Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-02-03

B.aine's amendment 90 except JET
Davis was counter parliamentary
stroke OF the most mastery kind,
Mr. Rainfall was afraid 90 accept IL,
because he knew that the Northern
wing Of his I,srty would not wish To
vote i'm favor of Davis, while the
Southern wing would not vots
against him and his only course was
to insist on the previous question,
which left him in the absurd position
Of absolutely refusing 10 entertain an
amendment, and Of forcing through
a very important measure under the
gag. lie persisted, lost control OF
his own bill, aud precipitated a
debate Of such infinite damage to
his own party that the Speaker IL
said to have received more than a
hundred kilograms from Northern
Democrats praying him to stop 1t.
Mr.. Blaine's speech made the Dem
ocraiic position a thousand times
more uncomfortable. IL the North
ern Democrats were reluctant, for
party purposes, to seem 10 favor JEFF
Davis when bis name only was men
toned. the party danger was enor-
mously increased when his crimes
were wildly described and the
CHASTITY memories Of AndersonvilIe
were revived. But, notwitbstaDd-
ing, The instant Mr.. Blaine had
ended, aIr. Cox, NSrthern Demo
crat, innocently deepened the effect Of
the ex-Speaker's assault by spring
Ing up and showing that the old dis
graceful snbservience Of the Northern
70 the Southern Democrats survives
as strong rs ever. lie went down on
his knees before the old masters Of
his party, md his speech was In
effect depreciation Of their proba.
bic wrath, and an illustration Of the
familiar s1perserviceabie Northern
Democratic zeal to show itself more
Southern than the South. His speech
was OF such a character that even
the correspondent Of the Springfield
Re7,ubticnn, y paper which supported
the Democratic candidate In 1872,
said Indignantly:
Blaine and Morton are bent on
drawing out the rebel and the old
'Copperhead, and Cox came out In
some parts Of his speech In the old,
mean, dirty style. He fattered the
'Confederates;' he sneered ut the
brother The colored
troops fought nobIy!' he said, In his
most facetiOus style, and one hun
bred Coperheads and seventy rebels
laughed and cheered at the top Of
their voices. Cox was on the right
side Of the quarrel In some respects,
and yet the tone Of his speech was
simply villainous. When he was
through, the feeling came over me
stronger than ever that the success
Of the Democratic party next fall is
impossible, for the simple reason that
no gentleman, no christian, no phi
can vote with IL. The
leaders all sneer at the darky.'
These Southern men for the most
part despise him. and are not willing
10 give him his rights. l know that
do no Injustice TO the seventy ex-
rebels in the House when say that
one and all, they despise the black
man IA a citizen. They accept his
because they can't help IL.
Now no man at the North who ever
was Republican, or has spark of
can ever Join such a party.
What becomes of the black man
under his ruler"
Mr. Cox was followed by Mr.. Hill,
Of Georgia, whose speech showed the
quality OF Southern Democratic
"acguiescence." II was fierce at.
tack upon the humanity Of the gov.
during the war. denying the
truth about Andersonville---a truth
OF which the starved, stricken, idiot
ic wrecks Of human beings which
were returned from that slaughter.
pen have left no Northern man In
doubt--and deiiantly declaring that
the South had come back into the
Union, and come to stay.
In the course Of Mr.. Hills speech
Mr.. Blaine quoted resolution Offer
cd by him in the Confederate Con-
gress, that every Union soldier found
within the Confederate lines should
be put to death as instigating insur.
rection. General Garaeld forci bly,
and conclusively showed the gross
misstatements of Mr.. Hill, and Mr..
Blaine followed him, pitilessly crush
ing poor Mr.. Cox under his own old
speeches acknowledging the crimes
of Andersonville, and exposing Mr..
Hill by showing him from the
record to have been one OF the
most sanguinary and relentless of
rebels. Mr.. Banks made u speech OF
the "conciliatory "kind, and Mr..