New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-09


, lily able to bear them, which trust yet viii
be brought before Congress for repayment
becaue0 the laws under which they were en-
forced will be sdiudicated to have been I'M
, constitutional and void!
{ Mr.. Boutwell-Mr President, it has beer
the rule Of nay life. whenever have given
ofenss to any one, to defend or explain
what have said or apologize for it. The
| Senator from Delaware was pleased to say
under some excitement think, in response
to suggestion from me (which meant only
} this: that thought he would find it diff
: cult to sustain the statement he had made)
that had succeeded in injecting into biz
speech bit Of political TRADE such as he
had often before listened to. do not stop
TO consider the delicscy OF that Language,
It's appropriation SO to the Senate, the
quality Of urbanity which it takes from the
character of the Senator who pronounced
that phrase, but think the difficulty was
IN this: that disturbed the harmony of his
speech, and therefore disturbed him. do
not know but that this is school in which
manners are to be taught, and that the
Senator from Delaware is selfconstituted or
otherwise authorized to teach good manners
to his associates, but while he stands here pc.
culiarly, in his own estimation, non-parti-
san. having, as he has told Us this morning,
the judicial fairness of the bench to pass
upon political questions which agitate the
country, it might be well enough for him to
illustrate his theories by an example now
ana then of the way in which those theories
can be put in practice and commended to
other people. l am neither scholar here
nor teacher. l submit myself to argu-
ment, to reasoning, to justice; but do not
submit myself to the authority, to the die.
| tation, to the schooling Of the Senator from
Delaware. or any one else. 1t the Senator
desires to teach, let him find his pupils else
where, especially in teaching manners.
There Is an old English article upon truth
and integrity, which commenced, as re-
member it, in this way: Truth and in.
ance, and many more"
This great truth applies to individuals
It applies here. 1t is apIlicsbl to-day; it
Is applicable to the country; and in what I
purpose to say speak OF it only in it's ap-
plication to the country. For seventy
years the spirit of hypocrisy and misrepre
se1tatiOn dominated over the slave holding
section Of this oonfederacy. They continu-
ally presented themselves to the country
and to the friends Of the Union, and it was
lie from first to last. They were the enc
mics of the Union; and when the Union did
not ans yer the chief purpose which they
had. and the only purpose they had, the
preservation Of the institution Of slavery,
they made war upon the Union. The Soma
tor from Delaware was the political sup
porter and ally and the substantial defender |
OF the men who made war upon the Union,
who clung to the Union for seventy years un-
der the falsehood that they were it's friends. |
They were it's enemies all the while. |
Slavery, and the spirit of slavery is and |
evsr has been thr enemy of the Union. and |
is go to-day. To-day these troubles
throughout the South are due to the spirit |
of slavery, until the time has come when l |
mn E.NsA 20 &AAA o.
to say here that do not in my
heart believe that any man educated under
aad ebedient to the influence of slavery
can be the friend of . Union that is de-
signed to establish and preserve equality.
The North will do well to take heed that it
trusts no man who was brought up under
the influence of slavery, controlled by it's
spirit. and dominated by its power, which
q not yet extinct
Is it not something that after having de-
Tended and preserved the Union, the Re-
neo who had made war on it for four years.
who crimsOned the face of the whole cour-
;ry with blood! Was it not something! |
Those very mel to-day, fresh from these
ieids of treason and Of blood. are engaged |
n investigating the men who carried ON |
his war by which they were Frustrated.
The Senator from Delaware, under the |
Court rendered on Monday last, looks to
he time when the Ku. Klux, some of whom |
we're fined and others of whom are i'm
are to have their fines returned
rom the treasury of the United States and ,
he doors Of the prisons opened that he and :
lis friends may welcome them. They are
Imprisoned because they did the benssts of
he anclert Democratic party; because they 4
ubmitted to the spirit that always con-
relied that party, that controls it today. =
Does the Senator from Delaware expect
n uprising of the people of the North to !
efend his friends in the South? Let him /
eware Of November The people of this coun- =
~ are already awake to the truth that the :
pirit Of the rebellion, which they supposed .
ad been subd1ed by war, is still powerful !
4 the South; that it Expresses four millions
human beings; that it instigates all sorts
{ outrage and wrong; that there is no free q
ON in these old States for the people who =
re not identified with the old slaveholding =
ristocracy of that section of the country. a
10, sir; the people of this country are go n
,g to do NO such thing. If they tail to do s
heir duty the government is lost. If they n
ail to overthrow the Democratic party bv s
vote so overwhelming that there can be no n
xcase for bribery, for falseh BOD, for double
sturns this country year from this will 4
Q involved in another civil war. Nothing n
ut an over whelming vote Of the people, a
ON which there can be no appeal by {
'aitors, will save us from civil war We !,
re nearly in the same condition that we -
ere in 1860 and lS6l-eleven States with. !,
Ut the power Of free elections; and you call :.
lis free government, and appeal to us q
n Union, for concession, for friendship, for n
stice! The Democratic party to-day has | a
le power it had during the war. If at any a,
me during the war the Democratic party a,
the North had said, This war must r.
'ase; We will give no aid or comfort to the o.
emocracy OF the South in their attack o,
,alnst this government" the war would AZ
I've ended. 1t you who cooperate with "
70 Democracy of the South will say to W
EN-, do justice to the negro people there; n,
We them their rights, civil, social and DO f,
ical," all occasion to appeal to the North RI
E justice. for sympathy, for cooperation, ia
r support, will pass away. There is no II
sling in the North but desire that you n,
ould be just to the people of the South, v
rselves. We will cooperate with you n,
len you do justice to those who sympa- "
ize with us; but, 30 long as you tram er
> under your feet four millions of Of
ople entitled to rights under this IN
vernment equivalent to your own, can
u expect us to forget these Outrages upon b(
r fellow men and take You by the hand k,
d say, "We are brethren, citizens of q pl
nmon country; let the past be past, and in
cones be forgotten" Injustice can not iii
forgotten. The Democratic party of the pr
nth is to-day responsible for the outrages nc
rpetrated upon the black men of the ar
nth, and they have been responsible from pl
1t to last. Their appeals to me are vain. an
hen they do justice then there will be of
rmony; but until they do Justice there tn
a be no peace "Let US have peace" said tn
President. Why did we not have peace9 TO