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Disorders in the South-
REMARKS OF SENATOR CASSERLT tS"
TIIE U. S. SENATE, JAX-. 18, 1871.
Mr. Presideut-It iS rntlst ivrifo'f
tunate, though unhappily not at all
unusual, in this body, that an at
tempt should be made by Senators
now to forestall and forejudge this
whole subject of the inquiry propos
ed before the papers rVaVe been
opened for the consideration of the
Senate. '...-.
I think we all undctttaftd this
subject in its present phrase. There
is no man of candor here who,
whatever lie may forbear to say in
litis public presence, would hesi
tate to "admit that the result of the
dorrs gs Vf a special committee to be
constituted rri reference to the pa
pers now upon the table is already
a foregone conclusion. Why, sir,
is it not too palpable for anybody's
doubt or xiotitradiction? We frad
the whol'c subject here at the IklX
session. Within a year the most
distinguished men of the majority
here, including the Senator from
Indiana, MrMorton,) who has
offered this resolution, exhausted
themselves and the subject, I will
not say for the purpose, but With
the Vesult, of fanning into new life,
trs far as they could, the embers of
I -great civil war, the embers of
SCrVoAt. CONFLICT AND II ATE.
And, Vir, was there ever anything
that failed so signally as did that
labored endeavor, Whether you con
sider tins body ;and the result nere,
or the result before the people at
the recent elections? The mass cf
the charges, if I remember cor
rectly, upon which the Senator
'from" Indian a descanted them with
so much, vehemence, With so much
power, I regret tos ay, considering
the evils of his course, were stale
charges, charges that had been gne
bVer mid over agarYi until botes
vcrp W.oru through them. Cer
tainly Viiey were charges a great
many7 of which were as old as 18G7.
Ate there any new charges here to
day? If there are, why has not
the country heard of them? A hat
Y -hence have tftey been dug up.'
THK FI.OOD-GATKS OF HATRED,
even although, that opening may
serve to stay tliL1 doom of a perisli
ilg party. Here and now lsay it,
there is no party in this 'country,
and there never was, which is worth
so much to the country as to com
pensate in the f mallest degree for
the lvneVal of sectional and tVitVici-
dal animosities like those otlvef ast
ten Years. I am attached, to the
Yrolitre'al party to which I belong
because 'ci its xceHcnt prmcw?fe'?,
of its great services in the past, and
its great capacities for usefulness in
the future. lint if even that party
could not be maintained except by
arraying one part of the country
against the other, except by slan
dering and maligning a part of the
Union in order to fan into beir
again the flames of civil hatred,
well-nigh extinguished by time and
the better sense of the people, I
would sav. let it perish, let it go
down; the best thing for it is speedy
burial.
I care not how great any party
may be iu its pretentions or its
power, I care not how distinguish
ed a leader in that party a man
may be, I say that party is an evil
and that man is mischievous, when
he or it seeks to revive in the coun
try' the
HLOODY MEMORIES OF THE PAST.
or to fix upon a great portion of
our people a brand of disgrace be
fore the world ft's savages scarcely
tit to exist, and to put upon them
M home th'e badge of galling inferiority-.
I do not believe either in th'e. ac
cusations -or in the policy that
prompts them. I can well under
stand' that there are in the- South
disorderly and violent men. They
are the natural fruits of the war
and of your own misgovernment.
They are but a handful, easily
dealt with by anyr government
dealing with them 'in the right
55!inr. lint wlnt I lr iit- lwiipve
is, that the mass of the Southern
people are the barbarians they have
been represented to be, over and
over again on this floor, by promi
nent Senators of the majority. It
would be a great deal better for the
dignity of this body, for the peace
of this country, for the good stand
ing of the American people before
the enlightened judgment of Chris
tendom, to say at once what is the
object of all this exaggerated out
cry of
OUTilAGES IN TllE SOUTH,
of all this hollow parade of inves
tigationsfar better to come di
rectly to the point like men, and
let it be understood that no one of
the States lately in insurrection
will be permitted to come back
here until she sends to the Senate
and to the IIou?e of Representa
tives men whose party polities
shall be acceptable to the accident
al party- majority in each.
Let that be understood ; then will
Urere.be no need any more for the
JVerTodleal performance here, for
the demonstration of passion", or
the torrent of studied VituberatfcTi
poured out Against;
s rfiorLE of the south.
If I thought the tenth part of such
vituberation vmd be true, I should
mourn over tire fond that had
nurretl such children as inevitably'
lost., , What ii gain that change
wdjifd be for the pVopi leties of this
body and for the general "credit of
tire American people. The pro
cedings of t6-Hy pIkVw that the
old e vil spirit is still strong. I Sin
cerely regret it ; none the le3 ttrat
this uev. movement is Wholly- with
out provocation. Nobody kn'owB
better than the members of thte
Senate who. have been longest here
how easy itls anywhere throughout
that Soutlrcrn landy upon which,
from this Capitdl, Congress frowns
with aspect so malign with its
whole system of labor disorganized,
with its social system broken up
from the very foundation, filled
with
RUINED MEN
with all the rankling animosities
left by a great civil war, as Well iu
tire victor tts in his victims I say
Senators knoVv :how easy it is
throughout ?trch a land to obtain
from idle, ignorant, malignant, or
suborned witnesses just as much
testimony as is wanted here for the
purpose of blackening the character
of the people of the Southern States,
exasperating the dominant party,
and preparing the way tor tresh op
erations iu the line of "reconstruc
tion." . .
I do not doubt th.lt in parts of
the South there are trouble's-, 'con
sidering THE TERRIBLE ORDEAL,
first of the war and then of your
misgovernment ; it would be won
derful if there were not. Ibit why
exairGfcratc them; why tii.ru them
into capital for a party '?
Why, sir, in thp county of
Westchester NcW ork, during
the war of the Revolution, and
for a considerable time afterward,
there were enormities perpetrated,
as we know from history "as great,
if not greater, all things consider
ed, than any- that have been
charged upon the people of the
Southern State?.. t J'etween the
wretched banditti known as
Skinners" and "Cow Roys" that
hung upon the skirts of the two
parties the Patriots and the To
ries, there was constantly raging an
war of robbery, of ramC, 'of mur
d.er, so that ..Whatever side gained
the ascendency anywhere the
other sidv; had to immediately tlr.
iS!r, Ve "dug lit to have some pa
tience with the people of the South.
The terrible evils of such a civil
war as we have gone through, its
disorders and it's rancors, arc not
to be allaved in a day. For the
salte uf there people .nd the cou-j
try 1 regret that the question
Vjeeii turned into one of
PARTY ASCENDEXCY
in the Government, but cspecially
in Congress. Jtit for that Sena
tors would have patience. Rut
for that we might safely trust to
the natural goodness of men, here
and elsewhere, to be a little patient
with a people so sorely tried, to
give time for bitterness to depart,
for disorders to subside, for society
to recover its healthful and normal
action. Rut-, sir, there is nothing
so destructive of good government
as partizan zeal healed beyond a
certain point. When the question
is of the maintenance of a party
ascendency in the country, and
gentlemen have persuaded them
selves, rightly or wrongly, that the
party and its ascendency are indes
pensable to certain principles which
they regard as not mei'y f-alutary,
but essential-, to what they call
THE LIFE OF THE XATION
I can Understand how men other
wise capable of impartial judg
ment, otherwise accessible to rea
son and to justice, to say nothing
of generosit y, ttre upon such an
issue deaf to them. all.
It was not At all my purpose to
discuss the general merits of this
question. The Senator from 31 as
sachusetts, however, who spoke
awhile ago, (Mr, Wilson,) opened
the discussion by a declaration iu
advance of what would be his
judgment of the papers sent here
bv the President. J he benator
from Alabama sitting directly in
front fcf me Mr. Warner followed
in the same strain from whom, if I
recollect right, at the last session
we heard a speech on this very
subject conceived in another and I
say It with all due respect, in a
more wholesome, nobler, and wiser
spirit; 1 could not, tor one, allow
such statements to go to the coun
try without in some way noticing
them and replying to them.
I think, sir," we shall save a
great deal of time save a
deal of bad bloody and a
deal of what is called in
great
great
plain
speech " washign our dirty linen in
public" before the face of the whole
world, if we shall only permit our
Wives to recognize frankly what
everybody understands .in refer
ence to all these proceedings for
inquisition after inquisition into
the condition of the States of the;!
South-.
If the elections Which have been
held in the South and which re
sulted unfavorably to the domi
nant party are td be set aside as a
party necessity, let it be done man
fully and above board -; bat let not
the Senate, in additrerr, go intd the
business of defaming the country-,
You do defame the country when
you .bias, the character of 'any J
considerable portion of its people
before the world. It is idle tor
the Jest of the ccantry to hope to
escape elsewhere.
Ihe juDojtet OF HISTORY
is a judgment in the general, and
justly so. When the most promni
ent men of the dominant party
"df VlVe United States for the last
toil years announce to the World
over and over, as their deliberate
judgment, that a large portion of
the territory of the United States
are in a condition little, better than
barbarous byr reason of thx d.isor
ers there, the want of security for
life, limb, property, or rights of
any kind, they inflict a wound
nponthe character of the whole
American people.
Married For Fun. The quiet
community around about Ren Row,
a small town in Marion county,
Mo, about 3o miles from this city-,
was thrown out of its .customary
channel two or three .days since,
and set in social agitation, by the
extraordinary matrimonial freak of
a highly- esteemed young couple,
in which pluck had more to do
than mutual attraction. The sen
sation consisted in that the parties
did not want to marry, never in
tended to marry, and had no idea
what they were doing untill tire
wedding was a fact, the result of a
thoughtless dare.
The particulars, as obtained from
a- 'Correspondent, rdiow that the
couple, Joseph Chipman ?.nd Miss
Xannic If Atchison, one evening
the present week, were passing the
time in a conversation upon ma
trimony, without however any7 se
rious imnortt J hiring t lie t te a ft te
Mr. Chipmar, made the thoughtless
boast that he could back Miss
Hutchison out in getting married.
Miss Hutchison retorted that he
could not do anything of the kind,
and challenged him to a trial. The
y-'dung man declared that he would
not go back on what he had said,
ami that there would be a wedding
that night unless she r ('rebnled to
take back the challenge. The
young lad- was disposed to defy
the young man, and while neither
contemplated any serious ending
to the affair, neither would give up.
The bridegrom, to be sure, thought
that when the ordeal came the
b'luy wonld. hesitate ; tire- hidy be
lieved, for very excellent reasons,
that the young man, when the test
came, would eat his challenge and
postpone the ceremony. " How
much both were mistaken was re
alized before many hours had pass
ed. It so happened that there was
no authority competent to perform
the ceremony nearer than Emerson,
four miles away, where a minister
resided. The young man proposed
to go after a clergyman and have
the nuptials Celebrated that night.
The youiig lady, not to be outdone
in proposition, declared she would
accompany him and save time and
trouble. Tl iC couple left home in
a buggy, late at night for Emer
son, with no intention of figuring at
as principals in a wedding, and
leaving their acquaintances laugh
ing at what they deemed a first
rate joke.
Arriving at Emerson, neither of
the j-wtrties Were prepared tor sur
render, and each determined to see
how far the other would go. The
minister was hunted up and got in
readiness, and at midnight, sitting
in the bugar.v.the words were said.
the parties joined and the benedic
tion pronounced betore they realiz
ed the situation. What makes the
affair the more interesting is the
report that the bridegroom was en
gaged to be married to a yroung
lady of the neighborhood, and iu
t;ndi.d and desired to fuTilt the
contract. He is the son of a well
to-do and respectable farmer, and
will, it is hoped, prove a good hus
band. 1 lie couple, though married
when they did not want to be, have
concluded to accept the situation
ami make the most of it, ijuiney
(III.) Herald.
A ex-devil ot a country printing
office was questioned as to the
duties of a "printer's devil." He
replied to bring in clean water,
enrr- out dirty- water, steal wood
lie, and various other articles,"
The California Xctcs Letter says
that during the month of August
the national debt was reduced ten
millions of dollars, and then wittily
adds, "it cost eleven millions o
- 1 dollars to reduce it.
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COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
The "Colored Cadet
The poor colored cadet At WtSt
Point, who is a species of Mongo
lian and African half breeds is again
in hot water. He is now bVfdivj
court-martial, to be tried for "ly
ing." According td the Xew York
Sun, the lying is all on the side of
trooly Ioil Yankee cadets Who hftve
conspired tec ovist the "mart nd
brother" front the Acadeiny-, after
having subjected, "him to all kinds,
of insult and contumely. At drill
thj Yankee boys trod on the poor
Mongrel's feet antr then accus'e
fcim of not "keeping his damped
toes aWay" About the mildest
language used against hint -personally
was "d d speckled c rugger,"
The San goes for lire "first class"
th'iW:
"The best ineri at the Point Are
down on the cowardly- assaults of
the first class men, and believe in
Smith's integrity, but they dare not
speak-. StrVith's tutor at the 1 1 Art
ford High School, and Horace
Clarke, who has been his benefac
tor for years, say he is incapable
of the;least prevarication. I talked
with the boy frequently last Sum
ifier, and I believd he has a nice
sense of honor, arid that his accus
ers would tell five lies to his one.
Smith stands as brave as John I luss
before his accusers, while the lying
Witnesses dare not look him in the
face, but have a hang dog look."
If the Sun is to be credited, the
rising geiVer'UionS of Yankees, of
which West Point Cadets are sup
posed to be the ere me de la crcmei
are a scurvy and brutal set, If
Radicalism and the with A raw I of
Southern ideas from the govern
ment branches have accomplished
such fearful demoralization in the
army- what must be prodicated of
the navy and society at large? Rut
"prevarication," it appear? is net
the'duly accomplishment of the chil
dren of the men who "'saved the
Union," and who likewise claim td
possess '"all the morals." The Sun
deliberately charges that they are
tfieies as Well as liars. We knew
tlvH to be trooly- loil was tantamount-,
irt the majority of cases, to
vulgar baseness of nearly "every
sort, but supposed that the nean
ness of lying and theft Was confined
more especially- to the pestiferous
crew who drifted Southward since
the war, and to the lobby of civil
service East and est. It seems,
however, that the trial df tile Ser
pent. is over the Whole Radical con
cern, and that the "soldier's honor"
at the North is as great a delusion
as Yankee love for the negro.
The appointment of Smith, so-
called '-colored cadet, to West Point,
was a great crime agAiilst nature
and a monstrous perversion of that
poor fellow's true destiny. Rut it
has not been unproductive of good.
It has shown that Yankee love for
the "colored" people, much less the
negroes, is all sham and deceit. It
has likewise shown that there is a
hideous ulcer eating away the fair
proportions of the Republic, and
that the people, it Wise, will cure
the disease byr demolishing, at the
irst opportunity the canting fanat-
les who torccu tins disgusting
equality doctrine and the brutal
rabble Vhd get back on the negro
after using him to gain the Very
lower which they now hold with
such savage tenacity. Let Radi
calism which has riven the oak of
Constitutional Liberty assunder,
beware of the tebonn'iU-Constitu-tionalist',
A uefastib, (s eefy k
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ViiyMkn and Woman Marry.
Anna Dickinson, the eloquent
but cynical lecturess, says:
"1 he mass of men marry be
cause it is convenient to have a
home, because theyr are tired of
knocking about, because it will be
an honest thing, and because they
wish to settle down. A girl
marries for just the same reasons.
She gets married for a home for
a support. She marries her suitor
because it is her best chance, and
she is afraid it Will he her last.
It is not complimentary i I grant.
Eio-ht women out of ten marry
men With whom they have no
earthly companionship or right in
the world. Again, though it is
not a pleasant thing to say it, I
think that eight marriages out of
ten have lying down underneath
thehl nlore of flattery1- than of love.
I think women look at men as
they are tafight to look at them, as
the means of gratifying ambition,
and so flattery, subtle or other-
wise, win secure me most
tl - 1 . A
warv
About seventeen thousand ne-
orroes iu the South are sufferin
from sore feet, the result of tramp
ing from place to place in search of
"dat are white man what was
g'wine to give us forty- acres and a
mule for our wotes."
Wants to Know. The Cinci
nati Commercial wants to know
why- the male person should cosid
er it honorable to be called a "pub
lic man," while the female person
is disgraced by being called a "pub
lic woman"
'Catch Me If You Can!"
iodine recent disclosures have let
so much light in upon the princi
ples of cominerejtfi honesty Which
eeins to prevail in this cdnntrv
except "among a class of "old fogies,"
who, we are proud to say, .are still
numerous that we cannot wonder
at the slight opinion entertained
abroad of 6Ur merchant He" integri
ty. Reyofid a dobut Wall street
w cut Id sheer at the history of those
two noble Arab traders of Ragdad,
the one of whom Idarted his money
Without security, and the Other, re
turning cn the day his debt was
due, arid not able to cross the riv
er on account of a fix'srVct, with
subliine faith trusted the money to
the current of the swollen Tigris,
"confident that Allah would bear it
safe to the, owner, and thus save
his honor from the shame of a
broken w ord. Such "flats" could 3
not negotiate among the shrewd
Wits of our commercial centres,
Where "smartness" is the 'Only qual
ity that claims perpetual -regard,
and where every- one is honest un
til he is caught, not simply stealing,
but stealing. cMisih. The crime
consits if! being caught, It is like
the Jew Fagin's little game with
the dummy, in which no blame at
tached to any one except him who
was awkward enough to shake the
image or ring the bell. . t-i .
The constant and o'verwlielming
pressure that has been brought to
secure the release of young
Ketcham grows out of a concious
ness that he was doing pretty much
as he was liable to be done by,
and that lie ?hcml not be punish
ed, becaus'. ire was lie worse than
all around him. The Roston smug
gling eases, now to trial, have
taken the shape of a trial of skill
between certain officers of that city.
It is not a case of despicable fraud,
but merely A game of chance And
skill, With heavey stakes at .issue. ;
When rec'ertly ft bank clerk fled to
escape being pnnished for bigamy,
and his superiors were informed
that the young incTt had been liv
ing at the rate of -40,OO3 ldn a sal
arv of $"2-,00(, thev meVelv shrug
ged thv4f e'!V)u biers'; his books were
all t ight) Where, then, did he get
the money? Another shrug, and a
ffttei sabtt? One bank was rob
bed of $100,000 not long ago; this
young man may have shared with
the defaulter,' And this is the con-;
diticn of things iill over the country-;
men making their property
over to their wives and them go
ing straight into bankruptcy; wives
cooly receiving the life policies
granted them oil their husbands
deaths, and leaving the latter's
debts to pay7 themselves; sharpness
supplanting honor, and cuteness
standing in the 'Mead c)f integrity.
We do not look upon it as a pros
perous condition of things, nor are
we inclined to believe that any
briskness of trade or shrewdness of
commercial management can be
made to compensate ibf the low
and degraded condition of our com
mercial honor. lttrifc
Somewhere in . Pennsylvania
there is a Presbyterian clergyman
Whose nominal salary-- is four hun
dred and fifty- dollars a year. Rut
as it was six months in arrears, the
congregation determined to give
him a donation partyytrj help him
llong. It came off the donation
party- did. The entire flock was
on hand, but of the presents there
were only six rolling pins, a pen
wiper, and a quarter of a peck of
dried apples, crop of l-?34, The
minister, of course, had to furnish
refreshments; and the company
not only- discouraged fbur hams,
three and a half pounds of sixty
cent butter, and thirteen loaves of
bread, but they ate up two pounds
of sugar and all next winter's pre
serves. To crown all four spoons
are missing. The clergyman says
he wants to have just one more do
nation party, and then he will close
up his business and begin life over
again as champion pauper at the
almshouse. lie is particularly
down on one sister who jammed
hersClt lull ot ham and preserves,
and enough other succulent diet to
keep the entire family for a week,
and then laid up against tire wall
pretending to feel religious, and
singing. " lhere is rest for the
weary-.
The Whittemore cadet at West
Point, whose appointment cost the
South Carolina Congressman his
seatj has just been discharged from
the Acadeiny for ricmproliciency-
Jlame has produced a sawing
machine, which, the other dav
sawed a cord of wood in five min
utes and a half, cutting each stick
twice.
Must people when they cum tew
yu for advice cum tew have then
own opinyuns strengthened, not
co r reke t ed . Billing-
IF During a heated discussion
on the European war one of our
citizens affirmed that if Iismarcc
is a scamp, then Louis Napoleon is
a scamper.
AfttiM! Castile.
The Radicals having passed their
bill of pains and penalties to en
force the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, and having other
"rods in pickle" for the continual
cious people, find it necessary t6
construct a National Penitentiary
to keep their convicts in. The At
torney General Aek'crmari, in his
report, calls attention to the sub
ject, and recemmentrfe the brnldmg
not only of a National Prison, but
als6 the construction of jails in the
most populous districts, "for the
confinement of persons held for
trial or sentence." "Thee con
veriieYVce 'cf having f.uch prisoners
near tlft; place of trial will justify
the Continuance df the present sy
tent in. districts Where the number
i& small." The reasons 'assigned
tor the necessity of such buildings
are briefly given as follows :
In the safe keeping of its prison
ers and tlve punishment of its own
ciiriinalsrt)nr Government ought
not to be perriVanently dependent
upon the comity of any other Gov
ernment, hoWever friendly and
srm pathetic, and in the case not
altogether imaginary of a State
Administration unfriendly- to the
enforcement of the laws of the Uni
ted States the power of such a
State to withhold the use of its
prisons from the United States o
might be exercised to the serious
obstruction of justice.
And why- should not the Govern
ment have its bastile? Have not
all ""strong" Governments such ail
appendage ? During the war, and
for some tinre after, the forts were
used as bastiles. Some of them
groaned with the victims of Mr.
Seward's little bell. Rut it does,
not become a great nation to fill
its forts with criminals. It should
have a building especially- dedica"-
tea to this object. Let it be con
structed on a fcale of such impos
ing strength and outlook as to carry
terror to the, hearts of those whd
gaze upon it. One of these daysQ
the people may become restless ami
examples will have to be made of
a few, thousands. Tire Governors
of the great States of New York
and PensyVvanTa- and IHiiiois have
all recently- protested against the
Presidential attempt to control the
elections in the States by means of
bayonets. It is not at all unlikely
if this usurpation is continued, that
a collision may- occur between the
invaders of State 'authorities and
the States. In such an event, how
essential becomes a bastile. Of
cou'rf e the States would not like td
retain as prisoners their own citi
zens for obeying their own laws
and defending their vn rights.
The General
have to take
Government would
care df its'oVvn vie-
tints.
Let Congress then see to this at
once. hen tne i aris people rose
up and demolished their famouS
bastile, La Fayette sent the key td
General Washington, and if Ren-.
Ruticr or some other enterprising
citizen of Ren. 's State did net teal
it during the war, it is hanging
over the mantle-piece in the large
room at Mount ernon. It now
conies in play. Let the key- of the
Paris bastile be taken lor the Amer-
ican-. It would be in the ntness oi
things. The "New Nation," found
ed upon the overthrow of State
rights, must be up with the times.
It cannot get along without its
State prisoners, and ot course it
must have its State prisons.0 We
are glad to see that Ackerman has
0 just an appreciation 6f the age-.
The Stated are not to be trusted
any longer with so delicate a duty-.
m in ci
Without an En ism y. Some phi
losopher wri'tCS! Heaven help the
man who thinks he can dodge
enemies by trying to please every
body. If such an individual ever
succeeded we should be glad of it
not that one should bc gofhg
through the world trying to find
beams to knock and thump his
poor bead against, disputing ev ery
man's opinion, fighting ahd elbow
ing ami crowding all $ho differ
with hiim That; again, is another
extreme-. Other people have a
right to their opinions ;Qso have
you. Don't fall into the error of
supposing they will respect you
more for turning your coat every
way to suit theirs. Weaj" your
own colors in spite of wind and
weather, storms and sunshine. It
costs the vacillating and irresolute
ten times the trouble to wind the
shuffle. and twist that it does honest
manlv independence to stand to
its ground.
An Editor down East thus speaks
of a contemporary: "He is todO
lazv to earn a meal and too mean
to enjoy onei He was never gen
erous but once and that was when
he gave the itch to his apprentice;
So much for his goodness of heart t
Of his industry, the public may the
better judge when we state that
the only day he ever' worked was
the day he mistook castor oil lor
honey."
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