The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-04-25

Mr.. Hale, OF Maine, made speech,
criticising Democratic appointments in
the House, and eulogizing General
Shields.
B1r. Blackburn, of Kentucky, replied,
and in the course of his remarks said !:
"It is the part Of ghouls and hyenas to
delve into the trenches where putrid car
casses are buried, and drag them out to
batten and fatten upor the feast 1t is
not manhood. They have been brought
out again to-day. II YVES left to the gen.
tlemen from Massachusetts, and Maine to
refuse to allow O subordinate officer Of
the House to be elected without fighting
the war over again. False charges have
been hurled against us, and not for the
first time, neither. We have been told
here to-day that the candidate who has
been nominated in the Democratic eau
Gus for the doorkeeper of this House de.
served, by every law, human and divine.
to have been hanged. We have been
told (using him as an average specimen
of the element which embraces 100000
of the people of the land) that they were
all breathing miserable existence at
suferance, and we're indebted for their
poor miserable lives to the magnanimity
of the Republican party. That has been
told to US year after year, and it is told
to us to-day. 1t is false, and the false
hood should wither and die on the lips
that last uttered it. How was it possible,
l ask, for a man who belonged to the
army of the Confederacy to have been
hanged after the terms of surrender and
capitulation had been agreed upon !
Do you mean to say that the well-earned
reputation for courage and gallantry and
manhood which the soldiers of the Union
army had illustrated by overwhelming
and conquering my people was to be
blotted and blurred, for the first time in
the history of civilized warfare, by this
government ignoring the conditions of
surrender and hanging unarmed men
whom it had agreed to protect in order
to induce them to lay down their arms ?
Mr.. Butler denied having made use of
any such expression.
Mr.. Blackburn-When q member of
the House asserts that this nominated
candidate of the Democratic party for
the doorkeepership deserved, by every
law, human and divine, to have been
hanged, and when that utterance is ac-
companied with the boast that he alone
stood by that law and executed it, /
would like to know what Interpretation
or construction can possibly be given to
his language except that the Confede-
rates we're to be hanged when the power
| m hon thpu, yua q ponfarrnd
Mr.. Butler-Not after we had agreed
not to.
Mr.. Blackburrl-It is time, Sir, that
this thing should stop; it is time that
false charges should cease to be made
and that truth should be observed. 1t is
time that it should be admitted without
doing violence to the plighted faith with
which your country Tor our country, if
that will suit you better) had pledged ;
the men who wore tie uniform on the
other side should no longer be refused
admission to every personal right, privi-
lege and prerogative of citizenship, so
long as they observe the conditions OF
their parole. L, is time it should be ad-
mitted that these men from then until
now were not only entitled to every light
of personal liberty and property under
the constitution of the country, but that
they should become the objects of pro-
! lection at the hands of the dominant
party itself, and that your solemn prom
ises, and that your word deliberately
given should not be violated, as it cannot
be violated without rendering infamous
the man who dares to do it. / am sorry
that it was necessary for member of the
House to remind us of the exercise OF
what he chooses to term clemency, but
which impartial history will denominate
but common fairness, and that in illus
trating this magnanimity for which he
claims such credit to his party it was
necessary for him to parade before us
boastfully the execution of an unarmed,
helpless prisoner, the only man believe
whom the history of that war shows to
have been killed or injured on the Con-
federate side oy the warrior from Massa-
chusetts. Loud laughter and applause
on the Democratic side.
After some further discussion, the pre-
vious question having been seconded, the
first vote was taken on the resolution Of
fered by Mr.. Clymer, of Pennsylvania, as
substitute for Mr.. Buffers resolution
that the House do now proceed to the
election of Doorkeeper, and it was adop-
ted-yeas 123, nays 1O9-a strict party
vote, with the exception of Messrs. Col
lins, of Pennsylvania, and Cutler, ofNew
Jersey, who voted with the Republicans
in the negative.
On the announcement of the vote, Mr.,
Clymer, of Pennsylvania, rose and said
nominate Charles w. Field, a citizen Of
Georgia, as Doorkeeper of this House.
Mr.. Butler Of Massachusetts, nomi-
nate the gallant, Christian, loyal, tried
and true Union Soldier of two wars, Jas
Shields, Brigadier General of the United
States army. Laughter.
Mr.. Randolph, of TENNESSEE nomi'
nate for Doorkeeper Union soldier, g
gentleman who fought three years in the
war, who acquitted himself with honor
and credit, and who bears the mark o.
lead on his body to-day, whose name is
John H. Trent, of Morristown, Tenn.
The vote was then taken, and resulted
For Charles w. Field, 123-all cast by
Democrats; for James Shields, 1Ol-all
but one cast by Republicans, and thai
one being cast by Mr.. Springer, of Hi
nois; for John H. Trent, S-cast by
Messrs Everett, Bayne, Evans, O'Neill
White and Hamer, Of Pennsylvania
Randolph, of Tennessee, and Bagley, o.
New York. Upon the announcement o.
the vote Charles w. Field was declared
duly elected, and was thereupon sworr
in, taking the modified oath.
MIR. Clarke, of Missouri asked unani
nous consent to introduce for presen
consideration bill authorizing the Pres
ident to appoint Jas. Shields, of Missouri
Brigadier General of the United State:
army on the retired list, his pay to com
mence from the time of the passage o
the bill.
Mr.. White, of Pennsylvania, objected
Mr.. Clarke moved to suspend the rule
and pass the bill.
Mr.. White made the point of orde
that that motion was not in order unit
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