duties to this Government were, and then he left and entered into the rebellion to overthrow the Government that he had sworn to support! I remained here, sir, during the whole of that terrible rebellion. I saw our brave soldiers by thousands and hundreds of thousands, aye, I might say millions, pass through the theatre of war, and I saw their shattered ranks return; I saw steamboat after steamboat and railroad train after

railroad train arrive with the maimed and the wounded; I was with my friend from Rhode Island [Mr. Burnside] when he commanded the army of the Potomac, and saw piles of legs and arms that made humanity shudder; I saw the widow and the orphan in their homes, and heard the weeping and wailing of those who had lost their dearest and their best. Mr. President. I little thought at that time that I should live to hear in the Senate or the United States eulogies upon Jefferson Davis, living-a living rebel eulogized on the floor of the Senate of the United States! Sir, I am amazed to hear it; and I can tell the gentlemen on the other side that they little know the spirit of the North when they come here at this day and with bravado on their lips utter eulogies upon a man whom every man, woman, and child in the North believes to have been a double-dyed traitor to his Government." [Applause in the galleries.]

PART III.

Jefferson Davis' Last Set Speech.

Let it be remembered that the preceding eulogies of the unrepentant and unreconstructed Jefferson Davis were delivered March 3, 1879, seven months after he had made the following address, which is taken from the Democratic N. Y. World, July 12, 1878:

MOBILE, Ala., July 11.-A Mississippi City (Miss.) dispatch of the 11th says: "The following is a brief synopsis of the address made to-day by Jefferson Davis on the occasion of the presentation to him of a gold badge and certificate of membership of the Association of the Army of the Tennessee. Colonel James Lingen made the presentation address. Mr. Davis, after expressing gratitude for the kindness and honor conferred, recapitulating the stirring events of the war and the hardships endured, said:

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The "right of secession" once “debatable" now "vindicated" as a necessity" for the "safety and freedom of the Southern States!"

"The question of the State's right of secession in 1861 was at least debatable; but the course pursued by

the Federal Government after the war had ceased was a vindication of the judgment of those who held separation to be necessary for the safety and freedom of the Southern States. The unsuccessful attempt to separate left those in power to work their will as it had been manifested when they first got control of the Government. The events are too recent to require recapitulation, and the ruin they have developed requires no other memorial than the material and moral wreck which the country presents:"

He reasserts the "right of secession " and "the duty" to fight for it-He glorifies Albert Sydney Johnston above all men. "The speaker reasserted his unshaken belief in the right of secession and the duty of the citizen to battle in the cause of the State after secession. He reviewed the campaigns from Fort Henry to Shiloh, and, speaking of Albert Sydney Johnston, he said: Was it that his grand presence inspired you with unmeasured confidence and the hope of happier days, when opportunity should offer, or was it that your judgment told you that you followed, as I verily believe you did, the greatest soldier, the ablest man, civil or military, Confederate or Federal?'"

He wouldn't disturb "such peace as we have "-The South "agreed to return to the Union and abide by the Constitution and laws made in conformity with it,” according to Southern construction.

Mr. Davis then reviewed the operations about Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and spoke in glowing terms of their defenders. He said:

"Let no one suppose that in thus vindicating our cause, in paying due tribute to your gallant deeds, I avoid the logic of events. You have done your duty am seeking to disturb such peace as we have or to in the past, and I would ask no more than that you should fulfill equally well the duties of the present and the future. The bravest are, as a rule the gentlest, and they are also the truest to every obligation assumed. You struck for independence, and were unsuccessful. You agreed to return to the Union and abide by the Constitution and laws made in conformity with it. Thus far, and no further, do I understand your promise to extend."

He would repudiate all "contracts with bondholders, merchants and shipowners" as "palpable wrongs”—"The best assurance of full triumph” to the South. Referring to the legislation of the Congress which followed the war, he said:

"The tax-payers know that an increased burden was imposed on them by contracts made with bondholders, lost the carrying trade, and to what will they assign a merchants, and shipowners. They know that we have policy which prevents the registration of American ships that had changed flags during the war, which imposes such duties on raw material as to interfere with ship building, and prohibits the registration of a foreign built ship, though it be by purchase the property of Will the people-if citizens of the United States. worthy-the source of all power, allow a long continuance of such palpable wrongs to the masses, such ruin to interests which have been equally our pride and means of prosperity? A form of government must correspond to the character of the people for which it is appropriate. Republics have failed whenever corruption has entered the body politic and rendered the people unworthy to rule. Then they become the fit subjects of despotism, and a despot is always at hand to respond to the call. A Cæsar could not subject a people who were fit to be free, nor could a Brutus save them if they were fit for subjugation. The fortitude with which our people have borne oppression imposed on them since the war has closed, the resolute will with which they have struggled against poverty and official pillage, is their highest glory, and give the best assurance of full triumph.

The "great victory" already gained—Another promised as "the sequence to it”— Renewal of State Sovereignty.

"Well may we rejoice in the regained possession of local self-government, in the power of the people to choose their own representatives and to legislate uncontrolled by bayonets. This is the great victory, and promises another as the sequence of it-a total non-interference by the Federal Government with the domestic affairs of the States. The renewal of the timehonored doctrine of States sovereignty and the supremacy of law will secure permanent peace, freedom and prosperity."

"The Constitution as it was."

"The Constitution of the United States, interpreted as it was by those who made it, is the Prophet's rod sweetening the bitter water from which followed the strife, the carnage, the misery, and the shame of the past as well as the evils of the present." Perversion of the Federal "compact"Usurpations-The Missouri compromise. Every evil which has befallen our institutions is directly traceable to the perversion of the compact of union and the usurpation of the Federal Government

The hour at last has come to take the Presidency "and resume the record of glory, &c., where in 1860 it unhappily closed." The regular Democratic committee of Virginia in its address says:

"For fifteen years the Democracy of the Union have longed for this hour, when, their internal discords healed, Federal interference with elections measurably prohibited, and a Congress, Democratic in both houses, securing an honest count, they might take up the burden of executive administration, and resume the record of glory, peace, prosperity, and fraternity, where in 1860 it was unhappily

closed."

Colored Republicans dare not take the stump in the South. They would be shot down like dogs!

A delegation of colored Republicans, appointed by a convention of colored men, called July 30 upon the Republican National Committee to urge the sending of our most prominent white men to canvass and try and break up the "Solid South," and in their address said:

"Not a hair on the heads of these men would be touched for fear of awakening the ire of the loyal men of the North; but if this committee should send (for we believe it is your province so to do) canvassers of our race South they would be shot down like dogs, aud nothing more heard or said about it. We cannot sit idly down and see our speakers and our race decimated by the rebel rifle or the knife, or see them taken in the still hours of the night and scourged and hung from the nearest sapling, simply for advocating the principles of that party which claims our support, without uttering to you our solemn protest.'

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Says the New Orleans Picayune (Democratic): The negro is passing out of politics. He can never figure again in that arena as a Republican, for the simple reason that the Republican party has no longer any uso Cor him-or rather, any opportunity to use him. The Southern States are all hopelessly Democratic, and it would bo waste of money sorely needed in more promising quarters, to canvass this section in the interest of the Chicago nominees. We understand that it is not the intention of the Republican party managers to attempt to organize a campaign in this State, and they have equally good reasons to abandon the struggle in all the other Southern State. If the negro is wise he must begin to see that he has now as little to hope from the Republican party, as that party has to expect from him. He will see that in his own section he must side with the dominant party or, politically speaking, go to the wall altogether.

A Dialogue between North and South-The South's declared purpose “to revive the memories of the war" and chant the glorious achievements of the rebels !

The New Orleans Democrat prints this:

Southerner (to Northerner)-Why do you shake at us the bloody shirt? Why do you aim continually to revive the hateful memories of inglorious war? Shall byegones ne'er be byegones ?"

"Northeruer (to Southerner)-Why do you, by ever making your rebellious deeds the glorious apotheosis of treason, provoke us to do it?"

The New Orleans Organist-The superb heroism of such men deserve to be perpetuated in song and story, and their bright examples of patriotism and duty to be held up before our young men, to whom the memories of the war are as vague as the images of a dream. *** It is the purpose of the Democrat to revive those memories with the design of teaching

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the growing generation of young Louisianians what an imperishable heritage of glory they have in the achievements of their fathers."

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Republican candidates "should be saturated with stench!' '-1000 Democratic votes equal to 5000 Republican votes!-"We have the count!”

"In your opinion, General Hancock may figure on a Solid South?"

A letter signed Southern Democrat," in the Memphis Avalanche, says:

"No, sir"-(excitedly).

"In the dispatches this morning, General Weaver, the Greenback candidate for President, is credited with saying that the stories of bulldozing and frauds in elections in the South have not half been told?''!

"That is false " (again excitedly.) "As regards our State," the Governor added.

"Is it true as regards any State in the South?"

"I do not think there has been intimidation in any part of the South. I think the colored people have opened their eyes, and it would be difficult for the Republican party to re-organize them, and without their aid the Republicans cannot hope to carry any Southern State."

"But these reports of Southern outrages are specific as to places, dates, and all that would seem to give the character of reliability."

"White men who dare to avow themselves here as Repubnant enemies of the South. The name of every Northern man who presumes in this community to aspire to office through Republican votes should be saturated with stench. As for the negroes, let them amuse themselves, if they will, by voting the Radical ticket. We have the count. We have a thousand good and true men whose brave ballots will be found equal to those of five thousand vile Radicals.'

The Democrats control South Carolina, and they intend to retain it at every hazard!

Says the Barnwell (S. C.) People:

"The Democrats have obtained control of the State of South Carolina, and they intend to retain it at every hazard, and in spite of the utmost efforts of local enemies and their Northern allies."

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"Heroic deeds" of rebellious sires to be held up for the "emulation and admiration" of the sons.

Speaking of the "dreadful strife which made the South a ruin, but which has, at least, left her a legacy of glorious memories," and of the men who have since grown to control the destinies of the South, the New Orleans Democrat says:

"For our young men, therefore, citizens of Louislana and of the Republic, we propose to hold up for their emulation and admiration the heroic, deeds of their fathers," &c.

"We have no excuses to make for being a

solid South."

At a Hancock ratification meeting, July 17, at Floyd, Ga., as quoted from New Orleans Democrat, July 24, 1880, among the extracts which that paper gives "from the fine address delivered by that elegant orator, David Todd, Esq., of Norehouse," is this:

"Mr. Todd, in speaking of a solid South, said, We have no excuse or apologies to make to bloody-shirt politicians for being a solid South.'"

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"Many accounts from Alabama come to us filled with evidence of the frauds practiced in the late election. The most shameless and open discrepancies exist between the ballots cast and those counted. Huntsville an amount of suppression and intimidation equal to that used in the worst days of reconstruction, was openly carried on. Comment upon these things, without more positive action, does little good. party who condemn these outrageous abuses, be they committed by whom they may, has a hard work before it, but it must be accomplished. The execution of the law, and the laws themselves, must be such as to prevent similar action by any party. That party which parades a platform sonorously quoted by the man who voted to protect brute force in Congress, which declares for a 'free ballot,' and leads its forces to such a victory as that gained in Alabama, is a party of hate, of malice, and the protector of the

worst crime known to nations, the treacherous subversion of the people's will. Work against it; vote against it; refuse its alliance. Let the honest men come out of it."-Wash. National View (Greenback), Aug. 14, 1880.

PART I.

Introduction to the evidences of Tilden's contemplated high crime against the RepublicBrief review of the Revolutionary Proceedings—Their remarkable growth-How a Minority can Overthrow a Government-Forcible illustration of the Dangers that Potter sought to Precipitate upon us--Plausible Pretexts for Revolution always on hand.

Revolutionists always have a plausible excuse for what they intend to do, whether the scene of operations be France, Mexico, or any other country, and that excuse is always to right some alleged wrong, and restore to the dear people something which it is alleged they

have lost; and hence the importance of furnishing no similar pretext at this election. Most of the modern about by the ambition of partizans on pretexts revolutions in republics have been brought of falsehood to promote the selfishness of reckless and designing men. They have methods which bear a strong likeness to each other, and show that they all come of one family. The dear people have been robbed or cheated, and the disinterested patriot proposes to rally a force and set things right.

Louis Napoleon as the "People's Champion" and the “Imitator of Washington."