Year: 1879

the payment of loyal Southern claims because 10y
atty To the Union during the meant disloyalty to
everything that he held dear. That many men
III the South had been loyal to the
Union was nevertheless true. and he did
not envy the cheap political capital
that Union soldier could make by telling such
ment that he had no more confidence in their hon.
esty than mouse had in stuffed cat skin. The
clasm now presented came from women and children.
against whom the statute of limitation seldom
The gentleman from Wisconsin tAIr. Bragg. taking
advantage OF the well known opposition everywhere
sought to blend claims with claims for Southern
improvements, endeavored to throw the odor of
MS dead cat over them. That gentleman announced
In advance that he was unwilling to trust the hon
esty OF either the claimants or the court.
Sueh readiness to suspect corruption in Others
sometimes indicates innate tendency 10
corruption i'll ones self and he should therefore, not
charge corruption on any one The issues of the
war were certainly dead with him. He had but one
political faitflto preserve inviolate local sefgoy
ernment; but one political hope-to build up the
waste places in the South destroyed by the war. He
called attention to the difference between the speech
made by the gentleman from Wisconsin mr. Bragg
not as toned down in the Record, but as delivered
and partially published i'll the New YORK HERALD
and the speech coming from republican member
from New Hampshire (Afr. Bair both of
which appeared i'll the Record the day.
When the West had been in its infancy it had been
fostercdb by the South. Mississippi democrats had
stood side by side with those from Michigan in the
work of Western improvements. He had warned
Northern democrats last session that refusal to





suit in the defeat of Southern democrats. and the
sending of other representatives who would form
alliances with other parties The rapid growth OF
independent candidates in the South had already
tanned his declaration. He had nothing to take
back-not line. not syllable. He repeated
solid South might still be solid for the democratic
party but for that portion OF it that had the courage
and manness TO treat the people of the South as
equals and not as interiors in the Union.


GIVE HER COLD POTATO.


The gentleman from Wisconsin, after having slept
nfl hls lv and lrctv,
his wrath to keep it warm" had come forward to
communicate him (Mr. Chalmersl from the demo-
the rest OF the Southern men who dared TO ask for


justice and for equal distributions appropriations
from the & federal treasury. rel, He !Mr Bragg had as
Gratis, and even if he had had authority
thus to speak it was the first time anybody
had heard of minority Undertaking to
turn out the majority of a party. But
this great leader from the solid democratic State of
Wisconsin proposed to show him to the door of the
democratic party, and when the South asked for
small proportion of government aid lie treated her
like inendicant and said to her. like Van Beckman
to old Rip Van Winkle Ifive her cold potato and


let her CO.. As representative of the Northern dem
% o%erats tho. tho gentleman :sl from Wisconsin had
| and soul to Southern members and had inti-
| mated that they could do better by getting
recruits from the North without solid
| had appointed that gentleman salesman of the
| Northern democrats How many Northern demo-
Gratis could he deliver il he found purchaser?
| That gentleman reminded him of the "Cowboys"
and ''Skinners' of the Revolutionary War, who be-
| louged to neither party but robbed indiscrminatev
| from both and fed in terror when danger ap
| preached. The gentleman struck first side
and then the other. and whenever question came
| up requiring fearless courage and manhood he
rushed in frantic terror into the republican ranks
| shelter his political head


| A DEMOCRATIC BLOODY SHIRT


| If such men were democrats, upon what principle
of democracy did they stand The principles of the
at e tfh t ol ea6 ,he war had been
its dead, and that the bloody shirt should alone
| from the flag pole of republican banners. But the
| gentleman from Wisconsin had found blooder
| shirt than had ever waved from the battlements of
| the republican party and he stretching his legs
in frantic effort to climb up to the republican plat


form and rob it Of its last banner Re had reminded
the South Of the debt and of the blood Of Upion
| soldiers for which the South was responsible He
| (AIr. Chamers would remind that gentleman that
| the debt was not yet paid, and that
| the cotton and tobacco States now paying
| far of that debt than the State Of Wisconsin.
When that gentleman pleaded the blood of Union SOL
diers set off against the payment of the money due
| the South and nnlawfully taken since the war. he
reached depth that the bterest republican had not
| yet descended to. He tMr. Chalmers would reply to
! that gcnteman's dismissal of certain supposed
class of Southern democrats. that IL there any
| soreheads disappointed republicans in the North
who could not get into Congress without putting
| the lions skins of the democracy. they should be
very careful not to open their mouths wide when
| they got there. u.aughter.)


| NO MORE SECTIONAL HATE.


| Mr. HOOKER. (dem.) of Miss, next got the floor.
| He commenced by giving the history of the estab-
| lishment of the Southern Claims Commission show
|
a republican Congress and approved by republican
President He had been represented by the gentle
man from Wisconsin Mr. Bragg singing ppans OF
victory to 'loyal people of Vicksburg and that dis
| trct. and presenting their claims on the ground of
| such loyalty. Such representation was gross
| mistake. That gentleman had also asserted that
| there disposition on the part of certain
democratic representatives to put their hands
properly into the Treasury and get the national
democracy to aid them in doing so Where ha0 the
honorable member from Wisconsin got the facts
which he dared to make such an accusation the
nj Nnrfh un,iS Ineh ha
them in any single utterance of Southern man in
Congress? II not, why had he made the charge? IL
a SANDER alike on the Northern the South
ern democrats They were not to be deferred by the
idiosyncraies of any who chose to mark out
course for himself from voting for whatever they
the government should be so absolutely and COM
pletely divorced from political sentiment that
no member on either side would regard
it as political question on which parties could
be divided. such questions should be passed
upon according to justice and right and not
Wisconsin had taken up the role abandoned by the
liberal hearted men of the republican party The
gentleman from Ohio (Mr Garteld) had we'll pre-
dicted not long since that any who attem pied TO
appeal again TO sectional jealousy and sectional ami


mosities on the floor of the House would appeal in
vain. He hoped that such appeal would be as
powcrless to effect its object coming from one side
of the Chamber as coming from the other


BONDS BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS


He tMr. Hooker) could not forget that when the
closed and when there were various measures Of
legislation proposed that were intended to lay the
iron heel of oppression still heavier Oh the South,
there found to be gallant minority of members
in the House. led by its present Speaker. who re-
sisted these efforts and banded together. For what
purpose? Was it, as the gentleman MIR. Bragg as
Serted TO unite with the Southern democracy in
order TO get money out OF the Treasury? No. il was
with a view restore the government TO its const-
tutiona orbit where the members and Senators from
each State would be coequal. Members from the
South had thus felt that they had found manly de-
tenders the part of the Northern democracy
men who were willing it TO ,roT M ,S the mantle nan h OF
were not willing to rake up its dead ashes.
These the grounds which Northern aud
southern democrats shook hands, and to whomso-
ever who asserted that they were banded together by
any other sentiment he could only apply the motto
'.Iioa SOFT g,n NAL y peaSe." IL any supposed
that there was any other bond between them than
that of right and justice he had conception of it
which had not been thought of by Southern Repre-
seutatves. and reminded him (Mr. Hooker) OF the
incident related of two Senator's one of whom
marked that there was no rule to prevent Senator
going the Clerks desk and altering bill to which
the other replied that there not because it had
been suggested that any senator could possibly
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