Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-08-30
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General TuttIe's speech.

aud formerly candidate for Governor Of his
state Read it
When ! concluded 10 change my party
thought that ! might be allowed 10 do IL
quietly Il was private act and required
no public announcement, aud there was no
one TO whom was obligated to account for
such an action. But as my course has been
so assailed aud ! have been called 80 Sc
verey 10 account, ! may as well embrace
this opportunity 10 tell both my democratic
aud Republican friends why ! have left The
old democracy, and why | am here tonight.
The act OF my change was private one,
but my reasons for so doing were public
ones, aud they may be told, and shall be.
I Cheers. ! am no speaker, and make no
pretentions Of being. But ! can talk TO you
as neighbors
RfnEL DEMOCRATS.
Nearly two years ago ] was in St. Louis.
Now there is nothing peculiar in simply
having been at st. Louis. But | was there
also in 1861. lChecrs. That was just af-
ter the first battle OF Bull Run, and st.
Louis was thoroughly, wildly, insauely rebel.
1t was worth mans life then, almost, TO be
seen in the Union uniform. A Union off
Ger about the hotels, where congregated the
noisiest secession elements, was hooted at
you'll 20 South and you will come back, as
the Union soldiers have just come back from
Bull Run, with your tails tucked" But az
| remember it, none Of our troops from Iowa
ever came back in that shape. Laughter
and applause That was the feeling in st.
Louis in 1851 and this feeling found there
again, in the same spirit and in the same
places, re-expressed by the very same men.
when was there in 1874. IL was then |
heard the news that the democrats had
elected a majority of the national House
and these same fellows who swarmed about
the hotels, talking treason and deriding
Union soldiers in 1861. were exultant and
delirious with joy this last time. re-
marked to a gentleman who had been a com
rade with me in the war This looks like
the same set Of fellows who were spouting
treason here at the beginning of the war.
What is it that is exciting them so, and what
ails them 2" We asked a squad of them
what it was that made " them feel so goodf 2"
heard one of them say, Z" We have got them
this time. We can beat them this time"
We asked what they meant by "them %
They replied, Wen elect the next Presi-
dent, and then we've got them. Then we
will get pay for all our property destroyed in
the war, and then we'll get pay for our lost
now, and in lS7G, the centennial year, we
can get the Senate and democratic Presi-
dent Then we can appoint our committees
TO suit ourselves and choose our own south
ern claims committee or southern claims
court, and make good our losses by war"
They meant that they would get pay for all
the property destroyed by the Union army,
aud pay for all their emancipated slaves.
Said one, live us possession of the gov
eminent, and the North will be the rebels
next time" This was the talk, and the
talk earnest-as was the talk of the same
men in 1861. They meant it. They talked
it over coolly and seriously. Said they had
already united South, which would he
nearly enough, and that their democratic
allies in the North dare not deny them the
little more, the few more votes they would
need This is their idea to-day--to gain by
legislation, by means of diplomacy and trick
cry, what they failed to gain by means OF
| force. believe it; | know il. All their
expressions suggest it, and all their actions
prove it. What else do they mean? Why
| is it that the state Of Missouri has issued to
| every former owner of slaves in that state a
certificate for one thousand dollars for every
slave, payable when the general government
will pay it This very thing, the total
amount of the value of their emancipated
slaves, is now estimated as a part of the state
debt of Missouri | used TO think that this
was Republican falsehood the certificate
matter. But it is an actual fact, that these
certificates, and all certificates or showing Of
losses sustained throughout the state are be-
| ing saved up as carefully as money against
the day when the democracy, and the rebel
element ruling ii in the national government,
shall have attained TO power. If Missouri
will do this thing, and hold out this prom
Use to pay for all emancipated slaves, why
will not all the southern all worse rebel
states do it, and will they not do it
rmE CONFEDERATE HOUSE
When these things came to my knowl-
edge could not do less than halt for further
developments, watching suspiciously every
movement made thereafter which | could
see had q tendency toward drawing the
democracy North and South nearer together,
a union which could see would inevitably
put the old rebel element at the head of and
virtually in control Of the party. Applause.
Events have eliminated rapidly since then
and had not long to wait to see the whole
programme. The democratic House soon
gave me light enough. The first thing
didn't like in the democratic House was the
appointment Of Fitzhugh, the sergeant-at
arms OF the confederate congress, as th'
door-keeper of the House, and the displace
ment of Union soldiers-many Of then
crippled in the war, with the ex-members Of
, the rebel army. Great applause. Another
, thing | didn't like was Ben Hills rebe
speech and its bold utterance of treason
and didn't like the rebel yell in respons,
TO it, all over the South, for | had hear,
that Yell before, and knew what it meant
rGreat cheers. They tell me--the demo
crats-that am scared of Ben Hill"
don't think am; | don't think | wa
scared of " any Of the Hills when | me
, them in the South | do not remember tina
, was. Great cheering Then, worse thai
/ all OF the many bad aud unblushing acts o
the democratic House, | esteemed as infa
nous the act of appointing to the clerkshil
Of the leading committee OF the House tn
man Hambleton, who named his son .Iohl
Wilkes Booth, after the assassin of Presi
. dent Lincoln. Immense cheering Thi
outrageous act IS trucking to the rebel ele
/ ment the northern democrats dare not dis
i own, and for all know, this man is still
: the clerk of that committee. The littl
/ child so dishonored by its name aud tn
} significance Of it, had the good sense, thanl
God, TO dle. Applause
4 That speech of Ben Hills aud the recor,
/ that the democratic party has made in IT
| gard to il would have been enough of itsel
/ 10 send any man who cares for his countr
| out of all fellowship with it and the party i
/ whose name and by one of whose leadin
members il was made Hill, in that speech
, defended Anlersonvile, and the atrociou
treatment of Union prisoners in the south
ern prison hells. Could | endorse thai
I and still remember my own comrades VIII
/ suffered in them more than death and hell
Can any party succeed which even tacitl
/ endorses sentiments like these Hill ais,
said in that speech, ave went out of tn
Union hugging the constitution, and w
; came back into the Union hugging il.
What hug [Great laughter.l That wa
what they went out for, not TO be rebels, bu
10 "hug the constitution of the Union the,
were trying so hard to destroy. | have seer
I them when they were doing this "hugging.
J Applause and laughter.l | remember ON
e morning in April, 1862, the first day of tn,
battle Of Shiloh, as the rebel troops cam,
bearing down upon us, that assembled al
elevation 10 watch them through tield-glas,
as they came. II was grand sight as the,
came IN three columns with their muskets a
, ] sh,,,llar ubtft that form, Il, xph iel