American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-25

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and when he was writing brief to make il
| appear the other way, he knew that Louisiana
| had cast Democratic majority of :, 1000, and
| here is his sworn testimony on that subject:
90. Did you get any idea how the vote OF
| Louisiana stood from the returns? A. had
| all those ideas that could be got from the
newspapers and the leaders of the different
! parties We had had, of course, very full in .
| formation of that sort.
%. Presenting that there were not some
parishes to be thrown out by the Returning
| Bourd, it was very clear that the State had
gone for Nichols and Tiden, was it not? A.
| IL was very well understood by the time got
there that If nothing but the lace of the re-
turns was to he considered and, if every vote
sent up was to be treated n legal vote, Mr..
Tilden was ahead. Applause
%. And il every vote sent up was a legal
vote. and some more Republican votes were
not found il was very clear that the state had
gone tor Nichols and Tilden? A. Yes"
THERE Is YOUR MAN, REPUBLICANS,
that you propose to place in the chair that
Washington occupied. voice, NO, new
record like that did ever take that chair, and
in tho kind providence of eternal God it
will never occur He knew by the returns that
Tilden for President and Nichon for Governor
were elected in the State of Louisiana, and
yet when he knew that, he says when he got
to New Orleans he staid there eighteen days,
and all that he did to sit in that inner
room. where nobody could find him except
they passed from the public hall through an
other room, and there alone, with poor ig
norant witnesses. he prepared interroga-
tories and talked with them, and that those
Undergraduates and that talk went to the Re-
turning Board and furnished the scoundrels of
that Board the preteXt to return against the
truth that Tilden was beaten in Louisiana.
Do you suppose that this man was to return
eide whether Tilden or Hayes was elected,
and to decide between man and man whether
Hendricks or Wheeler was elected Vice-Pres-.
idcnt? He says, on page 193: 81 heard of
nothing of the kind-that is, of Il decision
then made. don't think any of our party had
what the result would be- Then little
further down he says: 1--WE went away from
that meeting. and within perhaps three hours
that we left New Orleans. know there was
great anxiety among us all as to what the re-
suit would be, and we had no word or hint of
it until we had passed Bellaire on Tuesday
morning, when Il dispatch was received adj
senator Sherman. giving us the first intima
ton Of the conclusion of the Returning
that have from time to time taken your seats
upon the jurors box, what do you think of
the man that is to come on to Washington to
try the cause?
Being anxious in his mind as he leaves New
Orleans, and all the way from that city until
he reaches Bellaire until he reaches Ohio. he
Is in great state of anxiety, and then dis
patch comes mt lightning speed,
"THE WORK Is DONE"
"The work is done," and there is no anxiety
thence on foleverl The perjury and the ferg:
States have been beaten in their might and
majesty ma and in their glorious sove1eigntE at
the old lion that had his paws entangled in
the meshes of the net. Tine great people of
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work was done in that room, and forev from
this time infamous room in the Custom
house; and this is the evidence, gentlemen.
John c. New, you that stand high rs a citizen
of indianapolis this is the evidence that
page and document so full that if you wanted
the truth you could not fall into error, and
here is what l said in that original speech:
=. Garfield's testimony commences ut page
7S9," and here it is, you can come and look for
yourselves (referring to the book), I" Docu-
of Representatives, Third session, Forty fifth
Congress" If that is not in detail, why it is
a piece of land in a deed or will. Now, to-
morrow morning let him who wrote the ar |
ticle this morning come down upon his knees
and pray Gods pardon, ana go TO the Journal |
and do Justice to a neighbor; aye, more than |
justice to himself; aye more than that |
do justice to the intelligence, sentiment, and |
Judgment of the people of Indianapolis, that |
ne addresses every morning. lApplausel He |
repeat what he said this morning? A little
further; Qooks at a book can't fndit-(here
lind it if it is there, and we Democrats are go
ing to stick to this man until he is sorry he
fba Me MAY
4 popular Judgment and n public conscience
hat is more terrible than the fate which
awaits the wicked. Here is what the Journal
says: eff this can be substantiated, then
fairfield would he disgraced." Laughter
How stands he now? How is it between You
and me-betwsen your intelligence and your
and minds? Aye, more than that
iisgraced? Unless Mr. Hendricks can sub
'tantfate the charge he is disgraced."
IHAvE ACCEPTED THE ISSUE,
Without fear; aud 1 stand here IN the pres
m. nee of my eighbors-Lnprearioqs applause;
Appfause.l "Mr. Hendricks offered no proof
zone, since he can not produce any. The
harge is unsupported by any evidence worthy
elf [AppIause.] This is harder on Garfield
han any thing ever said. A voice, That's
his man, that thus came and condncted him.
elf at the city of New Orleans, and helped to
Prepare the case, and helped to get a false re-
urn from false and periured Returning
'oard-he came on his way North far
$ Belaire, and was overtaken by the light
5 he sat in the palace car, of the decision that
hey had procured In the city of New Orleans.
cen submitted. 1 know the anxiety which
rives sleep and quiet away when life or prop |
rty may depend upon the result made by the
iry. But surely never expressed myself in |
egard to that anxiety. as Garfield did when
bout the result, and when the result came all |
nxiety disappeared. His work com
leted, and an honest return was defeated.
GU think he did when there was bill pro- |
osed in Congress-the bill that did finally
We members of the House and five members
I the Senate and five members of the Su- ,
RENE Court to hold conference upon this
reat issue? When that bill was pending
GARFIELD GOT UP
nd said, no, 1t must not be; and here are the |
easons that he gave: Let me give you, in his i
ifficult to read. speaking OF the bill then {
ending in Congress, he says (this was on the 3
It'll of january he got back to Washington
y the I'd of December, and the bill came up 8
n consideration in the House. Whether the
should be appointed to pass :
pom the right of President and Vice -Presi-
ent, and Garfield opposing the bill, uses this
lnguage: 1t assumes the right of Congress $
go down into the colleges and inquire into | =
Il the acts and facts connected with their [
DIRK. 1t assumes the right OF Congress to go C
own into the States to review the act of ev- | ,
y officer, to open every ballot box, and to :
famine every ballot cast by 1000, 600 of Amer 4
ll-that if it did pass and these fifteen men 4
ere appointed under the law, 1t would be II
40 returns. ana to pass upon the
al facts of the case; to go into the
illot- box and see how the votes were, and to G
.cide the case upon the real truth. And at h
+ that, when the bill passed and he became :
lie of the fifteen, he voted every time that L
ey should not open the door to investigate,
1t that the law closed the door, and said that
ellogg'S certificate and the certificate of the
eturning Board was stronger than law and
e Constitution and the Judgment of Con =,
ess. And his vote was the eighth vote -
,,iinst seven that decided that they should W
It go behind the Returning Board APP ~
ause What would you think of me as a 1e
Union upon n question of law, l have no ",
'ubt about it, and address the honored Court
I'd the next day came to be Il member of q
e tribunal to pass upon individual and pub "
right according to law, and that next day a
ay what said before is not the law, and sc
eide against you upon the statement of the -
W different from that had made the day =
fore. As Mr.. Julian said, when he stood in al
@ House it was Garfield speaking, but when w
was put upon the Commission it was the e.
rty fe
POWER, MONEY, AND OFFICE. az
pplause Let me read you this oath he h;