Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-05


devotd to this Union as in Massachu.
setts herself. l should dislike to live
in acountry, where not one in a thou
sand could swear they had been loyal to
the government under whose protection
they had been born and bred. But I
say. under this false education, land the
gentlemenon the other side very we'll
understand how they have manufactured
it and wpught it up,) as an offshoot of
that fals theory which was sent forth
in regad to the people of the South, we
had th Greeley campaign. Under this
notioI I want to call the attention of
northern Representatives to this thought
unGr this idea that the wealth, lntelli-
gelce, and respectability Of the South
we're all in opposition to the republican
party, even the loyal North almost went
lack 70 the republicans of the South !;
lid in .875. believe it was, under
BAD advhe the hero of the war made a
Mistake. General Grant, under the ad-
nee of hi Attorney-General, refused to
rotect therepublicans of the State of
Mississippi and the result was that
he rifle clu's succeeded. Having sue
'eeded in Mississippi, they spread over
md subverteo the republican party all
,ver the South and that accounts for
he absence 6 republicans from the
South in this Hall to-day.
And to-day, under these influences,
lnder a power more hateful and odlous
han all the bayorets of the land, the
semi-civil and military organizations of
the South have overturned the right of
the people, until to day, as was said the
other day. not single colored man re-
mains a Representative upon this floor.
When look around me I see, Mr..
-hairman, but three republicans from
the seeded States of the South. That
is the logical result of the policy COM
menced in the State of Mississippi, where
it should have been checked under these
laws at the time, but where it was al
loved to spread over the South and in
wade the rights of the people.
And | desire to say in my place here,
Mr.. Speaker, that for one-others may
place their opposition to the amend
ments put upon these appropriation bills
to repeal the laws referred to, l place
upon the broad ground of the merits of
these laws and the injustice of their re-
peal. If permitted to stand, and the
President of the United States will en-
force them, We Will nave IaIr eIeUUIUns
and Republicans will be returned to
Congress by the voice of the free people
undriven by "bulldozers" and other Or
ganizations. [Applause on the republi-
can side.
want to say for one that others may
do as they please, but never while
have seat and a vote upon this floor
will | vote to repeal these statutes until
eyerv man in the South, whether white
or black, whether carpet bagger from
the North or so-called scalawag from the
So.th, has free and untrammeled and
fair, equal chance at the ballot-box
TApplause on the republican side.
want it distinctly understood, Mr.
Chairman, we do not need any of thi
election machinery in my district. No
a bit of it. The republicans of the sec
ond district of Tennessee are capable o
taking care of themselves, and | woulC
hold my seat on this floor if every col
ored man in that district had been poll
ed for my competitor. Further south
however, where | concede the great ma
iority of the white people went into thi
democratic rebellion because it was onl,
the democratic party on horseback tha
welded artillery and small arms during
the war
Mr.. Houk. / will soon close, as
wish to accommodate my friend fror
New Jersey, but | have two or thre
things further which desire to say
TCries of go on !"l | was about sayin
and | believe did say, that we do no
need this election machinery in my dis
tnct, but every intelligent gentleman c
the House and the country very we
knows there are districts in the Sout
where the republican party is composed
large majority Of it, of that class {
persons who were held in domestic bond
age for more than two hundred year.
and they are timid and easily drive
FROM the polls. For the purpose of IT
storing freedom at the ballot box
these people in the Southern States an
the Northern States if it be needed,
shall stand here and continue, day
day and time after time, voting again
the repeal of these measures, whic
when "wiped out" will give an oppo
tunity to carry the elections by the ia
ored democratic methods which we 8
understand.
But these people, not content with t
fraud of force. resorted to "tissue b;
lots" in order to increase democratic m
jorities in the South. We have one M
in the Tennessee penitentiary now
stuffing ballot-boxes, and others oug
u L. ~. TT o,,rbfor He mae