Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-19

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dcrstand that is precisely the move
mcnt: that that is the animus and the
lintcnt.
THE Hon. Benjamin III. Hill, menu
Der of the House. from Georgia, who
delivered one of the most violent and
mendacious speeches on the 18th inst.
eyer spoken in that body, withheld it
from the Record until the 18th inst.
The Hon. s. S. Cox did the same thing.
and the published report of their
1 speeches leaves out much of the yitu-
operation and falsehoods which they
uttered. Not 4 single one of the
i speeches made in reply were thus
withheld. The debate has been a
grand triumph for the Republican
side. Gen. Hill, in his closing re-
marks, as they appear in the Record.
which are very much changed from
the language of tho speech itself,
says: 4skl
i Yet while we make to you no con-
ccssion, we come to you in no spirit
4 Of revenge. We would multiply
blessings in common for You and for
us. We have one ambition. and that
Is toadd our political power 10 the
/ patriotic Union men of the North in
1 order TO compel fanaticism 10 obey
The law and live in the Union accord
ing to the Constitution.
1t is. very easy to see that ii, this he
means he is to live i'm that union. and
only loves that union which the DEM
ocratic party rules. but in order that
we may not err in this regard. Mr..
blaine quotes from recent speeches of
Mr. Hill. showing very clearly what
he means. On the 9th of January.
1850, Mr.. Hill made a speech nj All
lanta. Ga., which was reported i'm the
Constitution of that city. From this
speech we take the following para
graph:
"Fellow citizens. look to The con-
test of 1876 not only as the most inn
portant that has ever occurred in
American history. hut rs the most
| important that has occurred in the
| history of the world. for ifthe people
| OF this country cannot be reused to
give an unanimous vote against The
Republican party, ii will put itself in
power by precisely The same means
that the President has taken in Louis-
| lana, and the people are powerless to
prevent 1t unless they go to war.
Great applause oyer the war; five
fail with the balloi-box in 1876 by
reason OF force, Il startling PROPOSE
lion will present itself to the Ameri-
can people. hope Northern people
have had II sufficient subsistence OF
passion to settle this question fairly,
but II we must have war, il we cannot
preserve this constitutional govern
ment through The ballot. and il war
must come--God forbid that il shall
come, but if folly and wickedness and
the inordinaie love of power should
decree that America must save her
constitution by blood--let il come.
am ready.
Again, in another, speech on May
18th, last, he said. speaking to colored
| men
"That if the folly and wickcdness
were consummated in war; they (the
colored race) would be the greatest
sufferers; II peace was preserved they
were safe, but as sure as one war has
freed them. just so sure another war
would enslavc them.
The above extracts show what kind
OF union this ex-rebel Gcneral--and
by virtue Of the full pardon of Re-
publican acknowledgement Con-
gresham, wants to live in, and what
kind of a one he will not live in. A
year ago, in Georgia, he advised war
if Democracy is beaten in the contest
OF 1876. just as he went TO war be-
cause they were beaten in 1861. Eight
months ago, he said to The colorcd
people of Mississippi. by the plaincst
implication, we must be allowed to
be victorious if We are not. war viii
follow, and you colorcd men will be
the sufferers, You will be reduced to
slavery.
This man Hill is the same who, as
Chairman OF the Judiciary Commit
tee in the Confederate Congress. re-
ported the following resolutions:
list. "That every person pretending
to be a soldier or officer Of the United
States. who shall be captured on the
soil of the Confederate States after
the Isl of January, 1868, shall be pre-
suned to have entered the territory
of the Confederate States with intent (!
to incite instruction and dbet Du1-
der, and thdt uailess satis1acto,Y proof
be 0ddnced to The contrary before al
military CONT, before qrhich his trial
shan be Ind, heshaH suffer death.
81. Every commissioned or nom
commissioned officer OF the enemy
who shall incitc slaves to rebellion or
pretend 10 give them freedom under |
the aforementioned act of Congress
and proclamation, BY abducting or
causing TO be abducted, or Inducing
them to abscond. shah, ii captured.
suffer DEATH ~ ~
A similar punishnentwa provided
by another resolution for all white Of
ficers Of eolored regiments. and we
remember well when the latter was
put in force. Well might Mr.. Blaine
exclaim as he did in his speech in re-
ply 10 Hill, as follows:
Il repeat that proposition strikes
II might say, almost terror into
Northern hearts. that here in an
an American Congress, the gentleman
who offered that resolution in the
Confederate Congress, who in his
campaign for a seat in this House,
comes here breathing ihreatenings
and slaughter who comes here telling
you that in q certain contingency he
means war, advising his people to be
READY for il. That gentleman pro-
flaming the very altar OF patriotic lib
erty with The speech thai sent him
here arraigning the administration
that conducted the war and saved the
Union; that gentleman asks MS tojOin
with him in paying the last full me:s-
IRE Of honor that an American Con
gfess can pay TO the arch enemy of.
the Union and the arch tiend Of ihe
rebellion
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