Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-09-21
WHAT DEMOCRACY PROPOsEs 10 DO.
A Clear Expose of Their schemes.

OlCdE bApUbC VI llClI ECucHfCos
Senator Morton, of Indiana, is one of
the most vigorous and forciblespeakers in
the nation. He is always eminently prac-
tical and always distinguished for the sa-
gacity with which he anticipates great is
sues, and for the manner with which he
meets them. In recent great speech at
Cincinnati, Ohio, he made this expose Of
the policy the Democracy would carry out.
if once restored to power:
Now, my friends, L want to ask you the
question tonight, what will theDemocratio
party do if it comes into powerp If 1T sue
ceeds in this it will be chiefly through the
South. The bulk of the Democratic party
will be in the South, as it always has been.
The South will control the patty in the
future as it has done in the pas. When
the great body of the Democratic party is
in the South, they will give tone to and
control its action. That, of coure, is in
evitable. Now, if that party cones into
power, selects President and majority
of the House of Representatives, what will
they do? will tell you one of he first
things they will do. They will Tefuse to
tax themselves dollar to pay pensions for
soldiers-for our soldiers, widows and or
lis
and put them on the same footing. They
would say what would do more to Onsole
the people of the South, and to reconcile
them, than to pension their soldier and
put them on the same level with ourown,
and the Democratic party will consent to
it. 1t will become necessarily q pat of
their policy. That is one thing you can
rely upon. What is the next? That hey
will not consent to pay the interest on your
national debt, unless you make provision,
in some way, to pay them for what they
have lost. III
They might perhaps ask to be paid he
Confederate debt They invested their
money i'm Confederate stocks and tonis,
and they lost everything. But PERHAPS
the compensation that they would insist
upon would be compensation for Their
slaves, and this the Democratic party has
already committed to pay them, The
Democratic party have opposed the abol-
ton of slavery at every step, and they ar
committed in every shape and form to pay
Southern people for their slaves and tel |
you that whenever that party is placed inI
power, they will demand to have that pay-l
ment made. Why, my friends, I met al
very distinguished Southern man at West
Point some two months ago, Governor
Aiken, ofSouth Carolina, one of the very
best men in the South and the very lar
gest slave owner at the beginning of thel
war. He was a Union man throughout the
whole war, and is now, and think he is a
very pure man.. i have not met man in
great while with whom I was so much
pleased as was with him, but he has the
prejudices of his education and his in,
terest.
He said: II have made out an invento-
ry of my slaves. / have had them all APP
Il fa1y ofo To- xDoftR Rofo
the testimony, and L expect that the time
will come when L shall be paid for them.
/ believe that Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation
was unconstitutional, and believe the
time will come when sense of returning
Justice will give me pay for my slaves. /
may not live to see it, but I will hand this
document down to my children, and they
will get the benefit of it," The same steps
have been taken by men in different parts
of the South, and if you put them in po-
sition where they will hold the balance Of
power, where they can say, "Pay US for
our slaves, or we won't pay you the in
terest or principal of your debt" rely upon
it they will do it. They have never aban-
doned that idea for one moment, and they
will hand it down to their children. Only
the other day, the Richmond Wing de-
clared that when the Democratic party
came into power, the slave-owners would
be paid for their slaves.
You we'll remember that on the seventh
day of December, 1867, Mr. johnson issued
proclamation in which he pardoned all
the rebels of the South excepting about
one thousand men, the officers and agents
of the Confederate Government At the
last session of the Forty-frst Congress
there was bill before the Senate to pro-
vide for paying the loyal men of the
South for their property that had been
taken by our armies. Mr.. Casserly, a DEM
ocratic Senator from California, came for
ward with this amendment: Provided,
further, That all persons who have receiv-
ed pardon, or whose disabilities have
been or shall be removed, shall be held to
be loyal persons, within the meaning of
of this section" This amendment pro-
vided for paying the rebels for their prop
erty destroyed during the war. What was
their vote upon it? It received the vote
of every Democratic Senator present. This
is significant vote, and shows what that
party will do if placed in power. If prop
erty lost, taken or destroyed is to be paid
for, why not pay for slaves? Would not
the same principle apply if property de-
stroyed by our armies in suppressing the
rebels, why not pension their soldiers
Why not put those who were engaged in
the rebellion in every respect and in every
particular, on the footing of loyal men?
State News.