The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-03-30
Congressional.
Wesuworos, March "a,

WasHMeFos, March q,
HOUSE
Several Bills were introduced, and we're
referred toeonmittses, when appointed.
SENATE.
Sumner commenced his speech immedi-
ately upon the assemblage Of the Senate.
The crowd is like that which assembled
at the Impeachment trial.
Sumner occupied the whole day in de-
~livering his speech. Agreeable to his
summing up, Increase of the President
stands thus: The international law has
been violated in two Of its commanding
rulcs-one securing the equality of ma
tions, aud the other providing against
belligerent intervention, while a distinct
i've fundamental principle of the Coustitu-
ton, by which the President is deprived
of a kingly p~rerogative, is disregarded
and this very kingly prerogative is assert
ed by the President. This is the simplest
statement.
Looking still further at the facts we see
that all this great disturbance has for its
object the acquisition Of an outlying trop-
zeal land with large promise Of wealth, and
in carrying out this scheme our republic
has fOrcibly maintained a usurper in power
that he might sell his country, and has
dealt a blow at the independence of the
Black Republic of Hayti, which besides
being a wrong to that Republic was an in
suit TO the African race, and all this has
been done by the %prerogative alone with
out the authority Of an act of Congress.
If such a transaction, many-headed in
wrong, can escape Judgment, it is difficult
TO see what securities remain what other
sacred rule of international law may not
be violated; What other foreign nation
may not be struck at what other bellig-
erent menace may not be hurled; what
other kingly p~rerOgative may not be
seized.
In the course of his speech, charging
upon the declaration that the President
had placed himself at the head of a more
powerful and costly Kuklux than those of
the South, he proceeded Had the Presi-
dent been 80 inspired as to bestow on the
Southern Unionists, white and black, one
half the time in personal attention, per-
sonal effort and personal intercession
which he has bestowed upon the attempt
to obtain half an island in the caribbean
Sea, our Southern Kuklux would have ex-
listed inname only, while tranquility would
have reigned everywhere in our borders.
General applause in the cutlery, and
hisses.
The Vice President: The Chair cannot
consent that there shall be manifestations
of approval or %disapproval in the galleries,
and he reprimands one as promptly as the
other. If they are repeated the Chair
must enforce the order of the Senate.
Sumner proceeded: Now, as | desire
tho suppression of the Kuklux wherever it
shows itself, and the elevation Of the At
rican race, | insist that the Presidential
scheme, which instals the Kuklux on the
coasts of St. Domingo, and which, at the
same time, insults the African race in the
Black Republic, shall be represented. l
speak now of that Kuklux of which the
President is the declared head, and | speak
for the African race, whom the President
has trampled down. Is there any Senator
in earnest against the Kuklux2 Let him
arrest it on the coast of St. Domingo. Is
there any Senator ready, at all times, to
seek the elevation of the African race =?
Here is the occasion for his best effort.