Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-02-05

otherwise, then grave questions inay arse.
The Senator from Ohio (Thurman) cried out
yesterday, What excuse has Emoryr lie
(Conkling) did not know. lie did not appear
for Emory He did not appear TO ylndca,.Ss y,nS
no vindication. He was stranger to the
whole proceedings. TIe did not appear TO
champion the Republican party. Inc he
publican party was In no sense prtvy 10 inc
record Of the transactions in New Orleans.
Tho Senator said much had been dOne IN
Louisiana, on both sides, which he could not
approve. lie did not appear for Gov. hcl-
logg, but he spoke for common sense, lor
common right If there was defect IN hel.
Iogg's title TO the Office Of Governor, that naa
nothing TO do with this case. lie argued Jhat
the laws Of Louisiana required tne Slerk t,le OF
the former House to call the roll OF the sue
ceeding one, and that law was made Tor the
very purpose of avoiding such s'ratagem
and conspiracy as was witnessed in the Legs
lature on the 4th Of January.
Mr.. Conkling then argued that u was the
announcement which the Democrats Of the
South received from those OF the North that
caused them to commit outrages. The Sen
ator from Ohio had spoken of the butcheries
In the South as homicides not warranted by
law. II was no way to deter strong. headed
men from violence by telling them that they
were right in complaining Of all their griev-
ances. If the Democrats wanted TO deter vlO-
lence in the South, they could not do IL by de-
nouncng the laws Of Congress. II had been
contended that the Governor OF Louisiana
had no right to interfere in the organization
OF the Legislature. No one said Gov
ernor could organize Legislature. The
Governor of a State had nothing to do with
consecrating q Bishop or dedieatlng church,
but If tumult should arise at such consecra-
tion or dedication the civil magistrate had us
much right to suppress it as If 1t had broken
out at racQcOurse, in play house, or a
skating rink. tThe civil authorities III Swit-
zerland had nothing to do with baptzing chill
dreu, but the other day, when such oaptzlng
in Geneva was attended by disturbance, not
only the civil authorities but the military laiu
strong hands upon the offenders.
He next referred to the recent disturbance
in the Penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., and the
call of the Governor for Federal troops from
Omaha, which were Immediately sent.
Mr.. Thurman asked where was the law for
furnishing troops for quelling the disturbance
in the Penitentiary.
ity went so far that even the convicts in the
Penitcntiary Of Nebraska were not without
somebody to speak for them. why was IL
that of all those who had supported the tenn
pie of liberty none had brought forward res
olution in regard to the use of troops at Lin
coin? There had cot even been spasm oil
virtue here in regard to 1t.
The Senator continued: In the presence of
| all the turbulence, disorder and din which
ruled the hour i'm the Louisiana Legislature
| on Jan. 4, Senators said that everything was
peaceful, 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 destruction because
| those whom Gov. Kellogg summoned, and
| who responded, were soidiers-sOldiers Of the
| United States-hrelings they were called by
| the honorable Senator from Maryland (Ham.
| ilton). He said they were hirelings, and
| withered them by saying they received only
| IS month. Hireling! But for such hire
| lings there might not now be a Senate chan
| ber to rcverberate with the eloquencc OF tht
| honorable Senator from Maryland; but fol
| these hirelings we might not now be permit
| ted to breathe the air Of the Republic; bul
| for these hirelings it is certain we would MOI
| be permitted TO breathe the air OF free ke
public. This remnant of our army must re-
| main somewhere, but if found south o.
Mason & Dixons line somebody's no
bility was offended. The soldiers
of the nation found in thai
section were buried under the anathemas o
the Democratic party, branded with the epi
thets Of carpet.bagger, scalawag, white mig
ger and the like. Their lot was hard one
One political party never called soldiers hire
Hngs until th9iSy weffe Tfpea Its bloody Rahd
to stab the Republic to the heart. 1t was no
aIyays So The Democratic party was onc
the soldiers party and war party. IL ap
plauded soldiers in a former war, and slShe'
for new wars for Cuba and for conquest Du
this was in what was once Tree Amerlca
| He borrowed the words from the honoraol
I Senator from Ohio (Thurman). This wa
once when slavery needed room TO eX pan
| In 1914 when Andrew Jackson set a mllltar
puard over both houses of the Louisiana Leg
stature, and imprisoned Judge, the DemI
cratic party gloriied him and made MN tres
dent Of the United States. When the Demo
| cratic Executive and Democratic Secretary
War dispersed and humiliated both houses
| n State Legislature, Congress and the countr
rang with Democratic plaudits. That wa
one page in one of the most revolving chapter
in the history of human tyranny ana wIonl
/ Those who occupied seats around MIN +
membered the occasion. When violence, II
Z trusion and outrage, carrying the banner
, human slavery, stalked with high head
! Kansas, trampling the laws and right rnd'
! foot, did the Democratic party apologize II
apologize for ii? No, they only sought
laugh it out of court; they only sought
= smoke it under with ridicule. "bleeulr
: Kansasm He remembered how that cal
term flew at the mast head of the Democrat
/ papers There was no apology On, n
: | Border ruffianism in Kansas was denied
this chamber just as Southern outrages a
row. The honorable Senator from On
q CThurman), astute as he is, would not ma
n an apology for these outrages.
Mr.. Conkling here read from the report
q the committee which investigated the ka
q sas troubles, and said when Gen. Sumn'
commanding the men whose bayonets Hash
in the sum entered the legislative hall
~ that State, he declared that the duty was
e most painful of his life; and by force ne COZ
\ PEELED the retirement of the Legislatn
z Again. at the municipal election ut Washln
70 ington, in 1856, under Democratic admin
m tration, United States marines fired upon
il | crowd, killing five men and wounding sey'
8 teen; yet there was not even
n investigation by the Democrats
Congress. Again, in 1851, Gen. GeOl
b. Mcclellan, through Gen. Banks,
Is rested as many members of the Maryla
u, Legislature as he could, Maryland not bel
~ ~ In secession at the time, yet Delnocra
~ party at the first opportunity alterwi
oJt strove to make Mcclellan President OF
VI ~ peace platform, platform devised by g
T., vention which brought out the whole C
III stitutional army, which pelted Lincoln W
p all their arrows and heaped upon him all
Gu denunciatiOn OF their brilliant voca6uls
an The Democratic party always was the kee
of the Gonsltntinn and duTlHg thbe NSa war s6T "
~ The Northern wing and the southern ="
or WED with each other in their zeal to gu
nc and protect that sacred instrument.
IL" He next referred to the arrest of Burn
sL 1881 i'm Boston, and said he was arrested
ec the crime of being black man. The al
70 | and navy under DSH'OCs htlC tAsSie
mo- gathered about the spot, and Federal 6a
i5S nets were thick. John Brown was tried
red ed court in sovereign State, and the glt
IN upon which he died quaked with the IRA
icb of Federal regiments and the rumble
@ ,rv Federal artillery. Yes, soldiers are hireli
1nyy Senators are hirelings. A great body OF
nm. American people are hirelings, put no
& ant forfeits his citizenship or his rights In
ali country by being a hireling Soldiers
nd citizens. Their uniform does not dep
them of this attribute, nor does II rel
Nv them of the duties Of citizens.
ssh. Mr.. Conkling argued that soldiers eoulC
ler- called upon as a posse coRitatisSin qaelliIi
ode disturbance the same as citizens, and IN.
the port of his argument sent TO the Clerks
md and had read from the Law of Riots, {
OBJ piled by Wise, British Baronet.
cen Resuming, he said the loud outcry IN
the scare 40,0O0,000 of people, and make them
day that their liberties were In danger; that
,uld were in peril OF being trampled down b,
this army of 5000 men scattered by eorpo
me- guards all over the continent. II may be
~, thraa NOR, In blua naUtalOOns who. in