The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-11
SENATOR mAxEY,s SPEECH AND
WHAT NEXT


WHAT NEXT
Senator Msxey's speech at Paris was,
in many respects. masterpiece Of
forceful didactic eloquence. He said,
when laudlng the Democratic party,
that
Twenty-six Senators today hold
their places in the United States Sem
ate from thirteen States, whose terri
tory was added to the original thirteen
By Democratic policy. Every measure
OF glory and added wealth to our COM
mon country originated with and was
successfully executed by the Demo-
cratic party. The shame OF reconstruc
ton acts, Of the control of free people
by military power, of usurpations of
power, of Pacific mail subsidies, San
borne Jayne jobs, Credit Mobilier,
Seneca Sandstone, whisky rings, Black
Fridays attaches not to US.
The Senator, il he love the Southern
wing Of the Democratic party, should
not inveigh against the reconstruction
acts. Thad Stevens aud Ben Butler,
as masters of that committee, repro
duced and terminated Southern Demo-
cracy. It's old leaders Iwere helpless
and hopeless. Wrecked and stranded
along the roaring seashore of Southern
politics were the barks that had been
freighted with their personal and
political fortunes. But Jefferson Davis
was put in irons, terms of pacification
approved by Lincoln, Sherman, Grsnt
and Joe Johnston were repudiated,
Stevens and Ben Butler became the
governments masters, the policy of
subordlnating the white to the black
race was put in execution and the
South became an uninhabitable hell.
Southern white people became an unit.
The leaders of 1s00-1. were again in
vested with honors and Offices and thus
Southern Democracy was reproduced
even by Stevens and Butler. How
etrS-zs the echoes of denunoiation
directed against this Democracy that
come down from the North How in
credible that Butler, Blaine, Conk-
ling and Garfield, followers of
Stevens and accepting his philoso-
ply, should be found making war
upon the Democracy that was lifeless
till Stevens, the great arch-tiend OF
RadicaIIsm, deliberately blew the
trump of resurrection. Even John
w. Forney, who still lives, worked
small disgusting stomach pumps, "both
daily" which helped vastly in those
miserable days in the process of drain
ing out Of the South the undigested
remains of the old party organization,
but the object was accomplished. Con-
servatism North and South was oblit-
Grated, and sectional bitterness and its
impereonations on both sides of the
geographical line were made supreme.
The Radical party was thus made
omnipotent. 1t was given foe made
odions at the North by secessionism.
The powerful North was thus CONSOLE
dated against the helpless South and
there were never more adroit or knsv-
ish.party leaders than Ben Butler and
Thad Stevens, and the reconstruction
committee which accomplished these
hideous, hateful and ruinous results.
Bnt they retain absolutism. Their
followers were enriched, the people
piundered, republic became splen-
did aristocracy of aggrandized place
holders.
But when and how are we to effect
changed Recent events in Calitor.
ala and Maine and the probabilities in
Ohio and New York, while Tilden
sacrifices everything to the attainmen,
Of ends Of personal ambition, are not
calculated to gid with hopes of tri-
nmph the visions even Of the ardent
senator Maxey. Greenback gush and
goster and CANNON have drawn largely
upon Democratic stupidity and harmed
more intelligent Northern Republican,
lam in nothing. The contest for the
Presidency in 1850 Is almost deter
mined even in this year Of our Lord
1879; and love Democracy as we may,
while It IS sectional it is impotcnt.
It is said by great soldiers, like Gen
Maxsy, that 1t is fatal to change front
in The face OF an enemy. But What
are We TO do about ito Must We NOV,
on to sure and inevitable defeai
or 20 back to stronghslds occupied
when Tlden. Randall and Potter began
he unwise policy Of reproducing sec
i'onal questions and substituting thoss
that fan sectional passions for practical
issoesl We have absolutely enabled
Conkline. hefo0led IS he is at least
With that infsny attaching to him who
destroys a womsn's fair fame. to gov
ose. Is q master his slsYess tie Repub-
lean party OF New York. Nothing
but The odinm that attaches to the so.
called sshet guan sectional Demoe,
nay. Is made sectional By Tllden,
R11dall and Potter, could have in
vested conkllng With supremacy il
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