Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-02-09

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limb, that tho first wind shall blow
AWAY into tn Lcthean sea forever.
EaARM rRoDl TINE TOMlss.
The Chicago Tr;bune which Y q
paper not addicted to the. so-called
E'.bloody shirt business, publishes a
Ispeecb delivered the other day before
the Georgia Legislature by Robert
.rombs liz is the sort of al unre-
constructed rebel that our democratic
friends in Congress recently made
such frantic effort to amnesty. and
to render eligible again to seats
among the law-makers in Congress.
His speech is too lengthy and windy
for our columns, but the following
extracts from ii may prove interest
ing to our readers:
.Who framed the Constitution !.
Who made it? Niggers and thieves.
Loud cheers.l | speak ofthe body.
Chemists tell us that in all brass there
is some gold, and in all lead there is
some silver, but that all mixed bodies
take their names after the greater
quantity contained in it. Laughter
/ say it is not your Constitution. II
is nigger Constitution, constructed
by knaves and carpet-baggcrs! One
Of these fellows-the very head devil
went back North, and said lie was
afraid to stay down here for fear that
I would put him in the Penitentiary.
But ] couldn't have done it. God
knows, would do it now IL could !:
/ i[Applause.] At that time he was
more powerful in Democratic Sem
ate than l was. That Democratic
Senate would have put me in the
chain gang sooner than they would
Bullock! These are facts. And some
Of them would be glad to put me
there now. [Cheers and laughter. ]
understand them, and am not de-
ceived by them. They may hire their
newspapers to malign and lie about
me / can only say, God forgive them
for do. [Laughter.l MY pity can
not descend so low; want a foeman
worthy of my steel.
! s'This is not our Constitution. II
violates the fundamental principle of
| society. Good government dispenses
peace and rest to the good and the
innocent, and protects industry, not
by stealing from one man to give to
another--that Is Yankee protection.
They never caught mackerel with
out a bounty, and never made but
ton without another bounty. Laugh
teri They were always after tariff,
and that's the season why, when
went into Congress thirty years ago,
i / was not willing to see you robbed.
4 They were the men who said. let
us be friends. but let us rob you also,
i As long as we can steal from you wa
will be friends Laughter. II re-
minds me of French distich, and re-
Il calls the time of the French -Rcxoiu-
ton, and the distich ran something
like this:
4 .. The words ON listening eeuates broke
Let us be brothers. and-I'll cut your throat.
loud laughter.[ That is precisely
the radical doctrine and practice. But
they didn't do as well as the French
man did. for the Frcnchmen are brave
men. The Yankees hired Irishmen
to do their throat-cutting,-the poorer
and weaker Of that race of Irishmen
who fight the battles of every coun-
! try but their own, and for others
wrongs before their own rights. But
the War ended and the army was dis.
banded. They had already robbed
you of everything possible. Then
they robbed you of your arms, and
then dug into the ground for tho
last silver dollar that your wife had
hoarded all theough the dark days to
!. buy bread and meat in time of dis
i tress. They not only loved the vii.
, lians, but the villiany, (Applause.
. This Constitution was made by thess
thieves to perpetuate themselves ii
, in mower ~. ........ ;.
"You have departed from ever,
principle of u free people on earth
After having distinguished yourselves
upon every field of battle from Get
{ tysburg to the Gulf, you men of tn,
:. South have become another people
| 1t is sad,--it makes my heart sick,-
but it is the truth! You have become
another people. You suffer iudigni
ties to-day that, two years before i
was put upon you, you thought yol
would have died first, You hay'
/; gone on in sullen silence. You hav'
let the alien and the foreigner com
7 here and gather with the niger, tn
] carpet gger, and, the worst thinl
Of all the things the world ever saw
I the scalawag-the contamination o
Q all villainy. Cheers.l I can respec
the poor negro. He has many Soo'
: qualities, and I like him. can hav
r some respect for the carpet-bagSei
t He comes down with his csrpet-sacI
J, and says he is here to mako all he cal
in whatever way he can. He ha
J. loose morality, but there Is some man
hood in Il. But when l come to tn
9 scalawag-they'll have to dig deepe
!, In hell to- get a place for hin
daughter and cheers.] Now, whe
g they got together here, what did the
do? They said, We must perpetuat
L our power, and we will fix Govern
!, ment which they can't change /
i twelve years. | have no objection (
q Judge staying there for life, on goo
o behavior-but not such fellows Q
they put there" daughter and af
II plause.
y I'VE got good many honest fe
. lows into the first Legislature, hut
= will tell you how we got them ther'
y I will tell you the truth. The new
y papers won't tell it to you. We g
them there by carrying the black vol
: by intimidation and bribery I! (laugl
:. teri and helped do it! (Applause
y would have scorned the people
y they had not done It! And l wi
5. buy them as long Ms they put beas
= to go to the ballot-box! [Cheers. n
e man should be given the electiy
= franchise who has not the intelligent
= = to use il properly. The rogue shoul
K not have ii, for government is mad
= = to punish him; the fool should nj
= y have it for government is made
:. take care Of him! Now, these mi
= erable wretches-the Yankees --ha,
y injected 100000 of savages into Il
:, stomach of our body polite, and Il
= man who says he accepts negro su
y frage, I say,accnrsed be he! Cheefs
will accept everything; viii a
n cept Grant and empire, before a
"a cept such Democrat Applause
n The poor, ignorant negro-talk
d him governing you and me 1t TAX
10 the highest order of intellect to go
lr crn the pcople,and these poor wretc
ie es talk Of governing us! Why, tht
m can't peTpetuatc their own negro poy
d er. In the country where they we
is in the majority they did not preser,
ther.power and perpetnate thcir rul
Ny remedy helped US to break th
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