The Van Buren press., 1868-09-11
The Van Buren, Press,
VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS.
Hon. James r. Doolittle in Indiana.

Senator DooLIYrW Of Wisconsin, made
m admirable speech at Nalparario, In.
diana, on the 2lst Of August. The speech
occupies six columns of the Cincinnati
Enquirer. We publish the closing up
in the following language:
Ny fellow citizens, am not here for
the purpose of dealing in oratory or
rhetoric. come to deal with plain, max
ed facts To deal with the Judgements ana
conscieuces of men, and say to my Re
publican friends, who with me supported
! Mr.. Lincoln in his administration, YOU
who with me supported his plan and pbli
cy of reconstruction; say that yod a,
woIl as ] ought to abandon this Radical
policy You ought 10 trample ii under
your feet, for ii is policy at war with
the Constitution, at war with civilization.
1t is a policy which is involving cnor-
nous expenditures, parayzes the South,
destroys its industry, prevents II from
producing and, instead of adding any
thing to the strength of the Government.
it is taxing it beyond our resources to
bear. Fellow-ctizcns, may use strong
language-l never deal in denunciations
of individuals; deal with ideas, and |
hava summed up in few words the
grounds upon which impeach this Rad-
cal policy, before the American people
Before tribunal more august than the
Senate, before the civilized world, before
A
high Heaven, ! impcach this Radical
policy of high crimes and misdemeanors.
impeach it rs crime against the laws
of nature, which God the Almighty has
stamped upon the races of mankind, be
cause it attempts to force a political and
social and unnatural equality between the
African and the Caucasian, between the
alien and inferior and exotic race from
the tropics, and the highest type of the
human race in this temperate zone !
impcach it as crime against civilization,
because it by force wrcnchcd the Govern
ment out Of the hands of the civilized
white race in ten States Of this Union, to
place it in the hands of the half civilized
African sIv
3. limpeach it rs crime against the
Constitution, because it tramples down
the rights of the States to fix for them
selves the qualification Of their own elec-
tors--a right without which State ceases
to be republican at all
4. impeach it as crime against the
Constitution and against National faith,
because it annuls the privileges constitu-
tionally granted to those most intelligent
the white men Of the South, and in open
dalpable violation of the Constitution
J;oirN,oJ.;eoo tiIrn.
9th. impeach it as crime organized
against the existence of ten States of the
Union-the liberties OF eight millions OF
pcople--becausc in express terms it an
nuls all civil government by which alone
those liberties may be secured, and places
them under an absolute military despot-
ism.
q. | impeacl it as crime against hu
manity, tending to produces war of races,
to the utter destruction of one or both--a
result which cannot be prevented except
by a large standing army, which our re
sources cannot bear, nor our liberties
long survive.
Z. | impcach it as an utter abandon
ment of the purpose for which the war
was prosecuted--of the idea upon which
we fought and mastered the rebellion.
s. | impeach it because it tends to
make false all the promises and pledges
made by the friends of the Government
in its fearful struggle to put down the
rebellion, and because it tends to make
true all prophecies and forebodings of its
enemies.
8. | impeacli 1t for its destruction of
the National faith and the National cred
it, bringing high taxation, nnbearable
taxation, which must inevitably lead to
reputation, unless a better policy be
adopted.
in conclusion, fellow citizens, the can
didatcs Of the two parties are placed in
nomination. Gen. Grant and Mr.. Colfax
represent the Radical policy and the Rad
ical party. They base their rcconstruc
ton upon the ruins of the States. They
base their reconstruction outside Of the
Constitution. They base their recon
struction upon the half civilized negro
basis, and upon white disfranchiscmcnt
On the other hand, Seymour, the dis
tnguished statesman Of New York Blair,
the distinguished hero and statesman of
Missouri, stand upon the Democratic
| platform, which bases reconstruction up
on the Constitution, upon the rights of
the States. granted and secured by it, and
upon the civilized white basis, as the only
sure and safe foundation for republican
government. Loud cheers.