The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-28

that we have borrowed. letter for letter and Ian
guage for language the very statutes by which Great
Britain has oppressed the Irish and they have ap
pned them 70 our people In the South. fiear. hear
l"No. noo Has II given happiness TO that people
Ono, no. Shall we make ne" Ireland in American
l''les" "NO.'o l say we should make happy
Ireland in America, but not one prescribed, perse
cuted and trodden down az the old Ireland II.
know my fellow citizens that there some. even
among the Irish In this town, some who assume to
be the leaders OF tine Irish, who aiding the rad
Gals to make this new Ireland down South. and at
the same time are calling on the world to aid old
Ireland, the green island to throw on her oppress
ors. They are aiding the radicals to Cypress the
South even infinitely more than Ireland is oppressed
BY Great Britain. Voices-"That is SO; they are
why, my fellow citizens, they have borrowed the
ingenuity OF our radical fanatics, Infinitely shrewder
and keener than the British oppress0rs OF Ireland.
They have invented degradation and humiliation
shrink from and refuse to the Irish under any cir
cumstances Why, they have put the people OF the
overthrown their governments and put the foot OF
the negro ON the necks OF the white people ct the
South England never did that to the Irish:
My fellow citizens, there Is fragment OF
history which tells or the revolt Of one Of the
provinces or cities dependent upon the Roman re-
OF the Roman soldiery. 1t then became question
IN the Senate of Rome what disposition should be
there at me Ike @ and wilson's
OF the present day. (iiisses) God, for some wise
and inscrutabe purpose, allows such people to live
LET US exterminae these people who have revolted
against the Roman republic. Let us put them to
Will give us peace-to put our enemies out OF the
way entirely with the sword.r But there was an
who ana IN ,ss ner 81
LET rs make these people Roman citizens, and thus
excend the power and glory OF the republic" ZAP
ause.l The magnaIimity OF this advice struck the
majority Of the senators, and his policy was adopted
and continued rs long az Rome continued repub,
lie, and under that policy her power extended until
"
to-day 10 animate the nations and TO nerve the arm
military despotsm under which at last she sank and
which now threatens u.s.
This my fellow citizens; is an example
worthy OF all commentator - worthy OF
all commcmoraton. 1t was grand and
magnanlmous example Its results led
whereas the example which have cited OF Ireland,
| oppressed by the British government, makes her
anything hut an aly and awning but strength 70
her power. And so with all nations who have pur-
sued this proscrptive, this prosecuting policy This
mas always resulted in harming rather than helping
| the country that applies this panacea. have, my
fellow citizens to say to In regard to this matter
that have from the start, since the war was over,
desired to see liberal policy pursued In regard to
our Southern States believing that il was Tor the
good not only OF the South but OF the North OF the
entire country; that we never could be reunited by
| the process which these gentlemen propose: that
anything that appeared like reorganization OF eur
government under this system would be fallacous,
would be deceptive; that the people Of the SOUTH If
| they were oppressed, would retort the oppression
| done. When they were able to do 30 they would
break the chain and strike the Oppress0r. TAP
that these men are but men after ali; that we can.
not produce kindness OF feeling in them nor re-
store their love for the Union aud for the
entire country by these oppressive these proscrptive
measures; that they are men and that they VIII
resent them, and resent them efectually win tell
you, my fellow citizens, that the radical party are
sowing the seeds OF future dissenson and OF future
war for ourselves and for our children. They are
lei n ".
The only method Is the grand ana magnanimous one
offered by the old Senator to whom have alluded,
who sad "Let us make these men citizens or Rome,
and thus extend the power and the glory Of the re.
public" There is one point to which would
here especially dty.n The old State Of vr@ina,
the mother Of States and Of statesmen,
1o e mas % given 20
us our most exalted Prcsidcns, this state is now ex
Guided from the vote for the President OF the United
for any citizen Of this country as the President Of the
United States and simply because she has refused to
slaves. "a voice-'I hope she never Willy General
Blair resuming-I hope 80. too. This noble Old
ration Of Independence; whose other greater SON,
George washington, established the government;
sea S nd hs
Revolution; at the end OF the Revolution donated to
| this governments weak and feeble confcderacy-
| that wide that broad domain at the South, known
the Northwestern terrtorygave II to the country
to pay the debts due to the soldiers who fought
u
citizens not only did the State Of virginia give this
vast empire now peopled with 10000, 600 Of white
magnIhent states~nof only did she give the soil
upon which so many 6ourishing cities and happy
nae ngw Ipa a or aar
nance Of 1857 with the clause 10 1t defeating 1t to
white men and TO freemen, forever guarding the
Northwest and the young empires that their fore
sight told them would rise in that country from that
canker that was gnswing at her vitals. Fellow cit
zens now that these young states have grown into
empires containing ten millions OF white people,
what do we see Their senators and Representa-
ves turning upon the old state, whose bounty gave
Them all that made their prosperity, wealth
Of OF those hose whose foresight guarded them n
slavery; turning upon her and enslavng the Call
dren OF Virginia upon her own soil In repayment Of
great ere Northwest Il seems, my feiowcitizens to
me as II the children had turned upon and were
strsnging their mother. i Is Parracid dial act.an
cry Out "Shame." do not believe that in the his
tory OF politics-in the history Of natons-anything
equal in ingrattude to this has ever been known;
that these men should be now ensayed by those who
were made by the bounty Of Old virginia-that the
compelled to take the chains which they have stripped
from the arms OF their negroes, aud allow these ne
groes 10 lord over them at the homes and in the
birthplace and In sight Of the graves Of George
Washington and Thomas JEFFERSON.
have been arraigned, my fellow citizens, here
and all over the country by all the orators, great
and small Of this radical party, for certain express
sions OF opinion which fell from me some time ago
IN TO tme iSso ac declared
therefore null and void. Applause and ..Buy for
you.') For this saying, my fellow citizens, for hold
ing and expressing this opinion, have been held up
to nay countrymen as a revoIutionist and enc ready
to renew the rebellion. Now IL is received doctrine
and has been the undened doctrine OF all persons IN
this country, rs far back as my memory goes that
any law In violation Of the constitution was null and
void. "a yoice-"rhats SON. Nobody denies this
You cannot find even the hardest OF these radicals
who will deny that proposition, naked and simple;
that II unconstitutional they are null and void that
Congress has more power to pass law in viola
ton Of the constitution than the same number Of
gentlemen selected out Of this assembly and sitting
In this hail. Applausc) II that be true, them the
question to be inquired Of before l am set
down as q revouuonist Is, whether these acts
are unconstitutional or notY whether they are in
deropation Of the Constitution or not9 contend
that they are, and think can prove to you not
only that they are palpaby so upon their face but
that the radicals themselves confess them to be 40
by their acts, and that the Supreme Court Of the
United states hos decided the principles OF those acts
To be unconstitutional In several cases brought before