Speech of Hon. J. M. Howard
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. J. M. Howard: In the Senate of the United States, January, 1864 Mr. Howard. Mr. President. I deeply regret that a sense of duty as a member of this body should require me to act the part I am about to act in reference to the Senator from Kentucky. I have known him for more than twenty years. I had the pleasure to be associated with him as a member of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, and during that turbulent and agitating period had occasion very frequently to admire his frankness, his patriotism, and his devotions to his principles - principles in which I sincerely sympathized with him. We were both acting in promotion of the same political objects, both in the same political party, and I confess, sir, that when I look back upon those ancient scenes, my feelings are hurt to be obliged to throw myself into a position of antagonism to him who was then my friend and political associate. But for all this, sir, he must pardon me, at least excuse me; I feel that there is a duty due from me to this body and to the country, and that duty impels me to take a somewhat particular notice of the series of resolutions offered by the Senator from Kentucky, which form the foundation of the resolution of the Senator from Massachusetts for his expulsion. On the 5th of January, the honorable Senator from Kentucky presented to this body a series of very singular resolutions, and asked the Senate to order them to be printed. The Senate made the order. They, were printed at the public expense, and are now pending before us. They are resolutions intended for consideration; we are asked to pass our judgment upon them. We are asked to vote on them, and to adopt them as the sentiments of the Senate of the United States, one of the legislative branches of the Government. In the course of this singular series, the Senator from Kentucky, after alleging various grounds of complaint against the Executive Government of the United States and the action of what he calls the dominant party in the loyal States, uses this language: "Verily, the people North, and the people South ought to revolt against their war "leaders, and take this great matter into their own hands, and elect members to a "National Convention of all the States, to terminate a war that is enriching hundreds of "thousands of officers, plunderers, and spoilsmen in the loyal States, and threatens "the masses of both sections with irretrievable bankruptcy and indefinite slaughter; "and to restore their Union and common Government upon the great principles of liberty and compromise devised by Washington and his associates." And it is for the utterance of the sentiments contained in thin clause which I have read that the Senator from Massachusetts offered the resolution for his expulsion. Now, sir, I think I may say, without vanity, that I am too old and too well acquainted with the import of the English Language to find it necessary resort to dictionaries, whether English, French, or Latin, for the purpose of ascertaining the meaning of the word "revolt." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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