Year: 1879

Senator VOORHEES,, who was rebel ut
heart during the war, but for safety's sake
remained quietly at his home in Indiana,
and who took occasion to declare during
that terrible struggle that he would not
vote man or dollar to crush the rebel
lion, has recently made a speech, in which
he gave utterance to these sentiments:


A thousand murders may and do occur in
the Northern States, but how fiat and insipid
they appear, when dished up in our morning
papers at breakfast, in comparison with any
act of crime, however commonplace its mo-
tive, that comes to us, hot and sensational,
upon the brcezes of the South


The Republican party is the only party on
earth whose interests are advanced by riot,
violence, disorder, resistance to law, blood
shed and murder in the South.


The inference from the above is that
there is rs much crime in the North rs in
the South, though he would scarcely have
the hardihood to make such an open and
bold declaration. His utterances mean Just
this, or they are utterly meaningless. This
is his theory--which bears with it the
further inference that the Republican press
and people have special purpose in mag
nifying Southern lawlessness aud crime to
fire the Northern heart against the South.
There may possibly be as many crimes in
the North as in the South, but they are not
committed in the interest of any political
party, neither are they allowed to go un-
punished where the evidence of guilt is
clear. The great mass of the prosecutions,
outrages and murders that are committed
| -, tl,oG ,Nr
ences of opinion and hates, as in the cases
of CHISHOLM, GILMORE and DIXON, aud
have no other significance. The mur-
der of white and colored Republicans
in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and
South Carolina has been for opinions
rifle clubs, which have carried dismay and
crime into many, if not every, county in
those States, have been organized in the
Democratic interest, and their crimes have
been chargeable to the Democratic party


This cannot be justly denied. And what
is more, in no instance where such crimes


have been committed in the South no mat


ter how clear the proof of guilt may have


been, public sentiment there has shielded the


criminals from just punishment


1t is of these things that the Northern


press and people complain, and therein re-


sides the great danger to Republican insti-


tutions, and the general peace, good feeling


and welfare of the common country, NJ


amount of special pleading, sophistry o


misrepresentation on the part of Senate


VOORHEES,, or any other disloyal ant


crafty Democrat, can conceal the glar


ing fact that the bloodiest crime!
committed in the South in the inter.
est of the Democratic party 90 unpunishet
simply because they are justified by the
ruling public sentiment of that section. Nc


less than five States are held under Demo


cratic domination by the power which these


unpunshed crimes have exerted over thei
people, most, ifnota all of which would be Re


publican in their local governments and il
their representation in Congress at this PEE


riod but for the terror which they hav,


brought to bear upon the Republicans
This bare fact is sufficient to prompt tn


people of the North TO interpose stron,
protest and active exertion against the OK
sting state of affairs in the Southern por


ton of our common country. But for vic
leuce aud outawry in the South theT
would be Republican supremacy not onl


there, but in both Houses of the Congress o
the United States, aud the sense Ofthi


glaring wrong is what inspires the North
, ern people TO unity of action and soil


determination to rescue the Nation fror
such baleful influences in the admnistra
tion of public affairs.


The people of the South cannot success


fully defend the record they have made i
, the last eight or ten years no matter wha
\ measure of sophistry they may bring to thei


aid. The people of the North are tired q


being ruled by such agencies, which are IN
, compatible with the principles and welflr
| of republican form of government. The


ask the people of the South to desist froi


practices that are at war with peace, iratel
e nifty, good government and the interests {
. civilization, and they have done 50 for tn
c welfare of the Nation. They cannot an
5 they will not consent TO a domination owe
= the action of any branch of the Govern
# ment by mere brute force, which accom-
&c plishes its ends through the agency of wrong
3, and crimes that outrage the commonest Law
T. and rights Of humanity, The people of til
= North have stood this thing just as long q
8 suflerance will permit. They do not pro
G pose to resort to arms for correction, butthe
C do propose to press this question upon I'll
3 loyal sense of the people until the Mort
. shall be as solid against outrage and mu
der for opinions sake in the late insurgel