The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-02-03
Ths LOaIslans Ioyestion.

MS peculiar views on the Lsuislans
question;
He said in the presence of all tht
turbulence, disorder and din which
ruled the hoar in the Louisana Legis
ture on January 4th, the Senator said
that everything was peaceful, that the
Governor aud all others should have
remained silent spectators. The Re-
publican party, the President Of the
United States, aud much of the resi-
due of mankind had been threatened
with destruction because those whom
Governor Kellogg summoned aud
who responded we're soldiers-soldiers
Of the United States--hirelings Ms
they we're called by the honorable Sen.
ator from Maryland (Hamiton). He
said they we're hirelings, and withered
them by saying they received only
eight dollars month. Uirelings
But for such birelings there might not
now be Senate chamber to reverber.
ate with the eloquenee of the honora.
BILE Senator fro u Maryland. But for
these hirelings we mightno be now
permitted to breathe the free air of n
republic. But for these hirelincs it is
certain we would not be- permitted to
breathe the mir of q free republic.
This remnant of our Amy must re.
main somew here, but ii found south
of Mason's and Dixoa's liue, some
body's nobility was offended. The
soldiers of the nation found in thai
section we're buried under the ansthe.
mas of the Democratic party, branded
with the epithets of carpet-bagger,
scalawng, white niger and the like.
Their lot was hard one. One politi.
cal party never called soldiers hire.
llngs until they were summoned TO
trample down q rebellion which lifted
its bloody hands to stab the republic
. to the heart. 1t was not always so.
The Democratic party was once sol.
diers' party and war party. 1t APP
iplauded the soldiers in former wars.
and sighed iur new wars, for Cuba and
for conquest. But this was in what
was once free America. He borrowed
the words from the honorable Senator
from Ohio ('Thurman0 This was once
when slavery needed room to expand.
In 1914, when Andrew jackson set a
military guard over both Houses of
the Louisiana Legislature and i'm
prisonsd a Judge, the Democratic par
ty glorifiel him and made him Presi.
dent of the United States. When a
Democratic Secretary of War dis
( persed and Inundated both Houses of
the State Legislature. Congress and
the country rang with Democratic
fplaudits. That was one page in one
of the most revolving chapters in the
history of human tyranny and wrong.
Those who occupied seats around him
Remembered the occurrence. When
~ielecce, intrusion and outrage, car
rying the banner of human slavery,
stalked with high head on Kansas,
trampling laws and right under f,ai,
did the Democratic party apologize for
ltf Did the predecessors of tuese
Senators apologize for it9 No. They
only sought to laugh it out of Couri.
They only sought TO smoke it cnder
with ridicule. Bleeding Kansas ;
He remembered how that cant flew at
the masthead of the Democratic pa
pers. There wa. e.no apology. Oh. no
Border ruffianisfnin Kansas was de-
MED in this chamber just as Southern
ouIrages are row. The honorable
Senator from Ohio (Thurmanl, asrute
as he Is does not make an apology for
these outrages. Iafi
Dir. Conkling here read from the re.
port of tho committee which investi.
gated the Kansas troubles, and said
when General Summer. commanding
the men whose hayonets flashed in the
sun, entered the legislative hall Of that
State, he declared that the duty was
the most painful of his life, and by
force he compelled the retirement of
the Legislature. Again, at the munic-
ipal election in Washington iu 1856,
under a Democratic administration,
United States marines fred upon a
crowd, killing FIVE men and wounding
seventeen. Yet there was not even an
investigation by the Democrats in
Congress. Again, in 1869, General
George Il. Mcclellan, through Gener.
Rl Banks, arrested as many members
of the Maryland Legislaturs as he
could, Maryland not being in seees-
sion at the time. Yet the Democratic
party, at the first opportunity after.
wards, strove to make Mcclellan
President on a peace platform--a plat
form devised by convention which
brought out the whole constitutional
army, which pelted Lincoln with all
their arrows aud heaped upon him all
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