The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-06
Whtttemore on the Stump---Senntor
Rniney's Onslaught.

Wbittemore, rs has already been brief
ly stated, addressed his Republican con-
stituents Mt Georgetown, on the 23d ult.
His attempted Justification of the cor
ruption of which he had been convicted
was of the same character hs that he has
uttered elsewhere. 'At the conclusion of
his remarks he was answered by Rainey,
the colored Senator, who, in the course
! Of his speech, said:
he would answer to the call made from
! no i'll will to Mr.. Whittemore, but from
a sense Of duty-that when he was in
Washington he was indebted to him for
many courtesies, which rendered the task
he was about to enter upon, of exposing
the falsities of his statements and the
sophistries of his address,, ali lin pleasant
and painful one. Yet that duty he would
discharge without fear, favor or affec-
tion. That Mr.. Whittemore had been
guilty of conduct in his, representative
capacity in Congress that made him un-
worthy of q seat in that body, could not
successfully be controyerted or denied
by any one who knew anything of the
charges made against him. He said that
Whlttemore denied that he was expelled
from his seat. That he vas not actually
expelled WIS the truth, but that he was
virtually expelled was equally true. A
vote had been taken in the House, by
which it was absolutely certain that the
two-thirds necessary for expulsion would
be obained-he, as Daddy Cain once
said. saw the sirocco coming and lodged
its blast and force by resigning. Let those
present bear in mind, that this cry raised
by him of persecution. &c., has no foun-
dation. Rainey went on at some length
to show the emptiness of Mr.. White
more's pretensions to credit for the maiiy
benefactions he claimed to have con
ferred on the colored race, and cautioned
them to beware how they trusted one
who had disgraced the high position to
which he had been elevated by their con-
fidence and votes.
As soon as Rainey had finished, he, in
turn, was attacked in lively style by one
of his brother colored radicals, Repre-
sentative Jones:
The first charge, he said, he had
against the Senator, was that; with all his
pretensions OF love to the negro race, he
had, on "a very important occasion, ie-
nored them by attempting, to pass off as
a Spaniard. The most of the meeting
would recollect thatilast winter, the Sena-
tor and himself were appointed delegates
to labor. convention in Columbia
the convention in Columbia appointed
delegates to attend national labor con-
vention in Washington, and that J. II.
Rainey, the Senator who had just ad-
dressed them. were with others one of
the delegates. He charged that when
Senator Rainey got to Washington, he
found that the boasted equality which is
represented to exist at the national capt.
tai did not extend to everything-that
there were certain sights he wished to
see, that were not accorded to those who
had African blood in their veins, and he
forthwith assumed with Vim bush, the
Senator from Chester, to pass off as Spa
niards, one calling himself as Don Rod
rigo and the other as Don Alfonso. Jones
then asked the Senator to inform this
audience whether, when he was in Wash
lngton, as delegate to the labor conven-
t1on, he passed off as Don Rodrigo, and
Wlmbush as Don Alfonso, or whether he
played the part of Don Alfonso and
Wimbnsh figured as Don Rodrigo? 1 |
think the question important.
This question brought down the house.
and was too much for the Senator, who
quit the stand, with animated disgust pic
tured on his countenance.