Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — Treason in the Senate. [ARTICLE]

Treason in the Senate.

Senator Jones is a traitor to his country. There can be no doubt about it. In his late anti-Chinese speech he proved it in a way that ought to be satisfactory to “all loyal men.” He has trampled down the late gospel of “ God and Humanity ” and the amendments to the constitution of the United States that were forced into that instrument at the point of the bayonet in the Southern States, without so much as an apology for this kind of high treason. Speaking of the negro he said : 1. Every educated man would admit that this country would have been better off if the negro had never been brought here. 2. Mr. Jones said that the experiment of forcing the negroes, even where they were in supremacy in point of numbers, into the position of the ruling class had long ago failed. 3. He claimed that the negro, unguided and supported by the whites, would soon relapse into barbarism. 4. Mr. Jones predicted that the African race would never be permitted to dominate in any State in the South, “ because laws away above human laws have placed our race superior to and far above the other.” And has it come to pass so soon that one of the eminent headlights of the Republican party can stand up in the Senate and denounce the constitutional amendments, as so many “flaunting lies ?” Where are the noisy partisans and frauds who used to shout treason! whenever honest men dared to protest against the monstrous doctrines which are now denounced ill such deliberate and sweeping terms in the Senate by Senator Jones, the next friend of Grant and Arthur?”— Omaha Herald.