The Van Buren press., 1875-03-09
THE FORCE BILL.
Gen. Hawley's Speech-What Pinchback
Thinks of Compromise.
lst. Louis Dispatch Special

WAsnlNGroN. Feb. q
In the discussions last night on the
force bill. the great speech of the occa-
sion was that made by Hawlev, of Con-
necticut, the editor of the Hartford Cour
ant, a soldier of distinguished reputation
in the volunteer portion Of the federal
army, the journalist whom White fooled
| into the publication of his celebrated let
| ter of the Alabama outrages, which was
so numerically taken up exposed and
riddled by the whole northern press, and
| heretofore staunch supporter and de-
fender of Gen. Grant. Gen llawley said
that he had been rs radical as the most
radical of them, but he had concluded to
call halt He loved the union the true
union-and republican institutions. more
than he ever dill
ANY NAN OR ANY PARTY
1t was time to give the south u chance
She had been punished, robbed. outraged
and oppressed enough. lie WAS sorry,
but he could not go any further with his
party in the direction of a military des
potism. lie would never vote again, So
help him God, to give President Grant
any more power He was already strong
enough to be dangerous. Such, also,
was the condition Of the country. that Il
real peace was imperatively demanded
In his own state factories were idle. men
were out Of work, taxes were eating up
the substance of the people; confidence
was gone, and doubt, complaining, suffer
ing and Indignation everywhere, and all
because one half Of The union WAS being
devoured by thieves and scoundres,
while the other half was looking ON like
fools or idiots, without, for long time,
knowing
WHAT WAS THE MATTER
with them. They had learned at last
| however The last election in Connccti-
cut had told the story of the reaction
Its results had sent forth loud voice for
right, Justice and reconciliation. If what
had been done in Louisiana had been
done in Connecticut, |, as a loyal man,
tell you that | would have cried ont for
muskets to meet muskets, for state troops
to fight United States troops. We must
say come TO Il halt, or the republican
party will 90 into its grave-go now, go
at the next election the most thoroughly
hated despised and damned party that
ever existed in history. | cannot vote
| for The caucus force bill and retain my
! selfrespeCt; | cannot vote for it, and re-
main true and loyal to civil and ndivid-
ual liberty; cannot vote for it and sd
nit that, although the war has been over
ten years, the party that has conquered
| in the war, that has had absolute control
/ in the government ever since, is this day
/ forced to suspend the writ Of habcas cor
pus, and give military and dictatoral
| powers into the hands ofa president who
/ has already shown his contempt too often
and too long for civil law aud the const
/ tuition.
| The rage, CONSERVATION, savag, crili.
csm and brutal deuuncation that fol.
lowed Hawlcy after he made his speech
were perfectly Characteristic of the dies
perate revolutionists who had expected
an ally in this bold, out spoken, independ-
ent editor and federal general
Other speeches were made 10y Willard
of Vermont, and Buck1cr of Missouri,
but lIawlcy's was the great
SENSATION or THE NIGHT.
1t has counted, too, powerfully. 1t has
put republicans to thinking. 1t comes
froma source about which ,hcreis neither
! foolishncss nor make believe.
| Pinchback is still Oh the war path. lie
says that he has been made cats paw
of; that he has been humbled, disgraced,
and made both a fool and dog Of before
the nation, and somebody has got to
" smell hell his exact words. He de
nounces Grant, and says that he has he'd
to him; Conklng he calls a civet cat
Ferry, of Connecticut "a id old cop.
perhead;'' and Frelinghuyscn a fossil
"with gout in his head and a fork in his
tongue" "
He is in correspondence constantly
with Hahn, the speaker of the Kellogg
legislature, and evidently there is a flank
movement of some kind on foot 1t is
believed that the Kellogg legislature, be
fore the compromise now being nego
! tlated between the conservatives and the
congressional committee is effected will
remove all the conservative Legislators
who are acting
| WITH TIE WiLTZ WING.
This is Pinchback's advice lie wants
to see. he says, whether Mr.. Grant will
dare to use his bayonets again. Trouble
is ahead, sure, and some of the riches,
and rarcst developments touching the
administration ring in Louisiana that was
ever made in country calling itself re
publican.