The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-30

might not be now permitted to breath
the air OF free republic This remnant
OF our army must remain somewhere, but
1t found south of Mason & Dixon's Line.
somebody's nobility was offended. The
soldiers of the nation found In that sec.
ton were burned upon an athemas of the
democratic party, branded with epithets of
carpet-bagger, scallawag, white Niger,
and the like. Their lot has a hard one :
one political party never called the soldiers
hrelings until they were summoned TO
trample down the rebellion, which lifted
Its bloody hands to stab the republic to the
heart. 1t was not always so. The demo.
cratic party was once the soldiers party
and the war party. 1t applauded the SOL
dlers in former wars, and sighed for new
wars for Cuba and for conquest, but this
was in what was once free America. He
borrowed the words from the Hon. Senator
from Ohio, CThurman.) This was once
when slavery needed room to expand In
1915, when Andrew jackson set a military
guard over both houses of the Louisiana
legislature and imprisoned Judge The
democratic party glorifed in him and made
him president of the United States. When
democratic executive and democratic
secretary of war dispersed and Inundated
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 history of
human tyranny and wrong. Those who
occupied seats found him and remember
ed the occurrence when violence, intrusion,
and outrage, carrying the banner of hui
man slavery stalked with high head and
Kansas trampling laws and rights under
foot. Did the democratic party apologize
for it Did the predecessors of these SEN
ators apologize for il? No; they only
sought to laugh it ont Of court. They only
sought TO smoke it under with ridcule.
bleeding Kansas" He remembered how
that cant flew at the masthead of domo-
cratic papers. There was no apology, oh
no. Border rufflanisln in Kansas was de-
MED in this chamber just as southern out.
RACES are now. The honorable senator from
Ohio (Thurman( astute as he is, would not
make an apology for those outrages. Mr..
Conkling here read from the report of the
committee which investigated the Kansas
troubles and said when General Sumter.
commanding the men whose bayonets
flashed on the ruin, entered the legislative
hall of that state, he declared the duty
was the most painful of his life, and by
force he compelled the retirement of the
legislature. Again, at municipal election
in Washington in 1856, under democratic
administration, United States marines fired
upon the crowd, killing five men and
wounding seventeen. yet there was not then
an investigation by the democrats in Con-
gress. Again, in 1869, General George B.
Mcclellan, through Gen. Banks, arrested as
many members of the Maryland legisla-
ture as he could Maryland not being in re-
serve at the the time yet the democratic
party at tao first opportunity afterwards
strove to make Mcclellan president on a
peace platform. A platform devised by a
convention which brought out the whole
constitutional array which pelted Lincoln
with all their fires and he heaped upon him
all the denunciations Of their brilliant vo-
cabulary. The democratic party always
was the keeper of the constitution and dur
ing the war in charge of the democracy
north and south. The northern army and
the southern army We'd with each other in
their zeal to guard and protect that instru-
ment.
Owing to the extreme length of the
speech we are compelled to go to press
without completing it.