Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-02-05

was one of his best ever delivered. Dis
regarding all questions involving the higher
law, that of self-preservation and liberty
he met the Democratic champions on
their ground and put them to flight. On
Friday the Senate resumed the considera'
tion of the resolution of Mr.. Schurz, in.
structing the Judiciary Committee to in
quire what legislation by Congress is ne
cessary to secure to the people of Louisiana
the right of self lfgovernment under the Con
sttution.
Mr.. Conkling resuued the floor and said,
in the observations which he had the honor
to submit to the Senate yesterday, it was
his object to set forth events which were
enacted in New Orleans touching the or.
ganization Of the Senate that the President
was stranger TO the whole proceedings
were over; secondly, he reminded the Sen.
ate that Gen. Sheridan was not in COM
mand, nor even q spectator Of events on
the morning Of the 4th inst. thirdly, he re-
cited tie laws Of Louisiana, constitutional
and statutory, which deposited certain
powers exclusively with certain persons.
He recited the fragrant acts of violence and
lawlessness, and gathered facts showing
that the attempt Of the Conservatives in
Louisiana to capture one house Of the Leg
islature was a step TO revolutiOnlZe the
State government, and take it from those
who held il. In the presence of all the tur-
| bulence, disorder, and din which ruled the
hour in that room, in {: distant city. Sena-
tors said that every thing there was peace
ful that the Governor and all others should
have remained silent spectators. The
! Republican party, the PRESIDENT Of the
United States, and much of the residue of
mankind, had been threatened with de-
struction because those whom Governor
Kellogg summoned, and who responded,
were soldiers, soldiers of the United States
--hirelings they were called by the honora-
ble Senator from Maryland Hamilton.
He said they were hirelings and withered
them by saying they received only eight
dollars month. Hirelings But for such
hirelings there might not now be {, Senate
chamber To reverberate with the eloquence
of the honorable Senator from Maryland ;
! but for these hirelings we might not now
/ be permitted to breathe the free air of the
! Republic. But f;r these birelings it is GER
tain we would not be permitted to breathe
the air of free republic. This remnant
of our army must remain somewhere, but
/ il found south OF Mason and Dixon's line
somebody's nobility was offended. The
soldiers of the nation found in that section
were buried under the anathemas of the
| Democratic party, branded with the
epithets of carpet-bagger, scalawag, white
Niger, aud the like. Their lot was hard
one. One political party never called
soldiers hirelings until they were summon
! ed TO tramp down rebellion which lifted
/ its bloody hands to stab the Republic to
the heart. 1t was not always so. The
/ Democratic party was once the soldiers
party and the war party. 1t applauded
/ the soldiers in former wars and sighed for
new wars for Cuba and for conquest, but
! this was in what was once free America
He borrowed the words from the hOnora-
able Senator from Ohio ITburmanl. This
! was once when slavery needed room to ex-
pand. In 1914, when Andrew Jackson set
a military guard over both houses of the
Louisiana Legislature, and imprisoned a
! Judge, the Democratic party glorified and
made him President of the United States
When Democratic Executive and Demo
cratic Secretary of War dispersed and hu-
initiated both houses of State Legislature,
Congress and the country rang with Demo-
cratic plaudits. That was one page in Que
of the most revolving chapters in the his.
tory ef human tyranny and wrong. Those
who occupied seats around him remember
ed the occurrence when violence, intrusion,
and outrage carrying the banner of human
| slavery stalked with high head in Kansas,
trampling laws and right under foot. Did
the Democratic party apologize for it ?
Did the predecessors of these Senators apollo
gize for it? No! they only sought to
laugh it out of court. They only sought to
cover it up with rdicule. Bleeding Kan
sas ~ He remembered how that cant flew
at the masthead Of Democratic papers
There was no apology. Oh, no. Border
ruffianism in Kansas was denied IN this
chamber just as Southern outrages are now.
The honorable Senator from Ohio Thur
mani, astute as he is, would not make an
apology for these outrages. Mr.. Conkling
here read from the report Of the committee
which investigated the Kansas troubles,
and said when Gen. Sumner, commanding
men whose bayonets flashed in the sun, en-
tered the legislative hall of that State, he
declared the duty was the most painful of
his life, ard by force he compelled the re-
tirement of the Legislature. Again, at a
municipal election in Washington, in 1856,
under Democratic Administration, United
States marines fired upon the crowd, killing
five men and wounding seventeen, yet there
was not even an investigation by the De.
/ h1NNi"IS IA NOHSINoos III 1CDJ, uSii-
eral George B. Mcclellan, through Genaral
Banks, arrested as many members of the
Maryland Legislature as he could, Mary
land not being in secession at the time, yet
the Democratic party, at the FIRST opportup-
ity afterwards, stroye to make Mcclellan
President, on peace platform-a platform
devised by a convention which brought out
the whole constitutional army, which pelted
Lincoln with all their arrows, and heaped
upon him all the denunciation of their
brilliant vocabulary. The Democratic
party always was the keeper of the Con-
stitution, and during the war it was in
charge Of the Democracy North and South.
The Northern wing and Southern wing
We'd with each other in their zeal TO guard
and protect that sacred instrument. He
next referred 10 the arrest of Burns in 1851,
in Boston, and said he was arrested for the
of ha;pr N hlacly man Tho or,ry