Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-27
THE MASSACHUSETTS, DEMON
RACY.
A Voice Of Comfort Founded ,in a
SerIPGuraI ADRI0gy-'Fhe Impeaeh-
ers and the HkeetsR3tfs

4 Aa4NA0L8 atftA%IA~
ers aud the steeusaHts.
| (Speeeh Of j. c. Lovejoy IN the Massachusetts
Democratic State Cohventi0n.J
feel to-day like one Of the old prophets
when the jews we're all 10 captivity al
Babylon. "Gomfort ye, comfort We, nv
| people. Speak comfortably ualo DIE
Democracy, and say unto them thai their
warfare is ended, that they have received
double for all their sins."r IF eight years OF
Radical rule is not az much punishment as
Divine Providence intends 10 inlict upOn
the Democracy for their sins, they mast
have sinned Immensely. Laughter ]
nave always thought that the accession OF
the Republican party TO power, in 1861,
was the greatest calamity that ever befell
the human race since the fall Of Adam.
Applause That drought death and all
our woe; = this brought four. years Of war,
three years. of anarchy, and one year lof
impeachment. Applause. Sir, we have
just engfaven for posterity oneof the dark
est and one of the brightest pages Of human
history. The darkest page ID that foul
conspiracy in the House and in the Sen
ate, headed by Benjamin. f. Butler.
[hisses and Boutwell,, misses and
Stevens, Misses and in the Senate
by Charles Sumner, Zach Chandler and
Ben Wade Kisses conspiracy to seize
the government of the United States, bind
the Supreme Court in letters, depose the
President, put up the fgure-head Of Gem
eral ON the prov Of their snip, and run the
whole institution for themselves. APP
plause. Sir, wish this day, and through
all the future days of my life, to pay
special tribute to honor and admiration to
Judge Chase, Pitt Fessenden, applause1
Trumbull, [applausel and Grimes. APP
plause. They haye performed lnstra-
ton. When there was an accusation with
out a crime, an Impeachment without the
forms Of Justice, an attempt TO break down
the Chief Justice, and discard him alto
gether, to coerce, drive or compel the SEN
ate, then these three or fonr men stood up
and elevated themselves upon a pedestal
where all future generations will honor
them as men of uprightness and integrity.
| Applause.
Patriots have toiled. and in their country's
Have nObly bled. and the historic muse.
Proud OF her treasure, takes their names
And bears them down to future ages; /
But iaIrer Wreaths are due, though seldom
10 them who. posted at the shrine of truth,
Have fallen in her defense" m o.. .r- Z
These men have not fallen before their
time, but, in the view of every right
minded and just man, they are. elevated;
but they have been put, like the three
worthless of Babylon, into the FIRE of party
dennnciation, heated seven times hotter
than il was wont tc be heated. lap
pianse. But there is a striking analogy
in another point. The three worthless who
were put into the ere came out without the
smell of fire upon them, and the seven men
who put them in there were scorched and
burned 10 death. [Applause.] Now, the
seven managers will be scorched and burned
to death, and there will not be even a smell
OF fire on these Senators-not smell.
| Applause. | tell you, posterity will
lind nc monument high enough, no mar
bic white enough on which to unite those
three names. Renewed applause. The
breaking up Of this Radical party is but
the forerunner Of return to the broad,
comprehensive, universal principles of the
Democratic party. Applause. .-