M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1864-03-03

philanthropy t1 the negro 10 Ss.en.
sla'O him aud doom him to the army.
You have made this a negro, Aboli-
ton war. You have changed its ori.
glnal purpose, and therefore the negro
should be called out, aud should tighL
tho battles OF the party which has
taken them inso their keeping. | do
not, TOR one, intend to resist .yoDr
movements in that respect any longer.
Mr. Speaker, two States have in
the inain governed this vast country
Since the Declaration Of Independence
in l776, and those two States have
boen Massachusetts and Virginia.
Ma'sachnsetIs AMI Virginia, from
lII0 aud l7o7, on to tho end otWash.
ipgton's Administration, CO operated
together in most beautiful administrs.
tlon OF this Government. From 1898
to 1900 there reigned tho Admipistra.
ton ot vhn Adulns. It waa A reign
Ot terror from beginning to end +; it
was a reign Of tyranny, too, as wcll
as OF terror throughout, tho country.
Newspapers were siienced, the courts
were overawei, the alien and sedltion
laws were passed, and il was snch a
reign Of violence that in 1900 there
was civil revolution, anl MsssR.
cEusotts waa thrown ont Of power,
AMI kept out Of power from 1900 till
1860. During that long period of
simo pever did sny country prosper
as this country has prospere1 The
South took its columns OF emigration
over tho Chatrahochce 20 the Coosa
anu tho rallapoosa, beyond the Mss.
issippi, on to the Nnsc@ and the Rio
Grande, and created an agriculture
which fuhjectel to it all civilized
nations OF the earth. No more bsauti.
iu spectacle Of cooperative industry
was ever presented. The North pre-.
sented an equally beautiful spectacle.
The columns OF emigration marchsd
on beyond tho lakes to Minnesota, to
lows, to Wisconsin, and to theRocky
Mountains. During all Ahat tune
Virginia aud Massachusetts, combin.
ed together IN the spirit OF Washing.
ton and Jefferson aud Madison and
the elder Hamilton. BY the secession
of The Sonth in 1860 the reign from
. 1895 to 1900 was restored and Mas,
sachusettS became ascendant In this
Government again. Every path Of
, hera is traced in blood, and the mon.
;. nments OF her destructiveness are to
: be fOunl on hundreds Of battle fields
North and South. A million Of human
beings sacrificed unnecessarily is tho
holocaus! Of that administration.
Four thousand millions Of debt upon
US and your postarity is The conse-.
, quence OF that administration
This "Freedmen's Bill," as il is
called, ia not worthy OF tho practical
mind of Massachusetts. 1t hardly
could have enanated from q Massa.
chusetts mini, and the gentleman
, who introduced il tella us that ho has
consulted with others. 1t has Mas.
sachuSetts sense. Il must have como
from aoine Ut the free6men's commits.
! sion perhaps from Robert Dale
Owen, for the bill itself is Socialistic,
Fourierstic, Owcnistic, erotic, mot
erratic-I beg the reportors to bear
thRt in mind The whole scheme is
one Of money making tho whole
) scheme ia ono for the use Of the black
} race by Northern masters. But il, in
: tho name ofhulnauity, you are acting
for these negroes, introduce some
more practical measure, without con.
solidat.ng and centralizing all the
powers OF this Government. Do not
abandon this beautiful theory of Stat.
IS, and convert this Government into
a consolidation and Capitalization,
+ solely for the money making purpose
} OF this bill. Make il practical make
it sell supporting. Do not burden the
Federal Treasury with it. Let it take
care Of itself, as is the theory OF our
Government. We have no more right
to feed and support negroes than we
have to feed and support white men.
The thing is not written in the Con-
stitution. 1t is not written in human
nature. If you are to advsnce the
pas CT negroes in tho army, make
Them as you make white soldiers. sup
port their wives and children. Give
the negro eight or nine dollars month
and subtract the other four or FIVE
dollars for the support Of his wife and
children. But here is bill, the cost
of which no man can foresee or pos.
sibly foretell.
J protest against my constituents
being taxsd for it. ] protest in the
name oil the laborer Of the North, in
the name ofthe workman Of theNo,th,
in the name OF the capitalist of the
North. ! protest against it in behalf
OF the white woruea and na..s chit
iswa y lko Norta. Ba:ie9 rot tbs