Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-05-23
Zach. Chandler Gives the Oonfederates
Some Facts.

Zach. Chandler Gives the Oonfederates
Some Facts.
In the debate in the Senate on the
9th, on the bill TO cripple the power of
the President to execute the election
laws of Congress, Hon. Zach. Chandler
said:
History is repeating itself to-day.
There is a proverbial saying that the
Bourbons never learn anything and
never forget anything. The proverb is
very applicable to the Bourbons of this
country. In 1857, he said, the Bour-
bons had control of this Government.
You had majority in both houses, u
majority in the Supreme Court, and the
| whole of this government was under
your control. You brought up the re-
peal 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 [ took my seat in this body
with JEFF. Davis there were here forty
four Democrats, twenty Republicans
and two Independents. Of those DEM
ocrats, twenty-eight were from the
Southern States, sixteen from the North
ern States and two Independents. Then,
as now, Independents in this bodyupon
every question connected with slavery
voted with the South. You in caucus
then decreed 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 of the Committee on
Territories, and there were but three
Northern men out of sixteen who
dared to resist the caucus dictation.
And you did degrade him and put him
off that committee. Then you crowded
your men into the waters of oblivion,
to rise no more forever. Sir, of these
sixteen members not a solitary man of
the North ever came up to the surface
of the waters of oblivion. You crowded
them off the bridge; you compelled
them to vote for measures which the
North could not and would not submit
to. Sir, to-day you are doing the same
thing. To-day we have in this body
forty-one Democrats, thirty Republic
ans and one Independent. To-day, as
twenty-five years ago, on all questions
connected with State rights, the lnde-
pendent party, as unit, vote with the
Democratic party. To-day you have,
as | said, forty-two members in this
body, forty-one, leaving out the Inde-
pendent party. You have twelve MEM
bers from the North, and they are ar
ranged thus: From California, one;
from Indiana, 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 Pennsyl-
vania you have one now, you had one
then; from Rhode Island you have none
now, but you have one from Connecti-
cut and one from New York.
AS l said, history is to-day repeating
itself, and you are to-day repeating
what you did in 1857. You are crowd
ing 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 forever. Look ut the change
that has taken place since that timel
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 JeHerSOn DdNlS, anu every
single one of your Northern allies voted
to pension him. You eulogized him as
patriot, TO be compared side by side
with Washington and all the patriots of
the Revolution, and every one of your
Northern allies voted aye. After the
close of the rebellion you claimed that
you were poor and suffering, and we
found you poor and suffering, we found
you ragged and poor, and we clothed
you, we put upon you the robe of
American citizenship, which you had
forfeited, and we killed for you the fat
ted calf and invited you to the feast,
supposing you, after being clothed,
were in your right mind; and when we
invited you TO the feast you said, 1--WE
have always owned that calf and you
have no interest in it, Now you in
form us that you are going to repeal all
Republican measures. What is the job
you have undertaken You are going
to undo all that the Republican party
has done. Where do you begin. Do
, you begin at Appomattox or be-
forep 1t is very important to
know where you commence, and
then TO know where you propose to
stop. You have undertaken a very
large job for party of your SIZE and