The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-31
SENATOR from Maine should have been So

upon TO make In reCiting briefly the his
tory of Governor King.
Mr. Dawes-I stated that did.
Mr. Blaine-Ithought that the Sena-
tor said he did not want them now re-
vived.
Mr.. Dawes-I stated that doubtless the
Senator from Maine could pick out or
gather out from the history of the rela'
tions between Massachusetts, and Maine
isolated instances and isolated extracts,
such as he seemed to have SO much more
a taste for, than that which 30 abounded
in all their history of generous and high
toned fellowship.
Mr.. Blaine-Then have merely to say
Mr.. President, that every statement, ev'
cry quotation, every fact, every incident,
in relation to Governor King which |
stated, Is upon Massachusetts, authority,
and to have given anything like sketch
of Governor Kings life without giving
his conflict with Massachusetts touching
the separation of Maine and her erection
into an independent State, would have
been to write the life of Abraham Lin
coin without mentioning the great rebel
lion, which, as President of the United
States, he was so largely instrumental in
sHppressing, LIDO not know that | desire
to have the least controversy upon q
point of this kind upon an occasion such
as this, but thought it came with rather
il.grace from the Senator from Massa'
Chusetts Hoar] to taunt me with trying
to ingratiate myself with a certain class
of Senators, when he himself has been
the great apostle of modern reConCilia-
tion, hankeriDg for an embrace repre-
senting the idea of certain political
power elsewhere, that every possible
thing should be done to solicit favor in
that direction. have not myself been
classed exactly in that line, and do not
think that am The one who would step
very far forward to create smiles on their
faces. Maine did not make an unpatri-
otic record. If Massachusetts, made it, it
is not the fault of the historian or the
speaker who recalls it.
Mr.. Dawes-Will the Senator tell us
when Massachusetts, as a State made an
unpatriotic record, either in the war of
1912, or in the older war of the Revolu.
ton, or in any war which has followed
ii? There have been indivduasin Mas
sachusets, so there have been in Maine,
who have not been patriots, but if Massa-
Chusetts ever made an unpatriotiC record
the Senator from Maine, when he Charg.
es it, should tell US where and when.
Mr.. Baine--I will tell you, now and
here. Massachusetts, refused to pass,and
tabled a resolution, thanking one of her
own naval officers for a victory, because
it was gained in an unjust war. She re.
fused to thank the admirable and gallant |
commander of the Peacock for capturing |
the British man .ofw Hornet. That |
stands in your own legislative journals;
if you want the record. l can give you
more graver instances, and for Senator
from Massachusetts to rise here and pre-.
tend that his State did not bristle all over
with unpatriotic records, going clear up
to the verge of treason, and in the opin
ion of some patriots of that day, stepping
one point beyond it is a degree of bra.
very which it would have been we'll to
have shown in war, and not reserved to
this day. [Great laughter, and voice
on the Democratic side, This is rich"
Mr. DAwes-Mr. President, the extent
of the offense which the Senator from
Maine can bring against Massachusetts
in the war of 1872 was, that she lacked
the disposition publicly TO return thanks
Mr.. BIaine-No; stop right there one
moment. Massachusetts, refused 10 let
her soldiers march beyond the bounda-
ries of her own State, aud refused, point
edly, to the General Government to re.
spond to a call for her troops.
Mr.. Dawes defended his State, and said
Massachusetts was opposed to the war Of
1872. Her position then she is not now
ashamed Of and she does not undertake
to belle history; but, sir, with exceptions
here and there, like every other State in
the Union under like circumstances, she
was true to the Union, and her gallant
soldiers and sailors sacrificed their lives
in her defense. Sir, it was not the war
of 1872 that troubled the Senator from
Maine in delivering his eulogy upon
William King, that was not it. There
was another trouble, and it was trouble
which the Senator from Maine ought to
have forgotten. Itwas feeling between
men in Maine and distin-
guished men in Massachusetts, growing
out of discussion for years of the question
OF separation, that bred ill-nature and
injustice and Incorporate speech, and it
was the last thing Massachusetts expect
ed, when the Senators from Maine were
to present the statute of her first Cover
nor, who, when he was a part Of Massa.
was honored and esteemed
quite as much by her people as by those
Of Maine. 1t was the last thing Massa
chusetts expected on such an occasion,
that the burden of the presentation on
the part of the Senator from Maine
Blaine] should be the raking up of all
hat Incorporate speech, and quite as
much will Massachusetts be surprised
that he attempts to justify it by holding
up the course of Massachusetts in the
list war with Great Britain.
Mr.. Blaine discussed the relations be.
tween Maine and Massachusetts, regard
ing the European & North American
Railway, and then referred to the Ash.
burton treaty of lS42, saying that Maine
was regarded as the victim of that treaty.
He continued: II say to the Senator
from Massachusetts, as say to the en-.
tire country, that if the Ashburton trea-
yy were to be over again, it would never
20 through the Senate of the I'm ted
States, never. 1t would never be assent
I'd to by the State of Maine, except un-
der compulsion that was moral at that
lime, and which would have to be phys.
cal if tried again. So that we owe 10
Massachusetts at that day a loss of our {
territory and reduction of our prestige
and power, which nothing has ever made
up to US in any form, except that most
generous conditional gift of an almost
hopeless claim a Maine railroad might
nave ifw could beg it through Con-
yress." Laughter.
MIR. Hoar-Mr. President, the Senator
,aw fit to allude to me as person pre-
pared to do every possible thing, to use
lis phrase, 10 bring about reConcilia-
ion between the two sections of this
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