The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-19
Cox's Adm,rabIe Pororation.

CON's ADMIRABLE PorOratiOn.
Now, in conclusion, | wish to recall
one thought to the gentleman from
Maine and to this House. We have
come together here by some tidal wave;
these gentlemen from the South have
been sitting here taking your little
contemplate insults about our organi-
cation and our conduct, when you
knew or might have known that, in
the organization of this House, more
manned Union soldiers have been APP
pointed under Democratic administers
ton here this winter, according to the
number Of those appointed, than Were
appointed by your radical Mr.. Buxton
In the last Congress. Applause And
yet you have sent your ISLANDERS all over
the country, 10 do what 70 prelu-
dice this body of men here, who have
! quietly taken your taunts and your I'M
suits. Ii you want the facts on that
subject, so to Colonel Eit1hugh, our
Doorkeeper. You will find that, ac-
cording 10 the number appointed, in
proportion to the service, fewer Union
soldiers were appointed by you than
we have this year. There is no reason
why you should send out to the coun-
try the cry this is the "ex-Confederate
Congress- Many of youwill be "ex'sp
yourselves before you get through with
this business. Laughter.
Mr.. Speaker l like to speak of
amnesty. 1t Is u tavorile theme. |
was delighted at the idea of getting
majority of 3 five years ago. But here,
after ten years of struggle, after ten
years Of contempt, after every faithful
expression possible from Southern
gentlemen and statesmen, including
jefferson Davis; after all that can be
said by them of their adherence to the
sentiments of patriotism and union,
we have, in this year of jubilee, 1876,
the distinguished member from Maine
raking up again the embers Of dead
hates for some bad purposel may as
well tell all thiuk about it, laugh
ter, la bad, misehievous, malicious
purpose, which will never elect him to
the Proficiency ifbe lives . thousand
years. LApplause.l ! do not ask any
body to applaud these sentiments.
They win speak for themselves with
out applause. But | remember, and
the gentleman from Maine may recall
the fact, when member of this House,
a distinguished gentleman from Penn
sylvania, now deceased, Judge Wood
ward, once sent to my desk to be read
the one hundred and twenty-siXth
Psalm. i think | will read it for the
benefit of the gentleman. 1t was after
Cyrus had relieved the Hebrews from
captivity. The PsGlnst touched his
harp, and broke forth in the lyric lofti-
ness of graduation :
|. When the Lord turned again the "aptiv-
| ity of Zion, We were like them that dream.
2. Then was our mouth filled with laugh
ter, and our tongue with singing: then said
! they among the heather, The Lord hath
done great things for them.
D. Tbe Lord hath done great things for us
| WbeicQf we are glad.
4. Turn again our captivity, o Lord, as the
streams in the south.
There il an annexation by DR.. Clarke
to this psalm which, in connection
with it, may very well be pondered. 1t
recites that once when the Roman
general had overcome Philip of Mace
don and conquered Greece, and had
nut all the cities of Greece under taxa
ton and tyranny, there was a gather
ing Of the people in the circus at 18TH
mian games, and without the previous
knowledge of any one except the gen
eral in command of the city, the her
aid, as he proclaimed the games, was
authorized to proclaim in behalf of the
| Roman senate and the general of the
army to the citizens that their taxes
should remain forever abolished, and
that no record or rule should remain of
the tyranny which had been exercised
by the Romans over the Greeks. All
tie people listened as if it had been an
illusion. They were in dream, like
the Jews when relieved from captivity.
They turned one to another, and said:
"What means this; what did the her
aid say after he blew the trumpet =?
Have we Deen given our liberty ="
One said to the other did you hear
what was sAd?n And they went to
the herald, and cried: "Repeat to us
what Won have said;" and he repeated
IL. and their hearts were full of glad
ness Says Livy: "They lifted up
their hearts and rejoiced, for the year
of their deliverance had come" 1t
was the wear of Grecian jubilee. And
now, when our jubilee has come in
this wear of 1875, would like to have
a herald from Philadelphia, or from
this capital, to sound the trumpet and
proclaim deliverance to the South
from Republican exactions, from bad
rule, aud the establishment of autono-
nv all through the South. Then a
glorious, blessed light coming from
aboye-the white radiance of eternity
itself-will shine upon architrave, pill
lar. and dome of the temple of our
An,ar;can frepdomi Applause.