The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1881-05-03
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have had csiS6inal Judges Of election :
they are totbo found every where, We
kno " bow to djstinenish between. these
exceptional WRONGS and an organized
system OF Intrusion ubor the freedomn' IN
bfsthe ballot. We expect the one t6inc
losbeyf found at the South and at the
North, AZ it is with ms in Ohio hut we
do not expect 10 End. either il the North
or 10 the South, either in South Caro-.
lima Of ID Massachusetts,, systematic y
violation OF the law which gives to TIE
negro the right to vote in Mississippi as
Lit gives to labofing population the rioht
to vote ID the North. Z tell YOU. Mr
President, and I tell you gladly, that
while the people of Ohio are not less
sensitive to-day than they ever have been
10 the outrsSes upon free ballot and .
fair count they are today less credo,
lous Than they Bave been. They do moi
fail to see that this wonderful acrops oil
stories increases. just before every cleo.
! tion ct the North, or when we haye q
debate OF a political character in Con.
gress They do not fail to notice With
pain the fact that > the senior Senator
from Massachusetts the other day ucamf
into the Senate with q, pitiful, tale of,an
old man who had carried his fortunes
and his family and bis life to Missisaipp
and had there invested his money and
after years OF habitation his faetarie,
had been burned, his employees murder.
ed, and ne himself driven to return te
Massachusetts whence he went; and
they will note With astonishment added
to that pain. permit me to say, ttal
when . Senator from Mississippi rose Ii
bis place and asked the name OF thai
man already in Massachusetts, asked
the locality in which all this had hap
pened, asked it, as be said tina. be nigh
investigate the truth, the Senator from
Massachusetts declined to give thename
declinedto give the locality. declinedvh
satisfy him in any respect 80 that hs
might investigate the, story. and when
forsooth, he was pressed to the point
with very scant courtesy he only admir-!
ted that be had Started afaclfy which wst
burned when7in fact it wasu q scotton'
gin. sa 'sas 81 o ,sae. sslola s4sn s7,
NOTE. Since this speech was printed
Senator Dawes has stated on the fooi
OF the Senate that this gentleman never
lived in Missisippi At all, but in Louis.
anafand Senator Jonas, of Louisiana
had read in the Senate statement thai
"this gentleman's will be indicted by tbs
next grand jury for burning his owl
property to defraud the ineursnce com.
panies. a an s1e aiebasAl !. ii "a yis4s.
Sir, the people Of the Northwest will
note this thing; they will note the stories
that are told which have no name and
no locality, in which to track them -
They will note another thing. and thai
lis that. Senators upon this floor, more
than. one. of them, the Senator from
Massachusetts who sits before me, Mr.
Hoar, the Senator, from Connecticut
mot now in his place. Mr.. Hawley, MI
colleague from Ohio, Mr.. Sherman,.
have all repeated-in divers shapes ano
forms that it is not the South that the,
hated; not the South that they were
combating; not the South against which
they leveled the anathema Of their rhet
oric; but that 1t vas against the Bour
bon democratic party that they wouli
be found forever making war. Ah, Mr.
President, 1t is 1.-The, democratic party
and not, the outrages at the So1th, ,agains
which they made wsr,;e the people arr
beginning to understand, and it will moi
be tine fault. of, this debate il they do no
make great progress 10 understanding
that tits not the rebellion, that. it Is no,
the, confederate gbriea,liers, that it is moi
1.-The outraoes upon, tue negroes of ths
South. but that it is hatred for this dem
ocratic, partv of ours. North as well al
South.. which INSPIRES the feryor of youI
|nhllanfhronv and the greatness Of Won,