The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-12-25
WHOLE NO. l433.

> citizens, and then 70 fad cut whal
should be d0ue with tDem Nov,
r Mr.. President, thar is very frank,
! aad | have no doubt 3 very true
statement Of the aaimus Of this reso-
luton
The INVESTIGATION NOT POSSIBLE.
Mr.. President, said there might
De some doubts as 10 the propriesy
OF this Investigation. | repeat l.,
there may be some dOabis, espsci-
ally to-day. The Senator proposes
az investigation that defy any com
mittee that can be found to make
with anything like thoroughness,
nay, 10 any satisfactory msuner, witt
anything like either justice 10 these
who are implicated or those who
may be implicated within the time
that remains Of this session Of tie
Senate. 1t is an impossibiIity. /
have therefore wondered why this
resolution was introduced. unless il
was TO be made q string apoa > hica
to hang speeches to arouse sectional
hatred in one portion Of the Union
against an almost defenceless people
in another portion Of the Union
Now, Mr. President, this assault
of the Senator from Maine j. rot al
assault simply, however, upon toe
people of the South. ! said Eve
months ago that it did seem as clear
to me as anything in American poll
tics could be, that there was q delIb-
erately formed purpose. under tbe
protest that there was solid South
TO create solid North, TO rule not
ouly the solid South, but 70 rule one
half, nearly, il not more, Of the people
North. | thought then, and 1 think
now, that q purpose more uopetriotic.
more unjust, more fraught With rain
TO this country. never catered the
brain Of man. That IS ny belief
THE BURDES OF COMPLAINT.
Why, NJ. President, of wbaGis II
that toe Senator from Malice ccm-
plainsg That there we're not enough
Republican votes at tee Souih?--ihsg
is toe amount oft And hog does be
make that eutg lie assumes With.
Gus any shadow Of truth produced
here, that negroes South were pre-
vented from voting or forced to vote
the Democratic ticket He assumes,
therefore, that Owigg - the5e causes
the negroes Of tts ; lth are not
represented By met bets ,fihe House
of Representative VITO cJme from
that section of The UaIoa. 9r by Sen
ators on this fl wHD represent
Southern States Fas right has
the Senator from d. aloc 20 say the
negroes of the Soath ar Lot repre-
sented by chosen pre- l,atives ct
the South, and G. SOB senator's Of
the South! Whas gh 1ss be 70
vote those negroes oD QUE side him
self, and say the men who bear Gre
dentials of election do not represent
their constituents Why, Mr. Pres
ident, il is bare assumption on bis
part that be has no right y hatever
to make. Bat, sgain, the Senator
should have thought 0f this hen be
was framing bis Fourteenth and Fif
teenth amendments, or when be was
assisting in framing them There
were men then, Of his own party,
too, who told him, with lc0g fore
sight, that lii the end property aud
intelligence will rule the land, and
ignorance cannot There were men
of his party who foresaw that those
people who have the intelligence, the
education and the property Eiil not
be ruled by those V DO have neither,
and that 1t is no; necessary 70
separate the community into white
people and eolored people Not al
all is it necessary TO d. that. No, Mr.
President. the result Of these C0usii-
lulional amendments was easy
enough to be foreseen / en- not
here to justly the violation Of the
rights of any man, however humble
be may be. whatever may te the
poverty Of bis situation. | an here
for no such Parpose Is lhat. / an
here as much in favor of respecting
the right Of every man under toe
Constitution as the Senator from
Maine or any other Senator on itls
foor; but DO know that property.
intelligence and education will assert
their supremacy everywhere on tie
face Of the globe.
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COLOR LINE
Who was it that drew tie eol8r
line between the whites and negroes
10 the South. Lei me tell you. sis,
that millions Of the money Of the peo-
pie Of the United States we're expen-
ded by your agents, the Freedmsn's
Bureau agents. IN getting every color
ed man ia tie S1uth iatO the LOYAL
Leagues, aud swearing hin never to
vote Tor Democrat That Is where
the color line began % be drawn.
Ths, institution which took charge q
the negro at toe ballot b1x took
charge of him in the est.on felds,
everywhere. supervised every COO
tract be made, allowed % c1Btract
10 be made un.ess il bad ne approval
Of The agents OF the Frsedwsu's Bg-I
resu. and speot money asa property
called captured aud soandoned
property" Inat was 81 eGdersd 10
il, and many millions Of money d.
rectly appropriated out II the Treas
urv Ct the Uniied States II vas
that bureau and It's agents who frst
drew the color iine, and yet. when
the whits people Soutb, when men
owning properly, aud having iateili
geace and education, saw their very
social system meHsced With destrue-
tion, saw their very households threat
ened with ruin, uader an inandetian
of barbsrism directed By the most
unscrupulous Of men, and when they
naturally came together. when they
naturally united as people Benaced
with danger ever will unife. then q
cry is raised against the Solid
South" o. Mr. Presidens, il EiiI
not do. This system CT legislation
toward the South that began sle
years ago is reapiDg fruit, snd it Is
not by additional penal laws you can
better the condition of this e0ansry
NO MORE LAW NEEDED.
What does the Senator want more