The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-21

ps1rio<ism Of either enc senator from Kentucky
or the senator from Missouri who does not
tnnss " Tor s O. SAYING ns
have no doubt they fully snd thor
oughiy represent the convictions. the feel
oo ss aS fnsy know s what ssnsmsnss
wilt awaken An answering RESPONSE In the
south They know what IL IL popular 10 say at
home.
When the Senator from Missouri a'ludes TO
the efforts which arc being made by the epub-
Leans I'm this body 10 afford pensions 60 the de-
pendent. INDECENT. aud suffering survivors, OF
the Union armies now enrolled IN the Grand
Army of tho Republic as an attempt by canui-
dates for tho Presidency 10 bid for the soldier
vote, tho Senator from kentucky will pardon
me when say that have No doubt speeches
like those which he made, ind which the SEN
ator from Missouri repeated. were intended 10
bid for the Confederate vote; AID they will get
il every time. IL il a center shot. Appeals like
that strike the bail s-eye and ring the bell
Laughter and applause in the galleries.
ing the nfteen years that have been in
this body, any reputation OF sentiments
like those avowed by the senator from Mis-
souri, and the Senator from Kentucky from any
quarter In the Democratic party. Time ana
time again have / heard those same senti-
ments reiterated and repeated here. IL they
ern States. why should we not have heard
some disavowal OF them? Why are they re-
peated here iters0n ftertDQue. dd natisedls,, I'M
Til the heart OF the patriotic North rises in in
dienation and never u word OF protest spoken
by any Democratic Senator, North or South
No. Mr.. President. they know the sentiments
they know the convictions, they know the emo
tons OF tho people behind them. and that is
the reason for their utterances.
Why was il that whom the last appointed AS
sociate Justice OF the Supreme Court of the
United States, who by one of the strange ca
prices OF history now sits in Judgment upon
those great constitutional amendments
that were adU ggatss. ana and e
forts rose in this chamber and said that he
would resent "a personal affront any imputa-
ton upon the honor, the integrity, or the patri-
otism OF Jefferson Davis as personal insult 70
himself-whyNwas IL that when he had said he
had no doubt that Jefferson Davis would occu-
Ply niche in history by the side OF John lamp
den and George Washington. no Democratic
Senator North or South, rose to repudiate and
disavow it? Yet the moment that any Republic
an Senator or any editor Of any Northern news
Republic talks about the Union army the
grandeur OF its achievements, the obligations
and duties OF the nation toward its members we
are charged with waving the ensanguined under
garment, raking up the ashes OF sectional strife
and appealing to partisan hatred and wrong and
malice. IL is time that the twenty-four Con-
federates who constitute the twonty-four thir-
ty-sevenths Of the Democratic members OF the
Senate should understand how tho people OF
the North feel about these matters.
The South DO not like Union soldiers The
Democratic party do not like thoIn they never
did. So II is now after the animosities OF the
war should have died away. and on every con-
ceivable occasion when we attempt TO enlarge
the pension system or liberalze its provisions
Senators rise here one after the other and peev-
ishly complain that it is going to cost too
much.
Mr.. Morgan--n the Senator will allow me just
n moment will say that the Democratic party
liked General Hancock very well, and voted for
him
Mr.. IngalIs-They did as they are going to
vote for again, Grover Cleveland, under
compulsion They thought they could fool the
Northern people 10y voting for Union soldier,
l...N "A aaVadaE N.ar Ill
what the voting for General Hancock meant.
1t was just the same as voting for Horace Gree
Icy. You have been engaged in Illicit utter
course with all the degraded clements of the
North for the last twent y-fve years.
Horace Greeley The Democratic party at
tempting TO delude the North by nominating
and voting for Horace Greeley to show that they
were reconstructed, that they would fain fiji
their bellies with the husks that the swine did
not cut and they could not and then the soma
tor from Alabama rises and assures us
with suffusion OF patriotic loyalty that
they voted for Hancock. Why, Mr.
President we understand why they
voted for Hancock. We know why Hcncock
was nominated We know why that other al
ly OF the Confederacy, Georse Is. Mcclellan,
was nominated, who had just declared that the
war was IA failure. after he had been trying for
years to mako it 80. No, Mr. President these
pretensions altogether too diaphanous
They require to have the drapery removed for
an instant.
But am not quite through with this aspect
OF the question yet. In 1886. the first day
OF May OF that year, lees than two year5 ago,
there was in the city OF Atlanta, in Georgia, a
great historic occasion. A statue TO one OF
our former associates in this body was To be
unveiled, man whom / honorod, aud whom
erahle ex-President OF the Confederacy was in
vted TO be present. IL was dav that never
will be forgotten IN the annals Of the South
They fiocked to that city as men go to ban
Quet, doves flock 10 Their windows They
"Came as the winds come, when
Forests are rended
Came as the waves come. when
Nuvies are stranded.
The city was decorated with tho Confederate
emblem brought out TO make Confederate
holiday, and orator was selected To give
voice 10 the sentiments OF the inhabitants Of
the lost Confederacy, not in 1886. but in 1856.
twenty years after the surrender at Appomat-
tox, and twenty years after we had been told
that the South had in good faith accepted
the results of the war and desired TO come in
under the old flag and obtain the necessary ap-
preparations. Laughter.
I have the Grafton delivered by the speaker
upon that occasion, not garbled and mutilated
extract printed in Northern paper but the
corrected copy printed in the paper that the
orator himself edits, / believe Therefore 1t is
entitled 90 credence il is authentic ana author
itative. IL may be, perhaps. instructive and
entertaining. in view Of what We hear about the
reconstruction OF the South, their repentance.
their desire to cooperate with the North in &C
complaining the great results Of our destiny
under the Constitution of the Union. To hear
what he says and at the risk OF trespassng
upon your patience, will. with as littlo abbre-
walton as can, repeat the Grafton as delivered
on that occasion. As said, II was 70 unveil n
monument to Boniamin Harvey HILL The ora
tor said
Had the great man whose memory Ia por
petuated in this marble chosen OF all men Que
witness to his constancy and his courage he
would have chosen tho honorable statesman
whose presence honors this platform today.
Had the people OF Georgia chosen OF all men
one man to-day to aid in this sacred duty. aud,
by the memories that invest him about to give
deeper sanctitv 70 their work, they would have
chosen Jefferson Davis first and last President
OF the Confederate States"
do not blame him for that. Mr. President.
can understand it in a cert ain sense / honor
honest truthful, and courageous sentiments OF
his heart, as believe the senator from Ken
lucky and the Senator from Missouri have done
in this debate.
1T is good, sir. he continued turning to Mr.
Davis, for you to be here. Other leaders have
had their triumphs. Conquerors have won
crowns. and honors have been piled the
victors of earth's great battles; but never yet.
sir, came man TO more loving people. Never
cOnQueror wore prouder diadem than the
deathless love that crowns your gray hairs to-
day. Never king inhabited more splendid pal
ace than the millions OF brave hearts in which
your dear name and fame are forever en-
Confederate soldier who sealed his devotion
with his life-holding kinship through tho
priceless heritage OF his blood to you and yours
standing midway between the thinning ranks
OF his old comrades. whose faltering footsteps
are turned toward the grave, and the new gem
GRAFTON thronging eagerly TO take the work that
falls unfinished from their hands-here Ina the
suspicious present. across which the historic
past salutes glorious future, let me pledge
you that the love we boar you shall be trans