The union Democrat., 1871-03-18

Following ia an extract from the able and
ELOQUENT speech of Hon. n. w. VOORHEES,. OF
Indiana. on the bill to enforce the Fifteenth
Amendment with Federal bayonets:
Ia what age, where in all past history,
through all the space of time, shall we look
for proceeding like this ? Here IS an army
of civil as well as military officials, WHO are
to settle down upon ths land, covering It all
over as thick as the locusts, and as mean,
perhaps, as the lice of Egypt. They are au-
thorized to arrest without warrant and I'm
prison without process. | may be their VIC
tim so may you. We are all at the mercy
Of this more thaa imperial decree. lt levels
every right secured by centuries OF wisdom
and valor into the dust. One of the empow-
ering terms in this bill is "to supervise" Ii
is an excellent term for the purpose in view.
These officials are to supervise the conduct OF
the citizens at the polls. Will it be enduredi
How long can this last2 You entered on this
despotic policy for the purpose of controlling
the elections in the desolated South. You did
it to uphold colored suffrage. You thought
it was part of your mission. You have pur-
sued it until you now dare to assail the great
States of New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Missouri, and all the rest.
Sir. pledge the remnant of my life to this
contest. We will dispute every inch OF
ground henceforth to the end. We will join
issue With you on this attempt to subvert the
liberty of the Leople. We will appeal to the
people, whom you are afraid to trust, and
whose rights and honor you menace and
trample under foot.
WHY should you do this thing? You dis
gust the people. You show that you distrust
H. roocla turp will distrusk vnu
They are the fountain of power. They are
omnipotent And you. the stream, can never
rise higher than the fountain. will not say
that the present Executive has evil intentions
against the liberties of his country. 1t does
not become any one to utter such charge
without strong and clear proof, and then with
care and prudence. But the grim, silent,
taciturn man of action, whose opinions are
never uttered in advance, and whose purpo-
ses are enveloped in constant mystery, is to
be watched and dreaded when at the head of
nation and supported by party reckless OF
constitutional restraints. do not disparage
the military caIaciay and the military execu
tive ability of the present Chief Magistrate OF
this nation. No man could hare achieved
the results which are recorded in his history
without military talents of high order.
Concentration of purpose, force and tenacity
of will, o steady. and even vindictire cour-
age, together with a woodsman's intuitive
knowledge of the face of country for mill
tary operations, have combined to give him a
permanent place among the great command
ers of the world. vaa
In his civil knowledge, however, his capac-
ity for civil affairs. | have no faith. And q
| combination of military power and civil iGfe-
riority has in all cases produced the most
dangerous enemies that ever menaced the lib
critics of the people. Such man relies upon
the qualities of which he is conscious. lie
esteems the faculties with which he is endow.
ed and despises those of which nature has
bereft him. He can command troops; and
| therefore he wants to command them. lie
loves power and the control of an army al
J the ballot-box is certain means of obtaining
and retaining power. He is conscious of nc
other means of securing popular support
He is unlearned in the laws of his country,
knows nothing Of the reasons which dictated
its institutions in the minds of its founders
has never read its Constitution, and openly
sneers at meu who have the gifts of knowl
edge and of speech with which to explain and
enforce the great doctrines of free govern
ment. Is such charact stranger to the
minds Of members Do you not recognize
and dread him ?
again, behold the fallen emperor of France
fallen now, like Lucifer, the bright sun o.
the morning. to hope no more. What man
ner of man was he twenty years ego, and
how did he attain those giddy heights from
which righteous retribution, the avcnginc
hand of God, has hurled him to the ground
/ Without military capacity, he was supposed
to possess it, and able generals surrounded
him and clung to his fortunes. History pic
lures him to my mind ir striking semblanct
10 the present American Chief Magistrate
His exterior was chilling and repelant. HI
had unscrupulous fasorites who would stoI
at nothing in his behalf, on whom he lavish
ed unmerited honors and wealth. He wa
regardless of human life and human misery
His designs we're hidden. His purposes were
mysterious and unknown. lie climbed Il
power nv breaking all the pledges BY which
| he got his first foot hold in the French As
semblv. And, when the hour came, it wa
by virtue of just such preparations as arr
made in this bill that he found the way plain
the obstacles all removed, the ladder set NJ
on which to ascend TO the topmost round, til
he reached the throne over the PROSTATE lib
critics of France aud the bleeding and man
Cled forms of his countrymen. Shall TIM
dark and startling page of history be all los
on us
INGRowING ToE NAfLs.-The trouble an,
pain from this cause can he Immediately ant