Feliciana sentinel., 1878-06-29
THE TRUTH WE'LL TOLD.

The TRUTH WELL TOLD.
In the house of Representatives, on the
It'll inst, Hon. j. II. Chalmers, Of Missis-
sippi, gave utterance to the following no.
ble sentiments.
'Mr. speaker, on yesterday, while l
was absent attending to duties in one of
tho Departments, the gentleman from
Alabama Mr.. Herbert] saw fit to admin
lister something of q rebuke to me for my
speech on the Texas Pacific Railway. He
intimated that did not represent the
sentiment of the south, and that he was
their true representative. Sir, believe
I an somewhat older than that gentle
man, and have therefore had moro time
to study the character and sentiment of
our people. And if we are to judge from
the positions ofhonor and trust, civil and
military, that we have filled in the past,
1 can claim to possess at least as much of
the confidence and trust of the southern
and to have as much right to speak
their entiments as he. I hope I may be
permitted without egotism to say that
the portion of my speech which he assails
has been republished and indorsed by
the press of the South, from Virginia to
Texas. will say, further, that 1 have
received private letters of indorsment
from all parts of the South, and some of
the warmest have been f.om the gentle
mans own district in Alabama. If he
seeks national fame at the expeuse of our
section, let him answer that to his own
constituents. Time will tell which of
us has represented best the interests and
the sentiments of our people.
I have loved the democratic party
from my youth up, and what I said to
northern democrats was more in sorrow
than in anger; but, sir, I believe what
I said, and usually say what believe.
When a southern man remembers the
gross inequality of Government aid in
the past and when he sees that inequality
about to be re-enacted; when he sees Il
reduction of the tariff struck down in a
democratic House when he sees a demo-
cratic Senator from New York opposing a
subsidy to Brazilian steamship line
for New Orleans after millions have been
expended for New York when he sees the
Nor thern Pacific bill, granting a subsidy
in lands equeal to fifty millions in money,
passed by northern democratic Senators
without a dissenting voice, while they
refuse even to fix a time to consider the
Texas Pacific and when he sees demo-
Gratis in this Eouse opposing the Texas
Pacific and yet ready to vote a subsidy
to the Northern Pacific, he begins to
ask himself why he has suffered so long
and endured so much for the democratic
party?
1t is true that nothern democrats have
suffered many things for us, and honor
them for it; but, sir, We have endured
tenfOld more for them.
There never was q day nor an hour
! when all of onr prosecutions wonld not
have instantly ceased, if we had joined
the repuklican party. But we loved the
name, we loved the hallowed associations,
we loved the ancient glory of the demo.
cratic party, and we have endured for it
pains, penalties, and privations as great
as those which st. Paul suffered for the
Christian religion.
We resisted every temptation and clung
| to the northern democracy. They have
| indeed helped us, but we have helped
them as much. We lifted them up from
being despised minority into q majority
| in this House and in the Union. And /
warned them in my Texas Pacific speech
and now warn them again not to drive
uS from them by refuSinr tO do insticA to
our section. Welove the party, but we
| cannot afford to be starved to death by
it. We love the Constitution, but we
| cannot afford to see it made a golden
girdle to support the North and hang
mans rope to choke the South"