The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-08

desire to uphold Bourbonisn there. It was a
desire to uphold q party which, while openly
protesting obedience to the constitution, held
by mental reservation purposes hostile to the
constitution. It was to Uphold party there
which did not believe in the right of freedom
to vote. 1t was to uphold party that, while
nomlnally accepting the Cincinnati platform,
In which full vote, free ballot and honest
count had been demanded, had introduced
constitutional amendment reauiring
no man should cast ballot for sny Office on
any account, until he had paid capitation tax.
This effort was to uphold party which de5ed
the Democratic creed, and which had under-
taken by methods OF indirection to disfran-
chise the colored man. This was the purpose
and whether his colleague had voted for that
disfranchizing clause he could not speak. He
(Adahons) had never given that doctrine his
assent, either in public or at the ballot-box.
For one he wanted no political seTrs in Virginia.
He wanted no longer any condi-
tions of personal serT.tude. He asserted
| the right sacred to all men of free, I'M
! trammeled ballot, and, whatever might be the
PROFESSIONS Of gentlemen on that subject, be
!. I'd prepared here, on this floor, by the cour-
se@ # the men who were behind him at home
aes e the country that in Virginia at least
~ ~ 49, ~ Id be free suffrage priceless snf-
t tre sdfVS vote, aud an honest count. He
Irsge, . lay Guarantee the enforcement of
SIC 5000 me mere = said it by the brave men who
t.le sawsf and h the cause of freedom. BE
womb WouId # tep tSs A s. tors that his friend
R RIDE a spa 'ug sas -, mer stuff than
they calculated. and "O rn,rs , sStI.ss
any record investigation: Tn [neS hod bson
the statement that he (SfaA& yt1 -'" NJ Nh
elected by Che Bourbon FnSSdihg p who 10 had had
been the Candidate of the people, ;o1;tI riI of
nominated him at the polls b. q taa. 49, "
~. IN on oil WIKI u -
ship had been riisee the issue. He knew O y
consideration which could have induced hlfaA
have taken seat in this Senate or to have heia
any place u the hands of the Bourbon OF Fund
ing party in Virginia. He was under no
obligations to IT ss its champions
here or elsewhere. His allegiance
under God was to his country, and KS first du-
Readiusting pafs9 bad instructed its electors
for Hancock and Englisf; bat it was equally
true it had forborne, and puTftusely forborne,
from instructing for those candidates as the
nominees of the Democratic party. Hereferred
to the Liatnet Of his election, asserting there
had been coIibhstisn against HIM, and that
the Democratic party, whash, hike CeSar's wife,
stood above suspicion, had been willing TO
trade q seat in the United States Senate for
few county officers. If that was the Democra-
cy that gentlemen on the ether side loved,
none Of ii for him.
TIE purpose of the Readjusters was TO stay
the fbttogtade movement of years so as TO
bring Virginia hack from number fifteen in the
grade of States to hFf origi nal position in the
ssterhood of States. FAT be it from hun that
his action here should be controlled or in
fuenced by a caucus whose party had waged
war on is constituents; and whose party sue
cess was held parain !'unt to what he conceived
to be the interest of Virginia and the welfare
of the whole country. The Readjusters of Viz
GINA had no feeling of hostility no words of
unkindness for the colored race. He had faith,
and it was his earnest hope that the
march of enlightened civilization and hu-
man progress would proceed until Gods
great famiilG should everywhere enjoy
the blessings Of civil, Religious and political
liberty. The colored man flad leen loyal to
Virginia in all the days of the conflict GUd blood
shea which had come of the heroic struggle in
the war of se.tiRfIs, By no act of his was
either the clash of ail9s n his freedom in
voked He hid not measured as duties by
consideration of self-interest. Not SO much
could he said of the distinguished statesmen
whourged the South oresist the Readjusters in
behalf of the principles held to be fundamental.
Virginia had not forgotten her abandonment
from that quarter, and needed no counsel rs to
her duty. To him and the people of Viz
ginia, the South; as the phrase went, was
IA mere geographical expression" and no
longer epitomized dream of empire. Ell do
not question" he said in conclusion, % the
grandeur of that hope and aspiration, but it
Vas th1enched in blood, and the South of our
day has ae431'esced in the decision Of the
war. .
"The Democratic party aififrts that decisiUr
in its national Platforms and in the declarations
of its Chairman. am here to assert Virginia.
the mother of the Union, renews her old-time
faith and devotion to the Government her hon
ored sons aided to construct, and in furtherance
thereof I propose to give my best abilities,
and to exert my every energy.
Mr. Malone was warmly congratulated by
Messrs. Conkling, Sherman, Dawes and other
Republicans.