The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-01-21


tional government powers of very
doubtful constitutionality. Their ef-
feet was most deplorable in several
ways. Partisans in the Southern .
States. and among them the greediest
and corruptest of the kind, took Con-
cress and the national executive
as their natural and sworn pro-
tectors. bound to sustain them
in power by whatever means. Every
yagabond in the South calling himself
Republican thought himself entitled to
aid from YOU when rushing on to Con-
press with an outrage story; and the
colorel people began to think you
hound to protect them in whatever
they might do, instead Of depending
upon the honest use of political rights
to establish their position. Federal
Office holders in the South have become
the mere centres Of partisan intrigue |
and trickery.
The Caseys and Packards carried off
the State Senator's on United States /
revenue cutter, and shut up the Repub-
! lican Governor in the custom house. |
guarded by United States soldiers, to
keep out another Republican faction.
Nav, more than that: the same Pack
ard, during the last election campaign,
being at the same time 9. S. Marshal
and chairman Of the campaign commit
teo Of the Kellogg party, managed not
only the political campaign, but also
the movement of United States troops
to enforce laws, to keep his political OPP
ponents from intimidating his political
,, friends. We have several Legislatures
! organized in the same way.
The Attorney Gen raj Of the United
States is called upon to make or unmake
State governments with the aid OF bis
and the war department: and still more
than that. federal judge in Louisiana,
in midnigh. order, universally recos-
nized as gross and most unjustltlable
nsurpation. virtually unmaking the
State government and Legislature; the
national executive with the army sus-
p. tanning that usurpation. and Congress
: permitting it to be done; and now culmi-
mating in glory for the soldiers who, with
y fixed bavonets, marching into the Leg.
{ islature of the State. drag out by force
: those universally recognized as claim
ants for membership, and who have
been seated: the soldiers deciding con-
' tested election cases and organizing
- legislative body; the Lieutenant Gen
: eral suggesting to the President to out
- law by proclamation numerous class
,, of people, that he may try them by
- military commission; and then the Sec
retary of War informing the Lleuten
: ant General by telegraph that the gov
IL eminent has full confidence in his Wis
dom.
u The whites of the South are gradual
-. " driven to look on the national gov
no eminent as their implaca BILE, unscru
N pulous enemy, and the people of tn
60 whole country feel alarm and anxiet.
as about the safety of Republican institu
Va tions and the rights Of every man Il
r.. the land.
20 He would hail the day as m1s
~ ausnicious one for the colored peopleN
~ the South when they throw Oft tn
scandalous leadership of those adveI
N. turers who. taking advantage OF thel
IF ignorance, made them tools Tor thel
n. rapaclty.
NJ Sir. Schurz appealed to the Senator
-. to turn back, for he considered that h
~ who. in place like ours, fails to sto
he or even iustifies blow at the funds
80 mental law Of the land, makes himse
ID the acconplice of those who strike
bc the life Of the republican liberty OF tn
nd people. The people OF the South wei
IL. not murderers and banditti. The1
20 were bad elements among them. o'
the national government itself nj
.,3 given to those elements streng'
Nv which they would never have possess'
lis. otherwise. BY its unconstitutlon
70. proceedings it put every one OF the
80, bad men in position Of being oppress'
nv and bleeding for freedom.
= He argued that Virgins, North Ia
to DINA and Georgia, where seli-gover
I'm. ment was unobstructed, were advar
Z a ing in prosperity Wherever. in Lo'
cts slana or other states, seh'Ro'ef''iiie
his was oostructed. there was no prospe
The ty. He thought the lawlessness oil Pc
ing er was becoming far more dangero
ion than the lawlessness of mob.
zero Mr.. Schurz continued: shall
tho the last man on earth to say word
nv excuse Tor the Southern rufflan "
and shall threaten a negro voter with
zen. lence. know no language too sew
reat TO condemn him, but | cannot for
con. that the only terrorism AID lntiml'
,ivil ton ever happened to witness v
nav nv own eyes was the cruel cluob
lit. and stoninc Of a colored man IN No
Carolina. in 1872. BY men Of his O
ask. race. because he declared for the c
If servatives: and If the whole story
-ess, the South were told. it wo
lone be discovered that such a pl
long tice had not been infrequ'
the | cannot forget that the l
| be pie have lost confidence in the truth
fore ness OF those who have told the blo'
the stories of outrag,s, because In many
ions stances it was too glaringly appar
Sem that the blood and murder cry
into used as a convenient partisan CT.
.nta- catch votes.
avel. declare 1t here as my solemn
= viction that the Conservatives Of L
the siana did fairly carry the election b
,sion considerable majority vote; that
ional soldiers of the United States. when
liter. invaded the legislative halls Of Lo
r. es ana did not vindicate but trampled
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