The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-25

course il is too late to repair that now. He
had recently come across a school history, In
usc in Kentucky, and probably in other States
in the South, which teaches in All elementary
form the right of secession. 1tsays that the
Union soldiers were told how handsome were
the women of tho South, and that they wore
diamonds and these defenders Of the Union
rallied under the cry Of beauty and booty.
In conclusion. he stated that he intended to
support the civil rights amendment. If the
general amnesty bill which was now pending
was adhered TO, with his amendment ITO ex-
cludc Mr.. Eanccl, aud it Mr.. Summers
amendment was agreed to, he should be in
ciincd TO vote for it; but he would not call it
an act Of mercy. because mercy to rebels
WAS cruelty TO the coming generations.
Mr.. Thurman expressed his great surprise
that after all this imprisoned rhetoric about
this immoral and inhuman act of amnesty,
that the Senator should indicate his willing
ness 10 vote for II ii certain amendments
We're made which would not make it less
immoral or inhuman. 1t has got tc be the
custom for the Senator from Indiana TO sound
the keynote at the beginning Of each political
campaign, and it is then taken up by the
lesser lights and the Journals of his party.
This is the beginning of the great campaign
otlSI2, aud he has sounded his note, but il is
no new tune. no new note; il is the same old
horror Of the rebellion, the same old wicked
ness Of she leaders. the same old terrible Sllf
lrrinc, he same old frightful array Of imagi-
mar! consequences.
Mr. Blair interrupted to ask if it was the
same note which the Senator struck when
nc made his speech in 1860 in favor of An
drew Johnson.
Mr. Thurman said he would leave the two
senators to decide that paint between them.
He then Went on 10 say that the Senator from
Indiana had coniulcd up i'll his fertile brain
and lively Imagination an array Of horrors
which no human being III his senses would
believe for ono instant, The Senator, who is
regarded rs the lnouthpiccc Of the Admins
tration and the leader OF the Radicals on this
floor. holds up these prcposterous statements
TO Fighter TIC American people, but it will
not do 1t might do very wei! in Il stump
speech in somc swamp Of Indiana, or it might
20 down with ignorant people. but the intel
i.ccnt people Of this country know that all
such apprchcnsions are simply ridiculous
But The senator, in speaking the keynote OF
the approaching campaign, speaks in effect q
dcnunritton Of the Presidents message.
The President. in his message, de-
clarcS in favor of that amnesty which
the Senator opposes. In 1868 the Prcs-
dent said Let lis have peace Some
Of Us have thought that he didn't live up TO
that declaration; 1868 passed, and we did not
have peace; 1870 came and went, and we had
no recommendations from the President for
any measure in favor Of peace. Now the
Presidents recommendations in favor of civil
service reform have been met with the cold
shoulder by the Presidents particular friends
He (SIr. Tmwman) did not understand this.
In common parauce, it looked like throwing
a tub to the whale. When the President de-
clarcs for civil service reform perhaps it is
with mental reservation that il is to i'e
killed in Congress. When he says he wants
amnesty, perhaps it is with the understand
ipg that the Radical leaders are to oppose it..
He did not charge hypocrisy upon the PreSi-
dent, but it must be confessed this looked
very strange.
Mr.. Thurman then discussed ut some length
the constituionality OF the civil rights bill
amendment Of Sir. Sumner, taking strong
adverse ground. He maintained that the
principle OF the bill would utterly annihi-
late al local scl-goycrument, and said from
1875 down to this time no such broad
principle had ever been contcndcd for.
Mr.. Edmunds asked in what did the differ
cnce Of principle consist in this bill and the
civil rights bill OF 1868:
Mr.. Thurman replied that when the scna-
tor got to hc Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court. which some said lie Was to be, that
then. being a Judge, he would hear both
sides. If there were no such thing as State
RIGHTS, how docs New England. which has
not he population Of New York. send twelve
srnIlor> h"r" 10 maize local laws FOR New
York Ii there are no State rights, why
doe, Nevada, with less population than Il
ward in o,r large cities, have the same voice
here rs New York, Is TO the right Of scces-
self that it existed. ali hough Quincy and John
Quincy Adams had both asserted ii,
htr. Edmi!nds When ANA where?
Mr.. Thurman When and where? Why.
Quincy in u speech on the annexation Of
Louisiana and Adams in speech on the
annexation OF Texas. Nearly every states
man i'll the North had 1T one time or another
affirmed that right, and nearly every north
crn State had acqHicSccd in the Kentucky
and VIRGINIA resolutions Of 1898. William
Henry Harrison bad voted for them in the
Ohio legislature; Henry Clay had over and
uycracquinsccu in them. Yet, notwithstand-
ing I'LL this. rs he said, he had never been sat
is!ictl that the right Of secession did exist
lie earnestly argued that local sclf-govcrll-
mcnt should not he destroyed. TO it we
owed all OF Or prosperity; under it we had
spread from the arctic zone to the equator,
from ocean to ocean. II local self-goverl-
mcnt was tn be struck down, piece by piece;
il we were TO he made one consolidated cen
traliZcd Government, then we would 60 the
way that all centralized governments go:
first !; dcSpoti>nl, then a rcnding into frig-
nlciitS more numerous far than the States Of
the Union are.
Mr.. Mortun said this is the same old DEM
| orI,,Iir speech. [iauglltcr.l 1t has been fire.
uIcntlv heard in the sWalnpS of Indiana. 1t
is tac saline old cry of destruction of local
snii-goycrnmunt Invasion Of State rights, &c.
Jic (Mr. Morton) was believer in State
rights. but they are rights conferred by the
Constitution, not inherent from State soyc-
reignty. His State Qndiana) never had any
original sovereignty, nor had Ohio; they
were born of the Constitution, and all the
rigits that they had the Constitution gave
them. Proceeding to speak upon the cling
in~ of the Democratic party to exploded dog
mas and dead iS>llcs, re compared ii to L man
ri,liny backwards in the cars, who never sees
ANYTHING until il is past him. [Great laugh
teri He said the Democratic party was
wholly responsible for the condition OF the
South.
He then alluded to the Brodhead letter of
Senator Blair, which had obtained for him
the Democratic nomination for Nice-Presi-
dent.
Mr.. Blgir: If the Senator had not backed
out from his speech of 1865 he would proba-
bly, have got my place on the ticket. Laugh
teri
MIR. Morton said in his speech Of 1865 he
distinctly favored universal suffrage, but he
said that the colored people should first have