The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-08-03

ficient, and as we had plenty of time !
would tell him something ofwhat have
already stated here was first said, and then
l said that the first thing didn't like in
the Democratic House was the appoint
ment of Fitz Hugh, the Sergeant-at-arms
of the Confederate Congress, as the door,
keeper Of the House, and the displace.
ment of Union soldiers-many of them
crippled in the war, with ex-members of
the rebel army. IGreat applause. He
wanted to know if they didn't have right
to do this. 1 answered that they had
but that also had the right to disap,
prove and denounce it. Another thing
didn't like was Ben Hills rebel speech and
its bold utterance of treason, and I didn't
like the rebel yell in response to it, all over
the south, for | had heard that yell before
and knew what it meant. Great cheers.
They tell me-the Democrats-that I am
scared of Ben Hill" l don't think am
l don't think | was scared of" any Hills
when l met them in the South; l do not
remember that was. [Great cheering. ]
Then l told my friend, how worse than
all of the many unblushing acts of the
Democratic House, esteemed as infam.
GUS the act Of appointing to the Clerkshir
of the leading committee of the House
the man Hambleton, who named his SOL
John Wilkes Booth, after the assassin OF
President Lincoln. Immense cheering.
This outrageous act, in trucking to the
rebel element, the northern Democrats
dare not disown, and for all | have known
this man is still the clerk of the committee
The little child, so dishonored by its name
and the significance, had the good sense
thank God, to die. [Applause.I
BEN HILLS SPEECH.
That speech of Ben Hills, and the re
cord that the Democratic party has made
in regard to it, would have been enough
of itself to send any man who cares fol-
his country out of all fellowship with i,
and the party in whose name and by one
of whose leading members it was made
Hill in that speech defended Anderson
vile and the atrocious teatment of Union
prisoners in the Southern prison hells.
Gould endorse that, and still remem
ber my own comrades who suffered il
them more than death and hell? Can any
party succeed which even tacitly endorses
sentiments like these? Hill also said in
that speech, ave went out of the Union
hugging the Constitution, and we came
back into the Union hugging it" What
hug! Great laughter That was
what they went out for, not to be rebels
but to hug the constitution" the
Union they were trying SO hard to distroy
L have seen them when they were doing
this "hugging." Applause and laughter. ]
remember one morning in April, 1862
the first day of the battle of Shiloh, al
the rebel troops We're bearing down upor
us, that L ascended an elevation to watch
them through field-glass as they came
1t was grand sight, as they came in three
columns with their muskets at fright
shoulder shift"-that form in which an
army looks its grandest, and by which il
appears to have three times its actua
strength. There was blaze and shine OF
glory, on those advancing columns that
took to be the lustre and shine of bayonets
in the sun. But judge now, since Hills
speech, that it was not bayonets they
were bearing, but constitutions they were
carrying along and hugging. [Vociferous
cheering.l l saw them doing a great
deal of hugging, these rebels who are MOI
rebels, but simply Constitution -hugging.
Renewed cheering.l The boys who arr
here before me, who were with me at Fort
Donelson saw some of it there. Laugh
ter, and cries by soldiers, "That's so" "W,
saw them at it in good many battles. :"
What patriots they were, doing SO mucl
for the constitution of our commol
country!