The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-10-03
MILITARY DnsPoTIsM.


Carl Schurz, made in his Chicago speech, to
Democratic nonsense about the Republicans
having reduced the South under q grinding
m;iitasy despotism. Gen. Schurz said:
The nsxs great objection raised BY our oPpe-
nents against the Republican policy consists IN
the assertion that Congress has subjected the
South to the most odious and oppressive military
despotism the world ever saw. Upon this subject
thai nouruful staassmea from Wisoonsin, Senator
Doeliatls, Who aEeexla hIneeN and tho world 20
much amusement BY his sopalchrsl Nit. - well -
his sxhiIarAting profundity, has grown particu-
larly eloquent. In speech made by him In the
city Of Washington, some time sgo, he delivered
himself Of the following wonderful disclosures:
"Thsy (meaninx the Republicans in Congress)
have established from the Potomac to the Rio
0nuds military despotisn moro ebeolats than
any Other ID any Civilized ceuntsy within the last
~ hundred years. Il yoa ~ down ~ the grave
81 Washington you sit In the shadow Of . mill.
tsry government more despotic and absolute than
any in Poland or Hungary or Ireland They have
heaped upon the people Of tho South moro oppres-
sion and indisnity than can be found in the histo
~ Of Europe since the barbarous proceedings Of
The Duke 4 Alba sgainst the Datch RspubiSo.'
When eucf childIGh nonssuss ID uttsred By . SEN
sational penny-a-l liner, or little demagogue 81 .
ward meeting, or Andrew johnson lLaughtcr]
70 los 1t pass but whom grave Senator Of tho
United States, who pretands to ra9psotability,
rises before the people and compares the military
governments in the South with the atrocities COM
nittsd IN Hungary asA Polasd, no deserves chas-
tissmsnt. He must oithef b more fgn0sant than
the mcrest schoolboy ought to BE-, OF have fond
ness for misrepresentation incompatible with the
character Of = gentleman. ! understand that
Senator Doolittls has been travelling In Europe.
II appears he might have spent the time very
probably in requesting some little German boy
L - <. ;~er
European affairs. He might then have learned
that after the failure Of the Hungarian revolution
long row Of gallows WAS erected on which the
most prominent Of the Hungarian Generals were
hung He might have learned that; after the
downfall Of the Polish instruction, the Russian
sword ragged among the helpless victims without
mercy; that every whisper against the victorious
government was punished with death; that inn
mense chain gangs of men and women were driven
across Thousands of miles of sterile country, to
drag cut their vulnerable liyes in the SHOWS VI ST.
bsria. He might have learned that even in civil
ised France, aheE tbs wholerale hatchery Of the
ID Of December, 1881, hundreds Of men were
transported, to hnd speedy death in the mias-
mas Of Caysnne. That 10 military despotism Of
Europe. Where has the Senator his ears and his
eyes that he knows nothing of this II the mill
tary sovernmsnts in tho South had been like the
| military despotisms in Hungary, Poland, and
France, men like the rebel Generals Preston and
lows, instead Of prcsuming TO give Vice Presi-
ds.t to the United Slater. Loud applause.
Wade Hampton would have bean mouldering IN
der the ground, instead of debating Democratic
platforms and trying TO starye loyal negroes into
voting the Democratic ticket. Continued ap'
plsuse,)
Henry A. Wi.e's rcdontable tongue would have
been food for worms instead Of proclaiming the
approaching victory Of tho lost cause, and thou
| sands OF Southern ladies and gentlemen would
now be shivering among the irebergs OF Alaska in
stead Of killing negroes, and splitting in the faces
Of Southern Unionists. Repeated cheers.] Mil
itary despotism, indeed. Show me single gal
lows in this great republic, where single man
expired for participation in the rebellionfor the
! miserable Wirtz was not hung because he was a
rebel, but because he had murdered thirteen
| thousand Of our brave boys by starvation. Show
me single prison whore single man has been
held captive for treasenl Yes, there was one,
Fortress Monroe, where Jefferson Davis was fed
on spring chickens, Load lsughtcf and applause]
and where the hall before his prison sell was Gov
cred with thick carpet lost the step Of the senti
mel should disturb the sweet elumbers OF the rebel
chief (Continued Applause.] But even he il
now released, to have his ears tickled with the
cheers Of the blockade runners OF Liverpool
There IL Mr.. Dooiittie's military despotism.
prates about the atrocities OF Hungary and Po-
landi No, Acquit him Of that; he possesses in
An eminent dsgfss N facnlty Of talking nonsense
in perfect good faith. [Laughter.] He has sues
eesdsd In terrifying his native stupidity with a
bllvark Of ignorance which recognise - fairly
imprsgnable. will leave him to his glory.
Laughter and cheers.l Military dispotism
You will search tho annals Of tho world in vain
for rebellion after the failure Of which the van
pushed were treated with such merciful nidness,
with such beundless generosity by the conquerors,
- they were here. The very insolence with
which those who but yesterday strove to destroy
the republic insist upon ruling it to-day is ire
futablc evidence of the fact.