The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-03

| thing as Democratic State Convention ever
| ADOPTED resolution during the whole war that
uiu not declare that the war was q failure or
mat dld not find fault with the manner of the
prosecution of the war WHY, sir. every OBJ
ssIucuon was thrown In the way that was DOS
S1o'o' M aocoTalng 70 my reading and understand
ing Inc democratic party in nv own State
as late as 1868, by resolution introduced nv
distinguished member of Congress. Democras
Irom thae State now, declared that the war was
failure. 30 the Democratic convention IF the
nauon IN 1904 declared the same thing. and
you cannot snow In one solitary instance that
VI sne Deinocrauc party as party ever indorsed
the distinguished Ambassador, 10 not 49, 90
out by the history of the country
When Senators continually point over 10 th;a
sue OF the Chamber and speak of the xyronos
tnat nave Deen committed, saw to them 90
far as am concerned, am willing to LEFT nv
cones Do y-gones as FAR as we can; but it can
not be SO as long as you yourselves are the ir-
ritators. You gentlemen who. during the war
Endorsed all kinds of wrong; Won Gentlemen
who Endorsed acts that would make civiIizad
mankind shudder; men who indorsed condnct
IN warfare that was not according to the ciyil
lzatlon of the age; men who indorsed the at
tempts 10 disseminate smallpox and disease in
the North and to fire Northern cities. to tell ma
that we must stop talking about rebellioni
ana you censure and criticize Republicans ON
this noor every day because of something that
transplred during the war, and say we arc
trying to arouse the Northern sentiment
say to you unless you yourselves stop this Won
VIII nave solid North, and, when the North
becomes solid again, it will be solid tore 40
MIR. President, have depressed for few
moments in this line because I have had no
other opportunity OF saying just this much. I
desired when rose merely to discuss q single
proposition, and / say now in conclusion 7 do
not know what the President may do. or what
ne may not do IN reference to this bill, but I
am free to say, and want the country to I'M
derstand, that the only difference between this
and repeal positive of the laws, is that one
was proper way of legislating and the other
Is not. But the effect is the same: one repeals
the law; the other nullifies the law and pre-
vents its execution. The more honorable mods
is the repeal. l would vote to-day as readily
for the repeal Of the law as I would vote for
TINS secton; and the man who votes for this
section to-day must not explain to his constitu-
epts that it means nothing, that it amounts to
nothing, that 1t is only for day, that it does
not stop the supplies of the army but for a
day; it means just as much as if it said YOU
should not supply the army for q year; the
principle is the same; this bill as it stands to-
Gay is just as pernlclous as the repeal of the
law would be. / would consider myself in
voting for this section as backing down
from what have said when opposed the re-
peal in the other bill, which was vetoed by the
President.
1 say to Senators on the opposite side of the
Chamber that there is a way in which this coun-
try can have quiet; there is way in which we
can leglslate as legislators without attempting
to 1rrltate one another, to excite the country.
How shall we do it? If you want to let by
cones be by-gones, show it by your walk and
conversation" If you want to arouse the feel
lngs of the North, continue to act as you have
done; continue to denounce the North as
tramps, as you haved done; continue to denounce
them as dishonest, as you have done; continue
to denounce them as vampires and OppressoTs:
continue that, and you viii not have the quiet
that the country desires. Whenever you are
willing to come forward and take an appropri-
ate part of the burdens of this country; when
ever you are willing to act fairly with the peo-
pie of the Northern States they will act fairly
with you. Whenever you will concede rights to
those people they will concede rights to you
Whenever you will treat them fairly they will
treat you fairly; whenever you quit distressing
the peoplein your c0un Try they will respect you.
Whenever you desist from bloodshed you will
be more respected than you are now. When
ever you protect the poor man as you do the
rich man, our people will respect you more
Whenever you protect the colored man as you
do the white man, we will respect you more.
Whenever you will quit insinuating that the
men OF wealth in your country are the only
ones that have right to legislate, the only ones
that have right to vote the only ones that
have right to hold office, then we will respect
your political principles more. We in the North
believe that each and every citizen has right
to vote, each and every citizen has right to
hold office where he has not forfeited that
right, IL his constituents choose him; that
each and every man stands upon the same
broad platform that all stand equally
before the people, to be judged of by the
people. We deny no right to one man that
we do not deny to another; we give no right to
one man that we do not give to another.
Whenever you people of the South are willing
to stand upon this platform and carry it out,
protect all alike, then we say to you we are
willing to meet you half way. We are willing
then to say this country as q whole gives the
same rights to one man as it does to another,
and that the legislators are bound by that
principle and are willing to carry it out I'm
til that time comes you cannot expect that the
North will recognize you as standing upon the
same platform in reference to the rights of the
people, in reference to liberty, in reference to
law, in reference to justice, as the people OF
the North, and until then you ought not to
expect it.
Mr.. President, for three months the MAORI
ty have labOred not to make laws that are bene-
fetal, but have labored to repeal laws, to re-
strict the powers of the Executive of the ma
ton You have labored to that end, and to
zone other. You have failed so far to do it. [
hope you will still fail to accomplish it. So far
rs [ am concerned, by my vote you certainly
will fail; and propose that when the amend
ments are offered which are proper, we will test
your sincerity and see whether you desire that
'air laws shall be enacted, that the Executive
Department of the Government shall not be
restricted within narrower limits than are in
ended by the constitution of our country. This
will be the test that will decide my action.
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