Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-03-31
GOOD FOX YEATES!

Mr. Yeates, our R. preventative III
serving his first rm in Washington,
but for all that he has found opportu-
nifty to pnt in some well dircced blows.
On Thursday last the House being
IN cor mittee of the wLole on the Leg
ia,ive appropriation bill, Mr.. Yeates
said:
The members on the Democratic
side had been intimidated and threat
ened by the other side. They had
seen the leaders coming down the
a;sles with cenched fists, deuouncing
them as rebels, and the gentleman
from Massachusetts MIR. Hoar) had
taken occasion to read them lecture.
His people were a liberty loving peo-
pie, and would not submit to such
taunts and jeers. Disloyalty to the
Republican party has been denounced
as 1isloyalty to the country. The cry
from the other side about rebels was
merely political He proposed to show
the kind of allies the distinguished
gentle man from Maine had in the
south. Gov. Holden was one of them
Gen. Longstreet was another. The
Republican party had attempted to
buy up men of the South, and those
they conld not buy up they denounced
as rebels.
The gentleman from Maine and the
gentleman from Massachusetts thought
| IN IRE to d,.y of Gen. L0ngstreet and
| Bill. Holden than they did of Gen.
| Banning and Gen Rice, and other
| Democratic officers around him who
had fought under the stars and stripes.
He arraigned the Republican party
for demoral,zing the peopie, destroy
ing the purity of the ballot, and pros
| tituting' the ballot box before the mill
tary. He charged that the Republican
party only gave the vote TO the colored
| people when they found that they
could not secure the votes of the
| Southern whites, and then created ten
| thousand offices, and sent down ten
thousand carpet-baggers to prejudice
the negroes against the whites and to
act as spies upon them. But he would
| tell them they could not hold the col
ored men forever, and at the next cleo
| ton they would vote as they pleased.
| The Republicans had not only cor
rupted the colored but the white PEG.
| pie at the South, and they had been
robbed. There had been a constant
stream of money pouring from the
| South into Washington. He would not
| undertake to say how it was divided or
where it went. He had always be-
| lieved that Abraham Lincoln was n
| good man, and had he lived there
| would have been far different state
of afflirs IN the South. He charged
| that five years of profound peace I'M
1 Lo Nrorf had
| spent more money than had BEEN spent
from the Inauguration of Georg~
| Washington to the time Belk-
nap went out of Office. What had be-
come o. the money:
Mr.. Townsend, of n. Y. We paid
| the interest on the rebel debt.
Mr. Yeates referred to the investi-
| CATION going OF and said that side in
tended to fight it out on that line if it
| took all summer He next referred to
| the corruption at elections and &C
cused the Republican officials of inter
ference and the use of their power and
| patronage to coerce and intimidate the
voters aud levying taxes upon the wO
men and girls in the Departments in
Washington to carry out their plans.
They had told the colored voters that
| If the Democrats were elected they
would send them back to slavery, and
he had been told by colored men in
| his district that if he was elected aud
did MOI send them back to slavery
they would vote for him the next time
and from then out. The hope of the
South was in the Democratic people of
the North. They we've the only
ones who had ever held out the
hand of friendship to them. The
Republican party had tried to
make the South hate them. He would
tell them they did not like the Repub
Lean party half as we'll as they id the
coantry. When he saw Grentism he
saw something to fear more than Sc
| cession. There was not Republican
| in the South that was not ready to put
| the crown on him like Mark Anthony
tried to put it on Cesar and a portion of
the people of Massachusetts, were
ready to help do the act. He said
| there had been little skirmish mp in
New Hampshire, aud the Democratic
p:ckets had been driven in, but they
would rally from Maine to Georgia, aud
march boldly up until they planted
their banner in re White House.