The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-21

under the heel Of bayonet rule. Thl
Southern people won't come TO the sup
port Of any President who has powel
placed in his hands by Congress 10 dc
prive them Of their liberties.
Mr.. PRATT followed, reading from th(
testimony Of Gov. AMEs before the sub
Ku.Klux Committee 10 the effect thai
the passage Of the Ku.Klux law had O
most salutary effect in Mississippi.
Mr.. ALCoRN concluded with an earnest
appeal against any further suspension Ol
the hG6eGS corpus, ard expressed the
belief that II the bill passed his State
would be lost 10 the Republican party
Mr.. AMES said that when his colleague
was not pronouncing the pronoun II )"
when he was not talking Of his planta.
tion, or when not misrepresenting Mis-.
Sissippi, he assailed him. My colleague
said AMEs went TO Mississippi before
did, he was one Of the Chivalrous spirits,
but l am only from the Yankee land, and
l fought my way down to Mississippi
with my own hands. His colleague
bucklcd on his armor and went into the
war on the side OF the South, he did
not remain in the army longer
than three months, and then he
returned to his plantation, OF which
he speaks so much Of. If we had only
such men as him to fight we would not
have had much war, as he (AMEs) said he
had fought his way down to Mississippi
over many u bloody battle field, and he
had q right to stay there, even Il he Ind
not plantation. We often go to a circus
to see man ride ON horse, but my
colleague exceeds that, he rides all parties
in Mississippi at the same time, and he is
constantly telling us how many times he
has been elected, first by one party and
then by another, when, in fact, he has
been repudiated by all parties. He
(AMEs) had, as Military Governor, tried
consciously to do his duty and to protect
the poor colOred people from outrage and
oppression, and he had punished perpe.
tratiOn Of crime.
MIR. ALCoRN interrupted him to say
that he had served eighteen months in
the Confederate army instead OF three.
Mr.. AMEs said his colleague owed every
thing that he was TO the carpet. baggers
whom he was so constantly assailing. He
had endeaVOred n short time since 10 in.
duce the belief that the revenue officers
in North Mississippi were corrupt. He
(AMEs) would say nothing as to the rev.
cnue officials under President johnson,
but he would say that the revenue oil.
cials in Mississippi under President Grant
were as honest and as competent as those
in any other State.
Mr.. ALCoRN said that heretofore there
was not a revenue official in Northern
Mississippi that was not Il dclaulter.
Mr.. AMEs said he would allude to
another Misrepresentation O his colleague.
When the civil rights bill was under dis.
cussion here his colleague stood up and
smOte his heart and declared that the peo.
pie OF Mississippi did not want n civil
rights bill-thcy had one of their own.
A civil rights bili had been pending in the
Mississippi Legislature, but it had not
passed, and when the Legislature ad.
sixty or seventy Republican
members had signed the memorial ask
ing Congress to pass SUMMERS civil
rights bill, and At the Republican Con-
ventiOn recently held in Mississippi,
which elected delegates to the Philadcl.
phia Convention. Resolutions were pass.
cd asking the passage OF the civil rights
bill
hlr. ALCoHN said he had been informed
that this resolution passed the Convention,
when great confusion prevailed in the
closing hours OF the Convention, and
when not IL dozen people knew what it
was about.
Mr.. AMEs said he was not prepared to
believe the statement OF his colleague
He then charged that his colleague pur.
suadcd the colOrcd people to accept scpa.
rate schools. They had been deprived
Of the equal advantage OF education. He
also charges that the unionism of ALCoRS
was icigned, and that he had not real
regard for the colorcd people. He
said no account had ever been given
OF the fifty thousand dollars put into
ALCORN's hands to put down the Ku.Klux,
and not one Ku klux had been arrested.
ALCORN had put many Democrats in
office, and 0s result the State came near
being lost to the Republicans last iall {;
that he had removed FIanncry, Rcpub.
llcaR editor Of Mississippi, from the office
OF lSrigadier General OF the State Militia
because he had styled Gen. Lee traitor
He (AMEs) denied that such mana this
had the right TO assume TO represent.
the Republicans Of Mississippi, and the
Republican party had nominated him in
doubt, many had never heard him utter
a Repuh lem sentiment, and he GAMES,
had never heard him to this day ute
one speaking for the Republican party of
Mississippi. lie lAMEs) claimed they did
want Ku.klux, aud that they did not
want the passage Of the present bill
The Senate, then ut midnight tajourned.