Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-05-15
CHANDELIERS SPEECH.
The Michigan Senator Makes q Rafting Dis.
play OF Oratory-Forcible Comparison.

CHANDELIERS SPEECH.
The Michigan Senator Makes q Rafting Dis.
| play OF Oratory-Forcible Companion
During Fridays debate in the Sem
alto on the bill prohibiting military
interference at the polls, Senator
Chandler said
History is repeating itself to-day.
There is a proverbial saying that
Bourbons never learn anything and
never forget anything. The proverb
is very applicable to the Bourbons In
this country. In 1857, he said, the
Bour5ons had control of this Govern.
ment. You had majority in the
Supreme Court, and the whole Of
this Government was under your
control. You brought up the repeal
of the Missouri compromise and forced
your Northern men then, as you are
doing now, to vote for that repeal,
and you did it by the same means.
Then, sir, you crowded your men till
you crowded them off the bridge. In
1857, when l took my seat in this
body with jeff. Davis [laughter]there
were here forty-four Democrats,
twenty Republicans and two Inde-
pendents. OF those Democrats,
twenty.eight were from Southern
States, sixteen from Northern States,
and the two Independents in this
body, upon every question connected
with slavery voted with the South.
You in caucus then decided that
Stephen A. Douglas, because he as
serted that he did not care whether
slavery was voted up or down, should
be degraded from the chairmanshlp
on territories, and there were but
three Northern men out of sixteen
who dared to resist the caucus dicta-
ton, and you did degrade him and
put him off that committee. Then
you crowded your men off the bridge,
and they sank to man in the waters
of oblivion to rise no more forever.
Sir, of the sixteen members, not a
solitary man from the North ever
came up to the surface Of the waters
of oblivion. You crowded him off
the bridge. You compelled them to
vote for measures which the North
cauld and wnnl3 not snhr,it - Sir
you are doing the selfsame thing to
day. We have in this body Al Dem
ocrats, 80 Republicans and l Inde-
pendent. To-day, as % years ago,
on all queetions connected with state
rights, the Independent party as a
Unit votes with the Democratic party.
To-day you have, as / said, AZ mem.
bers IN this body, Al leaving ont the
Independent party. You have twelve
members from the North, and they
are arrayed thus From California
one, from Indiana now as then two,
from New Jersey two, now as then.
From Ohio you have two; you had
but one then. From Oregon you
have two now, ana you had two then.
From Pennsylvania you have one
now; you had one then. From
Rhode Island you have none now,
but you have one from Connecticut
and one from New York. AS I said,
history is to-day repeating itself, and
you are to-day repeating what you
did in 1857. You are crowding your
men off the bridge, and the men of
to-day, as the men Of 1857, will sink
into the waters of oblivion to rise no
more forever.
Look at the change that has taken
place since that time. Sir. the PEG.
pie are more thoroughly aroused to-
day against this doctrine, this heresy
of state rights, than they were from
1857 to 1861. You proposed to pen.
sion jeff. Davis, and every single one
of your Northern allies voted to PEN
sion him. You eulogized him as
patriot to be compared side by side
with Washington and all the patriots
of the revolution, and every one of
your Northern allies voted "aye."
After the close of the rebellion you
claimed you were poor and suffering.
We found you ragged and poor and
we clothed you. We put upon you
the robe OF American citizenship,
which you had forfeited, and we
killed for you the fatted calf and in,
yited you to the feast, and when we
invited You to the feast you said /:
awe have always owned that calf,
and you have no interest in it."
Laughter.
Now, you inform US you are going
to repeal all Republican measures
What Is the job you have undertaken?
You are going to undo all that the
Republican party has done. Where
do you begin? Do you begin at APP
pomattox, or before 1t is very i'm.
portant to know where you com.
mence, and then to know where you
propose to stop. You have under
taken very large job for party of
your size and with a people who
are to sit as judges upon your acts.
You have undertaken to unseat a man
in this body. But you will deny that
you have undertaken the job. You
have simply undertaken to inYesti-
gate the case of a Senator on this
floor that has been decided by the
highest tribunal that could act on
that question. Sir, there are twelve
Senators on that side of the house
that every man on this side believes
have poorer titles to their seats than
the honorable Senator from Louisiana
has to his. by fraud and violence
you occupy your seats now. Show us
the road how to vacate seats in this
body if you dare.
Eaton-I call the Senator to order.
Chandler-Very well, sir | will
take your Point of order.
Eaton-My point is that the Sena.
tor from Michigan is entirely ont of
order when he says twelve Senators
on this floor hold their seats by fraud
aud violence.
l did not say that. said they held
their seats by a poorer title.
Eaton-You said fraud and vic.