The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-01-20
AMNES TY.
The Bloody Shirt Flung to
the Breeze.
Blaine Lays a Plank in His Plat
form for the Presidency.
And Cox and Hill upset Blaine,
Platform and All.

anu OOA anu IA HI upset o1dAACs
Platform and All.
The House of representative at
Washington on Monday 10th was
the scene of the formal opening of
Blaine 5 bloody campaign for the
presidency. The gauntlet of hate
and war prejudices Is thrown down
by the ferocious ex Speaker, and the
south is denounced and misrepre-
sented and made to understand
that she is yet held in vassalage.
The bill of Mr. Randall granting
universal amnesty to ex-Confeder-
ates was called up on Monday and
the ball opened by motion to sus-
pend rules and pass it. The previ-
Gus question was ordered, thus cut
ting off debate and amendment,
and the bill put to a vote and re-
jected-yeas 172; nays, 97-not the
requisite thirds strict party
vote. Severe sparring was INDUCED
in before the vote, the radicals OBJ
jecting to the ordering of the pre-
vious question as being an unfair
advantage ge-forgetting that this
kind of tactics was their delight
while in the majority. Mr.. Blaine
had offered an amendment except
ing JEFF. Davis from the bill, and
the reason given for the defeat of
the measure was this alone. After
the vote Mr.. Blaine moved to recon
slider and proceeded to address the
House.
EX-sPEAKER BLAINE SPEECH.
He said that the question of am
nesty had been presented at the last
two Congresses by democrats with
a flourish of magnamity and an i'm
putation upon the republicans of
bigoCry, tyranny and oppression,
and he now wished to place upon
record the position of his party up
on this question, as an imperisha-
BILE witness of its iberality and large
mindedness unequalled in history
by conquerors to con quered.
When the war ended the govern
ment had the right to say what
should be the status of these people,
and instead of prosecuting blood
shed, vengence and confiscation,
it prescribed the 14th amendment
exclusion, which excepted about
$4,000 men at the south, leaving
free the thousands of rebels who
had been engaged in attempting to
overthrow the government. Imme-
diately Congress commenced to re
move the disabilities of those ex
cepted by the 18th amendment, and
many upon this floor are here by
the grace and amnesty of our party
to-day, until now it is estimated
that the whole number under the
ban to-day is about 75O. I am il
favor of giving amnesty to all these
men not excepted by my amend
ment, but they must go in opeI
, court and with uplifted hands
swear to be good citizens. dc
not want citizenship imposed upor
, men who speak contempteously o
it, as some upon this floor have
; l understood that Mr.. Toombs ha
: made special boast here and in Eu
rope that he would not ask for citI
zenship. We can stand that quite
= as well as Mr. Tombs, and if b,
can't take our oath, let him sta
out, and let us not gushingly be!
him to take it. 1 have excepted
JEFF. Davis in my amendment, no
because 1 consider him the heac
and front of the rebellion, or tina
> he did any more special damage t,
us, or was any more guilty of trea
> son than his associates; but l ex
. cept him because he was the author
knowingly, deliberately, guilty, vii
. fully, of the gigantic murder at An
dersonsville. We who knew {
p Andersonville cruelties while the
we're transpiring failed utterly t
realize the gigantic perfdy of tn
. crimes. I have read the atrociou
massacres of Alva and the horror
of st. Bartholomew and the Spanis
Inquisition, and I here before Go,
g measuring my words, declare thf
e these hideous atocities pale befol
IS the awful and hideous crimes OF Al
e dersonville. Mr.. Blaine then pre-
1t ceeded to show that the man WendC
IS was sent to take charge of Ande
IS sonviIle, because of his ferocious an
/ bloodthirsty nature, by Mr.. Davi
e against the protests Of others mol
N humane, quoting from the Congre
ID sional committees report durin
lie the war and from a Catholic Prize
r who lived near Andersonyille, q
IN of which showed that Mr.. Dav
IS was cognizant of and authorize
ne the atrocities. He stated that l
n. truthful Confederate soldier cou
tn say that he had been illtreated in
Northern prison. He said he d
on not wish the indictment Of NJ
OF Davis, but he would say, with d
ps liberation that Mr.. Davis ae'
ne would have paid the penalty
b most any other country in the worl
d and he always thought it was bi
On policy to let him go free and hal
ng Wirz, and wound up with the fo
he lowing buneomb and bloody per
FL: ration:
lis ] heard it said that we are goi
IT'S to elevate Mr.. Davis into very gre