The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-04-30

ian be as stand proved and recorueu ny CUM
nittees of the Senate Rights secure when the
I'D and the Young fly in terror from their
homes and from the graves OF their murdered |
iead Rights secure, when thousands brave /
cold, hunger, death, seeking among strangers /
in far country a humanity which Will remem-
Der that
"Before man made them citizens
Great nature made them men!
Read thu me- morial signed by Judge Dillon,
by the Democratic mayor of ST. Louis, by Mr..
once member of the Senate, and
by other men known to the nation, detailing
what has been done IN recent weeks on the
Southern Mississippi. Read the atfidavits &C.
compaping this memorial. Has any one copy
of the m memorial here? 1 have seen the memo
rial. have seen the signatures. hope the
Senator from Illinois will read it and
read the attidavits which accompany it, When
he does he will read one of the most sckenpg
recitals of modern times He will look upon
one of the bloodiest and blacklist pictures Of
the book of recent years. Yet the Senator
says all is quiet. There is not such faith, no
not in Israel" Verify "order regns in War.
saw" Solitudinena faciont, pacen appellant
Mr.. President. the Republican party every:
where wants peace and prosperity, peace and
prosperity in the South as much and as sincere
~ as elsewhere. Disgusting the truth will not
bring peace and prosperity. Soft phrases will
not bring peace Far words ds put, ou.eer aa no
by talk about flaming dying emoers,
"rekindlng smoldering fires" and so on.
Whenever the plain truth is spoken, these
unctuous monitions, with Peter farley 0ene-
violence, fall copiously upon u.s. Inls iullaoy
and hush has been in my belief mistake
from the beginning. 1t has misled the South
and misled the North. La Andrew Johnson's
time a convention was worked up at Phlladel-
pha, and men were brought from the North
and South fer ecstasy and gush. man from
Massachusetts, and man from South Carolina
locked arms and walked into the convention
arm in arm, and sensation and credulity pal
ptatad and clapped their hands. and thought
an universal solvent had been found. Sers-
nades were held at which Dixie. was played.
Later on, anniversaries of battles fought IN the
war of Independence were made occasions by
men from the North and men from the South
for emotional, dramatic, hugging ceremonies
General Sherman remember attended one OF
them, and 1 remember also that, with the
bluntness Of a soldier, and the wisdom and
hard sense of statesman, he plainly cautioned
all concerned not to be carried away, and not
to be fooled. But many have been fooled, and
being fooled, have helped to swell the demo-
cratic majorlties which now display themselves
before the public eye.
OF all such ELUSIVE demonstrations have
this to say: honest, serious convictions are
not ecstatc or emotional. Grave affairs and
lasting purposes do not express or vent them
selves in honeyed phrase or sickly sentimental.
ity, rhapsody, or in prOfuse professions.
This is as true of political as of religious
duties. The Divine Master tells US, "Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord. Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that
doeth the will of my Father which is in
Heaven"
Facts are stubborn things. but the better way
to deal with them is to look them seuarely in
the face.
The Republican party aud the Northern
people preach no crusade against the South.
will say nothing of the past beyond single
fAn hovr ahnr HD
fought against his flag was punished even by
Imprisonment. No estate was confiscsted.
Every man was left free to enjoy life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. After the
Southern States were restored to their relations
| 10 the Union no man was ever disfranchsed
| by national anthority-nOt one. If this state
| ment is denied invite any Senator to correct
me. l repeat it. After the Southern State
| governments were rebuilded and the States
were restored to their relations in the Union,
by national authority not one man for one
moment was ever denied the right to vote, or
hindered in the right From the time that
Mississippi was restored there never had been
an hour when Jefferson Davis might not vote
as freely as the honorable Senator in his State
of Illinois. The North burdened with taxes,
draped in mourning, dotted over with new
made graves tenauted by her bravest and her
best, sought to iDf1:ct no penalty upon these
who had stricken her with the greatest, and,
as she believed, the gultiest rebellion that ever
crimsoned the annals of the human race.
As an example OF generosity and magnanim-
ity, the conduct of the nation in victory was
the grandest the world has ever seen. The
same spirit prevails now. Yet our ears are
larumed with the charge that the Republicans
of the North seek to revive and intensity the
wounds and pangs and passions of the wal, aud
that the Southern Democrats seek to bury them
in oblivion of kind forgetfulness.
We can test the truth of these assertions
right before our eyes. Let US test them. Twen-
ty.seven states adhered to the Union in the
dark hour. Those states send to Congress two
hundred and sixty-nine Senators and Repre-
sentatives. Of these two hundred and sixty
nine Senators and Representatives, ffty-four,
and only ffty-four, were soldiers in the armies
OF the Union. The eleven states which were
disloyal send ninety-three Senators and Repre-.
sentatives to Congress. OF these, eighty-five
were soldiers in the armies of the rebellion, and
at least three more held high civil station in
the rebellion, making in all eighty EIGHT out of
ninety-three.
Let me state the same fact, dividing the
Houses. There are but four Senators here who
fought in the Union army. They all sit here
now, and there are but four. Twenty Senators
Sit here who fought in the army of rebellion,
aud three more Senators sit here who held high
civil command in the cOnfederacy.
In the House there arc fifty Union soldiers
from twenty-seyen states, and sixty.fve con-
federate soldiers from eleven states. Who,
ask you, Senators, tried by this record, is keep
ing up party divisions on the issues and hatred
of the war?
ders 1t has no seat here save two in which a
Republican SITS The Senator from MISSISSIPPI
pi (Mr. Bruce) and the Senator from LOUISE
ana Mr. Kellogg are still spared; and whis-
per says an enterprise is afoOt to deprive one of
these Senators of his seat. The South is EN-.
phatically solid. Can you wonder If the North
soon becomes solid too? Do you not ses that the
doings witnessed now in Congress fill the
North with alarm and distrust of the patriot
ism and good faith of the men from the South ?
Forty-two Democrats have seats on this floor
forty-three if you add the honorable Senator
from Illinois (Mr. Davis.) He does not belong
to the Democratic party, although 1 must say,
after reading his speech the other day, that a
Democrat who asks anything more of him is
an insatiate monster. (Laughter.) If you
count the Senator from Illinois there are forty
three Democrats in this chamber Twenty
three is clear majority of all, and twenty
three happens to be exactly the number of
Senators from the South who were leaders in
the late rebellion.
Do you anticipate my object in stating these
umbers? For fear you do not, let me explain.
Forty two Senators rule the Senate; twenty.
three Senators rule the caucus; majority rules
the Senate; a caucus rules the majority: and
the twenty-three Southern Senators rule the
caucus. The same thing, in the same way.
governed by the came elements, is true in the
House.
This present assault upon the purity and fair
ness of elections, upon the Constitution, upon
the executive department and upon the rights
OF the people; not the rights of king, MOI on
such rights as we heard the distinguished pre-
siding officer, whom 1 am glad now to discover
in his seat, dilate upon of morning snne
weeks ago; not the divine right of ksnss hnt
the unborn rights of the people-the present as
sault upon them could never have been IMAM
gurated without the action of the 90 Southern
Senators here, and the Southern Representa-
tives there (pointing to the House.l
The people of the North know this and sea
IT. They see the lead and control of the Demo-
cratic party again where it was before the war
in hands of the South. '.By their fruits va
snail Know Them" Tue honorable Senator
from Alabama, Mr.. Morgan, educated no doubt
by experience in political appearances and
spectacular effects, said the other day that he
preferred the Democrats from the North sbonId
go first in this debate. 1 admired his sagacitv
1t was the skill of an experienced tactician to
deploy the jrthern levies as the sappers and
miners; 1t was very becoming certainly. 1t WIS
not from cruelty, or to make them food for
powder that he has set them in the forefrop, of
the battle; he thought it would appear bf tier
for the Northern auxliarIes to 90 first and inn.
mel the citadel. Good, excellent. as far 90 i
went; bat it did not go very far 10 misleadins
anybody; putting the tail forem ost and tn 3
mead In the sand only showed the. snecies I'D
naDlts OF the bird. (Laughter.)