The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-01-20

report, but since then the registers re
port had been made to agree with thai
table.
Mr.. Dawes said if the Senator from
West Virginia charged that there was
fraud he Dawes] would 60 with him In
pressing an investigation, SO that nc
guilty man shall escape.
Mr.. Freelinghuyson hoped the amend
ment of the Senator from Vermont Ed
munds would be adopted. He said next
to the liberty of this country was
the credit and the people
were exceedingly sensitive in regard tc
it. 1t was the right of the people, with.
out regard to party, to know if there had
been blundering in the Treasury. If ii
was true that there had been such blund-
ering l. was fraud.
Pending the discussion Mr.. Sherman
moved that the resolution of Mr.. Davis
be laid aside in order that the Senator
from Indiana Mr.. Morton might call
up his resolution in regard to the Mis-
sissippi election and submit the remarks
which he was prepared 10 make. Agreed
to.
The Senate then took up the resolu.
tion of Mr.. Morton in regard to the
Mississippi election.
Mr.. MortOn's speech.
MIR. Morton said: Mr.. President
IF the information l have received from
very many sources is substantially true,
the late pretended election in Mississippi
was an armed revolution characterized
by fraud, murder and violence in almost
every form. 1t was carried on in some
respects under forms of law, but its real
nature was that of force, the violation of
law and trampling under foot of the
dearest rights of the great masses men.
A little less sudden than those revolutions
which have distinguished the States OF
States of Mexico and the countries of
South America. 1t did not differ from
them IN character, and was equal in
atrocity. 1t is matter Of the gravest
Importance to the American people to
know whether large majority of the
people of the State have been oyerthrown
and subjected by minority; and also TO
understand upon what pretense or prln-
ciple such revolt was brought about.
The only thing like principle
that could be assumed in justification OF
such result would be that political and
civil power should belong exclusively to
the white race, or upon the other princi.
pie. that that party, the members OF
which own most of the property in the
State, should be allowed to govern to
the exclusion of the majority, who are
generally poor, and most of whom have
nothing to depend upon for their
substance but their labor. L
apprehended that an investigation of the
Mississippi revolution would show that
a triumphant majority acted upon both
of these principles, and in various ways
boldly professed them as its doctrines.
He received the treatment which Repub-
licans received in the South before the
var, and declared that it is question
whether it is rot the policy Of the Dcmo
cratic party OF the South not only to
defeat the Republican party of the
South, but to extinguish it by social
and business ostracism, and personal vio-
lence to the whites who favor that party,
and only presented to the colored man
the alternative or the support OF the
Democratic party. He claimed that the
better and larger class OF Democrats op-
posed this social violence, but were con.
trolled and intimidated by the smaller
and violent element of their party.
The colored people are fiercely denounc-
ed for their ignorance and want of moral
training, and their condition, which is IN
many respects unhappy, is imputed to
them as u crime. 1t must be admitted
that slavery was bad training school,
not oniy intentionally, but morally. he
cruel and inhuman laws which made II
penitentiary offence to teach colored
children to read and write, have borne
their fruits, which have, like the apples
of the dead sea. turned TO ashes upon the
lips of those who enacted them.
Ii is written that the sins OF fathers
were visited on their children unto the
fourth generations, and it is not in the
providence of God that the inventors of
these laws should pot entirely escape
their consequences. l would that the
cup of bitterness could entirely pass from
the white people of the South, but that Is
not possible under Divine rule. Those
who practiced African slavery for two
hundred years, cannot hope TO
escape all the evil consequences
Resulting from it. IL ia the merest
folly longer 10 deny the atrocities
that have been committed upon the col
ored people in the Southern States. The
evidence is found in thousands of
depositions taken before the in.
vestiga,ing committees, in the con-
tinual revelations by persons COM
ing from the South and in the columns
of hundreds of newspapers, although
there is reason to believe that perhaps
not a tenth of the out ages are ever
brought to the attention of the public.
They have been hunted like
wild beasts, and the white
sporismen went cunning for
them. If that many white men had been
murdered by Indians the whole country
would have demanded vengeance. and a
large portion would have clamored for
the determination o: the savage tribes.
When some twenty starving and des-
pe.ste Nodocs murdered General Csnby
and three of his colleagues, the Govern
ment never stopped until the last man
had been killed, captured, tried and hung.
When the Virginius, notoriously en
gpced in an allegal and hostile eXpedi-
ton against the Spanish govern
ment. was captured by q
Spanish cruiser ard some fifty of the
crew tried BY court martial and shot
our Government demanded immediate
reparation and threatened Spain with
war in case it was not made. When
some SIX wears ago an American boat
was fired upon and two men wounded
upon the coast Of Corea, our feet de-
msnded reparation, and when it was no:
granted battered down the forts and
slaughtered nearly three hundred of their
soldiers. When the Mexican robbers
make raid across the border into Texas
10 steal FIVE or six hundred
cattle the depreciation Is ten fold
macnifed. The government OF the
United States is urged By many TO go TO
war With Mexico ard at least to place
49, .r,.y ot The L niteI States along the