Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-03

THE AMENDMENTS
1t took three amendments to put this negro
proposition upon the ground that the Repub-
lican party desired it should be placed. And
now AZ to the thirteenth amendment which
defined the condition of the negro and secured
to him the freedom of all the territories
within the dominion of this Union,
it required but thirteen Democrats to vote for
it in Congress, while sixteen did actually vote
| for it. Had not the thirteen Democrats voted it
could never have passed. (Great applause.)
,, Who voted for the abolition of African sla-
very? 1t was Democrats, and it was Republic
cans acting in unison and harmony together.
All object to is when thing has been done
for the great glory of this country, and two
arms have done it. the one Democratic and the
other Republican, that the Republican arm
should appropriate the entire credit of per-
forming the act. 1t is unfair, 1t is unjust, it
is untrue, and it has no other purpose or object
in political life except to stir no the snakes of
envy and hate. and turn the life of the repub-
lilo into open and actual war. (Applause.)
THE UBIQUITOUS ELECTION LAWS
The Republican party in 1870, 1 tell you gem
tlemen, was seeking to argument its power in
obedience to the same principle of selfshness
have already spoken to you of, and WAS
seeking every appliance to do it; it was casting
about on every hand to see what it conld seize
hold of to lay another stone in the bulwark of
the power il intended should be perpetual
What did it do? Although the constitution of
the United States Gays that every State shall
have the right to regulate aud control its own
domestic concerns, aud although that instru-
ment says that members of Congress and elect
ors shall be appointed under the law of the
several States. as they see fit to provide, Con-
gress passed an election law that pervaded this
Union, and it provided that in cities of certain
| size the judge of the United States district
| court might appoint two supervisors, one of
| them Democrat, and the other a Republican
who should see to the registration
of the vote in the precincts
of that city. Upon the face of things gentle
| men, that was all right. 1t looked plausible,
and upon its face as if the party, acting
through the channels of legislative power. was
willing to be just to the people of the country.
But they could do just that and suffer moth
ing at all in their nefarious schemes. That
| was not where the gazelle came in, that was
not the joke of the matter at all. That bill au-
thorized the United States marshal to appoint
! Just as many deputy marshals as he saw fit in
every city of the Union, and it gave the deputy
| marshals such power that they seized upon
voters, examined their naturalization papers
and said that they were not correct by the law
of the land; that the clerk of the court or the
| judge who granted them had mistaken their
duty and done something wrong. These mar
shals. that were made of the keepers OF houses
of ill-fame in New York and Philadelphia and
the lowest people in those cities, paraded the
streets of the city for days toge ther.
In New York city they arrested 1900 men
who had their naturalization papers in their
hands and walking to the polls to vote. And
| these filthy. low, ignorant harpies
said the United States court and the other
courts that granted you these naturalization
papers didn't know their business at all; but 1
know what the law of the land is that governs
the subject. These men were put into the
common Jail of New York-twenty.six hum
dred of them-and kept there for days. tell
you that the marshal at Philadelphia appointed
more than 600 deputies, and tell you that
the marshal Of New York appointed over 1900
of these worthless men that had never done
anything but crawl side by side with rats and
angle-worms in the lowest sewers of New York.
| Tremendous laughter and applause).
That is the way the Republican party has
dealt with the libe, ties of the American people.
These ATE some of the reasons, ladies and gen.
| tlemen, why have right to conclude that
| this party has become corrupt and that for the
| uuholy purposes of sel6shness it is trying to
perpetuate its powef. It il against
| this perpetuation of power that we are fight
| ing to-day.
IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON.
Another outrage was perpetrated that the
| whole world has been ashamed of from the
day it was conceived until the time it failed in
| the consummstion of its unutterable wicked
| ness and that was the impeachment of An
| drew johnson, who was the legal and legitim ate
| President of the United States. I speak of
| this matter because 1t was raid
| upon the constitution. speak of
it because 1t was an attack upon the
| very citadel of our rights, and when that is
| once attacked it is easy to find excuse to at
| tack it again. The constitution of the United
States provides that q President may be i'm
peached and removed from off % when he has
| committed either high crimes or misdemeanors.
Every body knows what they are. Now, they
attempted to impeach and remove Andrew
johnson. What was it for? It was because he
was kindly toward the South; it was because he
was in favor of reconstruction policy that
would not add to the perpetuity of the
Republican party; it was because under his re-
construction poliov class of voters might be
brought into the Union that would not vote
with the Republican party. So it was neces-
sary to impeach and remove him from power in
order to place some other man there who would
do the bidding of the Republican party. The
| constitution gave them the right to charge
| him with hi Oh crimes and misdemeanors, bu.
with what did they charge him? They only
charged him with attempting to remove a man
| from office. his own secretary of war, man
whom he appointed, and man whom he had a
right to remove at any hour or minute of the
| day or night. (Applause.) But this secretary
of war was radical Republican and he must
not be removed; so Ben. Butler commenced
framing the articles Of Impeachment, and
! the House of Representatives impeached in
| proper form before the Senate of the United
| States. And before pass further. let me say
it was Ben Butler who stood at the head of this
| affair. hope that he has repented in sack cloth
and ashes before this. daughter and applause)
| for we find now that Ben Butler has left the
Republicans and joined the Democracy. There
| is no greater proof of the corruption of the
| Republican party, for Ben Butler would never
leave anything until it was totally and essen
TALLY rotten. Tremendous laughter and ap.
| pause
| Now these articles were presented, aud the
| Senate of the United States sat as high court
| of impeachment on the case of Andrew John.
son, for committing high crime and q high
| misdemeanor by exercising the prerogation of
| his Office to remove man he had appointed
| himself, or at least who was holding an Office
| during his administration. Every man knows
| that the President appoints his own cabinet
| officers, and that he removes them when he
| sees fit. This was all that Andrew johnson at
| tempted to do; but this, great party
in the face of the constitutional compact of the
| country and in the face of the nations con
| tempt and scorn, moved onward step by step
| to perpetuate the hellish Vaccinations of i'm
peaching and removing Andrew johnson from
Office. But let it be said to the eternal glory
| and credit of Mr.. Grimes, MIR. Fessenden, Mr.
Trumbull and two other Republicans, five
| in all, who have ever marched in the van guard
| of the Republican party, among the shouting
| sons of liberty in this land that they threw
their great bodies into the breach aud prevent
| ed the contamination of the hellish outrage.
| (Applause.) If they had been rewarded for it
| by the common gratitude of this country that
| would have been some consolation to those
great patriots, but from that time to this the
Republican party has consigned them to the
infamy of private life, and like the laocoon
| they are wound up in the immortal snakes of
Republican malice, and ever will
be until some other party
| out of gratitude and generosity
lifts them to the plane of their intellect and
honesty. (Applause.)