Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-02-11
of your lives viii be unfolded to you
in the quick consciousness of souls
purified and redeemed forever.
HERE is a readable extract from
Senator Conkling's great speech:

HERE is readable extract from
Senator Conkliug's great speech:
In the presence of all the turbu-
lence, disorder, and din which ruled
the hour in the Louisiana Legisla-
ture, Jan. 4, the Senators said that
everything was peaceful, that the
Governor and all others should have
remained silent spectators. The Re
publican party, the President of the
United States, and much of the resi-
due of mankind had been threatened
with destruction, because those
whom Gov. Kellogg summoned, and
who responded. were soldiers, soldiers
of the United States, '.hirelings" they
were called by the honorable Senator
from Maryland Hamilton). He said
they were hirelings, and withered
they by saying they only received $S
a month. '.Hirelingsr' But for such
hirelings there might not now be a
Senate Chamber to reverberate with
the eloquence of the honorable Sena-
tor from Maryland; but for these
hirelings we might not be now per-
mitted to breathe the free air of re-
public; but for these hirelings it Is
certain we would not be permitted to
breathe the air of q free republic.
This remnant of our army must re-
main somewhere, but if found south
of Mason and Dixon's line some-
body's nobility 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 nigger, and the like.
Their lot was hard one. One pO-
litical party never called soldiers
''hirelings until they were summoned
to trample down rebellion which
lifted its bloody hands to stab the re
public to the heart. 1t was not al
ways so. The Democratic party was
once the soldiers party and war par
ty. 1t applauded the soldiers in for
mer wars, and sighed for new wars,
for Cuba and for conquest, but this
was in what was once 'free Ameri
ca" the borrowed words from the
honorable Senator from Ohio { Thur
mani. This was once when slavery
needed room to expand. In 1914,
when General jackson set Il military
guard over both houses of the Lou
isiana Legislature, and imprisoned Il
Judge. the Democratic party glori
fed him and made him President OF
the United States. When the Demo
cratic Executive and Democratic Sec
retary of War dispersed and humili-
ated both houses of State Legisla-
ture, Congress and the country rang
with Democratic plaulits. That
was one page in one of the most re
voting chapters in the history of hu
man tyranny and wrong. Those who
occupied seats around him remember
ed the occurrence when violence, in
trusion, and outrage, carrying the
banner of human slavery, stalked
with high head on Kansas, tramping
laws and right under foot Did the
Democratic party apologize for it?
Did the predecessors of these sSena
tors apologize for it? No. They
only sought to laugh it out of Court.
They only sought to smoke it under
with ridicule. BLEEDING Kansas"
he remembered how that ''cant'' flew
at the masthead of the Democratic
papers. There was no apology, oh,
no. Border ruflianism in Kansas was
denied in this chamber just rs South
ern outrages are now. The hOnOra-
bic Senator from Ohio Thurman J,
astute as he is, would not make an
apology for these outrages.