Self-Government in Louisiana
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Excerpt from Self-Government in Louisiana: Speech of Hon. F. T. Frelinghuyse, of New Jersey, in the Senate of the United States, January 15, 1875 The Senate having under consideration the resolution submitted by Mr. Schurz on the 8th of January, directing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire what legislation is necessary to secure to the people of the State of Louisiana their rights of self-government under the Constitution - Mr. President: I feel constrained to make a few calm remarks in this debate for the purpose of correcting a delusive impression which I fear is being made upon the people of the South, and for the purpose of counteracting, to the extent of my feeble ability, an injury which I believe is being done by positions here taken to the best interests of the country. The allegation is made openly and repeatedly in the Congress of the nation, in the assemblies of the people, and in the public journals, that there has been inaugurated, has long continued, and now exists a system of outrage, murder, and assassination at the South, the deliberate design and purpose of which is to deprive American citizens of their constitutional rights. It is not for me to say that this allegation is true; that would be but the opinion of an individual; but I will very briefly call attention to some of the considerations which seem to prove the charge. While it is true that "common rumor," to use a rough maxim, "is a common liar," yet the calm and deliberate conclusions of an impartial community, gathering their information from a hundred different sources, are entitled to much of the consideration that belongs to truth; and I feel that I may say that a large part of the community at the North believe that allegation to be true, and that the plain people of the country, who love their country better than any party, have painful apprehensions that it is true. The fact that a large number of those against whom this system of terrorism is alleged to be directed omit to exercise the cherished right of voting, are discontented and seeking to remove from their homes, is further evidence of the truth of the charge. The fact that some of the white people of the South who recently manifested their dissatisfaction with this Government by open revolt have since the close of the war displayed their hostility toward those who favored and sustained the Government by the organization of a secret order known as the Ku-Klux, who are proven by thirteen volumes of testimony to have been guilty of the most diabolical crimes, and that now another order is founded on the antagonism of race, as the name of "White League" alone sufficiently shows, is some evidence that the charge is true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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