The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-26

issues that were in their grave. But there is nc
kindness and good WILL and an earnest, heart
felt desire for fraternity, union and peace.
Mr.. President was saying that there is no
sectional luminosity or hatred in the North to-
ward the people OF the South What has the
North ever done that could be said to have been
actuated by sectional hate? To what appeal
for aid and sympathy have they not responded?
What Southern man has ever been abused, or
insulted. or maltreated in the North, as multi
tudes of Northern men have been in the South,
before and since the war? What sectional hate
was exhibited in the terms of capitulation in
amnesty in restoration to forfeited political
rights in the rehabilitation of the State Govern
ments! What just cause OF complaint to-day
can be urged by the South? What right is
denied them? How are they oppressed / In
what respect are they not the peers and equals
of the loyal States? They have absolute con-
troll of their local affairs. They have practi-
cally a majority in both houses of Congress.
The chieftans who led their legions with in
sOlent menace against the capital OF the nation
now sit in it's legislative halls, control its reve
nues, direct its policy, aud claim to be the
exclusive champions of constitutional liberty,
the preservers of the Union, and the sole
guardians of the rights of the people They
eulogize Jefferson Davis as the equal of
Lincoln and the peer Of Washington and Hamp-
den, and then ask us to let by-gones be by
cones and the dead past bury it's dead. New
England is denounced as the birth. place of
slavery and secession. The Republican party
is habitually assaulted with loose, coarse, and
Incorporate denunciation. and any attempted
reply is characterized as preaching the gospel of
hatred. There is touch of grim humor
about the proceeding, like that engendered by
the spectacle of the intimidated Southern voter
who, with a mask upon his face,
a pair of revolvers at his waist, bowie knife
in each boot, and double-barreled shotgun
over his shoulder, Indignantly insists upon the
adoption of the sixth section of the Army bill
and protests against armed interference at the
polls!
No, Mr.. President, there is no hate at the
North, and no fear and no prejudice. There
is much patient liberation. But this session of
Congress has engendered a very grave and Sc
rious distrust of the methods, the tendencies
and the purposes of the apostles of this new
political dispensation. There is no disposition
expected that the tremendous passions aroused
by the war, the trepidation of the vanquished,
the baffled ambitions of it's leaders, and all the
baleful agltations of that awful tragedy should
instantaneously subside and disappear. The
South has exhibited many high qualities of
courage and endurance There has been less
of turbulence and disorder than might have
ton have been ostensibly accepted. The re-
VOTED States have resumed their relations to
the Government and, with their obsequious
allies, have obtained control of both houses of
Congress. If these results have been reached
through constitutional, just and lawful means,
if suffrage has been protected, if education has
been universal, if freedom of speech and opin-
ion has been maintained, if equal rights have
been enforced and justice impartially ad
ministered, there can be no cause for dis
content in the loss of political supremacy.
Majorities must rule We made the terms.
We must accept the consequences.
But the events of the past two years have be
gun to provoke incredulity There are some
who suspect that the sacred covenants of free
dom and the solemn guarantees of the constitu-
ton heve not been observed with absolute
fidelity. 1t is vaguely rumored that under the
pernicous pretext of State sovereignty bloody
tyrannies have been builded on the ruins of
liberty, and that white minorities have sup
pressed black majorities by premeditated vio-
lence and systematic slaughter and assassina-
ton Evidence has been offered tending to
show that home rule" literally interpreted,
means the right to murder with impunity, and
local self government the right to reduce
the freedmen to servile condition that has all
the horrors with none of the alleviations of
slavery. The only answer to these allegations
has been denial Or sheer. All attempts to
invoke the Intervention of the nation in behalf
OF those whom it is under the most
sacred obligation to protect are denounced as
an invasion of the rights of the States The
purpose is boldly avowed to deprive the
Federal courts of their Jurisdiction, to practi-
cally annlhllate the army, and to hinder ham
per- impede, embarrass, and Obstruct the exer-
ton of the Fe leral authority in every manner
within the limits of the States: to strip and di-
vest the Government of all national attributes :;
L. l. l. H.,
An idle Jove,
With painted thunder in it's hand.
There is one other topic to which will advert
in closing, craving the indulgence of the SEN
ate for trespassing so far upon their patience at
this period of the debate; but do this because
the subject is one that peculiarly affects my
own State and people, and because they have
participants in political scheme to harass and
injure the South-a statement which mention
only to denounce and deny. / allude to the
departure of the negro from the South, oopu-
larly known as "the exodus" Several Sena-
tors have taken the opportunity say to that the
movement was stimulated for sinister purposes
by Northern politicians, who had dispatched
their emissaries into the Southern States, pan
dering to the ignorance and cupidity of their
victims.
Probably there is not a former master nor q
freedman who wishes slavery restored; but
there are many who believe, and I am one of
them, that the Africans are in worse condi-
ton now than when they were slaves. Eman-
cipation has been a curse to them. The prom
Use of freedom has been kept to their ear, but
broken to their hope. When they were property
they had some guarantee of protection in the
selfshness of their owners. Now that they are
men, they are denied the right to protect them
selves and refused the protection of the nation
Land monopoly, vicious credit system, social
intolerance and political prescription have
combined to render their servitude unendur-
able and, when they attempt to escape, their
flight is obstructed and those who would well
come the fugitives and insure them dhe free
enjoyment Of citizenship are denounced as in
cendiaries and characterized as the enemies of
the Southern people.
Mr.. President, the present aspect of affairs is
in many respects deplorable. We're it to con-
tinue for any protracted period, the gravest
consequences might be apprehended. But the
admirable flexibiity and strength of our Gov
eminent and the wisdom of it's trainers re-
ceives new illustration at this serious junct-
ure
The next census will readjust the social and
political forces of this country upon basis
which will finally determine the sectional con-
troyerSies which have 40 IOno disturbed its