The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-04-11
OR Stall WART SPEECH.

The vital Importance of the issues
now being discussed In congress, have
drawn out about all the oratory that
resides in the house. Every member
who a make a speech has fulfilled
popular expectation and filled the Con-
gressionpl Record at the same time.
The right of free speech cannot be
abridged. 1t is well for the country
that this grand unfailing safety valve
is kept open. 1t permits the briga-
diers to tuln themselves inside out be-
fore the country that all may see the
true color of their gizzards.
If there is any one thing made more
conspicuous than another 1t is that the
representatives from that section of the
country which reared the hydra-headed
monster of secession, are guilty of the
basest ingratitude. They are given to
ut~terances which, in any other country
than free America, would win them
treason's dungeon. Not content with
having been graciously spared in the
lives of their archleaders; not thankful
for the unprecedented charity of the
conquerors who received suppressed Sc
dition back to the grand sisterhood of
states to govern with rights equal in
value and power to those of victorious
states; not impressed with a sense of
having outrageously wronged a kind
people, these representatives are in the
fore in their insolent demands. With
their hands not yet cleansed from the
stains of loyal blood shed shat this
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth'' they come into the
halls of our legislature demanding, in
all the sublime impudence of ingrati-
ates that the results of the war shall be
blotted out forever and that the saviors
of our country shall bend the knee in
apology for having done their holy duty.
Was ever people SC insulted? Was ever
the defeated SO insolentp Was ever
| righteous indignation SO well governed.
But let them go n They are CIV
ing a true history ofithemselves. They
are putting a seal on their characters,
a brand on their foreheads, that they
may go before the world stamped with
the infamy Of their own base natures.
When men like Blackburn man who
symbolizes the very incarnation of
southern hate; n mar whom the south
would fain have honored with the
speakership of the house Of representa-
tives; a man glorified above all others
by his ~fire-eating colleagues; a man
who, when the voice of treason called,
went booted and spurred to swell the
ranks of the nations would-be destroy
ers, and whose sword now hangs in his
Kentucky home rusted by the blood of
loyalty; when such a man arrogantly
deies the north with sentences like
this: 1--WE do not intend to stop until
we have stricken the last vestige Of
your war measures from our statute
books" the hot blood of indignation
cannot but mantle the cheek Of the
north and arouse the people to
a sense of future, danger. by the
nine godsl" we fancy hearing veteran
say, ''has't come to thisp Have the
hundreds of thousands of holy lives
been sacrificed in vain? Are the count
less mounds that mark the last resting
place of union braves in many a ''si-
lent city Of the dead' to be Knocked ere
the erosive finger of Time has dimmed
the spotp Has all the unvalued treas
ure of a generous north been wasted?
Has no great principle been established?
Must the widows and orphans Of the
victorious dead be told by the slayers of
their happiness and peace of home that
their husbands and fathers made q vain
and foolish sacrifice? Must the aged
and tottering couple be tainted in their
dying hours with loud mouthed declara-
tions from the murderers of their sons?
Is the government itself to be clutched
by the throat and held by the hordes of
treason until they wiring from loyalty
an apology and confession of wrong
doingp"
Yet this is the pass to which things
have come in this degenerate day-de-
generate indeed, If the insults be not
rebuked sternly at the polls. But, il
we mistake not widely, there will be
such tn awakeHing in November, 1880,
throughout the entire north that
in loyalty of sentiment, vigor OF
purpose, and strength. of action,
shall remind these brigadiers of the le-
gions that answered the insult and as
sault on Fort Sumpter. There has
been a limit put on the prancings OF
II late enemies who now deride us
from the capitol of the nation they
stroye to destroy, They have the right
of free speech; they are at liberty to
speak of their grievances, if they have
any; they have rights equal to their
c%onquerors. But no nation can exist
in safety which tolerates treason and
sedition and revolution in its Legislative
halls. "a house divided against itself
cannot stand"
So long as the object iof the majority
is of a partisan nature there is no dan
ger. But when secession is glorifed
and exalted, and revolution threatened,