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would no, read the testimony OF Gen.

would not read the testimony OF Gen
tral Butler.
Mr. Wgdloigh said no thought Il
best to put la Que side OF the ease first
Mr. Hoar said that the senator from
North Carolina Mr. Ransom) assumed
II style oi speech uubeComlng him.
Mr. Ransom Mr. President
Mr. Hoar (eXoitedly) / do notyield,
have the floor, lie mr. Hoar) must
say that II was q strange thing that
| any place where common law or chris
tian law prevailed that outrages should
Oo committed, and among the mem.
bor OF n great party not member
was found TO raise his hand TO stop
them.
Mr.. Ransom said he had the floor
by the courtesy 0f the senator fIom
New Hampshire (Mr, Wadleigh) hut
the senator from Massachusetts (Mr.
Hoarl interrupted him and tho claim.
ed the floor That senator during hia
remarks took occasion first to reflect
upon him, then upon the party with
which he acted and upon the section
which he loved, He desired 10 say,
once for all, that when he desired to
he instructed as 20 what was becoming,
he trusted he should have the good
sense 10 geek that instruction from
other sources than the senator from
Massachusetts, (Mr, Hoar) When he
(Mr Rausoml made the statement
that In no civilized community inan
could he condemned without an Oppor.
tunity o. GROSS examine the witness,
was it an answer for tho senator from
Massachusetts, Mr.. Hoar) to say that
Ia no country would such u wrong be
committed as had been in the south ?
That answer WAS unbec0ming his
character aud unheoomiug the senator
from Massachusetts Mr.. HOar.) Moth
ing prevented him (Mr. I|ansom) from
using u harsh term 10 denounce the
statement OF the senator from Massa.
chusetts Hoar.-but the properties
of the senate chamber. There was
not good man in the south who had
not denounced oil outrages. Did
II become an American senator to
throw calumy upon 5000, 900 Of people
upon thirteen great states-whose
glory did not pale before that OF the
state of Massachusetts, herself? But
senators had witnessed an assault
made By the other side OF the cham
Der upon one Of their own number;
one whom the policy of the republic
cans put over the people OF the south.
The republicans had had the control of
that section, They had the army,
navy and the judiciary, and now they
under AXE TO lay their own crimes at
the door OF the southern people. II
his (Mr. Ransom's) manner was strong
or Objectionable, he could not help it.
He desired to say to the senator
from Massachusetts, (Mr. HOar,) that
when he-Mr. Ransom saw man
come, who was the peer Of all, In
whose veins dow the blood Of Oliver
Perry, when he heard that bright
name assailed, he must defend.
Mr., Hill, Of Georgia, said he desired
to appeal to the sense of justice OF the
senator from Massachusetts Mr.. Hoar)
to know what this discussion about
the Hamburg trouble had to do with
the election of either Mr.. Corbin or
Butler?
Mr.. Cameron--Has not Butler been
indicted?
Mr.. Hill--He has not been indicted.
He has asked to be, but u republican
solicitor said the evidence was not
sufficient.
Mr.. WadIeigh again quoted from the
evidence before the South Carolina
committee, and said that the Kuklux
had not been denounced by
the democratic party.