Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-29


Whole, and having under consideration
the bill III. R. No. 1882 TO prevent mill
itary interference at elections, Mr.. Chan
dler said:
History, Mr.. President, is repeating it |
setf. 1t has been said that the old Bour-
hons learned nothing and forgot nothing.
Hhis5is more pre-eminently true with the
old Bourbons of Democracy in America.
In 1851 the Bourbons had absolute con-
troll Of this Government, in both houses
of Congress, the White House and the
Supreme Court. The whole of this Gov
eminent was under your control. You
had a majority in this body, a majority
in the other House and you brought up
the repeal of the Missouri compromise.
You forced your men then, as you are
forcing them now, to vote for that repeal,
and you did it by caucus dictation. Then,
sir, you crowded your Northern allies
until you crowded them off the bridge.
In 1857, when 1 first took my seat in
this body with Mr.. Jefferson Davis, there
were in this body forty-four Democrats,
twenty Republicans and two Independ-
ents. OF those Democrats twenty-eight
were from the Southern States, sixteen
from the Northern States. Then, as now,
the Independents in this body, upon ev-
cry question connected with slavery voted
with the South.
You in caucus, soon after l entered the
Senate, decreed that Stephen A. Douglas,
because he asserted that he did not care
whether slavery was voted up -Teted,
down, should be degraded from the chair
manship of the Committee on Territories:
and there were but three Northern Dem
ocrats outof the sixteen on this floor who
dared to resist caucus dictation. You did
degrade him and put him off from that
committee. All, sir, then you crowded
your men off the bridge, and they sank
into the waters of oblivion to rise no
more forever.
Then you had from the Northern States
on this floor: from California, two mem
| bers; from Illinois, one; from Indiana,
two; from Iowa, one; from Michigan ,one.
a4a giving the Democratic Senators
from the North who obeyed and those
who did not obey caucus dictation. From
Minnesota you had two, from New .Jer-
sey two, from Ohio one, from Oregon two,
Pennsylvania one, and one from Rhode
Island, which made the sixteen. OF those
sixteen members not a solitary man from
the north ever came up to the surface of
| the waters of oblivion. You crowded
them off the bridge. You compelled them
to vote for measures which the North
| could not and wonld not sustain. y
To-day you. are doing the self-same
thing. To-day you have in this body ~
Democrats, So Republicans, and one In
dependent. To-day, as % years. ago, on
all questions connected with State rights,
the Independent party as a unit votes
with the Democratic party. To-day you
have, as 1 said, 43 Democrats in this body,
~, leaving out the Independent party.
You have II members of this body from
the North. There are II Democratic SEN
ators from the North, and they are ar
ranged thus: From California one, from
Indiana, now as then, you have two; from
New Jersey you have two, now as then
from Ohio you have two, you had but one
then; from Oregon you have two now and
you had two then; from Pennsylvania
you have one now, you had one then ;
from Rhode Island you have none now,
but you have one from Connecticut, and
you have one from New York.
Mr.. President, as I said in the begin.
: ming, history is to-day repeating itself
You are to-day repeating what you did il
1857 and 1858; you are crOwding you
!, men off the bridge, and the men of to-day
as the men of 1857, will sink in to the wa
ters of oblivion to rise no more forever
Look at the elections of this last year
Look at the change that has taken plac
since the first day of March, 1859. Sir. tn
people are more thoroughly aroused to
" day against the heresy of State right
;, than they were from 1857 to 1851.
You proposed to pension Jefferson Da
Wis, and every single one of your North
:, ern allies voted to pension him. YO
eulogized him as patriot to be compare
side by side with Washington and all tn
patriots of the Revolution, and every on
: of your Northern allies voted FFaye.'
After the close of the rebellion yo
:. claimed that you were poor; thatyou wei
= suffering; we found you ragged and Y
y clothed you. We put upon you the rot
~ of American citizenship which you hs
:, forfeited, and we killed for you the fattG
y calf and invited you to the feast, suppo
. ing that, after being clothed, you were
p your right mind; and when we have i
= e vited you to the feast you say, ''We a
:" ways owned the calf and you have no i
terest in it," [Great laughter.l
y The President pro tenepOre. The Cha
u will order the rule to be enforced and tt
as galleries cleared ii the disorder is i
y peated.
,e, Mr.. Chandler: And now you inform
that you are going to repeal all the R
n publican party has done. What is the j
al that you have undertaken? You are g
en- ing to undo all that the Republican par
:" has done. Where do you begin Do y
lat begin at the Appomattox, or before?
is very important to know where y
commence, and then to know where y
propose to stop. You have undertaken
his very large job for party of your sii
ire and with the people who are to sit
lat judges upon your case. You have undt
,ed taken to unseat man in this body,
yer you will deny that you have undertak
the job; you say that you have simply I
he dertaken to investigate the case of the s.
lily of a Senator upon this floor that has be
-ou decided by the highest tribunal VIII
I'VE could act upon that question. Sir, TIN
are twelve Senators on that side of |