Year: 1871

unquCStlOnCu ablllty-nlauC Il speech to


Il serenatle party in Washington Il few


days ago. 1t was Il tiNed-up affair, and


the Senator spoke deliberately from his
elevated position in the Radical party.


tors presidential programme:


We arc rapidly approaching another
great contest ; one not inferior in inn


port:incc to those through which we
| have passed. The Democratic party
will make a desperate struggle for
| power, but they can succeed in clecting
Il President only by carrying all the
Southern States, and they cannot carry


all the Southern States except by estab-
| fishing in some of them Il reign of ter
| ror, the effect Of which will be to drive
the Republicans into silence or submis-
sion, or into exile The great instr,l-
! mentality which is being employed to
create this reign of terror and effect
| those purposes is what is commonly
called the


KU-KLU< KHAN.


l will not say that all Democrats are
members of that organization in tho
Southern States. They are not. Not
even Il majority, I hope. But l will
say that all ku-KluX are Democrats;
[applause and cries Of Good y Good ~
that it is an organization inside of the
Democratic party in the Southern States;


and that it is the great missionary So
ciety by which those States are to be
! converted to Democracy, if they are
converted at all. The instruments by
which that organization work out nur-
der, torture, arson, perjury, and in fact
| nearly all the crimes in the calendar.
| The attention of the nation has been
| earnestly called to the existence and


operation of this organization not only
| by the report of the special committee


in the Senate, but by the message of the


President of the United States and the
evidence has accumulated from every
! source, and is not to be denied or doubt
ed by any candid or intelligent mind


that in the Southern States there exists
an organization having for its object to
secure the ascendency of that party by


the use of the means to which ! have
referred.


THE INEVITABLE RESULT.


Let us consider for Il few moments to-
night what would be the inevitable re-
suit if the Democratic party should
| elect President and get the control of


the National Government. ask your
| attention here to the consequences that
would inevitably result from the sue
! cess of that party. In the first place
| the party can only succeed by carrying
all the Southern States. In that case
| the Southern Dem ocracy will constitute
| a majority of the party, and will, as Il


matter of course, dictate the policy of
| the party, and will control it in the
! future as they have controlled it in the
past. Now, I submit this question to
| intelligent men: should the Southern
Democracy come into power, will they
vote to tax themselves will they vote
to pay pensions to Northern soldiers,
and the widows and orphans of North
| ern soldiers, without theirs are at the
same time provided for? Docs any in-
telligent man believe for Il moment that
when they are placed in power they
would appropriate one cent for pension,
except upon the condition that the SOL
diers of the Confederate army, their
widows and orphans, should be placed
upon the same footing: [sNo.' no.
We cannot doubt that for Il moment.
That would, perhaps, be the first effect
of the success of the Democratic party.


TIE SECOND RESULT.


Again, does any intelligent man be-
licvc that the Southern Democracy,
when placed in power, will tax thcn-
selves Twill make appropriations to
pay the interest and principal of our
national debt, unless there is some pro-
vision first made for the payment for
their slaves: They invested their
money and their property in the Con-
| fedcrate debt. They lost all. In addi-


ton to that they lost their slaves, and
they will never tax themselves nor vote
appropriations to the amount of one


cent to pay the national debt that was


contracted for their subjugation unless


their debt is in some way provided for.
| What, then, will they ask ut the hands


Of the n Northcrn Democracy? They


will require that the United States shall


assume and pay for the loss of their


slaves. Will the Northern Democracy


consent to this? I answer that they


will. If they can hold power upon no


other terms they will consent to that,


or to almost any other proposition. Be
sides, the Northern Democracy are
committed in principle and declaration


to payment for their slaves. From the


time that Mr.. Lincoln issued his first


proclamation in 1862, the Democratic


party has not failed to declare that


slavery was unfawfulfy and unconsti-


tutionally abolished. In legiOns of res


olutions, in years of defamation, that
party is committed to the doctrine that
! slavery was uncOnStitutiOnally abOl-
| ishcd and if it is brought into power,


it cannot avoid making payment for
the slaves. The sentiments Ofthc mass


OF the Democratic party in the North
arc all inclined toward the result, and
am inclined to think that the large body