The Leavenworth weekly times., 1879-06-26

Wha. Southern man has ever been abused
or IN tied, or maltreated in the North, as
Iauilldie. Of Northern men have been in
ite South, before and since he war
What sectional haze was exhibited
in the terms OF capiiulation IN
AMNESTY, in restoration to forfeited political
rights, in the rehabilitation of the State
governments? Whist Just cause Of COM
piaiut to-day can be urged by the South
What right is denied them? How are
they oppressed? lu what respect are they
not the peers and equals Of the loyal States?
They have sbsolute control of their local
affairs. They have practically msioriiy
in both Houses OF Congress. Thechieftains
who led their leeions with insolent menace
sgsinst the cspitsl of the nation now sit in
its legislative halls, control its revenues, di-
rec: It's policy, and claim to be the exclu-
| siTe champions Of constitutional liberty, the
preservers OF the Union and the sole guar
dians Of the rights Of the people. They eu-
logize Jefferson Davis as the equal of Lin.
coin ard the peer Of Washington and
Hsmpden, and then ask US to let by-gones
be by-gones and the dead past bury its
dead. New England is denounced as the
birthplace of slavery and secession. The
Republican party is habitually sssailed
with loose, coarse and intemperate denun-
citation, and any attempted reply is oharac-
| terized as preaching the gospel Of hatred.
There ia a touch oI grim humor about the
| proceeding, like that engerdered by the
| spectacle Of the intimidated Southern voter
who, W tn a mask upon his face, pair of
revolvers at his waists bowie-knife in each
boot and double bErreled shotgun over
his shoulder, Indignantly insists upon the
adoption of the sixth section Of the army
bill and protests aginst armed interference
a. the polls.
| No, Mr.. President, there is no hate at the
| North, and no fear, and no prejudice.
There is much patient liberation. But this
session of Congress has engendered very
| grave and serious distrust Of the methods,
the tendencies and the purposes Of the
apostles of this new political die
pensation. There is no disposi ion to judge
the South harshly. 1t was not to be eX-
pected that the tremendous passions aroused
by the war, the trepids,ion Of the van
| quished, the bs filed ambition Of its leaders,
aud all The baleful agitations of that awful
tragedy should instantaneously subside and
disappear. The South has exhibited many
high quslities of courage and endurance.
There has been less Of turbulence and dis
order thsn might have been anticipated.
| The revolt.d States have resumed their re-
lstions to the Government, and with their
obsequious allies, have obtained control OF
both Houses OF Congress. IL these results
have been reached through constitutional,
Just, and lawful means; if suffrage has
been protected, if education has been uni.
versal, if freedom of speech and opinion
has been maintained, if equal rights have
been enforced and justice impartially
administered, there can be no cause for dis
content in the loss Of political supremacy.
Maioriues must rule We made the terms.
We must accept the consequences.
But the events Of the past two years have
begun to provoke incredulity. There are
some who suspect the sacred covenants OF
freedom and the solemn guarantees of the
Constitution have not been observed with
absolute fidelity. 1t is vaguely rumored
that under the pernicious pretext of State
sovereignty bloody tyrannies have been
builded on the ruins of liberty, and that
whit minorities have suppressed black
msjorities by premeditated violence and
systematic slaughter and assassination
Evidence has been offered tending to show
that "home rule" literally interpreted
means the right to murder with impunity,
and ''locsl self-government" the right tc
reduce the freedmen to servile condition
that mas all the horrors with none OF tht
alleviations OF slavery. The only answer
to these allegations has been denial or a
sneer. All attempts to invoke the in
teryentIon of the nation in behalf o.
those whom it is under the mos
sacred obligation to protect are denouuceC
a. an invasion OF the rights Of the States
The purpose is boldly avowed to deprive
the Federal courts of their Jurisdiction, tt
practically annihilate the Army, and tc
hinder, hamper, impede, embsrass, and ob
struct the exertion of the Federal authority
in every manner within the limits OF tht
States; to strip and divest the Government
of all national attributes; to NJ Ike it s
name, a shadow, an efiigy.
indie Jove,
With painted thunder i'll Its hand.
There is one other topic to which | vii
advert in closing, craving the indulgence o
the Senate for trespassing 80 far on theil
patience at this period of the debate but
do this because the subject is one which Pc
culiarly affects my own State and people
| and because thev have been uniustly stis-
matized during this debate as participants
in political scheme 10 harass ard in lure
the South-a statement which | mention
only to deuounce and deny. i allude TO the
departure of the negro from the South
| populsrly known as The exodus" Several
Senators have taken the opportunity to say
that the movement was stimulated fer sin
lister purposes by northern politicians who
had dispatched their emissaries into the
Southern States, psndering TO the Ignorance
and cupidity of their victims.
Against these assertions ] will call the
attention of the Senate to the statements OF
leading Democratic newspapers recently
published in relation to the causes and
consequences OF this migration. / read
| from the New Orleans Times. / do not
know whether that is a strictly Democratic
paper, but suppose it to be. 1t says:
| Why in the world can we not be honest and
truthful to ourselves about this matter :"
| Why not recognize the evil. acknowledge its
causes, appreciate its seriousness, understand
the necessity of averting and checking the
movement which threatens to impovsrish
the falresf portion OF the State? The Times
has already pointed out the necessity of local
| organization of the planters in parishes in
| terested, with the view OF Inspiring confi-
| pence in the minds OF the people who are
/ affected by this epicemic, for in every sense
| IL is that. When prudent physician desires
| to remove disease from the body he seeks
the cause of the ailment aid aims TO remove
that. Let our planters understand that the
negroes are leaving their homes because they
fear and believe that their political, civil,
and personal rights are in danger. Let these
suspicious be removed, and the exodus will
cease.
In late editorial the same paper says:
We might ask them
That is the people of Mississippi
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