The daily gazette., 1877-12-03
PATTERSON'S SPEECH.
cAUsrIc CRITICISM ON EDMUNDs AN

CAUSTIC CRITICISM ON FDMUNDS AND |
coNKLING-THE SOUTHERN POLICY.
WASHINGTON, November 30.-In the |
debate in the Louisiana contested cleo
ton case to-day Mr.. Patterson (rep), of
South Carolina, made speech in which
he arrai med the Presidents southern
policy. He said:
The republicans of South Carolina
today owe o the clemency of the victors
whatever of protection remains to them,
and not to the administration they be-
lieved in, toiled for and inaugurated.
They would have suffered in silence and
borne the ills that republicanism is heir
to in that region could they but discover
/ elsewhere in the South that era of good
feeling. disintegration of their oppo-
nents, or even the uprising of the old
| line whig element, which was so conf
dently prophesied and fondly anticipated.
The good feeling is confined to exulta-
ton over the universal southern demo-
cratic domination. The South is solid,
and the Olt,esine wings remain undiscov-
cred, except through the offer Of large
premiums in the shape Of lucrative do
domestic and foreign appointments.
With these strong incentives to put in an
| dnSC, buClt huLAoOlG Chh OC SOont-
ed upon the fingers and they have
followed so many strange gods since the
death of that noble old party, and been
80 frequently rehabilitaLed in new cos
tunes, that they defy recognition by
their most intimate acquaintances.
While the President was known to be
meditating this act which "let slip the
dogs of war" upon the republicans of
the South, some of the republican sena>
tors who now assail me with harsh criti-
cism because vote according to the die
tates of my judgment and my conscience
upon question which is in no proper
sense party question, were either cold'y
neutral, or were actively giving aid and
comfort to the Hampton government. 1
repudiate and disOwn The authority of
such as these to pass judgment upon my
fidelity to the Republican party. re-
member, Sir, the tremendous political
crisis of last March, when the fate, not
only of the Republican party, but of this
great nation seemed TO have been in the
trembling balance.
Conkling and Edmu1adS Ercoriated.
There were whispers of "holy or
unhcly alliances" then, and it was
spoken in tones louder than "whispers''
that the distinguished senator from
New Y ork, now the republican Achil
les of the Senate, would eitheir join
1.-The war against his republican com
peers, or retire in the batIle that was
big with the fate of his party. Yet
nv voice, Sir, did not swell the cul
rent of false surmise that imputed med
lated perfidy TO the honorable sens
tor from New York. Mr.. President,
cannot refrain from noticing briefly
and Justice to myself demands that /
should notice it, the ferocious attack
made upon me by the senator from
Vermont (Edmunds.) That senator
!. read upon the floor of the Senate on
last Monday libelous article against
: me, written by some unknown person.
r That article, false, scandalous and ms
Ilicious, was retailed to the country by
n the honorable senator, who virtually
gave to it the weight and sanction O.
! his high authority by making it thu
n declared ground of resolution sui
:. mitted to the Senate to investigate
conduct which it most falsely imputed
g to me, and which had from m,
place In the Senate most solemnly d.
It MED engaging in. While the gentl,
= man was thus engaged In making thi
malignant attack upon me he disclain
: ed all personal hostility to me, and e!
y pressed his regret that his sense o
y duty compelled HIM thus to move il
70 vindication of "the honor of the Sci
It ate." The old Scotch poet Ferguson
It must have gazed with the eye of pr
) phecy into the future when he wrOt,
the verse:
q In robes of seeming truth and trust
n Came sly diss imulation,
q And underneath glided crust
,r Lurked dirty defamation.
The majority OF the Senate by thei
|, vote upon the motion of the senate
y from Vermont, lecided that "the ho
s or of the Senate" did not require tina
a they should give their sanction to
proceeding in which an honorable
Is senator converted himself into q mer'
Is huckster of anonymous libels. Miltol
IL describes the grim FORTRESS of hell d
half human and half snake. Their,
~ are human actions, Sir, 80 basely malig
" to satisfy me that this horrible com
pound finds its counterpart in natur
l. itself. Mr.. President, before l conclud
IL QeblE0 W say u Wolu hiOlO 10 W bu
t southern policy, so called, inaugurate
by the President of the United State
GA March last, and since prosecute
by him with most singular ardor an
with an effect most damaging to tn
cause of true republicanism in tn
10 southern states. l shall speak wit
becoming respect OF the President ,by
as must bear in mind that he owes h
OF exalted position to the votes of reput
v. licans south as we'll as north. AS
4. understand that policy in its final ana
IL lysis, and it is of some consequence,
T. means the abandonment Of politics
in friends to concilate political foes.
rd makes the further mistake of assumin
n that it is the democratic South th
e. must be conclliated, whereas it is til
at mighty republican North that shodl
q be conciliated. This scheme or polio
be of conciliatlon Involves am informe
a the rehabilitation or revival of the oil
of Whig party as necessary agent
VA secure its permanent success.
t" A VALLEY OF DRY BONES.
If the President can effect this, if