The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-02-17

fpr political effect TO serve the interests
OF the Republican party in the North.
He should assert his rights as Senator
without regard to the social standing Of
Senators who attempted to control this
body. His people were treated only as
a1iens, sojourners, in a country where
the Constitution declared they should be
}cihzens. II they were. such in fact. 1t
was time for them to make terms with
rience was that blood was thicker than
I water. If the negro Is to have no politi-
cal rights, he is in duty bound to regard
his personal advantages. The white
men owned the land, the negro per-
formed the labor.
\ At this point Mr.. Bruce took occasion
to say that President Grant was not only
hypocrite but liar, who had made
promises in words to break them in his
acts. If his assertions were not agreea-
BILE while an important nomination was
pending in executive session, he could
state them more plainly in open session.,
He had been led to look upon the Re-
publican leaders as the true friends of
the South, but he could freely say that
in his judgment they were hypocrites.
If Pinchback was not admitted, and at
the same time the Kellogg Government
was upheld, the Senate would be acting
inconsistently, He did not want to be
member of body that would stultify tt
selfin this manner, and must resign his
seat when this spectacle of assinine con-
duct was presented to the world.
Senator Alcorn said his colleague, on
reflection, would modify his views. He
claimed that the negroes had been misled
by the carpet-bag element, and vindi-
Gated his independent course by saying
that 1t was the conduct of Northern in
truders that had made him 90 indepen-
dent in the canYasses in his State during
the past three years. He was glad that
the truth had at last come out OF the
mouth Of one despised, but who repre-
sented free race very useful to the
North in building up reconstruction.
He knew the negro character well, and
bore testimony to their fidelity In
| war as well as to their childlike simplic-
ity in accepting citizenship under the re-
construction acts. He believed the day
was at hand when the negroes Of the
South would in their own interest divide
their vote and favor the nomination Of
men without regard to party.
Senators Morton and Cameron said this
proceeding was extraordinary, and they
could not understand what had caused q
ses of the great Republican party, and
trusted that, in cooler moments, the Sem
| ator from Mississippi would perceive
that he was acting upon false grounds, as
the vote in the Pinchback case thereafter
would indicate. .-................
The Democrats applauded Bruce's ar
raignment of the Administration, and
Senator Gordon said, like Simeon of old,
| 'Lord, let now thy servant depart In
peace for this day have beheld my sal
vation."
Senator Thurman said the remarks of
the Senator from Mississippi were COM
plete vindication ofhis (Thurmnn's) posi-
ton on this question since the war, and
the day was at hand when the negroes of
the South would find that their true
interests required them to recognize that
the decent white men Of the South were
their true friends. ''5.i.
The vote on the confirmation of Bill
ings resulted in three majority, and the
Senate adjourned in great confusion.
| - WASHINGTON, Feb. IL.
The President has requested Senator
| Bruce to call on him to-day concerning
the rupture between himself and Senator
Bruce which eliminated in the speech in
the secret session of the Senate yesterday
1t is stated that Bruce declines the invi-
tation for consultation with the Presi.
dent. Much excitement prevails over
these matters. It is likely that the re-
ported invitation to interview and its re.
lection are among the embellishments Of
the event, but Bruce undoubtedly de.
nounced Grant and the carpet baggers
bitterly in yesterdays executive ses'
sion.
Ldter.-It has at length transpired that
the President and Senator Bruce are mu.
tually and equally Indifferent about see
ing each other, Bruce will repeat hif
speech in open session. .-. .~;-.