The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-07

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the eve or elections. Other eolored men
swote that they had been discharged % Fof
voting the Republican ticket, and Others
that they had been beaten and turned OUT OF
church for, so voting. The senator from<In-
dams. DIR. Morton) yesterday had spoken of
lies blythe Southern Associated Press agents.
He (Gordon) thought that a hhepon the As
ISOLATED Press of the South, and he thought
be knew as much about 1t as the senator
from Indiana. He Gordon, rs a senator
and man, recognizing his responsibility to
biscounsry and to bis God, would say that
4 these things are true. Renewed applause
| in the galleries.] y tx -
Continuing his argument, he said I. Liars,
are they? What does the Senator do with
the reporters sent out by the leading papers
Of the country from the city of New York?
Are they also liars? If SO, why did not the
Senator chargeitr They testified to the
very same class OF facts. Why, Mr.. PREsl.
DENT, does it find place in the Senator's
heart to charge falsehood upon the southern
reporters, when, il ,falsebood existed, 1t also
existed In the city of New York? No, sir !;
the Senator cowed before the power OF the
Herald, Tribune, and Times, and he dare
not say IT." fRenewed applause in the gal
| leries. ---~---- -
The CHAIR Sergeant, give notice that If
any further applause be made the rule will
| be enforced and the galleries cleared.
Mr., GORDON (resuming) said be was
| forced to the conclusion that those on the
other side who claimed to be friends of law aud
| order desire murder In the southern States.
| They knew when peace came. When the
people of this country, understood each
other as they are beginning, thnRk God, to
understand each other now, good govern.
ment would 'ensue, life, liberty, and pro-
perry would be safe, aAd there would be no
place for these disturbing spirits. He was
responsible only for his belief, but he thought
it true, and in time history would write it
dpwn so. Not one man in thousand in
the South was armed. There are not half
so many armed as before the war. There are
not as many military companies IN the South
as before the war. Even the old-fashioned
double-barrelled shot-guns had disappeared.
Was it all right for the Govern
ment to arm black militia and dis
arm white men? Before the men who
bad no interest with the southern people
except to arraign the blacks against them,
came there, good feeling existed between
the whites and the blacks. There were
churches and school-houses in the South for
the blacks, and in every southern State mo-
ney bad been contributed by the whites for
school-houses and churches for the blacks.
The southern white people bad contributed
more than any one else. Only the other day
resident OF Georgia in his last will and
testament bequeathed 100000 to educate
the colored people. Did the senator from
Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) think these acts of
semi rbarism, which. he attributed to the
southern people in his speech yesterday?
Mr.. EpMuNDs said the senator did not
quote him correctly.
Mr.. GORDON: Does the senator say he did
not say that before the war the South was in
state of sem-bar barism?
Mr. EDMUNDs: do.
Mr.. EDMUNDs then requested the senator
to read from the record wbst he did say.
Mr.. GORDON: Never mind what may be in
the record, the words are in my memory,
and will not out. -.. .."
Mr.. EpHUNDs: Well, the Senator has the
record, and if he can fish out Of it anything
o! that character, then his ingenuity is equal
TO his audacity. [Sensation.]
Mr.. GORDON: l took down the Senator's
words as he said them, and am responsible
! for them. .#'.
Mr.. EDMUNDs: Responsibility is very
good thing.
! IURUON. ue nduC VI IL SoLuCtlWCS ls
Il very good thing, too. [Laughter]
Mr. GORDON then read from the record of
yesterday Mr.. EDhUND's remarks where he
said, "When I see, MIR. President, as have
not yet seen, the people, as they call them
selves, the White Leaguers, or the white Dem
ocrats, or the white Conservatives, or what
ever they may be, Of any State OF this Union
when they find that any of their associates
have committed assassination, or MUIR
der, or wrong, upon their fellow
citizens for no cause but" opinions
sake turn upon him as in Ohio they would
turn upon him up in Vermont, without re-
spect OF party, and bring him under the
heavy hand of justice, then shall begin to
have some faith that our southern brothers,
who it seems have not yet forgotten the old
manner and ways Of semi.barbarous times,
have tho ught better of it," etc.
Resuming his argument, Mr.. GORDON said :
Where is the andacity now in bringing the
Senator before the chamber as have done?
He then referred to the history of the south
ern people in the revolutionary war, and
spoke Of many statesmen and soldiers from
that section, and said if such men and deeds
be evidence OF Standardization, he was will
ing to accept before his country and before
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enough of this. He came here with heart
full of goodwill towards every one, and
trusted that nothing he had said would be
attributed to any feeling Of animosity. His
faith was firm that right, justice, and truth
would triumph, and the feeling of goodwill
already begun between North and South
would continue to unite and build up our
common country. Applause in the gale
ries.] -. ..,..... ....
| Mr.. EDAUNDs said the honorable Senator
had misstated what he (Edmuuds) had said,
and arraigued him before the Senate for using
certain language. ..............
MIR. GORDON said the Senator (Edmunds)
was mistaken in his position. He (Gerdon)
did not arraign him, but simply repealed the
| arraignment he (Edm unds) made of his (Gor-
don's) people. .-.,....... ..... ......
Mr.. EDMUNDs said the senator had repeated
phrase which bordered on semi-barbarism.
! That was, " he was responsible for what he
said" Was there any necessity Tor that? 1t
reminded him of what the predecessors Of
| the honorable senator used to say when they
had no better argument: They would fight
| il ont by the duel" The honorable senator
(Gordon), in speaking of his people, had re-
ferred largely to the glories they at
| tanned in the interests of our
common country. So they did; and
they deserve the gratitude of the coun-
try for it but unfortunately there had been
a more recent period when by the conduct
of DAVIS, Lee, 'Toombs, and others whom he
might name, blood had been shed for the
destruction Of that same flag. There was
late period in the history of the United
States which did not rebound to the credit
of the southern people as much as
the early history which the senator