The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-08
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Speech of Hon. benjamin. F. Hill,
or Georgia, In the House
Of Representative.

ma TO look, with all earnestness, to fin
Rlories for the future. The gentlema
(Blaine), who is the acknowl e5ged &eeder {
an aspiring leader Of the nspsblicap ar:
Wise. and seemed dserilnG thd tn
wounds, which were heAliHEVshou19Se n
opened, and that the passions, which wer
healing, should be re-infiamed. He chill
wished the House to understand that he an
his associates did not reciprocate either tn
purpose or the manifest desire of the gen
tleman, and while they felt it their impera
tive duty to vtndicate the truth OF histor,
~ regards their section, they did not inten'
to say anything calculated to aid the gentle
man In that work of cffmfnati6n and re
crimination, and of keeping up the war b.
politicians, after brave men have said tina
The war shall end. The gentleman fron
the magnanimity and grace of the Re
publican party, and the probability o
. :eS:s " 1s to At the q !, IT l.
6id not p H,pS sh % b we b q ze
yet fresh in the mind . be 759k w
useless to speak Of thl race 4f0 agna
nimity Of the Republiq nertyxs ~
master enslaved, with Zig gee di1frs(
chised, with society ere Nd SUB
people could not afford41t6lk OF race and
magnanimity. Ifthat were grace and mag.
nanimity, he prayed God to save thescoun-
try, in future, FROM such virtues. The gen
tleman from Maine had made tho grave in
dictment against Mr.. Davis, that he was
guilty of the murders and crimes at Ander-
sonvflle, and the gentleman (Blaine) stood
before the country with his very fame in
peril II, after making such a charge, he
failed to prove 1t. HsyHnD would take up
the gentleman's propoe1oons IN tneir order
he hoped t9at no one v sSs f2s&1os sna AZ
pass any euio&y on MT. Da rs - ~
on wnicn MS lame must rest DeSI5< a
up, ana ms companion anu u
misteo Cnas iecoIu - euo nj
S soas w1 Doster Tlvs !. In the M ne no
gy q his could nelp II no :.
gentlemen lnialne, c cS u oa oo,I .HsoP
act or RESOLUTION OF tne nouse SouIa anect
g. Inc charge ageinse Mr; laws was 1nas
he was the deliberate wii LIZ scneming
zens; Knowing the hign cn s anON ~
nation OF the gentieman IRON Maine, ne
(HtiD nsG SUPPOSE, wnen ne neard snss
charge ia1 IRON ms IRs, sn.t NC 1au GER
tened for the evidence US ~
Nothing but partial CRGre&
o3onal COMMITTEES. IReysou We
exclusively ex parte testimony taken while
the gentleman now on trial before the
country was In prifUu, w1edUus se1FtnI.s
and without the opportunity for . hearing.
II there was any principle held sacred In
the AngIo-Saxon mind, 1t was that an
Euglishmsn was not to be condemned
until he should pc CONFRONTED with DIS
only ex perte, but was mutilate
mutilated-most adroitly mutila factsS
Even the day OF his execution had
been offered . accumulation OF his encett
he would implicate Mr.. Dayis, Vet
answer to his counsel INT. n dsa was
I do not know anything abdgS GeEson.
Davis. He had no connection w1e1ne - y.
what was done 1t Aadersonviile. 1 would
not become q traitor against him, or any.
body else even to save ny llie ,,h Hat' saw
hours OF his execution, would not say for
his life, the gentleman - Re3ayl to
the country, for the ske g mis-
party into power. [Sensal61H 4 III :.
DAINTY Is falsehood, hy1Anfty - Hkeiv-
ilizatiou Is q cheat, or tywanNvA ~ not
make q false 4as5 eyeg
guilty of willful nd III VT On
20 argue that on the logic of Mr.. Blaine's
speech, holding Mr.. Davis responsible for
the acts Of Mr.. Winder, President Grant
might be held responsible for the acts of
1EcDonald and Joyce, and he asked whether
Mr.. Blaine meant TO establish rule Of con-
that would authorize the country
to arraign President Grant for completely
In the whisky frauds? was MT. Grant re-
sponsible, he asked, for the Credit Mobilier,
for the Sanborn Contract. or for the frauds
in the District Of Columbia? And yet Mr..
Grant had absolutely sent to the Senate o.
tbs United states Tor connrmaiion Iof l3&n
once the name OF man (al!uding 20 Mr..
Alexander Record, Of Washington,) who
stood charged with the grossest peculation
and frauds on this District, after the charges
had been made, and while they were pend
ing. He fHfll) was neither the author nor
the disciple OF such political logic; but If
the gentleman's (Blaine's) proposition
with regard to Mr.. Davis were trueS then,
by the same logic, General Grant, Instead
Of being entitled to a third term, was ems