The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-03

cratic party had wanted The supervision {
military domination and they ha
asked for it in the very sam
language which was now in the appropris
ton bill. He deprecated the attempt mad
to blacken the name Of Senator Powell an,
Rsverdy johnson, by saying that they hs,
been advocates of using the army to kee
, peace at the polls. In reference 10 Mr.
Gsrield's statement that the Southern
Democrats of 1861 threatened to shoe
Union to DEATH" he declared that the
had made no such threat. THE South haC
claimed the right of peaceful sece-sion, anC
had attempted peacefully to secede. Tn,
South hid not only inside no threat tc
shoot Union to DEATH but it had saiC
what Abrsham had said to Lot: Let ther,
he no strife between US. Ii you 60 to the
North, we will go to the South IL was the
North that said: You shall not CO. and
sent grand armies after US. You hemmed
us in by land and by sea. You not only
threatened to shoot, but you shot us to
death, with the battle cry OF: The Consii.
tuition as it l., and the Union "a it was. y
You rallied the whole North, without re-
gard 10 party, IN defense of the old Il 'g'
Mr.. Price-"Where thu was first gun fired ?'
Applause on the floor and in the CALLER
lea
Mr. CHALMERS-"T The first gun was
fired near Hsrper's Ferry, wheu the South
ern blood was shed on Southern soil"
Loud applause on the Democratic side snd
IN galleries. The Chairman gave notice
that if snch demonstrations were repeated
he would order the galleries Gle .red
Mr.. PRICE," The gentleman must know
| that Jno. Brown and his 10 men were not
| fighting 10 destroy the Union, and that the
| first gun against Union was at Sumter"
Mr. CHALMERS went on TO say that il
| the proposed legislation was a revolution,
that the Republican party had accom-
plishsd that revolution. Alter the revOlu-
ton of one of the most iniquitous sets of
usurpation ever perpetIa'ed by the R-pnb-
iican party TO violate the Constitutional
right Of President, was an act which Presi
dent Johrson protested against.
Mr.. HAMLEY asked Chalmers whether
he was not aware that the X. publicsns hsd
then more than two-thirds ms ,riiy in Con-
sres-, and could pass bill over the Presi
dents veto.
Mr.. CHALMERS admitted that was so.
Mr.. BUF0RD-"You cav that the Re
publican party hiss been reuudiated ~
Mr.. Mr.. CHALNERS-''l dc; and thank
God, it is tue" Applause on the Demo
cratic side
Mr.. BUFORD-"In the last House YOU |
had seventy majority, ard to day you have
but one
Mr. CHALMERS proceeded with his
speech, and asserted that on this question |
the Republican party was standing on a
mere punctilio with ship on its shoulder.
while the Democratic party WAS standing
on one of the vital principles of liberty.
III, said he, 'this government must die,
and die at the hands OF such President,
then the Democr tic party can look on the
face OF the dying Goddess OF
Liberty, and say, shake not thy CORY locks
At me; thou cans't not say did it APP Il
plau-e on Democratic, ard j'ering and
Laughter on the Republican side TO this
complexion it has come at last
that the msjOriiy must 60
like suppliants on the bsnded knee and
pray To their most worshipped highnesss Of
the min rity to redress the grievances, or
that this government must dis. What was
meant by the th'e,t OF the gentleman from
Ohio, Mr. Garfield, that the gentlemsn
knows hat his party ia pOwsrless in this
House and Sensrs? What then does this
threat mean? B. lore him, was tine Score
tary of Stat; bebind him sat the General
Of the army We know that The army
and the President are the only instruments
by which the Republican party can carry
out Its threat Ii it We're not mere bravo !
do-not a mere galvanic shock OF slo-
qusnce, INTENDED o stimulate the spinal
column of President, it was intended as l
threat to the American people that if W.
tn rod a WI ~ | .
putting its repeal on an appropri alton bill
it would be denounced a. revolutionary
and that the President, with the army and Z
navy at his back, would put down that rev
olution. The name Of revolution has no
terror for us" Sneer,ng d monstrations
m the Republican sid. We learned to
love it in our childhood; 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, so that we, their children
NAV take heart again. whenever the hour Of
peril shall come upon us. Nj itary d-spo-
iism now threatens us on every side troops
have been assembled at the polls to intimi-
late free people at the elections; rro, ps
have been ass, mbl. Il at the federal ca pital ,
10 intimida,e the House OF Il representative
in uniting the electoral vote. The battle OF
1880 has been slrea' y started govern ,
nent OF Law not TO be admin
stored by jufici-ry but with an :
army strong enough to enforce il. l
y henever it comes IL q question between I
FREEDOM and desPotism, the Democratic !
,arty will be found standing where our an q
,estors stood in l776"
Mr.. CONGER Il desire TO ask the gen. I
l.msn from Mississippi whether the secord {
evolution of 1851 had any terror for him.
Mr.. CHALMERS =" The distinguished I
Gentleman il ~, e, dinglv witty. History L
ell US that English King. were in thu
labit of kespIn. testers at court with fools a
ap and bells. IL .eems that a Republican
congress h4s supplied itself in the same ),
manner. Laugh .r Bat instead Of u
ool's cap aud juggling bells, which might r
'erhaPs suit very we'll, it has dre-sei i'll .
-sters in swallow tails" Loud Laughter y
u The Democratic Tide :
MIR. CONCERT a-ked the heroic ger y
lemsn from Mississippi a plain, civil,
imple ques ion and Instead If answering
Re jumps upon his music box and makes =
rimsces to the country and To- the Hou-e"
Counter demonstrations on the Republican
lde, members clappiDg their han Is and IN :
ulging in loud laug hter for 3 considerable
ime
Mr.. CHALMERS-"The gentleman ia !
,istaken. shall certainly not undertake :,
D play game at which any m ,nkey C IN r,
eat IL, Laughter on .mocratic side y
Mr.. FRY f said he did not know how =
Dng the RepubIicsn members would Be o
Ompelled TO sit still and listen to charges u
hat had for eighteen years made OF Ii
he public druukard despotism, reeling a
nd ret king through land to the dec o
laration that there was military despot 81
'm aud that IL was r the ID mOcratic n
arty 10 restore it TO the millennium of ;,
eace. He did not know how long they !,
hould have to submit 10 being told that they "
er- never to b. forgiven, and have to
old their voices for fear they might offend b
rouse the ghost Of the "Old bloody shirt" al
lie did not know but that they ought to 81,
uietly and let it be thought that they had
ecame military despots, because United
tates troops hid been sent TO New York
ity TO keep the peace; he did not know
ut that they should keep silent as to the
act that the Democrats of New York City =
ad murdered scores Of black men befor. oil
ny United States troops were sent there TO A.
eep the peace; perhaps they onght 10 sub q,
II to being called remor-eles- hyenas and al
, make no sort of a r.ply to the gentlemen n
'om Missi--iip who had spoken to-day, snd 4
ow he proposed TO have read what Mis- q;
-sippi newspaper had said. He went t.
l- clerks de-k and hid read an extract "a
ON the Okalora Southern Suits an extract ri
b. Il l. A a a I