The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-04-25

Mr.. Hale, of Maine, made speech,
criticising Democratic. appointments in
the House. and eulogizing General
Mr.. Blackburn, of Kentucky, replied,
aud in the course of his remarks said !:
ut is the part of ghouls and hyenae to
delve into the trenches where putrid car
cases are buried, and drag them out to
batteE and fatten upon the feast. It is
not manhood. They have been brought
out again to-day. II was left TO the gen.
tlemen from Massachusetts, and Maine to
refuse to allow q subordinate officer of
the House to be elected without fighting
the war over again. False charges have
been hurled against us, and not for tho
first time, neither. We have been told
hero to-day that the candidate who has
been nominated In the Democratic eau
Gus for the doorkeeper of this House de.
served. by every law, human and divine,
to have been hanged. We have been
told (nsing him as an average specimen
of the element which embraces 5000, 600
of the people of the land) that they were
all breathing o miserable existence at
suferance, and were indebted for their
poor miserable lives to the magnanimity
of the Republican party. That hes been
told to us year after year, and it is told
to us to-day. It is false, and the false
hood ahould wither and die on the lips
that last uttered it. How was it possible.
l ask, for q man who belonged to the
army Of the Confederacy to have been
hanged after the terms of surrender and
capitulation had been agreed upon /?
Do you mean to say that the well.earned
reputation for courage and gallantry and
manhood which the soldiers of the Union
army had illustrated by overwhelming
and conquering my people was to he
biotted and blurred, for tho first time in
the history of civilized warfare, by this
government ignoring the conditions of
surrender and hanging unarmed men
whom 1t had agreed to protect in order
TO induce them TO lay down their arms
Mr.. Butler denied having made use of
any such expression.
Mr. Blackburn-When O. member of
the House asserts that this nominated
candidate of the Democratic party for
the doorkeepership deserved, BY every
Law, human and divine, to have been
hanged, and when that utterance is ac-
companied with the boast that he alone
stood by that law and executed il, I
would like to know what Interpretation
or construction can possibly be given Il
his language except that the Confede.
rates were to be hanged when tho power
to hang them was conferred.
Mr. Butler-Not after we had agreed
not to.
Mr.: Blackburn-It is time, Sir, that
this thing should stop; it is time that
false charges should cease to be made
and that truth should be observed, It is
time that 1t should be admitted without
doing violence to the plighted faith with
which your country Tor our country, If
that will suit you better) had pledged |;
the men who wore the uniform on the
other side should no longer be refused
admission to every personal right, privi-
lege and prerogative of citizenship, 80
long as they observe the conditions of
their parole. It is time it should be adj
mitted that these men from then until
now were not only entitled to every lieht
OF personal liberty and property under
the constitution of the country, but that
they should become the objects of pro-
lection at the hsads of the dominant
party itself, and that your solemn prom
ises, and that your word deliberately
given ehonld not he violated, ss it cannot
be violated without rendering infamous
the man who dares to do it. I am sorry
that it was necessary for q member of the
House to remind us of the exercise of
what he chooses to term clemency, but
which imps tial history will denuminate
but common fairness, and that in illus
ttapng this magnanimity for which he
claims such credit 10 mis- party it wac
necessary for him to parade before us
boaseiG!ly the execution of an nnarmed,
helpie-s prisoner, the only man believe
whom the history Of that war shows to
have been killed or injured on the Con-
federate side by the warrior from Massa-
chusetts. Loud laughter and applause
On the Democratic aide.
After some further discussion, the nre-
vious question having been seconded, the
frat vote was taken on the resolution Of
fered BY Mr. Clymer. of Pennsylvania, as
o substitute for Mr.. Bstler's resolution
that the Eouse do now proceed to the
election of Doorkeeper, and it was adop-
ted--yeas 123, nays 109-a strict parry
vote, with the exception of Messrs. Col
!.ns, of Pennsylvania, and Cutter, Of New
jersey, who voted with the Eepublicaus
in the negative.
On the announcement of the vote, Mr..
Clymer, OF Pennssylvania, rose and said !:
nominate Charles w. Field, citizen of
Georgia, as Doorkeeper of this House.
MIR. Butler Of Massachusetts, nomi-
nate the gallant, Christian, loyal, tried
and true Union Soldier of two wars, Jas.
Shields, Brigi lier General of the United
States army. Laughter. a
MIR. Randolph, of Tennessee--I nomi-
nate for Doorkeeper q Union soldier, O
gentleman VINO fought three years in the
war, who acquitted himself with honor
and credit, and who bears the mark Of
lead on his body to-day, whose name is
John III. Trent, Of Morristown, Tenn.
The vote was then taken. and resulted {:
For Charles w. Field, 123-all cast by
Democrats; for James Shields, lO1-all
but one cast by Republicans, and that
ono being cass by Mr.. Springer, of Illi-
nois; for Jonn II. Treut, 8-cast by
Messrs Everett, Bayne, Evans, .O'NeilI,
White end Hamer, of Pennsylvania !;
Randolph, of Tennessee, and Bagley, Of
New York. Upon the announcement of
the vote Charles w. Field was declared
duly elected, and was thereupon sworn
in, taking the modified oath.
Mr.. Clarke, of Missouri asked unani-
uiou5 consent 10 introduce for present
consideration bill authorizing the Pres
idont to appoint jas. Shields, Of Missouri.
q Brigadier General of the United States
army on the retired liRt, his pay to COM
mence from the time of the passage of
the bill.
Mr.. White, of Pennsylvania, objected.
Mr. Clarke moved to suspend tho rules
and pass the bill.
Mr.. White made the point of order