Year: 1875

Senator Norton OF Indiana made his first speech
in the Maine campaign. He spoke OF the issues of
1876 and said


tell you there is not living ISSUE except the cur
rcncy which does not grow out of the war The for
getting and forgivng all tho side OF the North
Tho south has forgotten nothing II gives political
nor social business recognition TO the Southern re-
publican the Northern settler Tho one Is denounced
as scalawag, the other as a carpet bagger. A
Northern may take 10 the Soath capital and
energy and business enterprise but If he is rcpubli
can he is ostracZcd II he bo democrat he must be
of the most violent, or he will be suspected Ser
vice IN the Confederate army Is the test of merit.
Seventy -four Confederate officers take their seats in tho
next House. and but twenty-five Union officers.
The Southern democracy has settled upon
line of policy The Northern democrats have
none except getting into Office. In State
they hold to hard money, in another TO imitation; in
one State they protcctionsts, in another free
traders; they hold no opinion in common on banking
and transportation, or other questions of political
economy and national administration. The South has
policy, the North none, and the South will in conse
Quencc rule the party. The Confederate soldiers will
be pensioned 1t l. not in human nature for Southern
men tax themselves for the support of Union sol
ders while their own cripples are starving. Claims
will be advanced for the payment of Southern property
destroyed in the Payment will be demanded for
the slaves All these things the South will insist upon
if IL come to power And the Northern democracy is
pledged to support the South. BY their principle of
doing away with nvidous distinctions they pledged
to placethe Confederate soldier on the same footing
the Union soldier. BY their repeated declara-
tions revoked, that the emancipation
proclamation and the freeing OF the slaves
are uncOnSJtutOnal, lney are COmmUeQ 10
payment for property unlawfully taken away.


tell you that inventory has been taken OF all the
slaves emancipated In law phrase, the evidence has
been perpctuaed and the South backed by its South
allies, will demand payment. If the democracy
ceed in gaining power they will reconstruct the South
white basis. Slavery cannot be restored but the
negro will be reduced to peonage 1t is the fashion with
democrats to at the bloody shirt they once
sncered bleeding Kansas and freedom shrekers But
the stories of violence in the South true AS early
1866 Congress sent investigating committees there
and has sent them every year since Thousands and
thousands Of dispositions have been taken from OF
all political parties Of all shades of belief The damn
ing evidence is piled mountains high. Thousands of
mon have been killed They tell you of President
Grants interference That interference was in
the interest of humanity and peace and saved
hundreds of lives. There necessity for
killing Just now for the influence Of the terror remains
Why, at the election in Alabama the other day
county which gave 262 for Grant but so
publican votes. In another county the republican
fell from 500 O. The terror did this In the spring
of 1868 Louisiana gave 81 900 republican majority
That summer 2, 900 murders pcrpetratcd and in
the fall the State went for Seymour by A. 900 majority
In other States it is quite as bad


The South on its good behavior, for 1t desires
to get control OF the national government But if a
united Southern vote is necessary next year there will
be scene OF blood II is claimed that the Northern
democrats have Submitted to the constitutional amend
ments They have not. There is not democratic
Senator day who will acknowledge the legality of the
amendments They will not attempt TO repeal them,
but will ride them the North rode the Fugi-
tive Slave law.