The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-09-16
The Campaign in Connecticut.

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/, GREAT SPEECH or HON. GEORGE II. PEN
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s On tile 25th ult., at Democratic mas
d meeting in Hartford, Conn, Hon. Geo. ii
o Pendleton delivered speech which doc
i Iequal Justice to his head and heart..o
! will rank as one of tie lablest efforts of hi
1 life, We copy as follows:, ef ft6 IA
Ell 1 arraign before you tonight the Rcpub
lican party for infidelity to the great prin
ciples of free government, of which you ii
Connectichthave been distinguished cham
pions : Cheers arraign it for crimes
against the Constitution, crimes against
the Union, crimes against tie citizens
crimes, against liberty. 1t has, been fol-
seven years in absolute possession of all
q the powers of this great Government, and
J it is my hottest Judgment that it has done
all that party could do to lsuBvert oul
system of government and to bankrupt
} our people. Loud cheering The Dem
oeratic party is colossal figure in Ameri
j can history. Tt was organized during the
i Administration of the elder Adams as
living protest against the attractions OF
the Constitution which We're ,perpetrated
in his day. 1t was founded upon the Con-
stitution 1t was based upon its princi-
pies. 1t believes fully in the strict inter-
probation of its provisions, and it believes
in its restrictions, grants, and limitations,
as they were understood at that time.
From that time to this it has maintained
its principles and its organization, and al
most its very name. 9[Applause.1 Other
parties have sprung up around it. They
have acquired temporary strength. Fac.
tons have split off from the Democratic
party and given to them success, But
when the rains descended and the floods
came, those party organizations have fall
en-, and their members have gone forth to-
build up new organizations upon different
principles and with new names, only in
their turn to meet the same fate. But the
Democratic party is like the tabled giant
OF old, each time he was thrown to his
| mother earth, sprung up, with strength re-
newed and vigor established from her
touch. [Cheers.] The Republican party
is not an old organization. TWAS founded
in 1856 upon the ruins Of the WING party.
All the members IF that organization did
not so into it. Those who were imbuca
with fl,a 10, ri ;,,,r, <,f ~, -, ,,5 yyry,4.
Iapplause Ethose who were willing to fol-
low Fillmorea and Winthrop-l cheers Ibid
not so into the new organization. But the
great body of the Wing party did. All
who were fanatic; all who were sectional (
all who.hated the Constitution and who
hated. the Union; dissatisfied Democrats,
went into the Republican party. Its birth
was signalized by the bloody troubles in
Kansas and by tho Infamous invasion of
Virginia by John Brown. It's accession to
power in 1860 was marked by the destruc-
ttion of that harmony which had up to that
itime' reigned amongst our people: by the
hostility of States which up to that time
had been friendly; by tho cutting ,asuuder
of the ties which bound those States to-
gcther. and by the greatest civil war of
which history gives us any record. It was
great civil war-great in the struggles
that were put forth; great in numbers of
men that were 'arrayed; great in the num-
Der of lives that were lost great in the
impression that 1t has made upon the NOR
al character of our people, and upon the
character of our Government.--for upon
them it has cut SO deep the burrows of its
chariot wheels that a century viii mot be
able to erase them. fApplause.] That
war came to an end, we were told that
then we should have Union and peace
General Sherman desired that it should be
so. The terms of pacitication which he
made with Gen. Johnston at the time Of.
Johnston's surrender, would have restored
Union and peace. They would have main,
tanned the supremacy of the Federal Gov
eminent, and maintained at the same time
the rights and dynasties, the power and
equality of the States. But the President
of the Uniten States, and the party which
elected him, refused to accept the terms of
pacification. They had invented another
scheme for tile restoration of the Union
They insisted that the thirteenth constitn-
tional amendment for the abolition of sla
very in all the States, should ne ratified.
They insisted that the ordinances Of seccs-
sion should be sannulled. They insisted
that tire Confederate debt should be repu-
dated. These Southern States accepted
all these propositions. They We're told if
they did so that their States should be adj
mitted instantly to their. rights of repre-
sentation in Congress. They fulfilled their
terms of this arrangement bpt when Com
gress met in the fall of 1865, it was found
that they could not be admitted, for Con-
gress and the President had quarrelled
And thereupon Congress, under the control
of the Republican party, refused these
States representation. Six months passed
and then the fourteenth constitutional
amendment was suggested as the proper
basis for the restoration of the Union. 1t
was submitted to the people. Before it
was acted upon the Radicals had obtained
possession of power in Congress, and they
discovered that the provisions Of the four
tecnth constitutional amendment were not,