Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-08-20
A NOBLE SPEECH.


The following are the closing para
graphs of speech delivered by tho
Hon. w. II. Robertson, member Of
Congress from Brooklyn N. Y, during
the discussion upon the supplement
to the reconstruction bill recently
adopted by Congress :
Sir, we have been playing thin
bIerig with the South, and who can
tell under which thimble the little
ioker which will secure restoration 10
to be found. The LOWER THE SourH
HAS BENT THE KNEE, THE MORE INTeL
ERABLB HAVE BECOME THE TERMS OF
PARDON even kindly words from any
friend of the South were answered
with greater indignity, till, finally,
conditions are expracted WHICH NONE
BUT DULLES WOULD DEMAND OR Ora
VEINS YIELD, for, 1.-THE knee that is
forced bad been better unbent.o But
there is hope ahead. In after years,
from common bond of love, beneath
a common flag, from common broth.
erhood, born of our Northern children
mingllng in holy faculties with the
children of the South, men will look
| back and wonder that there was
wckedpess enough in tho world to
lntlct such injuries upon one another
but will bless the peace.makers among
their ancestors, and curse the mis-
creants who famed so long the flame
of contentloued, Nay, shall live to
see that day; and shall live to look
my children in the face and to say
that there was one who fought rebels
throughout the rebellion, but when
The war was over pleaded forgiveness,
believed who never attempted the
'futuse's portal with the psst's blood
rusted key; who would rather grasp
the bloody hand Of an open foe than
touch the shiny finger Of the coward
that skulked from danger who never
kicked the undermost dog nor struck
n fallen foe.
when the foe was knocked under. TO tread on
him then
by the est Of my father, blush for thee, Ben"
Let mo say a closing word for my
felI0w-citlzens of the South can
not forget that they, too, have sor.
rows that might well arouse revenge
There are maddeoing memories which
matched against our own and skrieked
into each ohers' cars, would keep up
forever apart They have hearts to
feel and eyes to weep for loved ones
lost, for husbands buried on distant
battle fields fathers slaughtered in the
mountain passes, and sons taken away
by instant death, all buried 10 name
less and unknown graves. They
fought gallantIy, but they are down;
| aud cursed be the hand that smites
the fallen. long to see them back in
the Union, that they and me, forgiv-
ing aud forgetting the past, and grid
ing up our loins for the magnificent
future, may enter upon the career of
greatness and glory that stretches
away before us.
have sought to elevate my mind
above tho vengeance OF divided pre-
sent, and having looked to the bright
eniug flag Of united future rs the
inheritance Of glory for common
postcrily. In days gone by learned
my creed from Henry Clay and Daniel
Webster, JOHN NJ. Clayton, and John
J. CrittenIen | stand by the record,
and refuse thr teaching of Brownlow
and Phillips.
see IA th" future M ocean-bound
RepnbIt, III the immediate future
huntra1 millions OF her united people.
Wu"," tui lew stars Pickering in
her Ky, see consultations bIaz
ing; the flute, Of her flag is reflected
on every sea, the splash of her porpel
Ter vexes every ocean and to that
future | summon back our breathren
Of the South, for without them sue
cess would be a failure, and glory DO
but shame.
cob would thou vert near me, my Southern
brother,
love thee as dear az the son my mother.
| am lonely and sad since the day that we parted
MY lips have the toae of a maid broken hearted,
But come, from the future fre.h flowers We'll
gather.
And sing the sweet songs of our Union forever
The TRAITOR IoPBz.-Col. Mi
guel Lopez, after selling Macmillan,
and bis Generals. went to Puebla to
visit his wife. His reception was
decidedly cold His wife advanced
to meet him, leading their little son
by the hand, and addressed him