Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-20

duty and refuse to punish crime.
Mr.. Clymer-Give us entire authority and
we Will see that the laws are enforced.
Mr.. Thompson--Who do you mean by ssus's
Mr.. Clymer-The Democratic party. Laugh
ter.
Mr. peterson-Thati is nice sort Of people to
keep order. Laughter.
Mr.. Garfield next obtained the floor and
said that the gentleman from Pennsylvania
(Clymerl called upon the people of Louisiana
to help the Democratic party to get at the
presidential count. This he, Garfield, charac-
terized as the entering point of the wedge,
which was to drive home to what was called the
greatest crime of the century. He did not in
tend to make an infammatory speech, but if
there was people on earth that had right to
be an enemy at heart of politics and
partisanships it was the American people.
He pictured three stages which country
must undergo in the transition from state of
war and state of peace first, there was the
military stage when in bloody battles. soldiers
met to decide by the power of strength the
questions involved next came the stage that
was seml-civil and semi-miitary. It was in
this stage that Gen. Grant had taken the reins
OF government and had endeavored to keep his
administration within the province of civil and
military power. When he had been succeeded by
President Hayes, that gentleman had thought it
was possible to declare that the semi-nlilitary
period had gone, and that the period had come
when only peace method should be INDUCED
in. In his Judgment President Hayes was an
optimist, who looked only on the bright side of
human nature, and disiked to look at its dark
side. His, President Hayes, faith and hope
had been larger than the saith and hope of
most people. He had gone forward to the
very verge of the constitution, offering bands
IN fellowship, and in offering the olive branch
OF peace he had gone to the very limits of his
power, Ill order to bring about an era of good
feeling and paci6cation. No man had
shared more heartily the aspirations
of the President than he fGarfeld) had. He
his project. and in order to do that there was
world of things to be forgotten and forgiven on
both sides. IL the strict letter of the law had
been adhered to at the end of the rebellion
there would have been no end to the awful
spectacle of prosecution and punishment under
the law signed by George Washington, against
those who had committed the crime of treason.
Mr.. Gibson asked if Garfield held the theory
thrt every man in the confederate service had
been guilty of treason [Cries of YES from the
Republican side.
MIR. Garfield replied that he was unwilling to
answer by asking the gentleman to look at the
naked statute passed by the first Congress and
signed by George Washington and then let
him a lawyer answer his own question. He
went on to say that the President had carrie
on his purpose further than any other Ameri
can citizen had ever carried a great purpose to
accomplish result.
Mr.. House said he had not had the support
of the Republican party in the North in his
efforts at Cancellation and restoring peace to
the country.
Mr.. Gartield-He has had their support just
in SO far as they had reason to believe that
reciprocity of feeling would follow his efforts.
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however, different degree of faith among my
brethren here as to how far that reciprocity
would go.
Mr.. House asked if the entire Republican
party, with here and there an exception, had
not opened a war upon the President for his
attempt to conciIiate the country, and charged
him with deserving his party. Applause on
the Democratic side, and cries of =. No. SIR on
the Republican side.
Mr.. Garfield replied that there had always
been men here aud there who distrusted the
result of that policy, and he was grieved to see
that that number had been increasing week by
week, and recently, hour by hour. Applause.
Dir. Waddell asked if the troops had not been
removed from the South as matter Of consti-
tutional duty and did not the Republican party
make war on the President for that?
Mr.. Garfield replied that the withdrawal of
troops from the Governors room and office in
New Orleans, was a constitutional duty. As a
political student he, Garfield, had never doubt
ed, and had no doubt to-day that Packard had
been honestly and fairly elected Governor of
Louisiana d.n ana applause applause - on IT. the KePnbl
which has been sent down by President Hayes
He declared if that commission had under
taken to get the members of one Legislature
into another, that was an improper executive
interference with local self government.
Mr.. Chalmers asked if Garfield had not said
some days ago, that at the Wormley conference
haH hae hat shOu1H he wit h.
drawn.
Mr. Garfield replied that the gentleman was
mistaken. He had never heard of such an
agreement. He did not mean to say that it was
wrong for the President to send commission
to Louisiana in order to obtain information,
but he meant that that commission had no
right to interfere in the formation of State
Legislature.
Mr.. Gibson stated he believed that the com
mission had no such instructions or no pur
pose to accomplish such an end.
Mr.. Garheld-That is the gentlemans
opinion. Let us hope it is true. He went on
to say that the action of the President in NOV
ing troops had been looked upon by the people
of Louisiana as a generous and magnani,nous
action, aud they had garlanded the who
had performed it with the richest prize. In
that era of reconciliation both sides had for
COTTON and forgiven much. There had been
bleeding hearts in Louisiana at the recital of
massacres at Hamburg and Ellenton, but these
horrible stories were never heard of nov.
Why? Because there had been
silent determination to let all that
terrible chapter sleep. All outrages which had
been committed in Louisiana during the late
election, had been covered with the veil of
oblivion. Who had began this latter revival of
the chapter? While that work of Cancellation
had been going forward there had commenced
at the North, he affirmed it boldly, the process
of buying the keel for another presidential
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Louisiana to open upon the members of the
returning board to disguise under the form of
State proceeding, but to enter her wedge, and
then the Democratic party, as the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, (Clymer, had stated would
summon all its strength to drive the wedge to
it's head, and stamp the great frauds of the
election as it deserves.
Mr.. Stenger-From whom has that order gone:
MIR. Garield-The order. SO far delivered
here in the hall, was from our distinguished
and kind-hearted friend from Pennsylvania
flaughter], and if this thing be seen in the
Continuing, he said that many weeks ago the
details of all that was now taking place in
Louisiana had been foreshadowed by many per-
sons as part of the programme. The impress
sion was abroad that the prosecution OF the re-
turning board the beginning of a purpose
to reopen the whole question.
It was in this view that the people felt that
the Presidents efforts at pacifcation had not
been met in the spirit in which they had been
offered, and if this sort of proceedings went
forward the President would be crippled in his
conciiatory policy, and every man who sup
ported him would be crippled. If the Demo-
Gratis desire to rob him of whatever support he
hitherto has had, they were taking the best
course to do it. The hope that the
sections OF the country were standing hand in
hand again, in the old fellowship was weak
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line of conduct were persisted in and it was
in the light of that fact that he had attempted