The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-03

/ didn't like in the Democratic House was the
appointment of FitZhugh, the Serg eant-at-Arms
OF the Confederate Congress, as the Door
keeper of the House, and the displacement Of
Union soldiers many of them crippled in the
WARMTH the ex-members of the rebel army.
TGreat applause.] He wanted to know if
the didn't have right to do this. l answered
that they had, but that I also had the right to
dlsapprove and denounce it. Another thing I
didn't like was Ben Hills rebel speech and its
bold utterance of treason, and didn't ike the
rebel veil in response to it all over the South
for had heard that yell before, and knew
what it meant. [Great cheers.l Theytell me
the Democrats-that I am scared of Ben
Hill" I don't think [ am don't think was
scared of " any of the Hills when met them
in the South | do not remember that was
TGreat cheering.1 Then l told my friend how,
worse than all of the many bad and unblushing
acts of the Democratic House, l esteemed as
Infamous the act of appointing to the clerk
ship of the leading committee of the House the
man Hambleton, who named his son John
Wilkes Booth, after the assassin OF President
Lincoln. Immense cheering. This outrage
Gus act, in trucking to the rebel element, tie
Northern Democrats dare not disown and, for
all know, this man is still the clerk of the
committee. The little child, so dishonored by
its name and the significance OF it, had the
good sense, thank God, to die. GApplause.l
BEN HILL SPEECH.
That speech of Ben. Hills, and the record
that the Democratic party has made in regard
to it, would have been enough of itself to send
any man who cares for his country out of all
fellowship with it, and the party in whose
name and by one of whose leading members,
it was made. Hill, in that speech, defended
Andersonville and the atrocious treatment of
Union prisoners in the Southern prlson-hellst
Could indorse that, and still remember my
own comrades who suffered in them more than
or nd hall
even taeitly indorses sentiments like these?
Hill also said in that speech, eve went out OF
the Union hugging the constitution, and we
came back into the Union hugging it" What
a hug! [Great laughter That was what they
went out for-not to be rebels but to thug
the constitution" of the Union they were try
ing so hard to destroy. l have seen them when
they were doing this "hugging." Applause
and laughter I remember one morning in
April 1862-the first day of the battle of
Shiloh, AS the rebel troops came bearing down
upon us, that assembled an elevation to watch
them through field-glass as they came. 1t
was a grand sight as they came in three columns
with their muskets at right-shoulder-shift -
that form in which an army looks it's grandest
and by which it always appears to have three
times it's actual strength. There was blaze
and shine of glory on those advancing columns,
that took to be the luster and shine OF bayo-
nets in the sun. But ] judge now, since Hills
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ing, but constitutions that they were carrying
along and hugging. [Vociferous cheering
I saw them doing good deal of this hugging,
these rebels who were not rebels, but simply
constitution huggers." Renewed cheering.
The boys who are here before me, who were
with me at Donelson, saw some OF 1t there.
daughter, and cries by soldiers, ''That's So"
We saw them at it in good many battles. i
What patriots they were, doing so much for
the constitution of our common country J"
GooD-BY, DEMOCRACY.
And now, la conclusion, as to the reason why
[ have not left the Democratic party sooner.
They say want office, and that / have wanted
office. If had, gentlemen, would have left
the Democratic party years ago. for 1t is
matter of record that have said for years that
there was never any hope of the Democrats
carrying Iowa. If had been an ofice-seeker,
I should have left the old party long ago. |
am not candidate for office, and never will be,
I have no aspirations for prominence in poll
tics and I do not see why, when, as private
citizen, have tried to change my party quiet
ly, all this abuse should be heaped upon me- I
can stand it, though, and it in no wise changes
my conviction as to my duty, only to intensity
and confirm it. [Applause.]
feel in earnest now, as ] did duling the
war. [Cheers.1 I have no retreat to make.
Renewed cheers.] The reason have left the
L
Tcheers], and No faith in the old rebel element
whom l have long feared would come to the
front, and whom I now know and see hG0e
come, and whose coming has made my way
clear and my course of duty plain. [Greac APP
plause. Seeing these men again at the head
of the party and seeing the defiance of the
men who last held office in the national Gov
eminent under the Democratic party, make
things plain enough. Among the last Demo-
cratic officers of any note we're Floyd and Jake
Thompson, the Democratic Secretary of War
and Secretary of the Interior. They stole from
the Government they were sworn to serve, to
help the rebellion raised to destroy it and
beside their crimes and corruptions all that is
charged against Republican otficials-admit it
to be true, even-sinks into insgnifcance.
Why, old Jake Thompson, encouraged by the
defiance of Ben Hill in has speech, went down
to Washington few months ago, and, like
braggart, demanded investigation, pompously
saying that he would waive the legal point of
time. He went down there blowing, and got
sued for the money that he stole for the rebels.
[Great cheering If old Floyd were alive,
he, too, probably would go down there, under
the protection of the rebel shadow of Ben HILL
and demand investigation. [Laughter.l But
like the child covered with the curse OF the
crime against Abraham Lincoln, he also had
the good sense to die. He was at Fort Donel-
son with the other CONSTITUTE -huggers. !"
but he skipped out early, SO as to be safe. If
he had stood his ground like a brave man, he
would probably have had the good fortune to
die earlier. [Laughter.1 But he lit out. He
could steal for the Confederacy, but he wasn't
willing to die for it. Laughter
1t is his fault, gentlemen and not mine, that
his memory is not to be spoken of with more
respect. This Thompson and this Floyd were
the last of the Democratic rulers, and they rep
resented the domination of the South in the
Democracy then. And Thompson and his
friends and the friends of Floyd are again
pressing to the front to assume party control.
AS they have come as leaders, have asked and
taken the privilege of leaving the Democratic
ranks. [Cheers.] This, fellow-citizens is Why
I am here tonight. [Renewed cheers.]
Finally, gentlemen 1 would say, keep solid
front, and we'll beat them. [Cheers.] I hope
and think we will. I am with you, and with
you in earnest. [Great cheering.1 Close up
for the fight. They mean business, and we
must. [Applause.l It is something Of the old
fight, only it is to be fought at the ballotbox in
sfead of tho ln-fin1d TReneWHd aDDlause