Year: 1876

"a CHRONIC DISEASE"
Senator Thurman on Morton.


The Senator from Kansas asked me


to give way to the report of commit


tee of conference, thing that never


knew refused since I have held seat
| in the Senate, and certainly not at as
i late a day in the session as this. I


could not give him the authority to


bring that up. was only one out of


sixty-odd Senators present, and the
Senator had to ask the unanimous con-
sent of the Senate to take up his con.


ference report, and that unanimous
consent was given, the Senator from


Indiana making no objection, and that
is the way that bill came before the


Senate and yet on that bill, and with


out waiting for it 10 be disposed OF


and me TO resume the remarks that !


was making on his resolution, The


Senator could not wait-so eager was


he to get ut this favorite subject of his


that he could not wait for me TO con-


ciude my Stew feeble remarks" but


he had TO jump into The lists with his


arIuor on, and that same old lance and


saber that have So often flourishcd in


this same kind of encounter once more


to stir up the northern heart and make


them hate the people of the South,


once more to preach hatred and ven
geance toward the people of the South,


be they guiltless or be they guilty.


Well, Mr. President, l do not envy
that feeling. l suppose, though. the
Senator cannot help il /; it is the force
of habit. 1t has become chronic
disease of the Senator, and nothing in
the world seems to afford him SO
much delight on the eve of an election |
rs to find that some few black people |
down South have lost their lives i'm an |
affray. l do not.say that he wished |
il certainly l am far from believing
he did; but il the thing does happen
i'm the dispensatiOns of Providence, he
thanks the Almighty for the aid that
lie has furnished to the Republican
party; and it happens now. The
Senator knows as well as he sits in
his seat that of all the men in this
those who most deplore these
acts of violence are the Democratic
party, and especially the Democratic
party of the North.


do, not wish to he offensive, but /
declare l could hardly help blushing
Tor the Senator from Indiana when he
was guilty of the small criticism that
his particular Hamburg matter in
their letters of acceptance, as if they
were to go out of their way in paper
like that, and without having heard
the evidence on either side, with moth
ing but newspaper reports, without
having had even the benefit of these
documents which the Senator now
asks to have printed and which were
presented here on the lst day of this
very month, and not seen by Tilden
or by Hendricks, notice this occur
renee tl.at happened down in South
Carolina. Why, sir, they would have
made themselves the laughing-stock
of the community if they had done
any such thing. -.a H. rltI


But let me ask my friend, if he
makes such a criticism as that, how
comes it that Mr.. Wheeler, your can
didate for Vice President, took no
notice of this thing? His letter was
written on the 18th of July, and the
took place on the Sth aud the
had scattered the informa-
ton all over the country before
Wheeler wrote his letter. How comes
it that he took no notice of it all, and
how small a criticism it would be for
me if l were to say that Mr.. Wheeler
lare not condemn that massacse! No
Mr.. President. that will not do. Why
did he not take notice of COushatta
and the like in other words, why did
ne not take notice Of all the speeches
he Senate: from Indiana has been ac.
:ustomcd to make on southern out
ages in the last four or five years!
might answer, why did not Governor
Hayes take notice of them! Why did
rot Governor Hayes put into his let
er of acceptance liberal extracts from
he speeches of The Senator from In
llama? Why did he not make a CAM
,aign document by iindiug chosen ex
:erpts of the horrible picture drawn
by the fertile imagination of the Sem
ltor from Indiana for the last three or
our years? Why, on the contrary,
lid Governor Hayes hold out his
hands and use mild language, like the
mild hammered man that he is, al
hough he has proven himself to be a
brave soldier, Qor | have generally
found that the men who were the
bravest soldiers have the mildest
.Ongues.) Why is il, instead OF hoist
ing the bloody flag and preaching Ven
geance and hatred in his letter of ac-
.eptance, that Governor Hayes speaks
IN language of mildness and of kind
aess TO all the SOuthf Not q word
about Couchatts and not word about