Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-11

row. The honorable Senator from Ohio
(Thurman), astute as he Is, would not make
an apology for these outrages. IS q
| Mr.. Conkling here read from the report OF
the committee which investigated the Kan.
sas troubles, and said when Gen. Sumner,
commanding the men whose bayonets 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 CON-
| PEELED the retirement of the Legislature.
Again, at the municipal election at Washing
| ingtOn, In 1856 under = Democratic admins
tration, United States marines fired upon
crowd, killing five men and wounding seven
teen; yet there was not even an
investigation by the Democrats in
Congress. Again, in 1851, Gen. George
b. Mcclellan, through Gen. Banks, ar
| rested as many members Of the Maryland
Legislature as he could, Maryland not being
in secession at the time, yet Democratic
party at the first opportunity aftcrward
strove to make Mcclellan President on a
peace platform, platform devised by con.
vention which brought out the whole con-
stitutional 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 Constitution, and during tie war it was
in charge of the Democracy North and South.
The Northern wing and the Southern wing
We'd with each other in their zeal to guard
and protect that sacred instrument.
He next referred to the arrest of Burns in
1851, in Boston, and said he was arrested for
the crime of being a black man. The army
and navy under a Democratic President
gathered about the spot, and Federal bayo-
nets were thick. John Brown was tried in
court in sovereign State, and the gibbet
upon which he died quaked with the tramp
OF Federal regiments and the rumble of
Federal artillery Yes, soldiers are hirelings.
Qnn ot,vc orxlh trnl; in A try.GA bod n IN
American people are hirelinss, but no man
forfeits his citizenship or his rights in this
country by being a hireling. Soldiers are
citizens. Their uniform does not deprive
them Of this attribute, nor does it relieve
them of the duties of citizens.
MIR. Conkling argued that soldiers could be
| called upon as posse cOnsitdtms in quelling
| disturbance the same as citizens, and in sup
port of his argument sent to the Clerks desk
| and had read from the Law OF Riots, CON-
piled by Wise, a British Baronet.
Resuming, he said the loud cutlery might
scare 4O,OOO,OOO of people, and make them fear
that their liberties were in danger; that they
were in peril Of being trampled down by an
army OF $1,000 men scattered by corporals'
guards all over the continent. II may be that
the three men in blue pantaloons who, in New
Orleans the other day, accosted wrong
doors and trespassers and made them
change their seats from one place
to another in the same room should
have been three other men dressed in other
pantaloons. Stoughton, patriot and jurist,
says it would have been more regular had
Gov, Kellogg first called upon the soldiers of
Louisiana, and, had they been inadequate to
the task of quelling the disturbance then
| upon the soldiers of the United States 1t
may be so. If disturbance existed, Kellogg
might easily have been misled by the fact that
the Democrats or Conservatives FIRST declared
that the military power of the United States
might be invoked, appointed a committee to
| wait on the military, received that military
| with appreciation, and returned to 1t the
| thanks OF the State Of Louisiana. Wilt and
his Conservatives, it seemed, still wanted
| the interference of the military, as Wilt had
| addressed the President of the United States
some very respectful interrogations and ur-
| gently equested-demanded-t that the troops
! Of the United States should be ordered to re-
store the House to the position it occupied
| before the interference. This Conservative
| Speaker, this incarnation of the law abiding
spirit OF the Democratic party, now after the
great lights Of the party had spoken here,
| after long radiance of their views had
| reached ali the way to the Gulf, addressed the
| President of the United States, asking him to
march the soldiers Of the United States into
| the halls of the Legislature Of Louisiana and
reseat him in the chair.
Mr.. Conkling read from the memorial OF
Wilt, and, resuming his argument, said he
Conkling) was only looking to see If it was
really true, as charged here, that never since
the separation of the Colonies from Great
Britain had there been such danger to the
country Was it true that the pillars Of the
temple of the Republic were about to am
bic! That civil liberty was about to fad and
that the Republic was about to "fold its
tents like the Arab, and as silently steal
awayw
He was done with one scene Just enacted
in the sad history of Louisiana, and now
turned to another. What was the excuse
for the disturbance thereg What the apol-
ogy for the connection in her borders? The
plea was heard from the Senator from Ohio.
it was that Kellogg was not in truth elected
but was falsely counted in. Suppose he
was 2 Did that justify the namelcss horrors
which have stained the annals of the Stateg
! Other States have known deeper wrongs
| than Lousiana's. New York had known
deeper wrong, 1t was an open secret now
that in 1868 John T. Hoffman was counted
into the office of Governor when the people
had elected John A. Griswold. The count
was falsitied more than 10000 IL two
counties. John T. Hoffman was
| falsely counted in. Who did It? The
managers Of the Democratic party, and they
| seated in the Legislature year after year men
| whom the people voted down at the ballot
| box. The same regime made courts and made
| them corrupt They issued fraudulent natural
ization papers by tens Of thousands. They
appointed Returning Boards and made them
| corrupt. They appointed inspectors Of cleo
ton who polluted and debauched the ballot
| box. They so divided the chief city Of the
| State as To bisect blocks !. I'd houses so that
| men domiciled in the same house could vote
and repeat in different election districts.
| They held State of 100000 of people by
| the throat four years. BY such astounding
means a political party dominated that
great State, usurped power and plundered
| her Treasury by the most colossal rob-
| berries of modern times. What did the Repup-
licans doy They did not resort to ruthless
violence. They did not resort to the blade,