The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-03


sane Asylum investigation, and the ma.
jority and minority reports of the same
committee in regard to the survey Of
public lands were also made. They
were all ordered printed and recommit-
ted.
The House then went into Commit.
tee of the Whole, Mr.. Clymer in the
chair, the object being 10 take up and
act upon the bill to provide that pen
sions shall date from the death or dis
ability of the soldier, but the chairman
decided, and his decision was sustained
that each bill preceding it on the cal
endar must first be disposed Of or SET aside.
The first bill On the calendar was that to
transfer the Indian bureau from the In
terror department to the war department
Mr.. Wilson moved its postponement,
but the House refused to postpone.
Mr.. Cook, who had charge Of the bill,
yielded the floor TO Lamar, who pro-
ceeded TO make q speech on political
subjects. He commenced by saying
it could not be truthfully
asserted that the practice and pc
cullar system of the measures adopted by
the present administration commended
the appreciation of majority of the peo-
pie, but that, on the contrary, the senti-
ment with which the American people
regarded the conduct of national affairs
was one of very decided dissatisfaction
and dependency, accompanied with n
strong and intense desire for change.
There was q deep and anxious protest
against the methods Of administration,
the tone and character of the public
service, and the principles of legis-
lation that had marked the ac-
tion of the government for
many years past, and yet it was re-
marksble that this popular feeling had
produced no change in the administra-
ton. Such development of public sem
timent in England would have produced
change in the administration of the
government within "a hours. He did
not believe that the spprchensions grow
ing ont Of the united support by the
Southern people of the Democratic party
was well founded and that
it should staad in the way
of the aspiration of great people Tor
progress and reform. The idea that the
South, under any combination Of parties
or circumstances, would ever again OBJ
tain control Of this great republic, and
WELD its destinies against the will and
instinct OF this mighty people, WAS, ot all
ideas, the most visionary and baseless.
The people of the South were prostrste;
they had been defeated in war, and were
made TO feel that the sacrifices, and hu-
initiation, and helplessness oI defeat had
beeu allotted to them Ms their share, whiio
the people of the North had rcapcd the
rich results o. 3 victorious war, and had
embodied and guaranteed them in the
very life and constitution Of the nation
The institutions of the south had been
shattered and destroyed, had been disor-
eanized and every foot ot her soil
sterilized by taxation, her educational
| interest wanning and languishing and
her population was feeble in compar-
son with that of the great union. That
with the South unitod, black and white,
il would be impetent u secure single
southern man or defend single intel
est. 1t WAS therefore absurd for a grea
people TO appreheud that u =
people of the South -rr"gated 10 then
selves the ruling of the interests Of th 5
great nation. There was u" aspiration
which they had that WAS not bounded by
the horizon OF union. If they were united
with the Democratic party, II WAS not
for the purpose OF sectional aggrandize-
ment; il was not for tho purpose of re-
versing the policy ct the government,
but il was because they observed An in
stinctive and imperative law Of self
preservation. Hequoted from the reports 8
OF the Louisiana investigating cew-
mittee, and from the Presi-
dents animal message, IN which hc
acknowledged that the people of the
south had had vile and oppressive gov
ernment 70 live under, and be asked how
it could be expected TO find quiet sor-
derIy and law-abIding communities
whose Governors were lawless felons,
whose ministers were thieves, and whose
MAGISTRATES we're scoundrels. This
problem was not incapable OF solution.
Two statesmen such as Lord De.by and
Earl Russell would settle il in three days
The people Of the south would be con
tent 10 withdraw from participation
in the Presidential election IL they
could do so, and let the people OF
the north elect q President; but they
could not impose upon themselves stol:d
inactivity. All that they wanted 10
uniting with the Democratic party whs
not 20 control the interests OF the country,
but thev wanted q representative share
ofthe responsibilities and benefits OF a
common government, according 70 the
measure OF thsir population and race
They were now cooperating with The
Democratic party, under dire and iner.
orable necessity, and only in the hope oi
getting an administration that would no,
be unfriendly 10 them; that would fee
il il commissioned 10 execute resentment
and oppression upon them; they wantt
An administration which, in place OF tbs
forces of conquest, subjugation and domi'
nation, would give srnnesty and resiors'
ton 70 the privileges Of American citi
zensbip-an administration which would
allow these states the same equal right
a, other states, which would allow then
equality Of consideration, equality OF au
thori,y. jurisdiction over their own nj
fair, exemption from the domination o.
section by bsyonets. That would giv'
them local self government and tha
then the country would st LAST see th'
dawn of prosperity in all Industrial en-
,erpr;ses Of the north. II would see
: GRAND reconstruciion Of the South. Il
, would see her rising from her confusion
r and distress, rejoicing in her newly nc
, quired liberty from great prostrst'on
, Her sons and her daughters, Of ever.
race, hsppy In her smiles, woul'
greet this benignat Republic In tn
words Of the inspired poet Thy gentle
nes- has made the grest. LooG Ap
plsusel Mr.. Lamar spoke about tw
bours, his time having been extended o.
motion OF Mr.. Garfield, and commands
throughout hls whole speecL the clos