The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-12-22

cession lies buried beneath the bones OF tholl-
sands, who fell that their blood might seal the
covenant of the nation. Yet to-day we behold
the spectacle of a rcsnrrcctlonist 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 the country, and as abhorrent to
humanity. Though personally tenacious of
vote to receive it.
Sawyer said the Arlington estate, like thou
sands of acres of'propetty in the South, had
been forfrtcd-sold at public sale for non pay
mcnt 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 verification.
Salisbury disapproycd Of that part of the
| resolution looking to removal of the graves
from Arlington but he could not set that the
merits of the cause in which General Lee vas
engaged were at all in controversy. He re-
garded the question as one simply of Senator
to exercise his right to introduce business
Nye said the unseemly haste in certain quar-
tcrs to restore traitors 10 favor coutd result IN
no good The verdict Of to-day aud. of poster
ity is, and will be, that General Lee was a
traitor.
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.
Sumner desired that parliamentary law should
be administered upon the present occasion with
the utmost rigor with view to the most sum-
mary disposition of the resolution. lie 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'>
blood lie was content to hand him over to
the ayenging pen Of history. He regarded the
resolution rs indicative of the sentiments Of
the political associates of the Senator from
Kentucky, as prciigurng 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-
sctts to Louisiana, it would be to warn his fel-
low-countrymcn, especially of the South. against
that combination which now showed its hand
in the proposition of the Senator from Ken
tuckv. He stated that he was present when
Secretary Stanton gave the order for the inter
mcnt of the dead bodies of Union soldiers at
Arlington, and that Stanton stated at the time
that his purpose in selertia" the place was to
forever prohibit the re-n''rmcnt of the Lee
family there that if they q come. they might
encounter the ghosts of tier victims He
quoted the cpitaph above the grave of shak-
spcare, which he now proposed to write above
the graves of every one of our patriot dead:
Good friend for Jesus sake, forbcar
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Bl,,wd be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones"
Mr.. McCrcery stated that the resolution was
in no sense all embodiment Of Democratic SEN
tmcnt, 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
" permission to introduce it was also refused.