The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-08-03
GEN. FUTILE.


he Fought for the Cause of the Union.
t4en. James NJ futile recently deliv-
cred a rousing speech before the Hayes
and Wheeler Club, at Des MONIES,
Iowa. The General has heretofore oc-
cupied very prominent position among
the Democracy-having been Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Iowa,
as well as Democratic candidate for
member of Congress. For years he has
struggled to secure the existence Of
Union sentiment in that party, but has
finally given up the effort in disgust
secessionism having obtained complete
control in its councils-and has given
his adhesion to the party of all true
patriots the party which preserved the
| Union against the assaults of rebels in
arms-the party which has carried out
the sacred principles that triumphed In
the bloody contest of 1861 65-the party
whose continuance in power is essential
to the existence Of the nation-the party
of the republic the Republican party.
Gen. Tuttle's speech is of so able char
acter-is such a truthfully -scathing COM
mentary upon the performances of the
so-called Democracy we give be-
low large portion of it, knowing that it
will meet with the hearty Endorsement of
every man who is lover of his country
every man who is friend OF justice
and the right:
| Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE
HAYES AND WHEELER CLUB: When I conclud-
| ed to change my party thought that might
be allowed to do it quietly. It was private
act, and required no public announcement
! and there was no one to whom was obligated
to account for such an action. But, as my
| course has been SO assailed and have been
called SO severely to account, | may as well en-
| brace this opportunity to tell both my Demo-
cratic and my Republican friends why have
left the old Democracy, and why / am here to-
| night The act of my change was private
| one, but my reasons for so doing were public
ones, and they may be told, and shall be
| ICheers.1 ! am no speaker and make no pre-
! tensions of being. But [ can talk to you as
neighbors. [ have been considered doubtful
! bv many Democrats for nearly two years.
! IIaughter.1 Indeed never have been Dem
ocrat if the issues on which they are fighting
this year are the principles of the party
[Great applause.] But nearly two years ago
the course of duty was developed much more
plainly than it ever had been before. What [
had seen before that was wrong, had con-
| tinued to hope, would be found to be mistakes
| that would be mended.
REBFL DEMOCRATS.
| Nearly two years ago | was in st. Louis.
Now there is nothing peculiar in simply having
been at st. Louis. But l was there also IN
! 1861. TCheers. That was just after the first
battle of Bull Run, and St. Louis was thor
oughly wildly, insanely rebel. It was worth a
mans life then almost to be seen in the Union
uniform. Union officer about the hotels,
where congregated the noisiest secession ele~
ments, was hooted at and derided, and told,
| with sneers, eyes, you'll go South, and you
will come back, as the Union soldiers have just
come back from Bull Run, with your tails
| tucked" But as l remembered it, none OF
our troops from Iowa ever came back IN that
shape. Laughter and applause That was
the feeling in ST. Louis in 1861 and this feel
| ing I found there again, in the same spirit and
in the same places, re-expreSsed by the very
| same men, when was there in 1874. 1t was
| then I heard thu news that the Democrats had
elected a majority of the National House, and
these same follows who swarmed about the
hotels talking treason, and derld1ng Union
soldiers, in 1851, were exultant and dellrlous
| with Joy this hst time. I remarked to gen.
tleman, who had been cOmrade with me IN
| the war, ''Ths looks like the same set OF fell
lows who were shouting treason here at the
beginning of the war. What is it that is exclt-
ing them SO, and what ails them? We asked
squad of them what it was that made them
feel so good?" l heard one of them say, 1--WE
have got them this time. We can beat them
this time" We asked who dhey meant by
them" They replied "We'n elect the next
President, and then we've got them: Then
we'll get pay for all property destroyed IN the
war, and then we'll get pay for all our lost
slaves We have the House Overwhelmingly
now and in 1876 the Centennial year. we can
get the Senate and a Democratic Presl-
| dent. Then we can appoint our committees TO
! suit ourselves, and choose our own Southern
| Claims Committee or Southern Claims Court,
and make good our losses by the war;" They
meant that they would get pay for all the
| property destroyed by the Union army, and pay
for all their ernancipated slaves.
THE Ex-REBEL PROGRAMME.
Said one, T Give us possession OF the Gov
eminent, andthe North will be the rebels next
time This was the talk, and the talk in ear
nest, as was the talk of the same men in 1861.
They mean it, They talked it over coolly and
i seriously. Slid they had already united
South, which would be nearly enough, and that
their Democratic allies in the North dare not
deny them the little more, the few more voters,
that they would need. This is their idea to-
day-to gain by legislation, by means of diplo-
macy and trickery, what they failed to gain by
means of force. believe it; I know it. All
their expressions suggest it, and all their &C
tons prove it What else do they mean? Why
is it that the State of Missouri has issued to
every formero owner of slaves in that State a
certificate for 81, 900 for every slave, payable
when the General Government will pay 1t +!
This very thing, the total amount OF the value
of their emancipated slaves, is now estimated
as part of the State debt il Missouri used
to think that this was a Republican falsehood,
the certificate matter. But it is an actual fact,
and these certificates and all certificates or
showings of losses sustained throughout the
State, are being saved up as carefully as money
against the day when the Democracy and the
rebel element ruling it in the National Govern
n,ent, shall Lave attained to power. If Mis-
souri, will do this thing, and hold out this prom
Use to pay for all emancipated slaves, why will
not all the Southern, all worse rebel States do
it; and will not they do it? aaces9 ta b
500 THE CONFEDERATE HOUSE.
When these things came to my knowledge, l
could not do less than halt for further develop
ments, watching su-picously every movement
made thereafter which I could see had ten
dency toward drawing the Democracy, North
and South. nearer tog ether-a union which
could see would inevitably put the old rebel