The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-02-03
The 1,emoeracy ArraIEned.

from Official positions
The democracy Arraigned.
During the Louisiana debate in
the Senate last week Mr.. Conkling,
of New York, made a speech which
attracted vast crowds to the floor
and galleries Of the Senate chamber.
From it we extract the following ar
raignment Of the Democratic party
for its sins Of omission and commits
sion:
Mr.. Coukling said in the presence
Of all the turbulence, disorder and
din which ruled the hour in the Lou
isiana Legislature January 4, Sena-
tors said that everything was peace
ful: that the Governor and all others
should have remained silent specta-
tors. The Republican party, the
President Of the United States, and
much of the residue Of mankind, had
been threatened with destruction be-
cause those whom Gov. Kellogg sum
moBed, and who responded, were SOL
diers-soldiers of the United States
-birelings, Is they were calico by
the honorable Senator from Mary
land (Hamilton). He said they were
h~irelings. and withered them by say
ing they received only eight dollars
A month. Hirelingsl But for such
hirelings there might not now be Q
Senate Chamber TO r%eveTberate with
the e~louuence Of the honorable Sena-
tor from Maryland. But for these
hirelings we might not be now per-
mitted TO breathe the free air of a
republic. But for these birelings it
IS certain we would not be permitted
10 breathe the air Of a free republic.
This remnant Of our army must re-
main somewhere, but if found south
/ Of Mason and Dixon's line some
baly's nobility was offended. The
soldiers Of the nation found in that
section We're buried under the anath-
emas Of the Democratic party, and
branded with epithets Of carpet
baggers, scalswags, white niggers,
and the like. Their lot was q hard
one. One political party never call
ed soldiers hirelings until they were
| summoned to trample down a rebel
lion. which lifted bloody bands to
stab the republic to the heart.
1t was not always so. The Demo
cratic party was once the soldiers
party aud the war party. 1t applaud
ed soldiers in former wars, and sigh
ed for new wars, for Cuba and for
conquest: but this vas in what was
once free America. He borrowed
the words from the honorable Sena
tor from Ohio (Thurman.) This was
when slavery wanted room to expand.
In 1914. when Andrew Jackson set a
military guard ove both Houses OF
the Louisiana Legislature and lmpris-
oned q Judge, the Democratic party
glori6ed him and made him President
of the United States. Whe1a Dem
ocratic Executive and Democratic
J Secretary Of War dispersed and hu-
initiated both Houses Of the Stete
/ Legislature, Congress and the coun-
try rang With Democratic plaudits.
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 re-
membered the occurrence. When
. violence. intrusion and outrage carry
ing TIE banner Of human slavery
stalked with high head in Kansas,
urampliGg laws end right under foot,
did the Democratic party apologize
for it? Did thepredecessors of these
Senators apologize for it? No, they
only scSght to laugh it out Of court
They only sought to smoke it under
with ridicule. Bleeding Kansas He
remembered how that capt phrase
few at the masthead Of Democratic
papers There Eas no apology oh
no! Border ruIanisn in Kansa:
was denied 10 this chamber inst g;
Southern outrages are nov. The
honorable Senator from Ohio (Tbur
man, astute as be is, would not make
an apology for these outrages.
Mr.. Conkling here read from The
report Of the committee which inves
I .igated the Kansas troubles, and salt
when General Sumner, commanding
men whose bayonets flashed in th,
sun, entered the Legislative hall o
that State be declared the duty wa.
lthe most painful of lis life, aad D,
force he compelled the retirement o
the Legislature. Again, at the mum
: cipal election in Washington, in 1856
under a Democratic administration
United States marines fred upoI
the crowd, killing Eve mea anC
wouading seventeen. Yet there wa.
not even an investigation by Demo
, Gratis 10 Congress, Again, in 1869
General GeorgeD Mcclellan, through
: General Banks, arrested az many
q members Of the Maryland Legisla
ture as be could, Maryland not hav
B ling seeded 81 the time, yet tn,
Democratic party al the first oppor
r tunity afterwards stroye 10 MAKE
n Mcclellan President on a peace plat
form-a platform devised by a con
/ rention which brought out the who'll
constitutional army, which petite
/ Lincoln with all their arrows, and
E heapsd upon him all the denuncia
? ton Of their brilliant vocabulary.
5 The Democratic party always was
7 the keeper OF the cOnstit2tion, ant
e during the war it was in charge o
the Democracy North and South
; The northern wing and southern
t wing We'd with each other in theil
zeal to guard and protect that sacred
instrument.
he next referred to the arrest o
Burns ia 1851 in Boston, and said b,
was arrested foR the crime of being {
= black man. The GFgy and nav,
q under a Democratic Presiden: gath
o cred about the spct. and federal bayo
nets were thick. John Brown wa.
tried bE q eOBTt ia Q sovereign State
e and the gibbet upOl which be dice