The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-06-13

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b!e pride and with absolute truth that th
peoPle of the State OF North Car,lina G +
sent me here, are able, wiling and virtuou
sncugh to fuifll these aud eli the other higI
iunctions Of free government; thas the
nave ever done 20 since the keeh Of Raj
eigh's ships first grated upon sthe whit,
SANDS OF her shcres, and, God helping them
they and their children win continue to d
sosaf not deatroyed, By ccutralisatiou. rnti
cnsos shall como again. Itiswith extrsn,
saduess that hear any otilcf Senator init
mate that it u NOT 90 witk his people. 81
Mr. Rresident, did you ever consider fol
moment tAos ulapifoid sAnd, sxtrSoSainSssv
uses TO which We are subjecting the soldieri
And did you ever think that all this means
In fact, the failure of the civil authority
that our liberties are. declining more and
more as we employ fIrce? Sir, in the uses
70 which We put the soldiers am reminded
OF what l read about the bamboo in Asiatic
countries. 1t is said that the natives do
almost everything with that wonderful ar
oorescent grass. When young and tender
H is made into houses and boats, astrono.
niicai Instruments, ornamental work, wards
or vessels, aqueducts, rain. cloaks. water.
wheels, fence-ropes, chairs, tables, hats, and
umbrellas, fans, pipes, cups, shields, tool.
, nanaies, iamp-wlcks, paper, knives, and q
hundred other things. In this way it seems
a oar f6 aFe the civil functions
In addition to their Legitimate business
as defenders of the country, we have
made Of them Governors of States, legis.
lators, organizers of Legislatures and Judges
of the election and qualifications of the
members thereof, judges of law and equi.
ty and of the criminal courts, policemen,
sheriffs, marshals and deputy marshals,
revenue officers and still-house hunters,
managers Of railroads. controllers of church.
es and of schools, justices of the peace, su-
pervisors of election, mathematicians to see
u fair count, protectors of witnesses, foster.
fathers of returning boards, and, above all,
as Republican propasandists. In the Ian
guage of the sewing machine companies,
"no family should be without one," laugh.
ter, this Republican political bamboo Is
there not great danger? Does it not indi-
cate the decay and the disusc of the civil
arm of the law, which is the natural and
only safe protector of our liberties Let
US, sir, discard this miserable bamboo policy
and cease to make the soldier our political
maid of all work.
Mr. President, it seems to me that the
position of the Republican party in refer.
ence to tho use of soldiers and supervisors
at the polls, on the pretense of preserving
the peace and securing free elections, is the
most remarkable one that reasonable men
ever assumed. 1t may bo formulated thus
The elections shall be free if we have to
surround the polls with bayonets the elec-
tions shall be according to the laws of the
States IT We have to overawe the civil mag
lstrates and State officials by I'm exhibition
of power; the elections shall be pure if it
takes Davenport and all the convicted Grim
inals and occupants Of all the dens of in
fanny In our great cities to manage them !;
the elections shall be unforced and without
the appearance of violence if battery of
artillery has to be trained on every ballot
box in the land; and lastly, tho election
shall be fair if We have TO arrest without
warrant, and imprison without bail, until
the elections arc over, every man who cffers
to vote the Democratic ticket
The speeches of Republican Senators
mean this, the vetoes Of the President mean
this, and they mean more than this, Mr..
President. In effect they say that unless
we can use the army at the polls we will let
the army dissolve; we will leave our forts and
arsenals ungarrisoned we will strip the
frontiers of all protection, and let the men,
women and children of that border country
be slaughtered and scalped, and the un-
checked savage extend his barbarous sway
over all that land of promise, once more
rcmittcd to its ancient wildness. We will
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Democratic members of Congress, who Of.
fered US the money to support this army,
as the authors of this disaster. All these
things will we do rather than lose our chan
ces to count in the next President, and we
will cover the facts and obscure the logic
of the case by rcinhaming the bitter preju
dices of the war in the hearts Of our con
stituents Can it be possible to do this
Is there to he no end TO passion no rcstora
ton Of reason ? We shall see.
| I confess that l do not believe these alb
surd methods of dealing with the American
mind can much longer prevail. l rcgart
them as the desperate efforts of q sinking
party, and l believe the people will SO re
gard them. l have been much touched
by the affectionate warnings given us By
the other side that we were running our
selves in trying to repeal these laws. Th
| lind hoorfoJ Conator from, M,obsnon mott