Daily globe., 1878-02-14

that he should not have made the reply
however, as reflection on every Southern
member.
Mr.. Hewitt Of New York, then addressed
the chair in the midst of confusion and e1-
element.
Mr.. Fort suggested that public business
should be proceeded with.
Mr.. Townsend, New York, excitedly-Asa
Southern man he. House, has just had time
given him. why not give Northern man,
Hewitt, time. Laughter and applause.]
necessity for SO much excitement.
Mr.. Durham demanded the regular order
of business, but the call was only laughed at
on both sides of the House and without any
diminution of the excitement and confusion
Mr.. Hewitt again took the floor. He said he
was glad to hear what had fallen from the
lips of the gentleman from Tennessee, Mr..
House. The remark that he had taken ex-
ception to was that of the gentleman from
South Carolina (Mr. Aiken) that he would
vote for the abolition and sale of West
Point. He (Mr. Hewitt) did not believe
there was another member from the South
ern States who would give his assent to that
proposition, and hence in repudiating that
declaration as he had felt bound to repudiate
it, as Democrat whose motives might be
called in question, he had expressly
limited his assertion to the State from
which that gentleman (Mr. Aiken) came.
He had expected to hear from other mem
bers of that State whether they assented to
the proposition of their colleague. There
had been no intention on his part to include
any other portion of the South. He knew
that they were to-day as loyal and true to the
Union as any set of men in the country. 1t
was for that reason he had devoted two
years of his life to effort to have the consti-
tutional rights of the South recognized, and
the strong arm of the military power with
drawn from the South. No matter what
might have been the result of this struggle
on his part the country would bear him wit
ness that it was due to it that the
military power did not to-day
dominate in Louisiana and South
Carolina. If in the final hour of
that terrific scene in which his party and his
country had been robbed of their rights
assurance had not been given that military
domination should cease, he had reason to
know that the electoral count would never
have been completed within the halls OF
Congress. What would the union be with
out freedom to the States, and without free.
dom to individuals. That had been secured
He confessed when he heard it said he was a
slanderer of southern Republicans, his blood
had boiled, and it had taken twenty-foul
hours to get it back into calmer and cooler
condition. Uaughter)
Mr.. Conger made persistent effort to put
question to Hewitt, but his effort was met
with shouts of "order,'' s'order'' from the
Democratic side of the house, and after
some time Aiken obtained the floor anG
spoke as follows: 1t has been directly as
serted here without any qualification that
had said / would vote to have West Poin
put on the block. The gentleman, Hewitt
knows as we'll as do, that he might as wei
take single phrase out of any chapter of tht
bible to prove any doctrine as to make tn,
assertion which he did from what l said.
made an argument in favor of economy
which argument he could not answer
proved my arguments by fig
ures and facts, showing the lacl
of economy in the administration
of affairs at West Point. I felt it my dut,
TO say what did, and he could not answe
it and could not rebut it, but the gentlemen
(Hewitt) gets up here proving that he i
what the gentlemen from Tennessee House
asserted that he was. Loud laughter.
have nothing to say against West Point
properly conducted. 1 know that Wes
Point has made record for itself. hav
only to point to men like Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee. Stonewall jackson, 10
Johnston, Sydney Johnston, Gen. Bragg
Hardie, and whole host of others fron
West Point, and I know that my Unio
friends can on their side point to a line Q
noble, gallant spirits, who came from Wes
Point aud fought on the other side. homo
them. knew their worth, and l met ther
and measured steel with them, and neve
saw him (Hewitt) there. Loud laughte
and great excitement.
Mr.. Chairman, West Point has produce
great men. Their names will live on bot
sides of the Potomac as long as this peopl
are free, but West Point has never produce
an Esau. It has never produced Benedit
Arnold [excitement]. It has never produce
a man who put up the presidency an
sold it. CONTINUED laughter and excite
ment.l hope the gentleman from Ne
York has intellect enough to appreciate whs
| mean.
Mr.. Chairman, was not educated at Wes
Point, but I was educated in a school whel
there was we'll organized militia and whel
our alma mater taught us to shed our bloc
in defense of the State; when she calledaupo
US, responded to the call. I did not
as some men did. stay at home and pay
substitute to go and help to defend N
country. Naughter). am no graduate
West Point, but / am from a State whic
has shown from its past conduct that in VIZ
it is the bravest of enemies, and that in pea,
the best of friends. | am bold to defer
my State. Nothing connected with Il
record of the past has ever smirched b
record, and God grant that l may always
what believe I have been in the past
worthy son Of such State. (Applause.)
} Mr.. Forth view of the harmony exis
!, ing on the Democratic side, l demand Il
regular order of business Laughter al
cries of "No, no, no.
After some time and in the midst of i
, creasing excitement, Mr.. Hewitt again g
the floor and said: Mr.. Chairman-I ha
, received hard hits in my time and ha
, learned to take them, and now l propo
only to say this: There were brave men b
r fore Agamemnon, there were brave men /
! fore the member from South Caroli1
8 (Aiken), but have never known of a
r brave men coming home from war a
. boasting of deeds of valor. A brave m
0 leaves that to the historian and to that reco
j. I consign the gentleman from South Ca1
e lima, and now request the clerk to re
Q the language of the gentleman to which
: replied the other day.
b The extract having been read, Mr.. Hew
# continued: The gentleman insinuates Il
9 somebody sold out the Presidency.
It Northern man sold out the Presidency. I
d proposition to sell the Presidency was ms
1t to me, and contemptuously refused it {
} citement and shouts of name. name.)
n Mr.. Ellsworth want to know who
3. was proposed to the gentleman to sell out
h Presidency.
10 Mr.. Hewitt-If the House desires to hl