Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-10

history of this country any such assertion OF
State rights, any such assertion of tho mastery
of the
STATE GOVERNMENT OVER THE FEDERAL GOVERN
in its own domain as here asserted by the heirs
lineal of Calhoun and Breckenridge. shall
not debate this bill. 1t were useless. 1t has
been exhaustingly debated. The whole meas
ure is a removal of the federal government
from its proper domain and the installation of
States into degree of power that were not
dreamed of by Calhoun and were not asserted
by Breckenridge. We thought there had been
something gained in this question in costly
war and the amendments to the con-
stitution, but the tide it now
sweeps is on the ebb and tho power
of the union, the power of the federal govern
ment was never weak as these laws and
these proceedings will make it. Pass this bill
interference control of its own elections.
You voted down on the other bill a proposition
that armed men should not come to the polls
with the expressed intent of interfering with
the rights of voters, and you did it under the
paltry bubble that it was not within the con-
stitutional power Of the United States govern
ment to warn bloody-handed ruffians from the
polls where representatives in the federal Con-
gress were being chosen. Pass this bill,
pass it as triumph Of the reactionary party
AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF THE UNION.
Pass it in defiance of all lessons and all
teachings that have come from bloody, abor-
tive rebellion. Pass it and mark it as high
tide of that reaction which, were it to rise
higher, could lead only to another and formid-
able rebellion against the legitimate authority
of the Union.
Senator Chandler said that history is repeat
ing itself to-day. There is proverbial saying
that Bourbons never learn anything and never
forget anything. The proverb is very appli
cable to the Bourbon Of this country. In 1857
he said, the Bourbons had control of this gov
ernment. You had a majority in the supreme
courts, and the whole of this government was
under your control. You brought up repeal of
the Missouri compromise and forced your
Northern men then, as you are doing now, to
vote for that repeal, and you did it by the
same means. Then, sir, you crowded your
men till you
CROWDED THEM OFF THE BRIDGE.
In 1857, when I took my seat in this body
with Jeff. Davis, (aughter) there were here
forty -four Democrats, twenty Republicans, aud
two independents. Of those Democrats
twenty-eight were from the Southern States,
sixteen from the Northern States, and two in
in this body, upon every question connected
with slavery, voted with the South. You in
caucus then decided that Stephen A. Douglas
because he asserted that he did not care
whether slavery was voted up or down, should
be degraded from the craftsmanship On terri
tories; and there were but three Northern men
out of sixteen who dared resist the caucus
dictum, and you did degrade him and put him
off that committee. Then you crowded your
men off tia bridge and they sank to a man in
the waters of oblivion to rise no more forever
Sir, not a solitary man from the North ever
came up to the surface of the waters of obliv-
ion. You crowded them off the bridge. You
compelled them to vote for measures which
the North could and would not submit to-
Sir, you are doing the self same thing to-day.
We have in this body forty-one Democrats,
thirty Republicans and one independent. To-
day, as twenty-five years ago, on all questions
connected with
STATE RIGHTS,
the Independent party as unit votes with the
Democratic party. To-day you have, az said,
forty-two members in this body, forty-one
leaving out the independent part. You have
twelve members from the North, and they are
arranged thus: From California one, from In
diana now as then two from New Jersey two,
now as then, from Ohio you have two you had
but one then, from Oregon you have two now
and you had two then, from Pennsylvania you
have one now, you had one then, from Rhode
from Connecticut and one from New York. As
said, history to-day is repeating itself and
you are to-day repeating what you did in 1857
You are crowding your men off the
bridge and the men of to-day
as the men of 1857, will sink
into the waters of oblivion to rise no more for
ever. Look at the change that has taken place
since that time. Sir, the people are more
thoroughly aroused to-day against this doctrine
this heresy of State rights. than they were from
1857 to 1861. You proposed to pension JEFF
Davis, and every single one of your Northern
allies voted to pension him. You eulogizec
him as a patriot to be compared with Washing
ton and all the patriots of the revolution, ano
every one of your Northern allies voted aye
After the close of the rebellion you claimed
you were poor and suffering, and we found you
RAGGED AND POOR,
and we clothed you. We put upon you tn
robe of American citizenship which you ha,
forfeited, and we killed for you the fatted cal
and invited you to feast, supposing you, afte
being clothed, were in your right mind. an,
when we invited you to feast you said, "W
! have always owned that calf and you have n
interest in it, CLaughter.) Now you inform
| us you are going to repeal all the Republican
| measures. What is the job you have under
| taken? You are going to undo all that the Re
| publican party has done. Where do you be
gin? Do you begin at Appotomax or before
! It is very important to know wher
! you commence and then to kno1
| where you propose to STOP You have under
| taken very large job for party of your size
and with the people who are to sit as judge
| upon your acts, you have undertaken to unsea
man in this body; but you will deny that 20
| have undertaken the job.
! But did not rise to discuss the question
but simply to say to the other side you hav
your day in court, make the most of it. You
| time is short. The people of the North hav
taken the question in hand, and from the AT
lantio to the Pacific, from on
end of this land to the other, the peopl
are aroused and alarmed at the statement
that have been made, and the actions that hay
been taken in this Senate chamber, and in til
other houses within the last sixty days. LIE
me say to you, gentlemen, on the other side
the chamber :!anerc, meme, teket apharasi
is written all over your brows. (Applause
galleries, which was promptly checked
cheers.)
The bill to prohibit military interference
elections was then passed in the precise for
; in which it came from the House, yeas &c. ma
%, as follows:
Bayard, Harris, Randolph,
Beck, Hereford, Ransom,
Butler, houston, SauisDury,
Call, Jonas, Slater,
Cockrell, Jones, Fla, Thurman,
Coke, Herman, Vance.
Davis, w. Va. Lamar, Vest,
> Eaton, Mcdonald, Voorhees,,
Garland, Maxey, Walker,
o Groome, Morgan, Withers-39.
= Hampton, Pendleton,
NAYS.
s Allison, Conkling, Morrill,,
n Anthony, Edmunds, Platt.
n Booth, Hill, CAL, Plumb,
d Bruce, Hoar, Rollins,
Burnside, Ingalls,, Saunders,
Cameron. Pa, Kellogg, Teller,
Cameron, Wis. Logan, Wlndom-23.
~ Chandler, Mcmillan,
The following pairs were announced: