Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-12-23

Sl'ie up"' thS hAhVh . h"Sf HhN htA ~
defiance in the face Of the nation, and
the request now made in behalf of his
memory would, if granted, be an out
rage upon decency.
Mr.. Salisbury (Dem. Del,) disap-
proved 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 Gen. Lee
was engaged were at all in controversy.
Mr.. Thayer (Rep., Neb.) reminded the
Senate that he had predicted that if the
policy OF Congress was not rigidly car
ried out in the Southern States, the day
would come when the leaders of the Re
bellion would be honored in the u. S.
Senate. In one sense, the day has come
sooner than he expected. The Senator
from Kentucky had pronounced glow
ing eulogium upon the leaders Of the Re
bellion, but had not given utteranee to
one word in condemnation OF Lees trea-
sop. The question now was, whether the
graves of $4,000 loyal dead men, who
had died that the nation might live, were
to be opened to make way for the widow
of a traitor whose hands were red with
loyal blood. This would be sacrilege J;
and, as an American citizen and a sold
ier in the war for the Union, he entered
his solemn protest against it.
Mr.. Nye (Rep., New said the un-
seemly haste in certain quarters to res
tore traitors to favor would result in no
good. The verdict of to-day and Of pos
terity is, and will be, that Gen. Lee was
tIaitor. The Senator (Mr. McCreery)
had declared him hero. So was Bene-
dict Arnold. But what would have been
thought of the man who could have pro-
posed to restore to Benedict Arnold his
property IN Connecticut. The Senator
had said that Gen. Lee was a Christian.
He (Mr. Nye) regretted that he Iee)
did not know so we'll as he ought what
constitutes a Christian; but ifLee was
Christian, he (Nye) did not want to be
one. Could the Senate recognize as a
christian and a patriot the man who had
drenched this land in blood? Possibly
the aroma from the patriotic graves
would be offensive to the nostrils of the
Rebel owners of Arlington. Be that as
it may, he looked upon the resolution as
an insult, and indicative of disposition
which, if not rebuked would soon be pre-
minm upon treason.
. MIR. Flanagan (Rep., Texas, In some
general remarks spoke of Gen. Lee as
sthe great traitor of the age, whose in
fuence had carried into the Rebellion
the flower of the Southern youth. jeff
Davis, the other great Traitor, still lived
and, in the light Of recent events, it was
not unreasonable to expect an early move
to make him President.
Mr.. Sumner (Rep., Mass.) desired that
parliamentary law should be administer
ed on the present occasion with the ut
most rigor, with view to the most sum
mary disposition of the Revolution. He
had nothing to say of Gen. Lee except
that his name stood high npon the cata-
logue 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 indictive of the senti-
ments Of the political associates of the
Senator from Kentucky, and as prefig-
uring the policy they would establish
should they obtain the power, policy
which was TO take the Rebellion by the
hand to install it in the high place of
power. Could he make his voice heard
from Massachusetts, to Louisiana, it
would be to warn his fellow -conntrymen
especially of the South, against that COM
bination which now showed its hand in
the proposition of the Senator from Ken
lucky. He was present when Secretary
Stanton gave the order for the interment
of the dead bodies Of Union soldiers at
Arlington, and that Secretary Stanton
stated at the time, his purpose in select
ing the place, which was to forever pro-
hibit the reinstatement of the Lee fami-
ly there, and if they did come they
might encounter the ghosts of their vic
Tins. The epitaph above the grave Of
Shakespeare, which has for two centuries
and half guarded the remains of Eng
lands greatest poet, he would write above
the grave of every one Of our patriotic
dead:
" Good friend For Jesus sake forbear
To dig the dust fnclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cuTst be he that moves my benes.'
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