The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-16

powers" and when the war has closed
should not have grfoved, but might
have shouted for JOY, had learned that
Jeff. Davis person had adorned che
branch Of u "sour-apple tree" I never
In his best estate had regarded his
character as lovely one, and therefore
I do not speak for him, but for my coun-
The report from which the eloquent
gentleman from Maine read the terrible
story OF the horrors Of Andersonvllle
was made In 1867. The Government
knew then all that he has recited to-day
In order to harrow our feelings and
sway our judgment. Jefferson Davis
was Its prisoner. do not remember
just how long he was held In confine-
ment. Then he was bailed, Horace
Greeley and other men like him I'm the
North being his bOndsmen and amply
responsible for his production for trial
ct any time. Ii he were guilty OF crime
When Wirz was tried and executed the
Government that sentenced and exc
cuted him knew this whole story OF JET
ferson Davis's relation to his crimes?
Why did they not try him then? Shall
we Republicans to-day reflect by an i'm
piled vote OF censure upon those who
have administered the Government
through all the intervening years from
the close OF the rebellion until now by
attempting to punish him for that which
they, day by day, weekly week, month
by month, year by year, have condoned?
DO not let this country convey to for
eigners the idea that any one man with
In the broad limit OF our country, any
one man among the forty millions or
our people, Is so powerful for evil that
we dare not grant him amnesty. The
gentleman says that that is not the re,-
son why he would except. Why, the
story ne read from the report OF the
committee on the conduct OF the war
came to us all almost rs news. Many
OF us had not known 1t, and those who
had had forgotten IL. The incidents SO
shocking to humanity had passed into
oblivion.
How. then, can you expect foreigners,
who never before heard Of these revolt
Ing details, to understand your subtle
motive? And IL they were spread Ca
fore them they would say, How illog-
ical to have let a man who had caused
such crimes TO be perpetrated to enjoy
immunity for ten years, and now to con-
structively punish him for thein.", They
would gil go away believing that the
chief OF the Confederacy was deemed
so powerful Tor evil that the American
Government, dare. not formally invest
MIN with rights which ne had forfeited
In common with the entire white popu-
lation OF the South and which 1t had
practically restored TO him by the force
OF the rensons which. underlie statutes
OF limitations knowing that the second
officer OF the C0nfederacy can be here
ana be honored Congress after Congress
with the right TO select his seat before
q nm xyff
this other man is believed to possess
power-and when use tnat WORD &C
cept u as representing the one power
which oil the world regards as able to
compete IN evlI Win Olnnlpotence itself
-.ror II ms power DC not OF That KIND
then we may well admit him, 10. thus
d!stlnRulsn JeHerson Davis IS TO nOnor
him overmuch.
Slr, 1 nave not thrown myself into
this controversy voluntarily. On the
5th o. May, 1874, I enjoyed the ear OF
this House. MY health ana strength
were Frustrated; ana, IN order that tho
words was to utter might be heard by
Southern members, l, Tor the first time
In my fourteen years service here,
spoke IRON the other SIDE OF the Hall.
1 was pleading for means with which to
prepare Tor u year OF jubilee. l was
pleading with Congress to appropriate
small amount OF money, but to SO APP
ply II that gil the world might see that
the Union had been restored and might
contemplate the power and resources
OF that restored Union.
And ask leave TO bring to the atten-
ton OF the House lew words that
uttered on that occasion; and those OF
you may chance to remember and those
who near them now Tor the 1rst time,
will believe that have not rushed into
thls Controversy, puI naye come lnto II
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