Year: 1868

writin in this bill that these arms were


intended for the protection of the loyal
men at the polls. There were no such


men outside of hell as the rebels, and
the only way to deal with them was to
crush them.


In the House Mr.. WAsHBURNE, of H.
linois, followed by Mr.. BoYDEN, of
North Carolina, protested in earnest


words against q scheme so mad aud rev.
elutlonary. Said he:


THE QUESTION Is, AND 1T is ONE


OF THE GRAVEST IMPORTANCE
EVER THRUST UPON US, WHETH


Err THAT STATE OF THINGS IS TO


BE REMEDIED BY SENDING ARMS


INTO THOSE STATES, AND i TELL


YOU GENTLEMEN TO BEWARE


BEFORE THEY PASS THIS MEAS


URE LESTIT is NOT An INCITATION
TO CIVIL WAR AND INSURRECTION


IN THOSE STATES. [Great excite


ment.] I now yield to the venerable
gentleman from North Carolina Mr..


Boyden1, who wishes to cay q few


words, and asks the attention Of the
House to what he shall say.


Mr.. BOYDEN-Mr. Speaker, am
alarmed at the condition of the cOun-


try. II is proposed 10 send arms to North


Carolina, that the people may use them
against each other. Great God! zoe can
not afford to fight each other. KEEP
AWAY YOUR ARMS! DO NOTHING
TO IRRITATE OUR PEOPLE, BUT
DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER
TO ASSUAGE AND HEAL THE EX-
CITEMENT THERE. We want no
arms. / WARN THE HOUSE THAT
IF ARMS ARE SENT THERE WE
WILL BE RUINED; we cannot live
there. If We need anything in the way
of arms, in Gods name send an army OF
the United States there, but do not arm
neighbOr against neighbor. There nerer


ras more mischieroas measure than this
proposition TO arm one class Of our people
against another.


No words of ours can make more clear
the rebellisus Radical intent which
these speakers hoped might not be car
ried out. Let us only say that it points
to force and blood, as contingency Of
Radical reverse. Madd ened by defeat,
excluded from power by the verdict ofthc
American people, the leaders will mot
tamcly consent to the deep damnation
Of popular contempt that must soon fol-
low their expulsion from the high places
of the country. Rather than acQniesce
in their own banishment from power
those men would drench the land Sec
ond time with blood, and desolate it
from center to circumference with the
torch and the sword of another civil
war.


Witness their effort to inflamc the
popular mind, and rally to their aid
the prejudice, passion and hate, which
rs part of the war are fast following it
into the past. You cannot read Radi-
cal Journal, yon cannot hear Radical
spcech, and you cannot listen to the
of small Radical politicians
upon the reefs or in the hotels, with
out hearing this same vengeance and
slaughter threatened as the conse-
quence of defeat. The beaten, broken,
ruined, wasted and wretched white
men of the South, are hourly brought
before the popular gaze in armed and
rebellion, as if there was
longer any power or spirit or thought
of rebellion among those PROSTATE,
helpless and miserable people. Shame
upon the goddess gang of rabble rousing
demagogues, who would thus excite the
anger Of the nation against class
whose pitiable condition would invoke
the mercy rather than the malignity of
a brave and magnanimous conqueror !


Thank God the nation is not follow
ing the lead of these blood-hunting
h,wlers of rebellion and war! The
sober judgment of the people, revolving
the actual issues Of the day, pays little
heed to the tongues of these phrcnsied
fools. Their verdict will turn upon
vital questions that concern the peace
and prosperity of the country, leaving
infuriated fanaticism to rage without
sympathy and to howl without hearer.