Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-10-02
Senator PendIet0n's Speech.

cal views, and as it is more than prOba-
Bile that he will repeat the same speech
that he delivered at Edenton, Gf anybo-
body knows where that place Isl, in this
State week ago, and resort to the same
species of argument, we reproduce from
the Cincinnati Commercial of the 22d
ult., an exhaustive review of the posi-
tions taken by Mr. Pendlton, which we
commend to the attention of the people
of Martins Ferry and vicinity, where
he speaks, and to our readers generally:
We were, he said, confronted by ques-
tiOns as great as ever stirred parties,
and 1.-The Republican party claims the
right to use the army ut the polls" Upon
the basis of this assertion Mr.. Pendleton
pleased himself with a good deal of
rhetoric and history, all of which is not
material, as the President signed the
Army Bill, and the bayOnet has never
been employed since the war save to
preserve the political rights Of the men
who were emancipated by the sword,
and to whom the Government owes pro-
lection. Thefirst thing under this Ad-
miniStration was to remove even the ap-
pearance of military interference in the
South, and now we have the Southern
Confederacy reinstated politically and
defended in its solidity by the shotgun,
the pistol and the bull-whip. Mr.. Pen
dleton possesses ordinary intelligence
and information, and he knows that the
war amendments are nullified through
out the late Southern Confederacy, not
only openly but ostentatiously, and that
the fruit of this nullifcation is the Solid
South, which is the basis of the Demo
cratic party. And yet he assumes the
lofty virtue of asserting that 1--WE Demo
Gratis" will permit neither great nor lit
tie armies to interfere with free ballots
Here he becomes explanatory, and says
''We Democrats, who represent more than
half the people of the land-less of the mon
ey, it is true, but half the virtue and honor
than half of the bone and sinew, more than
half of the poor and lowly and laboring and
aspiring, whose all for themselves and their
families throughout all their lives depends
upon the peace and order of the industries
and the quietude of civil society, who have
the largest stake In the well ordered commu-
nity-we desire that violence and intimida-
tion and lawlessness should riot in the land.
1t should be carefully noted and I'M
derstood, however, when Mr.. Pendleton
speaks of the poor and lowly, the bone
and sinew-the laboring and aspiring
that he by no means includes the color
ed people, for he is in the most sypathet-
ic cooperation with those who take
from the poor man in the South, if he
happens to be black, the protection of
the ballot and the right to express his
political opinions. At this point Mr..
Pendleton tells what Great Britain has
been about for two hundred years
which ought to be great consolation to
the Irishmen who have so keen an ap-
probation of British humanities. After
getting through with Great Britain, Mr..
Pendleton takes to pointing to the ''evi-
dence," as he calls it, taken "in Boston,
New York and Cincinnati, on the sub
ject of the employment of U. S. Mar
shals. When Mr.. Pendleton wants to
20 into the Cincinnati elections, he and
his friends, who have been shivering on
the ragged edge of the penitentiary,
fearing the frauds of 1876 might be eX
posed-will get enough of it. If the U.
5. Supervision of Congressional Elec-
tions in Cincinnati last year was parti-
san, it was becadse the Democrats stood
| alOof and would not consent to the i'm
partial supervision that the law contem-
plates. And Mr.. Pendleton knows
enough to know that the sO-called in
| vestigation i'll this city by "a Congress
sionaI Committee was u base fraud, and
as dirty piece of work as was ever
contriVed He knows that if the COM
mittee had been disposed to do so much
| Justice as belongs to common decency,
the elections OF 1876, conducted without
u. S. supervision, would have been con-
trasted with the elections Of 1878, con-
Quoted with U. S. supervision. The
Democratic members of the committee
did not dare to allow this sO-called In
vestigating Committee to expose this
! contrast-they did not dare to go into
the history of the ballot box stuffing and
gangs of repeaters hired by Democratic
money from New York, in 1876, because
there has been careful suppression of
evidence on that subject and fears and
| tremblings of distress, some of which
Mr.. PendletOn could see without field
glass. After squandcring space equal to
two and half Of our columns about the
army at the polls and U. 5. Marshalls, all
Of which is utter poppycock, Mr.. p.
strikes home on the doctrine of State
rights, getting off the ineffable common
place to begin with that estate rights
are not State wrongs" and upon this he
dwells, and gets through with the same
old phrases about the Constitution. As
in speaking of poor laboring men, Mr..
Pendleton never by any chance includes
the colored people, so in speaking of the
Constitution he omits the amendments.
There is but one practical meaning at
| taching to the phrase 'State rights" and
| that is that Southern State if displeas-
ed with the Government has divine
right to destroy it at pleasure. Mr.. Pen
dletOn proceeds with the familiar forms
of speech on this subject, endeavoring
| to confuse the rights of local govern
ment with the supremacy claimed for
States in the late Southern Confederacy.
He says:
81 know 1t Is fashionable in these days to
| decfy state rights, to hold them up the ORR
| gin OF the war and the cause OF all our sec
tional troubles. They are confounded with
| secession, while nullifcation. with denying
or dwarnng or paralyzing the Federal Gov>
eminent. and they are made the stal king
horse Of all that shocks the Union sentiment
OF the people. Even now the fear OF them is
invoked to aid the scheme Of using the mili-
tary power and the civil officers of the Feder>
al Government to Interfere with elections"
The use that is made Of the State
rights doctrine in the South now, is that
each State shall have the right to dis
franchise the citizens emancipated by
the power Of the United States, and to
nullify the amendments of the Constitu-
tion that were intended to secure to the
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