National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-04-05
RIGHTS OF GOVERNMENT.

man, Individually have the highest re-
speot for you, but collectively you are set OF
scouudrcis" Loud laughter and applause
I do not apply the latter part OF the sentence
10 NV friends on the other side OF
Tho House exccAt IN very modified
wav. os an illustration. But YOU see how you
compel the people of the North to regard you.
do not nnd freedom of elections in the South.
II l. not there. We need it. Arc you going
In inlpair the credit of the Federal Govern
ment in the financial style OF some OF tue
Southern States. whose debts are repudiatcd or
scaled down? Is that the style of legislation
that you are going to introduce here You
avowcd your desire to unite with your friends
of the GrecnbacS persuasion. 1t looks nope.
fu to you that you have come Into heritage AZ
the same time that this rag.tag and bootaii OIL
all financial elements has also got ioothoId'
Gentlemen IN all frankness warn you against
some OF your friends. There arc men III the
North to-day who walk around with prone
head, nonderous brow, and solemn uttcrancc,
who say they are statesmen and who tell
Won that the North will stand by you.
Geutlcmcn, 1 tell you that they cannot
deliver the goods. Loud laughter and APP
pauscl You ought TO know these men you
who stood like brave men for four years hght-
ing for your creed, while thcy--I will not say
stood their ground, but climbed trees to get
out Of the draft laughter who went to Cam
ada, or somewhere else. to get out of the storm
But pelhaps it may be that some OF these
Northern fellows suppose they can carry
enough votes out of the depths OF the great
cities 10 help to give you national control Is
that the great hope Of the Democratic party
| that IL NAV contain within its ranks little
norton of the Noith2 These are the things,
gentlemen. which make us anxious. There Is
no guarantee to-day, IN the present attitude OF
| your party, for the integrity OF the nation, be-
cause you are inviting these Greenback men
here to come in with you, when MS
history vouchcs, these schemes OF theirs
are Taught with initiation, bankruptcy,
| disaster. national dishonor, and reputation.
Gentlemen, the gulf is squaroly before us. we
have been openly told here that you are going
to wipe from the statute books every vcstge oil
legislation that was put OH during the war. !
knew it. / have always stated that you would
do it. thought that | knew the South. |
thought you would wipe out all that legisla,
ton. OF course you accept the constitutional
amendments, because it takes three'tonrths oil
the States to change them; but everything
else YOU promise to wipe out, and you throw
down gloves and you put on feathers, and you
showed white plume in the forefront OF bat
tie, and all that. G.aughter.l Because dc
not cover myself with feathers, and come out
in front with white plume beg t
assure you, nevertheless that l an
just as much in earnest as yo'
are; and tell you that you arr
mistaken in your judgment of the North, anC
I YOU are mistaken in your estimates OF the III
turo. / know what il is to love state right
too. When you had the power in this Govern
mont You made 1t my duty to hunt negroes
for you, even up TO the footstool of the altar
aud you put the army of the Stars and Stripe
under tho order OF the United States marshals
| said before that you had no right to make
negro hunter OF me, aud my State passed
law ou the subject-a law Of personal liberty
which prevented you taking any man,anythini
| which God made, out Of the State us slav
=: without jury trial. Call it defiance of Fed
, cral authority if you please. III dched tia
1 ! Oheyed higher authority. When you com
, to aqucsion like that am with you, whcthe
:, it be secession revolution. or what not.
recall the old days, and 1 know that til
=, doughiaccs were as much at fault as you wer'
:, | had the satisfaction once of going into
y Southern State and purchasing tho title to
, doctor of divinity lie was cOorcd man VIII
A., had became preacher and had obtained thi
:, title. did not feel absolutely bound to d
y scribe tho value of the man because he la
made himself doctor of divinity. / did III
} think that the owner had right to claim th
= value Of the Improvements llaughterl, so
&c bought Him as Jim" He received his tit
C deed of freedom in tho State of Connecticut
u consideration OF 81, but, above ALL in cOuside
u alton of the indefcasble right Of man to
y free. In conclusion, gentlemen, if in the lie
islatou Of the past we have done anythir
I, wrong il, has been from zcal--whiCh hope q,
" will pardon-lor liberty, freedom, justice, and
ct free ballot. Loud applausc.l