The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-02-04

HldQS one OF Jne strongest SpeecneS on
the Louisiana troubles, that we have yet
seen. Below we give an abstract of the
concluding portion of this speech, taken
from the Cincinnati Gazette:
Mr.. CONKLING (Rep.) J, of n. Y. said:
In the presence of all the turbulence, dis
order, and din which ruled the hour in
the Louisiana Legislature, Jan. f. the |
Senators said thai everything was peace |
full, that the Governor and all others
should have remained silent spectators |
The Republican party, the President of |
the United States, and much of the resi- |
due of mankind had been threatened |
with destruction, because those were sol !
ders, soldiers of the United States, |
"hirelings" they were called by the hon
orable Senator from Maryland (Hamil- |
TOM He said they We're hirelings, and |
withered them by saying they received |
only IS a month "HirelingsW 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 be now permitted to breathe
the free air of republic; but for these
hirelings it is certain we would not be
permitted to breathe the air of free re-
public. This remnant of our army must
remain somewhere, but if found south of
Mason and Dixon's line somebody's no
bility was offended The soldiers of the
nation found in that section, were buried
under anathemas of the Democratic
party, branded with the epithet of carpet
bagger. scalawag, white Niger, and the
like. Their lot was hard one. One
political party never called soldiers
'hirelings' until they were summoned to
| trample down rebellion which lifted its
bloody hands to stab the republic to the
heart. 1t was not always so. The Dem
ocratic party was once the soldiers party
and war party 1t tapplauded the soldiers
in former wars, and sighed for new wars,
for Cuba, and for conquest, but this was
| ia what was once tree America" the
borrowed words from the honorable Sen
ator from Ohio (Thurman) This was
once when slavery needed room to ex-
pand In 1914, when Andrew Jackson
set military guard over both houses of
the Louisiana Legislature, and imprison-
ed a Judge, the Democratic party glori-
ed him and made him President of the
United States. When the Democratic
Executive and Democratic Secretary of
War dispersed and humiliated both
houses OF State Legislature, Congress and
the country rang with Democratic
plaudits. That was one page in one of
the most revolving chapters in the his
tory of human tyranny and wrong. Those
who occupied seats around him remem-
| bered the occurrence when violence, in
trusion, and outrage, carrying the banner
of human slavery, stalked with high head
on Kansas, trampling laws and right un-
der foot Did the Democratic party
apologize for it? Did the predecessors
of these Senators apologize for it? No,
they only sought to laugh it out of Court
! n / r apy II
ridicule. Bleeding Kansas"-he re-
membered how that cant few at the
masthead of the 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
(Thurman), astute as he is, would not
make an apology for these outrages.
Mr.. Conlzling here read from the re-
port of the committee which investi-
gated the Kansas troubles. and said
When Gen. Sumner, commanding the
men whose bayonets flashed in the sun,
entered the legislative hall of that State
he declared the duty was the most pain
} full of his life, and by force he compelled
the retirement of the Legislature Again
at municipal election in Washington
in 1856, under a Democratic administra
ton, United States marines fired upon
the crowd. killing five men and wound
} ing seventeen; yet there was not even an
Investigation by the Democrats in Con
gress. Again, in 1861, Gen George B
Mcclellan, through Gen. Banks, arrested
as many members of the Maryland Leg
islature as he could, Maryland not being
in secession at the time. Yet the Dem
} ocratic party, at the first opportunity
afterward, strove to make Mcclellan
, President on peace platform plat
form devised by a convention which
brought out the whole constitutions
, army, which pelted Lincoln with "al
2 their arrows, and heaped upon him al
the denunciation of their brilliant vo
cabulary" The Democratic party always
was the keeper of the Constitution, anc
during the war it was in charge o
the Democracy North and South. The
1 Northern wing and the Southern wing
We'd with each other in their zeal t.
guard and protect that sacred instrument
He next referred to the arrest of Burns
> in 1851, in Boston, and said he was ar
: rested for the crime Of being black man
/ The army and navy, under Democratic
President, gathered about the spot
! and Federal bayonets were thick
John Brown was tried by cour
in sovereign State, and the gibbet upor
!, which he died quaked with the tramp o
Federal artillery. Yes soldiers are hire
f lings Senators are hirelings a grea
, body of the American people are hire
! lings, but no man forfeits his citizenship
or his rights in this country by being
1 hlreling Soldiers are citizens. Thei
: uniform does not deprive them of this at
tribute, nor does it relieve them of the
duties of citizens.
Mr.. Conkling argued that soldier.
t could be called upon as posse comitatu:
/ in auelling disturbances, the same as cit
a izens, and in support of his argument sen
;: to the Clerks desk and had read from
the law of riots compiled by the wife o
l a British baronet. Resuming, he said
r The loud outcry might scare forty mil
D lion people and make them fear that theil
liberties were in danger; that they were
in peril of being trampled down by an
army of 25 900 men, scattered by corpo
rails guards all over the continent. II
NAV be that the three men in blue pant
aloons who, in New Orleans the Other
dav. accosted wrong-doers and trespass
I ers. 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. Mr.. Slough
tor. a patriot and ,jurist says it would
3 have been more regular had Governor
Kellogg first called upon.the soldiers oil
Louisiana and had they been inadequate
E to the task of quelling the disturbance
/ then upon the soldiers of the United
States. 1t may be so.
Kellogg might easily have been misled
by the fact that the Democrats or Con
4 servatives first declared that the military
2 power of the United States might be in
volxed anpointed a committee to wait on