The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-02-28

The stories that are told by various
| newspaper correspondents Of the last
/ hours OF the Senate debate on the bill TO
\ cheat creditors carry us back to a time
I before the War, which no respectable
I American remembers without a blush
1 In that barbarous and riotous era, when
/ the "high-toned plantation Statesman"
/ was generally halfdrunk aud alwa-s
/ quarrelsome, and the typical Bourbon
/ Congressman was a fiery person Of over.
I bearing department., magnificent as.
sumptions and unlimited ignorancc. who
/ punotsated conversation with blasphcmy
enlivened the dullness Of political debate
with brawls and duels, and never went
TO the Capitol without a loaded pistol in
his hip pocket, we were accustomed to
strange spectacles within the chambers
OF legislation. Honorable gentlemen
often stammered in their speech. wan
dored in their argument and reposed
heavily on the sofas after a few visits to
the cloak room. A different class Of gen
tlemen came into the Senate and the
House when our seeding friends march.
ed out, and different behavior prevailed
But when the old slave drivers come
back they seem 10 be bringing their bad
old manners with them.
We had an astonishing illustration of
their hectoring and clustering spirit the
other day when they made their indie
cent attack upon the United States
Military Academy The incidents OF
that occurrence are still fresh in the
memory OF the public, and the loyal peo-
pie will not soon forget the spectacle,
never paralleled, We believe, in the his
tory Of a constitutional State, Of defeated
rebels who have been not only pardoncd.
but restored to political power by the
clemency OF their outraged Government.
making quick use OF sheir newly regained
privileges TO destroy the staunch little
army which whipped them into submis-
sion
They boosted Of their rebeliious feats
Of arms. They strobe fiercely back aud
forth through the assembly Haunting the
names OF their insurgent leaders. And
when the North stood up against them.
they cracked the slave whip as they used
to do Of old, and filed the air with vul-
gar menace aud blackguard invectiYe
They did not spare Northern men Of
their own party. Mr.. Hewitt. who CON
ducted himself in the midst OF this h0arse
upFoar like a mrn Of sense, gallantry
aud good breeding. was attacked with a
rancOr, an insOlence, q grossness, of
which the telegraphed reports give no
adequate description. Some Of the worst
incidents of the scandalous debate have
been generally suppressed by the CORES
pOndenls Several Southern members,
whose names do not appear in the re
ports, were guilty Of behavior quite as
bad as that OF Mr.. Ellis, OF Louisiana.
VINO told Mr.. Hewitt that "he lied in his
heart and in his false throat, words
for which Mr. Hewitt Immediately com
PEELED him to apologize And OF course
no written description can convey more 4
than an idea OF the brutal manner in
which ~ these brutal remarks were de-
livered
If the gentlemen on the other side Of
the Potomac wish 10 create a solid North. 1
they have only TO 60 on IN the way they 4
seem to have chosen. Ia this section OF .
the country there is a sincere desire for .
peace, good-fellowship the obliteration Of |
geographical boundaries in politics, and
all the other phenomena Of the millen-
mum but we do not propose to be kick /.
ed and cursed as poor Cutie was. There 4
is limit even to the forbearanCe and 4
good nature OF the North. aud 10 seems to 4
us that the Bourbon has pretty nearly /.
reached it.-[ y. Y. Tribune.