Year: 1867

that whining Northern friend who
would clothe with power in this Gov.
ernment tomorrow, the man whose
blade was drawn to stab the Constitu.
ton and the Union but yesterday.
When the South can be Loyalty repre-.
sented on this floor upon the basis pro-
posed by Congress, the problem Of re-
construction will cease to vex the dis
cussions of this Hail.


The prime, sole, and supreme object
of the Republican party is to re-eStab-
liSh this Government upon a sure foun-
dation Of loyalty, against which the
trothy waves Of treason may.fret for
ever in vain. We have survived one
rebellion, and the sage suggestions OF
past experience warns us that it will be
wiser to prevent another rebellion than
to too confidently expect to survive it.
Rebellion, secession, and treason, are
like all other crimes and iniquities, and
will crop out in every direction upon
the smallest perceivable pretext. Put
forward, then, the loyal, and true, and
hold at respectful and Indifferent dis
tance the disloyal and untrue, until we
can see some voluntary evidence that
they have finally awoke to the con-
sciousness that they are criminals, and
ought to be grateful that they have not
been ignominiously branded by the
judgment Of a competent tribunal as
such. The whole secret, however, of
the waiting and gnashing of teeth that
we hear among the Democracy 10 not
because we have insisted that rebels
shall be held under restraint and loyal
men promoted, that our flag shall be
respected at home as we'll as abroad,
but it is simply the reason a rebel Irish
man gave to loyal IriShman who cap
tured him on the field. Said the Hi
bernian in blue to his rebel countryman,
"Why, Jimmy, my boy, what are you
doing on that sidei" "That side, in
dade," answered Jimmy, sand is this
not the Dimmercratick side7" Laugh
ter The Irishman thought that the
rebel side must necessarily be the Dem
ocratic side, and | guess that my friend,
the gentleman from Brooklyn, has a
similar idea in his head yet. Laugh
ter.


OPPOSITE ATTRACTIONS.


The recent rebellion while it was in
progress was led by men who belonged
to the same party to which the gentle
man from Brooklyn now belongs, and
the same party to which I belonged un-
til became so thoroughly ashamed OF
it that l left it, and is it not little re-
markable that the same disloyal stencil
which drove me out seems to have at
tractsd my friend from Brooklyn into
it? Laughter.


FAITHLEssNEss OF THE DEMOCRACY.


There is nothing that to regain its
lost power the Democratic party would
not willingly do. If it could acquire
tomorrow more power by crushing
under its iron heel the South, than it
could by succoring it, it would hurl at
its Southern brethren thick and fast


Courses Of hate and Kisses of scon."


Their history well establishes the fact
that


"Ther friendship is lurking snare,


Their honor but an idle BREATH


Their smile the smile that traitors wear


Their love is hate, their life is death"


Their sympathy with Andrew John
sons plan of reconstruction, and their
hostility to the Republican plan of re-
construction, is not attributable to the
merits or demerits of either plan as a
policy for the country, but solely as
party policy.


WHAT THE DEMOCRACY HAS FORGOTTEN.


To be charitable, we will have to give
the gentleman and his party credit for a
memory as full of treachery as their
Southern brethren were OF treason.
They seem to have forgotten every
thing they ought to remember, and re-
member some things they certainly
ought not only to forget themselves,
but want everybody else to forget
They seem to have forgotten the scenes
and events that mark the historical
epoch through which we have SO re-
Gently passed, and they seem to have
totally forgotten that these pet South
ern brethren of theirs, when they did
occupy seats on this floor gave US prac-
tical illustrations of dignity in debate
that made of this Hall "besr garden"
and much more attactive to lovers of
gladatorial sports and patrons of the
"tancy" than they could have been to
the wise, prudent, sedate, and good
citizen. When bowie-knives bristled |
from their breasts, revolvers filed all |
their pockets, and clubs were substitu-
ted among them for canes; when they |
spoke to Northern legislator in these
Halls with a scowl on their brows,
threats on their lips, and fingers on
triggers. 1t is true, we have blotted |
out for them, eternally and forever, the
charming institution, under the pecu-
liar influences of which they imbibed
these dogmatical and insolent airs; but
if, when it was in full blast, they could
not remember that the style OF manner
that might do to drive gang Of slaves,
would not answer to persuade con-
gressional peer, it is not at all probable
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