The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-08-19
ON STANDARD: JACKSON THURSDAY AUGUST l9. 1886
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protected and preserved it are to be
vilifed; and to-day if man has the
nerve to stand before the Senate and
defend the rights Of the people who
stood by the Government he is de-
nouncpd as the prosecutor of some
saint" like Fitz-John Porter!
1t is said to he true that saints some
times become devils and devils become
saints. The Union-loving men are
the men now TO be slapped, to be
kicked, to be cuffed, to be driven from
the land. Nobody is to have conf
dence in them, but if you can find a
man who failed in his duty you will
find enough Republicans to stand up
by the side of the Democrats under
the Confederate flag against their own
which sustained and restored them to
honor Men who want to vote and
enlist under the Confederate flag in
this Chamber have right to do it.
Here was trial with our Union flag
on one side and your Confederate flag
on the other, and under the Union
flag and under its law by trial this
man was condemned. The Confeder-
ate flag that failed now sustains him,
and under that flag few gentlemen
on this side enlist for the purpose of
sustaining this man who failed at the
hour of his country's great need to
sustain the commander Of his array.
Mr. President, when / find our poor
soldiers whom Congress pensions at
SIS per month pressing forward every
day, the crippled, the halt, the lame,
and the blind, when they fail to find
evidence by their comrades lost or
otherwise to sustain them, and Con-
gress passes a little pitiful bill pen
sion for them and at the rate Of from
five to fifteen day the bills are We
toed by the President of the United
States because they are to get S96 a
year for sustaining the Union flag,
for fighting in bloody battles for their
Government, for standing up in time
of war, for being willing to die that
the Union might live. Their bills
are vetoed. Yes, the heavy hand of
the Executive falls upon them and
there they sleep. At the same time
that that is being done under our
nose, we find Republicans willing to
vote to man who was traitor to his
commander $4,000 year for his trea-
cherry. In other words, if you want
to be paid by the United States liber-
ally for anything be treacherous when
you ought to be true; but if you are
true when you might have been treach-
erous, you are to be ignored.
Sir, this is strange, yet it is true.
Am I to be told that am prosecuting g
somebody because [ speak Of these
things? Sir, I will speak Of them
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean, and l will tell the truth that
ought to be told everywhere, that the
Democrats and a few Republicans
come together to elevate men who
have dragged their own names in the
dust, while the other side come for
ward to put their foot upon the claims
of the poor and the penniless and the
unfortunate, and there is no remedy
for them.
If gentlemen think they are making
history that will be creditable to
themselves by this, let them go on.
As for myself I shall appeal while [
live to the honor of my country, to
the integrity of it's people and to the
Justice of my cause, while | plead the
cause Of the Union men, the honest
men, against those who proved trail
tors to us at the very time when we
trusted them.
The idea, as I said while ago, is
that the only thing to do was to be
treacherous when you should be true.
Not in this Congress but only few
Congresses ago a man was taken up
and put on the retired list of the army
by vote of Congress over my protest
who resigned when the war broke out
because he would not fight against his
State. Sixteen years afterward he
was placed on the retired list Of the
army by Republican votes aiding the
Democrats. Now, Fitz-John Porter
is to be put on the retired list by the
aid of Republican votes in connection
with Democrats. It is a Democratic
issue everywhere, but the sympathy,
the kind-heartedness, the generosity
of a few gentlemen, who are always
more generous to the opposition than
they are to their own friends, come to
the rescue when the enemy wants any
thing, but not so often when friends
might ask for something.
Republicans fail to come to Con-
gress and ask for this kind Of grace.
[ know three or four Republicans who
stand well in the community to-day
who were dismissed from the service
for conduct unbecoming an officer
during the war. None of those have
ever asked to be restored. They will
not do it because they do not believe
it is right. As [ said, you cannot dis
miss a Democrat who ever belonged
to the regular army who will not
come back every day and every month
and every year and beseech Congress
to put him back in the army and to
be fed and clothed the rest of his days,
no matter whether he played false or
true.
Mr.. President, as | said, am done
with this case. [ presume it will be
settled either one way or the other
now, and then it will end so far as [ |
am concerned; but if it stays here for
ten years and | stay here that long [ |
want the Senators who are in favor of |
it to understand that they have got to
make the same kind of a fight here
after, for believe what say. [ am
honest in it. [ think this man was a
bad man; [ think he was treacherous
to his commanding officer; [ think he
entered into conspiracy against him
70 ruin him, and did ruin him, and
NY Judgment is he did not get enough;
and that was the judgment Of as good
L President as ever lived on the face
IF Gods earth.
So then [ speak against this man
md for this country, for its honor;
md if voice could appeal from the
;ombs Of the sainted martyrs who
lave gone before, who tried this man