The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-08-13


sociates it is said he has learned to ac-
commodate himself very readily to the
ways of the unterritied dtmOcracy
In the evening i'll pursuance Of notice
given by posters about the city, the Sena
tor said his speech to mixed audience in
Simmons Hall Democrats went to hear
what their old enemy had to say since he
has become their friend and Republicans
went with curiosity to hear, what apology
he had to make for his apostacy, We
were not present at the meeting; a gen.
tleman has furnished US with the follow
ing notice of the Senator's harangue.
.a. THE SPEECH. - 15 '@
In remarking upon his speech it would
be unnecessary to refute the monstrous
lpreversio1i Of truth in which he indulged
as as least two thirds of his audience new
er read . newspaper of any kind, and
another portion, the ''hard heads" of the
party enjoy misrepresentation when it is
made IN the name Of democracy.
In his speech, Mr.. Doolittle, if he was
not eloquent, as he never is, manifested his
usual earnestness in depicting the dep1or-
able tyranny which is exercised over the
patriotic white people of the South by the
rad5caI Congress. Radical Congress, in
deed What is our Congress but the ex-
ponent of the true sentiment of the peo-
| pie of the north, and indeed of the
true friends Of the Government in the
south. All that can be said of their
radjcaJiSns is that it does not reach to the
extent Of those whom they represent
To call Congress the Legislative body, re-
elected in part every year, tyrannical
body, usurping power,would be as much
as to say the whole mass of the people
were usurping power over themselves
1t will not do to address such arguments
to enlightened people
An audience that is some kind OF
audiences like to hear of race of people
who are more ignorant and debased than
themselves, and consequently it was when
he came to speak of the 1aygers he excited
the most applause. There were those
present, who appealing to the sympathics
of the people Of the United States for the
freedom Of their own nationality, were
Iquite willing to favor the reinstatement
of another race.
But when the senator came to quote
authority upon the question of the in,
capacity Of the coIored race he was quite
obscure, and in fact absent-minded. He
promised to quote Lincoln and TrumbulI
but in fact he only quoted the latter
He also quoted Du Challieu the French
African Explorer, but the extent of Du
Challieu's remarks were that the Africans
were divided into tribes and spoke differ
ent dialects. He also reported the in
capacity of the natives of Australia, who
in fact are an Indian and not a negro
race
Mr.. Dooli,Gle also read from letter O
Ex-Governor Perry of South Caroline
which exhibited a truly deplorable state
of affairs in the south. The negroes re
fused to work any longer without pay
and it is evident from Mr.. Perrys letter
that the "lordly whites" of the South vii
have to go to work, or submit to the othel
i alternative, go begging for their bread
, 1t is evidently hard for mem will
: soft hands 10 have to take to the field.
| Judge fancy decided SO far as tn
Supreme Court was concerned that th
r colored race had no rights that white me-
t were bound to respect, and the argument
e of Ex-Governor Perry and Senate
t Doolittle, leads US to the same atrociou
r conclusion. Since their enfranchisemen
: the late slaves had wasted time in attend
ing to political affairs, and left their en-
ployment for an occasional visit to tn
towns and to remedy this evil the logica
conclusion is that laws should be passe
: to keep them steadily at work. Why nc
apply the same rule to the laborers in tn
: north
Senator Doolittle next referred to tel
young men in the South who by the crue
= and arbitrary acts of our Military officer
had been arrested and thrown into prison
even into dungeon Do our reader
suppose these ten young men had com
mitted no crime The crime they haC
committed was murder. What an arbi
. trary act on the part of our Military off
GERS to arrest white men in the South,eyeI
: for murder But the Senator, dependin.
! for impunity upon the stolidity of hi
audience, was careful to leave out of SIGH
the fact that these ten young men ha,
committed an unprovoked and cowardl-
murder But Mr.. Doolittle undertook t.
make his audience believe that the nun
dered man was the criminal and themurder
ers prosecuted men,in short that Abel wa
the murderer of Cain. Thefactsare tina
those ten young men broke into the room o
Col Ashburn at Columbia, Georgia anC
e murdered him in cold blood for no othe
c reason than the fact that he had beer
/ elected as a Republican member of tn,
/. State Convention of Georgia. He hac
, sympathy for the murdercrs, but none TO
5 the murdered man, who lay cold in death
] Mr. Doolittle has trick, we call it
trick, OF quoting Mr. Lincoln as authorit,
in favor Of the views which he entertains
OF rather in favor Of the purity of Presi
dent Johnson's Administration, while il
truth nothing could be more adverse t.
the fact. The Amnesty Proclamation
chat President Lincoln prepared to issu
Wos conditional one. and was not pro