The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-31
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FORTY-FTF7H CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.
An Interesting Tilt Between Maine and Massa'
ohusetts- Loyalty and DlslOyalty-The Capitals
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of petitions from New Yrk State wert
presented and referred, favoring the re
monetization of silver and the repeal Of
the specie resumption act.
A number of bills were introduced anC
referred.
The report Of the Joint Select Com
mittee on Chinese immigration was re
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Re
lations.
Mr. Withers presented petition rep
resenting 5000 de2ositors in the Rich
mond branch of the Freedman's Savings
Bank, asking Congress to reimburse theil
loss in the institution. Referred.
Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported with amend
ments the House bill for the payment tc
officers and soldiers of the Mexican wal
the three months extra pay provided
for by the act of July l6.h, lS4S, Placed
on the calendar.
The Vice President laid before the
Senate a communication from the Secre'
tary of War in regard to reimbursing the
State of Texas for expenses incurred by
said State in repelling invasions by Ia
dians and Mexicans. Referred.
On motion of Mr.. Conkling it was or
dered that the papers now in the files Of
the Senate, relating to the case Of Major
Runkle, be taken from the files and re-
ferred to the Committee on Judiciary.
At the ex piration of the morning hour
statue of William King, contributed by
Maine to the National statuary, was &C.
Cepted and Senators Hamlin and Blaine
made addresses.
Mr. Blaine alluded to the remarks of
his colleague, as to William King having
been chosen by Maine for the distin.
guished honor of her first representative
in the National gallery, be"ause first Of
all he was influential in erecting the dis.
triCt of Maine into free and lndepend.
ent State, and said the connection of the
district with Massachusetts had become
exceedingly distasteful, l might say in.
tolerable, to the majority of our people,
and a sentiment amounting well nigh to
rancor and hatred could be satisfied with
nothing less than separation. This dis.
like which was mutual and had been
growing for years, was strongly infamed
by the war of 1912 and resulting polite.
al differences. Massachusetts was deep
ly hostile to the war and did all in her
power to embarrass its prosecution
Maine stood firmly by the Administra
ton of Madison in upholding the honor
of the flag. The majority of her people
regarded the attitude of Massachusetts,
toward the General Government during
that struggle as thoroughly unpatriotiC,
if not reasonable. ParticipauCy in the
Hartford Convention, or any sympathy
with its proceedings or its aims, was po.
litical death and we'll nigh social ostra.
cism to any man in Maine. The contra.
ry spirit prevailed in Massachusetts,, and
the venerable William Widgery, who
represented the Maine district in Con-
gress and voted for the declaration of
war against Great Britain, vas seriously
threatened with mob violence as he
passed through Massachusetts on his
way homeward. Mr. Blaine continued
at some length in similar strain and
concluded as follows: Through all
these trying and troublous scenes in
which it was necessary to control the
public sentiment of two peoples, it is diff
ticult to state, it is quite impossible to
oVerstate, the sagacity, the ability, the
address, the force, in one word the lead.
ership, of William King. Maine and
Massachusetts came finally to dread him
after she had long hated him. Inhuenc.
ing the two populations with equal skill,
governing one through love and the 9th.
or through fear, he became finally COM
plete master of the situation, and attain.
ed the end for which he had iabored for
30 many years with patient fidelity, with |
commanding ability, with Consummate
tact.
Mr.. Dawes-Mr. President, before the
Senate passes the resolution it is possible
that some words from Massachusetts |
may be pardoued. know that it is an
intrusion to undertake to ask the atten.
tion of the Senate, outside of the arrange
ments of the Senators from Maine, upon
this interesting occasion; but l do feel
that it is not only proper, but that it is
my duty, poorly as l may be able to dis,
charge that duty, to express in the name
of Massachusetts, my great regret that the
eminent virtues and distinguished char.
actPr OF the first Governor of Maine could
not have been spread upon the records
of the Senate, and the evidence of that
character and the estimate in which he
was held by all who knew him, gather.
ed as we'll from tie records of Massachu-
setts as from those of Maine, presented
here without attempting to take up the
embers of an already expired and buried
political animoSity that Massachusetts as
we'll as Maine regrets, ano that Massa.
Chusetts has done quite as much as
Maine to obIterate. would not abate
one jot of all that has been said by the
Sena or from Maine in respect to the dis.
tinguished first Governor of that State,
once citizen of my own State, but l re.
gret that to-day there can be found in
Maine any one who cannot read the his
tory of the times in which he performed
80 prominent part except through the
prejudices, and bitterness, and injustice
of the party animosities that distinguish.
ed those days, but have long since passed
away. Without deserving to mar the
beauty and character of such an occasion
as this, feel that it is my duty to pro.
test, in the name Of the State represent
here, against the impression that what
has been said in reference to her this day
is true history of her connection or her
relation with and her treatment of the
Colony of Maine, or the distinguished
men in the Colony who brought out in
the end her independence as a State.
Mr.. Hoar said Mr.. President, l have
hesitated upon the question whether the
requirements of good taste would be best
satisfied by remaining silent or by speak.
ing at this time. certainly agree with I,
the eulogies which the Senators from the
State of Maine have uttered in regard TO
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