The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-09-04

native State, Georgia, aud one each from
North Carolina and Virginia, and present.
ing, perhaps, the most martial, gay, and
gallant victims of oppression and wrong
that his senatorial eyes ever gazed upon,
daughter.
The truth Is, all these statements so far
rs they represent the condition of things
ut the south, are unjust and deceiying. The
South is no such country rs is represented.
| do not deny that there has been violence
there. ! deplore it, | condemn it. Re-
specting these cases of violence, you will
lind when you get down to the bottom facts
that they are generally precipitated by
INSCRIPTIONS political demagogues and
tricksters, who intlame the prejudiccs and
passions of the races for their own pOlit-
teal purposes. But these eases of violence
no longer occur to any appreclablc extent.
The great trouble has been that the in
vestigating committees which have been
sent to the South and have brought hithcr
their reports, went with purposes hostile
to the character of that people. Accord
ingly their entire social and political sys-
TEN has been uncovered to hostile eyes;
every evil, every fault has been searched
out as with microscope, and dragged pit
tilessly into view; all that is good has been
utterly ignored. Sir, no society on earth
can undergo such process of invostga-
ton as that to which the South has been
subjected, without becoming II spectacle of
shame.
Sir, you may distort the most perfect
specimen of human beauty, by searching
only for its blemishes and defects and look
ing at these through magnifying and re-
fracting glass, into hideous deformity.
Sir, the enemies of the South have pur-
sued this course; every act of violence,
every murder, every uprising of an angry
mob, which has neither the head to think
nor the heart to feel; every instance, every
incident which can bring reproach upon Il
community, has been hunted out and mag
nitied and multiplied and grouped together
and presented to the world as the portrait
of the South
The Just and equitable operation of equal
laws; the administration of justice; the
Constitution, safe in the affections of the
people; the colleges, academies and schools;
the busy hum of industry; the plenty that
rewards the toll of the laborer; the wor-
ship that ascends to Heaven from thousands
of Christian churches; the flame of do
nestle love, ever burning and ever pure
upon the affairs of happy homes, have been
steadily ignored and concealed.
And, sir, | say to-day, with all the en-
phass of truth, that if, in the history of
the last ten years, the coming of peace has
been delayed; if in that time the good have
been disheartencd and the base encourage
ed if the two races have not moved for |
ward with the progress which was expect
ed toward common prosperity, it is be-
cause the Senators and public men who
welded the power of this great Govern
ment, and had the confidence of the mighty |
behind them, have not risen
to the level of their duty and opportunity |
TO bring, rs they could have done, rest and
luict and love and universal patriotism
over this troubled land.
Mr.. President, | can pursue this subject
no further, as my strength is entirely en-
laustcd.