The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-16
SENATOR DOOLlTTLE.

| friend in Washington has sent ius copy q
the speech Of Senator JAMES R. Doo1rTuE, o.
Wisconsin, delivered in the United States Senate
February 10Th, 1867. 'In vindcatoin OF his course
and against the establishment Of military despo
tism in the Southern States." We have read the
entire speech with considerable interest, and will
endeavor to give an abstract OF it to our readers
The first part Of the speech, inveighing against
the Military Reconstruction Bill, it is not worth
while to notice, as it is fair to suppose that our
readers by this time have q pretty good idea oI
that measure President Johnsonis veto message
which, we presume, has been carefully read by all
contained everything that can be said on military
reconstruction. But, although it cannot avail
anything now to reproduce such evidence it is
gratifying to find letter Like the following, which
Senator Doo1lTT1E read in support Of his views.
he says:
+ Ireceived from General TARBELL, late Colonel OF
the 91st N. Y. Volunteers, in May last letter re-
ferring to the condition Of the South, from which
letter I propose to read certain extracts to the
Senate:
sDEAR SIR Allow me to say that have been in
the States Of Georgia, Aamama and Mississippi
since December last; that was a Wing, and am q
| hepuuuCdl duu uouCe lUuH6u ClOS6ly dG COuLu6rQ
society. I have no hesitation in denouncing the
reports in Northern newspapers Of outrages upon
the blacks and upon Northern settlers as utter
fabrications or malicious e3aggerations. travelled
by rail- by water, on horseback, on foot, in compa-
ed, except a. pocket knife, purposely, openly and
frankly declaring to every one / was Yankee and
Black Republican. met others who had travelled
on horseback from Florida to Mississippi, who,
like me, were Republicans, and do assure you
North 90 tar as personal safety is concern, ss1
say BAY that the South is tcaricatured' in the North
does not express it; she is slandered, viifed,
wickedly, infamously. belied. We're the South to
come North she would not recognize herself; if
she did she would disown herself. We're the
North to 60 South she would be astounded at the
misrepresentation and talsehoods and with the
cruelty unjust and erroneous sentiments prevailing
there. The North is all wrong, not in it's consist
ent anti-slavers sentiments but in it's impressions
of Southern character. The negroes are neither
hated nor ill-treated; Northern settlers are not
moested the South accepts the situation in good
ronnd Of complaint against tbe ar1 Rn
reau officers. Most Of them are interested in plan
tations, and so many are corrupt and incompetent
that the service, the Government and the North
are scandalized by their conduct"
And such, you remember, sir, we're the reports
of the generals sent to investigate those affairs.
But to return to the letter:
'eBut not to be too lengthy, T assure you, sir,
that this terrific public opinion that is driving the
North to the support Of the startling and danger
GUS Capitalization Of power in Congress is based
upon falsehood and Misrepresentation.
Gas expect to be judged by my Maker at the
great day Of final Judgment, state to you solemn
" that, from extensive travels in these States,
from conversations with all classes and coors, and
alter listening to hundreds I believe, before high
Heaven, that all these newspaper reports Of hatred
to and outrages upon blacks by whites, and of the
mocstations Of Northern settlers, are baseless,
wicked fabrications, concocted and reported ex-
prcssy to create this fearful public opinion which
should sustain the change of the fundamental
principles Of the Constitution devised by our fore
fathers with wisdom and foresight they them
selves scarcely comprehend
That letter was addressed to me last year.
have also another letter from him which I re-
ceired in November last, in which, referring to
this folmer letter, he uses these words:
80 far from having eeen reason to retract my
letter to you am more than confirmed in the
truth Of the assertions then made"
This was written from Mississippi, where he
now resides.
The second, and much the longer, part of sena-
tor DooL1TrLE's speech is devoted to defence OF
his course during the present administration. The
Legislature of Wisconsin, as is well known, passed
resolutions eQademnipg his political course, and