Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-04-06
NEH'S By MAIL.

T. q. Davis has been appointed Postmaster
at Easton, Me-, vice J. b. Robbins, resigned.
General Butler has presented in the House
the petition of the inmates of the Eastern
Branch of the National Asylum for Disabled
Volunteers, asking for the right of suffrage.
The petitioners ask that the laws of the State
may be so modified that they may vote at all
elections for town, county and State officers.
The petition was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
In the Senate Tuesday, Senator Blair con-
Guided his speech, and Senator Morton an
swered him most effectualy before reaching
his own written speech, which was one of his
best efforts. Mr.. West, of Louisiana, fol-
lowed in complete denial of Mr.. Blair's
statements concerning Louisiana. The speak
ers on the Ku-klux bill in the House, were
Messrs. Cobb, of North Carolina, Young and
Price of Georgia, Garfield of Ohio, Butler of
Mass, Cox of New Y ork, and Holman of In
diana.
Senator Wilson is preparing speech Upon
the Southern question, says the Boston Jour-
nal which he will deliver if his health per-
mits. He has gathered an array of evidence
to refute the charge made by Democratic Sen
ators that the reconstruction policy of Co l.
gress has caused the present lawless condi-
ton of portions of the South. He will show
that there were more murders and other out
RACES in the Southern States in 1865 than in
any other year since that. The condition of
affairs improved but little in 1866, but that
there was marked improvement in 1867,
when the Reconstruction acts went into effect
In 1868, in the Presidential capaign, violence
was again rampant, owing TO a concerted al
tempt in many localities to carry the elections
by force. The years 1869 and 1870 were
comparatively peaceable and the renewed out
break of violence, Mr.. Wilson believes, il
caused by the approach of the Presidential
contest, and the determination of the late reb.
els to carry the Southern States for the DE.
mocracy by a system of murder and brutal
violence which will break up the Republican
party in those States as it did in Louisiana il
1868.
After Gen. Blair had concluded his remark.
in the Senate Mondy afternoon, Gov. Morton
made one of his powerful arguments, in which
| he rather demolished the theories which hat
| been advanced. 1.-The Senator from Mis-.
souri," said Mr.. Morton, ''asserts that the
people of the South are willing to give negro
| suffrage fair trial. That is, they are willing
| to give it trial under Democratic auspices
and then, if the negroes will not vote the
| Democrat ticket, their exercise of the right
of suffrage will be declared subversive of good
law and order, and it will be taken from them.
The Senator may deny it, but it is indisput-
able that the Democratic party, if it gets into
power, will deprive them OF the suffrage. 1t
| is one of the issues upon which they will go
into the next Presidential canvass" Gov.
| Morton concluded his eloquent remarks by
an earnest appeal to the Democratic party to
unite with the Republicans in suppressing the
Ku-Klux outrages, and declared his belief
that the great issue in 1872 will be the main
tenance OF reconstruction, in defence of which
the entire Republican legions will move as
| band of brothers to the front.