The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-12
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AID CONGRESS SECOND SESSION


cago was presented y Mr.. Logan OF lii
nois, both of which were referred 10 the
committee on finance.
Mr. Clark Of Arkansas said he supposed
every senator desired all the information
which could DC Obtained in regard to the
Louisiana troubles He therefore asked
the unanimous consent to take up and pass
the resolution heretofore submitted by him
requesting the secretary of war if moi in
compatible with the public interests to
transmit TO the senate the official report
and communications Of Mai or Lewis Mer-
rill of the United States army. in reference
to the Constotfa troubles.
Mr.. Metrmou objected aud the resolu-
ton went over.
SPEECH OF CARL sCnrRz.
AT the expiration Of the morning hour,
Mr.. Schurz called up the resolution sub
mtted to him on Friday, ins,ructing the
ju liciary committec-to inquire what legis-
lation of congress is necessary to secure to
the people of Louisiana their right of self
government under the constitution, and
report with the least possible delay by bill
or otherwise. He then addressed the sem
ate upon Louisiana hffars at length in the
presence of cro~ded galleries. A large
number of members of the house of repre-
scntatves and others entitled to the floor
of the senate occupied seats ia the rear of
the senator's desks, aud the cloak rooms
were filled with ladies unable to obtain ad-
mission to the gallery. Mr. Schurz said he
approached the subject in no party spirit, as
he was about TO retire to private life the
success of no party would benefit him nor
the defeat of any injure him The sub
ject now before the senate was so great
that passion or prejudice should find no
place in the breasts of senators in discus
sing it. He did not think the debate of
last week premature or in a defence of
the facts as impaired. The facts of the
case were in the possession Of senators.
He then reviewed the scenes in Louisiana
of Mondty last attending the organization
of the Legislature, the Interference of the
Hi'hNNi,' W.T. SNitl IL 0ttu IuttIlcG-
ences be permitted in Louisiana, who could
tell how long 1t would be before general
OF the army might occupy the chair of the
vice president in this body to determine
contested election cases !:
Commenting on the general condition of
affairs in the south, NJ. Schurz said
Senators, we have arrived at crisis.
will not conceal that | cannot contemplate
that crisis without grave app: Extensions, for
what has happened already makes me look
forward with anxiety to what may still be
in store for us. We are evidently on a
downward slope, and the question is where
we shall land. 1t is not success of Ma
poleonic ambitions in this country that
fear, for if they existed they would still
find in America not French people to deal
with, but what dohave reason to fear ifw we
continue on that course Is this That our
time-honored constitutional principles will
be gradually oblterated by repeated abuses
of power and establishing themselves as
presidents That the machinery of the adj
ministra,ion may become more and more a
mere instrument. of ring rule IA tool to
manufacture majoriies and to organ
lze plunder that the hollow
shell Of the republican forms of
government will become the mere football
of rapacious and dcspotic factions. | have
long considered our policy concerning the
South rs one traught with great danger.
Not only danger 10 the South but to the
whole republic. Southern society has been,
and in measure is. disturbed by violent
tendencies and grave disorders Those dis
orders would be the last man now to pal
late or excuse, but also BELOVED that they
were, IN great measure, the offspring of
circumstances and to be expected When
the war closed great revolution had sud-
denly, amid general distress and confusion,
transformed the whole organization of
southern society Not only was tina, sys-
TEN of labor uprooted with which the
southern people had for centuries consider
ed their whole productive wealth and pros
perty identified, but by Acknowledgement of
the negro, that class Of society which had
just emerged from slavery with an ignor-
ance-for which readily admit it was not
responsible - was suddenly clothed
with political power. In some states an
overwhelming power, that power was ex-
erted at a time when, after the sweeping
destruction Of the war, the South was most
III need OF wise cooperation of all its social
forces to heal its wounds and to lift itself
up from its terrible prostration.
He thought that grave disorders were TO
be the natural results of the amendments
to the constitution no such changes have
ever, in free country, happened without
them and it was the business of statesman
ship to deal without them. 1t was a great
problem and, perhaps, the most critical in
the history Of the country, for it was to
overcome resistance and disturbance with
out developing an arbitrary spirit of power
dangerous to a free government. There
were two methods presenting themselves
TO YOU One was suggested by the very
nature ol republican institutions. 1t was
to treat the discovery and the develope-
mcnt of the remedies for existing evils as
soon as the nature of the circumstances
would permit that agency upon which,
after all, our republican government must
rely for its vitality-the self government of
the people in the states. 1t was to inspire
that local self government with healthy
tendencies by doing all in your power to
make southern people, not only those who
had profited by the social revolution in OBJ
tanning their freedom and citizenship, but
also those who had suffered by it, reason
ably contented with their new situation.
Such policy required an early and com
plete removal of all those political disabili-