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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. T. M. Norwood, of Georgia: In the United States Senate, February 17 and 27, 1875 The Senate having under consideration the resolution to admit P. B. S. Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana - Mr. Norwood said: Mr President: When the fox, weary from the chase, begins to trail his brush and hears the deep-mouthed bay of the pack and the shout of the hunters pressing hard upon him, his instinct teaches him to double on his track in order to elude the hot pursuit. When the politician finds himself pursued by an indignant people he, too, from instinct turns in his path - endeavors to cover up his tracks and reach his point of departure. Sir John Falstalf was pregant and quick with this high moral virtue. He was a model politician He knew the true prince from instinct. His modern lineal descendants reflect no shade of dishonor on the valorous instincts of their great progenitor. There is a story told of an animal whose depredations upon the beasts of the forest continued and grew to be so outrageous that he was finally called to an account. That animal was Reynard, the fox. He had abused Bruin; he had abused Chanticleer; he had maltreated Isegrim, the wolf, and Gieremund his wife, and, indeed, every beast of the forest and field. At length complaints were laid before King Noble, the lion, and Reynard was accordingly arraigned before the King, but instead of confessing his crimes, or putting in a plea of not guilty, he appeared and began to confess the sins of the other beasts. Mr President, we have an illustration of the history of Reynard in the political party which has had control of this Government for the last ten years. Beyond the close of the war I do not propose to go, because that is holy ground. The republican party has gone on, step after step, leading first the whites and then the blacks into difficulties, but in every instance they have reaped the advantage. They have at length reached a point in their transgressions where the people of this country have issued their summons to bring the transgressors to an account. They have gone on with tentative measures to see how far they could test the spirit of the American people, until they have finally reached the point where, by the bayonet, a sovereign state has been overthrown. And when charged with the offense, they answer by retaliation, and by confessing the sins of the democratic party. 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.