Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-02

posed legislation was revolution, that the Re-
publican party had accomplished revolution
after revolution. One of the most iniquitous
acts OF usurpation ever perpetrated by the Re-
publican party to violate the constitutional
rights of the President was tho act which
President johnson protested against.
Mr.. Hawley asked Mr.. Chalmers whether he
was not aware that the Republicans had more
than two-thirds majority in Congress and
could pass a bill over the Presidents veto.
Mir. Chalmers admitted that was SO.
Mr.. Belford-You say that the Republican
party has been repudiated.
Mr.. Chalmers-I do, and thank God it is
true. Applause on the Democratic side.)
MIR. Belford-In the last House you had 20
majority and to-day you have but l.
Mr.. Chalmers proceeded with his speech and
asserted that on this question the Republican
chip on its shoulder, while the Democratic
party was standing on the vital principles of
liberty. If, said he, this government must die
and die at the hands of such a President, then
the Democratic party can look on the face of the
dying goddess of liberty and say, "Shake not
thy CORY locks at me, thou canst not say did
it," Applause on the Democratic side ard
jeering laughter on the Republican side.) To this
complexion has it come at last, that the MAORI.
ty must 60 like suppliants on Bonded knees and
pray to their most worshipful highness of the
minority to redress grievances, or that this
government must die. What was meant by the
threat of tho gentleman from Ohio (Garfeld.)
That gentleman knows his party is powerless,
is in minority in this House and in the SEN
ate. What then does this threat mean? Before
him when he made it sat the secretary Of State,
behind him the general of the army. The gem
eral of the army and the President are the only
instruments by which the Republican party
can carry out its threat. If it was not mere
bravado, not q mere galvanic shock of elo-
| qusnce intended to stimulate the spinal col
| umn of the President, it was intended as a
threat to American people, that if we dared re-
dress most grievous wrong by putting It's
repeal on an appropriation bill, It
| and that the President with the army and
navy at his back would put down that revolu.
| ton. The name of resolution has no terror
for US. (Sneering demonstrations on the Re-
publican side.) We learned to love it. in our
childhood. 1t brings back to that great
struggle for freedom when our revolutionary
| ancestors left their footprints stamped in blood
in the snow of Valley Forge, so that we, their
children, may take heart again whenever the
hour of peril shall come upon US. Troops have
been assembled at the federal capitol to intimi-
date the House of Representatives in counting
the electoral vote. The battle cry of 1850 has
been already started. A government of law
not to be administered by the judiciary, but
with an army strong enough to enforce it when
ever it comes to question between freedom
and despotism. The Democratic party will be
found standing where our ancestors stood in
1776.
Mr.. Conger-I desire to ask the gentleman
from Mississippi whether the second revolution
of 1861 had any terrors for him.
Mr.. Chalmers-The distinguished gentleman
is exceedingly witty. History tells us that the
English kings were in the habit Of keeping
testers at court with a FOOLS cap and belts. It
seems that a Republican Congress has supplied
itself in the same manner. Naughter). But
instead of a FOOLS cap and jingling bells,
which might perhaps suit very we'll, it has
dressed the jester in swallow tails. Loud
laughter on the Democratic side).
Mr.. Ccnger Il asked the heroic gentleman
from Mississippi plain, civil, simple question,
and instead of answering it he jumps on his
music-box and makes grimaces to the country
and to the House. Counter demonstrations
on Republican side, members elapping their
hands and indulging in loud laughter for a con-
siderable time).
Mr.. Ohalmers-The gentleman is mistaken.
I shall certainly not undertake to play game
at which any monkey can beat me. daughter
on the Democratic side).
Mr.. Frye said he did not know how long Re-
publican members would be compelled to sit
still and listen to the charge that they had for
eighteen years made of the republic drunken
land, to declarations that this was military
despotism aud that it was for the Democratic
| party to restore it to the millennium of peace.
He did not know how long they should have to
submit to being told they were men to be for
| given and have to hold their voices for fear
they might offend some gentleman on the other
! side, or might arouse tho ghost OF the old
| bloody shirt. He did not know but they ought
to sit quietly and submit to the charge that
| they had become military despots because the
United States troops had been sent tc
New York city to keep the peace
silent Us to the fact that the Democrats OF
| New York city had murdered scores of black
men before any United States troops were sent
there to keep the peace. Perhaps they ought
to submit to being called remorseless hyenas
and make no reply. Two gentlemen from Mis-
sissippi had spoken to-day, and now he pro
posed to have read what Mississippi newspa
| per had said, He sent to the clerks desk anc
had read an extract from the Okolona
Southern States, thanking God they had cap
tured the capitol, that in 1881 its man wcult
walk up the White House steps and take hi
seat in the Presidential chair; that then tn
glorious triumph of the South would be com
| plete etc.
Mr.. Muldrow said that that paper represented
no respectable element of the Mississippi De
mocracy. One of its editors was man VIII
was carpet-bagger from Ohio to Mississippi
| within the past four years.
MIR. Sparks-It is reported that he was suit
Ter in Michigan regiment. daughter on tn
Democratic side).
Mr.. Frye-I have heard again and again tina
cry as to the capture of the capitol. You hav
been nearer to it than you are to-day, but yo
have never put your hand yet upon the capitol
and under God you never will. applause o.
the Republican side and great excitemen
through the halD.
Mr.. Frye commended the South had turne
upon the North and made demand after de
mand in rapid succession and the North in it
humiliations had responded as rapidly, yield
ing point by, point, until, in their pride o
power, they asked too much, and then the soil
North had said: mot single step further
Is thy servant dog that he should do it?
And then had come war, not brought on b
poor old John Brown at Harper's Ferry
when no frightened Virginia with fl
teen men and some old musket!
but serious war. That war had had a logi,
and by that logic the negroes had become fret
men and American citizens. But the ku-klu
and white leaguers came, and hundreds of pot
black men had been murdered. Then troop
had been sent down and peace had been n
, stored but the troops were soon withdraw
and the result was a solid South There ha
been half dozen dusky faces in the last Coz
t gress. Where we're those dusky faces now
4 The Democracy had the Senate, but thank Go
: they did not have the executive yet. (Applaus
r on the Republican side.) When the Denocra
t ic party thought they would have him
y threatening him they were making an entil
: mistake. They had begged out of him c
s Bonded knee the withdrawal of troops from tx
], South. Because they had done that they shou
G not presume too much. They should not pr
i sumo that they could go to him with pistol
&ba:r an1 6Arnan6 oil how q