Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-02-23
Braces Address.

tne cOlOreu senator, Dru -, OF vi lS'
sisslppi, has succeeded in throwing
the United States Senate into parox-
ysm of anger and fear, that is to say,
the Republican side Of it. On the
question of confirming the Presidents
OF Billings for District
Judge of Louisiana he delivered Il
philippe against President Grant and
the Administration party that pro-
duced the widest excitement among
the Republican members. He would
not suffer his thrice heated anger to
be restrained, but proceeded With his
denuuclatory harangue with head
strong resolution to relieve his breast
OF the bad feelings which had long
been accommodating against the mana
gers Of the party to which he belongs.
Senator Edmunds was the particular
rod that drew down the lightning of
his wrath, Him the colored member
assailed without fear or respect. The
venerable Cameron looked on in
speechless Amusement, and character
lied the harangue, when it was finish,
ed, in his usual Pennsylvania Style
Mr.. Edmunds retorted with an assump-
lion Ct angered superiority which only
ashed the passion of Bruce all the
more. The colored voters, said the
after, are not to be deceived any
more by Administration PROMISE
Tie said it was useless to conceal the
ruth any longer; President Grant
lad deserted them and had kept his
promises. He pronounced his Ad-
nlnistration failure so far as justice
70 the colored voters of the South
was concerned. With the utmost EN-
)hasis he declared that the time for
ooking to the Administration for
nelp had passed He said there was
- help for the negroes unless they
made terms with the Democrats. lie
vas openly in favor of going over to
hem as the Negroes only measure of
afety. He denounced Grant and the
White Radicals Of the South unspar-
ngly.
1t was the proposal of Senator West
o Pinchback, to go back to louisiana
md remain quiet until April, that had
oused the ire of the colored Senator
rom Mississippi. Bruce felt it that
he Republicans were unwilling to do
more for Pinchback than to
,eep fooling him, AS for himself he
aid that he was in the Senate to rep.
esent the whole people OF his own
tate, white as we'll as black, whose
welfare was to be secured
My by the restoration of order and
,ood feeling between the blacks and
whites this was to be accomplished
nly by the people themselves, aud
therefore, he demanded that they be
ct acne, and that no more strife
hould be stirred up by Federal inter-
erence. The interests of both races, he
vered, are identical. The condition
f Louisiana, he admitted, would in
vitably affect that of Mississippi. A
ew reign of terror in Louisiana must
nsettle the feelings of the entire
'outh. The confirmation of Billings
S District Judge in that State would,
n his opinion, be the reopening of
f strife, for Billings was the author
# Dure]l's midnight order, and to
onfirm him would be equivalent to
o restoring Durell himself -
t was this order that restrained the
egular Returning Board of the State
nd brought about, through bogus
the only election Pinch
Jack can speak of. Senator Edmunds,
owever, can report tavorably from
be Judiciary Committee for Billings
Confirmation, while opposing Pinch
ack's admission. This sort of in.
consistency was what Bruce could
ot endure, and hence his fiery assault
n the Observation-Disclosures,
senator's and all. Yet, in order TO
how what he thought to be a fair
attern of consistency, after thus de.
ouncing the nomination of Billings
s the worst menace that could be
brown in the face of the Southern
eople, he voted himself for his con.
nation = Boston Post.