The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-01-21

Senators. On Tuesday of last week Sen
ator Howe, of Wisconsin, got off some
good things, as follows:
Last winter the Senate passed the civil
rights BILL and he believed every Demo
crat in the chamber recorded his vote
against it.
Mr. SAULSBURY-The Senator is
right.
Mr. HOWE, continuing, said the Dem
ocrats objected to the civil rights bill be-
cause it opened schools to colored chill
dren. In 1872, when the civil rights bill
was before the Senate, which did not
open schools, the Democratic party was
united upon one subject only, and that
was hostility to the negro. When he
could see a disposition in the South to
let the negro do for himself, he would no
longer believe this charge of hostility.
| Was it evidence of friendship toward
colored men that there was not a Demo
crat to give him freedom, not a Democrat
vote to allow him to ride on the street
ears, go to the theater, or be entertained
at hotel? To-day, if it were thoroughly
| agreed that the negro should have every
chance to help himself neither the Dem
ocratic party nor the Republican party,
in his Judgment, would hold together
three months.
| He next referred to the speech of Mr..
| Bayard of last week. and said it did in
| Justice to the Senate, to the country, and
to the Senator himself. What offense
had General Sheridan committed? He
| had suggested for a most extraordinary
remedy. He (Howe) thought the Sena-
tor from Delaware, instead of heaping
condemnation upon the head of Sheri-
dan, should have spent little of his en-
| Of ha
which Sheridan denounced.
Mr.. BAYARD said that the conduct of
! Sheridan in New Orleans was that of inhu-
man ferocity.
Mr.. HOWE said Sheridan did not ask
the President to issue the so-called ban
ditti' proclamation, he only suggested
that such proclamation be issued. Gen.
Sheridan stood there in the presence of
murder. He felt keenly, and he spoke
strongly. He suggested remedy which
the law did not warrant. He (Howe) did
not regard that as evidence of inhuman
ferocity, especially in one who was a
soldier.
He then reviewed circumstances which
took place in New Orleans on the 4th
inst and denied that there was any legal
organization of the Legislature by the
Democrats Did the Senator from Della
ware (Bayard) believe that there was a
Senator in this chamber, especially on
the Republican side, who would consent
to the slightest infraction of our Consti-
tuition Did he believe that the Repub-
lican party wanted to substitute despo-
tism for constitutional government?
Mr. BAYARD said he could scarcely
believe that the Senator asked him that
question seriously. He did believe that
the Republican party had trampled upon
the Constitution till there was scarcely
vestige of it left. He had seen effort after
effort to break it down, till he believed,
as he believed in his existence, that the
party had no respect for it,
Mr.. HOWE denied that the Republi-
can party wanted any despotism, and said
the Senator says we have trampled upon
the Constitution. That is his opinion,
and fortunately, neither his opinion nor
mine controls the country. If a legislator
should be taken out of the State House,
he would not be deprived of his charac-
ter as a representative, though no mem
Der of the Legislature in New Orleans
was taken out
In 1854 quite detachment of the
army of the United States was employed
in Boston. 1t was not called there by
the Governor of Massachusetts,, but was
sent there by the Federal Government to
take one negro out of Boston. In 1859
Virginia was INVADED by 1orce consist
ing of eighteen white men and five ne
groes, under command of one John
Brown Virginia did not call upon the
Federal Government to interfere, but
marched her own troops there to repel
that invasion. The National Govern
ment, however, volunteered its services
Immediately. These things showed that
the army was used when the Democrats
had control.
1t had been said here that the people
are preparing to overthrow the party
which has conducted the Government
from 1861 down to the present day. 1t
might come. He was not insensible to
it, but he could not consent to turn back
as admonished by the Senator from Mis-
souri, (Schurz) yesterday. He was not
constituted on the crawfsh order. There
might be storms ahead and it might be
prudent for those not fully insured to go
ashore, but ne was going to complete the
; voyage, and if the ship went down be-
fore the voyage was completed, he would
go down with it, and if it should ever be
raised again, as it must be, for the great
underwater would attend to that, there
would be found at her masthead her flag,
upon which might be read that for all
men, whatever their race or color, might
be had equal rights to the pursuit of life,
liberty and happiness.