The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-12-15
JOB WORK.
RANSOM KNU I[OAR.
nov Il CT VILTERi iSC1LHED
Il IIOUNDIEEAD.

Meritod Castigation for an Unwar-
ranted Insult Oh tho South -RnnBom's
Prostration..
During tho al night squabblo i'll
the Senate over the. admission Of
Butler, md nftor tho Senators had
become sleepy and mritated, Hoar,
of Massachusetts. remarked that the
speech of Senator Ransom, of
North Carolina, was unbecomine
his Senatorial character. TMnsom
rotortod, and then Hoar said these
words:
''It is a strange! thing that any
whore tho common law or the
Christian law prevails, thore should
be found communities in which out
rages of this charactcr--not ono,
but u hundred, all over 4 wido Soc
ton of country-should prevail, and
among tho mombors of ono largo
party, and there should not be
found ono man who either will
refuse to profit by them,> will raise
his hand to spot thom, or oven in
any kind of investigation. will re-
port thom honestly"
As Hoar snid this ho partly I'D
vanccd across the aroa towards RAN
som. Then Ransom replied with
such feeling that he was soized with
hohrt attack Mt the end and nearly
dod under the physicians.-Sena
tors Withers and Dennis. There
are at least three doctors in tho
Senate.
Tho following aro soloctod para
graphs from, the impetuous stream
of Ransom's speech:
"Who Of lis has profted by these
wrongs? If was to tell in this
chamber here tonight what wo
have undergone for the last ten
years, there is not a hair upon the
head of a Senator here who has tho
impulses of man that would not
stand on end at what wo havo un-
dorgone. Proftod by such wrongs
He speaks of whole communities
40 engaged. Docs it become an
American Senator to throw, I will
not say dirt, but cnlumny, upon
8,0o0,0o0'of peoples, upon thirteen
great States,, upon the sons and
daughters of mon who have illus
tratod American history with
glory that docs not pale before that
of Massachusetts herself?' And if
these things are to be denounced,
who is responsible for them 7 Hero
to-day we havo witnessed upon tho
floor Of the Senate Oh assault by a
leading Republican upon Repub-
lican Senator Of this body, ono of
your own mon Pattersone You
say yourselves by your votes ho
ought to be investigated; ono of
the mon that your party put over
us. Who has had control of tho
Southern States for tho last ten
years? The Republican party.
You have had control of them; you
have had the army: you have had
the navy; you have had tho treasu-
ry you have had the judiciary ;
you have had everything in, your
hands; and,thon you come here and
undertake to'lay at our door-when
our hands wore tied, whom we wore
shacklcd, whom we could not lift
our heads in tho land of our fathers
you como hero to undertake to
lay all crimes resulting from your
misgovernmont at our door. This
is what you have dono.
Mr.. President, I do not want to
sny anything personal. + will not
say anything personal hore. If
could conceive that T had said a
word unbecoming myself or unjust
to tho Senntor from Massachusetts,
l should retraot IT, I should hold
myself q coward if I did not do so.
l would not permit tho character OF
the humblcst negro in tho Carolinas
would not allow tho character OF
the'poorost man that walks this
oarth,, to be destroyed by such
testimony as has just been read
and whom, he had not boon hoard ir
his own dofonce; !, and when ap-
pealed to Senator from Massa,
chusetts, that great cradle O.
liberty, to stand by these principles
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