The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-25

iAV0TlnE anu GUEiLGNAAAR Wh@N -
called the Bingham amendment; but
upon investigation ! find that not
one Of them is in harmony with the
Republican party Of the South, but
every one of them is acting IN union
and concert with the Democratic
party Of the South. Then We have
had some letters sent here, and we
have had some testimony referreu 10
bv enc Senator on the other side, to
the effect that there was peace and /
good feeling down there. General
Thomas. IN bis dispatch from Ten
nessee explains that when he says |
that some men have gone there from |
the North who, for the purpose OF
purchasing social position, for the
purpose Of purchasing peace and
quiet, have consented TO surrender
their principles, and have given what
may be regarded as false testimony,
and otherwise have abandoned the
entire loyal and Union party Of the
South.
Mr.. President, the Union men Of
| Georgia have been, as | regard II,
| grossly slandered and abused. Every
sort of statement has been made
against Governor Bullock, and against
Foster BIodgett, and against many
| others. / want to state one thing
further. that some OF our Republi
cans who have gone South have been
misled By the testimony they received
down there and the treatment they
received. Prominent gentlemen OF
the Republican party have gone
South, and have been met by the reb-
al leaders with their carriage at the
depot: they have been dined and
wined, and treated with remarkable
hospitality, and the gentlemen treat
ing them would say, "All these sto-
ries about rebel Outrages are false;
the men who have been punished are
scalawags; they are thieves, but
gentlemen like you, gentlemen OF
high position 10 the Republican
party coming to the South, are
q received as you are; We have
4 no objection whatever 10 Republicans
4 as such; but it is only the thieves and
! the scallawags that have been visited
with punishment" But, Mr.. Presi-
1 dent, It turas out that every promi-
Il nent Republican in Georgia who
stands fast by the Government Is coz
, | cred with the vilest SANDERS Every
invention that devilish ingenuity can
put afloat Is started In regard to those
, men; and whenever a man is MUIR
! dered down there, they seek to palll-
ate the crime by covering his name
with the vilest ISLANDERS. L can APP
, peal TO every Southern Senator here
to day for the truth of what / say
and | am very sorry to find that these
rebel SANDERS against leading Union
men of Georgia, against the men who
} have have stood up there through
danger and through contumely and
assault, find Republican echoes: Jos
l want to say in reference to the
argument of the Senator from Wis
consin, (Mr. Carpenter and that OF
} some others, in connection with what
was said, by the Senator from Ore
gon, (Mr. WiIliams.) yesterday, that
if Congress has the power to say that
an election shall take place In Geor
gia next fall, it has the power to say
that it shall not take place for two
years. There can be and has been no
distinction made; and to require tito
take place next fall is simply to pro-
vide for putting the State promptly
ia the hand of the rebels. To pro-
vide that it shall take place two years
4 hence. is to provide for the benefit of
4 the loyal men of that State giving the
State government two years time in
which to operate and make provisions
foE the protection of the loyal men.
| am willing, and think that is the
better plan, for Congress to strike out
!. the Bingham amendment and stop
there. Be silent. Leave to the Leg
islature aud. the courts of Georgia the
construction Of their constitution.
But If gentlemen are not willing tc
I do that; if they insist that Congress
shall intervene. l beg of them, i'm :
] plore them in the name Of humanity,
that this Intervention shall be In be.
half of loyalty and not of disloyalty !;
II that it shall be of that character
which will give protection.to the 10y
J al men, and will not deliver thorn over
bound hand and footinto the hand
|. of their enemies If they must in
teryene, in the name Of God intervene
on tho right side. Do not intervene
in behalf Of your enemies.
MIR. PTesldent we have had great
! deal Of law presented in the course of
: the discussion on these various bills
, we have bad q great deal of nice legal
learning; but what we need IN discus
= sions on government are the solid,
{ substantial principles of law in their
: breadth, aud depth, aud grandeur,
) not.the technical learning of the law.
} Technicalisies of the law are the
} mere husks and shells that should be
} carefully screened out in all discus
sions upon government. The eele-
! brated firm. Of Quirk, Cannon Il
J Snap, who did such fine business
} upon the Cteehnicalities of the law
fifty years ago, are not doing nearly
so we'll now. The courts have been
greatly improvedi this respect, and /
trust that that style of learning will
not be introduced into the Congress
J of the United States In discussions
! of great questions which affect the
: lives and fortunes of thousands and
hundreds OF thousands. a case law
> yer In court, instead of reasoning
I upon the principles of the law is al
ways looking back after an old case,
and II sometimes happens in politics
that statesmen instead of confronting
the situation before them and seeing
what is required, are looking back
for a rusty precedent to find what
! somebody else has said under other
circumstances, and Ia different times
Mr.. President, it is sad, In a time
like this. to be met by plea in abate-
ment, or by q special demurrer, to be
compelled to chop logic and split
hairs with our friends.
/ come now, Mr.. President, to the
main subject, aud refer here to
some remarks made by the Senator
from Ohio (Mr. Thurman) few DAYS
ago. In speaking of this bill he said
that the charge Of murder aud yio-
lanca in the South was tho -...I =.