Year: 1870

/ when | reflect that all those boys and
young men who never had held ar
f office and who had no political opin.
ions suve those that they had absorb.
cd from the atmosphere which they
had hreathed all their lives, are cut
Oft from all aspirations for Federal
preterment and Federal office, I say
the folly Of man cannot conceive a
more laundering and stupid scheme
than the scheme of keeping that test
oath on the statute book.


THE TRUTH AT LAST.


| We are now, in many Localities in
the South, reduced to the necessity,
in order to get Federal appointments
filled, of selecting them from ignoram.
uses or rascals aud yet the senator
from Indiana tells us that We can Be-
leot where we will-that the fifty
thousand loyal men are amply sufi-
cient to guido the counsels Of the na-
tion in those States. Now, wish to
do all credit to the men who we're
loyal to the flag in the Southern States
II wish to give them all the praise
which belongs to men who resisted
current that belongs to my friend from
Indiana never had to resist-I wish
to give them all tho laurels that be.
long to them. Far be it from NE,
who saw their suffering and their sac !.
riices through that terrible contest,
to take one single leaf from the chap.
let which should bind their blows.
But, Mr.. President, they were few in
numbers as a rule they wero insight
hoant in political and social oonse.
quenoe; and if you attempt to carry
on the business of government in those
States by their agency and that Of the
race lately enfranchisod alone, you
will certainly fail.


WHY HE BECAME A SENATOR.


And when any senator charges that
the political course on this floor of
another senator would be controlled
by the consideration Of the question
Of his reelection, it is an aspersion
upon his integrity as senator, and
an Implication that he will violate his
oath as such. When a senator allows
his official senatorial conduct here to
be governed by such motives as those,
it is better that his place should b.
filled by another man and let me say
that do not hold the seat T oocupy
here because I would have sought the
place which / do hold, nor would I
have held it or have been q candidate
for it, but for the fact that desired
TO keep out othors who we're even less
tit to be here than myself, and that I
could select in my State many men at
that time who, if it had not been for
these very disabilities imposed by the
Fourteenth amendment, would have
stood on this floor much ADLER advo.
Gates of the principles of the Repub.
loan party, much stronger men for
the State Of South Carolina, and for
the United States, that I can ever
hope to be.


| PRESCRIPTION PLAYED OUT.


But, Mr.. President, + did not rise
to speak at any length on this bill. [
believe, as | said when ] began, that
the speech of the senator from Con-
neoticut but re-eohoes the sentiments
of the vast majority of the people of
the Republican party; and I believe
that the aouteness of the senator from
Indiana has in this instance failed
him, and that he has not sufficiently
studied the sentiment of the party of
which he is so distinguished an orna-
ment. l think that when the people
speak on this subject, he will fad that
he represents not that majority which
might have the right to read q minori.
ty out of its ranks, but that he stands
in q minority which may rather ask
to be admitted to the orthodox plat
form Of the party.


GRANT vs. HANcocK.-Some time
ago, General Hancock wrote to Gen.
eral Sherman inguiring why he was
not promoted to the place made va
cant By Thomas death. Sherman
returned this insulting answer:


81 am requested by the President
to inform you that there is nothing in
i your personal relations to General
Grant, or in your official relutions to
his administration, that could justify
your promotion now, or lead you to
expect it hereafter" I,


Poor Hancock He is the best of
all our late antagonists in arms: but
he happened to have PERSONAL knowl-
edge of Grants gutter days., and he
was inclined to be lenient to the
South. Besides he is Democrat and
no jobbibg knave. How dare he ask
such a favor as promotion o. General
Hancock will live long enough to
wish he had broken his sword. 10 800,
or else used it against the destroy ers Of
his country and It's laws. When the
most brilliant Of war Democrats Is
| thus pushed to the wall, what can the
small fry hope for from the: men and
the party they so powerfully contrib
uted to raise to the .soats Of arrog moe
l and iniarula 1--A u1ftsln Tnn sf:t,,,nr,,'-