The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-04-19

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ed, had iourneyed without single
cent of expense, travelling through
the South, nesting everywhere with
hospitality, and receiving, pledges of
fidelity to the flag. which the people
of the South upheld to-day. This
treatment of the noble soldier ought,
he continued, to satisfy our radical
gentlemen that the people of the
South are more loyal than the man
(Wendell Phillips) who boasted in m
address at the Smithsonian Institute,
several years ago, that he had labored
nineteen years to take thirteen States
out of the Union. There is q bill
pending in Congress, to remove po-
itical disabilities from Gen. Long
street and others; but I am in favor
of including Wendell Phillips, for I
think he has all the time been voting
Illegally. uaughter.) I believe him
this day q greater traitor than JEFF.
Davis. or any other man, ferries of
"That's so" "Good, '') and if he is to
vote ticket, want him to vote ac-
cording to law. et
Three cheers were then given for
"the old flag" three for Sergeant
Bates, and three for the Union.
The Sergeant then proceeded to
the avenue, and the procession was
\, formed and proceeded to the East
front of the capitol, for the purpose
of unfurling the flag from the dome.
At the door of the rotunda the party
was halted by the chief of the capitol
police, who stated that he had orders
not to allow any demonstration in the
building. He further said that the
police had orders not to admit Ser
geant Bates with his flag, but he
could pass in without it.
One of the committee of citizens
produced an order from Gen. Mich
ler, allowing the Sergeant access to
the dome to unfurl his flag. The
policemen, however, refused to allow
them entrance unless the permit was
endorsed by the Sergeant-at-arms of
the Senate and House of Representa-
tives. By the personal application Of
Hon. Chas Eldridge, of Wisconsin,
the endorsement of Mr.. Brown, Ser.
geant-at-arms of the Senate, was OBJ
tanned; but as Mr.. Ordway, of the
House of Representatives, could not
be found, it was decided to escort the
Sergeant to the Washington Monu-
ment, and there unfurl the flag to the
breeze. The crowd, therefore, pro-
ceeded thither, and in few moments
the door to the unfinished structure
was opened by the patriotic janitor,
without inquiring whether Sergeants-
alarms Brown and Ordway had en-
dorsed any official paper or permit to
enter the building, and the flag which
the Sergeant has so successfully car
ried, was displayed at this place.
at the monument Hon. E. O. Per-
rim, of New York, was introduced and
addressed the audiences:
SERGEANT BATES: AS unexpectedly
to myself as to you, the reception
committee have this moment REQUEST
ed me to welcome you and your flag,
after having been driven from the
portals of the nations capitol
After such a repulse from such a
source, no place could be more appro-
pirate than here, at the base of this
unfinished monument, erected to
commem crate the virtues of George
Washington, the father of his coun-
try.
Could thespirit of that great patriot
look down upon this melancholy pic
ture to-day, he might deliver another
farewell address to all the hopes and
prospects Of distracted country,
Look but moment on the picture.
That silken banner, wrought by fair
hands upon the banks of the Missis-
sippi, and placed i'll your keeping by
the citizens of Vicksbnrg, on the 2Sti
of last January, has been borne by
you, mid sunshine and rain, by night
and by day, for nearly three weary
months, through the States of Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina and Vir-
ginia, and everywhere throughout
these once rebellious States, it has
been hailed with Joy and gladness-