Speech #510183351

When I think. Mr. President. how we have striven. how we have tried to have fair and honest elections in Arkansas. how we have sought to have immigration from the northern part of this Republic of Democrats and Republicans. how we have earnestly hoped to build up our State and give it the name and standing that we think the resources which it has entitle it to. and how we have prospered since 1874. and how we are prospering today. and then when I think that a Senator togratify his own personal spleen or his own ambition would seek to introduce confusion into that State and to put us back ten or twenty years it may be. I confess to you that I can not receive it with that patience always that a Senator should show. When I think how those people have worked and toiled to recover from the effects of the war. when I think of them as 1 saw them last fall. when canvassing with Major BRECKINRIDGE. and staid at their houses and saw them go forth before daylight. the man and sometimes the mother. the little boy and the little girl. going into the cotton field before it was light enough to see. and staying there alter dark in order to benefit their condition. and then to think that for political purposes the Senator from Massachusetts would place those people back when he seeks to raise confusion. would destroy the prosperity for which they have toiled so hardthe Senator can not expect that such things as that can be done unless it be over the earnest protest of those who represent them here.