The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-09-26
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a not desirs9to bs political partnsri ar1 with
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Mr.. President THE great iinpcdchcr Gwitl
out disrcspcct to any onc-I might say the
two great .Ashley's of the Senate of South
Carolina, their combined talents and wisdom
and Virtue ar,d ii drrli lidvs lea hose weak
men with whom might disagree politically
to prefer these charges and prosecute them,
Sec the zeal they both manifest. See. f1oW
anxious they are. One scarcely rises in his
place tos iihkesa h,otioa abut le otlor ,i,,,,ris
Ganik spTingssike a,Soif fromsllisaohair. a,t3 -
laaf5otiH' ofthes isemtoraa llayaa been sgipen
-highlya cohplinentary, Titles, fand ,,ifs they
onuiafe ssthes sexapplci Of their Morthys;ai,d
|Sdistingnishod fricud, ,SftaAshldy, theyccrtain-
ily'aca dnot expect sahy creator reward in this
world ,ssi'of aoanathcyioSrecttto getEany higher
supons'thc aroll oGfames4 can say, too ;,therc
tare W ide'trauks, ,botween us s.I hold ms a pro-
pus.tioni misunderstanding as 5itfis now econst
tuted ,9andsas the House is constituted, cannot
Fstands That isthesohargc pgaidstimc.s These
Eldeasst lheii slaye freq qdentl sen,anatcd frs.
me, sfhavel' 'fnruishcdpthc ground for tho real
charges ,hIdacal ssnpon tthc people of. SOUTH
E0aroina stosobscrgo ithe men who to-day desire
tofopprcsssa I'D driyaiodt every spirit liberty.
ahcy would combine with anything ofiany.
body for opoweraiTake them Il onc 4by one
disscct and analyzc their actiops.t, & j ~ !
'iDut a week ago Ieopposcd WHAT'S known as
the i Ltcrinination bill. Ielcft the Senate
when that bill was under discussion. and T
would have left it ten thousand times rather
than that by my vote or my presence that
bill should pass. But can say in all SINGER.
ity that did not leave the Senate or on.
dcavor to defeat the bill from any unkindness
toward the colorcd people. / was satisfied
that the passage of that bill would have done
more to destroy the colorcd people than any
measure that could have originated from til cir
bittercst enemy. My opposition to that meas
ure was caused more by the real kindness
felt for the colored people than from any
difference Of sentiment or opinion.
The senator on the right (NIr. Corbin), the
leading champion in til ese charges, became ex-
ccedinsly popular by hat call subtcrfugc.
Instead OF meeting the question as man and
senator ought to-instcad Of meeting it as
the other senator Daddy Cain) from Charles
ton did, in manly, upright manner, he came
in with another3bill, qwhich in his own Ian
suage tome, meant nothing. 4
IS On that bill the. senator from Charleston
(dr.s Corbin) agreed fully with me. In his
own priSate5room hclagrced with me. Upon
the streets md everywhere else he Dgree,l with
me, and denounced. the bilns not fit measure,
to be passed by any bod ~, He came to me
when he had Ibis: substitute prepared and l
challenge him to deny what then told him.
l said he could not throw dust in your ewes
Itold him if he brought in that subterfuge he
would be caught:ati it. These people, I said,
arc no fools. and you cannot triflc with the
rights Of, the people with my such humbug-
ging subtertuge. He brought it out 1t had
not, been before the Senate ono day before the
senator from Williamsburg (Swails, ucgro) :un-
carthed it. The colorcd senators saw the
trick they saw his siae qua non, and from
that time he lost the respect Of nine tcntbs of
the colored men in the Legislature 1t was
not because they were opposed to the bill out
and out, but because they saw the subtcriugc
1t was the double dcuing they objected to.
The colored men Of the Senate will, /
know, give NE credit, when did not think
they were doing right, Of having the manli-
ness always to tell them So If thought they
were in the right, they knew would defend
them to the last 90
Mr. President, certain senator's finding them.
selves unpopular from the peculiar course they
have taken, and not SO unmindful of their no.
stion as not to try to recover their lost ground.
One senator upon this floor (N1r Corbin) to-
day, prospcctively and collectively, has six Of
the best Offices in the State within his grasp.
Five he has already, and ono prospcctivcly. l
am regarded as q criminal for standing up like n
man and telling the colorcd senators Just what
l thought / have not changed but that
senator has changed base two or three times
has pushed me aside and swung over to the
strong side, and hope he will reap III future
the benefit Of it. You will soon sec before
this Senate, if it is not there already, the name
of II certain senator tg receive five thousand
dollars per annum. few days ago he was