Record of Hiester Clymer
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Excerpt from Record of Hiester Clymer: And Historical Parallel Between Him the Major-General John W. Geary Pennsylvania was contributing her blood and treasure without stint, in support of the National cause, and for her own defence, it becomes a pertinent inquiry on which side Mr. Clymer was to be found; and whether he cast his talents, his influence, and his means on the side of the Government or of its enemies. Fortunately this record is before us in an authentic and unquestionable shape; and it shows that he is now the fit representative of his party, as he was its leader in the Senate during the rebellion, being foremost in denunciation of the Government, and strenuous in his opposition to every measure calculated to suppress rebellion. In 1861 he opposed and voted against arming the State after Sumter had been attacked. No one was more bitter in denunciation of, and refusal to hear loyal democrats at the Capitol in defence of the Union. He voted against an increase of pay to the soldiers who were perilling their lives on the battle-field; he refused to give them the right of voting while in the service of their country; he refused to support the bill disfranchising deserters; and was loud and unblushing in expressions of admiration and sympathy for Vallandigham and other traitors. In nominating him his party has been eminently consistent with its whole course during the rebellion; no member of it was more steadily and persistently antagonistic to the great Union party, and the cause of the country during the whole of that period. We now furnish the proof of these assertions. Against Arming the State in 1861. On the 12th day of April, A. D. 1861, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of a bill for the arming of the State. This was the same day in which the rebel batteries opened their fire on Fort Sumter. On agreeing to the first section of the bill the yeas were 36 ;and the nays as follows, viz :Messrs, Blood, Clymer, Crawford, Mott, Schindel, and Welsh, 6. And upon every section the vote stood the same; and upon the final passage, Mr. Clymer continued, with the small minority of 6, to vote against it. See Legislative Record for 1861 - pages 843-4-5 and 6. And on the 16th day of April, 1861, after the news of the attack upon Sumter had fired the Northern heart, and hundreds of thousands were rallying to the defence of our insulted flag, Mr. Clymer united with his five disloyal colleagues in entering upon the journal of the Senate a solemn protest against the bill for arming the State. See Legislative Record 1861, pages 902 and 3. It is true these disloyal Senators veiled their opposition to this measure under a pretended regard for constitutional forms; but so they did subsequently in all the efforts of the Government to uphold its authority against the rebellion, and to guard the national flag from insult and dishonor. 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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