The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-02-11

this violation Of order.
The Speaker thereupon directed the
Sergeant-at-Arms, on the recurrence of
any such manifestation, to clear the gal
leries.
Mr.. BUTLER-The reason why we de-
sire to have this bill passed is the fact
which has been so often put before US,
that we are about passing from power.
We are 20 surrender the power of one
branch of the Government, at least, into
the hands of the gentlemen who enter
tanned the sentiments toward Union men
and Union soldiers that have read, who
have avowed them on the stump, and
who have never, to my knowledge, re-
tracted them. If | was wrong the other
day and went too far in saying there was
minority of murderers in the South,
here is my justification. The House OF
Representatives has solemnly said it by
adopting that report; not only murder
ers, but assassins, and, therefore, | was
right in saying the minority were so.
Mr.. ELDRIDGE, (Dem. of Wisconsin,
made the point of order on Mr.. Buffers
last remarks, which were reduced to
writing
The Speaker ruled there was nothing
in the language which transcended the
rights of debate
y,
pathized with the condition of things in
the South; when the Northern army was
disbanded, there were thousands OF men
dischl rged who would become pests to
society if they had not been rapidly alb
sogbed and obtained employment in me-
chanical manufacturing, seafaring and
other pursuits; but it was not so with the
men disbanded from the Southern army
They were LETT demoralized by the war,
without work, without employment,
largely without education, by which they
mi ght divert their minds, with nothing to
do except to brood over their wrongs and
think how wrong it was that the results
of the war had been that the negro cs,
who had worked for them before the war
had been taken from them. That state
of natural irritation has left in the South
a large number of demoralized and unru-
ly men, and most of the White Leaguers
are men of that class. l call upon the
people of the South, if they want pros
perity, that they shall themselves check
and control this class of men. They are
impoverishing the South, and impover-
l'hing the whole country. When spoke
the other day, about the South having a
large minority of murderers and raiders,
| spoke of that class of men who form
Ku-Klux Klans. But we are told that,
if we pass this bill. we shall not come
back to Congress. Ny deliberate convic-
ton is that the reason why many of US
do not come back to the next Congress is
because we had not passed the bill year
ago; because we were a do-nothing party
afraid of our shadow; because we were
aptly described by the angel who asked
to have written to the Church of Laodi-
cea, being neither hot or cold. I spew you
out Of my mouth. Ny successor, very
clever gentleman, could no more have
been elected than he could be translated
to heaven as Elijah, if he had not agreed
to stand on the doctrine of equal rights
to all men before the law, on every stump
in my district. Why we were beaten
was because the civil rights bill was not
an accomplished fact. So now, if the
Republican party will finish its great
work; if it will bring by bayonets OIL
otherwise, peace, prosperity, quiet, order
and law into the South, and put dow n
raiders there, as the people of the South
ought to do to themselves. Then you
will find we shall come back here.