Year: 1871

is that afflicted land where carpet-bag-


gers and scoundrels Of every hue and


dye have settled down, eating up all the


green fields and substance Of the people


more ferociously thar did the locusts in
olden times. Applause.


SOUTH CAROLINA, THE RADICAL PoLlTI-


CLAN e PARADISE.


Do you tell me there are disorders in
South Carolina2 Very well you have
had the beauties of Radicalism tried
there. You have got negro as black
as any of you want him to be as Secre-
tary OF State in South Carolina. The
beauties of negro equality shine there
with all their effulgence. Supreme
Court Judges have colored skin. She
is sending negroes to the halls Of Con-
gress, and it would seem that there Is
the Radical politicians paradise. Yet
it is said that crime and outrage are on
the increase there, and we are constant
" told that there is rich field in South
Carolina for the Ku-Klux committee to
90 and investigate. ! am asked to 60
and investigate the condition OF South
Carolina and not Of Virginia. Why is
it so2 The one is governed by men in
political sympathy with me; the other
is governed by men in political sympa-
thy with the Senator from Indiana, who
came here to enlighten the people of
Kentucky. In his garden and in his
vineyard grow thistles and all obnox-
ious weeds; in my garden, in my vine
yard, where my moral and political SEN
timents prevail, | can point to peace,
purity and prosperity upon the stricken
fields of Virginia. [Applause.


Again, If you tell me there are dis
orders in Texas, ! can but repeat what
have said about these other States.
She is full and overfowing with the
boundless graces of Radicalism. All
the fruits Of the war" the people talk
about are there. have wondered
what these fruits were exactly. l have
sometimes thought that they were more
like the Dead Sea apples than any
other fruit ever heard of-glittering
and shining with an alluring light On
the outside but turning to dust and bit
ter ashes whenever touching the lip or
tongue. The fruits" Of the war are
there in munficent abundance.


WEST VIRGINIA.


Let me draw another parallel. Take
West Virginia. West Virginia was
torn from the embrace of the old
mother State, an outrage as | denounc-
ed it at the time, unlawful as l believe
it to be now. But the people of that
new formed State have done the very
best that a people could do for them
selves under the circumstances.


The first time they got free, the first
time they had a chance to rise up and
vote as a free people, they shook off the
trammels OF Radicalism They broke
their chain. They embraced Demo
cratic principles, and as soon as that
was done, ! tell you historical fact
when / say that instantly every Fede.
raj soldier was Withdrawn from her soil
as no longer necessary to keep the
peace. Applause While under the
sway OF Radicalism, soldiers guarded
many points that were visible as You
passed over the AlIes heny Mountains
over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Travel it now, siuce Democracy has run
up its banner, aud you will not see a
single soldier there, tor the reason that
il is found not necessary. Already IS
peace there The Democratic State
is going on repairing the
shattered fortunes and hopes o! many |
people that were stricken TO the ground
by the war Those are the fruits that
love 10 contemplate.


The Senator from my State can point
you to Texas, to South Carolina, to
North Carolina, to Mississippi, and to
all the other States and say, There
blooms and blossoms the fruits OF my
principles" and in the next breath he
tells You that those fruits are larcenles
gigantic, murder atrocious, arson light
ing up the sky with an inceudiary flame,
making it necessary to pass a law EN-
the President to send the ar
nv OF the United States into those choice
spots so ornsmented by the beauties OF
Radicalism.


That is the one picture. point TO
the other Yet men are here to tell you
not 10 trust in the Democratic party. |
Why, il | was calling witnesses against
the Republican party, | would call the
nine States down here, and ] would
show


SYSTEM OF THEFT,
And system of plunder, by which the
peoples property is being confiscatet
without parallel beneath the sun. |
would call those States and prove by
the statements Of such men as Senator
Morton and others that they are the
worst and most disreputable members
of our great sisterhood, and because
Radicalism triumphs there. Ap
plause If /, on the other hand, was
calling witnesses tor the Democracy,
would point first to the old State OF
Virginia, the most afflicted Of all, the
most torn to pieces OF all, with her
male population driven away, her
bosom thrashed with the thrashing.
machine OF death from one border to
the other. She has emerged as from a
fire OF ten.fold heat, but she has 'allen
into the hands Of Conservatism and not
of Radicalism, and no Radical, not
even Ben. Butler, dares wag his foul
tongue or point his felouious finger at
her. ICheers.1 And this ! said to
him, too, on the floor Of the House. l
called the witnesses there o. ! have