Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03
THE LOST CAUSE REVIVED.
what the BourbOns Will do if Given
Power.

what the BOurbOns Will do if Given
Power.
POWERFUL SPEECH by GEN. BEATTY, OF OHIO
THE SOUTH CONTEMPLATING THE DIVISION
OF TEXAS INTO FIVE sTATEs-A SOLID NORTH
PowERLEss IN THE HANDS OF A SOUTHERN
SENATE.
At Republican meeting at Troy, Ohio, on
the LIST inst. Gen. Beatty of Columbus de-
livered speech, the closing portion of which
has attracted general attention throughout
the country. After discussing the lawless-
ness which exists in the Southern States, and
citing authorities, Gen. Beatty concluded as
follows
"In the light of the testimony submitted, it
would be useless for any one to attempt to
disguise the fact that there is now a struggle
between sections another phase of that con-
hict which took place from 1861 to 1865,
founded upon the same general ideas, prompt
ed by the same prejudices and passions, and
carried forward in the South substantially by
the same methods. 1t is a solid South versus
a solid North. The South is stronger to-day,
politically, than it was before the war The
white people of that section have lost their
slaves indeed, but they have gained by that
loss 80 additional votes in the national Con-
kTtbS, anu the Same nulllDeT IN lnG ELECTORAL
College, and, although they have disfran-
chised the freedmen they cling to their in
creased representation. With full control of
Congress and the Executive, what would they
do? First, cut up Texas into five States, and
thus gain eight additional Senator's and vir-
tually secure to the South for all time full
control of the United States Senate. Second,
they would reorganize the Supreme Court,
and then sweep away the later amendments
to the Constitution. Third, they would put
the Confederate soldiers on the pension rolls,
provide for payment of the rebel debt and
of Southern claims. Fourth, they would de-
clare the emancipation proclamation and the
reconstruction acts of Congress unconsttu-
tional, revolutionary, and void, and demand
payment for lost slaves. But some Demo-
cratic friend thinks that this would be impos-
sible-that if a Democratic administration
were to do all this the Democratic party, so
called, would be hurled from power at the
next election. How, my friends If 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
will make five States as large territorialy as
Pennsylvania. This division, and Congress
aud the President have the power and the
right to make it any time would, as l have
before stated, give the South eight more SEN
ators, 40 in all, and only make 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-
peaed without the consent of the Senate.
No law could be passed without its concur
renee, 1t would be in a position to dictate
both as to legislation and appointments. No
new State could be admitted, no treaty made,
NO tTtu nr pff ,Nal
without its permission. The negro might be
re-enslaved by the States, and there would be
no remedy save ia revolution n system of
poonage might be established worse than
slavery under which the freedmen would be
guarded by shot-guns while they worked,
and hunted by bloodhounds when they ran
away. and the North, unless absolutely solid,
would be utterly powerless to protest. With
| the Senate in possession of the South, what
can the North do? The President may be a
| Republican, the House may have a two-thirds
Republican 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 appropria-
tion, to demand what it wants for the South
and obtain it or obstruct all legislation.
This, fellow. citizens, is the lost cause re-
vived it is better to the South than the lost
cause could have been, because it affords
| greater advantages II comprehends all that
that did, and reaches far beyond it puts the
purse of the North within easy reach of the
indolent aud impoverished South it indemi-
| fes the South for the past, and gives it secu-
rty for the future it places the South in po-
| stion to say to US, Yield to our demands or
| rebel; take this or nothing submit to our
dictation, or the machinery of the Govern
ment shall stop; you have much to lose by
war; we have little break the peace if you
dare This would be the end of free govern
ment on this continent and the beginning
! of life tenures of office for Southern Senators
and Democratic appointees. This is what
! Wade Hampton meant when he assured the
Virgnians the other day, at Staunton, that
the Democratic party was struggling for the
same principles for which Lee and Stonewall
jackson fought. 1t is for this great end that
| the South has been soldihed. Stimulated by
the hope of grasping this prize and achieving
| the great victory over the North, the Confed-
crate Army is marching 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 mule,
| by every gambler, pimp, and thief who
| prides himself on being better than q negro
| by every ruffan whose business it was to
make merchandise of men; by every brutal
overseer who cut and slashed the laboring
poor by every canting hypocrite who taught
that slavery was sanctioned by God by every
| cowardly assassin who has raised his murder
GUS hand to strike down free speech by
every sneaking scoundrel who has cheated the
popular will by tissue ballots. Men of the
North, will you meet them? Will you defeat
them? 1 believe you will know you will.
Whatever your party ties may have been, you
should forget them now. You have no in
terest that the success of the Republican par
| ty will not promote. Stand for the civilza-
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 been to elevate the poor and secure
equality of rights to all"