Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-05-21
Arrangement OF the COnfederates.
RINGING SPEECH OF COLONEL JOYCE.

Delivered IN House Of Representatives., Apra "a
Sir, speak to-day from an overpowering sense
OF public duty. speak because can no longer
remain silent and be justified. For four long
years have sat in this hall and heard the people
Of the North DETAINED, maligned, and the Repub-
lican party traduced and villifed. have heard
the loyal men of the North charged with being
the orgnators and primal cause of all the blood
and misery of the past eighteen years, while the
conduct of traitors and rebels has been held up as
heroic, AS honorable and rs worthy of imitation.
have heard men who in their hearts despise tie
Union, who hate the flag, but who love the lost
cause and glory in their treason with brutal au-
dacity and vulgar impotence pirate about the
sacred obligations of the Constitution, and lect
Republicans upon their duty To the Republic
! have heard men whose souls are stained with
the blood of the prisoner and the helpless, and
against whom thousands OF murdered men will
rise up in judgment, insult the intelligence, the
patriotism, and the sense of justice of the Amer
lean people by assuming the role of guardians OF
the Constitution and conservators of the public
peace and the rights of the people
have heard the loyal and noble men whose
strong arms and stout hearts crushed that unholy
and accursed conspir lcy, and indicated the
power of the government IN defend and preserve
its own life, abused and revled by those whom a
just and righteous God will hold responsible for
the brutal and fiendsh Outrlges at Fort Pillow, ut
Belle Isle and at Andersonvle
have seen the whole democratic party In this
country rise up and heard them howl about United
States soldiers at the polls, while bands of armed
ruiians in the South take possession of the ballot
boxes, stuff them with tissue ballots and shoot
down and hang those who refuse to vote the dem
Ocrtic ticket
Sir, ii is shame and Il mocSery and should be
endured no longer. The time has come when
modesty and delicacy should be laid aside, and
the men of the North should denounce this AFRO
gance, expose this hypocrisy, resent the insult
and again bid defiance to resusctated treason and
modified rebellion.
1t may as well be known now as ever that the
people of the North, " standing securely upor
their own conscious rectitude and bearing alof
the shield of the Constitution Of their country,
have no further concessions to make, that they
have no pardon or forgiveness to ask, but thai
under God they are determined that the great
principles settled by the war and crystaliZed int
the organic law of the Republic shall be preserved
and enforced at all hazards and at any cost anC
that the men who barred their bosOms to the storm
Of rebellion in 1861 to guard the life Of the nation
from the rebels bullet and the traitors steel ar,
ready in 1879 TO again stand in the breach and :,
protect 1t against the treason of those who nov
seeking to destroy it under the forms of law.
Mr., chairman the record Of the Democrat,
party since 1t has been in power in this House l.
full of instruction aud warning and cannot b,
too often held up TO the gaze and contempt of tn,
American people
Through base deception and fraudulent repre-
sensations that party gained control of the ma
tional House of Representatives in 1876 In tn,
| campaign Of 1874 you told the people that the Re
publican party was corrupt; that II had squan
dered and misapplied their money; that il had
burdened them with taxes and was responsible
| for the great commercial panic which the year
before had Frustrated business and placed an EN-
| barge on trade and enterprise
You said then that If the people would give yol
| the control Of this House you would wipe out al
corruption, you would cut oil all the eXtravagan
| expenditures OF the government, relieve the PEG
| pie from the burdens Of taxation, and revive an,
establish the PROSTATE Industrial interests of TIN
| country.
Unfortunately you succeeded in making enough
| weak minded men in the North believe YOU :,
| that with their help and solid South you cap
tured this branch of the National Legislature
In December 1915 you organized the House an,
proceeded, not TO carry out the solemn pledge
and promises you had made TO the people durin,
| the canvass, but to break every covenant vioat
every pledge and repudlate every obligation.
| Instead OF originating and maturing Legislation
| which would break the terrible force of the PAM
| and relieve the commercial distresses of the PEG
| pie, you attempted through your ursurped an,
iraudulently obtained power here to buy or stea
| the Presidency.
In your great anxiety 10 play the hypocrte yol
fastened To pass resolution against the grant
ing OF subsidies by Congress in order to quiet AN,
/ delude the people, and then you attempted 4
| open the doors of the National Treasury to tn
greed and hunger of southern schemers and To pa
| three thousand millions of rebel war claims
You have endeayored to destroy the army an
navy that you might hereafter recruit and office
| them with those whose crimes have rendere
them unfit and unworthy to be again trusted b.
| the government.
You have exerted every power and tried ever
| scheme To depreciate our currency, destroy on
| securities, aud prevent resumption and the retur
of commercial confidence and prosperity.
Yon have made show OF cutting down the ex
penditures Of the National Government only 4
| waste the money you thus aved in fruitless In
vestigations and IN partisan efforts to backen tn
fair fame of the men who saved the Republi
| tina and rahpllinn al the lan
ocritc party
You have obstinately refused the necessary al
preparations 10 carry On the several department
OF the government 10 the great injury OF the pull
lie business, SO that you could have money To pa
pensions To those whose names had been drOppe
from the National pension rolls for participation
in the rebellion,
You have ATTEMPTED to destroy the manufaetu
ing interests of the North by repeating the tariff
and have done all in your power To render 1t in
possible for the government 10 collect its revenue
in the Southern states,
You have violated the Constitution, set the law
at defiance, and outraged humanity by deprivin
the coored people of the South OF the right 10 yot
You have attempted 10 crush out the Republ
can party in the South by fraud and violence
breaking up their meetings and compelling thel
by force to abandon their organization, while 70
stand here and insult the loyal people Of the ooul
try by talking about IA free ballot and pun
elections.
You have by bloody prosecutions and poitici
intolerance driven tho colored people, on whO
YOU are really dependent for the food you eat au
the clothes you wear from your borders an
then when they are fleeing from the house of the
bondage " the promised land In the great We
you fall upon them and kill them In the wilderness
, You have stricken down the right of free spec,
In the South, and by violence and murder con
PEELED free men Ia vote the democratic tick
against their will, You have shot aud hung M,
Tor opiniOns sake, aud ridden into power IN III
House by intimidation, fraudulent voting, BALI
box stating and false counting You have l
the most shameless craftsmanship and baTofac,
pettiiogging turned out OF this House membe
! who were iarly and legally elected, and hll'