The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-06-11
The Split in the Republican Party.
THE HERALD'S VERSION.

The Washington correspondent
of the New York Herald gives
the following version Of the slate
unpleasantness'' in the Republi-
can ranks of the United States
Senate:
The breach in the ranks of the
| Senate Republicans was never
more deeply defined than to-day.
The question before the Chamber
being the bill to enforce the ff-
! teenth anendment, MIR. Ferry, of
Connecticutt, opened the debate
with one Of the most powerful
quence was heated to indignant
fire from the outset by the provo
| cation which Mr.. Morton had Civ
en- him yesterday in the charge
that he was the champion, not of
Southern or Northern Unionists,
but of Southern and Northern
rebels. The demagogue Of Indi-
ana received on q shield of brass
the rebuke now administered to
him - rebuke 'which, as Mr.
Ferry proceeded in his argument,
extended to the whole bitter, re-
lentless policy advocated not only
by Morton, but by all the ex-
trcmists Of the Republican party
towards the South. The Speaker
called Southern State after South
ern State-TeNas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, the Carolinas
! and Nirginia-to the witness stand,
proving from the official declara-
~ 1nS Ian 1.,fy
tions, and representatives in both
branches Of Congress, their over
whelming sentiment in favor OF
the general liability in the South
which is denied to it's Inhabitants
in the pending bill. He sum-
moned the public opinion of the
entire Republic including that of
tho Republican party in it's strong
holds, to bear witness to the same
effect. With q lance-like appre-
| hension of the true touchstone,
the surest indication ofthat pub.
lie opinion everywhere, he point
ed to the press, the leading jour
mails Of his party, especially in
New York, declaring the truth
that in that real capital Of the
nation, as well as in the other
great cities, not Il single great
Republican newspaper existed
but was opposed to the perpetual
tion Of these political disabilities.
! The Connecticut Senator did not
pause here Reaching out his
arm with Il gesture that riveted
| the attention which Senators Oh
all sides were giving to his re-
marks, he seemed to lift Morton
out OF his seat and impale him
on the very spikes Of the Repub-
lican platform, which he exhibit
ed that Radical and his clansmen
to have violated by their advoca-
cy of an cc post .5acto punishment
for the sins of a rebellion held by
| the average sense and clemency
of tho nation to have perished
out Of the term of amnesty to
national or party revenge. BY
! the whitening sentences which
the speaker fairly Kissed in the
ears Of the surrounding Radicals,
they were read out of the ranks
OF the party Of which they had
claimed to be the most shining
lights, and were left sitting, sad
and troubled, under the .sardonic
-smiles of such Senator as Conk-
ling, Carpenter, Trumbull, 3D.
muntls and other Republicans,
who have fought the battle on the
side of the Judiciary Committee
for Justice even to rebels. These
Senators, by the alacrity and
warmth Of their congratulations
of the speaker at the close, mani
tested anew how cordially they
were in sympathy with such doc
trine. Mi. Morton made a very
lame hack speech in reply, being
embarrassed by his temper, and
the parliamentary rule which
compelled him to hesitate in the
coming Of harsh epithets for his
opponent. He took his turn in
reading the latter out of the kind
of a Republican party Of which
he professed to be a member, an
expulsion which seemed quite
mo tuitous The debate went on.