Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-09-22
SHALL THE REBELLION
TRIUMPH?
THE OLD ISSUE OF THE BLUE
AGAINST THE GRAY,
Extract from Gov. Mortons' Laporte
Speech.

Extract from Gov. Mortons' Laporte
| Speech.
If we carry Indiana for the Repub.
lican ticket, the Presidential cues
ton will be substantially settled.
Now, friends On the other hand, we
have the Confederate Democrats.
use the name purposely and under
standingly, because the majority of
the Democratic party to-day, in a
national point of view, were Confed-
crates during the struggle, and the
success and the hope of the Demo-
cratic party lies in the Southern
States. They expect to carry nearly
the solid South,-they even claim a
solid South, and then if they can
carry two or three States in the
North, to secure the election. The
Confederate Democracy is the con-
trolling element in the party, and 1
tell all my Democratic friends here
in the North that the late Rebels
those who were in arms against this
Government for it's destruction
are the men who control the doc
trines, the policy, and the destiny of
the Democratic party. They control
it more absolutely now than they did
during the War. 1t is tho Demo
cratic party my friends, and if it goes
into power, it will use this power for
the benefit of the South. The Dem
ocrats of the North have no particu-
lar line of policy. They are not
agreed upon any measure. I might
challenge my most intelligent Demo
cratic auditor to-day to point to any
measure or line of policy this party
has got in regard to the tariff, the
currency, public lands, internal i'm
provement, or any other economic
question. They are not agreed upon
any of these things. In other words,
the Democrats of the North have no
line of policy, but the Democratic
party of the South has. 1t has pol
icy and it is an influential one. They
came out of the War broken down.
They lost their negroes. They lost
the most of their property. They
came out of the War, many of them,
bankrupt, and they are determined to
seize upon the power of this Govern
ment for the purpose of restoring
and recuperating their shattered for
tunes. They mean business. They
care but little for Office. They are
willing to give the Presidency and
the Vice-Presidency to the North
provided they can get men who were
Copperheads during the War. They
will give the North the offices, but
they want the measures; they want
the policy. They intend if they get
the power, to use it for their own
benefit, and we will have to pay for
it. My Democratic friends, you will
have to pay for it along with the 9TH
ers. TO give you little idea, my
friends, of the purposes 1t has in
view, in regard to making the North
pay for the damages of the South, I
will read IN your hearing two bills.
They can pass them any day when
they see proper. They will be
among the collection at the next SEES
sion, and they represent the Demo-
cratic policy of the South. The first
one was introduced by Mr.. Wiltshire,
member from Arkansas. A gent
leman sitting near Gov. Morton read
the BILL This bill provides for pay
ing for all personal property of every
description, taken or used by our
armies during the War. We will
have to pay for every bushel of corn,
every stack of wheat, every horse or
mule taken from the Confederates,
and l have heard it said that the
passage of these bill would cost this
Government 100000, 900, and would
require the people of the North to
pay for all the personal property of
the Rebels which they lost in their
attempt to destroy our Government.
Now, my friends, there is another
bill pending, introduced by Mr.. Rid
die of Tennessee. This bill would
make the Government responsible
for every rail upon a Southern
plantation that was burned by our
troops, for every tree that was cut
down, for the use and occupation of
every plantation, either for longer
or shorter period of time, for every
species of damage inflicted by our
army in the suppression of the Re-
bellion, and have heard it said by
those who know, and l believe it,
that the passage of this bill would
cost our Government from 5000, OOO,-
900 to S1,O0O,OOO,OOO. That is what
these men mean. They intend to
make us pay for this War, if they
get the power, in every particular.
They intend to let by-gones be by
cones SO far as we are concerned,
but not so far as they are concerned.
Our Democratic friends are constant
ly telling us the War is over, and we
should not consider the question
whether man belonged to one army
or the other; that we should all be
politically on an equality. In other
words, that all distinction between
loyalty and disloyalty shall be blot
ted out, and forgotten forever. That
the South intend to carry that out
we know. We have the provisions
upon the statute-book for paving
these loyal men for their property
taken by our army, and they intend
to make it extend to all the Rebels,
and make us pay for the suppression
of the Rebellion, and to do so we
would bankrupt, or almost bankrupt,
this nation, Think of it! That we,
who were in the right; this sacrifice
Of so much blood and of treasure, to
suppress the Rebellion; how many
of you lost your fathers, brothers,
and husbands? with that fearful SAG
ritice made by every county in the
State of Indiana; and yet, after all,
we are asked to put the very men in
power that caused. us to make this
sacrifice, and to pay for all their
losses in the Rebellion, just as if
they were in the right and we were
in the wrong. 1t is now struggle
between the blue and the gray-be-
tween the loyal and disloyal. If the