The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-18
APPENDlX-No. 9.

RALEIGH, January 10, le43
APPENDlx-No2 ..
RESIGNATION OF Mr., HAYWOOD.
In SENATE, Monday, July 81, 1886
The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate the
following letter from Mi WM. H. HAYwooD:
WAsuMoroE CRY, July 25, 1886
To The Senate Of the United States:
hereby respectfully resign my seat in the Senate
as ono of the senators from North Carolina.
have the honor to he your obedient servant,
VIM. III. HAYWOOD, JR.
Mr.. WEBSTER took occasion to say that il was
circumstance good deal characteristic Of the state
Of things in which they now found themselves
placed, and strongly indicative Of the absorbing in
terest which belonged to the question before them,
that he had not the honor, to-day, TO address full
Senate Since the commencement Of his obserya-
TONS on Saturday, an honorable member of the
Senate from one Of the southern States Mr.. Hay.
wooDl had vacated his seat in that body. They
would probably soon hear from that gentleman him
self the reasons which led him TO leave a situation
which he had occupied with so much usefulness and
reputation. He was not otherwise acquainted with
those reasons than as he gathered them from the
very extraordinary publication in the government
paper Of Saturday evening He inferred from that
publication that the honorable member left his seat
from inability TO support the measure of the adj
willingness on the other hand to disoblige his par
ty friends and connexions by voting against it. As
that gentleman was gone, he might speak of him as
man Of character and standing, here and at home;
man OF learning and attainments, of great courte
syIof unsurpassed industry aud attention in the
discharge Of his public dutes and, as they all
knew, $50 far as they might judge of his course in
the Senate intelligent and consistent friend Of the
present admlnistra
Now, sir, CONTINUED Mr.. WEBsrER,) confess
am ashamed Of my country when see gentleman
Of that character, retiring from this place, from
such a motive, hunted, abused DETAINED, according
to the degree Of abuse and defamation which some
writer for the government in the paper of the gov
eminent, sees fit to pour out against him. IL is a
disgrace TO the civilization of the age; 1t is a dis
grace to American civilization; it is a disgrace to
this government; it is disgrace to the American
press.
In SENATE, Tuesday, July rs, 1886
Mr.. BENTON rose and said: rise to ask the
indulgence of the Senate to make remark upon an
occurrence Of yesterday, which a slight delay in
arriving at my seat prevented me from making at
he time il happened. allude TO the resignation OF
Mr.. Senator Haywood, read to the Senate yester:
day morning at the opening of the session, few
minutes before came into the chamber. ask the
indulgence Of the Senate to say now what | should
have said then, if had been present.
t"Leave, leave" proceed" from various parts
Of the chamber.
have to say, then, that was cognizant of all
The motives and feelings which actuated Mr.. Hay
wood, from the beginning to the ending Of the cir
cumstances which led TO this painful occurrence He
was absent from the city when the bill which has
occasoned his resignation came up from the House
If Representatives On his return to the city, and
within few minutes after his appearance in this
chamber, he called aside, to let me know that
ne had lnsupersbe objections to the bill, and de.
sired to talk il with myself and other friends,
with view to amend it into form which would
| enabls-him to support il. To the senator from
New York, who ats on my right, mr. DIX, he
| said the same thing at the same time; and ended
with asking To see both at my house that eve
ming. OF course, we met as requested. II is need
less to detail what passed. general statement will
be sufficient as the basis and Justification ofhe opin-
ions and sentiments which | propose to ex-
press. Mr.. Haywood went over the grounds
of his objection to the bill, and declared
the impossbty of his voting for it unless
essentially amended. | agreed with him in his OBJ
jections-l mean objections generally, both to the
bill, and to the mode aud manner Of getting it up,
and getting it throughout objected to all attempts
amend 1t, for such reasons % had the honor to
expose TO the Senate on yesterday; and stated nv
own determination to vote for it, Objectionable as
held it to be, az the means Of putting end TO the
act Of 1912 He reiterated the mpossibilty of vot.
ing for it; and from that moment, the question with
HIM was, between motion to postpone the time for
the bill to take effect, or resignation, let him
| know that could not vote for the postponement
| and thought he ought not to resign, but do as his
friends did who thought as poorly of the bill he
| did, but who would vote for il means Of putting
an end to the act of 1912 From this time, which
near a fortnight ago, until within two hours be-
fore his resignation, communications on the sub
ject were frequent, and indeed almost daily have
made this general statement, Mr.. President, for the
purpose Of showing that know the motives and
feelngs-that have had the best opportunity OF
knowing the motives and feelings--under which the
senator from North Carolina resolved on his resig-
nation, and have right to bear testimony to the
purity, the patriotism, and the elevation of senti-
| ment under which that senator acted. He resigned
to avoid vote against the bill. He resigned with
full convection that his resignation would not affect
the fate of the bl-that il would pass either with
| or without his presence; and that his withdrawal
| would, in fact, facilitate its passage. These know
| to have been the motives and feelings under which
he acted; and discharge a duty sacred to personal
and political frendship-sacred to private and pub
| lie worh-in taking this opportunity, on this ele-
waited floor, TO bear witness to the noble and exalted
| sense of honor and duty under which my honorable
| friend has ceased to he member Of this body.
| This is what have to say in relation to the mo-
tivcs and feelings of Mr.. Haywood and of his high
and honorable purpose, in the act of resignation,
which conscientious sense Of duty imposed upon
him. Further than this, the occasion, as il con.
Germs him, would not require me TO go. / have
paid the debt of justice TO him. But look to our
| selves-ths Senate-which has TO regret the loss
Of one Of its most intelligent, courteous and agreea-
BILE Members look to the country, the whole
Union which has to witness the loss Of senator
who could expand his views TO the wide expanse OF
the entire Union, when its honor and its interests
were at stake--and turn to myself, and have 10
lament the loss of personal friend, Of hereditary
friendship through generations, whose society Is
pleasant to me-he loss of political friend, whose
aid aud counsel has often been serviceable TO me
and upon whose future aid and counsel had large
ly counted, in assisting to discharge my duty to
my country in the srduous circumstances in which
she is now placed
| Mr. MANGUM said he was very much grati6ed
that the senator from Missouri had thought proper
TO advert TO this matter. He wasthe more So mas
much as the organ of the government, in this city
had assailed Mr. Hsywood's public and private
character with such degree Of ferocity and in his
Judgment, unjusty, that he thought every liberal
senator would stand forward and sustain and com
mend what every one must acknowledge to be the
perfect purity sad dsnlerestedness of his course in
regard TO the subject which was the occasion Of his
! resignation. No man in the State Of North Carroll
ma, perhaps, differed more widely than himself from