Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-02

o6io, when lyoae you came here fiftS yeats AGO.
You came here, with your wives, then
S99a99g 9gSio aS Isps Pto0%Ss ghe4 s xiIds
fe to for auyaa your 5fsa seia HS% S gsaBg{d @
affairs now, On the fertile plains OF the
South to-day, with the fruitful sun shin
arm LABOR, high wages are paid, =, Why
shall not the negro there work as you.
worked here !? Why not be. done ,at o1ace,
and forever with this most internal and
intolersble nuisance called the. .Freedmen,ss
Bnreau2 Strike off sS65 0oO 600 there. Ny,
friend down here, in a brogue that has al,
ways ebaep sweet to my ears. says that he y
thought ireland was the only country that
had ever been x-riddea and oppressed to
such an extent. No; no people Under the
shining course OF the sun pay as much
taxes as you pay, p The ermous sums
thai have yet to speak OF, added to those
/ have mentioned, show you to be themost
heavily taxed people on the face of the
earth The standing army of France costs
land, whose boast It i that tue sun never f
goes down upon her drum ibest1that op-9
[ presses Ireland and holds the East, In her
iron grasp77do not tax her people SO heay-y-
| lily as our standing army taxes the Amefi7
b ear of the North, with one paw menacing :
: Europe and the other Asia, with all his :
, military strength, does not grind his serfs
+ SO cruelty as our present policy, under our
| military Commanders, grinds this people.
! do not mentiop the military command, "a
to denounce them. / anl denouneing the
I law that called them into being III am de-
{ nouncing the, law that costs you 1885,. .000, 600
year to. overth row, a mericfpi Liberty in :
. nearly one7half of your country. 9+hll.3 ri
DENUNCIAFIoN OF TIRE CONGRESSIONAL g nr
/ - .vfa Isnt0 sdPoLICY. 5fasui5se as e1 znf
- exrI-
/ other step forward in this Congressional 2
/ policy. Is -it not a perfidious policy, as z
| have already said ? Is it not the policy of Z
| hypocrisy, apolicy concealed during the =
/ war and avowed only afterward; policysi
/ at war with their own record from'5he be-oi
| ginning to the end denounca it in that q
/ respect as the policy of hypocrisy. y L del
l. noupce it as a cheat and a swindle upon
| the people, and apeffidious fraud upon the
+ country. denOunce it further,as the poll
/ icy of cowardice and of meanness. L. is
i policy much hafsher and more severe. and I
/ totally different from that which this Cow
| ernment held out TO the rebels before they
| laid down their arms. Norman but a mean 9
| man and a coward ever. tells another when q
i he has arms in his hands, 'sIf you will lay q
| down your arms we will be friends, % and
/ asisoon as he lays adown his arms, then
I turns upon him withlreloub bled fury. That
i is the character of the Pottawatoniie saw
/ age; beg pardon of the savage-it il one
|
| Congress told the rebelaSouth throughout
| the war that whenever they surrendered
they could return to the halls of Congress-
and should be reinstated in their civil
| rights. Why? Because it was according
to the spirit of American institutions to do
so, and it was according TO liberty and law y
| and the Constitution. As soon, no wever,
as their arms were laid down, Thaddeds
1 Stevens proclaimed that he would legisate
T. for them outside of the Constitution, and.
.lrNrx H.
support the Constitution at the desk IL.
Congress, and Mr.. Stevens, the great leader =
l. from Pennsylvania, walks back to his seat
and soIemnly says, "We5are not lie gislating
under the Constitution for the South; we
l. are not leSislatihg subject to it's proVisl q
t. IONS" Then he had sworn falsely in his
II heart of hearts and in his soul before the
eternal Gbd. The man who swears to SUPP
i. port the Constitution, and then says that
+, he is not governed by the CONSTITUTIONS, is
liar in his heart before bis Cod tApplause.I
1 denouhce this polieyof Congress, further
! as the policy of profigacy and expendi-
! ture out OF the hard earnings of an. over
I taxed people. 4 have discussed that point.
+ There let their policy upon the subject of
reconstruction stand. 1 wash my hands
of it. fH' oa@ = 9ni 9dj sl8 HfnA .7s-
H. u9 MR., yoRHEEs' WAR RECORD. q91s d
A. They denounced me as rebel, as a trait
II or, while was in Congress. A traitor;
4 why ! may as well say here, in the hear
/ ing of this mighty audience, and of the
h readers of one OF the most extensively read
1 journals in the country, whose reporter is
now preparing a. report of what say-I
. allude- to the Oiacttsaqts Cdn.merctds-[ may
l. as well say In the hearing of its readers, as
I; well as In yours, that L voted for every
man, and for every dollar for every man,
n Throughout the war. L was for, peace
whenever peace could be had upon the
\ basis of Union. I | did not want war in the
II beginning / did not want it one single
day after we could have peace upon the
basis of the old Union; but when the war
came upon the country l did not follow the
4 example of many Republican leaders who
t. tried to stafve the army in Mexico and
thus stop the war. 1t is not statesmanship
!; to attempt to stop a war by starving an
u army and cutting of supplies. Ii must
be done by legi6lation, and wise and great
, measures of peace. Hence, while the war
was waged the soldier ate the biscuit I
II gave him; he slept upon the blanket that
I'll gave him; drew the pay voted tor.-
| More than this, in view of the increased
| expenseof living, in view ofithe deprecia-
ton OF Ithe Government paper money,
( moved to Increase the soldiers pay in
N greenbacks 20 their value in gold. The
81 Schencks and the Binghams voted against
me on that proposition. as my friend, MIR.
: Finck, can bear testimony, for he votedNas
!, L. did. Another enemy OF the soldier, you
: II know. Laughter o The trouble was this:t
such meras Mr.. Finck and Colonel Fouke
/ l. were welded to the laws of, the land. We
3 were welded to the Union as your fathers
made ito We loved the old tree govern
ment. We loved its ancient glory; aud
there was never an hour during the war
! when, if our lives lad sufficed, to restore
) 8 the Union, we would not have been willing,
. to have gone out and been shot to death by
) a file of soldiers upon an hours notice for
} preparation Thus we1t loved the Union;
: and subsequent events show how these
L Radical leaders loved the negro far better
e than they loVedthe Union. ruo, SsT5 hiD,
H.. CONGRESSIONAL DIsUN1oNIsTs. f1
e q But there is still another point upon
# which 1 wish to talk TO you about-Con-
J., gress.I / am prosecuting great criminal;
: II have got him at the bar of public justice.
a His name is Congress- am prosecuting
q Congress. for its crimes against liberty, for
: its crimes against the dignity of the States
e b of thiss Unions for its crimes against the
. national, life.s Has it restored the Union3
v - Why. they denounce us for saying, in the
S Chicago platform, that the war had failed
v to restore the Union. Well, am not here
+ b to say5that this was the wisest1mode of ex-
s preston, or the most unwise that could
e l. have been used but it was true,l tor up to
o that time the war had not restored the
e1 Union. The people thought il would re-
{ store the Union ii it could be brought to a
!, successful issue.o 1t has come to a success
Tissue now, but where is the man in
Ohio who has the hardihood to say that the
+ Union is restored? Long sinceoit would
! have beeu. but for the Radicals having
T. driyel in this military wedge called recon-
! rs struction.s Hence you are disunitsd to-
: /, day. Who are the disunionists? Congress,
! IT, that, refuses to allow the Union to come
y L : flNary