The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-12-15
American Intelligence.

WASHINGTON, December 13.-Goy.
Bnrd writes the President an eight-page
pamphlet. Bard cannot follow the Presi-
dent lEso the support of extremists.
Bard says: II could not have known
that Georgia was to be kept in state of
perpetual bondage. the prey of irrespon-
slble demagogues, the associate in mise
ry with South Carolina and Louisiana.
whose Governors-Scott and Yarmouth
form, with Bullock, triurnvirate of
unmitigated political scoundrelism with
out precedent since the latter days of the
Roman Empire, and have cursed the
States over which they rule with plaques
worse than the frogs and lice of Egypt.
This is truth, and truth is eternal -
The following responses were made to
McCreery in the Senate:
Edmunds said that, instead of being
welded to institutions OF Virginia, Gen.
Lee was the ward of the nation. That
nation had fed, clothed and educated
him; that he lived Mt the capital. but
when the capital called upon him to de-
fend the flag under which he had been
born, protected and honored, he deliber-
ately turned his back upon it, and plant
ed his cannon in sight of the capital he
had sworn to protect and defend. But
he (Edmunds) would not dignity such II
proposition by discussing it. Gen. Lee
was now dead. The only regret he
thought that any right-minded man who
believed In the war would have, was,
that Gen. Lee had not died either in his
youth or his patriotic manhood, or even
that he had not died earlier than he did
by the hand of the law, which would
have atoned in somo measure for his
crime.
Trumbull, while disclaiming sympathy
with the apparent object of the resoln.
ton, which was to surrender and mutt
late the last resting place of thousands of
Union dead, held that it would be, if not
Unprecedented, mt least unparliame mentnry
to deny to q member simple request
for leave to intf oduce any legislation not
IN itself insulting to the Senate
Carpenter inquired whether Trumbull
could state proposition moro fagrantly
insulting to the Senate than that to re-
moye the slaughtered dead of the Union
army from Arlington for the purpose Of
returningathe farm to its rebel possessors.
Trumhull'replied that while the rcso
luton was without doubt repugnant to
the sense of the nation, it was not in n
personal sense insulting to the Senate.
He was averse to the adoption of any
precedent, the effect of which would be
to prevent the free exercise of a right
guaranteed to member of the Senate.
Edmunds and Sumner cited two in
stances, the former the case of the pro-
posed annexation Of Texas, the latter
the bill for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Act, when requests for leave to
bring IN bills were refused. Five addi.
tlonal instances were enumerated by the
Vice-Presidcat
Morton protested against considera-
ton Of the resolution. He had beord
what he never expected to hear, q enloov
upon the character Of General Lee IN
the Senate of the United States. and
that, too, within sight of graves Of vic.
Tins of his rebellion. Hampden and
Sydney died not for human slavery. but
for liberty. This man, General Lee.
was of all others the great sinner. He
had sinned against highland knowledge.
His revolutionary ancestry, his oath OF
fealty as All officer of the United States.
his finished education and high abilities,
oil forbade him thus to sin, and the
enormity of his crime could not be con.
cealed by decorating his grave with
flowers of rhetoric. IN a word, it was
now proposed that tue Senate shonld
graVe'y consider proposition to de.