The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-07-27

Tweed. that he was now Democratic
candidate for the President. One fact,
however, could not be got around; 1t was
too soggy to burn and too tough to split,
and that was that whereas in New YORK
the authorities, Democrats and Republl-
cans alike, with Gov, Tilden at their
head, punished their rascals, South Car
olina and Federal rascals still went un-
convicted in the courts. Tweed was a
rascal, but he had the aid Of the Repub'
| lican Legislature. AS TO his (Cox) tax
ing his carpetbag from Ohio, he had al
ways maintained the right OF locomonon,
and he had right to 60 back to New
York in sight of his grandfather's old
Congressional district. He did not care
where a man was born so long as he was
good and Just. The Saviour had been
born at Bethlemem and they all .wor-
shipped hin, although he was a foreigner
in that respect. They did not, however,
necessarily worship the little African
Fetiches that come from Congo, and that
were his colleagues, Townsends' only de
votion. (Laughter)
Lamar spoke of the Hamburg affair as
disgraceful and terrible but he denied
that its circumstances were a legitimate
tonic in the House to debate. There
were one or two facts that cleaned out
indisputable. One of these was that a
body of white men had put TO death,
without authority of law, number OF
colored citizens while prisoners, not
prisoners in legal sense inasmuch as
these white men had no right to deprive
them of their personal liberty, lie
wished to say in his place that no excuse
or palladium could possibly be found for
that outrage and barbarism, Applause
on the Republican side of the House,
The South had its lawless class as the
North had, with this difference, that in
the South they planned out in different
localities and were confined to short pc
riods of times, while here in the North
some counties were sometimes held in
terror for months and State authorities
defed. In those Southern States where
disorders occurred, there were govern
ments of peculiar character and tyne.
They were called Republican, but 1t was
spurious Republcanism which had no
sympathy with the purpose and feelings
of the great national Republican party.
1t was these State governments who had
encouraged these orders and these muir
ders by their inefficiency, their inability
and their cowardiCe. In reply to Car
fields inquiry as to whether the Ham
burg case was sporadic or symptomatlc,
he declared that there was not a commu-
nifty in the South with such occurrences,
He deemed it a wonder that society, un-
der the society of governments which al
lowed such lawlessness to stalk abroad
in the land did not 60 to pieces. He de-
clares that the use of the army had never
produced good effect in such cases.
The troops always got there after the DC
CurrenCe. The use of the military power
was Intellectual, cumbersome, slow and
almost useless and in spite of the good
faith of army officers it had been con-
yerted into a monstrous engine OF pollt-
ical oppression and corrupt intrigue. 1t
was tie duty of Gov Chamberlain at
once to adopt measure swift and Just to
bring to Justice those who shot these
prisoners in cold blood and if he did that
he should receive his (Lamar's) support
and praise. Instead of doing so, Gov.
Chamberlain had been rushing to Wash
ington for the purpose of making this oc--
Currence the occasion of fanaticlsm and
strife. Arkansas was an illustration the
last two years of the advantages of good
government under fair and intelligent
man, Gov. Garland. In conclusion, he
declared the occurrence at Hamburg was
mobifc element not sporadic, but un-
natural and one that would disappear
under good government,
Foster called upon Representatives
from Georgia to stop those internal out
RACES and to be active in hunting out the
inhuman fends that crossed the bridge
from Augusta to Hamburg, Do it and
we will say, "Well done," and we will
fall on your necks and rejoice. Mock
ing laughter on the Democratic side, and
shouts of No, no.")
At the close of the debate Mr.. Han
cock moved a substitute for SmalIs
amendment to the effect that no troops
shall be taken from any State or service
where public interest req lires their con-
tinuanCe.
Mr. Smalls accepted the substitute, and
it was 1greed to by vote OF So to 50.
Tie committee then proce ded to the
consideration of the second section of the
bill authorizing the President to order
troops to cross the Rio Grande in pursuit
of robbers.
Banks offered substitute for the sec
ond section that whenever it shall ap-
pear to the President that the Govern
ment of Mexico is unable to prevent ex-
isting lawess invasions Of the territory
of the United States from Mexico for pur-
poses of plunder and robbery, he is au-
thorized, if in his Judgment it becomes
necessary, after notice to the Govern
ment of Mexico, to order troops, whenrn
close pursuit of such invaders, to cross
the Rio Grande and to use such means
not amounting to acts of war as may be
requisite for the recovery of stolen prop
erty, and protect citizens and the terri
tory of the United States against the acts
of outlaws and robbers.
Cox resumed the discussion of the
South Carolina matter and ridiculed tos-
ter's expression about falling on the
necks of Southern men. He asked him
why he bad not fallen on the necks Of
Pratt, Yaryan, Dyer, Jewell and others,
and suggested that he would rather fall
on the necks of Mckee, Mcdonald,
Joyce, Babcock, Delano and Avery, and
would even rather embrace barrel of
crooked whisky. Loud laughter and
much confusion1. The Republican side
of the House han defended Grant and
bis administration against all these men,
and when the genlema1 from New
York (Townsend) talked so glibly of
Tweed and others with whom he (Cox)
had no association, he wanted to know
how it was with Babcock, with Avery,
with Williams and the rest Of these
men.
Townsend-When did you dissolve as,
sociation with Ihem2
Cox-I never had any connection with
them to dissolve. 1t was the Republican
Legislature of which you were the great
trumpeter which helped Tweed to his
frauds in New York. Everybody knows