The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-20

heart, yesterday, by his closing
eech on the Amnesty question
He has shown nerve, good sense anc
nsgaifcrnt capacity Tor leadership
He began by stating distinctly the is
sue before the House, aud, to large
extent. the country, namely: Shal
jeff Davis be specia ly honored b,
this Congress, aud his record thus
receive quasi indorsemen,s He is
under no punishment. H. eujoys
the freest range of personal Liberty.
lie can even vote, aud holi very
many political offices. The Randall
prop $ ton was To make him eligible
to seat IN Congress, or the Pes .
dent chair. even. 1t was not his rec.
ord rs rebel which was the obj.c.
tion, bu. his crime as 4 party to the
Aniersouv,llr atrocities.
That contemplate demagogue,
Is n Hill, ha SAID that "the atrocit.
lies of Andersonvlle did not begin
40 compare with the atrocities of
f MIRA, Camp Douglas and Fort
Delaware, aud of all the atrocities,
both At Andeispnv,lie and EImira,
1.-The Confederate authorities stand
".cq it,ed.' The utter faiseness of
the charge sg tinst Elmira was refuted
day Detote yesterday by the Demo.
cratic Congressman from that dis.
trict, and yesterday Mr.. B.aine called
Messrs. Cxultield and Harrison, of this
cl'y, to testify as to Camp Doug las.
fney were reluctant to aifori aid aud
c,mport to tne get Republican
leader, but they dared not SO far dis
regard the facts and Insult their con-
sti,uents As to deny the claim tina,
,he rebel prisoners in ,his CITY during
the war were well provided for in
every way. The General aud State
Governments did all IN their p ,wer
To make the prisoners comfortable,
and prlva'e charity nooly supplement
ed pubic humanity. General Hen
.ierson. Of thus 5 ate, bore sim lar
testimony, only with increased EN-
pha-l
But the most significant feature Of
Blalue's speech was the test,m INV
adiuced To snow the real danger bat
sill menaces the country. Ander-
sonvlle is thing of the past, aud it
is hardly conceivable that IN any
event those horrors should be dupll-
Gated; but the spirit OF rebellion
may crop out again III way to threat
eli The very existence Of the republic.
His ory warns us that conspiracies
within against the life Of n nation
rar, y die with the first tailue. jeff
Davis has rrpea,eily claimed thai
the cause OF The C,niederacy was
MT necessarily lost. at appears SO,
she said, on one occa ZION, but the
principle for which We con ended
lis bound 10 reassrit itself, though
it may be at another time and in an
80 her form" Such is The actual
d'nger. The very man who stands
form AS the leader vi the Southern
Democracy, Hill, made speech not
long ago, in Atlanta, which was a
threat that if the Republican party
,rrte ihe eec ton for President in
1876, an nh.r war woald result. He
talked il 1875 precisely rs fire eaters
talked xteen years before. Mr..
Blame made the 70 wing ex,rAc,s
from Ii HIS inceniiary harangue:
FELLOW CITIZENS L ,ok to the
con es of 1876 n It only as the mos,
important that t,as ever occurred IN
Amer can history, but As the most
imp ,rtant that has occurred in
the history of the world; for if the
people ol this country cannot be
reused to give an unanimous vote
against the Republican party, it will
put itsrlf in power by precisely The
same me ms that the President has
taken in louisiana, and the people
are poweress 10 prevent it unless
they go to war. Great applause
over the war Ii we fail with the
ball ,t.nox in 1876 by reasoa of force,
startling pro. 'ostio, will present it
self to the American people. | hope
the Norihern peot pie have had a suffi
c,ent su ,sla, nee of passion to settle
,hi, question iair y; but if we mus
have war; you see his voice is s i'll
for wal til We must have war, if
we can,o, preserve the Constitutional
G. ,vernment through the ballot. il
force is to defeat the ballot, and if
war must come C ID for id that it
sh III, bu, if the folly AMI wicked
ness, AMI the 1--we of power. sh ,uld
decree that America should have her
Constitution by blood, / t it come. |
am ready"
+ flowing his citation, Mr.. Blaine
cliached the mai which he la ! driven
in to the head by ssying:
"Mr. Speaker, | have very little
left, but | confess, and | say it to
the gentleman from Georgia through
no personal unklndness, tina, my very
til Di boiled, if there WIS anything of
tradition, or mem Dry, or feeling 1t
boiled within me when | heard that
gentlemen Hin. with his record sec
onded and sustained by the gentle
man from New York (Cnx), demand
here, over the arr II gn nent of A1rt-
nam Limcon's administration, and
over The .loquv and slander on the
grave Of Z lwin N. Stanton, that JEFF
Ter Ion d wis should he restored to full
ci,zen,hip in this country. All! that
is n"vel spectacle
"The Gentleman from Georgi, does
not know how novel it is, but the
gentlemen from New York ought to
know it. The gentleman from Geor.
gia does not know, AMI he never can
know, how many hundre Is of thou
sands Of Northern bosoms that lscer-
atts.
repeat that that proposition hor-
ror. | wo aid almost say, into the
\ ,rt hern heart. the gentleman
f,om Georgia who offered the resolu-
ton in the Confederate Congress
which ] have read, and Who now
comes to this House after speech
brea hing threaIenings and slaughter,
III which he told the people tn 1t, in
certain 'n'ingencv, he meant war,
AMI in which he advises his people
to be ready fr it--that gentleman
comes here arrsigniny the Admins
tration which conducted the war and