Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14

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WASHINGTON, January 10.-Blaine
i.his first practical bid for the
n"asidaucy to-day i'll Il speech on Hal
ggaIls's amnesty bill, in which the ex
GG"1aaker made the most bitter ana
in3ictiye attack upon MIR. Jefferson
Nv. that has been made since the
close of the war.
- debate of the session. Blaine
nta lisl for one hour, and his speech was
bighlv appIauded on the Republic IN
side of the House. lie held Mr; Davis
rGspo,sible for the And"rs'>nViiie-prls-
,es,ri,ig. aud mad an assault Rpon
Oh 7Ili nsTis such as hal not been heard
M M rDors A. bid for the presidency,
aynr ioi Blaine has made n mistake,
Ia has lost caste even with his own
party. vork +boron.hlv
- lin by quoting his own record
lill+t l":nst I.i,l Oh the amnesty question,
sI Kelly Of Pennsylvania joined j.
:,;1'c,.nrfsnaucing :;I the policy Of hatred
.hot Rlaine seeks to inaugurate. KeI-
y ,,,,,i, u very eloquent speech. and
I.re ReDu1!lcap rs he Is. attracted he
Us. atreutIon Of the Democrats in
the House. .:,
n. excitement about the hotels and
.,'nnc, members Of Congress on both
.ida. i intena.. The feeling is that
tbo rresidential election, whether for
Grant or Blame. is that the southern
r,amhe,s should use every argument
a,,ai,st perpetuation Of sectional
feeIng before resisting the war senti
mepts on the Republican side.
From ID Eticbmond frqurerD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The two par
hes have besn, up to this time, msneu-
yering for positions and advantages
like two hostile armies. To-day, for
+be first time, q real grand battle has
been fought. The occasion was the
amnesty bill of Mr.. Randall. The
Renublicans. The Democrats voted
for general and comprehensive an
nestv bill, without any offensive condi-
tions. The Republicans were lead ty
Mr. Blaine into the false position of |
insisting on a partial and conditional |
snuest-, thus robbing the act of al! |
;ts merit and grace. MIR. Randall III
sisted on and got square vote on his |
1d Messrs. Banks, Kelley and few
other Republicans. The body of the
r R,I;cals, however, voted no, and thus
defeated the two thirds vote essential
to the passage OF the measure. Mr.. |
RIare then got the floor and made a
violent and bitter speech against Mr.
Jefferson Davis, charging that he had
murdered one-third OF the Union
prisoners at AndersOuville. The
speech was lnhammatory, dramatic,
and effective, but when Mr.. Cox got
the floor he demolished Mr.. Blaine
amid peaIs of laughter from the House
and galleries. The opinion tonight
is that Mr.. Blaine who put in his
speech as a Presidential bid is very
seriously damaged for the race. The
Democrats are naturally very JubIlAnt
over the days proceedings.
The Republicans were much demor-
allied 1T seeing their great champion
foored by Messrs. Cox and Randall,
and we're further divide when Mr..
Kelley made an appeal to them to give
I'D their revenge and go in for amncs-
ty, All the Democrats now need to
complete their record and their tri- (
umph is to put through the Centennial !
appropriation, thus proving themselves
the trends of peace, and IA great ma
tional reconciliation.
The Hon. Ben Hill, who is to speak I
tomorrow, VIII reply to the slnnders
upon the Confederate Government,
and will show that the exchange of /
prisoners was stopped by Grant him
self, thus precipItstIng great suffering
on both sides, and by Federal testi-
mony that the percentage Of deaths
was much greater i'll Northern than in
Southern prisons.
GOV. TILDEN AM THE PRESIDENCY.
Washington Correspondence n Y. Herald.I
Mr.. 5. NJ. Shaw. editor of the Coop
erstnwn Ereonl0n's Journal, who has
been lere several days, and is under
stood to represent the opinions of
Governor Tilden, strongly counsela
the Democrats in the House to let the
Republicans alone with the school
amendment, He insists that it Is il
no sense a practical issue before the
country, and cannot be made one, aud
that the effect of it's adoption HOuld
be to strengthen the hands Of the CEN
trelizationiets aid break down another
State rights barrier. 70 fall IN with
this measure as some have proposed,
be says, would be an act of weakness
and folly.
Mr. Shaw, as is understood, as the
firm friend If Governor Illden, says
that New York will not present can
didate for President at the next Dem
0c atIc National Convention, but will
have a strong delegation there pre-
pared to name candidate from that
State f requested to do SO by other
States, and III the event of there be-
ing no candidate from some other Sec
ton likely to commend a two-thirds
vote. In his conversations with der
ocratic members of Congress MIR. Shaw
says that ne understands the senti-
ment of the farmers and business men
In the rural districts of New York to
be this: They will stand firmly by the
position of no expar ion of currency,
and democrats honestly indOrSo the
platform adopted by their Convection
last fall in regard to hard money, bat
that none of them anticipate a rapid
return to specie payments, and few of
them believe that the law of last year
can be carried out in full or in the
time set He says New York demo-
Gratis are desirous that this Congress,
at the present session, shall largely
reduce the expenses of government
and give the people the benefit of such
reduction by decreasing federal taxa
ton in equal ratio; that a proper con-
struction should be given to the clause
in regard to the sinking fund, which
would. for the present, stop the pay
ment of the $50, O00 a year; shat
they believe that 20 be the easiest ard
safest road back to specie payments. !
MIR. Shaw thinks it would b. unwise |
tl,a Il SS,s TO
tempt to repeal or essentially modify
the republican resumption measures
OF last year; that to do so would only !
subject them to failure and damage /
their chances il the Presidential con