Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-06-19
From the N. Y. World. of yesterda
reconciliation not Recon.,r.,.,..

d.. r ~ nPeec. delivered in the Senate on the
NV" OF May IN opposition TO the suspension of
s"o "a"e1' CORPUS by Senator BAYAkD. of Del
t.,,..,: ~ orulnary times we should hold it to
": o0.:n"R o' s''ch speech to speak OF it AZ
Pa'k" uoEument, No earnest is it without
extrAvagance. 70 simple in II, streno,h so ;'s.
and temperate in its noble ind;pn,,;',, ...;"s,
oppression and injustice. But these ,rs no,
ordinary times. The course of Presiden, Gr,m,
,ne ,' io'''y OF The rings which control and nae
'es"e"' Hran', have made truth, esrnestness
IH''''e ana temperance 10 be partisan weaons
NO man can oppose Grant and Grantj,m AZ off.
c'e",iy ~ by simply stating the truth ah,n, Tho
co"u'tion o' The country and by stating !, oar
nest'y by demanding j,,-tice in the adn,inisra-
'o" oi the government, and by plea liny f,r
en,pe'ahce al against passion in our dealings
WIN our Southern brethren. The real iss,,4 10
e 'o"s"' ont ~ this coming Presidential election
10 NOT an iss'ie otoPnions at ALL The partisun.
y" "r'n' go to the country demanding a new
Ease .! authority to oppress and domineer over
| lhe defeated South, aud demanding this on false
| pretences. They insi.. that the Southern st,,.s
| snail be Kept IN n postum Of degrading depend
ence on the pretext that they are still in a cor,
'lloh OF dangerous d,slovaltv The pretext !.
nn'onndeh- The people who pnt it forward
| know II to bc unoundei. The truth il tia, they
| PIT this pretext forward because IN. me.sures
ol oppression which they use ,hi. pretext f.,
accomplish are necessary to give themselves
security in the enjoyment Of power at Washing
| ton and OF plnnder everywhere Senator Bay
ards speech reintes all the f,sslooda Of these
| Peo lie with calm statements Of the exact truth.
and plll"ries all their measures oi oppression by
quiet recltal7 Of their working and their results
| senator bayari was member Of the committee
which went To he South I,acke to prepare the
/ ths ~.
system OF Reconstruction" which has already
made reconciliation well nigh impossible he
tween the people If the South and Of the North
| ltis speech glow. with the liyeliest picture.
OF the hideon- despoii-m which weighs now and
| or Tour year. past has weighed upon that whole
unhappy region, making The life OF All Ameri-
can citizen in Carolina and Mississippi less saie,
less honorable, lesa free than the life of French
| citizen in the conquered Alsace or Lorraine
| The power OF these pictures, we repeat, is in
their fidelity, their moderation their exactness
| Not even among the scnrviest of those lewd per.
sons OF the baser sort who have been thrust IN.
der the bayonet rule of Grant into the once H..
nstrioils Senate of the United States will any
man lie found u imreach the integrity or 10
question the word Of Senator B.yar,l. In this
| fight now pending. which i. a fight We say not
! Of opinions but of character our cnamuon will
nuu ,,,",",.s,.5. : D., I;
timely SAYS and proves nor did his Ka,ical col:
leag,ie4 there sitting dare 10 impign the testi-
mony, that while the majority OF his committees
freely took the evidence .f the lowest and most
| inf.mou. wrelcl,es who came forward to swear
that the country was in disorder and peril from
the Ku.Klux, they deliberately refused 10 take
the evidence which was pressed upon them OF
respectable colored men, denying these stories
and asserting that the public distress and tro,,bl.
had their origin in the vilanv and brutality o
the knaves wi ON Grant and his military satral
have placed in power. The sum OF Senator
Bayari's conclusions from his careful study o
the States he was sent to inspect confirms Ell
tirey the testimony borne by all other dispas
sionate witnesses. The people Of the South are
simply crushed 10 the earth under int0lerablt
burdens financial. political, social. The re
stored Union has been made to them bv Gran
and his party ~ Mbol not Of peace and freedom
but Of ceaseless veXaion and Of the most insul,
ing deseotis,n. Are there any men mad enous
= 10 think this a wise and wholesome course q
: public policy? When the ring. robbers who
encouraged and backed up by Grant, have bee
swelling up for years the debts of these unfort
I nate States rexch, a. they must reach the en-
8 Of their teti,ers when il becomes physically an
financially impossible for one Of these plundeI
. !, ed common weslths to meet the huge obligation
. imposed upon it. what effect will such \ cata
q trophe have, not upon the credit Of the partic,
. lar cn.l ,onwezlth but Of the whole county?
4 Yet this is not the worst aspect OF the part
= rule at the South. The true curse OF that rul
e is its demOralizing effect upon the whole con
n munlty-the insOlence and Injustice 1t breed
d in the bureaucratic Oppressors, the passion
v keeps alive in the hearts Of the oppressed
is Who can wonder that the Southern people r.
If fuse to occupy themselves now with question
=. uf free trade or with any questions OF gener
n American politics now must be their deliver
n ance from GRANT and Grantism. The syste
IA il atrOcious But the man Is no better. Sen
!s tor BAYARp has held him up in his true colo
n In such passages as the following After CT
d ing by way of contrast General GRANTS t.
timOny given in 1865 to the peace and ord
. which then prevailed at the South, Senat
II IN 1872, when he was about TO become for
I'd second time a candidate TOR the Office of Pre-
q, dent Of the United States, the same man d
z nounces and defames almost the entire sectit
ns OF the Southern country by charging that IL
st lawful and reasonable combinations perva
r most of the Southern States. The Preside
"a says "nO doubt" that such 0Omhi nations pt
Ne wade the Southern States. Sir. 1 am n mel
no Der OF the committee of investigation IN
n, those States. Personally visited two Of the
IN most il not the whole of the testimony TAX
ed elsewhere, and against this reckless and crt
oe oe statement or suggestion oppose the record
ne ne testimony OF those committees, and As to INT
IN of tire States Of the south, As . perempto
-, 10 and positive denial make now in this pla
y, y, upOn my personal responsibility, aided by I
eu best lights that desire to discover the tru
would permit. Why was not the Preside
sufficiently mindful of the obligations OF
et oath, of his high office, to do jastice to til.
' IA. States which ne and his friends In this cha
~, e. ber must be compelled in simple truth to ex'
hi, a.. Il,.As tA
that the State Of Virginia is without with
'oI 4, tarnish hur wood name in such respe