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to the bench and to the cabinet ; they
have welcomed them to foreign mis-
sions; they have welcomed them to
official positions of every description,
on the one sole condition that they
would vote the republican ticket.
Party politics control this whole
matter. When they vote the repub-
lican ticket they r your brigadiers;
when they vote the democratic ticket
they are our brigadiers.
My purpose must not be misunder..
stood. 1 am not producing any OF
these names here to assault them ; L
I'm simply using them to illustrate a
policy SO crooked aud so outrageous
that it deserves exposure, and IL snail
have it.
Here, next, is another Virginian,
John 8. Mosby. VINO was John 5.
Mosby know him we'll. L speak
no unkind word of him, yet l can re-
member when it was a question
whether his surrender would be re-
ceived, whether he would be accept
ed as q prisoner of war or whether
he should be outlawed from the gen
eral amnesty which the government
was then extending. There was a
time when the name Of Mosby shook
the fears of men in this capitol.
There was q time when it was sup
posed he fought under a black flag,
and that it could sometimes be seen
from the dome in the soft sunlight of
an afternoon. 1t was thought that
his warfare partook of the nature of
the guerrilla, and such a belief largely
prevsils to this hour. But all ls for
given now ; not only forgiven, but
verify this most offensive confed-
crate warrior has his rich reward.
He embraced ~radicalism, and it in
turn embraced him. Instead of some
wounded federal soldier occupying
the position this republican senate
has confirmed John S. Mosby as con-
sui at Hong-kong, and he is now an
American representative to the old.
est empire on earth; he is among the
Celestials.
The traveller in passing through
Virginia naturally visits North Caro-
lima next. We will do the same.
Thomas Settle, of North Carolina, is
now a district Judge of the United
States, a life Office of rank aud i'm
portance. 1t is doubtless true that
Judge Settle is q competent man l
am told he is. by both the senator's
from the state, but he was an officer
of the confederate army. He was q
secessionist ; he fought the battle of
secession; he turned to be a republic
can, and was made president of the
republican national convention which
nominated Grant, in 1872, at Phila-
delphia. Afterward he was made
minister to Peru, and he now occu-
pies q high judicial station. pro.
claim here, US far as my voice will
go, that the most profitable spec
ulation a man who fought in the con-
federate army can now engage i'll is
to advertise himself ready to enter
tho ranks of the republican party at
Q fair compensation.
Governor Holden, of North Caro-
lima, was an original secessionist and
a signer of the ordinance of secession
which took North Carolina out Of
the Union. The republican party, as
o as he Joined its ranks. its I'M
halo wed ranks down there-I will
not quite apply that word to it up
here-made HIM governor of the
state. lie remained governor until
he was impeached ; but proven
crimes did not seem to disgrace him
with republicans. Since then he has
been appointed postmaster at Raleigh
and confirmed by the senate, and he
is there now at a good wholesome
salary. Every weak or t%reacherous
man in the south who for shame or
for love of gain desires to abandon
his friends aud prey upon his own
PEOPLE is thus rewarded.
Take the Barrinsers one of them
is q United States judge in Egypt.
They were confederates; they L
republicans now, and they are cared
for.
The United States district attorney
of North Carolina, Mr.. Lusk. was
an officer in the confederate army.
aud he was confirmed here. He was
confirmed by senators whose souls
shrink from contact with a cOnfeder-
ate officer unless he is a republican.
Mr.. Young was Il confederate officer
aud he is now II of the ven col
isciOrs of that.state-
Going OH down the Atlantic coast
and we strike South Carolina, the
land of the Marions, the Sumiers,
the Hamptons, the Frestuls, the Rut-
lodges, the Buffers the land of cniy-
| alric men. What has occurred here /
james l.. Orr was once speaker OF the
House of Representatives and speak
of him with respect ; he Is dead. l
knew him well. He went into seces-
s,un, and, armed rebellion and Was
y confederate officer. He afterward
Joined the republican party; and
what q place they gave him! They
made him minister to Russia. Ii not
one of the tirsi-class missions, it is
the foremost of the second-class.
| believe it does not rank with the first.
NJ. C%onkling. 1t does.
Mr.. Blaine. 1t does now.
MIR. Voorhees,. Then IL Vas one OF
the four tirst-class missions, England
France, Germany, and Russia, and
this confederate officer received it as
his reward furjoining the republican
party. | know what my friend from
Illinois MIR. Logan is saying to him
self. lie is mentally enchanting,
"Would to God that some of my c"In-
rades who fought under the old flag
could have y great place like that
| cannot be mistaken MS to what is
going Oh i'll the breast OF that hard
fighting federal soldier. [ think
even my genial friend from Rhode
Island MIR. Bmrnside] has his on
science somewhat quIckeneh if not
entirely aroused OH the subject by
this time.
Colonel Northup, of South Carroll
ma, is now United States district al.
torney he was III officer in the con-
federate army.
We move on again aud pause next
in Mississippi, the land of the brave
and the warn-hearted, as l know, fol
| have been there ; the land of genius,
because the senator from Mississippi
sitting behind ne MIR. Lamarl ha.
his home there. Let us see how the
republican party managed. its affair.
in that state. Maj"r Morphis wa.
the o prominent scout of Genera
Stephen ID. Lees command and he il
now the United States marshal fol
the Northern district of Mississippi
Captain e. w. Hunt was All aid t.
General Hardee, and he is now the
United States marshal for the south.
ern district of Mississippi. All ! how
the good things come to the regencr
ate Thomas Waltou-I knew him
he is in his grave, and peace to hi
ashes-was all aid to General Long
street. He was appointed Unite,
States district attorney ; and after hi
death he was succeeded bv Gree,
Chandler, a confederate officer VIII,
was at that time United States mai
agent, and is now United States dis
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