Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-19

no discourtesy to the gentleman
from Kentucky. He said in his remarks that
he would read the remainder of the sentence
If the speech was sent to him, and if he had
observed tho page who brought him the
speech, he would have stopped and read
what the gentleman had asked. He only
made this statement for the purpose of
placing himself right in the respect due the
gentleman from Kentucky, not for the pur-
pose of taking back or modifying anything
he had said. He did not think that the
remainder of the sentence modified it.
Mr.. Mckinley then continued his remarks
at considerable length, assailing the Demo-
cratic position.
was the next speaker. He said that if the
gentlemen on the other side were really
anxious to preserve peace and purity of
elections they would be the last to attempt
to break down the only remaining national
fortress reared for that purpose. Did they
desire an honest registration, these laws pro-
vided it. Did they want pure ballot, these
laws secured it. Did they want fair count,
these laws ensured it. Did they want true
want peace and order at polls, these laws
commanded it. There was nothing in
these laws that was terror to
any man save one who had
committed or was meditating an attack on
the purity of elections. He referred to out
RACES on the colored men in Louisiana and
said that the Republican party had been
stamped out in blood. Free speech, free
press, free homes, free emigration and free
ballots had been made impossible within
many portions of that State. In view of
these facts he listened with impatience to
the hypocritical cant about peace, protec-
ton and purity at the polls. Even now,
while members on the other side were pro-
Tossing such jealousy for the rights of Amer
lean citizens a whole race was fleeing
from some of the Southern States as they
would flee from pestilence. They were
fleeing, not to escape federal bayonets, but
ruffanly bludgeons; not from federal bullets,
but from Southern bowie knives not to
escape federal courts, but Southern fraud !;
not from marshals, but from murderers mot
from registration, but from masked raiders
not from supervisors of election, but from
Southern shot guns. In word, they we're
| fleeing from a country where every right
was cloven down, and every wrong went I'M
redressed.
Mr.. Gibson made several efforts to get in
disclaimer of these statements, but Burrows
declined to yield to him. He continued his
remarks in the same strain and concluding,
addressed the Democrats: "Did it ever occur
to you that though yon should withhold all
supplies for support of the government pos
sibly itmight not yet be surrendered? Did
it ever occur to you that although you
should protract this siege until this Congress
shall have died by virtue of its limitation,
there will possibly be no surrender then?
Withhold support from the executive, and are
you quite sure that there will be no remedy ?
Refuse to feed the army, are you entirely
certain that there will be no food for it?
Deny to your navy the means to keep it
afoat, are you certain that you will force it
to anchor? Withhold support from the ju-
dietary, is it clear that you will have no
courts? Refuse needed supplies for main
tanning the legislative branch of the govern
ment, are you confident that there
will be no Congress? Why, gentlemen,
you are as impotent to overthrow this
government by starvation as you were to an
initiate it 10y the sword. You may distress,
but you cannot destroy. Vehement applause
on the Republican side.) For let me tell you
that when that time comes, the same loyal
people from the same loyal States, who took
their lives in their hands and went forth tc
do battle for the defense of the republic, en-.
during the weary march, the protracted siege
the smoking hell of battle, and the more hor
rible hell of Southern prison pens until from
the dark waves of rebellion they bore
on their broken arms and LAGER
ated breasts the bleeding form
of the republic and planted her feet on the
steady rock of constitutional government
and civil liberty, who, animated by the same
patriotism, when you attempt to starve this
republic, will fly to her side at the first CRY
of her distress, and there they will stand il
ceaseless vigil, not with sword but with
sustenance, not with implements of war but
with unmeasured wealth, not with shotted
cannon but with unlocked Golfers, not with
bandages but with plenty, and bending ove1
her PROSTATE form they will succor, and sus
tain her, ministering to her necessities unit
in the fullness of time they can wrench from
her throat the cowardly hand that clutchet
it, and then, thrilling with new life, she will
spring to her feet, and the very altar which
you had built for her immolation shall be
come throne on which she shall stand
clothed in the majesty of her power the
resceptred and recrowned goddess of liberty
enthusiastic applause.
MR.. GIBSON,
replying to the quotations made by Burrow
from the Teller report, stated that citizens O.
Louisiana had been arrested, charged will
the offenses as stated in that report; tina
they had been conveyed four or five hundre
miles from their homes to the city of New
Orleans; that they had been tried befor
juries to whom the test oath had been APP
piled, before judges who were in sympath,
with the Republican party; and they ha,
been fully and honorably acquitted.
Mr.. Burrows-"Who we're acquitted?"
Mr.. Gibson-"The citizens
MIR. Burrows -"That is an old trick dow
there" Laughter on the Republican sid y.
Mr.. Gibson-If it was a trick it was
trick played by men who could take the iron
clad oath as jurors, trick played by the YER
men whom the gentleman would now invok
to conduct elections in that State, deput
marshals, supervisors, judges and jurors
who could take the iron clad oath that the
, had never had any sympathy even with tn
Southern people in the late war. I SHOULD
like to know why it is gentlemen SHOULD
: speak so disrespectfully of the judiciary O
the United States. Was the Judiciary SO 10,
3 as no longer to be entitled to the respect G
bn1S DOuy! AlCnouSn Tue gentleman ma
, made defamation against this side of til
I house and called US conspirators, 1 ha
hoped that decent respect for his own pal
! ty, if not for the amenities of the House an
l the constitution of the country, [derisiv
8 laughter on the Republican side would hay
!, kept him from assaulting juries and calm
judges trcksters.
1 Mr.. Burrows-There is certainly no occ;
sion for the warmth exhibited by the gentl
man, because only quoted from the repo1
of the Senate committee showing that intin
I | idation and murder were practiced in Louis