The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-31
THAT DEBATE

cate | recollect in EN- years except posi-
bly, the debate on the legal tender ques-
ton In the thirty-sixth congress. I
think there were more than fifty speech
es made against that bill on the Demo |
cratic side of the chamber, and every,
enc or these speeches, embodyirg the
views OF the ablest men of the Democrat
&c party, every one of these speeches had
one common burden and one common
cry, and that was "If you attempt to
leglslate as was proposed in the Ku Klux
law, you trample upon the great doctrine
or local self-governmenl, and we are go
ing to centraize all power in the hands
OF the federal governme
Now, gentlemen, the Ku-KIux law
covers several pages of our law-books,
and has the verb age that belongs TO i,
legal enactments, hut wien boiled down
and the quintessence extracted it is Just
this and no more: That wherever your
rights as American citizens have been
lnterfered With, your person or your prop
city outraged, and the local authorities
within whose jurisdiction the outrage isl
committed are unable, or incompetent or
unwilling to protect your rights, that you
shall have the right to apply to the fed
eral authorities, and have the protection
OF the federal judiciary, and be tried be
tore federal jury summoned by feder-
al marshal. Tnat is precisely it. Cheers.
And 1t is q law, mark you, as you
would infer from the common talk of the
Democratic orators, it is not law SIM
ply applying to the southern states, it
applies to all the states alike The Dem
ocrats in the debate raised the cry that
this law would destry local self-govern-
ment /; therefore we said, and said boldly:
why, certainly, gentlemen, talk central
lzatlon as much as you please, we of the
Republican party stand here and declare
That 1t was the very aim and object, the
very intent OF the Fourteenth amendment,
to centralize in the hands of the federal
government all the powers necessary to
protect the individual citizen.
have often thought that upon this
question, as people, we have some very
CONTRADICTORY NOTIONS,
or lsc such n debate as the one to which
| have referred could never have taken
place In the American Congress Stop
| to debate whether the Federal courts
shall protect an American citizen Why,
1t seems lncemprehenslble that any par
! ~ NCAA0 IuhC Oub ODE GLIC O1 Luab QuBS
ton, because in another sphere our
government has been the foremost and
the first to assist and maintain the rights
OF all citizens. Let any foreign govern
ment, l do not care how strong or how
distant, Interfere with the rights of an
American citizen, and our government
has been always ready to defend and
maintain those rights.
AS have said elsewhere, report here
tonight, that it has passed into a prov
crb with us tina: let any foreign govern
ment on the face of Gods green earth,
lay the lightest finger on the top Of the
| baldest head of the humblest citizen,
we are ready TO fight. But might de-
tain you here far beyond your patience
in giving you Instances III which our
government ha' stepped to the front, and
with spirit which was all praiseworthy,
detied any foreign government when the
rights of an American citizen were at
stake
The speaker here recounted most forc-
| bly, two OF the cases wherein our govern
ment had reached out its band To snatch
mere shadowy American citizens from
foreign oppression, namely; Nagtiu
Costa and DR.. Houard.
And this is where the Democratic
platform leaves us precisely. And now
gentlemen [ come to make
! THE APPLICATION OF THIS TEXT.
Horace Greeley was nominated for
President at Cincinnati in May last. He
knew, and you knew, and I knew, and
we all knew that the nomination was
not worth six pence unless it was fol-
4 ISyrT oH lNrv%h he H.,
Baltimore, and therefore Mr.. Greeley set
himself at work iRdustriously from the
hour he received the nomination to Sc
cure the popular approval of the Demo
cratic convention that was to assemble at
Baltimore; and the letter that he wrote
accepting the Cincinnati nomination was
nothing in the world but a cunningly
framed Did for the Democratic nomiaa-
ton at Baltimore, and a cunuingly franz
ed bid for the support OF
THE VERY WORST WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY,
because it was understood in Washington
last winter, where political rumors do con-
gregate, as it has since been stated in the
New York Tribune that the hope of success
In this years campaign-was q united South
to start with-l23 electoral votes-and there
tore Greeley put himself in the way of bid
ding for and receiving the support of the
southern wing, the rebel wing, of the Demo
cratic party-the unrepentant wing and his
letter of acceptance of the Cincinnati nomi-
nation was made to tickle and please the
Democrats who 1t was understood were to
be placed in the vanguard at Baltimore, and
| maintain that he deliberately agreed to
surrender the entire doctrine and pro.
lection of the Fourteenth amendment if they
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