Year: 1868

The idea that the unconquered Anglo
Saxon, with all his intelligence, with his
possession of arms, with all the advan-
tage that intelligence gives even in the
city of Washington, has been crowded
and jostled from the polls by these poor
negroes. Laughter.


Where has that occurred? We know
that in Mississippi whole counties OF
negroes were not allowed to vote; were
kept away from the polls by armed
rebels; but who can point to the place
where negroes have kept white men
from voting2 1t is nothing but the
prejudice of the white men that has
made this charge against the negro
That prejudice, disgusting, rotten and
disagreeable as it is, is pointed to the
public gaze again to urge men to vote
answer to that. It is only one of the
tricks of the actors in the Democratic
Convention that prevented Chief Justice
Chase from being the candidate on the
Democratic ticket But for this trick
my distinguished colleague would now
be standing upon the platform of uni
versal suffrage. 1t is well known that
Chief Justice Chase for twenty five
years has been the advocate Of negro
suffrage. II may almost be considered
as the father of that great doctrine. All
the arran ge ments were made for his name
to have been brought before the Con
yentin as a candidate, and it is said at
the very time Mr. Seymour's name was
brought forward, he had arisen for the
very purpose of proposing the nomina
tion of Chase 1t is certain that such
an arrangement had been made, and it
was believed by large portion of that
Convention, and by Judge Chase him
self, that he would certainly be the
Democratic nominee. | only refer to this
to show that the Democratic politicians
are prepared to take a candidate favor
ing negro suffrage or any kind Of views,
and vote for him if he can only bring
them into the enjoyment of political
power.


My colleague bad good deal to say,
last night, as see by reading his speech,
about a proposition in the Senate to
send arms to those governments just
erected in the Southern States. 1t has
been the policy of this Government. ev-
10 fo off To tr
the States, from time to time, in time of
peace. There was bill brought for
ward, which met my views, to send arms
to the States. According to the bill,
they were to be apportioned at the rate
of one thousand for each Representa-
tive and each Senator. Arms are need
ed by these loyal State Governments in
the South. These new goyernm
have no 1'ms-not a single musket, nor
a dollar in the treasury to buy arms
They are surrounded by rebel popula-
ton that is armed to the teeth, and this
rebel pupoulation is melted to rebellion
by the Democrats of the North, as their
candidate for Vice President has ex-
pressed it in his letter. Yet when we
proposed to put arms in the hands Of
the militia-not in the hands of any
party--but in the hands of the organ
lied militia. there is a great outcry
made in the North, and it is pretended
that these loyal State Governments shall
be left unprotected to the tender mer-
cies Of the hostile armed rebel popula
ton, by which they are surrounded l
am sorry to say that bill did 10 pass the
House. 1t ought TO have been passed
eral have spoken of the bill IN order to
prejudice the people of the North in re
gard to it, My colleague took occasion
to refer to me several times in the
course of his speech. to which l do not
Object, and, sherefore, he will excuse me
If ] refer to him and some of the
opinions he expressed First, | will say
he has, unintentionally. no doubt, done
me injustice upon one question in regard
to the currency. / want, however, to
make one general remark before I come
to that


While the Democratic party has not
status or position upon the subject of the
subject. of the national debt, but that Of
it also has no status upon
the subject of the currency, except ex-
treme imitation, upon the pretext of psy-
ing the national debt--an imitation to its
utter extinction-so that the greenbacks
not be worth the paper they are printed
on. I will thank my friends to read
some remarks from the speech of Mr.
Hendricks, in a speech delivered at
Ohio on the 9th day of Au-
gust, 1867


"Governor Morton smoke of the nronosition