Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1875-02-03
SENATOR CoNKLING's SPEECH.
a Review of the Louisiana Troubles

Cincinnati Commercial correspondent |
as one of the best, as an oratorical eff |
fort ever made in our out of the Sen
ate" The associated press report of
it is as follows:
Mr.. COnkling began by saying that
the drama which entertains the Senate
must have its run, aud that time
had now come when silence only serves
to prulong the wrangle. The Presi- |
dental contest for 1876 has been open
ed i'm the Senate The way in which
my amendment was received by the
Senator from Ohio (rhurman), told us
instantly thst we were to be charged
all along the line Every Administra-
ton supporter WAS ready to vote for
the resolution If made courteous. The
course of the President was preiudged.
The opposition had almost the entire
newspaper press of the land with
them. After it had become notorious
that our action would be anticipated If
we longer delayed, the resolution was
passed. The plain, manly message
came and now lies upon our table.
= The discussion should have ended, but
it did not. The Senai or from Missouri
came forward with his resolution, and
so the machine for grinding out pOliti-
cal capital runs on. Senator Thurman
occupied the attention of the Senate
for four hours yesterday, and others
are doubtless waiting to take his place
to- morrow. He il the recognized lead
er Of the Democratic party, but he did
not tell us what to do with the great
Louisiana question. 1t was the Sena~
tor from Ohio thurman to whom the
, nation looked more than to any other
! tVxy rfh i ri
The honorable Senator (Thurman),
when commenting upon Southern out
RACES, said, in effect, if such was the
2 condition of society in the South, 1t
was time that the party which had
been in power through the war and
since the war should give way and let
2 another party come in. There was the
= clue which Unravelled this web. That
had been the Gospel of the Democrats
: since the beginning. Make reconstruc-
p ton failure, make it IA miscarriage,
keep up an agitation, disturb, ferment,
z and revolutionize, and the time will
h come when the country, wearied and
worn with commOtion, will accept any
thing for a change. The sole policy of
i the Democracy seems to be to oppose
. any measure which originates with the
Republicans.
! he DOnOTaDi6 ObudlOI lIOul Univ, III
9 his argument, went back to the cleo
= ton of 1872, and made that period a
Il background for the events of three
weeks ago. Who made the election in
- 1872 fraud 1t was Warmoih, the
Z leader of opposition in Louisiana, the
s champion of the Democracy, who was
=. to carry the State for Greeley and thus
help 10 make him President, The
/ election of 1872 in Louisiana was an
=, organized fraud. The testimony be-
fore the Senate Committee showed
k that Warmoth's control of election
f. machinery then was equal to 10000
votes
e In every form in W ich this guess
r. ton hal been tried, the decision had
been against Mcfuery. The Courts
% both Houses OF Congress, and the
l. President have decided agains, McEu-
, cry. No responsibility for the doing-
T. Iu New Orleans on the 4th of January
&, touched the President of the United
- States Iue first information he rt.
A. ceivsd i'm regard to them was -imulla-
l. nrOu- with rne information giveu tC
Il all citizens at large. The newspaper,
OF the following day were his first in
~ formers. II there were those in Wash
"A ingt0u, who knew that revolution
was 10 be attempted on the 4th Of Jan.
e. uary, tue President was not one O
NJ them
Mr., CousiiHg next referred to tn,
y reason whi3h induced the President t
IN send Gen. Sheridan to New Orleans
and said: Before this letter of tn,
le President, directing Gen. Sheridan I,
v go to the South, the President hal
p been compelled TO listen TO tales of sutl
ering To which no man could be deaf
< They did mt gnnaarn the plaptinn Inn
IF they did concern the lives, homes
aud property of those who had neve
ST been false to their country's flag, anC
III under that flag were hunted as if they
were wild beasts. These entreatie
H. summoned the Chief Magistrate To hi
r. feet. One of these entreaties haC
, reached him but three days before.
~ came from one who for twenty year
k. had been a resident of Shreveport,
X judicial officer not appointed by tn
to President, but appointed by the Court
:, He said troops were stationed in Lou
~ isiana, and their presence there wa
III lawful, because the slender remnant o
at our army must be stationed some
al where. II must be stationed in SOM
State, and no matter where found, IT.
right 10 be there was unquestioned
Us aud its withdrawal from New Orlean
&C. would have been impossible only will
- the Chief Magistrate in open con
es nivance with murderers and traitors
of What would Gen. Washington hay
~, said about ordering troops away from
III New Orleans, where the air was muir
ut 81 .nd heavy with violence, and sta
os uoning them somewhere where al
was peace. This question was pre-
al sented to Washington when fou
th counties in the western part of Penn
sylvania resisted whisky tax. Al
n. inspector ami surveyor were resisted
SO aud Washington ordered out and pu
on foot 10 600 men, and went to com
OF mand them himself The revolt wa
IA. abandoned. but armed men i'm grea
numbers trod the soil of Pennselvani
oH TO preserve peace and prevent an
OF further outbreak.
is Senator Conkling then referred t
the seizure of arms in New Orleans
H. September last by the White League
TO- and said they had never been given uI
although the President, by hks prccla