The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-09-27

1 LQab OfNDGT6Bs QhO power W OTBdnALo Sucn
as territories, and, second: That In or
ganizipg them the leading white men
/ should be disfraDchised. The heart, brain
and character OF the South should be ami
hilsted In government. That the slaves
just set free, ignorant and without any
| knowl- dge, should be admitted to univer
sal suffrage; and that under the head OF
| carpet-bsgRers and adventurers the negro
race should be organized into Republi-
can party at the South. And, in order TO
effect that, the states should be deprived OF
al! civil government, the people Of all civil
rights and to be subjected to military gov
| ernments under which the lives,
| liberties and properties OF 10000
| 600 of people were subjected to absolute
military dfspotisn. In one word, in order
| to build up Republican party In thess
states, the wnIte race we're to be subj 9cted
| TO their former negro slaves, and held In
su objection by federal bayOnets. L was
| separated from that party be cause OF tbt-
new and evil spirit entering into and TAX
ing possession OF the leaders of the Repub-
lican party; that same blind, msodened,
unressoning insanity which pressed for
| the Impeachment of President johnson,
for no resson in the world except that he
d not believe In this new creed of the
Republican party and lend his Office to
carry out It's demands 1 struggled to
maintain the policy of Presi-
| construction of the South, to qualify
the suffrage to be gwen TO the freedmen.
Senator Morton urged the same Ia his
Richmond speech. 1 proposed that IL
should be given to those who could read
| the constitution Of the United States ADO
could sign their names to an attn to sup
| port it ; to those, who, as heads of familit 8,
| tor two years supported them wiLhou
charge TO the pubic in the dis riot " here
| they offered their vo ties and to those whC
| psid taxes in support OF the government
| on $3.50 OF property. That policy, like
| that a. Morton In his speech at Richmond
In 1865, was to raise the negro up, and
not drag the states down. Had that policy
been adopted, p Srties at the South would
not have bsen upon the color line. Had
| tast policy bsen adopted, these states
would not have been sub
iected 70 ignorance brutality sod
| rand, to csrpst bsggers and
plunderers, and robbed as they have beer
under the r publican policy of S226. OOO,
600. To show you how
WILD AND ALMOST UNCOMFORTABLE
were the furious passions of that patty a.
the time, let me read not only the i'm
peschment OF President Johnson, as hon.
est and pure PARROT and sincere lover o.
the Union as ever lived, but let me remind
you that when the law passed Congress
Subiacting eleven sta es and ten millions
psople to military despOtism, leaving not
one civil right to the people, a section OF
that outrageous law provided that the
commanding general should have The
power of lite and death. without any sp-
peal to any court and VII hOut any appeal
| 20 the prestden'. IL passed the house first.
It passed the S4Date, cOmmi tee of th'
whole, and upon a motion by Senator
| BucKalew to amend so as T.
declare that no death sentence OF
a court martial should be executed until
approved Dy the president, il was voted
down by q party vote. When the bill came
into the Senate I renewed the motion, ano
| by the strongest appeals prevailed upon
| two Senst rs 20 charge their votes, VIZ !:
Senator Grimes OF Iowa, and Senator An
Shony OF Rhode Island, and by their votes
that amen dmeDt was carried so that on the
question OF life and death there was lasI
appeal to the president. How many live
| that amendment saved from ex' cution at
Drum Head Court Marshal God only
knows One thing 1 know, President John
son believing that military recOns ructiOn
law to be an outrageous violation o.
tbs constitution ever issued
death warrant, though pressed
again and again TO do so. To show you
| how reckless and desperate that party va
| at that time when the McCsrdle ca q wa
argued before the Supreme Court of tnt
United States, and the court was about to
decide (for It could not do other wise) the
military reconstruction laws to be uncoD-
| stitutiOnal and void, 1t rushed a bill
| through both houses in not haste to take
away the Jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court over the very case that had been ar
| gusd before it, and W hich il was about to de-
, eide. o, my fellow-clt zsus, when look
back upon the wild passions ofthOse tim 3
II no rrnAo a rkw3f hof In
| the people of the North were not yet pre-
pared to listen to the appeal OF Gan. DIX
and the Philsdelpnis convention for
PEACE AND RECONCILIATION.
In 1868, in the convention OF New York,
in the nomination of Seymour and Blair
another sppea was made for reconcilis-
ton and peace between the North and
South. But Gen. Grant, the nominee OF
the r publican parry, who, on all
these Que stiODs, mpstDiZed with
| and supported the convention of 1868,
and whose fam rus motto was, Let us nav,
peace" WIS erected, in the hope of peace
and r. concilis' ion between the North and
the South. In 1872 seven years suer thu
| war was closed, under the lead Of Ii race
] Greel V, Sumuer Trumbull and Scnurz,
| the Llbrral Repub icaUs st Cincinnati dc
clsrei again tor peace and reconciliation.
| The letter OF sccepr sDce of Mr. Greeley
closed with thai memorable appeal TO the
people OF the North and South "to shake
hanos over the bloody chssm." But. Sol
diers OF the Union, you we're sppeslea TO
bv the leaders o. the Republican party
raise anew the war cry-Lo sound again the
slogan the war under the cry that you
must unite again C. put down at the ballot
nox the r bells you conquered in arms
The real issues involved IN the canvass of
1872, were thus put out OF sight. Ypu
voted, as you supposed, to put
down-or TO rule do~B-the rebellion.
Aud now, again, eleven years after tn
war is over. toe srtiul political leaders,
who will never consent To let the war
spirit cease, so long as it brings votes e.
the partv in nower In which they halonO