The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-12-13
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were actively giving aid and comfort to
the Hampton government. i repudiate
and disown the authority Of such as
these to pass judgment upon my fidelity
OF the Republican party. | remember
sir, the tremendous political crisis of last
/ March, when the fate not only of the Re
publican party, but of this great Nation,
seemed to hang on a trembling balance.
/ There were whispers of holy or unholy
/ alliances then, and it was spoken in tones
/ louder than whispers that the distin-
/ guished Senator from New York, now
/ the Republican Achilles Of the Senate,
would either join in the war against his
| Republican cOmpeers or retire in moody
wrath to his tent, bearing no part in the
battle that was big with the fate of his
/ party. Yet my voice, sir, did not swell
the current false surmise that imputed
meditated perfdy to the honorable Sen
ator from New York
Mr.. President, / cannot refrain from
noticing briefly, and justice to myself
demands that / should notice ii, the fe.
rocious attack made upon me by the
Senator from Vermont Mr.. Edmunds l.
that the Senator read, upon the floor Of
the Senate on last Monday, libelous
article against me- written by some un-
known person. That article, false, scan
dalous and malicious, was retailed to the
country by the honorable Senator, who
virtually gave to it the right and sane
tion of his high authority, by making it
the declared ground of a resolution sub
mitted to the Senate, to investigate the
conduct, which is most falsely imputed
to me, and which / had from my place in
the Senate most solemnly denied engag-
ing in. While the gentleman was thus
engaged in making this malignant at
tack upon me he disclaimed all personal
hostility to me, and expressed regret that
his sense of duty compelled him thus to
move in vindication OF the honor OF the
Senate. The old Scotch poet Mr.. Fer
guson, must have gazed with the eye of
prophesy into the future when he wrote
the verse
"In robes OF seeming truth and trust
Came sly dissimuiation,
And underneath gided crust
Lurked dirty defamation"
The majority Of the Senate by their
vote upon the motion of the Senator
from Vermont decided that the honor Of
the Senate did not require that they
should give their sanction to a proceed.
ing in which an honorable Senator con-
verted himself into a mere huckster Of
anonymous libels Milton describes the
grim FORTRESS of hell as half human and
half sng ke. There are acts. sir, so basely
malignant and so indecently venomous
as to satisfy me that this horrible COM
pound finds its counterpart in nature
itself
In regard to the indictment against
me, desire to say that | am ready to
meet il before any impartial jury of my
,fpvrr hut ta FwfI al -.
that indictment was found has already
forestalled the judgment of the jury and
denied the accused the privilege of an
impartial hearing The bill was found !
on the Both day Of August last. at Colum- |
bia. Two days previous to the finding. |
the presiding Judge, addressing the |
grand jury as to all persons charged with |
offenses in the several bills there exhib |
tied in open Court. all of which persons /
were known as Republicans, used the /
following language, which | extract from /
the full charge, as published in the /
Charleston News and Courier OF August |
%, 1877, which, / am assured, was print 1
ed from the original manuscript, in the /
Judges own hand: "The party to which 1
they the accused belonged was crea- /
ture of military conquest which they /
wrested from the other party. then the /
rightiul heritage, to govern the State Of /
South Carolina" And again, he said |
"Juries are too apt to permit the guilty |
to escape through fear that the innocent /
may suffer, but you must avoid this amia- /
bic error. were ever persons accused Of /
so grave offenses against the statutes /
classed before by their political or party /
relations. Did ever Judge before /
thus boldly attempt to reverse the mer-
ciful maxim Of law that il is better that 1
ninety and nine guilty men should es- /
cape unpunished than that one innocent |
should suffer The law humanely holds |
that the Judge is the counsel Of the pris- |
oner, SO far as it may be necessary to Sc !
cure for every man accused, and eyokes |
the hates and passions OF civil war and !
political excitement against him by
branding him as a creature Of military
conquest. In such a Court trial means
conviction without regard to the law and
evidence, and | have, therefore, deter
mined to resist by all lawful means the
execution Of any process designed to
bring me within Is jurisdiction.
Mr. Patterson argued that NJ. G. But
Ter had no connection with the Ham
burg riot that the Hampton Govern
ment had been recognized by the Presi-
dent and the Supreme Court Of South
NafOlinaf anu aEalu 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 White House That is the
man who locks the arms Of justice that
murderers may 90 free Aud yet Sena-
tors talked to him about leaving the Re
publican party.
The man at the other end of the ave
nue. is responsible for these Hamburg
criminals not beiug punished. lie was
the man who protected murderers, but
wanted thieye- sent to the penitentiary.
/ Other Senators had the right to vote
/ against seating Pinchhack and kellogg
| have the same right to vote to seat
/ General Butler.
do not mean in what have said in
regard 90 the yotas OF The Senators or the
policy OF the Administration, to assail