Speech of Hon. J. R. West, of Louisiana
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. J. R. West, of Louisiana: In the United States Senate, April 15, 1874 Mr. West said: Mr. President: What is termed the Louisiana question has been a prolific source of agitation before Congress and before the country ever since the presidential election of 1872. It may be expected that a renewal of the discussion of this question by the only representative in this body that that State is permitted to have will be undertaken with a view either to denounce the opponents of the cause which he maintains and extol the merits of those who act with him in its support, or with the other purpose of replying seriatim to all the arguments that have been adduced in favor of setting aside the government now existing in that State. Until I am compelled to do so, I shall speak in no unkind terms of the men who have engaged in the outrages that have been perpetrated of late years in Louisiana. Others may feel warranted in denouncing them in terms that are not only painful to me to listen to, but would be more painful to me to proclaim. I shall therefore not seek to vindicate one class of the citizens of Louisiana at the expense of the shame and exposure of the other. I shall deal to some extent with a class of politicians who come up here and represent to the Congress of the United States that they are "the people of Louisiana." I will discuss their claims to be considered our people. I am honored by a representative position of both classes here. I shall speak, therefore, in no unnecessary unkindness of the class to whom I am politically opposed; nor shall I claim anything more for the party friends now controling the government in my State than the credit to which they are entitled for the efforts made by them since their incoming to power to retrieve past errors and alleviate the burdens which distress her people. In replying to the arguments so far made in favor of congressional interference, I shall confine myself to one proposition to-day, and that is, that all the information of which the Senate is in possession goes to the form of the election held in November, 1872, and does not relate to the fact. Until yesterday, by the Senator from New Jersey, [Mr. Frelinghuysen,] the issue had never been made in this Chamber and in Congress upon the rights of the voters, on the broad and popular ground of choice by the people; and although he has anticipated me in many of the points I shall make, they contain facts that cannot be repeated too often. 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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