The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-03-01
ELOQUENT SPEECH,
OF JOHN YOUNG BROWN OF KEN
TUCKY.

One of the most eloquent speeches de-
Iivered in the House, on the situation,
was that of Mr.. John Y. Brown. We
quote as to Hayes's bargaining with the
| South
The South has been familiar with mis-
fortune; sorrow and defeat have mingled
in her experience. She has drank the
cup of bitterness to its dregs, but thank
God she is a stranger to dishonor, and
most of US from that section stand for
the faithful and. inhexible execution of
the Electoral bill. Honor says it; policy
says il; without it we drift into coMfu-
sion. Our escutcheon is unstained.
We can better afford to accept disap.
pointment and defeat than by parlia.
mentary shifts and tricks to avoid the
orderly execution of the law against
which only eighteen Democrats in this
House and only one in the Senate voted.
Something has been said of bargaining
with the South. You cannot win them
over by bribes; they want nothing but
justice, see before me a distinguished
and cherished friend from the South,
(Mr. Lamor,) a gentleman of the highest
ability and unspottad integrity; honored
by his people and worthy of their trust;
l speak not by his authority, but as his
name has been mentioned in this con-
neCtion, / say that / am sure that he
would shrink from such a coalition as
his soul would recoil from a cruel wound
of dishonor.
The men you could bribe in the South
are not worth having. You would loathe
them when you got them; they would
have no following or influence at home.
And if they were to Join with your party
to sustain it in its past and present pol
icy, they would find themselves political
pariahs in the land of their birth. Moth
ing will conciliate the South but justice,
and you will so find it. They want rest,
order, home rule. Your largess there
will be thrown away, if given to corrupt.
These people are your peers, equals, be-
fore the law; and neither by bribery nor
force can you change them from serfdom
to villainy. In the precious name of
their manhood and womanhood 1 repu-
date the intimation with orn unutter-
able.
There will be no division in the De.
mocracy. Lay not that hattering unc-
ton to your souls. 1t is a difference to-
day only among them as to the policy of
the hour.
Mr. Browns tribute to Radical devo-
ton to State rights is as follows:
If the fraudulent action of avillainous
Returning Board of State is so sacred
in your eyes that by reason of State
rights you will not go behind the certifi-
cate of a governor whom you have ad-
Judged usurper, how dare you longer
keep your soldiers there to sustain the
thieves who have been necessary to your
disgrace, unless it is by bargain with
successors in villiany?
awhile you stand up for the inviolabil-
ity of State rights, while you cannot 60
behind the corrupt return of a board in
Louisiana that huckstered the vote Of
their State from one end of the country
to the other for price, you organize the
Legislature of that State with your bayo-
nets. While the gentleman from Ohio
Mr. Foster) says that "the flag shall
float only over States and not provinces,
over freemen and not slaves" your Pres
ident forbids in South Carolina a peace
full celebration of the anniversary of the
birth of Washington While the gen.
tleman from Ohio says this, your Senate
on the same day, twelve years after the
close of the war, is refusing amnesty and
your President has pardon for every
bribe .taker and whisky thief
Estates and provinces-freemen and
slavesw What means this language, but
a confession on the part of the gentle
man from Ohio Mr.. Foster who repre-
sents the district of Mr.. Hayes, that SOW
reign Commonwealths have been de
graded and their citizens denied their
rights? All we'll do you know the
crimes you have committed upon these
States.
His denunciation of the villainy con-
summated by the fore-sworn Commission
is as eloquent as it is truthful:
Inconsistency and contradiction mark
the whole course of your policy. You
have seemed to try to achieve for your
selves the lament of Junius concerning
party of whom he wrote, you have
given Immortality TO the perishable
parts of your infamy." What hollow
mockery will be the pageant of your in
auguratiOn of your president. With this
record, with the sun of truth blazing up
on the iniquities by which your power
was obtained, this, instead of being the
day of your victory, will be the day of
your death. The vials of the peoples
indignation will be emptied upon you;
you will hear the hlsses of sCorn for
what you have done, The page of his
tory will record the eternal verdict
against you. Just so surely as God of
justice rules the affairs of men, Just 80
surely will the victories of truth and JUS
tice in time prevail.
Democrats, peace, courage, prudence,
moderation! | implore you now to re-
member the millions whom we repre-
sent Be patient; the people will re-
buke the iniquities of which we now
complain, The day of deliverance will
soon come. The authors of misrule will
call upon the mountains to fall upon
them to hide them and their crimes
from the sight of men. There will be no
divided Democratic party. Those who
so prophesy only proclaim what they
wish.
Unshaken, unseduced, let us stand for
our honor Like Clan Alpine's pine,
the frmer it roots him, the ruder it
blows"
THE Philadelphia Times In noticing
the blood and thunder article in the Co.