Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-29
he South to treat the blacks and whites

the South TO treat the blacks and whites
alike.
When quiet was restored Mr. Cum
minGs of New York spoke against the
bill. The bill was sectional one,
and it was more than sectional
legislation, it was race legislation,
it was devilish device aimed at devilish
ends. The Republican party proposed TO
make the negro a chattel to be used at
observation-disclosures necessary. After
further criticisms of several provisions of
the bill he closed with q protest against
the bill as an unjust and tyrannical meas
ure for the oppression of the people.
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa read from the
speech of Mr.. Hemphill, the passage de-
elaring the white man must either rule
or leave the South, and that they would
not leave it. He wanted no
further proof than that declaration that
the blacks Of South Carolina would not
be allowed to exercise the rights
guaranteed by the constitution. This
declaration meant defiance of the will of
the majority and defiance of the constitu-
ton. He felt warranted in saying il was
as dangerous as armed rebellion, and he
meant it. He then read from
an interview in which Repre-
saying the passage of the bill means an
increased number of deaths among
Federal election officers in the South.
He did not know if this was true, but if
so it was another defiance. The
shotgun and the dagger was
TO protect the South from
constitutionally enacted laws if they in
terferred with Democratic control. He
served notice that the country would no
longer submit to the rule
of minority. Under God he
declared that Grover Cleveland had no
ri ght to his seat III the White House and
that the Democratic party had not had
an honest majority in the house in
twenty-five years. He wanted 10
say that before he should consent
that the minority should govern a
majority. he would favor the protec-
ton of every ballot by killing bullet.
GApplause. He had favored a more
radical measure, but had been over
ruled, yet this new measure had
met with more opposition than any
other bill. If an honest election was
wanted, or it was desired that every bal
lot should be counted, there was nothing
to fear in the law. The house had been
told that what was needed was not q new
South-but a new North. They would
get it. The North had peacefully and
patiently submitted to this injustice. The
people of the North had seen their fellow
countrymen butchered on the altar of
liberty. They had seen control
of government in red hands wrested
from its proper channel, aud the new
North was at hand, which would enforce
the law and rights OF every citizen.
Let the South try little JUS
tice, let it say 'we have
tried the Other method long
enough The key to the situation was
in the observation of law, and where
that couldn't be secured Law must be
made to secure it.
He spoke briefly of the recent
and Confederate gray at Richmond
He would not have them forget the ten
der relations of the war, but he entered
his protest against being told new
North was needed when flags
of the dangerous South was
Haunting in the face of the republic.
The gentleman might cry liberty, lib
erty, out in states from which many of
them came it seemed TO him like Satan
wearing the cross when he sought to pro-
mitigate the dark domains of hell. APP
plause.
Mr.. Bingham of Pennsylvania pre-
sented report of the conference COM
mittee on the postofice appropriation
bill. and it was adopted.
Mr.. Ewart of North Carolina, Repub-
lican, opposed the passage of the
bill. He was aware of the pen
atty he should pay. Unfortunately,
politics had come to such pass that
under the rule of king caucus men would
vote for measures that deep down In
their hearts they did not believe in, they
knew deep down In their hearts that it
was as damnable and vicious piece of
legislation as was ever put on the statute
books. AS to the negroes political
rights, speaking for his own state, he
unhesitatingly asserted that no
Republican in the state,
black or white, was prevented
from casting his vote. Elections there
were absolutely fair. There were men
in the South who hated negro and
abused them-sometimes they were pun
ished, and sometimes not, but the en-
tire people of the South should
not be blamed for acts of a few lawless.
He was sick and tired of this sentimental
talk OF the negro problem. There was
no such problem. 1t was delusion
to suppose the negro was voting
the Republican ticket solidly. He
was doing nothing of the kind.
Many of them were voting the Demo-
cratic ticket, and 1t was getting more
and more difficult every year for the Re-
publican party to control the negro. He
had no hesitation in saying that not |
three-tenths of the negroes of the South
would vote for the Republican party If
an election were held to morrow.
Mr.. Buokalaw of Pennsylvania be-
lieved the bill TO be dangerous in form
and tendency.
Mr.. Greenhalge of Massachusetts, spoke
in favor of the bill.
Mr.. Butterworth of Ohio presented a
conference report on the
executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill. The report was
adopted. The house took recess until s |
o clock.