Year: 1870







In the course of the recent debate on the
admission of the colored elephant from Mis-
sissippi. Senator Drake, OF Missouri. bitterly
reviled the New York city Democracy. AS
! this State is misrepresented in the Senate by
two Radicals. the assault wodld have gone un-
represented, bad not Eugene Casseriy, of Cali
fornia, whose attachment TO the home Of his
youth had not been weakened by lorg resi-
dence on the Pacific slope, forcibly retorted.
lie said


| | was about to leave the Chamber, a while
ago, when was arrested hy the soft notes OF
the Senator from Missouri in which Thought
heard nv name. l returned to my seat.
| am rejoiced that did so had otherwise
missed an opportunity. / have heard the
Senator from Missouri great many times
since first had the pleasure Of his acquaint-
ance in thie Charaber. | hare heard him
make many speeches that were eharactsris-
tic. never heard him make one that was so
entirely characteristic as that OF which he
has at this moment delivered himself. 1t
was speech that united the logical analysis
of Marshall with the graceful fancy of a
Writ and the majestic strength of a Webster.
In every respect it was just such a speech as
might be expected from the Senator from
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The Senator has had mrch to say about
What he calls shiliy-shaly," and a little to
say of myself. So far as concerns me or what
my native inclination might be. it is not of
the slightest consequence.
/ / am happy to suggest to the Senator one
consideration which ought to relieve him
frC M alarms under which he seems to labor
with regard tc the instrument which he says
rules the State of New York through the city
of New York, and which it is we'll known is
applied most effectively to the head.


| Now. sir, is it any answer to what l have
said about eleven States in the thraldom Of
your bayonets to allude to the city of New
York? If in the city Of New York there be
fraud or violence at elections, that is one city
of one State. My chafge is that ten States
were wrapped in the frauds and violence Of
reconstruction as in the coils of monstrous
anaconda.


| The Senator from Massachusetts, thought
that perhaps had better look into my Bible
for his commission as an agent or instrument
of Providence. | haveread my Bible through
and through, more than once, and hope with
good fruit. should be glad if | could infer
from the public course of the Senator from
Massachusetts that he had done the same.
am afraid that unlike me he had not read it
through, but has stopped his reading with
the Old Testament.


heard the explanation of the Senator from
Massachusetts. That what strlck me as his
taunts against us for our numbers was mere
ly his answer to the threats thrown out by
Senators on this side as to the speedy, over
throw of the Republican party and its policy.
beg the Senator who says we are too few
for this language to remember that the nine
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proportion to the moral or numerical power
which are at our back. BY the distribution
by States, of Representation in the Senate,
this body is anything but just Representa-
tive to-day of the political opinions of the
American people.


With all the powers of the military organi-
cation of our country against us in the last
Presidential election with so many States of
the South tranmelled up in the thraldom of
your poiicy-I mean no offence to the gentle
men here who are in this body by reason of
opportunities never before presented in the
history of free people-notwithstau all
that, the Democratic vote was larger by many
thousands than any man ever before received
who was elected to the Presidency of the
United States. Our Presidential candidate
had the votes of more than two and half
million people. Your candidate, in all the
strength of his personal popularity. in the
full flush of his military renown, had ma
iority of less than ten per cent. of the total
vote. A change Of less than FIVE per cent. of
the total vote from your side to ours would
have given us popular majority. A still
less change, if properly distributed in the
States. would have given to our candidate the
election.


It does not become the wise men on the
other side of the Chamber to taunt us with
the feebleness of our numbers here. Strong
in right and growing in numbers, ours is
rising tide. No republican Canute can say
to US, "Thus far shall. thou come, but no
further" As we were stronger at the last
election than we were Mt the election which
preceded It, we shall be stronger at the next
election than we were at the last. There
must corae some time an end to the terrorism
which has controlled the country for so many
years. and which alone has enabled you to
hold the country. That is my answer to the
explanation of the Senator from Massachu-
setts.


1t was not nv intention to say one word in
the course of this debate. / broke silence to
repeI the assaults made upon the minority
here, and to expose the pretensions which
went along with those assaults Whether or
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wise one for the black people of the country,
time alone can tell. Whether their profess
sions of exclusive friendship fer them are any
more real than their professions of justice, Of
freedom, of liberty in their whole policy,
every man will Judge for himself. I believe
that the race which is the object If so much
devotion will, despite their limited opportuni-
ties in the past, shortly have, il they have
not now. the good sense to detect the hollow
ness of all the preteasions of the Administra-
tion party. It is impossible for me to ina
| gine that party which manifests constantly
an implacable hostility toward millions Of
their countrymen in the States of the South
can be overaowing with the milk of human
kindness towards race whose highest, if not
their only, value in the eyes of these self
STYLED friends is in their votes, which are 40
essential to maintain them in the ascendency
they have acquired and have SO long held in
this country.-New York atlas.


A careful analysis by the chemist of the
Board OF Health of Now Vork of tb;-tr san,