Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-05-31
Vancs's Reply to Blaine.

In the Senate, ON the 18th in
stant, Mr.. Blaine made furious
assault on all the prominent Dem
ocratic Senators. It was o wild
and vehement speech, designed to
arouse sectional animo osity for po.
litical effect, and showed a very
vindiotive animus towards the
South. Among others Mr.. Vance,
of North Carolina, replied to the
Senator from Maine. He said:
Who made the South solid F?
Clearly the Republican party.
Many Southern men opposed se-
cession, but were drawn into it
when it came. At the close of the
war those men we're influential and
highly respected by the Southern
people, and if the people of the
North had offered to coalesce with
them in an effort to heal the
wounds Of the war, a prosperous re-
union would soon have been estab-
lished. Instead Of doing so, the
South was juggled with for years
now held to be In the Union and
now out of it, as best served the in.
terests of the dominant party of the
North, and progress was impossi.
BILE. Finally they were declared
out of the Union, entirely given
over to martial law, and chaos re-
turned. Ten per cent. of the best
citizens were disfranchised, and
millions of the more ignorant class
enfranchised; elections were held
hinder the direct supervision of
the troops, and the result
of all this was the adoption of So
called State Constitutions and the
election of so-called Off GERS, togeth-
er forming system under which
the South was plundered until
nothing remained worth stealing.
Can any one wonder that the South
s0lidified against the party causing
all this evil? That party's only
supporters now are the most igno-
rant negroes, and they are learning
that their best interests are on the
other side, while the carpet Dagger
finds that cline no longer congo.
nial, and finds his only refuge in an
occasional Custom House or reve-
nue. office. There is no immunity
from the results of misconduct, and
all sections suffer from the bitter
ness kept alive by the bad policy of
the Republican party toward the
South. 1t seemed to him that after
being forced back into the Union, 1t
was hard for Southern States to be
twitted with sending representa-
tives to Congress 10 legislate ac-
cording to their views. A little
while ago they had been invited
and urged to come back, and visit.
ors were sent down South on that
errand.
Mr. Vance pointed out that all
the territory absorbed in the coun-
try's rapid growth had been ac-
quired under Democratic rule, ex-
cept Alaska, q barren country,
with climate which he had heard
described as "nine months Winter
and three months damnation poor
weather" Laughter.l Under
Democratic rule there was no Cred
it Mobilier, no Returning Board
frauds, no Election Com Mission,
no Beiknaps. The other side wall
at the approaching end of all
things, but the only thing coming
to an end Is the corrupt Republi-
can party. The Southern men act
with the Democrats Of the North to
retore good government When
ever Republican Senators aban-
doned vituperation and ventured
to touch on the merits Of the CUES.
tlon they were very illogical. One
Senator asked 1t we fear thirty SOL
diers In North Carolina. We do,
just as the Hollander fears the
first crevasse In the dixie that
may lead to an inundatiop; just
as the physician breads the first
speck of gangrene in his patients
wound, which presages danger. He
quoted Gen. Auger's order OF 1868,
directing commanders to bring
troops near enough to the polls to
assist civil officers, and Gen.
Grants orders 10 Gen. Auger to see
that fair returns were made In Lou.
isiana in 1875. It is not true that
there is no danger from the army.
The Senator from Maine, (Mr
Blaine), says the troops are too far
away and too few to be dangerous;
but we know that 10000 troops
could be speedily concentrated
wherever an election was to be
controlled. Hays also says there is
no danger and no need of using
troops at elections, vet the power
to use them must be retained. I'll
seems from this that the less need
there 10 of troops the greater the
danger Of preventing their use al