Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-17
SENATOR MORTON.
speech of the Indiana Statesman
at Indianapolis.
Graiz Brown and Thomas A. Hendricks
Answered.


FELLOW CITIZENS, LADIES AMP GENTLEMEN
Inc Hon. B. Gratz Brown, the present Gov.
ernor OF Missouri, aud the candidate OF the
Democratic ticket for Vice President, re-
Gently made a speech in this city, and one
at Springfield, H., and these two speeches
though somewhat contradictory in their
character, I shall consider as one for the
purpose of reply. But before 1 come to
that beg leave to notice pretense which
Gov. Brown has put forward, al which was
also made by Senator Carl Schurz, that Mis-
souri, presented remarkable example of the
happy effects of reconciliation. By "recon-
Citation" they mean the enfranchisement OF
those in Missouri who were engaged IN the
rebellion, and who were DISTINGUISHED by a
special clause in the Constitution of that
State in 1864, but which was repealed in
1870. By reconciliation" thew further
mean the elevation of the Democratic party
to power in that State, the expulsion OF
nearly all Republicans from office, the cleo
lion OF Gen. F. ank Blair to the Senate and
the inauguration of state of disorder equal
IN manT respects to the disturbed districts
in North and South Carolina and Texas. If
we are 20 credit the reports of the Associated
Press from various parts of Southern and
Western Missouri, and the generally receiv-
ed statements Of newspapers in that State,
II to-day oae OF the worst-governed States
II the Union. In many parts of it 1here is
no security for the life, liberty, or property
of Republicans, mob violence reigns SUI
preme, and the authority of the civil power
is set at defiance. If the ability and fitness
OF Mr.. Brown to serve as e-President Of
the United States are to be determined BY
his success as the Governor of Missouri, we
must entertain great doubts in advance.
For while he has been perambulsting other
States making political harangues and cleo
tloneerlng for himself and the holy coalition
of which he is an originator and candidate.
respectable citizens of Missouri, whose only
fault IS that they differ from in politics,
have been cruelty scourged or outraged and
driven into exile.
Both of Gov. Browns speeches contain
many charges against the Administration
and the Republican party, all of which l
haYe not time, nor would 1t be profitable, to
attempt to answer. Both of them are dis
eursive, and exhibit high pretense to moral
izing and philosophizing upon political
affairs.
THE coLoRED PEOPLE.
From the long and somewhat rambling
discussion upon the condition and relations
OF the lite and black races in the Southern
States, and the dangers of the futl re, several
distinct propositions are evolved
First, that unless the colored people of the
southern States give up their separate or
CARNATIONS and their political hostility to
their old masters and enemies, and frateruize
with them in the government of the States.
a war of races will be eBgendered, in which
the colored people will be exterminated,
driven INTO exile, or reduced to a condition
which he does not nsme, but which means
slavery. The meaning of his proposition is
that co!ored people can have peace and Sc
curlty by submitting to the political domi-
nation of their late masters, and that per-
slstent refusal upon their part to do SO, and
the assertion Of their rights and character
IN connection with those whom he desribes
as carpet baggers and scalawags" vii, re-
suit in disaster and ruin. The proposition
IS developed as threat against the colored
people OF the South.
AGAIN, he asserts in substance, and in d.
-ect terms, that the Administration and the
Republican party are endeavo-ing to com
bine and consolidate the colored people in a
separate organization for the purpose of OBJ
pressing the white people of those States,
to king away their rights and reducing them
to subordinate position. These allegations
are unfounded in every particular. There
Is not SINGLE circumstance upon which
they can be supported. They are among the
wild and reckless declarations of desperate
minority Who are struggling by every means
that may impose upon the public mind to
break down the party in power and seize
upon the Government.
Again, he asserts that the colored people
OF the South have been formed into secret
leagues and societies of a dangerous char
dcter for the purpose Of subve:ting the rights,
security and happiness of the white people,
and that unless these secret organizations
are abandoned civil war and desolation will
intervene, in which the black race will bite
the dust. Now, where is the evidence to
sustain this statement? Numerous investi-
cations have been had and witnesses on both
sides have been examined, but nothing of
this kind has ever been proved. The col
ored people have had their organizations.
and some of them have been attempted to be
concealed, though they could not be, but in
vestigations have shown that thew were
harmless IN their character, contemplated
no violence, no invasion OF the rights of
otters, bat were mere ins.rumentalities for
the purpose OF concentrating their own in
duenee, and disseminating their opinions,
and for instruction.
THE KU-KLUx
But this pretense of dangerous orraniza-
tlons among the people was first invented
ana mas been Kept alive as an excuse and
justification for KuKlux. It has never i'm
posed upon any intelligent man who was
acquainted with the facts, but has been
brought forward as bugbear to confuse and
impose upon the ignorant.
But now come to what must be regarded
as an astonishing fact in a speech of can
dldate for the Vice Presidency, who desires
the country to und erstand that he is a NH
losopher OF candor and high moral tone,
which is, that in his speech at Springfield
he wholly failed to recognize the fact Of the
existence of the Ku-Klux organization in
the South, or to refer to it in the remotest
degree, and in his speech in this city refer
red to 1t very remotely and only as .cruel
disorder" What are we to think of that
political discussion which attempts to sup
press the existence of an Internal organiza-
ton, which fer bloody atrocities and crimes
without name has no parallel in history,
which looks nothing less than political
revolution, which embraces at east eight
States within its limits, and whose extent
and history are established by the combined
evidence of thousands of witnesses; and
among the loudest and most bitter in his
denunciations was his own associate on the
ticket, Horace Greeley? Mr.. Greeley, in his
speech IN New York, last year, on his return
from the South, spoke as follows:
Bus have been asked, are there any Ku-
hlux down South? Yes, gentlemen, there
are. They didn't come up to me and tell
me tney were ku-Klux very often. They
dld not undertake to perform any of their
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