The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-05-04

ers, he said, was excited because tho
vote of the South in a national contest
is solid against their party. Would
some one on the other side OF the cham
Der tell him how the vote of the South
could be other than il was
The Republican party had once had
political supremacy from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande. /: had elected Re-
publican Governors. State officers and
legislatures in every Southern State.
Ii bad had the purse with which 10 cor
rupt, the sword with which to intimi-
date, and the Republican Congress and
President to enact and enforce all the
laws necessary for the overthrow OF in
dividual and State rights. and for the
consolidation of its power. It had
seized upon the eufranchised negro, aid
sought To organiZs and hurl him against
the peace and security of political and
social order, and for time and IN
many instances it had succeeded.
The Republican party and its allies
(allies not Of the Confederacy, but
allies for power and p,undeT) had swept
uDon the helpless South like Hyder Ali
upor the Carnatic and had left scarcely
a vestige from which TO nope and with
which 10 rebuild. except its neyer-faIl-
ing soil and its staunch and splendid
manhood. 1t had despoiled the South
ern States of their resources and dis
mantled them of their credit. II bad
ordered Investigations ard sent com
nittees ard commissions. composed OF
the bitterest partisans, into the South
foy the purpose of scraping together and
putting in permanent form the perJuTies
of vagbonds and scoundrels with which
to defame and blscken the reputation
OF The Southern people. L. would have
overturned the State government OF
South Carolina in 1876 and again sacked
the substance and credit of the State
had it not been that giant stood in its
way, upheld by the public Judgment of
the world.
The career OF the Republican party
during its ssceDdancy in the South had
been a career of crime. 1t had reared
and left behinc it no monument of
patriotism, or benevolence, to tell future
ages that Its presense had been a bless
ing and not a curse. When the future
historian came to inquire why and how,
and exactly when the Republican party
had lost its tremendous hold on the
prostratc South, and had skunk away TO
return no more forever, he would be
puzzled 10 find an answer, and would
finally write that its administration
through all that reg ion had become so
vast and intolerable a scandal, flling
the civilized world with its foul oC ors,
that an Intelligent and omnipotent
public opinion had demanded its down
tall and the restoration OF home-rule
and decent government.
And yet il was that party whose lead
ers now fumed and threatened the
| Southern people and States because they
did not welcome it back again into
power with all its unhallowed memories
and its predsceous instincts and habits
AS we'll might frontier settlement be
/ expected to welcome = second invasion oI
| tomahawks and scslpiDg knives,
Mr.. VOORHEES, proceeded to speak oi
the recent great development in :he
! South and said she was simply rising tC
her manifest destiny. He recited the
achievements of the Democratic party
and asserted that bat for the attitude
/ and Influence OF UOratio Seymour
/ Thomas A. Hendricks, Allen G.. Thur
man, William A. Richards and theil
! political associates ami followers during
the war. not only would the Unior
| never have been restored, but the dear
/ est and most sacred rights of American
I citizenship would kave been swept away
/ in the storm Of partisan wrath which
was most frequently mis.i ken for pa
! triotic zeal. He concluded by saying
that the verdict of the American peo-
! pie IN November would he that ther,
! had been honest. capable government
/ and that it should De continued.
/ AT the conclusion of Mr. Voorhees,
4 speech, which was delivered with grea'
power and effect and was listened u
4 with interest and attention on bott
/ sides Of the chamber. he was congratu-
/ lated upon it by many of his Democratic
/ associates.