Show BY TELEGRAPH forti fortl FORTY FIFTH CONGRESS CONGRE 88 t SENATE n washington IL 11 merriman submitted a resolution calling upon the secretary of war for a as to the arms and equi for use by officers cars of the treasury and interior departments and the department of justice where such arms are ate iao ido boband waDd wand whether any of them haye bave been boen bold sold agreed to on motion of ham hum hamlin lin the senate pro proceeded deeded to the consideration of the reso rebo resolution ution submitted by blaine in regard to the inquiry as to whether at the recent eted ejection i afon the constitutional rights of american citizens were violated etc blaine said eaid be offered the pending resolution orr first to place on record his hil definite and authentic form the frauds and outrages by which some recent elections were carried by the democratic party in the southern states second to find if there be any method by which a repetition of these crimes against the ft free a ballot ilot liot may be prevented the n newspaper a a af is the channel through gli which I 1 the people of the united are int informed orned of current rented events eltsa and d the accounts given in the press represent the elections in some of the southern states to have been accompanied by violence ina lna in a lot of new cases reaching to destruction of life to have daen dlen been controlled by threats that thai awed and intimidated a large class of voters to have been manipulated by fraud of thee noat shameless and shameful description indeed in south carolina there seems to have been no election at all in any proper sense of the term it is but j just and aad fair to all parties however that an impartial investigation of the facts shall be made by a committee of the ing under the authority of law and representing the power of the nation we not need an investigation to establish certain facts already of official record we know representatives in congress were recently chosen in states formerly slaveholding and that the democrats elected and the republicans four 0 or r possibly five NY we a know that 35 of thos thosa representatives were assigned to southern states by reason of the colored population and that the entire political power powei thus founded on the numbers of colored people has been seized and appropriated to til the aggrandizement of its own strength by the democratic party of the bouth south the tho issue thus raised before the country mr president ia Is natone sentiment for the nelio negro though far distant be the day when the rights of any american citi citizen zeni however black or however poor shall form the mere dust of the balance of any controversy nor i is sl the issue one that involves the waving of the bloody shirt to quote the elegant vernacular of democratic vituperation take the states of gouth south carolina mississippi and louisiana they beau seau 17 representatives presenta tives to Con congress grew grem their aggregate population is composed of whites and colored d the colored being nearly in in excess of the whites of the 17 representatives there it is known that nine were apportioned to these Stat states esby by reason of their colored population and only eight by reason of their white population and yet in the choice of the entire 17 representatives boko colored red voters had more voice or power than their remote kindred on the shores of sebe gambia or on the geld coast tho the white people had the sole and absolute choice of the entire seventeen representatives presenta tives in contrast take two states slates in the tho north iowa and wisconsin with seventeen representatives presenta tives there I 1 havo have a wil wll white 1 ite population of considerably sider ably moro than double the entire whilo whito drice ao the n named in Iowa iown andT wisconsin therefore it takes to hend send a represent i battye to congress but in south cad Cae carolinn carolina olInA mississippi and louisiana every white people bend send a representative in other words white people in these southern states have precisely the same political power in the government of the country that white people have in iowa and wisconsin georgia and alabama have a population of and a colored population of the said seventeen representatives to cong goi gok oi os of bt whom hine bine wore on account of the white population and aud eight on account of the colored but the colored voters are not afe abie able to choose a single representative the white democrats chasing the whole seventeen the four northern states I 1 Mc michigan higan minnesota nebraska and california have seventeen representatives based on a white population of or almost double the white population of georgia and alabama so that in these relative groups of states we find the white man south exercises by his vote llou liou double bie ble the political power ortho of the white man north the eleven states that tut formed the confederate government have by thelast the last census a population of of which in round numbers were white and colored on this aggregate population seventy three representatives in congress were apportioned to those states forty two or forty three of which were by reason of the white population and thirty or thirty one by reason reaton of the colored population at the recent election the white democracy of the seized seventy or seventy three districts and thus secured adamo a democratic majority in the next house mouse of representatives thus it appears that throughout the states that formed the late confederate government whites the very people that rebelled against the union are enabled to elect a representative in congress while in loyal states it requires of white people that fought for the union to elect a representative in levying every tax therefore in making every appropriation of money in fixing every line of public policy in decreeing what shall be the fate and fortune of the republic the confederate soldier south is enabled to cast a vote that is twice as powerful and twice as influential aa as the volo voto of the union soldier north but the white men ruuth did not acquire and do not mot hold bold this superior power by reason of law or justice but in disregard and defiance of both the fourteenth amendment to the constitution ution was expected to be and was designed to be e a preventive and corrective of a all ali 11 such possible abuses the colored citizen is thum thur most unhappily situated his right of buff rahe tk mockery I 1 enow know a great deal about ine the views I 1 withes and purposes of the can party within that entire entile great organization there is not one man whose opinion is entitled to be quoted that does not desire peace and harmony and friendship and patriotic and fraternal union between the north and south nor should the south make the fatal mistake of concluding that in jUsti justl ceto the negro is not also aiso injustice fo to the white man nor should it ever be forgotten for the wrongs of both a remedy will assuredly be found I 1 tell men of the south bere bore on this floor and beyond this chamber that if even they could strip the negro of his constitutional rights they can never permanently maintain the equality of white men in this nation they can never make a white mans vote in the south doubly as powerful in the administration of the government as a white mans vote i n the north in a memorable debate in the house of commons mr macauley reminded daniel oconnell when he was moving for a repeal that english whigs would endure calumny abuse popular fury loss of position exclusion from parliament rather than the great agitator himself should be less than a british subject and mr macauley warned him that they would never suffer him to be more let me now remind you that the government under whose protecting flag we sit today to day sacrificed myriads ef of lives and expended thousands of millions of treasure Lre ure asure that our countrymen of the south should remain citizens of the united states having equal personal rights and equal political privileges with all otner citizens and I 1 venture now and here to suggest to the men of the south in the exact words of macauley that we will never suffer them to be more debate followed participated in by thurman lamar edmunds and blaine the debate between lamar blaino blaine and edmunds was characterized by a good many personal allusions lu thurman then submitted an amendment to zB lanes ianes rt solution resolution instructing the committee to inquire if any citizen of any state had beben dismissed or threatened with dismissal from employment by reason of his vote or intention to vote at tho the late clec election tion or been beon otherwise with and whether in 1878 federal emp loyes loyto had bad been assessed for election purposes and the circumstances attending such assessment its use and whether the law was thereby violated also to inquire into the tho conduct of united states elec olec election tiou supervisors super visors and the number of marshals and others employed oyed to conduct the election wl with t h the salary paid or promised an and d under what law layr thurman said eaid h his side bide would have waived ail all argument had this amendment been incorporated in the original resolution but blaine had refused to give way for it he wished today to day tomake to make only a few general observations tha the senator from maine had frankly admitted that his purpose was to assail the democracy of the south there were some doubts as to the propriety of this investigation as the session is short and important legislation is pres pressing drig yet no committee could make witti with any sort soft of thoroughness or justness the examination required within the time remaining of abb the session he therefore had wondered why this resolution was introduced unless to hang on speeches for the purpose of arous lug ing sectional hatred against an almost fenceless defenceless de portion of the union referring deferring to the previous speech the speaker said he had declared then that there was a deliberately formed purpose to array a solid north to rule the south and nearly half the nor the pretense that there was adolid south I 1 thought then and I 1 think now that a purpose more unpatriotic more unjust more fraught with ruin to this country never entered the brain of man that is my belief why mr president of what is that the senator of maine complains that there were not enough republican votes in the south that is the amount of leand it and how does he make that out he assumes without a shadow of truth produced here that the negroes of the south were prevented from voting or forced to vote the democratic ticket he assumes therefore that owing to tb these ese use causes the negroes of the south are not represented by the members of the house of representatives who come from that section of the union or bm the se natora on this floor who reprise represent nt ahe as southern bouthern sout soui W I 1 what right bas haa the senator from maine to say the negroes of the south are not represented by the chosen representatives of the south and the chosen senators of the south what night right ilas lias be to vote those negroes on one side hi himself and say the men who bear credentials t of election do to not depre represent sent their constituent fc etisa it is a badeas bare as on his part ithac that her has no ight right whatever to make but again the senator ought to have thought of this when he was framing his or fifteenth amendments or when he was assisting in framing them there were men then men of his own party too who told himwich him with long foresight that in the end property and intelligence will rule the land and ignorance cannot mr president those were men of his party who foresaw tha that t thoe thoo people who have the intelligence the education and the property will not be ruled by those who have neither and that ib it is not ne cesary to separate a community into white people and pud colored people not at all is it necessary to do that the result of ot these constitutional amendments was easy enough to be for fore forseen een keen I 1 am not here today to day to justify a violation of the right of any man however humble bumble whatever may be the poverty of hib his situation own heart I 1 am here as much in favor of respecting the rights of every man under the constitution as the senator from ma maine i ne or any other i on this tills floor but I 1 do know that property intelligence and education will assert their supremacy everywhere on this globe who was it that drew the color iino line between the whites and negroes in the south let me tell you pir bir that millions of the peoples money were expended by the Freed Fre edmena mens bureau agents in forming loyal leagues of negros negroes and sw sweating ealing them never to vote for the democrats the color line began there that bureau controlled the negro utterly and spent millions appropriated directly and turned overto over to it indirectly in drawing the line which menaced with destruction the whole social system of the south and when they unite against destruction the cry oi or solid south is Js raised this thia estem of legislation towards the south ia is rc reaping aping its fruits why does the senator want more penal laws no civilized country in the world has more minute penal laws there is a whole army of treasury paid marshals supervisors stiV a and d deputies what then does the senator want this is a note sounded to the northern people that they must retrace their steps and undo the amendments which they made in the interests of the bo so called colored people elther either directly or indirectly unto that legislation birs sirs sir bir the most disheartening thing to an american who loves free in ln is to see that year by year a corrupt use of money in elections is making its way until the time may co e and that within the observation of even the oldest man here when the elections in the united states will be as debauched aa as ever they were in the worst days of the parliamentary elections in the mot motherland herland berland one thing made me nto doubt a little as to the propriety of this resolution although atho ugh as I 1 said I 1 am going to vote for it and what the senator from nhom maine has baa said has added to the great doubt which I 1 entertained on that subject and that is that I 1 am not quite sure there are not persons who favor this kind of resolution and as much debate upon it as you can have and as much investigation as you can have in order to divert public attention from the real questions which ought to engage the congress of the united states questions of economy questions orla of finance nuance questions of government all are shoved aside that the popular ta speeches peeches may be made tending to excite one section of the people against another and to bet set their minds mad with passion instead of appealing to their cool and deliberate reason I 1 certainly do not charge the senator from maine blaine with having cotten gotten this up for the purpose of putting aside and throwing ing out of view that which should form the subject of our thoughts and of our legislation but I 1 fear hiar that such may be in some minds one of the things to be desired b by y such euch a resolution blaine said that he did not wish to detain the senate but thurman had stated that property in uhe the LA r 1 thurman teurman said no such thing I 1 said no more 0 ot f the south than that everywhere property pro perty party intelligence and education will rule blaine regardless of numbers thurman the senator can inake make it regardless of numbers if he choose but he meant by influence as the senator did in maine naine influence many people this ibis year being an exception the senator benator always influenced people because be had education skill and property after some badinage |