The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-03-25
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SENATOR BAYAKDs MEDICATION OF THE
PHOSPHATE STATE.-THE WRONGS OF
SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE UNITED
STATES sENATE-A NOBLE SPEECH.
The recent speech of Senator Bay
ard. of Delaware, in the United
States Senate on the resolution to
investigate the conduct of Maj. Mer-
rill, of the regular army, in receiving
a large sum of money appropriated
by the plunlering Legislature to re-
ward his zeal as Ku klux hunter,
was one in all respects worthy the
better days of the Republic. In the
course of his remarks the senator
said:
It struck me as q very illogical
proposition stated by the honorable
senator from Pennsylvania. that be-
cause this individual had been sent
to South Carolina to perform very
unpleasant military duty, one that
required him in point of fact to SUI
persede the civil government of that
State, and take under his control the
security of person and property
within it's limits, he should have
mcy with social ostracism by certain
families in that State, and that, as
sryuituS, he should, therefore, be
properly paid some twenty-odd
thousand dollars out of the treasury
of that State as a s0ldtium for the
alleged wounds to his feelings and
those of his family; SO that
The jinglrg of the guineu helps the hurt
that honor feels.
1t is an odd proposition to be
gravely advanced by the senator.
But one thing let me say in re-
gard to what I have several times
heard complained of on this floor.
The questions Of social intercourse
and social relations are not govern
ed and never will be governed by
statute law. They are not gov
erned, and never were OF will be
governed. by coercion in any shape.
Social intercourse is controlled by
human symparbies: sympathies OF
taste, condolences of education
and of culture; sympathies of feel
ing, sympathies of occupation, sym
pathies in JOY, and, deepest of all,
sympathies in sorrow. All these
things in their way control the so
cial intercourse of men, and no law
of Congress, no fat of any autocrat,
civil or military, can ever change
this truth. It seems strange to me
to hear these complaints in the Sen.
ate of the social ostracism of Of
6cers in the army of the United
States, and of citizens from the
Northern States, going to the South,
when even the dull intellect of that
inimitable idiot, Dundreary: found
out the great rule that ''birds of a
feather flock together" Even he
discovered that; and yet it seems
that senators have not yet discover
ed it.
Now, Mr.. President, there are
many reasons, if senators will but
reflect upon them, why the hospital
ity of the South is not what it was.
There are many sad reasons for it.
The hospitality of that region OF
our country was one of its glories.
It was one of it's chief and most de-
lightful virtues. No man ever tast-
ed of it but would wish again to re-
new it. But many things are need
ed to make it possible. In the first
place, there must be the question OF
sympathy between the host and his
guest; mutual good will is prime
necessity; then there is required
some degree of pccuniary means
wherewith to exercise it. The hearts
OF the Southern people are as gen
erous and warm as ever, but their
opportunities for hospitality and
generosity have been sadly curtalled
and destroyed by the wal that has
wasted the region where their homes
are. and uprooted their system Of
domestic service and menial labor.
Many, many are the proud, gener-
Gus and sensitive men and women
of that country whose doors are
closed simply from sheer want,
barred by poverty; and they are too
proud to have that poverty inspect
ed by cold and unfriendly eyes,
Let those who would criticise the alb
sence Of that free and bountiful hos.
pitality for which in other and hap
pier days they we're renowned, re-
member what has caused it in so
many cases to disappear.
Why sir: the other day gentle
man from New England: whose
home is now in Carolina, and who
feels deep interest in the people
of that State, desired to have a
convention Of the property holders,
or holders Of the remnant of the
property that is left after taxation
and war in that State, that they