Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-11

that day left the Union. The streets were wild
with excitement, and party came to serenade
him as it had Others. His room was dark, his
heart sad and his tongue silent. No matter
who was in the wrong, he said in that letter,
the Union mad fallen. In 1868 he had CORES.
pondence with that great and good man. Horace
Greeley, who did more to build up the Repub-
lican party than any other man
in his convictions, and he boldly declared
them in his letter to that gentleman. 10
something that had been said concerning him
he wrote he was entitled to an audience of
readers of the Tribune, having In the winter OF
1860 warned the people against secession, and
told them war would come-an unequal, herce,
vindictive and desolating war. Many of the
free sellers said if the South desired to secede
it could do so in peace. The people of the
South did not secede. Because of hostility to
the constitution they pledged themselves to
form a new one on the model of the old. The |
constitutional rights by the extremists of the
North to destroy its prosperity, and because
the Northern people, through their Republican |
leaders, said that secession should be accom-
plished in peace. Greeley said they wanted no
Union pinned together with bayonets. There
lieved the only way to avoid war was to secede.
If they had believed war would result they never
would have seeded. The Georgia convention
sent him (HilD to the provisional Congress.
The people believed could be averted.
Virginia had not then gone out of the Union.
and she issued proclamation for federal
conference. His heart warmed, and he hoped
for success. Seven States had then gone out,
and therefore they could not participate in
such convention, yet they watched every
movement with interest. These very men who
made charges of infdelity against the Southern
people went to Washington to repeat the pur-
poses of Virginia. In this connection Senator
Hill Tread the following letter.
WASHINGTON, Feb. IL, 1861-My dear Govern
or: Governor Bingham and myself tele-
graphed you Saturday at request of Massa-
chusetts and New York, to send delegates to the
peace compromise congress. They admit we
are right, and they were wrong, and that no
Republican state should have sent delegates,
bnt that they are here and cannot get away.
Ohio Indiana and Rhode Island are coming
in, and there is danger of Illinois, and now
they beg us, for Gods sake, to come to their
rescue and save the Republican party from
rupture. I hope they will send stiff-backed
men or none. The whole thing was got up
against my judgment, and will end in their
smoke. I hope, as a matter of courtesy to
some of our erring brethren, that you will send
delegates. (Signed) Truly your friend,
2. CHANDLER.
To his Excellency Austin Blair.
To this letter postscript was added saying:
Northern people think fight would be
awful, but without little blood letting this
Ou1Ou WILL lOL, LII NY cSIlWdI1Ou. Uc "OIUu
| rush."
The representatives of the South must be
trusted. The South tried to avert war, while
the North tried to bring it on. Senator Hill
knew the Republicans claim to have saved the
Union but if there had been no Republican
party the Union would not have been in peril,
and there would have been secession, re-
turning boards and electoral commission.
The people want purity and intelligence in
the Jury box, to keep troops away from the
polls, and they wanted to say to the States you
are able to control your elections, and because
the representatives of the South stood here as
bulwark against those who could destroy the
] constitution by destroying the States, if you
must have war they would maintain their rights
| in the Union. But he trusted there would be
no war. The men of the South would go with
the stars and stripes, the flag of their country.
The people would take chargn Of the question
| He assured those who heard lin that the North
need not be alarmed on account of the South,
but they had cause to be alarmed by such
threats as have been made by leading Repub.
licans. The Democrats would take position to
promote the glory of the Union and perpetuate
favor of the constitution which Madison
framed and Webster expounded-in favor OF
freedom at the polls, intelligence in the jury
box. and independence of the States in the
management of elections hereafter. The PEG.
pie would answer, North and South.
So far from decreasing the Democratic ma
jority in this body, these measures would in
crease it. As to another war, the men who
lost all in the late war would not risk it again
We owe nothing to the Republicans, said Hill
, 1t was through the very agency of the authority
and sovereignty Of the State which you though
you had destroyed that we are able to be herr
to-day, not through intimidation and fraud
: 1t is not true solid against the North
We are solid against the Republican party
Why should we not be? Can you wonder?
) will not speak of the past. Do you think w
? are going to love you for the speeches you hav
made during, the last four weeks
: You may not know it, but W
are men. Every vile story of fraud, no mat
e ter how unworthy of belief, is paraded agains
the Southern people, but no matter how goo
e the testimony of good men we bring to recon
8 cried down. We regard the Republican part
;, az merely sectional. We join the Democrat
l of the North because we admire their cours
y during the war. We had terrible ordeal, bu
e they had one perhaps worse The fidelity t
t the Union they believed in led them to fgh
e men, and that is why we go with them. If tn
f South were solid against the constitution,
l. would be reprehensible but they were not
n We are solid for preserving the constitutio
$ and its principles. It is not we, but Norther
It men me ,, who seek strife, and "a, are p again'
e cans, but Northern Democrats VIII
h saved the Union, and they will preserve it. "
g could not help them to save it, but are hel
l. to help them preserve it. Mr.. Hill said he We
IS born Shareholder, but never bought a slay
5. except one, who asked him to do so, and he W;
lie not ashamed of that. He would never willingl
IS deprive a human being of any of his right
s. Born and reared amidst the traditions of sa'
If cry, he yet wished when secession was propose
1t that slavery should perish rather than stand
!. the way of the maintenance of the Union.
,e disunion he saw anarchy, horror, the destru
u in any form was nothing but bloody waste,
/? ruin to all races and conditions of men.
1t Senator Chandler said this was the thi1
<, time since 1861 allusion has been made to tt
y letter written by him to the Governor
N Michigan. 1t first appeared in Detroit new
o. paper. The letter was private. and no COZ
+ was retained by him. Senator Powell broug
l, a copy of the newspaper to him, and asked
ID the letter printed was correct. Mr.. Chan
re Ter told him he did not know, having kept
1t copy. Senator Powell then said if it was
OF correct copy he wished to make use of it;
* not he did not wish to use it. Chandler to
IN him he would adopt it and allow him to NAL
at any use of it that he pleased. So to-day Il
On letter, if not originally Chandler's is his
no adoption. Senator Chandler then describe
en- the circumstances under which the letter W
a. written. He had been in the Senate four yea
~ and hourly threat was, ''Do this or we wi
e, destroy the Union" There was treason in t
en- white house, in the cabinet, Senate and Hou
TO bold, outspoken and rampant. The thre
e was made on the floor Of the Senate in
re presence by Senator from Texas, ''You M
or give us a blank sheet Of paper and let us fill
IN up as we please. and then we will not live wi
ed you.' Treason applauded in the Sena
en- galleries, talked on the streets, discussed
tn private circles. There was treason in the &
20 partments, treason in the white house, tire