The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-03

the electoral vote, The DAWle cry OF 1851 mas Deen
already started. A g0Yernmt ut OF law not to be
Administered by the Judiciary, but with an army
strong TO enforce II. Whenever II comes to ques
| tion between freedom and despotism, the Demo
cratic party will be found standing where our an
| CestOrs stood In 1875.
Mr.. CopEer-I Dc sire to ask the gentleman from
| Mississippi whether the second revolution Of 1861
| had any terrOrs for him
Mr.. Chalmers-The distinguished gentleman Is
| exceeding witty. History tells us that English
Kings were in the habit OF keeping jestersat court
with fools cap and bells. II seems that Repub'
| licRn Congress has supplied Itself In the same
| way. (Laughter,) But instead of FOOLS caps and
| jlngliDg bells (Which might perhaps suit very
welD II has dressed its Jester In swallow tails,
| daughter on the Democratic side).
Mr. CONCERT asked the heroic gentleman from
Mississippi plain, civil simple question and in
stead Of answering 1t be pumps upon MS music
| hox and makes face to the country aud to the
| House. Counter demonstrations on The Republi-
| can side, members clapping their hands and in
dulging in loud laughter for some hme)
Mr., Uhalmers-The gentleman is pissaEen. l
| shall certainly not undertake 10 play game
which any monkey can beat me, daughter on
the Democratic side)
tPEEoH OF Mr.. FRYE.
Mr.. Frye said he did not know how long Repub'
licans would be compelled TO sit still and listen
to the charge that they had for eighteen years
made the republic drunken dGspotism reeling
and reeklng through the land 10 the declaration
| that this was despotism and that 1t was for the
Democratic party to restore 1t to the millennium of
peace He did not know how long they should
have to submit to 1t. They were the men to he
| forgiven and have to hold their voices Tor rear
| they might offend some gentleman on the other
side or might arouse the ghost of the old Bloody
| shirt" He did not know that they were 10 SIT
| quietly aud submit to the charge that they had
| become military despos, because United states
troops had been rent to New YORK city 10 Keep
| the peace. Perhaps they ought to submit TO be.
| ing called remorseless hyenas, ana make no soIt
| OIL reply.
| and now he proposed to have read what Missls
| sippi newspaper had said. He sent to the CLERKS
| desk and had read an extract from the Okalona
| southern States an extract thanking God that the
South had captured the Capitol, that In 1851 Its
| mau would walk up the White House steps, and
take his seat in the Presidential chair; that thus
the glorious triumph Of the South would be COM
| plee, &c ..,
no respectable part of the Mississippi Democracy.
| One of It's editors was man who had carpet
bsgped from Ohio TO Mississippi within the past
| four years.
Mr. sparks-It is reported that he was a sntler
In a Michigan regiment Laughter on the Dem
| ocratc SIDE
Mr.. Frye-I have heard again and again that
| cry az to the capture Of the capitol. You have
| been nearer 10 ~ tnan you are IO'uhy, DuL Juu
have never put your hand yet on the capitol,
and under God you never Will. lAppause on
! the Republican side, and great excitement thTO
| hOut the hallI
Mr.. FRYE continued The South had turned
upon the North and made demand after demand
In rapid succession and the North, In It's hum ILL.,
| alton, had responded as rapidly, yielding point
by poipt until in their pride Of power they asked
| too much, and then the solid North had sad
mot ont single step further Is thy servant
| dog. that he should do it?" And then had come
the war, not brought on by poor old John Brown
| at Harper's Ferry, when he frightened Virginia
| with fifteen men and some ola guns out serious
v ar that had logic and by that logic negroes
| had become freemen and American citizens. but
| hundreds OF poor black men had been murdered
| Then troops had been sent down and peace had
been restored, but the troops were soon with
| drawn and the result was solid south. There
| mas been half dozen dusky faces In the last
Congress Where were those dusky faces now
| The Democrats had the senate, but thank God
| they did not have the Executive yet. Applause
| on the Republican side When the Democratic
| parly Thought they would have him by threaten
| inc him they were making sn entire mistake.
| They had begged out of him on the bended Knee
| the withdrawal of troops from the South Because
| they had done that they should not presume too
| much hey should not presume that the could
| no to him with pistol In hand and demand all
they wished. Laughter on the Democratic sde.J
| The House is in favor OF retaining on the statute
| book the law which permits the army to Keep
peace at the polls; DO you advocate that s, aw
| tionality, and until become satisfied the South
| will not murder negroes when they go 10 vote
will be In favor Of keeping troops near the polls
A CHARACTERISTIC ANSWER.
Mr.. Hooker taid that the gentleman from
| Maine had expressed his regret that half dozen
eolored men who had seats in the last Congress
| Uera not here now, Would not that gentlemen
| tho gan thof n SLptpg Of Maine and
| Massachusetts there had been reared and edu-
| Gated soms Of the most intelligent coOIed men
| In the country, and how did 1t happen that IN
all history of the country TIE people OF ihtse
States had never thought enough OF the cOlOTed
| man to elect him TO Congress
Mr.. Frye-The people simply preferred to elect
somebody else. Laughter on the Democratic
side.
ABLE ARGUMENT OF MR.. HURD.
Mr.. Hurd said: II anything had been settled
by the legislation Of the last quarter of century
| it was general. Legislation itself might be at
tached to appropriation bills, and certainly no
ore would dispute the proposition that measures
In regard to economy and bearing on revenue
were required to be originated in the House.
The House was right in insisting that these obiec-
| Lionable measures should be repealed. The House
WAS riqht fl st, because these provisions of law
were unconstitutional. They interfered with the
right of suffrage and with State laws. The second
| seotion of the Constitution declared that the
| Hnuse should be composed Of members chosen
! by The people Of the several States, and that
elections should have qualifications requisite for
electors of the most numerous branch OF the State
| Legislature. II was therefore the most numeT-
| Gus branch Of the State, Legislature that deter
! mined the qualification of electors and not the
| Constitution of The United States There was no
such thing as the right of suffrage for citizen OF
| TT,,tta Tho RIGHT of gutfTAQ9 Wag DOS
sps ed and enjoyed under the laws OF States eX,
.pressly recognized by the fundamental law OF
| he land On what theory did the Government
send troops to the polls at State elections. Only
on the theory that the right OF suffrage was right
guarau eed by the Constitution OF the United
| States aud that 1t was the business OF congress
| to project that right He had shown, however,
by xpress phraseolcgy Of the Consutuuon, an q
by the decision of Court that 10 such right did
xlst under the constitution, and, therefore, the
| conseuuence was inevitable and irresisnble thai
any legislation on the subject was uncOnstitu-
tinnal He alluded to the TACT mat the measures
which 1t proposed to repeal were from their very
nature dangerous and destructive to civil liberty,
and said ali history IL full OF warning on this sub
IecI No Republic has ever gone into its grave
save through military inierh renee. Shall we es,
cane the force and application OF universal
i rule Is power less sweet or rules more sacred;
N liberty more secure that we Can dare, without
harm, 10 tamper with a danger that has wrought
ruin everywhere before. From LANDS where re-
Dublics have been erected on their ruins, from
lands where the contest for liberty is goiI 8 on,
All over the world, from lands where the shadow
| OF despOtiEm oVerturns every household, and to
seek shelter in foreign lands, helpless to free
himself st home, there comes the solemn notes Of
garnipg against military Interference from the
presence OF troops at the polls To control cleo
lions by troops is single step, and in that step
free elections full and free elections are the orig
finals of the power Of free government. Troops at
/ the polls means intimidation of voters They
mean the substitution Of the bayonet for the bal.
LOT. the encroachment Of the Commanderin Chief
of the domain OF the President
was aslOunded, and regretted TO hear from the
other side arguments in favor OF the use OF the
army, but my regret was lost in Joy when recol'
lect that the party Of the army has not any power
Id this Congress. Applause on the Democratic
side1 II has been said that 1t means revolution
for us TO pass these bills ss we propose. From the
beginning Of the Government. has not the House