The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-26
HE SOUTH AND THE ARMY.
nphatic Speech Of Senator In
gals, Of Kansas, on the
Army Bill.
eljvered i'm the United States
senate Bune 21.


7or while, Mr.. President, it appeared that
} degraded device known to history as the
,ctoral Commission, which was accepted by
h party with the hope that it would cheat
other, had resulted in defrauding BOTH
t the events of the last two years, and nota-
of the present session of Congress, have
expectedly indicated the wisdom of that
icy which, when it was adopted, was regard
by MANY as q surrender of principle, an
,ndonment of friends, and Justification of
tory 1I a
President Hayes has been the object of much
ault during this debate; but he has at last
dered one signal and inestimable service to
party and his country. He has shown that
Democra cy in their professions and pro-
tations are insineere and implacable. If he
igned the result that has been accomplished,
is a consummate master of political strategy
he end has been attained through the in
rable logic of events, our debt to him is
less Whether he made the opportunity or
opportunity made him, is immaterlal now.
Immediately upon his accession he began the
)r Of reconciliation He announced that he
{ President of the country, and not OF a
tY, and that he served his parry best who
7ed his country best He alienated the
at body of his supporters by undis
sed and futile efforts TO proplt1ate his
ersaries. Though Packard and Chamber
received more votes in their States than
Republican Presidential electors in their
oective States, yet he recognized Nichols
11o To- n of ION
ua and South Carolina. He withdrew the
lers from the conquered capitals to their
racks and garrisons. a e
Te placed a representative Southern Demo-
t in his Cabinet; he appointed Democrats to
nv important offices in Southern States; he
ended the olive branch; he preached the
pei of reconciliation, of forgiveness, of for
fulness. and of love rather than that of
red; he famed no dying embers; he re-
ed no dead issues; he appealed to no Sec
aal luminosity; he boldly recognized the
rage and sincerity of the Southern soldiery
their attack on the Union; he ceased to con-
t with the aggressive stalwart leaders of
rthern opinion, and forfeited their conf
ice by his apparent concessions to the
nth.
Under his administration there has been no
litary or civil interference with elections in
South or elsewhere in this country. There
We been no bayonets at the polls; local self
yernment, so called, in every State and 10
lily has been restored; the last vestge of
tiOnal intervention has been Withdrawn;
cry complaint has had an attentive ear;
cry wrong has been redressed, and the "iron
ell of despotism, about which we have heard
much, has been lifted from the PROSTATE
d bleeding liberties of the people.
But what has been his recompense? How
we his advances ben met? What response
s been made to his appeals for reconciliation?
lis debate may answer. The history is too
cent to need rehearsal. When proceedings
ere instituted with the avowed purpose of i'm
,aching his title to the Presidency not Dem
rat, with perhaps solitary exception, in
Their house of Congress denounced or voted
.ainst them. No censure has been too extrava-
mt, no epithet too coarse, no comparison too
,grading, no insult too intolerable to be adj
essed to him. And now when he presumes
exert an undeniable constitutional function
returning bills without his approval he is
described in debate and by the
'ess as a fraud de .fdctO President; that
an; Rutherford the First; the man at the
her end of the Avenue; and threatened with
q non payment of his salary if he refuses to
lrrender his convictions!
Congress has now been in session nearly
rec months, having been summoned by the
resident for the single purpose of making ap-
ropriations for the support of the army and
n the payment of the legislative, executive
Id judicial expenses of the Government for
e year beginning July 1, 1879.
These bills were allowed to fail at the pre-
Gus session, not for want of time-for there
as abundance OF that-nOr because there was
.ctious opposition by Republicans. But it
as necessary upon some plausible pretext to
rotit without delay by the opportunity offered
the Democrats to control the organization
Id patronage of the two houses of Congress for
10 first time in eighteen years. They could
Ot wait till December. So it was suddenly
that the liberties and rights of the
eople were in imminent danger and peril; that
lndry despots and tyrants, notably r. B.
ayes, Charles Devens and John Davenport,
ere abroad in the land, trampling down the
berries of the people, destroying State Gov
corrupting the fountains of justice,
and centralizing our political sys-
IN, and paving the way for despotism. There
as much parade of English history in search
f precedents, and the Senator from Ohio
na1ly formulated the situation by declaring
lat appropriations should not be granted I'M
,ss grievances were redressed.
The grievances finally selected for redress
ere three in number, and found in certain
rovisiOns of the statutes of the United States
ermitting:
l. The challenge of jurors who aided, abet-
ed or sympathized with the rebellion under
he discretion of the court, in cases where JUS
ice would be promoted by their rejection.
his grievance was formulated as the exclu-
ion of intelligence from the jury-boX"
2 The constitutional employment by the
resident of the armed forces Of the United
,tates to keep the peace at elections, whenever
heir use was necessary and lawful. This
;rlevance was denominated as the use OF the
bayonets at the polls.
). The supervision of elections for members
i Congress and Presidential electors by the
lvll authorities of the United States for the
prevention of fraud and violence. This griev-
nee was denounced as "aninvasion of the SOW
reignty Of the States"
Those who have insisted upon the repeal Of
hese provisions contend that they are irritat-
ng remnants of war legislation; that they
AYE been perverted to partisan purposes, anc
AVE been used to thwart rather than promote
he expression of the popular will.
But it is evident, and the country will no
all to observe, that even were all these allega
ions true to the utmost that has been claimed
oy those who have sought to justify their at
empted defeat of appropriations unless these
obnoxious statutes were annulled, yet that tn,
ssue as presented at this time has been feignet
ind unreal, because there are no elections a
which either the military or civil forces of thu
Government could be used during the period
)ver which the appropriations would extend
They expire June 80, 1880, and there will be NJ
elections of members of Congress or of Presi
1ential electors till November of that year. |
8 not pretended. it should be observed, tina