Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-07-26
Senator w ilson's Speech.

Senator w ilson's Speech.
Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, ad-
dressed large republican meeting at
Wilmington, North Carolina, last week.
1t was in his plain frank vein, the SUBJ
stance of which we give below as fol-
lows:
II cannot see nor do you feel the al
legged despotism of the United States
Government. The country is arrayed
to-day in two grand organizations. Each
have their politics and their principles.
They are arrayed against each other.
The contest is not between men, but
between the ideas and principles Of these
organizations. You could as we'll have
been in Lees army and say you fought
for the Union, as to vote for the Cincin-
natl and Baltimore ticket and say you
voted for republicans. A vote for Gree
ley is a vote to defeat the republican
party, and defeat means determination.
1t is not time for the republican party
to die, as some say. 1t has just begun
to live, and will live thousand years.
1t has done more for the country, for lib
erty, to lift up down-trodden humanity
and to make the United States Govern
ment, grand and glorious, than any or
gauiz4tion Lnat ever existed on Gods
green earth.
He said that the republican party was
the admiration of all the countries of
Europe. The party has been right in
every issue it has maintained during its
existence, but before it dies he desired
that it should do something toward con
verting some three million democrats.
One step had already been taken by the
democrats when they went into conven-
publicans He had acted with the re-
publican party because it had advocated
the idea that all men are equal, whether
black or white. There has been no des-
potism by the federal government. No
book of history can be opened and show
where any country on the face of the
earth has been so merciful. Mr.. Wilson,
then referred to the progressive teps of
the anti-slavery movement, and said that
he spoke the sentiments of nine-tenths
of the Northern men when he said that
they never entertained sentiment of
hatred toward the Southern section of
our country. You expected subjugation
at the close of the war-that some of
your men would be imprisoned, tried and
executed, but not man has been tried
for treason. He showed that the recon-
struct'on measures of Congress were
necessity forced upon Congress by the
inaction and wrong of Southern men
themselves, and that those measures we're
not prompted by any unkind feelings.
He refuted the allegation of the despot-
ism of the Ku-Klux act, and that while
the two Houses of Congress in 1871 were
at variance on that subject Horace Gree
ley wrote leader saying that govern
ment that would not protect its own citi.
zens ought to be swept from the face of
the earth.
The President sent short message to
Congress asking for the passage of law
to punish the Ku-Klux 1t had the eff
feet of battle order, and the act was
passed Immediately. The Government
was fully informed of the doings of the
Ku-Klux by members of its organiza-
ton. The democrats who have taken
MIR. Greeley can say no more about the
despotism of the Ku-Llux acts. He then
urged the republicans of North Carolina
to carry this State election as the peo-
pie of the United States are looking up
on their vote at this time as the settle
ment OF the Presidential contest. Carry
the election in this State and that will be
the last of the Baltimore Cincinnati tick
ct. Give US victory here and we will
twenty-seven States. Mr.. Wilson then
defended the administration of the char
ges of stealing, stating that there had
been less stealing under Grant than un-
der any other for quarter of a century.
A Chicago court has decided that it
is Imperative upon an insurance comma