The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-30

We present our readers to-day with
an extract from q speech delivered on
the 18th inst, at st. Albans. Vermont,
by the Hon. VIM. A. Wheeler. that they
may see tbeopinion entertained OF them
by the baggy-br eched philosopher,
guide and friend. who was so earnest in
ierrymandering Legislature for them
in 1876:
have no purpose here tonight, my
friends, to recall the memorable conflict
through which this nation has passed,
and which American arms. forever illus
trious. But let us never forget the
obligations resting upon us to secure the
results OF that great conflict for our
selves, and those who follow after us,
and never, my friends, were these
obligations more apparent and impera-
tive than now. We are already engaged
in another conflict with tho opponents
of the party which saved the nation,
and which to-day protects its integrity
once more, my friends, face to face with
an united South, with the Democratic
party Of the North as Its subservient
and plant ally. In every late slave State
in the Union, where this Confederate
party Is dominant, it claims and may
receive one hundred and thirty votes In
the electoral college. 1t has the COM
plete control OF the lower House, and
the balance Of power In the South.
There is not to-day In these late slave
States any man holding prominent
position who was not identified In the
great struggle against the Government.
Not even In the State Of Kentucky can
you find man In any position what
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side. This Is the condition Of the South
to-day. have sat for months during
the last winter In Congress by the side
OF sixty-One men who, q few years ago,
with arms in their hands, were engaged
in the attempt to break up the Govern
ment. Now, I have heard those men
defend the hellish atrocities OF Libby
and Andefsonville. and Salisbury. /
have heard Lincoln maligned. have
heard defended the right of Virginia
Justice Of the Peace to detain and open
the mails OF the United States. Can
you tell me where is the difference be-
ago, led Missouri border ruffians into
Kansas and that Of the massacre at
Hamburg, where a regularly organized
militia company first disarmed and then
murdered in cold blood, In order that
the white race might assert their su-
periority?
My official relations have called me
during the past two or three years into
the Southern States, and tell you what
know, my friends, of the real feeling
Of the Southern people regarding the
reconstruction acts. They regard the
to the Constitution in
reference to slavery and the laws for the
protection Of freedmen, as the French
provinces did their cession to Prussia at
the point Of the bayonet. Its to the
South, my friends, with this spirit and
with the Democratic party of the North
as It's plant ally, that we are asked to
turn over the Government Of the United
States, with all its powers OF legislation,
with all it's machinery Of taxation. No
such proposition for audacity has Its |
parallel In the history OF the country. |
What is the spirit of the Democratic
party? Do you want to prove what the
Democratic party OF the North still is?
Go to Washington. See fifty soldiers,
crippled In. the service of the Union,
.urned out Of the House, to make room
'or so many rebel soldiers. This is the
evidence of the spirit OF the Northern
Democracy. Stta -