The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-02


10 violate the constitutional right Of III
. President, in the act which Presiden
] johnson protested against,
Mr.. Hawley asked Mr.. Chalner
whether be was not awafe that the Re
publicans had then more than two-third
majority In Congress, and could pass
: bill over the Presidents veto. Chalmer
admitted that was so.
Mr.. Beliord-You say that the Repub
llcan party has been repudlated.
Mr.. Cha4mers-Ido, and thank God ]
is true. applause on the Democratic
sfde.j 4
Mr.. Beliord-In the last House you haf
70majority and to-day you have but one
Mr.. Chalmers proceeded with his speech
and asserted that on this question the Re,
publican party was standing on q mere
. punctiliO with o chip on It's shoulder
while the Democratic party was standing
on one OF vital principles OF liberty. II
said he, this government must be and die
in the hands OF such precedent then the
Democratic party can look in the face OIL
the dying goddess OF liberty and say
"Shake not thy CORY locks at me-thou
cans't not say did it, Applause on the
Democrat and jeering laughter on the Re
publican side.
What was meant by the threat Of the
gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Garfield, that
the Government knows his party Is pow.
erless in this House and in the Senate
What does this threat mean? Before
him when he made II, sat the Sec.
retary OF State, and behind him sat the
General OF the Army. We know that the
army and President are the only instru-
ments by which the Republican par.
ty can carry out its threats II
il was not mere bTAvado, not mere
galvanic shock intended 10 stir up the
spinal column OF the President, 1t was in
tended as treat to the American people,
that il we dared to redress a most grieve-
Gus wrong by putting It's repeal on an ap-
preparation bill, it would be branded rs
revolutionary, and that the President, with
the army and navy at his back, would put
down that revolution. The name OF revolu.
ton has no terrorsfor us. Sneering demon
strations on the Republican side. We
learned to love it in our child.
hood. It brings back TO US that
good struggle for freedom, when our
revolutionary ancestors left their foot.
prints stamped in blood in the snow OF
Valley Forge. may take heart when
ever the hour OF peril shall come on u.s.
Military despotism now threatens on ev-
cry side. Troops have been nassembledatth the
polls to free the people at elections. Troops
have been assembled at the Federal Capt.
tai to intimidate the House OF Representa-
tives in counting the electoral vote. The
battle cry OF 1880 has been already started,
a government OF law not TO be administer
ed by the judiciary, but with an army strong
enough to enforce it whenever it comes
TO a question between freedom and despot-
ism, and the Democratic party will be
found standing where our ancestors stood
in l776.
Mr.. Conger-I desire to ask the gentle
man from Mississippi whether the second
revolution Of 1861 had any terrors for
him.
Mr.. Chalmers distinguished gentle
man is exceedingly witty. History tells
us that English Kings were In the habit OF
keeping testers at court with fools.cap and
bells. II seems that Republican Con-
gress has supplied itselfin the same way,
[laughterl but instead Of fools.cap and
bells which might perhaps suit very well,
it has dressed its jester in swallow tails
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Mr.. Conger-I asked the heroic gentle
men from Mississippi plain, civil, sim
ple-qucstion, and instead OF answering it
he jumps upon his music box and makes a
face to the country and the House. [Coun-
tor demonstrations on the Republican
side, the members clapping their hands
and indulging in loud laughter for some
time.
Mr.. Chalmers-The gentleman is mis-
taken. shall certainly not undertake to
play a game atwhich any monkey can beat
me. Laughter on the Democratic side
Mr.. Frye said that he did not know how
long the Republican members would be
compelled to sit still and listen to the
charge that they had for Is years made
the Republic drunken despotism, reeling
and reeking through the land, and that
it was for the Democratic party TO restore
the millennium OF peace. lie did not know
how long they should have to submit. They
were the men to be forgiven, and have
to hold their voices for fear they might Of
fend some gentleman on the other side, or
might arouse the ghost OF the old "bloody
shirt" He did not know that they ought
to sit in quiet and submit to the charge
that they had become military despots, be.
cause the United States troops had been
sent to Now York City to keep peace. He
did not know but that they should keep
that Democratic OF New York City that had
murdered scores OF black men before the
United States troops were sent there to
keep peace, perhaps they ought TO submit
to being called remorseless hyenas and
make no sort OF reply.
Two gentlemen from Mississippi had
spoken and now he proposed 10 have
read what Mississippi newspaper has
said. lie sent TO the clerks desk and had
read an extract from the 0kalona Southern
States, an extract thanking God that the
South had captured the capitol, and that
in 1881 It's man would walk up the
White House steps and take his seat in
the presidential chair. That then the
glorious triumph OF the South would be
complete, &c.
MIR. Muldrow said that that paper repre-.
sented no respectable part OF the Missis.
sippi Democracy. One OF its editors was
q man who had carpet.bagged from Ohio
to Mississippi within the past four years.
MIR. Sparks : 1t is reported that he was
sutler in Michigan regiment. Laughter
on the Democratic side.
MIR. Frye-I have heard again and again
that cry as TO the capture OF the Capitol.
You have been nearer to it than you are
to-day, but you never have put your hand
vet on the Capitol, and under God you
never will! [Applause on the Republican
side and great excitement throughout the
hail.
Mr.. Frye continued-The South had
turned upon the North, and made dc.
mand alter demand in rapid succession,
and the North in its humiliation had re.
spondGd as rapidly, yielding pointby point.
until in their pride Of power they asked
too much, and then when the "Solid
North" had said, "Not one single step
, further; is thy servant n dog that he should