The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-12-22
ANDERsoN q a. s. c. THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER

cession lies buried beneath the bones Of thou
eands, who fell that, their blood might seal the
covenant of the nation. Yet to-day we behold
the spectacle of tesurrectionist coming here
to drag the dead doctrine out from beneath the
bones Of the nations martyrs. - 40
Wiley characterized the resolution as, mos!
insulting and shocking to the sense of the
Senate and the country, aud as abhorrent to
humanity. Though personally tenacious o1
the rights Of individual members, he could not
vote to receive it,. ..;e ,.s:.i.. AZ. u
Sawyer said the, Arlington estate, like thou.
sands Of acres of'propetty in the South, had
been forfeited-sold at public sale for non-pay.
ment of taxes and bought by the United States
In the absence of any memorial from Mrs. Lee
he regarded the contemplated inquiry as utterly
worthless, as the facts he had stated were well
known, and needed no verifcation. -.
resolution looking to removal of the graves
from Arlington, but. he could not see that the
merits of the caiise il which General Lee was
engaged were at all in controversy. He re-
garded the question as one simply of a Senator
to exercise his right to introduce business.
Nye said the unseemly haste in certain quar-
ters to restore traitors to favor coutd result in
no good: The verdict of to-day and of poster
ity is, and will. be, that General Lee was a
traitor. -; 800 -. ..e-..5..s.e1 r. :.
Flanagan, in, some general remarks, spoke OF
General Lee as the great traitor Of the age,
whose Influence had carried into rebellion the
flower of Southern youth. Davis; the other
great traitor; still lived, and in the light Of re-
cent events, it. was not unreasonable to expect
an early move to make him President. ri
Sumner desired that parliamentary law should
be administered upon the.preseht occasion with
the utmost rigor, with view to the most sum-
mary disposition of the resolution. He had
nothing to say of General Lee, except that his
name stood upon the catalogue of those who
had imbued their hands in their country's
blood. He was content to hand him over to
the avenging pen of history. He regarded the
resolution as indicative of the sentiments Of
the political associates of the Senator from
Kentucky, as preiguring the policy they would
establish should they obtain power, policy
which was to take the old rebellion by the hand
and to install it in the, high places of power.
Could he make his voice heard from Massachu-
sets TO Louisiana, it would be to warn his fel-
low-countrymen, especially of the South, against
that combination which now showed its hand
in the proposition of the Senator from Ken
lucky. He Stated that he was present when
Secretary Stanton gave the order for the inter
ment of the dead bodies Of Union soldiers; at
Arlington, and that Stanton stated at the time
that his purpose in selecting the place was to
forever prohibit the re-intefment Of the Lee
family there !; that if they did come. they might
encounter 1.-The ghosts of their victims. He
quoted the epitaph above the grave Of shak-
speare, which he now proposed to write above
the graves of every one of our patriot dead:
:; "Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear
=. 4Todig the dust enclosed here. =, 5s..9.-r,-,
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
= And cursed be be that moves my bones" = u
Mr.. McCreery stated that the resolution was
in no sense an embodiment Of Democratic SEN
timent, but had been submitted upon his indi.
yidual responsibility without consultation with
his colleagues. He then asked to. withdraw
the resolution, which was refused, though final
ly permission to introduce it was also refused.