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1 a - ! A' ,1 it i - 'tr t .One Year Six Months...... Tlifrec Months... . Subscriljers who do not trive 4 rvnrpsa- notice L.J . to the contrary. ar considered- as wishing to ' continue their subscrii.tion. - -j - Any person M ho receives a ncwspajeir and makes use of it. whether he his ordered ! it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. ;. The ; - Plunder of . Eleven. States l - Republican Party. by the , .. , JirKECIt-OK - IS. 1 , i , i..u:r. y. vrtoiuiiJis, 1KLIVKkjV IX ' . ' t - THE HorsE of represeVtativus, MARCH 23, 1872. ' i ! rt ; I; V hall know thvin by their fruits.' Do ii'tn jralhtr grapevs of thorns, or fiirs of this tles:", hven so every rood tree hringdth forth fruit : but n ci-rrupt tn-e nnii M-ittlutc. 7; in. 17. lortn evil fruk.rSt. . iTiic House having met for debate as in t.riimjj.t(;e of ,th.J v hole on the stuie of . thp-1 ii-.'?u f if. ViifU'i'K!'- '".c-.'-.l : ' plr. K-kker : The condition. of many oljthe States or this . I -ni-m excites to-day the niingled pity and Jiidigiiation of the civilized world. They are the tl cnie of .sorrowful and of bitter tonimeht wiieYever the channels of human inteiligenct pencv trttte.-f They engage the attcntioi of all the -departments of, this vIoverniiient. Iyxeeutiv-j -procTai nations spread e vil' tid ings about them, and hurl ,ejry principle ql their liberties, ey'ery munpnent if their safety -to the ground. Congress enacts lasa"amst them which utterly destroy cery vwsiige of freedom, and fonje ;and riet on llieir helpless lunbs the falters of m'spousm. it also semis forth ivi power if missionaries of inchh-f in the form of qinnnttees, backetl by the money land thp power of the (lovenunent, whose labors .are to blacken the clTariick r and fame of tlijjir pvplj unck'r the gui.se of oiheial in tjstijritiinis' ami otlicuij report,sl The hijad: ir thi' Department of .Jusfiee? the laj.e Attorney (ieneral, - he who , led : his pijople intiiL. the war and then letiirned to pl?iue and lay waste the hearth stoncss of !is loHowers. superintended in person the iumiiMtioii anjl the torture inflicted upon J the descendants of'those who foii"ht in ill; battles M fhe lrcvolutiou. Tlie Army ot; tlie I lutuil t:iuvsitj a tiinoot tiroloMtiil pcac is lauoched like a bolt, of destruc tion into tlu ir . nudst. It Is enLrared in. seizing, without sworn charge' or warrant .ofjjaw, tlu; youth", tlie middle-agjd, land thb gray -haired grandsires; in the sanctua ry! of American tioir.es, ai)d driving them Tr.e Itepileil Loasts irRo crowded prisons. T4ie odious -i r ke sf ( 'laverhou.se; Kirke, v onnies.sions of .'oti;ui.(l. wiiicli gave "their names more the overjast- tl.ih." ft V-'.tiid ;-eu vi'ars ago to eVci;tioii niaijkin,!, Is being f:p aul h'Huiv o.: Aineriefn soHl. 1 And " J' 1 IVevrlv-iit hi.iisel in his recent nies- pie.aii l. as I. f. says, h laste. as if IiutI sliasrs ' irKcaUT iiiHH.HaiiCd to .-i-age :ls att. i'tioji. wt lTnnd tsme! io .tr.it: bis sanction a!l this and to add his . iiilitiguant. init'o to the general ftrralgn iu'ent an. I aecusaation. ! i , ijSui'iui.,di d.:iiid cojuVonUxl by thts ds : jt r is, f at e f ; m '. ; afB'Ms, J r-e foif.-J-dpc.--. th.i.-. llo;i.Nc' iii behalf of free, instim .tiins, of Htfpartial jstice, and of :l.he ojf j resst;d ami outraged citizen? wherever bis. home may be planted. I shall speak' by tfie aiit'iority of those who sent ime licro. To them I am "beholden,! for! all t'lat I am, and. to them alone. I ticknbwl edge myself responsible in this .world for wutt IlitU r on this floor.'". j i 1r, who lias filled -one third ! of jthc I :-undaries of this Heiuiblu with .all the vyjsCH and the annals calantitt.es ever . record JtKia of the worst (iqyernments J.iivwfvon the -pages of historvi -Nearly ser-n ' years ago blessed peace, like a merciful, white-winged angel, came to the land. ho, since then, has-poured upon the unresisting and helpless South the Jloods f disorder, corruption, bankruptcy, crnine, oppression, and ruin? . Efery 're sult has its distinct and specific cause in the moral and politicol world as well as in tire mathciiiatieaf realms of the physical scif-nces. TliegVeatest thinker and writer of the present cchtr.rv has said : ! -if-- 'TjIj ..the moral pvorld, as in the physical Wrlih itotliing is anomalous ; nothing is iuipat urti! : ii'othiy.ir Js strange. AH is orW. sym-'HjL-tA-. au I law. - Tl icro are oj nosites, . but t! (ere 'aire no foiiinu lift ions. In .the character of" a nation, inconsistency is impossililc. Such, however, is still tlie back ward, condition of the human mind, and with o eil and jaundiceit an eje do w aj.proacli the. irreatest problems, iTijit tuft only conunoii w riters.- hut even men from wiiom better thiitjrs miht le hopel.-are :). this-point ' involve!'- in constant eonflision, " pUrplexitur theiii-nh es ami their'' readers I by siK-akin of incoiLitney "as ifitwere a quality JKilon-riiur to the-subject which they investigate, ' i.i.toad of being, as it really is. a measure of tlt'ir ow-ii unit .ranee. It is the business of the historian to nmove this ignorance, tv showin" t"iit the movenients of nations are perfectly re gular, and thflt." like all other movements, th'ev are solelv determiiusl lv tlieir .antecedents. If' i "i, l . i. ... i. . i ii" cannon uo mi.-., uc-1. no nisionan. lie may be an annalist; or a biographer, orachroiiicler, but hijflser than that he canjiot iie, tuiless he s:,iinbucd witl t-at spirit of science yhich 1 teaches as m anicle, f faitH. the dotriiio of uniform se-nience in other words, the doc trine -tltat certain events having alrea'dt; hap jMjnevl. certain other eveiits correspoti'Jiiig: to '. them will also happen."-' J - 4 ;Dut this great eloctrinp' of uniform se quence, of cause and effect in all things. - lias even 'yet higher authority than the powerful and philosophic Juclle. or tlian any other earthly sanction: lien the travelvr. o.vcr desert plains, finds a cooling " and healthful stream lie knows there is a fonnta'a tf sweet waters above ; but jif tlie stri'am .is- impure and poisonous,Qt , heeds ho argument to convince him that the soiree frufci which it descends is like wise b'ttcr and unclean. The apple and the rpflnegranate, the olive "and the grape, ; all proclaim by their ow n. good qualities the generous and bounteous trees and vines on which they grow ; but the nox ious" weed, the rdeadly creeper, and the useless bramble furnish no such evidences of tlieir merit and .worth to the husband man." And when the mighty Nazarene made diis brief but. awful 'sojourn upon earth lie pointed - to these productions ?of -. the lars of nature, and proclaimed, not "merely to -his-followers in Judea but"to the'pebple of alltlie continents and all - the islands of the seas, and to . the re motest generationsof .mankind, ' that the same onerring certainty also existed lie tcenne visible results of human con tnicVantl the absolute causes from which ' iiey arise. He warned tlie whole world against falser corrupt, " and plundering leader of the people, and announced the means by which their spurious pretensions - shall always be determined : J ' i ; 'Ye!shali know them by their fruits. Do "-. nien gather grapes of thorns or tigs of thistles ? 'Evn so every good tree bringeth forth , ood fruit; but a corrupt tree 'bringeth forth " . evil frit.". f ; i ! Let this unchangeable standard of truth, established by the ' physical and moral - sciences; and sanctioned by the voice of , Divinity, be applied to the party in power, and o its. unbridled and unrestrained deal VOLUME 1. ings with the people and the States : of the South. Who has planted and nurtuiod the thick growth' of . thorns and thistles there? W'e have heard endless specchek here and everywhere, in regard to the' fruits of the war. By, whose wiqked de vices have they been turned . into apples of Sodom and the Pead sea, and been made to mock, the hopes and the expec tations of the anxious beholder? By whose conduct and- policies has every blessing of free government "been scour ged from the face of a country contain ing over twelve million people and larger in extent than many of the forcjnost Pow ers of Europe? 1 call upon the majority in this House to answer. " Have you not had all power from tlie beginning of what you call reconstruction over that subject? lias there been anything wanting to your absolute authority ? What has ttood hi "vh- way of your wi.-Jes, yoiu parlliaii t-.kiis, your lawless fanaticism?.. . Vhe Constitution has been no restraini1 ; i i-. - it i i . t i'jwn voi;r aciw'Tf.s, ri. i.Uj lytya triinijcu under foot, dwarfed into a dead letter, or widened and extended by fraudulent amendments, according as the unscmnu- lous puiioscs of a powerful party would be hest promoted. ,lo quote the clear and hallowed principles of. that immortal instrument fyere nqw is -only to excite the displeasure, and the sneers of those who are bloated and overgrown with the insolence of office and a long lease of pow er. To" express a reverence for those who bought its original draft with tlieir blood, and to hold it up as it was before the hand of modern vandalism had assailed it, is denounced as treaaon. The great chart er of liberty has not even bceria stumbling block to your feet in your swift encroach ments upon the rights of all the people and the States of this Union, and especi ally upon thos'c.of the Soutlu-Youharve ta ken all the powers it gave .you, and. yon have usurped every, power you desired besides. No law, however revolutionary, barbarous, and destructive, was ever found by your construction to be in conflict with tits provisions, if t was demanded b' the interests of ' your party. Your own will, rithout let or hinderance from any quar ter, has been the measure of your legisla tion. . ' ' The Army, of the United States has al so, been made ready and obedient to your command. It has j been the irresistable instrument with which to execute your pleasure on a prostrate people. You say, 'Go, antl it goeth ; come, andit'eometh and notfung has withstood the accomplish ment ot, your purposes. The purse of the nation, too, ftos been in your-grasp as well as tli sword. The taxpayers of America have .toiled for you as the serfs of llussia have not for their ruleRS. Their streaming floods of.Jrolden tributohave poured into your coffers with eycry motion of the pendulum of time. You have taken the laborer's carniiftis and lavished uncounted millions on your bale- fu'. sclicmes of government under a south- trn sky. j . You lKive,likewlse controlled IVcsidents.' When one. of your own election rose up and stubbornly confronted yr u with your 'wTr precedents and ?o!eiiin ournittolj in regaifl: to "the inviohiblj' existence " of States,' and their perpetual, tight of repre sentation, yon sought his overthrow and ruin with a fury and -a hate' until then unknown in the history of legisla tive bodies. While you barely failed to hurl hini'from his place you -were com pletely successful in rendering him power less to .execute his -policy or to prevent you from executing yours. ' This House was purged in a .memorable way, in order that you might have the wthirds nh. jority with which to pass uocpristitutionjd law s over presidential vetoes. -.Expulsions "of members took place under the tjiin and flimsv guise of c6ntested elections until the minority .here w as sufficiently depleted and you became paramount over the Ex ecutive and absorbed all his official ftuic-tions.- Lawless legislation then broke loose upon hinr, by which he was bound hand and foot, and made as powerless as a ina'nacled prisoner in the depths of a dun geon. Andrew Johnson no longer divi ded with you the responsibility of the Gov ernment ; you weilded it alone. The Ex ecutive who has succeeded him submits willingly and unconditionally to w hatever Congress may propose. You hold all his powers in your hands and levtd theni against any liberty or right of the citizen which you .may wish to destroy.' He avows his purpose to jam any career you may point out to him, with no riiore mind of his own than thje orderly who holds his horse. I pausefnot now to ask' how you have obtained1 this degrading control: Whether it is the cunning of a vaulting anibitioii on his'part, which with a pretend ed humility has been known to push aside the iriiperial crown in "order to "be a little further persuaded, or whether it springs from his ignorance, matters not for .the purposes of my present argument. The great fact, that you possess all the powers and control all the departments of this Gov ernment is what I demonstrate. ; , y , The Federal patronage, with its immense and corruptive influences, lias also come into your hands with the surrender of the Executive. The venal and the mercenary have been seduced into , your support by your offices and your profligate expendi ture of theypublic money ; while the timid have beei overawed by tlie bayonet and the cannn! Every application by which jnen hae ever been subdued to tyranny has been held and usedirt profusion by the party now in power, from tlie day that the war closed on tlie bloody soil of Yir giniauntil the present hour. In proof of this let the specific details of k -continued usurpation, evil govennentand mal administration be presented to the candid judgement of the country. . Sir, the absolute destruction of free in stitutions from the Potomac to'-the Rio Grande commenced with the earliest dawn of peace. Sherman received Johnston's surrender upon the precise basis on which the war had been prpsecuted. at every stage. He stipulated that the soldiers of the South should lay down the arms of their unequal warfare, return to their States tes, whose existence had not than been denied, and resume the pursuit of industry when they had left off", subject only to the destruction of slavery, which was wrought by the movements of armies, and not by proclamations. He had more than a thou sand precedents in the dsliberate.and re corded action of this Government for his conduct. He . was . sustained by both branches of Congress hi innumerable ways, by foAr years of incessant and voluminous legislation, by the enactment of apportion .ment laws throughout the! States whose people were in rebellion, by districting them for judicial Durposes, by levying up on them direct taxes as members, of the Union under the Constitution, by. the con stant reception of their representatives on this floor and in the Senate, by. the, most Mplemn and binding joint resolutions, 'and by every other mode in which this depart ,-'-'. f" ) 'LET. ALL! I -'! ment of the Government can Commit and pledge itself. , He was upheld fiy every document also .to which the name of the Executive was attached during the war'j by every message', inaugural, proclamation) and order of. that prolific period. The courts added their weighty sanction, from those of,the lowest and' feeblest; jurisdic ion to those i of the .loftiest pretensions aiid powers, j No Government in the wide? spread history of the nations of the earth "was ever under voluntary andsell-imposeq vlittM.i.Ti.-r. f.f m.aaIa. C ewrr n t nnmifiu1a The word and die honor of the llepubjicy had been plightdd over and over.again to l its own civuiied world. 1 he' momentj however, that resistance ceased, and the way was opened "for the long pent-up pur poses' of revolution, centralization,' and r.piue, the p&jty 'in power broke with ' harnelqssliaste iis' most sacred faith', filing, worn -"W, yeors, dr m.rteii . tnat,ns 'j.rev:oi:s .preteas;n anq promises were fraudulent, and ciainored V.'iili wild fe ocity a'auist the hero of the march to tiic'sea1, bcause he had believed they were true and sincere, and had acted on. them. The terms which ' .Sherman gave to a fallen foe had often' lieen tern dcred to that foe before he fell ;f but they were now madly thrust aside in! the hour of victor', and the:geueral himself denpunf 'ced far and wide as a. traitor to his country. The hue-and-CFy was raised against him as if tke was a fleeing-fugitivfe from justice. The memorable and dis graceful outburst jcannot be covered with oblivion. It mot4 resembled th,e enraged scream of a beastj of prey about to.be baff fled out of its victims than the reasonable expression of human1 beings. The victim! however, was surrendered to the clutches of an inflamed and victorious ' party, and the work of demolition and ruyi. was dt once commenced. From turret to foun dation you tore down tire govenmenti of eleven States. You left not one stone upf on another. Yo.ij. rent all their locallaws and machinery into fragmpnts and tramr pled upon their ruins. Not a yestige of their former cdiKtructions remainedi' Their pillars;, their Rafters, their beams, and all their dpep-iaid corners, . the work of a wise and devoted generation' of the past, were all dragged, away, and the sites where they once stood left naked for the erection of. new and different structures! You removed the , rubbish, pushed the Aar my into the ! vacant ground, established provisional governments as you would over territory just acquired by conquest froni a foreign power, 'and clothed 'brigadier and major generals with extraordinary function as Governors. ' '.. This was the beginning of the present organizations ; those odious and unsightly fabrics which now cumber the earth, and which stand as the op" en, reeking, and con fessed shambles of corruption, 1 pollution, and revolting misrule: They embrace not one single element of popular consent. They are the hideous Offspring of your own' unnatural and unlawful force and violence The grei-.t hodV of the people: of that unf fortunate section had no inpre share 14 rebellion of thc&f local governments thai! tho sepoys of vhe East Indies have in the of the jfllrit ishcm?L;v TU&y vrsre excluded from all participation ; by the most elaborate .and minute 'schemes ; of legislative proscription of which history makes' any record. ,; ' j ;The first duty of thp provisionaj governi: mcnts which you established .was to Call conventions to frame new constitutions for these old States, and to prepare them for re-admission into that l.nion from which you haxl sworn so Soften and so. sdlenmlvl thatno Stte could ever withdraw. Thesdi conventions were provided for by laws eii acted here. The number and the quality of tlie delegates to them w:ere here speci- lied. Who should be eligible was your; vork, and not .the 'work of the people who were to be governed. You not, only said who should be cltctcd, but you likewise' determined who should elect them. ' You! fixed the qualifidatiohs and the color of the otcrs.- , You purged the ballot-box of the intelligence and the virtue on which alone popular liberty can be safely found ed, and you admitted, in their stead, the sufirage of the moist ignorant and unquali- nect race now mnaoiiingine gioDe. Mingled witli this dark and turbid tide of dense ijmorancfc came all the vices of this lower race, together with the' crimes of a nibre powerful and a more profligate class, with palefaces, from the North, now and' then receiving their .'worst recruits fromthe apostates of the same complex ion -in the 'South. You .winnowed the threshing floor1 'but you rejected the wheat. ' You accepted the tares, and sow-i. ed them," and now jyou curse, the soil be cjfuse you have reaped nothing but tares for your harvest. ,Yu built upon a founda tion of shifting sand, and now. you rail at everybody but' yourselves because the houso has not resisted the winds arid the rains that have beat upon it. When these conventions met,-they represented the wretched constituency which spoke them into existence, and they went to their ser- vue iasKs wim uie oayonet 01 me r eaerai Government at their throats. They sat m .every, instance tvithm point-blank rapge of shotted cannon. " Tle delegates crept about and framed constitutions with the eyes 6f military governors upon therm The sword rested lightly in its seaboard, and was ready to leap forth at any moment and upon the slightest pretext to assist in devising fundamental laws for a people said to be free. The State constitutions that were thus Created and thrust , upon the' country could not fail to partake oT the depraved nature of their illegitimate origin.,? They sprang from tlie loathsome union of ignorancej vice, and despotism ; and they, have inherited many of the ugli est features of each one of their progen itors. Thej despotic principle - is strongly marked in them alL It is there in obedi ence to. the mandates of Federal poweras well as in accordance with the characterof the instruments who were used to fasten it-upon; Americanj" citizens. Proscription and ostracism are (he leading elements of every State jgoveriiment in the South. In tellect and vutue, public and private worth, spotless character, splendid attainments, graceful culture, and the experience and wisdom of age were all passed by tinder the reconstruction of violence and fraud. These 'who were txssessed of these traits and acquirements! were pushed aside, and ' made to give place to the most degraded classes of mankind. The people were not allowed to select 'their official agents from among those who were qualified for public station, buY were driven into the purlieus of. ignorance and vice to choose their" rulers."", j" ' !''" .. . ) In the reorganization of all " the States whose present condition is matter of such sore complaint fand such bitter accusa tions, the dominant party here and in those States excluded from office and de prived the people of the services of; every man who by his talents, industry," and in tegrity had sufficiently acquired .the con- ; fidence of his fellow-citizens before' the 1 THE ENDS THOU AIM'STT BE ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, war to be riiade Governor, secretary, aud itor, or treasurer jof State ; attorney gen eral, jujlge, clerkj or reporter of the su preme court ; .superintendent of public in struction, member or either branch of Congress, or of the Legislature of his State ; clerk, sheriff, treasurer, auditor, or recor der of i his county : judge of a probate court, whose jurisdiction follows the in j evitable, footsteps of death, and whose i functions are those of benevolence toward 0 the orphans and the widows ot the human race ; justice n me peace, or cousiauie oi his township, or notary -public. Kvery man'who had been called in former days to fill any onf of these stations, and many more that might be enumerated, and, whoduring the j conflict between the sections was clothed with the slightest responsibility or charged with the smallest official duty by those with whom Ills des tiny, and h!ilu:mi; hadia!en, was' marked oy uvi m.giti .r.fnr ngmiiny, ana use ine I ldper of old it was made acrime for Hie f people to again reach iorth to nun the hand of friendship, confidence, and sup port". -Even the sacred instincts of human nature became dLsquaUfications .for office. The ties 'of kindred were made criminal under this new and revolting system. . He who gave a cup of. cold water and a crust "of bread to his thirsty and famished son, tinder arins for a cause which he believed to be right, and for which he was willing to die, was branded with dishonor and driven out from the councils of his coun trymen. The loving mother who shelter ed her weary and wounded boy, laid him in his bwn familiar bed at home once more, kissed, his' feverish lips, wiped away the gathering dews of death, and with a broken heart closed ht dear eyes forever, was condemned for these acts of angelic ministering, and! incurred the penalties of P. .Li'.T. Tf- 1. J! iJ J connscauon. rie wuo uisiuouiiuju anu gave his horse to a brother in the moment of danger and close pursuit ; the sister who wrought and sent'clothing to him on the toilsome march ; the maiden who prayed for her lover as he lay dying in the Wil derness or at Stone river, all fell under a common' cursei Even the, white-haired grandmother of four-score years, whose youthful husband perhaps was at the Cow pens, Eutaw Springs, and Yorktown, or, may be, fought under Jackson at New Or leans in the war of 1812, was deprived of her pension, that small morsel of bounty from an ungenerous Government, if. her heart yearned or her aged hand was ex tended in sympathy to her children and her children's children on the plains of the South. A more sweeping and universal exclusion, from all the benefits, rights, trusts, honors, enjoyments,, liberties, and control of a Government was ndvex enact ed against a whole people, without respect to age or sex, in the annals 'of the race. :The disgraceful disabilities imposed upon the Jews for j nearly eighteen hundred years by the blind and bigoted nations ..of the earth were; never more complete or I make, ft I cliallenge and defy contradic tion.!; . Every tact that 1;' here 'proclaim is contained m the law and m the recorded ransactions of this Government, Jftd will (constitute, "at'te some tino bsL.TMCst" and ithe passions of the present have subsided, jtlie most frightful and crushing arraign ment which; history ever summed up .gairistTTruling political, party. on-, shall a people thus bereft of every ttnbute j of - self-government be .held re inonsible at the! bar of fDublic ODinion. or r - f I at ine juagmeni-seai oi uou, ior tne.-con sequences which have overtaken them? If so, then the doctrine of free agency, iri measuring the j accountability of man is a- pnare andj a delusion, As well might you go to the' galje-slave and accuse him of the misrule arfclj the tyrany which -chained pirn to the oarj As well might you .de-. pounce the banished exile in the snows of Siberia for the despotism of the Russian Dzar. With the same propriety you may isit the prisons of all lands and rail at heir inmates through their iron-grated vindows on account of the evil adminis ration of the Governments to which they jelong. The fierce and marauding high vayman with the same justice can accuse lis viotim, at whose head he presents the loaded pistoL ;of Obstructing the public road. The story of the wolf with his false accusation against tSe lamb, and of the prompt manner in which he tore the help less and unoffending thing to pieces for muddying the stream from which he drank, although jt stood by the brink of the wa fers far below him, is familiar to us all, ind is being "reenacted tit this time on a fast scale in American history.. The stream has been defiled by the party now irt power, anq it renas ana. tears tne unre- sistmg people ot tne toutn tor its own of fense; This shall no longer be done with out exposure and warning to the country: I call upon that party to assume its just responsibility land not to shrink back now from the bad eminence it has attained in tlie conduct of southern affairs. To " it much has been given, and. from it much is demanded." More' than the -ten talents have been intrusted to its care, and the present and future generations will exact a rigid account at its hands. '. But now, as the ghastly and hideous results of control in the South appear on every square mile of that oppressed and plundered section, it starts back with horror and disclaims its own offspring, the fruits of its own unholy rapine and lusti With pale lips and af frighted mien ijt'ejaculateS;' "Thou cans' t n,ot say I did it." Rut thie deeds which it has committed are of imperishable infamy, and they,will not go down sit its bidding, nor can all the waters of the ocean wash away tlieir guilty stains. j . Having, however, now shown where the absolute, thorough, and minute manage ment ofevery interest, right, arid privilege of thrsouthern States and their people has been lodged during the whole process of pulling down and rebuilding- then local governments,! I shall proceed next to call upon the results which have followed. Let the great State of Georgia speak first The preparations which she under went were prolonged, elaborate, and com plete. The tvork of her purification (wa2 repeated at stated intervals until she was radiant and spotless in your eyes. One reconstruction did not suffice. You- per mitted her to stand up ind start in her new career, but seeing some flaw in your own handiwork, you again destroyed and again reconstructed her State government. You clung tq her throat, you battered her features out 0f shape and recognition, de termined that your party should have un disputed possession and enjoyment of her offices, her honors, and her substance. Your success was complete. Whe$ did the armed conquerors ever fail when his foe. was prostrate and unarmed ? The vic tim in this instance was worthy of the con test by which shewas handed over bound hand and foot to the rapacity of robbers. She was one of the , immortal thirteen. Her soil had been made red and wet with the blood of the Revolution. But she con tained what was far dearer to her despoil. THY COUNTRY'S, THY GOD'S AND TUESDAY, MAY ers than the relics of her lame. Her pro lific and unbounded resources' inflamed- their desiresl' Nature designed Georgia for the wealthiest Stale in this Union. She' embraces four degrees of latitude abound ing with every variety of production known to the earth. Her borders contain fifty eight thousand square miles ; eleven thou sand ore thalf the State of New York, and rjyelv? thousand more than the; State of . PennsylvanLu She has one hundred and thirty-se 'en counties. The ocean washes a h-jntlred miles of her coast pro vided with harbors for the commerce of the world. 'Rivers mark her surface, and. irrigate her fruitful valleys from the bound aries of Tennessee and North Carolina to the borders of Florida and the waves, of the "Atlantic, All this vast regionisstored with jibe ricIicSrsud choicest gifts of phys ical creation - Thcvcorn and the cotton rewad th t--iefF the . soil J and coal p.nd iron, thvojWqud lead, and j even, the prefcos i'rt4, gold and silver, in paying quantities, avult the skill and the industry of the miner.'. This Js not a picture ,of fancy. Tb" ittistics of her products even heighten the1 colons in which I have drawn If. .Georgia was the fairest and most fer tile fiekl that ever excited - the hungry cupidity of thi political pirate and the of-" hcial plunder e?. She was full of those, mighty substances out of which the- taxes of a lolioring people are always wrung by the grasping -. nand cf licentious power, She was the most splendid quarry in all history for th. vultures, the kites,4 and the carrion-crows that darken the kir at the close of a terrible civil war, and whet their filthy beaks, over the fallen ; and they speedily settled down upon her in devour ing flocks and droves. .' Sir, let us refresh ourselves at this point with some rcraunscences of the' forriier history of Georgia, and in that way . fix" a basis for comparisons between her condi tion in the1 past, and the present deplorable state of her anairs. When the Calamities of war broke upon tbe country in 1861 she was free from debt. If she had any outstanding obligations at all, ; they were for merely nfHiiual , amounts; I Her peo ple felt none of the burdens of taxation. The expenses of her State government were almost wholly paid.by the revenues of a railroad between Chattanooga and At lanta, which was constructed and owned by the State. Taxes' throughout" all . her widespread borders were trifles light as airj Hie burdens of government were - easy upon hbr citizens. Her credit stood high wherever her name was mentioned ; and when the war closed she was still free from indebtedness. If she had incurred any during the four years of strife, she was re quired by the Federal Government to re--, pudiate it upon the advent of peace. Now.' look, at her to-day, after six years and a! half of supreme control by the Republican', party. She had been a member of this Union more than seventy years when the war came; ar-d lound that she oweq ! no man cnytmpg. Her rulers in the olden times doub(!es8 -had faults in common with the iiMper;cttTace to i which j w'e belong; but larcAJir-iitlie public money was not I - - 7 m amongf y You took her ilestuiy into j wr brief ccr. ego,. , iacijm-,' yourinn berediby no liabilities,; and you now pres- - V 1 f 1 - A. . ' . A i 1 t eni ncr, to tne amazemenc ana norror : or the world, loaded with debts which reach the appalling sum of at least $50,000,000. A large portion of these debts are official ly ascertained and stated, and the' remain der are siifficiently well known to warrant the statement I make. The mind recoils, filled with wonder and indignation, in con templating this fearful and gigantic crime. It had no parallel in the iannals of all . the nations and the ages5 of mankind until the; ascendency of the Republican party and its inauguration of State governments i in the South. Now all the seven vials of the; Apocalypse have been opened on that great and beautiful, but unhappy region ; and tlie crime against Georgia, .is but one oi many others ot kinarect magnitude in fiicted by the same party on other States The authors ef this stupendous burden, however, are not even entitled to the ben-j jefit of the full time since tlie - incoming of peace for its creation. It was mainly tlie work of only about three years. ; In i868, a year more fatal to the interests of the people of that State than the scourge of pestilence, war, or famine, the most venal and abandoned body of men ever known outside of the boundaries of penal cqldnies, State prisons or southern recon struction, was chosen as the legislature qf Georgia ; not by the people, but by virtue of the system which you enacted and put in force. It contained a large majority of your political adherents, men who vote your ticket,' support your candidates, and with whom you embrace and affiliate on all political . occasions. They "were the leaders and the representatives of the Re publican party. - . :' With them, too, came into office; onfe who speedily secured a nationar reputa tion, and became- a controlling power in' your national councils. At one time Rufus B. Bullock dictated the legislation of Coq gress and the' actions of the Executive in regard t the great and ancient Common wealth that was cursed by. his presenc. It was his potent finger that! pointed out the pathway which led to your second asr safctt upon her State government; ; and Ik wa& hi-voice . and his . presence in and about these Hans that commanded and cheered'you on' td," the breach. He was nfentiofied ui many quarters as the pro i i .1 . t" 3 Ja - i i : ' . . ,. . bable candidate of his party lor that ex- alted place now held by a citizen of niy own State, the dbtinguished second high- est in the gift of. the American people. He was a successful, conspicuous, and brilliant specimen of your system. His advent into Georgia was as the agent of some express company. He had no per manent interests there. f I have been re liably informed that his poll was his entire tax when he was elected Governor. He neither knew nor cared for the, people or their wants. He was there as an alien and a stranger, spying -out the possessions of a land that was at his mercy, and em bracing every opportunity to seize them. He is now a fugitive from justice, a prb claimedand confessed criminal, with stolen millions in his hands. . He went into the South on that wave of reconstruction which bore so many eager, hungry, and : inhu man sharks m quest of prey ; and, having in a few short years glutted his savage and ravenous maw, he now retires into the deep waters of the North to1 escape punish ment; on the one hand, and to enjoy the comforts of his plunder on the other. " j ' With such a Governor and such a Leg islature in fujl and perfect sympathy and harmony with each other, morally and pofitically, a career of villainy at once opened on the soil of Georgia, which will go down to posterity without a peer orl a rival in the evil and infamous administra tions of the worldi ' I , j h The official existence of the Legislature lasted two years, coinraencing in Noveih- ber of 1868. The Governor was elected for a term of fouryears, and served three TRUTH'S." 7, 1872. before he absconded with his guilty gains. Pirates have been known to land upon bountiful ;infU nf the spa. and with cut- lass, dirk, and pistol proclaim a isenS mnt: TiITlifTA ond mnrdpr thpir inhnWtants. and from &e shelter of their harbors sally forth on alHhe unarmed commerce that the winds and the waves brought near them. Bandits have been known to rule oyer the secluded wilds and fastnesses of mountain ranges, and with bloody hands extort enormous ransoms for their prison ers ; but the pirate and the bandit have not been worse ' or blacker in their spr than the Republican JLegislature and tne RerwbhcanJGkvernqr of whom 1 am mg, were in theirs. . T' Sir, I hold -in my hand the official sta- tistics on which I make this charge. T The reports of the comptrollers general of Geor gia show that for eight years, commencing with 1835 and ending with 1862, there was expended for th pay of members and of ficers of all her &jgis!strsdiag that- enture period -the , sum ol Sbbo.ooo.oo This is the record of her admi'nistration under the management of her own citizens. D'urino-the, two vears' existence ot .the Republican Legislature elected in 1868 the report of the comptroller general shows that there was expended for the pay of its members and officers the startling sum of $9 79.055. only a fraction less than 1 ,000, 000. One Legislature is thus discovered to have cost $112,669.47 mdr'e than the Legislatures of ' eight previous years in the single matter of its own expenses. There has been no increase in the number of members. On the contrary, there are few er now than Under the; former apportion ment. ; 5?- . In earliertimes the clerk hire of thp Legislatures of that State did not average over $1,0,000 per annum. That item alone reached the sum of $125,000 for the one Legislature whose conduct .1 Jim discuss ing ; more than eqyal to the expenditures on that account of, any ten years of the previous history of Georgia. . Her General Assembly consists; of one hundred and seventy-five representatives and forty-four senators, making two hundred and nine teen, taking both branches together. The record discloses one hundred and four rclerks in the employ of this body while the Republican party - had the ascendency there. One clerk for every two legislators is a spectacle which I commend to the con sideration of the American tax-payer and , voter everywhere. Who can doubt that such a body was organized tor the purposes ftpf robbery and extortion ? There' is an- other high-handed outrage, however, in; connection with the payment of its mem bers and officers which surpasses the deeds of even a professional highwayman. The children of the State did not escape. By the constitution of Georgia the poll-tax of its people is made a part of the Common? school fund, and set aside as sacred to the cause of education. Two hundred and fifty thousand "dollars had accrued from this source when the ill-omened Legisla-- ture of 1868 convened. Before it finally adjourned this whole amount provided foY the cause of learning and human progress, MU IUUA IHU " V uw'v r- V ' - was swept awy.Not asinle'llar was loiw--- An appropnatron for uieir 'own exi penses placed it. all m the pockets oi the members, clerks, and other officials. . They took this money, belonging ' to chUdren white and blacky as pay for tlieir ovlibase services in the cause of universal destruc tion, bankruptcy, and misery. They rob bed the rising generation -of both races, deprived them of school-houses arid sem inaries, and left them to grope their own unaided way out of the realms of ignorance. The", hand of the spoliator at times in the history of the world has taken consecrated vessels from the altar and, plundered the sanctuary of God. Even Jthe. ,' hallowed precincts of the grave have sometimes been invaded and the coffin rifled of its con tents ; but human villainy has4 sounded ho lower , depth tlianwas here fathomed, m stealing- the very books of knowledge from tlie youth of the land. Having given these evidences of Inher ent depravity, this most memorable Legis lature proceeded naturally to its work tf more gigantic peculation, fraud, and cor ruption, t. ,The. limits of my time on "this floor . will permit me . to bring forward only a few of its deeds, but like the .-specimen ore of the mines, .thfey will satisfy the ex plorer that strain, veins, lcjdes, and layers of rascality lie under the surface beyond. The treasurer off Georgia, in his recent re port, informs the public that prior to the year 1868, and -since reconstruction com menced, there Tere issued in State bahos $5,9 1 2,5 00. He further states that he has ascertained the amount of $13,756,000 to have been' issued since the year 1868, "and then proceeds to say: ;. . "Governor Bullock had other large amounts under the same act ' engrossed and sent him. But this offioa does not know what has become of them." . " . ; The treasurer lias pushed his discoveries to nearly twenty millions, and, then finds that large amounts of other bonds have been issued which are not registered, and which are now in unknowh hands.1. The extent of these floating, vagrant liabilities may fairly be estimated by the character and conduct of those who: created them. Let us, however, exadmie one transaction which will serve as a key to the whole his tory of that Legislature., A charter was granted to construct what wa& t'o be known as the Albany and Brunswick railroad, a distance of two hundred ; and forty-five miles. For this work the "Governor was authorized to issue the bonds of the State to the extent of $23,000 per mile, making a subsidy in money to one railroad corpora tion of $5,639,000. The bonds havje been issued, put upon the niarket, the money realized for them, , and their redemption will fall upon the tax-payers of the State. In the mean time the road has . not been built, and the proceeds of these "bonds have gone, into the coffers of private in dividuals. This fact is not disputed ; it stands confessed ; and no words of mine can darken the hues of its infamy or in crease" the horror and indignation with which it will be regarded by the American people. ; :. ;: . '- "... '. Other railroad schemes lollowea in rapiq succession as the easiest method of plun der, j The ;Macon and Brunswick railroad, the South Georgia and Florida railroad, the Cartersville and Van West railroad, the Georgia ah-line railroad, the : Cherokee railroad, the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad, and many others,! were all made the recipients of subsidies from" the State, by which uncounted millions were stolen fromj the tlx-payers." The traces of vast sums; of squandered money can be found on every hand, except upon the railroad' lines themselveSj in whose names the work of fraud and plunder was pqnducted. . But while thq Legislature of Georgia was thus engaged in. its unparalleled eareer oi crime, the Governor in his spherwas also busy! and by his individual deeds proclaim ed tq the world that a perfect harmony, not qnly of political faith but of official practices, prevailed between the executive NUMBER 14. arid legislative branches of the State.goy ernmrfit. ne ranged Jn-4l-pecuLtofli fromthe smallest .to the greatest obiects - Tand amounts ; from tlie petit to the grand larcenies of this new era of felonies. From a bill of $76,432.05 paid for extra print mg jto partisan newspapers without warrant of law and without consideration in; work actuallY performed, up to the fraudulent issue of State bonds by the million, tfothing. seems to have been too small or too great to escape his-' eager eye or j his rapacious nana. . lie nas ie laejnniressotnisTasp- everywnere. iat nis cxptoia in connec tion with tho Stato railr&adl will more es pecially be remembered byj the people of . This road, as I havcJieretofore stated, was built by the bta'tc of Georgia nearly twenty years ago, from the city of Atlanta to Chattanooga. It connects the (jfegions of the Tennessee jriver and the fine's of travel descending jthrough; theni from tlie North with Uie toitoabeli of tlie aSoMth, atvi wsih-5vu "rnilpoail routes which come up through it ami Concentrate at At!?Aita. It is one hunltefd and "thirty seven miles long, and therje'is nof aroad of equal length on -this- con jincnV wliich Ls more important in its tradb and connec tions, or which is more valuable to its own ers under an honest and competent man agement. Wethave seen that before the war its proceeds paid,, into the treasury al most defrayed the entire expenses of the State government, and ; in an' official . re port made July 1 , 187, Colonel J?nes, the treasurer of the State, and who had for eight years received the ; earnuigs of this noble public work, estimated Its net products for the-following year at $G00,- 000.: . ., " . . , . In February, 1870, Governed Bullock apponited one Foster BludgeU, recently a claimant for a seat in the United . States Senate, supenntendent of j,his road. He held that position eleven inOnths. During th entire term of supcruitendency he paid into the State treasury only, the sum of $45,000 ; less than the net proceeds of one month before he tookthe place. There-. pairs which the'Vavages of war had made', necessary had been completed at a heavy expee under the administration of. Gov ernor' Jenkins. The- roacVpvas iij good condition, and but few expenditures oiit- side of the regular course of business were needed when Blodgett assumed his ririnous control. Its freight and travel were great er than ever before, and yet .its earnings, as accounted ; for, were jeomparatively nothing. In 1867 we finditpaymg allexr penses and yielding' besides .$50,000 per month. At the same rate there aret$o00, 000 now retained in the.hanls'of Blodgett and his accomplices: ' What answer can be made to this ? Will any i one pretend that such a vast sum was prOjVcrly expend ed in equipping a road alreacV equipped i in repairing a road already :j 'repaircsil,' in stocking a road already stocked ? I find one itemxf expense' which.may, however, indicate the character of them all. Twen ty -one thousand dollari Were paid as- law yers' fees to partisan -favorites for alleged legal services m behalf of this peaceable I Cf ,. 1 ; corporation during thcse 'disast iou cievon I months t its existence. J.t m.ut pyriiaps mor pvopwiy lxv jiouL. tuaf liW.-. a. division of a, general pkuuler " under the head of expenses incurred. But the work of spoliation did njtop with the close of Blodgett's management. A law was obtained from the Legislature of which' I have sboktn, authorizing the road to be leased in thq interest of Bullock and his friends. Under that law it has been leased for $25,000 per ihohth,, about ; one half of. its real valuel One of the lessees under this most valuable t contract Ls a member of the present Cabinet, and was so' when the li?ase was-made : and another is a distinguished Repiiblicau inernbdr of the other branch of Congress. ; . ' ' Sirjtliere was but one thing more to.be done by this shameless adventurer whom your policy had made Governor of Geor gia against the coiisentpf her people. - lie complqted his record and finished his work by corrupting, the hannels Of. justice.- He renaercd the couits powerless to. enforce the laws and punish criminals. The cm- " f 'i Til l issariestoi conncxqct, leions crowueu lus ante-chambers and trafficked with him for his pardoning power. The ,recor)d shows that the verdi cts of juries were thus wiped out, the doors of the pnsons opened, and the guilty, turned loose to prey again upon the peace of society to an extent never be fore known in Annfrican history. He par doned three hundred and forty-six olTend er against the law, out qf four hnndrqd and twenty-six- who made' application to him I His anr&psty for crime was almost universal; Indeed his zeal in behalf of those under indictment was so great that his graqe and clemency was often inter posed before the trial of the" culprit. I le granted seven pardons in advance .of trial to one man in the county of Warren who pleaded them to seven separate indictments when he was arrested and brought into court. This special object of favor is one, J. C. Norris, who haunts committee-rooms and swears on all occasion to fabiilois outrages and the imperfect administration of the , law in the South. aUa spared monument qf Bullock's mercy, with mani fold villamiel unatqned for,, he Is always to be seen lurking around .investigating com mittees, and poiuing into their ears the black and concentrated malice of an apo state against a people whom he hates be cause he baS betrayed. ' 7 - Other instances like this might bS cited, but enough, is here shown to account for even greater disturbances than any ' that have taken place in Georgia. T.hc confi dence of all classes in tne supremacy of the law was destroyed. They saw the wflTdf one unscrupulous "man . supplant all its authority. It afforded them no -secu' nty for life or property 'when, its most sol emndecisions(were setaside every dayiin tlie vy ear. Its uplifted hand was arrested in the courropmbefore. tlW indignant gaze, andhejudlcial blow via& averted fromtiieguilty head of the law-breaker at the lJarl ; If the violence of the mob there upon ensued the curse came from those who jvere charged with the execution- of the laws, and who, instead of doing" their" duty,, interposed to shield villains both be fore and after their conviction. BT this is not the true philosophy .of mankind, I have studied its motives and its. conduct, all i vain. : . - .!..-": ,' - And fiow, Mr. Speaker, ar this point I must; take leave of the State of Georgia, her plundered treasury, her oppressed tax payers, her' railroad schemes of robbery, her squandered school funds, and her mocked, insulted, and baffled courts of justice. Other impoverished fields cry tq us in piteous tones tor redress, and have long cried in vain. . Let us at least for a few moments"" hearken to the story of each one's woes, whether. we are willing to en ter into righteous judgmeut with them or not- . -. . . : m I turn to South Carolina, once the proud land of -Marion and' Sumpter, now the most wretched .State that tbe sun shines on in its course through the heavens. A square is the width of a column." and inch deep, .'.". ;:: ; Advertismehts taken at proportionately rates., when special contract is made. Business" Cards, noUcxcmlinj" one Rduarc, will lie published onc yar (or Ten Dollars. . . Business Locals and Special Notices will be inserted at proportionately low ratia",. j As an advertiiiiis medium the iooN'OMtST cannot be surpassed, renrt'sehting as it doe, . business men of every class. , V1 ! 1 i . i y - 1 There Is no form of ruin to-which she has she not fi err-a-prey ; no curse wit which lias been baptised ; no cup or liumiii atioii and .suffering her people have - not drainetl to the 'dregs, l-afn tolid tliat uLsj- . order .has reigned in some cotihjliqs within her borders, "and we behold martial law worse than tlie lawle.4 tyranny o f the lljark I Age. ravaging her firesides and 5catler . iiig her htnLseholtls.: , Bad ' gok cnunnLi i are fruitful of such calamitious results. History; has taught this lesson in cVery age i Tlie wicked iuss of connp rulers breettir outbn-.'lks aisnong. citiicciis. ,lfowhas South Caroling- bi'en .governed' t The Ucpiibli con party has-held undisputed - sway there every hour lihice the overfliroy i ifthe re bellion. 'Her entire delegation in hot! . O 'I branches of Congress belong to the part . now, m powcr4 iter estate omccrs anq i Lcgilatuf es. of all colors, havej been of thG'satne iwilitical faith. What are thciii AVo;ks, .What trophies of progress ant cirilizatiari' do they bring to propitiate (thq judgment of tlil .workl ? Not one goodj deed adorns the polluted pages of their record. At the close of tlie-war the validj.'; debt of the Sute (imounted to $5,000,000i " A coinmitteeof invtstigation, in nn official report made . December 26, 187), )tbut a few weeks ago say : i -..' '': .'-.'- ':'-' ' '"In rcgsird to the State debt the dotninittoG' . , dockrc thov .'caiiiwt Jx'lu'Ve other than tlie foar-i, ; ful truth, which .starfe.s us in the face jtliat U.io! lionds and sUcks prinUl by tho American! (- Hank Note Omipany, -2-2.J540,()(K) jrepresi'trti ; tho liabilities of tho.State, for wMiich jtho fiiitlii and cmlit( the Uate. lwwover ' umlawrullyi ;; procuml; 1mi biHjniilwlgivd flr paymebt. Thd contingent liuhili- in'curretl by railroad iiW $orsementx swells Ujjb total up to nearly twen-i ty-nlue immviirJk)Hars.?r ,.. , . 'f . - Add tq lliis $10,000000 mofc that ii disputed as fmidulcnt and we have an in crease of $3 l,00a,0g0 in the dcbtl of tho State since . fell into the hands of its pres- cut destroyers. All the 1 lands in South Carolina are fiot worth over $55,'OO0i000 ;j . sliowieg'tliat-'morc 'tlian every alternate! acre is nbw absorbed by her crqslijing. ami;', frightful indbbtetlnes-?. If she wa'l sold ad public auction for two thirds her appraised! :r .within The New York Tribune of December 19.1 .' ' ' T L lars of Uer bonds have been fniujulcntly t issued' by her llpiiblican Governor ;.but. nomoqc uy.vniciv uio loimig-'iaix-payer can escape their piiymchtiis pointe&out.io him. Taxation, fdr the support of a good government .often 'bejcaijies agrievous burden, -but when it .springs directly ' and avowedly from fiaiid and forgery: it is a1 curse, mtolerable and not to be borne The New Yorii Tribwiti also .statics tliat; one ignorant and -momirel General value sho would scarcely nwrc thiji .m'eetf,..- the r denjintfs thiit Vhave j bechLijcrcaU-il'1 ; aalnst her within less "than seven vears J t .""7 n ' . t f m. V . - -r- 'i - mi e senibly of Soyth Carolina drew' from' thej ;t'" "' Treasury, the L'normqus anhrunt of oH.'J.l i C51 , to defray. its own expensesltbr ohc-i , and. incurred a debt of $i)l,50()-! session besides Ajjr furniture fAr the State llause which it so foully disgraced.. -A of , the Legisluiure of the gjeat. n- session Stitte of of Ohio at the Siiuve tinio cost fie. people that prospertm. .CominonweVth bqt OO, 000 This Gvfieral Asscnibl- of abject ig;.'iori.nco- dud ::irrej:nonsHuitt in South' of taxes oii thi' property of th - St;ite. ;J H was i:i icV of thesy .ai.d- lundreilj facts that the" 'Cincinnati Gazette, .with party fealty, w:vy forced to. exclaim all iU '1 he ciiinmon fauio of Cho -South Carolina : I'iri.ihiro'i.s tliat it is a btxlv in .wliich m niuasurt can he eamwl -wiutout nnnetiy anq in winch linlry can carry- any measure ; m whicll brifjery is 'as much a part r leislatiou j as t!rijayniejitf wages to a lkld-haiMl is it.i j raisin cottonL aiiiiw almost as oik'ji, aiui ir. which the grx'tiUrjHrrt f tlie nu nibers ivganl it as the privilege of the oflice to plunder the rftite in everyj possible .way. , :, , .. J k;( iQxrfi)9r S-ott gives s()ine iU'iii.s 'piin(;'ta CouiittnaTiee this impression. lie says Lhaithc. ajun'OpriatioiiM for the legislative . eijH-n's' of the.4ast sessuni wire f HtJ while! tliatj of the (J'nio LeislaUire wi're but. !K),(MM;thatj. every senator has his clerk, pae. and itriefts(n-i ger, all at heavy pay. a:t-r ItcsMes tht ro' Ls a horde of hani .v-oii alL.oq pay .luidei various! nretexts. ami thai-there ari innumcrabli. IcakJ f'orthenuhlic in viev. ,Iu tiis we behold Uie CoH geou.sne.ss of the African .Mature when .-itj can Jd -; indulged at the expense .ofJUierx, andtiiOjavifW ( ity of the poli j II ailventijrer who know.s that, lirsiiry-maUing miilinie kill be hhort, " " .'.'-.- "Tills will give a' glimpse of the eleinenU . tliat Uave multiplied the State debt with riotlw -l ing to show. for it; of the conditions i which ' make the proierty-lioMers b Heve that the tax-. es cxifctcd from them are rollery ; of 1 rule ! c odioujs to all the re.sjfectable inhabitaiiU'of the .."'. State, and of cunilition.s which excite lotfi whiteiand black inhabitants to (kailly hostjility, These are sime of tlie- features of the southern situation .which have constrained us to remark that Congress should not only provide means for suppressing vjilcnee in the late rebel States, but siioiiM maJiKa - thorough1 .-arid impartial yir mirv, into ineMiuaiioiu m uruer w iiiiu niu- ,o thclu real causa of these disorder." . .Where is. the man on 'the 'opposite side bf this Chamber who has lifted p his voicein behlaf of a thorough -: and in par- tial" inquu-y m order to find Uie real pauses of disorder in the South? The greatest organ of your party proclaims (lovernor, Scott : himself a : forger of more thah six million bonds. . He! ls s.iid W be. investing large sums at Napoleon, Ohio, where , his home in reality Is, and where he qxpecLs to retire when he Is fully gorged witj plun der. He went to South Ca-f olina fjr pit Fagqand rapine, and will ob,n retunl with the spoils. Your policy emaiiatingj from here made him Governor. Tne virtue and the talent of the. State were prescribed by your laws. Alluding to th condition of South Carolina a few weeks sintje," one of her citizens (Senator Sawxek) in the other branch qf Congress used the follow-; must ang language : " '.;.'f;;'s ' rtlt is "dae to the circumltance that this large njiimlcr of men in the southern State were shut out froni tlie possibility of lioldinf Stotc alid Federal .offices tliat we liafehad Mi -many; abuses in the hxal govenimets of tkose States.. It is diis to tliat circumstancetnat in uie . niaie:, which I liave the Wnor terepresent on this thr wo havfc to-day a State goveromcut wliich is a : disgrace to civihzation. h is dite to thdsp dis abilities only, that we had riot au amplefieVl from which to select honest, capable ineTi for ; our local public offices, men w ho would liave male faitiiful ofrieers, and who would have lccn ; in complete harmony with the national Adminis traticra and the -gr1 . IqwMa party on questions of public policy. lnsteal - M that, wliat do we see to-day)' A-t spectacle alike i disgraceful to the Jlf publican party,!- under whose banner ami in whose name grOsa abuses f tiAvil been perpetrated and to the men. Whd hayethus stainal its honor; and, yet Senators desire us to continue a system winch has been ? fruitful of such results.' ; ..' ? ' - . ' This was spoken by a leader of the Rc publican party, and I call upon those who may regard my statements as overdrawn to carefully consider and weigh, hti testi mony. lie deliberately pronounces the ; govermnent of South .Carolina "a disgrace to civ-ilizatlbn." There .she stands, the result of your own handiwork, baiikrtipt in money, ready to plunge into; the Uismal gulf of repudiation, ruined in. .credit, . her j bonds hawked in the market for sale m vain at ten cnts on ie doUar, Mr pros-.: perity blighted at home and abroad ; with-1 out peace, happiness, or ; hopei arid all her hbertles stolen as well as her material substances. There she stands, with ther ; rcONTlNCKD ON . FOKTII TAOf-J i i -I - i. V 1. 7 .
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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May 7, 1872, edition 1
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