St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-26

Hancock (now stigmatized as allies of
the COnfederacy) had been committed
the measureless and awful trust of de-
tending and preserving them both. If
asked hereafter where were the greatest
leaders OF the Democratic party during
the war, (where the Democratic candi-
date of 1864 for the presidency and the
Democratic candidate of 1850 for the
presidency, the undulating slopes Of
Antletam and the
CRESTED HEIGHTS OF GETTYSBURG
would be pointed to. He knew them
both, and he bowed to their mighty
shades: they were of loftier mould than
Greek or Roman history supplied. The
warrior ranks of Achaia" furnished
not their peers: not ssthe golden-lOcked
Achilles nor the high-born son of La
ertes nor the wide-ruling king Aga
memnon." And yet, he said, such were
the great soldiers who were mOcked,
scoffed and denounced as belonging to
the Subservient elements of the North,
and who were accused of treason by
those who were of the breed of Jobs
war horse and who like him) ''snuffed
the battle afar off," Leaving that SUBJ
lect, Mr.. Voorhees, passed to what he
called the campaign of political ami
mostly declared against the people of
the South, their rights, their security
and their good name. The especial
anger of the Republican leaders, he
said, was excited because the vote of
the South in national contest is solid
against their party. Would some one
Oh the other side of the chamber tell
him how the vote of the South could be
other than it was? The Republican
party had once had political supremacy
in the Potomac to the Rio Grande. 1t
had elected Republican governors, state
officers and legislatures in every South
ern state. 1t had had the purse with
with which to corrupt, the sword with
which to intimidate and the Republican
congress and president to enact and en-
force all laws necessary for the over
throw of individual and state rights,an
for the consolidation of it's power. 1t
had seized upon the enfranchiSed negro
and sought to organize and hurl him
against the peace and security of pOlit-
ical 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 plunder) had swept upon
the helpless South, like Hyder Ali upon
the Carnatic, and had
LEFT SCARCELY A vESTIGE
from which to hope and with which to
rebuild, except it's never-failing soil and
its Staunch and splendid manhood. 1t
has deSpOiled the Southern states of
their resources and dismantled them of
their credit. 1t has ordered inveSti-
cations and sent committees and COM
missions composed of the bittereSt par
tisans into the South for the purpose of
scraping together and putting in per-
manent form the perjuries of vaga-
bonds and ScOundrelS with which to de-
fame and blacken the reputation of the
Southern people. 1t would have over
turned the state government of South
Carolina in 1876 and again sacked the
substance and credit of the state, had it
not been that a general stood i'll its
way, upheld by the public Judgment of
the world. The career of the Republic
All party during its ascendeGcy in the
South had been a career of crime. 1t
had reared and left behind it no monu-
ment of patriotism, wisdom or benevO-
lenee, to tell to future ages that its
presence had been blessing and not a
curse. When the future historian came
to inquire why and how and exactly the
Republican party had lost it's tremen-
Z dOus hold ON the PROSTATE South and had
SUNK away to return no more forever.
he would be puzzled to find an answer,
and would finally write that its admin
istration through all that region had be-
come so vast and intOlerable scandal,
filling the civilized world with its foul
odors, that an intelligent and
OMNIPoTENT PUBLIC OPINION
had demanded its downfall and the
restoration of home rule and decent
government. And yet it was that party
whose leaders now fumed and threat
ened the Southern people and the states
because they did not welcome it back
again into power with all its unhallowed
memories and its predaceouS instinct
and habits. AS well might frontier
settlement be expected to welcome
with joy second invasion of tomahawks
and scalping knives. Mr.. Voorhees,
proceeded to speak of the recent great
development in the South, and said she
was simply rising to her manifest
destiny. He recited the achievements
of the Democratic party and asserted
that but for the attitude and influence
of HoratiO Seymour, Thomas A. Hen
Richardson and their political as
sociates and followers during the war,
not only would the Union never have
been restored, but dearest and most
sacred rights of American citizenship
would have been swept away in the
binding storm of partisan wrath which
was most frequently taken for patriotic
zeal. He concluded by saying that the
verdict of the American people in
November would be that there has been
honest and capable government and
that it should he continued. At the
conclusion of Mr.. Voorhees, speech,
which was delivered with great power
and effect, and was listened to with in
terest and attention on both sides of the
chamber, he was congratulated upon it
by many of his Democratic associates.
The matter then went over.