Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1881-05-12

| which all men voted or might have voted
/ had they 50 wiled. This makes the Scna-
I tor from South Carolina aud other Senators
| sensitive. The world knows. and Senators
must hc blind if they do not see that 1t has
| come about IN these last Years in the South
I orn States that large portion Of the men
entitled by the Constitution and the laws 10
I vote do not vote. Nobody disputes that
/ The figures that art presented from that side
OF the Chamber aS well as this admit that.
and yet there have been most important
elections. elections of a. vital concern to the
Southern States rs to the Northern States.
and the remarka able fact has been developed
that while year 10y year We at The North
supposed that Ne had attained our culmiuat-
ing Nuic, II las been increased al every
presidential election, while in the Southern
States 1t has fallen off largely-iu. some
States from 20 10 10 per cent This Is a
startling fact. We have one explanation If
THIS; the senators ON the other SIDE present
another and for more than ten wear, 1t hA,
been the fashion for every Senator upon that
side when he uses to debate tins qu, 4 ION 20
DENY ia f"ie aud by wholesale. As one Sen
ator dat the other day that there had heru
IN his State a single ease IF the suppression
of free ballot
Why, Air President. have been Al time,
IN state %. half stupcfeCtiuu listening to
these dcniai>. have no time aud have had
no preparation 10 10 TO the record and bring
up cases IN detail. Ny colleague did that
the other day. But. sir. If the statement
that free ballot has been almost every
where IN the South suppressed by violence
and fraud be not true. all the history Of CON
gressIonal Investigation for the last ten
wears i myth. If il be not true that the
suffrage ha. been taken with rough hand,
and siraneled 10 State after State. then the
volumes OF investigation conducted III the
brightest and kconc,t minds IN the Sen
ate and the House are a batch Of periuric,.
If II be not true, the testimony not onl, Of
republicans bu, Of Old democrats III, MI.
James b. Campbell. Of South Carolina. i,
nothing bat a tissue Of lies Should begin
that record should ! even exhaust TIN ,ul
umc, that have been zen, to me since b,.-
gan speaking. should read ia, sworn test
m"nN taken IN half dozen States; should
! take Up this book at my hand and read
the feeling. icnant. moving words d
RcNerdy Johnson Oh this subject drawn forth
b, a display Of hcarircud.ug facts lust a,
much deurd then "a, hA, been all tc.ilmun,
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argument q the great LAWYER ,u whom |
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