Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-03-04

Lt5 N-Ade d tetA TIA ION II must be
for Republican to desert his party
at this time ana follow the exam plAof
the Senator from Wisconsin What
4 glorious record those men, in whose
/ ranks he has taken refuge, have made
to the country Why, sir. there has
| not been question concerning the
rights OF the country or the rights Of
man during the last fourteen wears.
beginning with the repeal of the Mis-
sour prohibition up TO this hour. up
on which they have not taken the
wrong side. | wish to call these Re.
publicans, whom the Senator homes to
win over, to the contest that we have
passed through =
In the spring Of 1854 these South
ern Radicals, as you will remember.
sir, for you We're here, opened half
million square miles of free territory
| to slavery The Northern Radicals
opposed it. The Southern Radicals
were for it and l believe the Senator
was IN their ranks then. A class of
these Southern RADICALS rushed over
| into Kansas, seized the ballot-boxes.
elected a Legislature, established slav-
! cry, and made II q penitentiarv offense
for :. Northern Radical to say that
slavery did not exist there. Not con
tent, they made the Lecompton Con
stitutIon. and had the whole influence
OF the then Southern Radical Admin
lstration to force it through Congress.
But it failed, and failed, too. BY the
efforts Of these Northern Radicals.
Then the Southern Radicals de-
manded that the Supreme Court
should proclaim the Dred Scott descis-
ion and the Supreme Court proclaim
ed it.
After Mr.. Lincoln's election these
Southern Radicals plunged the nation
into the fire and blood Of civil war.
They came into this Chamber and ask
ed Northern Radicals TO establish
/ slavery south Of SO 30. to allow
them to. take their slaves into the
| States of the North, to declare that
negro should not be citizen. and that
slavery should never be abolished in
| the District of Columbia. without the
consent Of the Southern Radicals of
Maryland and Virginia, We, North
| ern Radicals. would not consent to
their wicked demands and then they
went on with the war. They raised
| their hands against their country muir
/ dered three hundred and fifty thousand
| loyal soldiers. manned and wounded
| four hundred thousand more. put
debt upon the country of s.. 800. GEO.
600, and murdered the President Of
the United States.
All through the war we had tests
of patriotism, from that little act,
making free the slave who was put IN
to the rebel army by his master. up to
the browning act Of emancipation by
the cons titutional amendment.
We had a series Of acts. by which
slavery was destroyed and the coun-
try made free; and ali these acts were
sternly contested by the Senator's
new-found friends. We have had a
struggle on the civil rights billion the
recons truction policy, and on the con
stitutional amendment; and on all Of
these measures these Southern Radi-
Gals have been against their country
and against human rights and the
Northern Radicals have marched from
victory to victory in favor Of making
their country united and free.
Let me say to the Senator that we
northern Radicals, we Republicans,
intend to maintain our integrity, to
stand by our country and the equal
rights of all our countrvmen and We
intend TO win, to- Sir. | welcome
the contest he has inaugurated If it
Is the administration policy develop
ed, if it Is the platform Of conserva-
tism upon which the southern radicals
secessionists are to stand. let them
take their place upon that platform
/ saw to the Senator that we expect
to win, as we have In the past. to
achieve victory for our country. and
a victory to MAZE our Government,
in the words Of abraham Lincoln, a
| Government Of the people, by the
people, and for the people
The honorable Senator told Us that
we were forcing negro suffrage by
the Army, that we were establishing
negro governments in the rebel
States. He told US, too. that the
black men of the South were barbar-
lied 1t NAV be that the African
race in the southern States is half
civilized and barharized, but they are
now carrying the banner, of Christian
civilization against the preiudices.
sentiments. opinions and policies of
their once dominating masters These
SIX hundred thousand loyal black men
and two hundred thousand loyal white
men are bearing the banners, not of
barbarisn but Of civiliza ton. and their
old rebel masters are now fighting for
the preservation OF the barLarizing
ideas and policies of the past.
The honorable Senator comes into
/ this chamber and covers Us with re-
proaches for not deserving the friends
who are bearing our struggling cause
in the South. and asks us To follow
his lead In placing in the hands Of the
old, unrepentant rebel masters the
destinics Of ten States. so that they
NAV preserve tie barbariziug codes of
other days The Senator would de
feat the established policy of restora-
ton aud bring the rebel States into
/ these Halls rebel end foremost We.
/ b;s ,19 con, ra1as IN su;ta Of praS1