Year: 1879

for NAL count in the indictment.
"In that he has corruptly
with tho elections
Those were tho two counts in this
on which it was pro
posed to impeach tho Executive.
One was the exercise of the veto
power, and the other his interior
ence not in elections, but to prevent
the interference Of armed power in
elections. Those counts had been
voted upon more than once, and the
GentlerMn from Ohio was on the
Record every time us voting in their
iavor. And he had been supported
il his action, and had standing
by him voting side by side with
him to impeach the President for
the exercise Of the veto power, one
then comparatively obscure, and
who, but for combination of
accidents, would have remained to
this day and until his dying day in
that obscurity for which nature and
his Creator seemed to have designed
him side by side with the gentle
man from Ohio had stood and voted
Mr.. Hayes of the same State Zap
plause Oh the Democratic side and
in the galleries.


HURL1NG BACK THE THREATS.


And now by what sort of authors
ty had the gentleman from Ohio
come to threaten the House with q
probable and possible action of the
Executive ? Who had commissioned
the gentleman from Ohio to tell the
House that it had better he care
full because the issue was made and
the President would not be coerced
into message of approval ? Did
the gentleman from Onio or any oth.-
er gentleman lut such low esti,-
mate on the seIf-respect, the integ~
rity, the courage and the manhood
Of the House, without regard to
party, as to believe that such d
threat SO Haunted was to intimidate
the law making branch of the
Government, and shape it's action or
measures of Legislation


Continuing, he said "I,et one
take the darkened pnges of his
country's history for the last four
teen long years, and read it careful,
ly, and tell mo then whether it lies
in the mouth of this leader of u once
great but now waning party to read
lectures to anybody, either on the
score Of revolutionary legislation OF
extraneous introduction of legisla.
ton on appropriation bills. Better,
far, IN the face Of the record which
they have made, better listen pa
tlently to the confirmed inebriate as
he dwells on the virtues Of temper
ance, or better let the queen Of the
tten,i neoaaae elaborate the beauties oi
female virtue, or let the devil prute
of the scheme of universal re
deuption, than for homilics on
good mo :als and lectures on reyolu~
tionary Legislation to be delivered
from such source" [Applause on
the Democratic side Having read
the act of George tho H., he con-
tinued Prom that day till now
L do declare that it is not within the
power Of any man to find scion OF
the Saxon race that has not ever
held in utter contempt the effort OF
him or them who sought to control
the freedom of the ballot by the en-
ploynent Of military power. TAp~
pltuse Oh the De.nocratic side. I
The very army of this country pro-
tests against such u prostitution OF
it. 1 see before me the General-in .
Chief Of the American army CGener-
III onelm n WAS occupying Garfield 6
scat and [ do not believe that |
overstate the fact, when 1 say from
him down to the lowest subaltern,
it IS difficult to find commissioned
officer who has not repugnance for
the service which, under the prosti
tuition of the army, he has been
called on to perform. It is this
question that is before us. We ore
declaring that


THE BALLOT SHALL DE FREE.


If we cannot stand on an issue &C
broad, so constitutional, so catholic
SO free and SO fair as this, then tel
me, in Heavens name, what earthly
battlements are strong enough to
get behind For the first time in
eighteen years, Democracy is back
in power in both branches of Con
gress. We propose 10 celebrate hel
return to power by wlping from the
statute books those degrading re-
strcuons on free mon, an 4 by striking