Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1881-05-03

in two years he would have found the State
of North Carolina giving him another bond
for Sl20 for the interest unpaid on the
principal for two years bearing 6 per
cent. interest, and as time rolled on he
would have found that he got no interest
on his one thousand dollar bond, no inter-
est on his $3.50 bond, no interest on his
sl20 bond, even down to now and what
happens
He has had his bond of 81 900: he
had his next bond $500; he had his
next bond sl20. Add to that the inter-
est unpaid on the one-t thousand dollar
bond from 1868 down to now and there
is $3.50; the interest on $3.50 from 1866
to now. 1924; the interest on the Sl20
from 1868 to now, s93 80, which makes
in all that Mr.. Dawes bond represented
to him S2,677 60, and then the State Of
North Carolina gives him for itone bond
bearing 4 per cent. interest-40 per cent.
Of his original bond of 81 900; that is
a bond of siO0, and she gives him an
other bond for his interest, bond Of %
per cent. OF it that is sl20; and thus
the Senator from Massachusetts, has bonds
TO the enormous extent of $500, and he
has not yet got any money, but the dis
covery was made the other day that this
new bond could be sold for eighty five
cents on the dollar, and the distinguished
Senator. if he has financial thrift about
him, will send to New York today, and
order that North Carolina bond TO be sold
for eighty-fve cents. 1t is the only way
| think he will ever get anything Thus
YOU will find he gets SAP cash, and the
net loss is S3,235.60 and there is no
compound interest about it either. That
is no repudia,ion And yet some Sen
ator said on this side that Senators on
that side must be brave men. All 4, a
braver man than the Senator from North
Carolina cannot be found in the wide,
wide world when in the face Of that, look
ing right into the eyes Of the American
people he declares that North Carolina
has never repudiatcd a single dollar, her
escutcheon is as bright, as glorious, as
glittering as the consultations above US :
Mr.. President, Senators on the other
side again charge us on this side with
simply being engaged in game Of trying
to get few offices for the Republicans.
There is not Senator, | think, on the
other side of this Chamber who does not
know that if the Republican Admins
tration was pleased it could today turn
out from every Department of this Gov
ernment-any one of them, do not care
which one you name-more Democrats
and give their places to Republicans than
we can possibly do in this Senate by
passing this resolution. Hunting after
offices
Mr.. President. much has been said in
the progress of this discussion in relation
to the rights of the majority. do not
propose to discuss that point at all; it
has been debated here for weeks by abler
men than |. 1t is not the ground on
which make this fight for myself and
in part for my State. | recognize its
force; | recognize that the minority must
yield to the majority ultimately or that
we have no Government but there is
another ground which appeals to me with
infinitely greater strength than that. |
have seen something of minority in the
other House. have just come from it,
and we in there availed ourselves Of the
rights of the minority under the rules
that the Senator from Georgia speaks
about. supposed when came here
into this digniied Chamber had bid
adieu to flibustering forever; but 10 and
behold all the flibustering | ever saw
in the other branch pales into utter insig-
nificance when compared with this here.
Mr.. President, the ground on which /
make this fight is this : that there is a
solid South, and that solid South is a
constant menace to the prosperity, to the
safety of the American people, and, in
my judgment, gross, wicked usurpation
of rights, deprivation of rights among
its own people. And when | talk about
the people of the South mean blacks as
well as whites. When Senators on the
other side talk about ''our people they
seem to me to mean no man except the
man who has a white skin, but we at
the North recognize black man as one
of the people. | say the North today,
in my judgment, places this fight upon
this ground and sustains it upon our dec
laration that that solid South shall be
broken of its solidity if that solidity
depends upon the deprivation of any right
of any citizen of the United States hap
pening to reside there.
When that charge was made, Senator
after Senator on the other side had the
boldness to rise and deny, some Of them,
that there had ever been any political
outrages, such as have been alluded to,
in the South since the war. The two
Senators from Georgia both admitted
that there had been outrages; | heard
no other on that side admit it; but each
one who has spoken has declared emphat-
ically and distinctly that today those
outrages have ceased entirely; that today
the angel of peace has settled over the
whole South; that today elections are as
free, as fair, as peaceable there as any.
where in the United States; and, says
the Senator from Georgia, more free than
they are in Massachusetts or Rhode Is
land or Connecticut.