Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-15

GuSfdl SOlUloT IN DCidWdrG. lO6 nOnOTdDl
senator from West Virginia Hereford hal
spoken of his State being trodden by the irol
| heel of military despotisll, but there Is not
solitary man in United States uniform on th
| soil of West Virginia. In Maryland their
are one hundred and ninety-tWo artillt rymeI
at Fort nj Henry to guard the entrance L
| Baltimore's beautiful harbor. In Virginia
there is a school of practice at Foit ress Mon
roe, and outside of th9t school there ia not 6
Federal soldier in the State. There are bu
thirty soldiers In North Carolina, guarding 6
fort at the mouth of Cape Fear river. Il
South Carolina there are one hundred ano
twenty artlllerymen to guard the en-
trance to Charleston harbor. There are
twenty nine soldiers in Georgia and one hun
dred and eighty two In Florida. There is not
| one In Tennessee, Kentucky or Mississippi
There are ffty-seven in Arkansas, thirty two
in Alabama and two hundred and thirty -nine
In Louisiaua. The great State of Mississippi
has not one on its soil; nor has Texas, except
those guarding the frontier and the Rio
| Grande. I'm the entire SOUTH" said Mr.
| Blaine, there are one thousand one hundred
and fifty five soldiers to intimidate. overrun,
| Cypress and destroy the liberties of fifteen
millions OF people IN one thousand two hun
| dred and three counties, or not quite one
| soldier to each county, and one soldier 10
about seven hundred square miles of terrific
| ry. There was an old saying" he continued,
could not look each other in the face without
smiling, and no two nAmnnratin senator's on
this floor can 90 into the cloak-r room and look
each other IN the face without smiling, or
rather blushing, over this talk-the whole
thing was such a miserable pretense, such a
miserably manufactured false issue. In New
England they had three hundred and eighty
soldiers, or about one hundred and twenty to
every million people, whereas the ratio in
the south was not quite seventy. Yet the
people of New England never complained of
military power" The tendency of this talk,
as he had said was to misrepresent the United
States abroad, aud the Democratic party stood
indicted. and ne hereby charged them
with public SANDER Of their country, Great
ing the impression in the civilized world that
we under military despotism. But
continued Senator Blaine, the real motive of
the Democrats must be looked for elsewhere
1t is simply to get rid of Federal supervision
at Federal electlonsj to get rid of the civil
power of the United States In the election of
representatives to congress; and, therefore,
this bill connects itself directly with the bill
which was before congress at its last session,
known as the legislative, executive and JUDI
cial appropriation bull. He was aware that
parliamentary rules forbade him to discuss
bill pending before the house of representa-
tives; bqt he also knew that nothing forbade
him to speak OF what was not done in the
house, but in Democratic caucas, when this
legislation was forfeited.
Sen tor Blame discussed the legal dues
tions involved, and continuing, said that the
design now Is to get rid of all the civil Off
GERS of the United States. und9 n the pretense
of keeping troops away from the polls;
and the amendments which will be offered
will test the sincerity of the Demo
cratic side on th&t point, and show
whether the Federal government
would be allowed representation at the polls
at all, except by two men OF straw, without
any power, who can merely look on. He
would go % far az to say that, if the bill
went through IN It's present form, TIE re-
mainder OF the law in regard to man shals and
supervisors would be worth nothing. "We
are told, said Senator Blaine, land it is
rather a novel thing, that if we do not aglee
TO the bills as offered, we are not to have APP
preparations" That has been announced in
both branches OF Congress, he Supposed, On
the authority of the Democratic caucus 1t
was mo- merely the army appropriation bill.
They done stop there; but in the legislative
appropriation bill, as 1t came from that eau
Gus, there was an appropriation for defraying
the expenses of the supreme court, circuit
courts and district courts of the United States,
prov ds6 that certain sections of the revised
statutes should be repe led. He had always
understood that the government was divided
into three distinct epartments-legislatiVe
executive and judicial. But, now, the legis-
lative branch of the government steps for
ward, and says if the executive does not sign
1t will starVe the Judiciary. This Vas carry
ing the matter further than he had ever
known 1t to go before. And besides starving
the Judiciary, the other side would refuse to
appropriate a dollar for the expenses of the
caDital building and grounds, for public
printing or for the congressional library. The
department of state, of which the country
had reason TO De proud for its conduct of our
foreign affairs, was to be disabled, and our
diplomatic relation must cease unless the
President signs these bills. The beacons and
warning lights on seventeen thousand miles
of coast must go out; the mipts of New Or
leans. Denver, San francisco and PLiladel
phla must stop; the pension bureau must
suspend operations; all the executive func-
lions OF the government are taken by the
throat in hIghwayman style and commanded
to stand and deliver in the name of the Dem
ocratic caucus. A leading Democrat, an eo-
quent man, who had courage, frankness and
many good qualities; boasts publicly that the
Democrats are n power fox the Hrst tipe In
eighteen years, and that they do not intend
to stop until they have wiped out every
vestige Of the Republican war
pieasuces. Forewarned is foreal med, " and
the Deuocrats began properly On a measure
signed by Abraham Lincoln. The picture
was a striking one, and d strange time had
come when men fresh from the battlefelds of
the rebellion took their seats here and pro-
posed o repeal laws enacted while they were
trying to destroy the fuion. The Vice Presi
dent of the Oonfederacy had stated that for
SIXTY or seventy years preceding the rebel
lion, or from the four dation of the govern
ment, the south although IN a minority, had,
by combining with what he termed the anti
;entrahsts IN the north, ruled the country;
and In 1886, the same gentleman said in a
speech before tee Georgia legislature that by
a return to congress the south might repeat
the experiment with the same success. He
lB!ainel had read that speech at the time of
Its delivery, and had little thought he would
live to see the prophecy fulfilled. But now
We see those measures matnred in Demo
cratic caucus, In which the south mad an over
whelming majority of two thirds In the
house, and thirty out of forty-two
senators, twenty three of whom,
positive and pronounced maj ority, par
Eclpated ia the war against the
y MON, either in civil or military power, so
that our legislation is shaped and fashioned
by caucus in which the ex Oonfederates
have majority, and Mr., Stenhens's prophecy
realized. Very appropriately tie com
gress controlled by the south says to the
President, the remaining branch OF
government, elected on Republican princi-
pies 10 opposition to the party now in power,
that he shall not exercise his power to veto a
bill, They ask IT we gall it revolutionary,
cantin Iod Senator Blaine, to put amendments
ON appropriation bllls9 Of course not
There nave been Il great many amendments
put on such bills, some mischievous and
some harmless, but | call 1t the audacity of
revolution for any senator or representative
o. any capcps Of senators or representatives
to get together and say that they will have
certain legislation or stop the departments of
the government. That is revolutionary. |
don't thinG it will be revolution 1t will
be revolution that won't reyolVe. 1t won t
work. 1t 10 a revolution, il per-
sisted in, and if not persisted
IN it must be backed out
from ANONYMOUSLY, ani the latter Will
probably be the result. Senator Blaine CON
Guided as follows: ] do not profess to know,
Mr., President, what the President of the
United States will dc when these bills are
presented to hun, as | suppose in due course
OF tune they will be. certainly should
never speak solitary word of disrespect of
the gentleman holding that exalted positian.
and | hope | shall not speak word unbe-
hting the dignity of the Office OF a senator Of
the United States, but as there has been
speculation here and there on both sides as
to what he would do, it seems TO me that the
dead heroes Of TIE Union would Use from
their graves if he should consent to be in
Inundated and outraged in his proper consti-
tutOnal power by threats like these. Gan the
war measures of Abraham Lincoln are to be
wiped out, say the leading Democrats The
B)urbaqs of Frduce busted themselves, ! be-
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