Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-12-05

of . resolution, submitted to the Sen.
ate, to Investigate conduct which 1t
most falsely imputed to me. and which
l had, from my place in the Senate.
most solemnly denied engaging in
While the gentlemen was thus engaged
in making this malignant attack upon
me be disclaimed all personal tostility
to me, and expressed his regret that
bis sense of duty compelled him thus
to move in vindication of .'the honor
Of the Senate" The old Scotch poet,
Ferguson, must have gssed with the
eye of prophesy into the future whes
he wrote the verse:
s.In robes of seemine truth and trust
Came slv dissimilafion;
And underneath gilded crust
Lurked dirty d,tamstion.''
The majority Of the Senate, BY their
vote upon the motion Of the Senator
from Vermont, decided that "the hon
or Of the Senate" did not require that
they should give their sanction to a
proceeding in which an honorable Sen.
ator converted himself into a mere
huckster Of anonomous Iibels.
READY TO MEET THE INDICTMENT.
1n regard to the indictment against
me, l desire to say that am ready to
meet it bofors any impartial jury of my
countrymen, but not in the tribunal In
which that indictment has already fore
stalled the judgment of the jury and
denied the accused the privilege OF au
impartial hearing. He went on 10 say
that the bill was found on the 30th OF
August, and that two days before the
Presiding Judge addressed the grand
jury to his detriment. This Judge
counseled against the accused, and
evoked the hate and passion of civil
war and political excitement against
him by branding HIM as ga creature of
milltarp conquest"
Mr.. Patterson argued that NJ. c.
Butler had no connection with the Ham
burg riot, that the Hampton Govern
ment had oeen recognized by the Pres
ident and Supreme Court of South
Carolina. He commented on the ad-
ministrstiOn Of Governor Cham berlain,
and said at one time he was acceptable
to the Democrats of South Caroliua,
and again commenting on the policy of
the administration, said the reason the
Hamburg rioters were not punished
laid with the man whom we placed in
the y bite House that's the msn who
.'backs the arm of justice that murder-
ers may 60 free," aud yet Senators
talked to him about leaving the Repub
lican party. The man at the other end
of the avenue was responsible tor those
Hamburg criminals not being punished.
He was the m1n who protected mur-
derers but wanted thieves sent TO the
peuitentiary. Other Senator'S had the
right to vote against Pinchback, and
he had the same right to vote for But
Ter. Freedom of opinion was granted
them, but with him differen; course
had been pursued aud be had been de-
Dounced AID vilifed. Distinguished
Cabinet officers could leave tie ranks
aud vote for the nominees of the Balti-
more Convention, and on their return
have the fatied calf killed. la his
case how different, " hen did the ques.
tion of high privilege of admitting
Senator on the floor become partisan
1t was one of law and justice, aud he
was actusted by no other motive. Con-
tinu.pg, he said: | shall no; permit
myself TO be drawn into any turther
discussion of the subject here OF else
where shall bear in silence, with
such philosophy as | may command,
the sneers of enemies. ths yituperstion
of bIackguards and the criticism of
friends. One thing may as well be un-
ders.ooi. | am, and shall remain as
long as life lasts, in heart, soul aud ac-
ton, Republican, true to its trsdi-
tions and principles, and all the labor
employed to drive me out Of lis organ
izatIon or make me falter in its devo-
ton to human principles will be utterly
thrown away.
AN ATTACK ON THE SOUTHERN POLICY
Mr. Patterson then referred to the
habit of sneering at people who moved
South for any purpose whatever, and
took up the Presidents Southern pol
icy, which he said was damaging TO the
TO the Republican party. Ii meant the
abandonment of political friends to
conciliate political foes. 1t involved,
so he understood, the resurrection of
the old Wing party; but this was i'm
possible. Whatever the policy in the
ory II was certainly no protection for
the Republicans IN the Southern States
1t was built in broken political trust
and its corner stoue was laid in black
But the Republicans were
not dead-they were only sleeping, and
time would aveDge thus great wrong.
He believed Hampton was an honor
able man, but benign as we're his pur
poses there was power behind the
throne stronger than rhe throne itself,
and be sat silent and inactive while the
State was terrorized and Republicans
we're crowded into the Jail at Columbia
through fragment political conspiracy
prosecuted By Democratic officials
against them under the forms oflaw.
Patterson voted for Butler and for
Kellogg.
"a HUNDRED LAsHEs is a forfeiture
which can be taken with more pre-
cision than Shylock's pound of flesh.