Year: 1866

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army are discharged, but | undertake
to say that there were volunteer officers
in the army that would have put an end
to that PROFESSIONALLY more, never
have allowed it to start in the first place.
lie again reported that in an average of
onc-filth Of our territory about ten muir
ders a day were committed since the
war that they had list Of about POO,
and they found skeletons Of some OF
item hanging upon the trees every
morning. And this had from a gen
tleman whose character for truth stands
as good as any in this community. No
/ United States officer can go in that por-
ton OF the country without an escort
and these men are to come back into
our Government. | now declare my
own feeling and belief that if this state
OF things continues it is not peace, but
war, and the worst kind Of war; for it
is war upon unarmed men, women, and
children and if no other remedy for
this state Of things can be found if this
state Of things cannot be altered, we
will march once more, and woe to him
who opposes.


TIE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.


Gen. Butler then proceeded briefly to
conslderthe constitutional amendments
first, that every citizen Of a State has
the same rights as citizen of any State
all over the Union. Very we'll Sec
oBd, that the Federal debt must be paid
If it is not to be paid, what are your
7-30 bonds good for? Next, the right
Of representation; and it says to the
Southern States, until you allow the
freedmen to vote you shall not count
them in misrepresentation. Formerly
the master could represent three-ftths
Of his slaves: under this amendment, by
giving him the right to vote, be repre-.
scnts him entire The negro ought to
vote, or he ought not. If he had a
right to the elective franchise, then he
would not offer it as a bribe to the
South. For himself, he was free to say
he was not in favor of that amendment;
it did not 90 far enough for him, but he
accepted it as the best he could get un-
der the circumstances. He was in favor
Of impartial sutfrage-fx your standard
where you please--then let all who come
up to it vote. What towards we are.
We implored the negroes to fight tol
us. and now we will not let them aid in
governing the country they helped tc
save. lie gave everybody notice that
in whatever position he might be placed,
he would use every means to give the
right OF suffrage to every colored man
who fought for his country. When
loyal men of the North can walk in the
streets Of New Orleans, but not unit
that time, would he call a man brother
who stood ready at any moment to stall
him under the fifth rib. Men may say
that these people cannot be governed,
but they need not talk that way to him.
He had done it. Applause. Not by
locking arm in arm with them, but by
a different way. Laughter. They
have always been taught to look upon
force, and not argument, for their gov
erning power-they look to a Yankee
Mayor, for Munroe is a Charlestown
stevedore. We can govern them and
we will. Applause.


TIE SOUTH NOT UNMANAGEABLE.


| am going to speak of a matter which
is a trait in the society of the South, and
also of why they are easily governed.
We hear it said every day that they are
high spirited people, and ought to be
concilated; but this struck me as a dis
tinguishing trait-that having for about
twenty years of my life been in the
practice of criminal law, have seen
husbands pleading for wives, fathers for
children, and children for parents, but
| never saw mortal kneel to mortal.
Yet, when l was in New Orleans, it was
an every day occurrence that women,
splendidly dressed in silks and satins,
would come into my Office and ask for
favors on their bended knees. The
cause, | suppose, was that having al
ways been accustomed to exact obedi-
ence, and have favoFs asked upon the
knees, when the positions became
changed, and new masters appeared,
they assumed theposition they had once
taught as proper, and therefore | saw,
talk not to me that these people cannot
be subdued. ... -,


Therefore it becomes the duty of
every man to sustain Congress, in sus-
tanning first the Civil Rights bill, which
gives to everybody their rights in every
State; and sustain Congress in giving
protection to the negro, in holding these
States where they are, and insisting that
free speech, a free press, cVil aud re-
ligious liberty, shall be guaranteed until
a changes can be made. Sustain the
loyal men of the South. Sustain them
though but ten honest men can betound
in State, for ten men would have saved
Sodom, and these States.a are not much
worse than Sodom, and let these ten
righteous men save them Let us have
Republican party in the South. Let
us have party where free speech can
be heard, and when loyal representa-
tive Of loyal constituency comes to the
doors Of Congress we will admit him.


TRUE DEMOCRACY.


Born in Democratic State, and rear
ed a Democrat--taught it from myNery
youth upTI felt myself obliged to up
hold the South in all its claims and all
its exactions so long as it should remain
under the Constitution. To do that