The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-08

deneral hice,l who by his modesty OF de-
meanor always commands my respect, who
spilled his blood for the Stars and Stripes that
are waving over your head, Mr.. Chairman
and yet say to you that the gentleman from
Maine [Mr. Blaine1 and the gentleman from
Massachusetts, Mr.. Hoarl think more to-day
of Bill Holden and Longstreet than they do
of General Rice, General Williams, General
Banning, and the other noble Democrats here
who fought and bled for their country. 1t is
all party hypocrisy and humbug, that they
expect to cry aloud this summer to carry the
election. [Laughter.] @
Mr.. Chairman, / expect TO speak boldly
and freely, and to keep within the bounds Of
patriotism, too. [Renewed laughter.] That
is what expect to dc have been thinking
over these things for several days past, l con-
fess. have seen gentlemen on that side Of
the House, merely for political effect, waving
their hands toward us and denouneing us as
unpatriotic and not true to the country, espe-
cially the gentleman who rose up a little while
ago TO interrupt me, Mr.. White,] calling us
rebels. have looked about me here and
seen those good men who fought in that con.
test and came home victorious and offered us
the hand of reconciliation and peace. Though
/ despise the contemplate manner in which
we have been treated and insuted here, thank
God can say to-day that love the Govern
ment of the United States, and shall stand by
it as long as live.
| Mr.. Foster. Good!
Mr.. Yeates. You cannot drive me ever
again to go against this Government. You
may try to place my section of country in the
position that Great Britain has placed Ire
land, and get up contest and war of feeling
between us everywhere, but we will not be a
party to such strife. [Applause.] We in
tend to stand up here for the rights of the
Government. It will be the last lesson as
well as the first that we will teach our boys
around us, to stand by the old flag and by the
principles of the Democratic party. tGreat
applause and laughter.]
Mr.. White. A question now?
Mr.. Yeates. No you have had four weeks
already. [I4aughter.1 do not say that !
would rot yield to some gentleman from New
England, who may want to get at me little;
but will not let him interrupt me. hope
/ will be pardoned for entering little into
detail. do not want to take up much Of the
limited time the committee when there are
so many others here who wish to address the
committee. But / propose to look little
around US and see what we have had what
this great Republican party has done for us.
will tell you one thing it has done. 1t
has undertaken to bribe the people. 1t has
demoralized the people. 1t has made an at
tack upon the virtue Of the people. 1t has
broken down the purity of the ballot-box. 1t
has destroyed the freedom Of voting in my
section of country, if not in yours. 1t has
raised the standard of the military and placed
it, Mr.. Chairman, even in your own city, in
terror over the ballot.box, thing entirely
inconsist ent with liberty. do not say the
Republican party has not done some good
things. There are men in the Republican
party whom like, who, think, are patri-
otic in their motives. But their party is now
being driven to the wall, and is lighting, with
tenacity with which it never fought before,
to retain position and place.
You see, sir, they did not expect when we
were turned loose that this House would so
soon be Democratic. [Laughter.l Itfright.
ened them /; they were amazed at it; and they
have undertaken, as l said before, to lay the
burden Of secession upon the northern Dem
ocrats, weighing them down with us, SO that
they may beat the Democratic party in the
coming contest.
/ said, Mr.. Chairman, that the Republican
party had done great harm in the South.
am prepared to prove that. Cur colored
friends once looked upon the Republican par
ty as being their savior. They are learning
better. Now, Mr.. Chairman, to be perfectly
serious, we all know that the Republican party
did not start out in the war with the aim Of
freeing the colored people. 1t declared in its
resolutions in Congress and in the proclama-
tions Of its President that that was not the
object. But, sir, the colored man was freed,
in spite of both the northern and southern
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