The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-02-11
NOrlOn'S Wssr.WllOOD,

We present tho following abstract OF
Senator Morton's first days speech Oh the
Mississippi resolution, from which our re;,-
ders may gather Il pretty accurate outline
OF what Radical leaders intend to do and
say in the coming campaign:
Mr.: Morton proceeded to address the
Senate, claiming that tho late election in
Mississippi was carried by fraud and in
timidation. He reviewed the state of
affairs previous to the war, and said that it
had boon hoped that matters would be din.
erent after the war, but in that they were
disappointed. 1t appeared to be the pur-
aided by the Democrats Of tho North to
crush out the Republican party of the
South. The people of tho South had the
right to vote for whom they pleased, and
all they asked was that every person down
there should have this right without in
timidation or ostracism. lie urged the
necessity of reconstruction upon the basis
of frnternal feeling and equal rights 10
everybody, whether carpet-bagger Or Con-
brought about by Northern junketing or
gushings.
He referred to the course of Gen. Long
street, who was offered a position undSr
the Government, and before acceptingi it he
conferred with Generals Hood and Beaure-
gard and others who agreed that it was
aid in a healthy reconstruction and advised
him to accept the Office. After he had done
so they refused to speak to him and he
was completely ostracised and dcnied adj
mission into families where he had before
been received. His case was only one of
hundreds of just such cases, all growing ont
of the state of affairs in that section and
the Democratic party had attempted to
justify such conduct.
He spoke of the duty Of the Government
to protect these people,. and alluded to the
frequent massacres and transformations that
have taken place in the South. and said if
the Indians had murdered as many men ~
are weekly committed upon the coiorcd
people of the South, the Government would
not have left an Indian alive. He cited
ms 81 l,nr fl,s.
had called foreign governments to account
tor outrases far less horrible than those
committed upon the colored people in the
Southern States.
There wore many newspapers in the
South not ranked as such, but really Demn-
cratic ;a VINO were continually misreprescnt
ing and apologizins for these acts. He said
that in all these So-called ont breaks ana
massacres the killing was ali done on one
the sufferers. II could not he controvertrN
that tho purpose of tho white liners of the
south was t" destroy and crush out the
He related many instances of out RACES in
mississippi, and said that tho charges
against the present government there Wa,
of the fiimsiest character.
me charges OF corruption against the
!a.,. We're aroundless and just rs
war, when an abolitionist ora Northern
man could not step his foot into the sta, q
without aanSSi ,,o danger ger of being hung, to the
falcations and shortcomings of the Repuh-
| LEANS, and overlook the murders and
transformations of the South. are hvpocri,cs
ofthe basest sort: ifthcrc is anything base,
] than the transformations it is that Sncakinn
hypocrisy that talks about lesser sins am
throws mantle over these ostracisnls.
Many statements of atrocities, and III,
failure to punish them wore gwen, and II,
claimed it TO be the duty OF the North tc
| stand by their brethren OF the Republican
party OF the South, and said that to abandon
the colored man after setting him fire,
would be Il crime, and The people of tn.
North would never permit ii. To tho peo.
was but one high way to peace, and thu,
was the one of equal rights and equal pro-
lection to all,