Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-01-13
FOrty-Third Congress.

SLOWeu tlltI tIlc organization by Tie COIl
t servativcs by which Wilt was elected
, speaker WAS Illegal: and further that thi
f conservative house first invited intcrven
ton by Gen. De TrobrianI.
Mr.. Gordon of Georgia spoke eloquent,
against military interference with legis
,tve body He said the stories of muir
I'D deplored those that chad been commit
ted
The class of people committing thes'
murders were the worst enemies OF The
South. If murder were committed. va
that any reason for branding the whole
southern people as Il set of assassins an'
barbarianso Wherever in the southern
states people of honesty and integrity have
control Of public affairs, property. life an'
liberty are as safe as in any northern state
Did the Senator from Vermont (Edmund>
forget there were states in the North il
the hands of the democrats? He Gordon
apprchendcd these states were governe,
Just Us well as states governed by the re
publcans. He was sure such was tn,
case in the South. Since the war not T.;
solitary arm lad been raised in Il southern
state against the power of the federal GOV
eminent, and vet the southern people were
charged, day after day, with being disloya
towards the government, because there
were riots ut elections, or riots at the cross
| roads.
He gave instances Of good will towards
the blacks displayed 10y southern white
and asked Did the senator from Vernon,
CEdmun,I~) think these acts of >emi-bar-
barism which he attributed to the southern
people in his speech, Yesterday?
Mr.. Edmunds replied that the senator
did not quote him correctly.
Mr. GorIon-Docs the senator say he
did not say that, before the war, the South
was in Il state of standardization?
Mr.. Edmunds-I do, and | request the
Senltor to read from the record Wltt did
Mr.. Goraon-Nevrr. mind what may be
in the record The words are in my
memory and will not out
Mr.Edmunds Well, the senator has the
record, and if he can fish out of it any
thing of that character, then his ingenuity
Is equal to his audaclly
Mr.. Gor,!on-I took down the SENATOR
words us he said them and tm rc- pon>iblc
for them.
Mr. EAmunls-Ec>pon~ibilitv is avery
good thing.
Mr. Gordon-rhc want Of ii i Il very
ro,I ,hin.r too Mr. Gor,lnn tLon READ
from the record of Tuesday Mr. Eclnund>
remarks where the latter said: When
see Mr.. President, a> have not yet seen,
that the people, IL they call themselves =
the white lcaLucr-. or III" white democrats
OF white conservatives, or whatever they
may be, of any state in this union-Whrn
they find that any OF their associates have
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