The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1872-07-13
Speech of Senator DOolittIe,

snanh you ior TINS great honor,
words can hardly tell how much, but
you will allow me to pass at once
from what is personal to speak of the
great occasion the duty and the pur.
pose which bring us here. Two wear a
nearly five years-after the BLOODY
period of the civil war had closed,
the Liberal Republicans of Missouri,
applause feeling keenly all the evil
OF the prescription, the test oath, the
hates and the strifes, and the passions
OF the war which had been left upon
them long after Che war itself had
ceased, and feeling keenly the extcu-
tive and federal power in their loyal
elections, determined to organize a
movement to restore equal rights to
all our citizens, Tapplause,1 white as
well as black [applause, to restore
local self-government, and to arrest
the further Capitalization of federal
power. ApplauseJ. They then said
this thing has gone far enough, if not
already too far. The timo has come
when honest and patriotic Republicans
must say "halt", and must .reasscrt
tho vital doctrine Of Republican
government that, under the Constitu.
tion, the powers of the Federal Gov
ernment are defined and limited, Tap
plause, and 'ories of "Good !o
"Good!"1 and that the people of the
States have the right to govern them
selves in their own domestic affairs,
upon the basis of tho equality of ali
the States before the higher law
before the Constitution and the
equality of all men bofore the law ::
.[applause j loyalty, amnesty, suffrage
and peace taking no step backward
taking no right ard franchise which
had been secured to the blacks. Plcdg-
ing themselves to support them all
ipstheir vigor they at the sametime
demanded in the name of peace
IN the name liberty in tie name
OF Republican government itself,
aud freedom and equal riyLt.
should be restored to the white peo-
pie, [great applause.I They organic.
cd nearly forty thousand strong and
called upon B. Gratz Brown Tap.
plause, to lead the movement they
placed him in nomination for Cover
nor; thon what followed ? eighty thou
sand Democrats and Republicans,
(cheers) looking upon the success of
that movement as above any party
triumphs, (cheers,) resolved to sus-
tain it with their whole strength.
Love cf country, love of Republican
liberty, love of the equal rights of all
men, Inspired that union and taught
men to act together who had been
politically opposed to each other all
their lives upon other questions and
in other times, and without violating
honor, logic, conscience or consistency
on either side. This patriotic union
was based upon higher grounds than
ordinarily control political action.
Great applause Even those who
had fought against each other in bat
tie, clasped hands over the bloody
chasm, renewed applause and side
by side, like brothers, with hearts
boating in unison-b"ating strong
with the camo high purpose they
helped to bear its flag to a glorious
victory. That, gentlemen, is Libe.
raj Republieanism, enthusiasm, and
that is Democratic Republcanism.
Great enthusiasm The victory
which came from that union was the
end of prescription and test oaths, of
pain and strife, and of all disloyalty
in word, the real end Of the civil
war came with that victory, and did
not come until then in Missouri.
Intense applause. 1t redeemed
that State /; it gave the right of free
men to 70, 900 men who had bcen bound
and fettered. Missouri IS nov free
State In this Union, with all her
rights, dignity and equality under
the Constitution, and not one mur~
mur OF disloyalty is anywhere heard.
BY that union for freedom, federal die.
tation in Missouri, in her local cleo
tions, was overthrown, and by that
union, strife and hate have given place
to peace and to good will by that union
liberty, with equal rights, have given
TO the State an unbounded prosperity
and to its people JOY unspeakable.