The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-03
THE SOUTH.
How It Hopes TO Reach and Per-
petuatc Control Over the Nation.
Extract from speech Of Gen Beatty, at Troy,

Extract from speech Of Gen. Beatty, at Troy,
Ohio.l
In the light Of the testimony submit
ted, it would be useless for any one to
attempt to disguise the fact that there
is now a struggle between sections an
other phase of that conflict which took
place from 1861 to 1865, founded upon
the same general ideas, prompted by the
same prejudices and passions, and car
ried forward In the South substantially
by the same methods. 1t is solid
South versus solid North. The South
is stronger to-day, poll ically, than it
was before the war. The white people
of that section have lost their slaves,
indeed but they have gained by that
loss thirty additional votes In the ma
tional Congress, and the same number
in the Electoral College; !. and, although
they have DISTINGUISHED the freedmen,
they yet cling to their increased repre-
sentation.- With full control of Con-
gress and the Executive, what would
they do !?
/ l. Cut up Texas into five States, and
thus gain eight additional Senators, and
virtually secure to the South, for all time,
full control of the United States Senate.
2. They would reorganize the Supreme
/ Court, and then sweep away the later
/ amendments tothe constitution. sa
8. They would put the Confederate
soldiers on the pension-rolls, and provide
for payment of the rebel debt, and OF
Southern claims. m 81
4. They would declare the Emancipa-
ton proclamation, and the Reconstruc-
ton acts of Congress, unconstitutional,
revolutionary, and void, and demand
payment for lost slaves.
But some Democratic friend thinks
THAI, if Democratic administration
were to do all this, the Democratic party.
SO called, would be hurled from power
at the next election. How, my friends {?
Ii you trust the Democratic party now,
you will trust it once too often. The Joint
resolution by which Texas was annexed
provides that Congress may divide the
Territory embraced within its present
limits into five States it would make
FIVE States as large territorially as Penn
sylvania. This division-and Congress
and the President have the power and
the right to mako it at any time-would,
as | have before stated, give the South
eight more Senators-forty in all, and
only making it necessary to obtain the
votes of one Democratic State in the
North to- secure absolute control of the
Senate. No obnoxious law could be re-
pealed without the consent Of this SEN
ate. No law could be passed without It's
concurrence. It would be in position
to dictate both as to legislation and APP
pointments. fi gs8 81
No new State could be admitted, no
ii eaty made, no Postmaster or revenue
officer appointed, without its permission.
The negro might be re-enslaved by the
States, and there would be no remedy
save in revolution. A system of peon-
age might be established, worse than
slavery, under which the freedmen would
be guarded by shotguns while they
worked and hunted by bloodhounds
when they ran away, and the North, I'M
less absolutely solid, would be utterly
powerless to protect. IA, tf
i 8 With the Senate in possession of the
South, what can the North do? The
President may be Republican the
House may have a two thirds Republic
can majority the popular vote may be
overwhelmingly Republican but there
stands the Southern Senate to dictate to
all, to revise every law, to bargain about
every appointment, to pass upon every
appropriation, to demand what it wants
for the South, and obtain it, or obstruct
all legislation. fa,
II This, fellow citizens, is the Lost Cause
revived it is better to the South than
the Lost Cause could have been, because
it affords greater advantages. It COM
prehends all that that did, and reaches
far beyond It puts the purse of the
North within easy reach of the indolent
and impoverished South. It indemni-
fies the South for the past, and gives it
security for the future 1t places the
South in position to say to us: "Yield
to our demands or rebel; take this, OF
nothing submit to our dictation. or the
machinery of the Government shall
stop. You have much to lose by war
we have little; break the peace if you
dare. I"
This would be the end of free govern
ment on this continent, and the begin
ming Of life-tenllres of office for Southern
Senators and Democratic appointees.
This is what Wade Hampton meant when
he assured theVire inians, the other day, at
Staunton, that the. Democratic party was
struggling for the same principles for
which Lee and Stonewall Jackson
fought 0
I 1t is for this great end that the
South has been solicited. Stimulated
by the hope of grasping this prize, and
achieving this great victory over the
North, the Confederate army is march
ing to the polls In solid column, followed
by every man who lost a cotton-bale, by
every master who lost a slave, by every
planter who lost a mule, by every
gambler, pimp, and thief who prides
himself on being better than negro, by
every rufian whose business it was to
make merchandise of men; by every
brutal overseer who cut and slashed the
laboring poor by every canting hypo-
critic who taught that slavery was sane
toned by God; by every cowardly as
sassin who has raised his murderous
hand to strike down free speech by
every sneaking scoundrel who has
cheated the popular will by tissue-bal-
lots.
Men of the North, will you meet them |?
Will you defeat them? I believe you
will !; I know you will. Whatever your
party ties may have been, you should
forget them now. You have no interest
that the success of the Republican party
will not further Stand for the civiliza-
ton of the North for its free schools,
free speech, free ballot, and free men /.
Stand by the party whose record is full.
of generous deeds and magnificent
achievements, whose aim has ever been
to elevate the poor and secure equality
of rights to all T. lof 9a
GARFIELD AT HOME.