The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-05-08

priation BILL to the extent of our power. For
II we yield now, when and where, tell me. are
we to make stand? Let no gentlemen upon
this side of the Chamber indulge the delusion
that 1t this point is surrendered there will be
no further advance on the part of the enemy |!
Slr, this Is the beginning of series of assaults
10 be followed up and pushed with relentless
vlgor untli every fortress reared for the defense
OF free mon and a free ballot-for peace and
purify at the polls; for national life and in
dlvldual hberty-shall be torn down and de-
mollshed, that lawless violence, fraud and
murder may run riot in the land
Should we yield now, how long will it be
before upon an appropriation bill for the sup
port OF the Postofice Department provision
Will be incorporated excluding from Southern
mails, as was done in times of the slave power
all printed matter tending to instruct the colored
people IN their political rights and response
ohltes; ana then say to the President, 'sSign
or no mails?"
How long before upon an appropriation bill
for. the support of the judiciary will provision
De incorporated making an appropriation for
the payment of slaves and the Supreme Court
menaced with starvation to extort from it
decision that the constitutional prohibition was
never constltutionally adopted? Mr.. Presi-
dent, sign, or no court"
How long before upon some approximation
bill provision will be attached submitting an
amendment to the constitution abolshing the
three great constitutional amendments? &Mr,
PRESIDENT sign, or no support"
How long before provision will be incorpo-
rated upon some appropriation bill for the re-
establishment of slavery? sMr. President
sign, or your Government stops" How long
before upon some appropriation bill provision
WILL be made for the payment of the cotton tax
and the interest thereon, and the liquidation of
all Southern claims? Mr.. President, sign.
or starve." How long before upon bill
granting pensions to Union soldiers
sioning Confederate soldiers also? Even
now you cannot pension the survivors of the
Mexican war without including Jefferson Davis.
mr. PRESIDENT, sign, or no pensions for Union
soldiers" And so the work might 20 on,
through the fundamentally of appropriation
bills, of undoing the entire legislation of eighteen
years, as has been threatened, until the last
vestlge of those laws for the protection of hu-
man liberty and individual rights shall have
been swept away.
word more and I have done The dis
hngulshed gentleman from Kentucky TMr.
Blackburn the acknowledged leader of at
least the Southern wing of the Democrats
party OF this House, took occasion to say, in his
recent speech in this Hall, that this side of
the Chamber" abiding to the Democratic
majority, never means to yield or surrender
until this Congress mark the word, not this
session or the next, but until this Congress-
shall have died by virtue of it's limitation" I
have given his exact words Thatevent cannot
happen until the 4th of March, 1881.
And the order is promulgated from the Fed
eral Capitol, in the face of this nation bv an
ex-Confederate soldier, to prosecute the siege
until this republic, which he and his Cocoon
splrators could not destroy by the sword, shall
be reduced by starvation. And no sooner is the
order given than the whole Democratic party.
North and South, leap into the trenches at the
rallying. cry of their chosen leader "He who
dallies is a bastard, and he who doubts is
damned" Thus is the siege begun, thus is it
prosecuted. And with an air of defiance.
smacking a little of Southern domination, we
are told that "the issue is laid down. the gage of
battle is delivered; lift it when you please"
be 1t so, and be this my answer: that it is our
supremest pleasure to lift it now and here, and
we are prepared to make good the appeal.
Sir we accept the challenge you now present
IN no spirit of boasting arrogance, but with an
untllnchlng purpose and sublime courage
awaiting the issue with the utmost confidence
and composure It is not the first time we
have encountered solid South conspiring
against the life Of the republic; and, although
your forces may be somewhat augmented by
yous Northern allies, yet see nothing in the
increased array to cause heart to faint or a
cheek to blanch. AS you failed then you will
fail now. AS you could not kill, you cannot
starve. Did it ever occur to you, gentlemen,
that although you should withhold all sup
plies for the support of the Government that
possibly it might yet survive? Did it
ever occur to you that although you should
protract this siege until this Congress
shall have died by virtue of it's limitation
that possibly there would be no necessity
for surrender? Without support from the
Executive, are you quite sure there will be no
President? Refuse to feed the army; are you
entirely certain there will be no troops? DENY
to your navy the means to keep it af1oat: are
you certain you will force it to anchor? With
hold support from the Judiciary; is it clear
| there will be no courts? Refuse the needed
supplies for maintaining the legislative branch
of the Governments; are you confident there
will be no Congress? Why, sir, you are as i'm
potent to overthrow the Government by starva-
ton as you were to annihilate it by the sword
You may distress, but you cannot DESTROY. For,
let me tell you when that time comes the same
loyal people from the same loyal States who
took their lives in their hands and went forth
to do battle for the life of the republic, endur-
ing the weary march, the protracted siege. the
smoking hell of battle and the more horrible
hell of Southern prison-pens, until from the
dark waves of rebellion they bore upon
broken arm and lacerated breast the bleed
ing form of the republic and planted her feet
upon the immutable rock of constitutional gov
eminent and civil hberty-I say from the same
States sc, OOO, 600 people, animated by the same
patriotism, will when you attempt to starve this
republic, fly to her side at the first cry of her
distress, and there they will stand in ceaseless
vigil, not with sword, but with sustenance;
not with the implements of war, but with un-
measured wealth; not with shotted cannon
but with unlocked Golfers; not with bandages
but with bounty; and, bending over her pros
trate FORM will they succor and sustain her.
ministering to her necessities, UNTIL in the full
ness of time they can wrench from her throat
the cowardly hands that clutch it; and then,
thrilled with new life, will she spring to her
feet, and the very altar you builded for her i'm
notation shall become throne upon which she
shall stand in the majesty of her power, re-
sceptered and recrowned, goddess of nations
A Wife's Devotion.