Year: 1866

| them. Is there man who sayst is done because
disoyal Representatives offer themselves2 | saw
battle SCARED Colonel from Arkansas present
himself but he was not permitted even the cour-
| tesy OF the floor of the House. Why? Because
they regard the State as dead having no political
existence; that in attempting to destroy the Un
ion, they killed themselves. | hold no such doc
trine.


When they say they will admit representation
from the South as soon as they send loyal men, it


is false for the record has been made against them
twenty times by men who have taken the oath,
and who have borne scars of honorable warfare in
defense of the Union. Shall this state of things
be prolonged? My scripture does not read, "Thou
shalt hate thy neighbor" but Thou shalt love
thy neighhor;" and whenI see the President Of
the United States adopting the words of concllia-
tloD, saying 81 want to see harmony once more.
desire nething more than the restoration of the
Union Of our fathers. My foreign policy would be
strengthened by Representatives being admitted
from the South. My financial policy would be-
come stronger. the credit of the Government in
creased by seeing the war completely terminated;
And when, on the other hand, see the maligna Mt
savage majority in Congress, hungering for the
soils of punder, still can | hesitate what course
should pursue.





took my stand early for the President.
thought saw his policy tending for good He
was not my President or yours but let us do right
SOIIiu Wy HiiIi SIfCS ttluCIlCC W COHu
try that he is trying to do right; him whom
knew to be an iron man, who has this day his grip
on the throat of that faetous majority in Com
When know that he intends to mash them, or
that they shall mash him. when that mashing pro
cess goes on | am for assisting Andy Johnson
Great cheers.l You may think bear some mem
ory of the wrongs have received at.the hands of
Congress. Not at all. On the contrary, they
paid me compliment when, in violation OF law
and decency, they dismissed me from the body
that become lOathSome in consequence of its own
corruption, and permitted me to seek the society
OF respectable people. They left me to choose my
own company and yon see how have done it.
lCheers ] Not only does Congress refuse adms-
sion TO the SCARED veteran of The Union but it has
settled on this policy.


This little Freedmans Bureau bill called for an
appropriation, not six weeks ago, of $I2 900, 900
OF the peoples money to support niggers and the
agents OF the bureau. Will some loyal, patriotic
man go With me to defend Congress by telling the
people that is their duty to work from sun to sum-
denying their children the comforts OF life for
the purpose of supporting the able bodied strong
boned negroes of this country in idleness. They
wanted Sl2 GOO 900 of this overburdened peoples
mency-more than it cost JOHN Quincy Adams to
administer the government year by year.


My friend Ross, in the House, moved to set one
day in the week aside to attend to the white man
business. saw one such day. 1t was when the
President gave to the country that noble veto mes
sage, not merely crushing monstrous usurpation
OF power, but enunciating the grand and wise
principles OF just government.


On the 22d OF February his friends rallied to
that great meeting which closed by himself step.
ping out and laying aside the President for little
while, telling these scoundrels to their teeth that
they were traitors. Men walked the streets that
day with tears in their eyes for gladness, shout
ing, "Get out of the way, nggers aud Yankees
this is the white mans day once mope in Wash.
ington." Let us celebrate the white mans day in
Indiana Let them take their side of this issue
and we will take ours. Let them tie to Congress,
and we will, step by step, keep equal pace with
the wise measures given to the country by Andy
Johnson. We will go no faster than he goes.-l
But will give my opinion that he will astonish
you witlfthe speed and power with which he will
make war upon them.


A man who, elected by party, could in six
months make himself so secure as to take off his
coat and walk out and call the men by their true
name of traitors and disunionists this is a man
not to be Srifed with, In all oar calculations, we
will take him into account. ] know it makes our
Republican friends sleep bad of nights. They
have not only drawn an elephant, bat an uneaged
Namidian lion. Like Belshazzar, they have their
feast bcfo them. They legislAte for the pFinci-
pie of hate, and upon all such Providence visits
just retrihuton. That which sweetens the cup
drink now, is that which most embtters the cup
now pressed to the lips Of the Radicals. 1t is the
thought have heard them utter about the Presi,
dents speech. "Just to think that we elected
him. Yes, they elected him. They called him
into Presidential existence, and he is retrlbution
for their crimes. He uses up their grim and ter
rible destroyer, denouuces and scatters ttem.-l
Why, they plod along the streets, chatterrg and
jibbering like ghosts of daylight. Don't let these
men for moment imagine that they can cry good
God and good Devil ''You cannot serve God and
inammon." They must come out for johnson or
for Congress. They are in death struggle.





In the broad regions of the South there is a
heavy population of ignorant creatures that are
to be enfranchised, not because they expect them
to vote intelligently, but the programme has been
ers of the States to disfranchise Southern white
people and enfranchSe the blacks. aud confscate
the lands, your bloated manufacturers from the
East, who gather the profits of your hard earnings
under the tariff laws. will go South and buy those
large landed estates. Around such as these the
enfranchised black man will settle, and thousands
of them will become voters at their beck and bid.
ding.


The plan is to transfer New England aristocracy
to the South and there establish such oligarchy
as the South never thought or dreamed of for
themselves. This is no conviction of my own;
have heard it from their own lips. 1t is the boast
of their leading men.


When you,shrink back from the negro suffrage
in the District of Columbia, you must not imagine
you see the horrid thing in al its Proportions
They say everywhere he is man and u brother.
Equality before the law is what Sumner has in
scrbed on their ba nner, and what Congress ins
dorses. You will find them skulking and dodging
here at home, but you must hold them to the rec
ord. Congress has voted for negro suffrage, and
there is no propriety in forcing it upon the peo-
pic in one section who opposed to 1t, and With