The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1870-12-14

which the Senate haO listened 10 Cne
eulogy upon the chief cOnspiratOr in the
attempt to tear down the government
was but another illustration of that un-
paralleled magnanimity and mercy
which had characterized the treatment
by the government of those engaged in
rebellion. Had the subject of that eu-
logy succeeded in his efforts, where
would the American Senate be sitting?
BY his triumph human slavery would
have cast its dark shades all over this
land of freedom from the st. Lawrence
to the Gulf! To-day the doctrine ofse-
cession lay buried beneath the bones OF
thousands who fell that their blood
might seal the covenant of the nation
and it. To-day we behold the specta-
Gle of resurrectionist coming here to
drag the dead doctrine out from beneath
the bones of the nations martyrs.
Wiley characterized the resolution
as most insulting and shocking to the
sense of the Senate and country-as alb
horent to humanity. Though person.
ally tenacious of the right of individual
members, he could not vote to receive
it.
Sawyer said the Arlington Estate,
like thousands of acres of property in
the South, had been forfeited and sold
at public sale for nOn-payment of taxes
and bought by the United States. In
the absence of any memorial from Mrs.
Lee, he regarded the contemplated in
quiry as utterly worthless, as the facts
he had stated were well known and
needed no verification.
Salisbury disapproved of that part of
the resolution looking to the removal
of graves from Arlington. He could
not see that the merits of the cause in
which Lee was engaged were at all in
controversy. He regarded the question
as one simply of ability of Senator to
exercise his right to introduce business.
Nye said the unseemly haste in GER
tain quarters to restore traitors to favor
could result in no good. The verdict
of to-day and of posterity is and will be
that Lee was traitor.
Flanagan, in some general remarks,
spoke of Gen. 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, with the light of recent
events, it was not unreasonable to eX-
pect an early move to make him Presi-
dent.
Sumner desired that parliamentary
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present occasion with the utmost rigOr,
with view to the most summary dis
position of the resolution. He had
nothing to say of Gen. Lee, except that
his name stood upon the catalogue of
those who had imbrued 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 prefiguring the policy
they would establish should they obtain
power-a policy which was to take old
rebellion by the hand and to install it
in high places of power. Gould he
make his voice heard from Massachu-
sets to Louisiana, it would be to warn
his Acknowledged, especially OF the
South, against that combination which
now showed its hand in the proposition
of the Senator from Kentucky. He
stated that he was present when Secre-
tary Stanton gave the order for the in
terment of the dead bodies of Union
soldiers at Arlington, and that Stanton
stated at the time that his purpose in
selecting it was to forever prohibit the
reinstatement of the Lee family there;
that, if they did come, they might en-
counter the ghosts of their victims. He
quoted the epitaph above the grave of
Shakespeare, which he now proposed
to write above the grave of every one