The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-03-07

Mr.. President, it seems to me that it is
without excuse that these men should have !
taken part in the re sbellion which has just !
passed. j can see no difference in princi-
pie, and where principle leads | shall fol-
low.
Mr. BLAINE should like to ask the |
Senator from Minnesota, Mr.. Mcmillan.
or any gentlemln who chooses to answer il,
8 question before the vote Is taken. do
not know, but have the impression that
the widow OF Major-General Zachary Tay-
lor, who was hero OF the war of 1872, and
OF the Mexican war and President of the
cnited States, is living, though NAV not
pe correct. Her son went into the rebellion
and played quite conspicuous part in it.
Would the Senator from Minnesota strike
Mrs. Taylor of the pension roll because
she bound up the wounds OF her son, Dick
Taylor, when he came home from the bat
tlefield? l will ask any gentleman to an
swer that question. i put that as test
case.
Mr.. MCMILLAN. ask the Senator from
roll man who had commanded the armies
of the rebellion, as a test case?
Mr.. BLAINE. No, sir; l would not.
Il
man ts eixe me an equally explicit answer.
Would ~ Exclude the widow OF Zachary
Taylor from the pension roll for his SER
vices in the war OF ISL, because General
| Dick Taylor, her son, went into the rebel
| far as to wish him to be victorious, and not
TO come out wounded or dead?
| Mr.. MCMILLAN. No, sir would not
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have to be presented perhaps upon a spec
ial case. if the Senator desires.
| Mr.. BLAINE. But il sympathy Is to
govern it, why make that special. The
Senator from Massachusetts NJ. Dawes
| we'll suggests that I. at was not sympaty
with the rebellion; that was sympathy with
the son.
Mr.. MCMILLAN. Ie1pressly dissented
from the view of the Senator that sympathy
was to govern it.
Mr.. BLAINE. Sympathy was what the
Senator from Illinois put the whole OF it on
proved that it was an impossibility FOL
these men to have been actually in the re-
bellion. do not pretend to know every
pensioner in the South, but / challenge the
production of a single man who bore a mus
ket in the war of the rebellion who had
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rests on sympathy; and if you give away
the case Of the widow of Zachary Taylor
you give away the whole case, and there j,
nothing left OF it. ii You are going to leg
islate men and women, old heroes and thei
widows, out OF the complaisance and mag
nanimity of this Government because the,
had sympathy with their sons, You arr
taking strange ground and one that, If die
not wish to avoid anything that woulC
insult gentlemen, should say dishonoreC
the magnanimity of the Government and
say if you give way In the case of one vol
give way in the case of all.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. (Mr. Hoa
in the chair The pending question is tn
motion of the Senator from Illinois to strik,
out the fifth section of the bill.
Mr.. INGALLS,. The fifth section of thil
bill is the only one that am anxious t.
have presented, and it is the only one tina
in my judgment can be sustained on an,
reasonable principle. i am as radical a
most men on questions affecting the politi,
cal integrity of this country, but must sa..
) the attempt to array the American Congres
against less than a hundred tremulous, dc
credit, infrm old vetrans, who have earne'
their pensions, is indicative OF spirit tha
in my mind would lead a man TO strike
woman or to kick a baby.