of it? You may punish South Carolina for
going out of thc Union. That does not
bring her back. You may subdue her by
hundreds of thousands of armies, but that
does not make, her a state.
There is no longer a Union. It is nothing
but boy's play. Mr. Jefferson Davis is an
gry, and Mr. Abraham Lincoln is mud, and
theiy agree to fight. One, two, three year
hence,, if the news of the afternoon is cor
rect, we shall have a war, spent millions, re
quired tho death of a hundred thousand
men, and bo exactly where we are now, two
nations a little more angry, a little poorer,
and a treat deal wiser, and that will be the j
only difference. We may just as well settle
it now as then.
You cannot go through Massachusetts
and recruit men to bombard Charleston and
New Orleans; tbe northern mind will not
boar it You can never mako such a war
popular. The first onset may be borne.
The telegraph may bring us the news of the
Anderson bombardment of Charleston, and
you may rejoice. But tho sober second
thought of Massachusetts will be wasteful,
unchristian and guilty. The North will
never indorse such a war. Instead of con
quering Charleston, you create a Charleston
in New England, lou stir np sympathy
, that the inauguration of war is not only
j violation of principle, but it is a violati
j f expediency. To be for disunion in B
or uic ooutn. j nereiore, it seems tome.
a
ation
Bos
ton is to be an Abolitionist. To be nr:iiiisf
disunion is to be an Abolitionist to-day in
the streets of Charleston. Now, that very
state of things shows that civilization of the
two cities is utterly antagonist.
What is the use of trying to join them?
Is Abraham Lincoln capable of making fire
and powder lie down in peace together? If
he can, let him send ids armies to Fort
Sumter and occupy it. But understand
me. 1 believe in the Union just as vou bc
jieve in the Union exactly as you believe
in the future. This is my proposition:
"Go out gentlemen; you are welcome, you
are welcome to your empire take it.
Milititrir (Dtfler
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TIIEXEW r.VROLLMEVr ACT.'
official.
War Department, )
Provost Marshal Gkn's. Office,
Washington, D. C, Mar. 3, 1805. j
Circular No. 5.
The following act of Congress is published
for the iuforuiatioivand guidance of all con
cerned: AN AIT TO AMEND THE SEVERAL ACTS HERE
TOFORE TA.-SED TO PROVIDE FOR THE
ENROLLING AND CALLINti 01 T THE NA
TIONAL FORCES, AND FOR OTHER I-LRl'o-SF.S.
Sec. 13. And he. it fvrthf-r enacted, That
where anv revised enrollment in any con
gressional or draft district has been obtain
ed or made, prior to any actual drawing of
name from the enrollment lists, the quota
of such district may be adjusted and ap
portioned to such revised enrollment, in
stead of being applied to or based upon the
enrollment as it may have stood belore the
revision.
Sec. 14. And he it furthn- enacted, That
hereafter all persons mustered into the mil
itary or naval service, whether as volunteers,
substitutes, representatives, or otherwise,
shall be credited to the State, and to the
ward, township, precinct, or other enroll
ment sub-district, where such persons belong
by actual residence (if sue:h person have au
actual residence within tho United States)
and wlwre such persons were or shall be
enrolled til liable to enrollment) and it is
hereby made the duty of the provost-mar:
sha) general to make Mich rules and give
such instructions to the several provost
marshaK boards of enrollment, and mus
tering officers, as shall be necessary for the
faithful enforceinei.it of the provisions of
this section, to the end that fair and just
credit shall be given to every ccctitin of the
country: VonVe-rf, That in any call for
troops hereafter, no county, town, township,
ward, precinct, or election district, shall have
credit except for men actually furnished on
said call, or the preceding call, by said coun
ty, town, township, ward, precinct, or elec
tion district, and mustered into the military
or naval service on the quota thereof.
Sec. la. And be it fvrtnrrrnactvtl, That
in computing the quotas hereafter, credit
shall be given to the several states, districts
and sub-districts for all men furnished by
them, respectively, and not heretofore cred
ited, during the present rebellion, for any
period of service of not less than three
months, calculating the number ot'davs for
which sucu service was luruisneu, ana re
ducir. x the same to veiirs; Provided. That
such credits shall not be applied to the call
for additional troops made bv tho President
on the twenty-first day of December, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-four.
Sec. 16. Ami be it further enacted. That
persons who have been or may hereafter be
drafted under the provisions of the several
acts to which this is an amendment, for the
term of one year, and who have actually
furnished, and may actually furnish, ac
eeptible substitutes (not liable to draft) for
the term of three years, shall be exempt
from military duty durine the time feir
which such substitute may not be liable to
draft, not exceeding the tune for which such
substitute shall have been mustered into
the service, anything in the a;t of February
twenty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-
tour, to the contrary, notwithstanding.
SEC. 17. And be it fmther e.uaclrd, That
any recruiting agent, substitute broker, or
other person who, for pay or profit, shall
enlist, or cause to be enlisted, as a 'volun
teer or substitute, any insane person, or
convict, or person under indictment for fcl
eny, or who is held to bail to answer for a
felony, or person in a condition of intoxica
tion, or a deserter from the military or naval
service, or any minor between the ages of
sixteen or eighteen yean-, without the con
sent of his parents or guardian, or any nii
ntir under the ago of sixteen years, knowing
him, in either case before mentioned, to be
such, or who shall defraud or illegally de
prive any volunteer or substitute of any
portion ot the state, local, or United States
bounty, to which he may bo entitled, shall
upon conviction in anv court of competent
jurisdiction, he fined not exceeding one
thousand dollars, nor less than two hundred
dollavs, or imprisoned not exceeding two
years and not less than three months or both,
in the discretion of the court oforesaid.
Sec. 18. And be it further enm-ted. That
any officer who shall muster into the mili
tary or naval service of tbe United States
ony deserter froni said service, or insane
person, or person in a condition of intox
ication, or any minor between the ages of
sixteen and eighteen years, without tho
consent of his parents or guardian, or any
minor under the age of sixteen years, know
ing him to bo, such, shall upon conviction
by any court-martial be dishonorably dis
missed tho service of tho United Slates.
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted. That
in every case where a substitute is furnish
ed to take the place of an enrolled or draft
ed man, and it is shown by evidence that
shall be satisfactory te the Secretary of War
that such substitute was, at the time of his
enlistment, known by tho party furnishing
him to be non conpo metitii, or in a condi
tion of intoxication, or under conviction of
indictment for any offense of the grade of
felony at the common law, or to have been .
guilty of a previous act of doscrtion unsat
isfied by pardon or punishment, or by rea
son of any existing infirmity or ailment
physically incapable of performing the ordi
nary duties of a soldier in actual service in
the ranks, or minor between t'te age of six--teen
and eighteen years, without die con
sent of his parent or guardian, or a minor
under the age of sixteen years, it, shall I
the duty of the Provost-Marshal General,
on advice of the fact, to report the camo to
the proost-marshal of tb proper district;
avd it such person, so enlisted aud incapa
ble, shall have been, sine tho passage of
this act, inustored into the tmice as a sub
stitute fir a person liable to draft, and not
actually draf ted, the name of the person so
liable who furnished such substitute shall bo
again placed on the li.st, and he shall be sub
ject to draft thereafter, as (hough no such,
substitute had been furnished by hiui; and
if such substitute so enlisted, and incapable
as aforesaid, shall bavo been, since the pas
sage of this act, mustered into the servico
as a substitute for a person actually drafted,
then it shall be the duty of the Pruvost
Martial General to direct the provost-marshal
of the dtntriei immediately to notify tho
person who I'uruL-hcd such substitute that
he is held to service in the plxoo of such
substitute, and he shall stand in the same
relation and besuljc-et to the same liability
a? before the furuishing of such substi
tute. Sec. 20. And be itfurtler enacted. That
in case any substitute shall desert trom tho
army, and it shall appear by evidence satis-.
J'uctory to the Secretary of War. that th
party furnishing such substitute bball have,
in any way, directly or indirectly, aided or
abetted such desertion, or to have been
privy to any attention on the part of such
substitute to desert, then such person shall
lie immediately placed in the army, and
shall serve for the period for which 'he was
liable to draft, such service to commence at
the date of the desertion of the substitute
Sec. 21. And U it further enacted. That
in addition to the other lawful penalties of
the crime of desertion from the military or
naval service, all persons who have deserted
the military or naval service of tho United
States, who shall not return to said sen-ice,
or report themselves to a provost-niurshal
within sixty days after the. proclamation
hereafter mentioned, shall be deemed and
taken to have voluntarily relinquished and
forfeited thtir riishts of citizenship and their
rights to become citizens; and such deser
ters shall be forever incapable of holding
a ay office of trust or pivtit under the Unit
ed States, or of exercising any rights of cit
izens thereof; and all persons who shall
hereafter desert the military or naval ser
vice, and all persons who being duly enroll
ed shall depart the jurisdiction of the d'mx.
triet iu which he is enrolled, or go beyond .
the limits of the United Slates, with, intent
to avoid any draft into the military or na
val service, duly ordered, shall be liable! trt
the penalties of this section. And the Pre
sident is hereby authorized and required
forthwith, on the passage of this act, to is
sue hisj proclamation setting forth tho pro-...
visions of this section, in which proclama
tion the President h requested to notify all
deserters returning within sixty days, as
albresuid, that they shall be pardoned on
condition of returning to their regiments
and companies, or to such other organiza-
tions as they may be assigned, until they
shall have served for a period of time equal
to their original term of enlistment.
. Si:c. '. And be it further enacted, That '
the third section of the act entitled, "Au
act further to regulate and pibvido for the"
enrolling and calling out the national forces,
and for other purposes," approved July
fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be
and the samo is hereby re pealed.
SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That
any person or persons enrolled in any sub
district may, after notice of a draft, and
beforo the same shall have taken place, and
cause to be mustered into the service of th
United States, such number of recruits, not
subject to draft,' as they may deem cxpedi- '
cut, which recruits shall stand to the credit
of the persons thus causing them to be mus
tered in, and shall be taken nskubstituUisfor
such persons, or so many of theui as may
be drafted, to the extent of the number of
such recruits, and in the order designated by
the principals at the time such recruits aro
thus as aforesaid mustered in.
Sec 24. And be it furthn enacted, That
section fifteen of the act approved February
24, eighteen hundreed and sixty-four, enti-
titica An act tor enrolling and calling out '
the national forces, and for other purposes'
be and the same is hereby amended by in- '
serting after the words '"any civil magis-'
trato," the1 word "or any person authorized '
by law to administer oaths."
Sec 24. Aiul be it further enacted, That' '
the Secretary of War is hereby authorized .
to detail ono or more of the employees of '
the War Department for the purpose of ad- .
ministering the oath required by law in tho :
settlement of officer's accounts for clothing, '
camp and garrison equippage, quartermas
ter's stores, and ordnance, which oaths
shall be administered without expense to the '
parties taking them, and shall be as binding '
upon the person, taking the same, and if
falsely taken, shall subject them to the saniei
penalties as if the same were administered "
Ly a magistrate or justice of the pence." r'"'
SEC. 26.. And be it furtlur enacted, That ''
acting assistant surgeons, contract surgeons,
and mrgeons tnd lominissioners on the en
rolling boards while in thcmilitary service
of the United Suites, shall hereafter be ex-"'
empt from all liability to be drafted under t
the provisions of any act for enrolling and "'
calling out the national forces.
Sec 27. And be it. further enacted. That '
this act shall take effect from and after its pas .
sage: Provided, That nothing herein contain-.
cd shall operate to postpone the pending '
draft, or interfere wiih the quotas assigned '
therefor.
Approved, March 3, 1865. ' '
I Sections from one to twelve, inclusive do '
not relate to this bureau, and are omitted.
JAMKSB. FRY, '.'. '
Provost -Marshal General. "
Pui:siir.xTs pkocxamatio.v
TO DESEHTEKS. .:
' The President of the United Statci of
America has issued the following proclama-
tion
Whereas, The twenty-first section f
the act of Congress approved on the 3(1 '!
inst., entitled "an act to amend several acts
heretofore passed, to provide for the enroll
ing and calling nut of the National forces, "
and for other purposes," requires that, ad
ditional to the other lawful penalties of the '
crime of desertion from thcmilitary or naval !
service,; all persons who have deserted from ;
States, who shall not return to said service' 1
or report tncmseives to a frovost Marshal
within sixty days after the proclamation :
herein-after mentioned, be deemed and ta- :
ken to have voluntarily relinquished and
forfeited the right of citizenship, and their
shall be forever incapable of holdihg any of-
fice of- trust or profit under the United
piures, or w exercising any or rights ot cit
izens thereof: anil nil nrsnn .k.H
hf"l'AAfTirlnflnit t'rmn li -a
- - , .... . i, .1 1 .... j Wl U,U
service, and all persons who, being dulreif "
.r.tln.1 .bkll . J .1.1 i . .." ,
.....v.., man uepuii irom UlO J UriSUlClKID Ot
the district in which ho in cnrollod, or go be-
vond thrt limita Vf Vin lTnltn.l Ui.m.
the intent to avoid any draft into military or
(ujft'tLA slaiU M1.U,J k.ll I' t l. ..J ,L.
penalties ot this ecfrtioii, and the PreskhnV i.
iHviisvu1 niJU 1U1H1T11H
pn the paafatre oi' thU act, to wwiio his proc
lamation setting fortfeiJiA proviauMAei'thiaL
ilrtnfr im rtviirfrui nti'rr nil sLtOitptaM . ....
turning within sixty days as aforesaid, that .
tunilnj to thijrei'iui-mfl andeompauiuoj,
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