New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-15

SENTENCED.
Miles Bird. charged with entering, etc.,
and larceny; convicted Of larceny; ten days.
second District Court.
Snccessions of A. Elomire Mondelli, John |
v. Van Pelt and Henry Pidarre opened.
The Amnesly Discuasion- Blnine's Speech. |
The Washington corresponds of the |
Chicago Tribune writes as follows OF the
exciting debate in the House on the
amnesty bill:
Mr.. Blaine's speech has proved 3 much
more uncomfortable thing for the Demo
Gratis than they we're willing to admit last
night, The witticisms of Cox, and the
sharp points he made, turned their atten-
ton from Blaine's frightful arraignment,
and at the close of the debate they were
boasting that they had really been victors;
but after sleeping off the excitement they
began to appreciate the fact that the effect
of Blaine's speech would be to make the
people realize again keenly that there has
been q war, and they turned to Mr.. Hill to-
day with one accord, hoping he might be
able to break the force of Blaine's speech.
There were quite a number OF RepuD-
licans who yesterday had misgiving as to
the wisdom Of Blaines course, but the turn
whole advantage of the debate to the Re
publicaus, and placed the Democrats in
position which many of them admit is I'M
fortunate. The labored attempt Of MIR.
Hill to prove that there were no atrocities
at Andersonville of graver character IMAM
those he charged as existing at Elmira and
Rock Island, is regarded by a number OF
Union Democrats as a very weak and most
embarrassing position. To describe Ander-
souyille az a sort OF second Garden Of Eden,
with pleasure grounds and running streame,
all surrounded with beautiful stockade,
where the inmates we're comfortably clothed,
fed and cared for, was little too mucn,
and the Democrats realize tonight that q
most embarrassing and damaging debate Is
upon them.
The scene in the Houee was one to make
one forget that secession is q crime or that
there has zen q civil war. That Ben Hill
should appear in the American Congress at
| all is a curious political anomaly; that he
| should appear as the eulogist and apeloglst
of jeff Davis and to defy the loyal Nortn Is
| a fact which the future historian will record
| with incredibly. 1t was q speech which all
Union soldiers will read with amazement,
| pain and anger. There were in it the crack
| of the old slave whip, the truculent threat.
| and the plantation swagger OF the old days.
| The old slave dogma that there IS no virtue
| except in violence was again exempllhed.
| Ben Hill, in the name OF the united South,
| and speaking of it as of foreign country,
has returned to threaten-to nuify-the
| acts of the government which he betrayed,
| and to announce q determination to control
| tha government which he disOwned and
which has pardoued him, protesting that he
was citizen of the whole country.
The speech was narrow, bigoted and
meanly sectional. 1t raked dead hate; u
| showed the bitterness of an unconquered
| and uusubdued rebel. The Interior pur-
pose of his speech was very plain-it was
to show the North nat the South has de-
termined to do wit III The Union what IL
found impossible t., accomplish by seces-
| sion-that the South intends to take posses
| 81 IN of the government whose life 1t sought,
and Of the flag which it detested, and rule
the North. His words were RI Ain:
"When the South went out Of the Union,
she went hugging the constitution to her
bosom. and che comes back bringing it with
her,"
Turning to the Republican side, he said
the South had been driven from the Union
bv a higher law-fanaticism-w never
kept a pledge or obeyed law, and that
the South had come back to compel fanatl-
cism to obey the law and live in accordance
with the constitution. Hill seemed to burn
into the hearts of tho Republican members.
In his fury, impudept and arrogant passion,
one could almost see the camp tire bun nlng.
Hill denied that jeff Davis knew OF the An
dersonville atrocities, when it is fact that
| there are score of papers on file IN the
Confederate archives OF the inspector and
that Davis knew of the atrocj lies there and
did not interfere. These papers are all
vized in Davis own hand.
There are rumOrs that tn Democrats
alarmed by the ultra unrepentant character
of Ben Hills speech. have endesvored te
get him to modify it before it appears in the
Record, and to strike out some OF the more
Questionable passages. These passaget
can not be erased from the memories anc
note books of all who heard him.
Here are some of his extraordinary state
ments: Ben Hill, an amnestied rebel, said
thst he could forgive-he used the wore
: ..torgiye"-the Union soldiers for what they
did to the South, but he would not forgive
the politician. He contrasted Genera
with Andersonville, and thought Davis tn
better man. Ho charged the murder OF thu
Andersonville prisoners upon Secretar!
, Stanton.
He admitted that he introduced Q resolu
. ton in the Confederate Senate declaring
, that after the emancipation proclamation
every Union soldier found on Southern sol
: should be treated as murderer. tie )usti
fed this resolution in the House to-day, ant
. was applauded for it by the Demoeratl
, members. Some of the Union soldier
among the Democrats looked on in surpris
and silent pain. Reagan, jeff Davis Post
master General, also a Representative
, helped Ben Hill with his facts. Ben Hill
said, with an air Of threatening triumph
1.-The South is here and she intends to re
. | main. We are in our fathers house, an
We are at home, thank God" He appeale
| to the shades of Fillmore, Cass. an
!. | Douglas. to aid the united South to put tn
/. North under it's feet.
f The Democrats themselves concede tina
= thew have made great blunder by permit
3 | ting this subject to come up for debate
Q That 1t did is due entirely to uEskillfulnes
= in parliamentary leadership on the part Q
!. the Democracy. They had it in their pOwe
{ | to stop all debate. They have succeeded
= surrendering the entire control of the sui
+ iect matter into Republican hands. Tn
r amnesty proposition has now practicall
r become an affirmative measure, by whlc
o the Republican party proposes to amneet
q every rebel in the South, with the single 9,
9 ception of JEFF Davis. 1t Is this propositlo
q which the Democrats oppose. General "a
a fieid haa the floor tomorrow, and is prepa
f ing an elaborate speech to show the fea
> character of the Outrages 1T the Soutner
!. nrieons. There are Q number Of Democrat
, who arc urging that NO reply be made
Z Garfield. no that tho ball be stopped, bt
Q the chances arc that side will speak. -.
Q There il general expectation that al
o | Reagan. who was Q member OF the Dav
: Cebfnet, viii rel obliged to defend DAvi
| ~. Blaine viii close tho debate, and be O.
1 | poe1 to show, beyond question. that Je