The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-11

IeIe my treas0f-an- these resolutions IL
thci g any freasOn. In them ~ Aresws not an
peaIirs ffor orr liberties Can We can 1t re-
voIution III 80, let # be revolution. Let
us enter our protest against the action OF this
despot. II, after advisemeht, the great North
aud the West inauguratea War, he would cay
God speed.hem.. He would join them, and
Virginia should. do no; Is our voice to be
stiled and are we to be called rebels because
we tell our sister States in the Union that
there Is danger ahead? Poor old Virginia.
Can she notgo on the watch-to8er Of liberty
and point out the danger which surrounds
us? The liberties Of the whole people ere
stricken down.. Let us stand togethersas
patriots. Let Us stand as men who dare
maintain their liberties; but for Heavens
sake let Us not regard this as party mea.
sure. He would not object to the resolu-
tons going to committee. (. ~, . - Il
a. ARIcHNoND SENATOR SPEAKS. -1a.a-
Mr.. McRae, Of Richmond, feared that
the sceptre had departed from Judah. No
steps, he feared, could be taken which
would put stop to the Executive Of the ma.
ton in his despotic measures. He believed
it would not be eXpedient at this time to
pass the resolutions, and he hoped they
would be referred to committee. He
thought, as did the senator from Augusta,
that this matter ought not to be decided by
caucus of the Conservative members of
the General Assembly, but that the Legisla-
ture itself should decide the matter. .i,s1' {. !
0l. REPUBLICAN, VIEW, OF TIE CASE. ,,.l -. +,
MIR. Allan said that but for the declaration
of the Senator from SLynchburg that there
were thousands OF Republicans ready and
willing to WELD the sword in defence Of the
purposes Of this protest he would probably
not have taken part In the debate. He knew
not, ne cared not, what might be done by
Republicans North, but he felt warranted in
speaking tor the minority party 10 the Sen.
ate, and saying they were not prepared to
denounce the Administration Of the country
iu its honest efforts to suppress mob rule
and enforce the rights Of the citizens of a
sovereign State as expressed by the will of
majority OF such citizens. Senators had said
this was not party question, and thus en-
deavored to secure undivided assent to these
resolutions; but they seemed ito forget that
a party caucus discussed this question last
night, appointed committee to draft reSo-
lutiOns, and adjourned to future time. So
they had said the judiciary of the State was
not partisan, still they nominated their judges
nority to ratify their action. In this view it
might not be party question, but the spirit
and temper manifested in the debate left
no alternative than to draw party
lines as strictly as possible, unless, indeed,
division in the ranks of the majority would
unite with the minority in opposing the
revolutionary spirit of some senator's to
whom be had listened. To the resolutions
in themselves he would oppose no particular
objection, but as against the epithets and as
saultS made upon the Executive of the coun-
try he felt bound to speak in defence. A
senator had asked them to " watt words of
sympathy to the people of Louisiana at the
horrible tortures TO which they were SUBJ
jected." To this sentiment every Republican
senator would say, amen ! But when they
did so their words of comfort would be in
tended not for the murderers, but for the
murdered; not for the men who, by force
and fraud and violence, had wrested the
State government from its lawful custodians,
but for those three members of the General
Assembly of Louisiana, two of whom were
murdered in cold blood, and third spirited
away, in order to give color OF right to the
revolutionary proceedings. attempted to be
enacted. His sympathy would be not With
those who had looked upon every act OF
magnanimity as license to fresh az
erosion, but with the survivors OF
that band whose ranks had been decimatea
by the midnight political assassin in the
endeayors of the unreconStructed 10 stlfie
the voice and throttle the will of the people
in the South. BE regarded these resolutions,
at least, as being inopportune. Not single
fact had been alleged, not an atom of evil
dence introduced, bearing On the subject IN
der consideration except the mere fact OF
military interference; and the record, US far
as published, showed that the party now
complaining called in that military them
selves. He would ask senators was it fair.
manly, chiyalrous, right, to denounce an act
with the bitter invective used here to-day,
and that, too, before any of the facts were
known, save that the party complainants, In
utter disregard of law, mad violently and by
revolutionary means possessed themselves
of the legislative branch of the Government
of State?
MIR. Cochran asked the senator If, sup
posing these facts to be true, he endorsed
the military interference resorted TO- ana the
support given thereto by the president.
Mr.. Allan said the Constitution guaran-
teed republican form OF government-that
is, government of the people by their own
consent-and it was the duty Of the Execu-
tive to enforce, of all other, that of its pro-
visions. Therefore, if this revolution had
actually commenced, and if, as that gentle
man had said, be was ready to enlist under
the banner of other States and join that rev.
olution unless their protest were needed, II
that was the menace held out, he (Mr. Al
lapl did not propose to wait until the blow
h,,t theory
prevention was better than cure, he would
use the armies of the nation to quell this new
rebellion in its infancy. This, he said, was
strong Language, but fully warranted by the
declarations to which he bad been compelled
to listen. Some senators, he remarked, bad,
with more judgment and prudence, conDte.
uauced moderation and forbearance, and,
while joining in the party demonstration
and indignation, were now, as always, ready
TO applaud any good deed Of the Presi'
dent; but be {AlIan) would like to
know whenever the dominant party
here. as q party, had uttered one word Of
commentator of his course. Even the Gen.
eral Assembly of 1S69-'70 refused to pass
resolutions commencing him for bis aid 10
striking the test-oatb, &c, out Of the Constl'
tution. No; each concession made had been
accepted as matter of right, and the power
il conferred had been used to exact further
demands. They raised their hands in holy
horror at an alleged infringement of censti'
tutional rights, but were dumb whenever
life and liberty were sacrificed by disguised
tntInx in the interest of their party success.
They bad reconstructed Virginia as True
Repu blcan party, but no sooner was the
victory won than one Of their Leading papers
declared ave only did it in order 10 deceive
them and effect our escape" Ii ne might
be allowed the use Of quotation ne wouia
say, 60! consistency, tnou art JeWei
but one which never adorned the banner Oh