The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-09-28
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THE SPEECH OF MAJOR MOREAU.

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tFron the Evansville tIbdiuna) Courier, Sept. 1OI
VIC shall endeavor TO give the main
points The of speech of Major MDreau ON
the occasion alluded to above, promising
! that his effort Oh that occasion was one
of tile most brilliant and striking which
we have heard during the campaign,
Major Moreau after the customary
preliminary remarks, said that he was
glad TO see so many who were able TO
be called traitors by "traitors." He
was glad to meet so many of his old
comrades who had stood with him in
the face of death for tho preservation
of the Union. These men had dared
to face the storm of lead on many hat
tlo-felds, and they could, he thought,
face the storm Of cpithets aud lies hurl-
ed upon them by the stay-at home
'patriots" who follow snch great mill
tary heroes as Charles Sumner and
| Thaddeus Stevens Applause.1 4 ' 8 p
He had been with the Republican
party since its formation, ten, years
ago, and had been high priest IN the
Republican templc, and when he spoke
OF the party, he knew what he was
speaking about. In the 22d of Fo bru-
airy Convention, he created a storm by
offering a resolution indorsing Andrew
johnson; crippled, standingon crutch-
es, he went under in that convention
with his johnson resolution, as he and
his horse went under before the rebel
| lines. wnlfs GO SOM f4Itfrft'e tHsno
1t was not pleasant to part with old
party friends and companions, Before
him, however, he saw the faces of
friends of ten years ago, and his later
associates Of the past ten years. He
regretted to part with the latter, but he
!, had appealed to the high court of his
conscience, and lac would be true to
I himself . 49,. .rf u.ifnr re,l,
: Because he bad ceased TO cooperate
with those who had deserted his stand.
7 ard bearer, Andrew Johnson, he had
! been attacked but he would say u
1 them that every attack made upon him
= was sharp edged knife put into the
= vitals of tho Republican party, and he
cared not how thick and fast they fell
ECheels, -1 -l9f .'.. .i. ..s...i ....,,iI
l lie would not handy epithets with
: his opponents. Ilehad no hard names
: to apply to them. There were too
many questions of vital Importance to
discuss to have time for personalities
! lie would, however, only address them
in desultory manner, for he was un-
: well, and ought to be in his bed. ..
One OF the great issues Of the day.
the greatest of them all--was tho ques-
, tion Of "Union on Disunion - tits the
same question that was forced upon
the country five years ago, and for the
: settlement of which the American peo-
pie had been called to arms-for which
they had suffered, and for which they
T died The same question is to be set
> tied again, through the perfdy Of q
revolutionary and usurping Congress,
! which has attempted to rob the sol
diers of the fruits of their suffering and
, privations, For what? That a party
may provide means for the retention OF
its power
, DO you remember, fellow comrades,
: the inducements held out for you to
enlist2 Eleven States had proclaimed
that they were going out of the Union
! that they were going to assert the
] supreme sovereignty claimed for them
a By a certain school of politicians in the
= South, and dissolve the Union left us
by Washington. That was the induce
ment. We were enthusiastically ap-
4 pealed to--and we responded. All
I how many responded, lot the thousands
( of dead, all over the South, tell Of the
4 carnage and death. How we went
forth to meet that question of "Union
or Disunion," let the vacant seats by
( the hearth tell, whore void is made
that may never be filed on earth. How
: we went forth, let the armless sleeves, tC
/ be seen on every highway, the halting
step the erutch and tho hobbling body
tell. H a
\ X X
t What has Congress done for the
Q white man2 What legislation has beer
K undertaken during the whole Of las
4 session that has tendency even tC
0 benefit the poor, laboring, producing
4 classesp Nothing has been done for white
# men-every thing againstthem There
= has been but one idea before it, TO th'
t exclusion of every thing else. 1t is the
one idea of Niger. They have haC
nigger in the lobby, niger in the gal
!, lery, niger on the brain, and, in my
a opinion, niger in closer quarters. [Ap
: plause and laughter.] The nigger is ;
: big thingi Ifhe isn't ON ice, he ought
! be during August to drown the smell
0 Laughter.]
q But Congress, with all its nigger
D has adjourned and gone to the people fol
q a verdict and we have its bones now
y before the anatomists of history, the
a people, and it is left to them to decide
a to what genus and species Of the ami
: nal creation that Congress- belong