The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-09-21

| walk across that Democratic cam
ping ground as in graveyard. Un-
der my feet resouud the hollow echoes
of the dead. There lies slavery, a
black marble column at the head OF
its grave, on which read: Died in
the flame of the civil war loved in
its life lamented in it's death ; follow
ed to its bier by its only mourner
the Democratic party, but dead
And here is double grave: Sacred
to the memory OF squatter sovereign
ty. Died in the campaign of 1860
On the reverse side: Sacred to the
memory Of bred Scott and the Brock
inridge doctrine. Both dead at the
hands of Abraham Lincoln! And
here monument of birthstone: So
cred to the memory of the rebellion
the war against it is failure; TUden
ct Vallandigham fecermnt, A. D. 1864
Dead on the field of battle; shot 10
death by the million guns of the Re-
public. The doctrine of secession
of State sovereignty. Dead. Ex-
pired in the flames of civil war, amid
the blazing rafters of the confedera-
cy, except that the modern Eneas,
fleeing out of the flames of that ruin,
bears on his back another Anchises
of State sovereignty, and brings it
here in the person of the honored
gentleman from the Appomatox dis
trict Of Virginia, Mr. Tuckerl
[Laughter.] All else is dead.
Now, gentlemen, are you sad, are
sorry of these deaths? Are you not
glad that secession is dead ? that slav-
cry is dead that squatter sovereign
ty is dead ? that the doctrine of the
failure of the war is dead Then
you are glad that you were outvoted
IN 1860, in 1864, in 1868, and in 1872.
IT you have tears to shed over these
losses, shed them in the graveyard,
but not in this House of living men.
L know that many Southern man
rejoices that these issues are dead.
The gentleman from Mississippi NJ.
Lamar has clothed his joy with elo-
| quence.
Now, gentlemen, if You yourselves
are glad that you have suffered de-
feat during the last sixteen years, will
you not be equally glad when you
have suffered defeat next N ovcmber ?
Laughter. But pardon that remark ;
| regret it | would use no bravado.
Now, gentlemen, come with me for
a moment into the camp of the Re
publican party and review its career.
Our central doctrine in 1860 was
that slavery should never extend it
self over another foot Of American soil.
Is that doctrine dead =? 1t is folded
away like a victorious banner;i S
truth is alive forever on this CONT
nent. In 1864 we declared that we
would put down the rebellion and sc
cession. And that doctrine lives and
will live when the second Centennial
arrives! Freedom. national, univer-
sal, and perpetual-our great consti-
tutional amendments, are they alive
or dead Alive, thank the God that
shields both liberty and Union. And
our national credit, saved from the as
saults of Pendleton saved from the
assaults O! those who struck It later,
rising higher at home and abroad
and only now in doubt lost its chief
its only enemy, the Democracy should
triumph in November.
Mr.. Chairman, ought the Republic
can party to surrender the truncheon
of command to the Democracy? The
gentleman from Mississippi says, il
this were England, the ministry would
go outin twenty-four hours with such
a state of things as we have here. All
yes that is an ordinary case OF
change of Administrations. But il
this were England what would she
have done at the end of the war
England made one such mistake as
the gentleman asks this country tC
make, when she threw away the
achievements of the grandest man
that ever trod the highway Of power
Oliver Cromwell had overturned the
throne Of despotic power and had lift
ed his country to a place of master
full greatness among the nations OF
the earth and when, after his DEATH
his great scepter was transferred to q
weak though not unlineal hand, his
country, in a moment of reactiOnary
blindness, brought back the Stuarts
England did not recover from that
folly guntil, in 1859, the prince OF
Orange drove from her Island the
last of that weak and wicked line
Did she afterward repeat the blunder
For more than fifty years pretend
ers were seeking the throne; and the
wars on her coast, in Scotland and in
Ireland threatened the overthrow oil
the new dynasty and the disruption
of the empire. But the solid phlegm
the magnificent pluck, the rounda
bout common sense of Englishmer
steadied the throne till the cause OF
the Stuarts was dead. They did MOI
change as soon as the battles were
over, and let the Stuarts come back
to power.
And how was it in our own coun
try, when our fathers had triumpheC
in the war of the Revolution? When
the victory was won, did they oper
their arms to the loyalists, as they
called themselves, or tories, as oul
fathers called them. Did they invite
them back? Not one. They confis
Gated their lands. The States passeo
DEGREES that no tory should live Oh
our soil. And when they were toe
poor to take tn mselves away, oul
fathers, burdened rs the young nation
was with debt, raised the money tC
transport the tories beyond the seas
or across the Canada border. They
vent to England, to France, 10 Novs
Scotia, to New Brunswick, and espe
cially to Halifax and that town was
such resort for them that it became
the swear word of our boyhood. acc
to Halifax" was substitute for more
impious, but not more opprobious ex
preston. The presence of tories made
it opprobrious.
Now, [ do not refer to this as an ex
ample which we ought to follow. 0
no. We live in milder era, in III
age softened by the more genial in
fluence of Christian civilization. Wit
ness the siXty-one men who Tough
against us in the late war, and who
are now sitting in this and the Other
Chamber of Congress. Every one o.
them is here because magnanimou'
nation freely voted that they nigh
come; and they are welcome. Only
please do not say that you are jus
now especially fitted to rule the Re
public, and to be the apostles Of lib
erty and blessings to the colored race
Gentlemen, the North has beer
asked these many years, to regard
the sensibilities Of the South. VIZ
have been told that you were brave
and sensitive men, and that we ough
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