New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-22

ready to present and press these claims
And so we find the singular tact that,
though they have possession OF but tho
lower house Of Congress-the Senate and
President are Republican, and 1t Is lmpos-
sible to get them thr0ugh-so eager are
these people to get their hands into the ma
tional treasury that they can not wait, but
must start their claims in the House, look
ing forward to that corsu nmati0n, which
| thew expect in this presidential election,
when they will have o Democratic Presi-
dent, and make such gains presently 10 the
Senate that they may get their claims
through. Ia voice, They won't get
them."l Inc character Of some Of these
claims, when you come to look at them, 10
very absurd. There is one county in Vlr.
gnia that wants pay for it's roads and
bridges. We marched over them. Some
Of these Illinois soldiers did. have no
doubt. We hauled our artillery and trains
over them, ahd we cut up the roads some,
and now chat county, a rebel county, al-
most every one of whose young pen was in
the rebel army, wh0se whole political opin-
ion was on that side-whose fields supplied
the rebel commlssary-that county comes
to the North and says, "We want you to
put your hands in your pockets to fix up
our roads and bridges" Now, don't think
we ought to pay toll for going over
those roads. We have got enough roads
up here, Your Illinois roads are not
the best, and yet dare say that
those brave Illinois b3ys-and / don't
speak unadvisedly when l say SO. because
it was my fortune 10 command three regi-
Inents OF Illinois troops in my brigade
thought their roads here we're good enough
for them. have no doubt that these men
would rather have taken their wives and
children and driven over the black mud OF
Illinois than over their roads. We didn't
- nAoI -
was no pleasure drive We were taking over
those roads. We had to march over them
that We might take treason by the throat
and throttle il, and we didn't like the idea
of paying toll. If they wanted any toll
they ought to have had good resOlute toll
keeper with hickory polA, and when
Sherman's army came up they ought to
have RULED down the pole until the
toll was paid. Verv likely Sherman
would have settled this toll question
then, and prevented its being brought up
row. They also ask for money to rebuild
a jail. That seems to strike some Of you as
q reasonable claim to make. The truth is
they will never build it big enough. Bot
if they were to agree to put in all those fel-
lows down there. that ought TO be in it. l
would help them build it. l have only
given those az samples. One man at At
lanta wants $1,000 for house that Sher-
man burned when he proclaimed "War was
war" blew up the town and marched down
~ the sea. Another at Vicksburg wants
So. 600 for a similar service. These are
specimens of similar claims that are coming
in. Now, we paid for ali that once q fear
full price in the blood that was shed. have
Southern tields-die in front of Atlanta
and know that Illinois paid her full share
OF the price Atlanta Was worth.
Are we to pay these claimsl l tell you
we will, it this goes on and the Democrats
get full control of this country. will give
some reason, and why, and want to speak
to the intelligence OF men. want to satisfy
some of the business men to whom ! am
talking tonight that this is not mere cam
pagn scare, but real peril to Chicago, and
a peril to the country. II we are to be
loaded with these debts. you will realize
1t at once. Our national debt, which We
have lifted ourselves bravely TO bear, and
have presented in the task a grand specta- |
Gle of recuperation and honesty, will be
doubled. Ii the North. which poured it's
like blood to save the country, is
now to De taxed 10 reimburse to the South |
the incidental losses of the war, we are |
ready to cry out against it in the extremity |
OF Indignation. Every Southern Represents |
tive will be in favor of it, and when the !
Southern States are Represented solidlv by |
Democrats they will have loo in the lower |
house of Congress, every one of whom must
favor II, or he can not retain his seat.
There is political compulsion laid upon |
him TO favor it. But will the Democrats of |
he North acquiesce in ii! Ny fellow-citi-
.sns, and if ! speak to q candid Democrat
challenge his attention TO VIVA: l say,
here is reason why the Northern Demo.
rats, who are seeking political power, will
bow TO those Southern Democrats. Whyl
Because history avouches it to be true that
q all the life OF the Democratic party it
las never resisted the Southern Democrats, |
,ut has been the plant and srppliaut tool |
# the South. Go read the history of the
bred Scott decision, of the Missouri com
romise. Go read that whole story of the
rrogsnt demands of slavery in the South,
nd they run parallel with the story of
Democratic subserviency. Then when Won
ememb Der that Democratic candidates for 4
he national offices must please the South
O-day Mr.. Tilden and Mr.. Hendricks
1ust please the South-or they have |
o possible chance of being elected
resident aud Vice President. They are
ut under bonds, and every aspiring Demo
ratio politician is put under bonds TO the |
outh because it is the seat of political
over; because the brains, the hands, the
bat the willing fest of the De-
locracy-are il the South. In the North
70 have simply the supplicating knees and
le willing feet. There IS more reason that
party OF such history, party so put
nder bonds to the sea: of Democratic
over in the South, would favor the pay
ent of these claims than that the Repub-
can party would favor them. Because,
ist as the Democratic party Representa- =.
We from the South holds his office upon
10 tenure that he shall favor these claims
'ery Republican Represen tative in the |
orth holds his office by the tenure that he
lall oppose them all. Why is it, my friends,
at Mr.. Hendricks-he has baen speaking
this campaign; he said at frs. that he '
garded it as exceedingly improper
.ncy to mako any speeches, and
ay congratulate myeelf that scared him 8
badly that he stepped over his propliety
Id went around stamping Indiana, and
J has finally made good many speeches, L
ear friends, if you have time and patience. n
read them all and $50 if ne has ever said n
any one OF them that he was in favor of II
rpetuating the present Republican test Il
E Southern clainls-the test of unswery- u
2 loyalty during the war. Has he ever V
id one wcrd about it! He has not, and if
9 remarks that l make tonight should d
ssibly catch his eye, l cay to him be won't q
nture to say it during this campaign No: II
wouldn't be popular down South if he
ould say that. If he should tell these n ~
'mocratic rebels there to vote for him.
d by whom he hopes to win, and say, IL -
l in favor of rigidly adhering to the test 9,
loyalty during the war; hold the doc y
ne that man who was disloyal. who %
wed his hand in thu war, or lis voice in u,
, councils of secession, and resisted our ~
lntry, that that man suffered the just n
1alty of his treason when his property a.
g contiscated. and am not in favor of ll
wing him"-why, he won't dare to say q,
It.. o.
But some Democrats eay there is con- -,
.utional impeachment in the way. 1 call =;
If attention, before l allude to that, to ~