Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-13

lions, OUT why ala one not follow tue tla0lt1onS
of her great men7 Did the William and Mary
college, when she sent 81 ont of her IS teachers,
into the rebel army, follow the doctrines Of
Washington in his farewell address? Did sac
do SO in teaching secession and rebellion for 30
years before the war, by which the Hotspurs of
the South were stirred up to drag common
people into bloodshed, war and destruction,
and four years of smisery? Did she remember
Washington, or Jefferson, or any Others of her
great mem? Did Mason, when he went out to
carry the message OF the Confederate States to
Great Brit. in, think th-t he was folio wing in
man, who talked of the abolition of
slavery on his way to the national
common to look after the earlier
interests of the colonies? No, it is because the
college forgot her great men that she comes
here to-day supplicant. crying, begging for
money at the banda of those whose sons she has
caused to lie down in bloody graves by the side
of her own sons whom she bounded on to death
and destruction. Alb, but Virginia is proud of
that institution, and we'll rhe may be. 1 will
say nothing against it. But William and Mary
college counted the tosU. She taught the rebel
lion. She went into the rebellion. Why shall
she not take the ,consequences? Ny Northern
friends, Cunning his back upon the chair and
facing his own side of the House) why should
she not take the consequences? 1t has been
said that there is no precedent for this thing
There is a precedent for it quoted by Benjamin
peaceably walking the streets Of London. A
Frenchman ran out with hot poker in his
hand and wanted to apply it to the man s body.
The man kicked him out of the way. Then says
the Frenchman: $. Monsieur. you will not let
me do that thing, but you will not be SO unjust
(Shouts of laughter.) She did not destroy the
Union. she and her admirala, judges, and her
presidents did not destroy the Union. No.
those presidents, and those admirals, and those
other great men of hers, were in their graves.
They were under ground. They were where
under the ground. will not be unkind
enough to say that Virginia keeps the tops
to-day above ground, hut these excellent pota-
toes were all under the ground when the bel
lion broke out, and we must pay this bill be-
cause Virginia loves Massachusetts. Laugh
Massachusetts. Massachusetts every once
in while, sends out a man vino has spasm
for being caressed. They took her Webster
and they told him they would make him Presi-
dent. They told him he was bound to glory
am sure. But he had smiles of beauty beam
ing upon him as they are beaming upon some
other occasions to cast him from the pathway
of his education and from the path where his
conscience and his great heart wished him to
go. But when the spider had got the Massa-
chusetts fly into its net, into its kitchen, into
its parlor, what good did it do him? I say
Massachusetts Lorings, to your Massachusetts,
Hoar family, shouts of laughter that when
Virginia has used you she will asst you off as
an unworthy thing. All, but says my learned
and eloquent friend fro. Massachusetts uor-
ing), we had a centennial. Yes, I was here and
saw the preparations for the centennial We
wanted million and half to be loaned by
the government on good security-security
which has returned us every dollar t. celebrate
the Tooth anniversary of American independ-
ence, and find Virginia, for which we now
have new 4th of July, gave the following
negative votes: Cabell, Douglass, Goode,
Terry and Walker, and Virginia gave but one
vote in favor of the fourth July of the 100
years. aud that vote was the vote of carpet
Dagger, (alluding to StcwelD who was q man
whom heard the gentleman from Virginia, in
this House, bearing the name of John Goode,
taunt with being q native of Vermont and ad-
dress him as a member from Vermont.
My northern friends, Democrats and Repub-
| licans, lay not the fattering JUNCTION to your
souls. If you are fooled you are fooled with
| Virginia. If she will build acotton factory to-
morrow, I will vote for q tariff to protect her
! industry. If God. in his providence, would
lead Virginia to build ship, / will vote for q
subsidy to that step. If Virginia will do any,
thing to protect the prof. erty and happiness Of
her people, except talk Democratic politics.
am with her. Oh. but V rginia loves Mas "a
chusetts! had forgotten how much she loved
l her.
Mr.. Davis, N. C.-Will my friend vote to
take the tax off Virginia tobacco, which OPP
presses her people?
Mr.. Townsend (emphatically) A man
| who is not willing to pay for the tobacco he
chews does not deserve to have any. [shouts
| of laughter and applause.
We have had a specimen within two weeks OF
how much Virginia loves Massachusetts.
never shall forget how the wind blew and thun-
the House when the gentleman from Virginia
beside me (Harris) blew the party horn and
told his friends they must turn out from the
seat to which he was lawfully elected man
from Massachusetts (Field), man equal in ed
ucation, equal in capacity, equal in social posi-
raised; the equal of any man whom Virginii
ever raised since the landing of the pilgrims a
Plymouth. when my ancestors came, and Vir
GINA walked up like little man. and showed
her love for Massachusetts,. Individually
have no quarrel with the gentlemen
able set Of representatives, an,
they trained in the old Virginia school of poll
tics, and that isa complete provision of tn
sembly's catechisms. The catechism whic
has been taught for the last 100 years i
Of men," Answer To promote Democrat
harmony (Shouts Of laughter.) That is all tina
Virginia has been attending to. will not fin
fault with Virginia farther than am oblige
to, but Virginia after 100 years with
single industry, is found backing up her ittl
wagon to the rest of the world, and asking tt
rest of the world if it will notload little pro-
e erty into her wagon. She is State star
t ed ahead with better educatio
q than any State except Massach ussetts, wit
7 more wealth, and more power, and influen,
e than any other State, and now even Ne
hSatN(l Tod 10 fHo1 CT nf oil hSv.
i that was made-for it is said that when c.
e completed the work of creation, he had 10;
t of sand over and dumped it down on tie sho
q of the Atlantic, and called it New Jersey-evt
q New Jersey went to work with her mud hill
q while Virginia went to politics, and now q
e Yankee notions produced in Newark would b,
e out, body and breaches, any Democratic Sta
e in the Union. 1t is too late for me to set
for popularity, or to say that because am
u old man I am not afraid to be called a dem
! gogue. am too old for that. Some men m
g succeed in it, but cannot. It will not do +
II me.
]. Mr.. Wright, of Pennsylvania, who consider
d himself alluded to in the last remarks of n
IN Townsend, rose on the Democratic side of t
q, hall and asked Mr.. Townsend if he nndersto
a him to say that he was not afraid to be called
IN demagogue.
re Mr.. Townsend-Oh, yes; am too old
m that.
st Mr.. Wright-Here is young gentlem
l Naughter) who is not afraid to be called a de
W sgogue.
er Mr.. Townsend said was. There is no
us ing in my history or in my associations to le
no me to believe that man without property
al better than man with property, but do
be ieve man in any walk of lifeswho labors
lst gently in his calling. is worth one hundred p,
w ticiane. Laughter and applause.
he Every day listen with profound admirat
Its to my friend from Georgia (Blonnt), of
las committee on appropriations, and believe
'm very much of what he rays about the im1
nd priety of putting another burden on the ba
he Of the overburdened people of this conni
nd and / hear occasionaflv from the rentlen
9. from Pennsylvania, who has just honored