The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-05-19
A Rattling Fire by the Maine Senator.
The Congressional Record prints the
speech recently delivered in the United
states Senate by Mr.. Frye, the junior
Senator from Maine as follows:

SpccCu TeCeutly ucllNeTeu Ill tuo Ohitoo
states Senate by Mr.. Frye, the junior
Senator from Maine, as follows:
Gentlemen, We said to you when this contest
started here that wo intended to fight on this
line until Solid South, made solid In these
devious ways, lost its solidity. We recognize
In the light in Virginia the entcring wedge,
and because We recognize It as IN entering
wedge, and for that reason alone, We have de-
ey to e
independent States and yield to every man,
South, we shall make that fight forever, unless
victory comes before forever ends. IL Is GER
tain, though ''the mills of the gods grind slow.
ly, yet they grind exceeding small"
Sir, tho gentlemen may smile Mt the express.
lon of tho Senator from Pennsylvania tMr.
They should remember history. 1t has been
written in this country for our benefit and
the wide world oven e and ds the man for es wSo%
history Is written, who reads IL not, and learns
TWO E o IN shis aed u Of
cnrs; the one tho civilization of the North,
foaaicu upon the school-book and Bible, tho
upon slavery; the one a pure democra.
cy, the other an aristocracy sitting down upon
GafSsrism, n fSs s Iney could not live side by side
ible conflict sooner or later to open up be-
tween them, and God was to give the victory
ever in free country. Barbarism grew, and
grew, oh, so fast, so strong-grew so powerful
tnat she seemed TO have had her grasp upon
the whole broad country. Instead Of freedom
being the cornerstone, it was slavery. 1t was
barbarism. You grew SO strong that you
so strong that you bought great territories to
strengthen yourself still more, SO strong that
erfui that you put on the statute book the
most infamous laws that were ever recorded
on the statute books of any country, civilized
so strong that you enacted a law and com
PEELED the freemen OF the North to submit to
ohusetts. right in sight of Faneuii Hail, where
liberty was said to have boon born. compelled
Massachusetts men to shoulder the musket,
and, 900 strong, hunt down one poor black
man, to deliver him to his master. and the
barbarism was so insolent and wicked that
on m s
the Southern land, and made the Southern
heart rejoice with Joy exceeding: 1t grew SO
hand to seize upon the free Territories, and
then, for the first time, seemingly, the civili-
schoolbook-woke up. 1t started into power,
called q halt, and said to your barbarism,
''Thus far, and not one step further, forever"
war-tried to destroy the country-but civil
ization, now alive to it's duties raised armies.
four four years, made Your rive rivers run run red ed with M
blood, finally conquered you-con9uered Sc.
secession-and then the war was over. Sup
pose barbarism had triumphed what would
this country have seen2 Would not estates
cities have been pillaged and burned? Would
not men have been hung in the North? All,
Bible as well as the Observation-Disclosures,
and not q dollar was contscated, not a man
was hung, not a man was punished, and when
the great commander said to the Congress
men, >"Go home in peace, be good citizens,
and will take care of you," the great heart
OF the North said Amen, and amen" and you
went home
In the meantime we had made 900 men,
women and children free. While you were
worked your farms and took care of your
wives and your little children. They were
they never betrayed you. Not one.
The Northern civilization thought that with
that record for the colored man his chival-
would give aim every right he was entitled to,
out of gratitude if for no other reason, and II
the very first Legislature You called together
with the spirit of barbarism still lowering over
you enacted the infamous laws reducing the
black man to a serfdom worse than slavery,
the laws the Senator from Massachusetts CMr.
HoarI read here in this distinguished presence
came to us at the North We could not believe
1t, but we were forced 10 believe, and then de
termined that the black man should have his
rights, and to that end we put the ballot in his
hands. We made him a citizen of the United
States, your equal in the eyes of the law, and
terest. the savagest history that eveI
tory in The wide world, pagan, barearie
as much as they please, but the country knows
that thousands and tens of thousands of black
voters were killed i'm cold blood in your South
ern States. You men know IL in Mississippi
the Senator from Louisiana knows 1t in Louis
lana. All, gentlemen, the pen of history, with
its iron point, has written the terrible story OF
those few years in your bright Southern land
and your children and their children readin0
IL will hide their faces in their hands and theiI
hands in the dust. have no desire to recall
or recte Ii. Tho North determined that II
should stop. We sent our armies down there
and it did stop. Our armies staid there, scat
exercised his right of unrage. Then time
wore on. Mr.. Hayes was elected President
You went to him: you made him brilliant
promises, and, allured by those promises, ht
withdrew the soldiers, and from that day
to this you have had a solid South. From
that day to this you say 1t has been peace
able About SO Is the graveyard peaceable
From that day to this You say 1t has been free
fair voting and an honest count. L put upon
record here evidence contradictfng that. We
in the North know to-day that you are refus
inR the black man the rights which have been
accorded him, and now, impclled by our civil
ization, we come once more, and we say to you
solemnly that every citizen OF tho United
States, white or black, foreign-born or native
born, shall have and enjoy all the rights
country; and more, we say TO you now, com
PEELED by that same civilization, that the laws
OF the United States upon this statute book
shall be enforced In every inch OF territory
over which floats the stars and stripes, and
Senators from the South. by the help and in
the name of Almighty God, We will accom-
plish that purpose.