Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-14
SENATOR BAYARD.

SENATOR BAYARD.
His spsschi as The Great New York lsreet,ne
-Wretched FalselI,ods in Regard to the
south-The Candidates COntrasted. ir4 M
Senator BayaTd began his speech by calling
attention to the fact that new generation
sce e ehe years
The boy of fifteen then is row a mature man
adopted in the. interval have BEEN declared
by the Democratic andidate as "invio1able'
and if. called to the Presidency he should
deem It his dnty to resist with all his power
any attempt to impair or eyade them. l,f..
The Thirteenth Amendment, said the
speaker, forever abolished slavery and invol-
untary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime. The Fourteenth amendment created
equality of citizenship before the law provid-
persons from holding office. either State or
Federal, who had engaged in the rebellion,
branches of Congress; secured the validity of
the PUBLIC debt of the United States, includ-
ing pensions and bonnties, from ever being
questioned, and expressly prohibited the
United States or any. State from assuming or
paying any debt or obligation incurred in aid
OF 1nsurrection or rebellion against the United
States or any claim for the loss or emancipa-
ton, and all such debts, obligations, and
claims should be held illegal and void. The
Fifteenth prevented the denial or abridg-
Doent by the United States or any State OF the
ment upon a charge fiuently made and daily
repeated by the Republican press and their
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cess the war debts of the South, the loss of
the slaves and claims for other losses grow
ing out OF the war, pensions for their wound, ,
States Treasury. This requires the combined
votes of a Democratic majority in both
Houses, and the approval OF d Democratic
Thereisa proyerbial difficulty about prov
ing negatives, and to attempt to meet by
proof every apparition and chimera that par
t1san ingenuity can create, and partisan NAL
ice and falsehood can suggest. would be idle
ences.- The best reply to all these wild, ma
Hclous, and foolish assertions is that such
he snse De tbe of that
Is seriously to be impugned who does not read
in the plain mandate of the Fourteenth
Amendment the absolute seal of illegality
and nullity set upon all such claims; that,
until the Constitution is amended by the con-
current vote of thirds of all the States,
such claims rs those styled Southern Claims''
are mere ghosts to alarm the silly and I'M
thinking, or to furnish the Inscriptions with
And here let me say that, having been for a
number. of years in Washington, have
1iciaries Of the Claims paid by Congress in the
past ten years OF the class styled Southern
great hart of the money flowed into the poc ck
cts of Northern and very loyal assiynees.
who had bought up these claims for a song
from their fmpecunious Southern owners and
then, employing distinguished counsel at the
North, the whole claim became suddenly
duty, and no odor OF its Southern and danger
GUS origin could be perceived. At the great
gathering of Republican ladies and gentle
men at the Academy last week. there were
lawyers, bankers and statesmen who had
more money in their pockets from " Southern
claims" allowed by Republican, commissioner
and Republican courts, than the poor south
ever received since the war. or ever will re-
ceive from. now. until the day of Judgment:
distinguished citizens must have ingled with
shame when they heard the Democratic
party assaulted for paying southern claims"
and tlGY knew how large q portion had gone
into their own pockets. =.
No, gentlemen; it is triaing with your in
telligence in the face of the history of the
times and the plain prohibitions of the Con-
stitution to tell you the Treasury is in danger
war just now it suits the radical press and
orators to seek to fix the stigma of repudia
ton on the Southern States and people, and
Geve that they propose to pay every claim,
private and public, in full.
WHAT THE SOLID SOUTH MEANS.
The speaker referred at length to the recent
speech of Senator Conkling. Believing that
it is always easier to be violent than just, he
only be kindled argument and reason are
quickly consumed, it seems to have been de-
iberately decided by the Republican mana
gers that revival of the passions of the war
and the stimulation of sectional antagonisms
form to day their best chance for inducing
the American people to continue public power
They raise the cry of the solid South, and
declare it must be antagonized by a solid
North. But ii the South be solid for those
things the North needs and desires, then all
reason forantagonism is gone, and the solidity
pose is demanded. What does the South, as
a section, seek to do which the North should
fear? Does the execution of any scheme of
government or policy now proposed by the
Southern people, or the political party which
controls them, forbode disaster TO the citi
zenS of the North, or to the Government of
the United States2 If it does then am OPP
posed to it and them, and will vote and act IN
opposition. If believed the success of the
DpmnCrHtic narty ilnnpri1pG national honor
or interest. or involved injustice to any menI-
Der of the Union, then should cease to be
Democrat. But convinced as am that the
unity of our people is essential to our strength
and safety, and that Justice and good will
in the temple Of our liberty, propose to lay
the foundations broad and wide and deep In
the OF w |. tnnt 90 ;th
Our system of Governments Is based on vol
untary support by the citizen From within
his breast springs the fountain of duty and
affection which flows down to join the mighty
o. wd IS the
ty ndbuitd up its true strength. The mex
tinguishable hatred of sectional party makes
The Southern States are solid for local self
government in each State. uninterfered with
Northern State insists upon under the Consti-
tuition and actually enjoys. 50
Government in ali its higher positions shall
not be committed to the hands OF ignorance
and weakness, but to individuals rendered
competent by education and fitted by natural
qualities to perform the functions. The North
seeks to do this, and votes down Incompetence
and ignorance whenever it can.
The South is solid in seeking advancement
in all chat tends to its material prosperity
and through its representatives in Congress
strives to obtain adequate appropriations for
light houses an its coasts Post offices and
Custom and Court houses for the transaction
of its commerce and business. All these APP
preparations are under Federal control and
Tor Federal purposes. And Northern repre-
sentatives are just as active and eager for
similar appropriations for their localities
The south ia solid In responding to friendly
treatment and kindly sympathy with mutual
confidence md support, and responding to
contumely and vifficatfon and injustice with
Indignation and resentment.
The South is solid for retrenchment reform,
economy, and good Government, State and
Federal and should not the North be also solid
in these things? = - & -
In 1850 the South is solid in favor of the cleo
ton to the Presidency of one of the most dis.
tinguished captains in command OF the armed
hosts that put an end to all hope OF separate
and independents government of the Southern
States. Is this II cause of apprehension to the
NOrth?. A48 y - ~ f@GtA ~ &1aa5 g IS -
But the South is also solid against a politi-
cal DAytyF til at ThaS~u0ver ceased to hold lt9