The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-07-26

tne record-tesiimony of the order book
Vi the governor of that State. bv III
PROOF the report of the Governman
agent IN that State-not bv the nroo
OF Democrats, but by the proof Of mem
Ders OF the Republican party-tbat
II there was a threat Of violence II ,va,
violence created in self-defense. and that
me White people of that State would
nave oeen less than men if they had moi
prepared themselves as they miobl
against danger that threatened q
sweep their homes and children ont .,
existence itself. Whether the annre
henslon was just or not, whether rnmo,
Is usual Travelled faster than truth, | Will
not say That is yet to be considered.
But the negotiation of the executive com.
hnittee OF the Democratic party was. as I
lhahk God 1T always will be found. in
favor of peace, of law, of order. of good
| relations between the two races of that
! state The committee, as | consider
against the spirit of American law
against my protest and the protest of nv
colleague from Indiana, Mr.. MCDoN-
AID, seized and brought the whole tel :
graphic correspondence between the
| chairman of the executive committee and
all other persons whatsoever, every dis
patch he had received, every dispatch he
hai ever sent, no matter from whom or
10 Nhom-ail were brought and submit.
ted to the committee and are to be pub
lIshed to the world. He had not been
called, he was not suffered to explain
ana yet l may say-and think even
the honorable Senator from Minnesota
will not deny-that from first to last
there is not in :he whole of that cores
pondence, carried on when it could not
have been believed that it was prepared
Tor any object, there was not one word
IN any dispatch to justify ill.feeling or
dlsrespect toward Mr.. George or any one
Of his correspondents not one word, not
one suggestion of violence or intimida-
ton, Nay, it is in proof that che agent
Of the Government, Mr.. Chase, himself
resident of the gubernatorial mansion, in
close confederacy and intimacy with
Governor Ames, caused day by day
every complaint that reached the ear of
the Governor of the State and that was
submitted to Mr.. Chase to be submitted
to the Democratic executive committees
chairman, and that they were put to the
expense and the trouble and the imper-
alive duty Of satisfying the Government
agent of the truth or the untruth of the
statements made, and that there really
was not the cause Of the apprehension of
violence or the existence of violence
which the Governors friends supposed
did exist in that State. That was the
history of that correspondence.
As TO the negotiation there undoubt-
all Il h..
dou btedly was the array of races BY
whom was it made? | take the testimony
abundanty to show that it was created
for political ends, created not by the |
Democratic party or the white people of |
Mississippi, The issue was forced upon
them either to succumb and be ridden
over ard trod into the earth until every |
yestige Of manhood was beaten from
their faces or to stand where they had
right to stand: in defense of their rights |
with arms if necessary.
Mr.. MCMILLAN: Mr.. President, |
must be permitted to say that my aston
ishment still continues that the merits |
CT the investigation by the Mississippi
committee have been alluded to here by
member before the Investigations by
that committee have been finished and
before the report has been made to the
Senate. The Senator from Indiana,
+ MP. Morton, if he referred to Missis
sissippi affairs st all, referred to them
generally. He was not a member of the
investigating committee appointed by the
Senate, as the Senator from Delaware Is
| repeat what | said before, that the
state Of afairs ip Mississippi revealed by
the Investigations of the cammittee will
shock the country as it shocked me rs l
heard from time time the facts testified to
by witnesses before the committee. So
far as the Democratic State Central
Comgsittee is concerned, l undertake to
say that it not casy negotiated for peace
between the whites and the Rdmlnlstra-
ton of that State, but that only by
the authority of the chairman of that
committee was white citizen of Missis
sippi permitted to go to his box and
deposit his vote upoa tie occasion of the
election of 1875; that authority froEl
the chairman of that committee only
permitted him TO do so without sacrificing
his life; and other wrongs and outrages
developed Ey this investigation are such
as Will astonish the tseaa:e.
Mr.. MoRroN-Mr. President, one
word. ] referred to Mississippi affairs
simply because The Senator from Della
ware had referred TO tEc outrages in
Louisiana in 1872, and they were of the
same character. What the Senator from
Minnesota SAYS corresponds with all that
I have learned in regard &c tie campaign
in Mississippi. From what ! have heard
Of the evidence that was taken, believe
=. Il, ba
in the Senate last winter was underdraWn.
r.McMuLAN-Willt the Senator allow
me to make a statement?
Mr. MoRToN-Yes, sir.
Mr.. MCNIILLAN-I thought at the time
that speech was delivered by the Senator
from indiaa2 Mr. Morton in the Sen
ate. it was perhaps au s2aggeratlon OF
the state of facts existing There's but
since visiting that community and engag-
inc in this investigation, | can only say
that regard the picture drawn by the Sen
ator on that occasion a. very moderate
description of the affair.
Mr. McDoNALD-Let me ask the
Senator from Minnesota If the statement
made by the Senator from Delaware is
not true that the capyasS IL AfIssls-
s;pni was carried on under the supervisor
Of an agent representing the Department
Of Justice who informed the parties there
that he had full authority at any time to
demand, and it would be sent, the
military power of the Federal Govern
ment if there was any indication of an
unfair election or any attempt az intiml,
dation or fraud? ask further if be did
NOT remain there until the election closed,
and if it is not proof that he staten
sftar the close of the election that he had
| -. l,tLi,,cr mot merely from the evidence