The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-05-25

tui. the Jacksops. Davis, the Clays,
Lewis. the Crittendcns, the Prestops.
the lsreckinridscs, Thomas, Cauby,
Drayton, Gibbon, Scott. and Taylor,
The great Daval hero, Admiral Farra'
gut, whose monument this entire cit?
turned out to see uncovered, vas one
cf the 'barbarians' who rose from
that civilization He whom the
Senate seeks to preserve in enduring
brass in public park of this city was
one of the 'babarians' from shat civ
ilization.' George H. Thouas, for
whom you have made au equestrian
statue in one of our handsouess reserva'
tions, who led the armies of the Union
as perhaps few Others Of those great
soldiers led them, was another Of the
'barbarians' whom the Senator now
seeks to denounce.
Mr. President, | remember when as
a boy l attended the deliberations of
the Senate, aud subsequently to have
heard something about she slave
oligarcby,' that it was arrogant, ag
gressive, strong. Perhaps it was; |
will not argue that; but one thing |
can say for it and its illustrious asso
ciates of the North in the history of
this Government they never plundered
the public Treasury, they never or
sauized Credit Mobiliers,' they never
made possible Black Friday they
never had FIVE circuit judges of the
United States court to resign their
seats under the threat of impeach-
ment for corruption and fraud, they
never had their Representatives kicked
out of Congress for selling cadet
ships,' they never traced corrupt con-
tracts to the very door of the White
House, they never had race conflicts.
they never had rotten borough gov
eruments to rob the people, sustain
ing them with bayonets, they did not
drive American commerce from the
high seas to put public pluuder in
their pockets; their great statesmen
never had their debts paid by copora'
tions and manufacturing companies
They may have been aggressive, they
may have been strong, they may have
been aarogaut, bat nope of these sins
that I have enumerated, and many
more that might euumerate from re-
publican history, can be laid at their
doors truthfully.
The Senator tells US about an Sir
rcpressible conflict Yes, sir, there
was an irrepressible conflict between
free and slave labor They we're two
civilizations moving toward each
other on covergiog lines. They met
at Fort Sumter and there the com
bustion took place, the issue was
joined. Then for four years there was
a battle Of the giants such battle
as the world has never seen ; until at
Appomattox one giant fell covered
with wounds and blood and fatigue
and want and exhaustion. He sur
rendered ; and with that was buried
that 'irrepressible conflict Down
with it, forever and for aye, went the
Institution of slavery; and am glad
of it. Down with it in a grave of
blood and ruin and confusion went
the institution, and there ended that
'irrepressible conflict It ended as l
had supposed forever; it has ended
forever; but let me warn that Senator
that another 'irrepressible conflict has
arisen in this country, not between
African slavery and freedom, but it is
4 conflict on the one hand between the
people for their liberties, and arro-
CANT, bloated corporate power and mo-
nopoly on the other hand. That is
another 'irrepressiblc coufict, to which
I invite the attention of the Senator
When he said, How easy it is to
saoot labor ground down with hun
dred years of slavery he forgot how
labor was shot not more than four
years ago at Pittsburgh, at Chicago,
and at other places; labor that had
never been and never will be ground
down with slavery. Oh, but the
Senator would have US understand
that they are ouly poor uhite me-
chanics, a IaDIess mOb,' as another
republican Senator styles them, who
ought to be shot when they do not
obey the behests of corporate powers.
They asked you for justice and you
give them'shot aud. she'll. They asked
you for food and you give them
stone. They asked you for labor aud
you give them the highway and tell
them to support their wives and chill
dren upon trampiug and fresh air.
Unfortunate allusion of the Senator !
In this very mornings paper I see
that 'irrepressible conflict still going
ou-strikes at Milwaukee, strikes at
Saint Louis, strikes in other large
cities. of the free. born, liberty loving
white men Of the North against the
aggressive, bloated plutocracy which
is seeking to grind them to the dust
That is an 'irrepressible conflict.
No, sir, We do not shoot labor at
the South, and if the honorable Sen
ator FROM Maine will go with me I
will show him men with the plow
handles in their hands. as good and
Intelligent and as proud as he dare be.
The laboring man of the South does
not know what hunger, cold, and
want are.
The Senator says that We of the
South cauuot longer 'bIindfold' the
people of the North. We are not
seeking to do so. We have never
sought to do so. We wish the peo.