The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1868-01-30

lhtbCT ShuOuNOLOu W Qcpil lNO lue
weak ofa protection.
The galleries had become den.
sely crowded during the Senator's
remarks, which were delivered in
sitting position, he being in i'll
health.
Some one in the gallery, who
made an ejaculation, inaudibIe to
the reporter, was quietly elected.
Mr.. NYE followed Mr.. Morton.
He said the amendment was intro
duced to elicit political discussion,
and the object of its author would
be achieved, for the other side
would have enough of it before Tho
close. The power of the Republi-
Gun party had been felt on every
battle field. and would continue to
be felt until the work was complet-
cd. There had been faint hearted
ones during the war as there are
now, and the Senator from Wis
consin Doolittle] had greatly
changed since he [Nye1 had sat in
tile galleries listening to the music
a. strain of his appeals in behalf Of
liberty. Mr.. NyU was a Radical
and gjoried in it. lIis friend had
been once, but was so no longer
What then, was ne nova Demo
crat? | hardly know which TO
apologize to ivr saying so, the
gentleman or the Democratic party.
Laughter,
TO show his distinguished friends
Fand The. world tho exact stains,
politically, Of a Conservative, he
read from Paradise Lost, IA work
no recommended to his honorable
friend-the following:
"for spirita, whom they please.
I Can either shape assume, or both;
so soft and nnconioun led is their essence pure;
Norionnded on the brittle strength of bones
like cumbrous flesh:
But in what shape they choose,
Diluted or condensed, bright or obscure,
Can execute their airy purposes,
And works ofloyc or onmty fulfill"
I.tLOnghtci.l
Miltonhad tho Senator in bis
eye when he wrote that Laugh
ter. Ho then took up the pro.
posed amendment, ard said that to
instruct tho committee in accord
ance with the amendment would
make humanity blush
lie reiterated the question of Mr.
Morton, why the Senator voted, in
1864, that reconstruction was the
worI: OF Congress alone. Not one
step has been taken on reconstruc.
ton but what had been dictated by
necessity. The leading papers OF
tho North, and the vilost Copper,
head paper oftho North, tho Chicago
Times, had supported negro suffrage
from ulterior motives ut first. Now
there was holy horror that the
Southern people wcro to be overrid-
den by half barbarous race, as the
Senator called them. The negroes
have, rs he said, dug trenches for
rebels, but it was under the rod of
their task.masters;1nd oftbat enamel.
patton was born. Like true Christians
they raised no insairectiOn, but bided
their timo. Tho pinch was they
were TO vote. Reconstruction was
now u thing Of the past, and Con-
servatism could not stop it. Sow
ion huLdred thousand men had tho
ballot, aud the Conservatives
could not take il away The bal.
lot was given 10 them only to vote
upon conventions and constitution.
al amendments, and the Southern
whites, if they wished, could Join
them in the establishment of the
governments, and then fix the suf.
trage as they chose. IIo alluded to
the hopeful closo OF the Senator's
speech in regard to the gathering
Of the clans that were to overthrow
the Republican party. What col
umn would JeR. Davis lead-un
der whose banner would tho Scna.
tor come? laughter Would
he como with The Northern wing,
under Vallandigham and Pondle.
ton? Tho gathering would DO cas-.
lily numbered. What would bo the
uniform? The Senator would
hardly don tho gray, and, Of course
not wear tho bluo.. Under what
banner would he march tho old
glory or the stars and bars?
Mr.. DOOLIrTLE-"I would
march under flag having thirty.
seven stars. "
A buzz of applause in the gallo.
rios was quickly suppressed,
Mr.. NYE continued, saying that
these hosts could gather under no
other banner than that Of thirty
seven stare undimmed by rebel.
lion, though tho Senator seemed to
wish to prevent it. llo then allu,
ded to The. course of tho Democrat.
icparty in past years. llo had
belonged to it once, but ought to
say in excuse that no was then
quito young. Laughter, Ho ar.
gucd that disunion took It's rise in
Kansas whom tho first blood was
spilled by tho aggressive policy OF
slavery p#
To the Senator's question whcth.
cr there had not been enough suf
icring entailed on tho South, no
supposed tho fear was that there
should bo imposed upon it the
further inaiction of u Democratic
administration. Laughter Re.
fcrring to tho proposition to make
an educational qualification, ho
supposed tho Democratic party
would disiranchiso u person named
uangston, who would not suffer in
comparison in that respect with
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