The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-02
THE PENSIONERS OF 1919.
taking tho Embers Again.

of congress, Tuesday afternoon, repeti-
ton of the scenes with which the amnesty
debate has made the public familiar. The
south was again pittcd against the north.
The arbitrary and unwarranicd rulings of
an ex-rebel chairman pro tenn presented a
spectacle as astounding as the recent pas
sage-at-arms between James G.. Blaine and
Ben. Hill. AS IL was, the south and New
England again. met, ia the person, as Ben
Hill would put IL, of the representative of
southern chivalry, who went out of the
union "hugging the constitution" and
fought four years TO save it, and of one of
the most radical opponents of that higher
law of tanaiicism which compelled seces-
sion to yield. Ben Hill of Georgia and
George +. IIoar Of Massachusetts crossed
swords
The running debate which preceded this
spirited passage-at-arms possessed dramatic
clements. The text of the debate was the
bill granting pensions to the soldiers of the
war Of 1912, which last week was so much
amended in the southern interest. Kasson
had argued that all the pensioners of the
Mexican war in the south would be in
cuded in the amended bill. Hurlbut had
insisted that the bill proposed to give to the
enemies of the country that which had
been denied to its defenders. Caswcll of
! Wisconsin had urged that the bill would
repeal from the statute book the last YES
tige Of law which made rebellion q crime
kassOn had again argued that tine admis-
sion Of the principle commended for by
southern speakers would commit the gov
eminent to the payment of all the rebel
claims Williams OF Wisconsin had sug-
gested that republicans should rebuko the
democracy for their treatment of Union
soldiers in the house, by voting for the bill,
when Ben Hill rose. There was great
anxiety upon thc faces of the democratic
leaders. They feared Hills dangerous lips.
They gathered round him, but too late to
restrain him.
Hill rose arogantly to tell the northern
people in congress three things
Flrs!-lThat the republicans in congress
are bundle of Inconsistencies, and that
their conduct is exasperating to a patriot
Second-That the soldiers of 1912 were
ell Union men, that Ben Hill himself wa
Union man, and had suffered much for hii
principles while canvassing Geor il
against the madness of secession
Thrd-That secession did not original,
in the south, but in New England, and tina
Yankees in the Hartford convention wer,
plotting secession when the soldiers wer,
battling for the Union in New Orleans.
This was an impudont rebuke, q taun.in!
menace which the republicans would 20
hear in silence. George T. IIoar accepted
the challenge. He had remained too loni
in silence under the inpudent harrangue
of returned rebels. He thought that a clas
of persons who in any other country woult
have been ebbeted and hung ~ chain
should be more modest. The north wa
FESTIVE under these repeated rebukes from
the old slayeocracy
The republicans believed that the rebel
who had confessed that enorth was RICH
in everything and that secession wa
, wrong who had come back to share il
the glory of republican rule and enjoy tn
benefits of republican liquidation should b.
more modest, and should discontinue thei
old jargon. AS for the Hartford conven
ton, he begged to teach Ben Hill lessor
in New England history, and to tell hin
: that the Hartford convention never con
templated resistance by force, and that th'
resolutions were in fact a transcript Of thu
Virginia resolutions of 1898.
In the course OF this spirited, brief phil
lipic, the democrats frequently attemptet
to choke Mr.. Hoar down, and Hill himsel
repeatedly interrupted him. The purpos
of Hills interrogations was to attempt t.
explain away the effect of his amnest.
speech, both by denial and avoidance, bu
! his efforts were unsuccessful. Hoar wa
severe on Sunset Cox. lie arraigned hin
as having opposed the thirteenth amend
ment, as having violated all parliamentar
law by calling Blaine a hyena, for whic
! the confederate democrats had Conferrc
upon him the honor Of speaker pro ten
! pore
Cox attempted a reply, in which he ono
t more descended to buffoonry and charaC
teri2ed northern republicans as philOnthrc
pists and sentiment shrlekcrs who have dil
turbed the nation with their cry OF 9TH
p noblest place for man to die is when h
dies for man