The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-24

concentration OF polling places in South
Carolina making it necessary for voters
to travel twenty to thirty miles in some
cases. The testimony showed wiful fraud.
yet there was great cry of intimidation
by troops Perhaps Senator Bayard had
seen troops at the polls during the war,
when President Lincoln thought that
Delaware might require watching, but not
since the war.
Senator Salisbury defended the loyalty
of Delaware.
After spicy debate with several Sena-
tors in which the chairman (Thurman)
took hand, Senator Blaine said the Sena-
tors from Maryland and New Jersey seem
ed to have carefully forgotten the occasion
had, as Major General of the army,
broken up the Legislature of Maryland.
Senator Randolph said Mcclellan only
acted as a soldier under orders.
Senator Blaine said there was no evi-
dence of that.
Senator Groom (Md. said he had in
previous speech condemned that outrage,
which was particularly unjusti6able, as the
legislature had by a vote of So to Is voted
against secession. Much discussion on this
historical point ensued
Senator Blaine said In conclusion that
the question he arose to discuss was this:
III the Senators were acting in good faith
and desired that the bayonet shall not be
present at the ballot box, nor the bowie
Ehlfe, rifle or shot gun, let them say SO.
out II they did not say SO the people of
the United States would understand them
TO want to warn the government of the
United States off the grounds as in South
Carolina last year, to control the election
By violence, threats, weapons and blood.
and where the bloody minded rufian
should do as he choose. Senator Blaine
then alluded to Senator Davis, of Illinois.
be said that the Senator had, after pois.
ing himself, leaped to the Democratic side.
That the Senator had said in his speech.
drop all this and try something for the re-
lief OF the country. now continued Blaine
that Senator had been here three sessions,
and what measures for the relief of the
country had he proposed. He regretted
that the Senator was not now in his seat,
but be denied that Senator's right to carry
the traditions, fame and glory of Abraham
Lincoln into the Democratic camp. He
might go there himself and he might sit
on that side of the Senate where he was
the only man that gave Lincoln support.
Had Lincoln lived, as the Senator said,
something might not have happened,
but the thing that happened was a
Senator on this floor elected by democrats
over Union soldier, and speaking as a
representative of Abraham Lincoln. The
Senator had right to go when and where
he pleased. He had right TO address to
| the living what he chose, but he had no
| right to drag the greatest man of the last
ten centuries into the mire of party that
he would have opposed to his death. Ad-
journed.
WASHINGTON, April 23.--After expla
nations By the two Turner'S of Kentucky
in the course of which each denied callins
Mr.. Burroughs liar, Mr. A. Turner Incl
dently stated that at the time, last session
when he had been accused of intoxicatiou
he had not tasted liquor for three days.
Leave was granted the Labor Commit
tee to sit during the session.
adopted, requesting tie President to con
slider the expedlency of negotiating a re
ciprocity treaty with France.
The House went into the Committee O
the whole on the legislative bill.
Mr.. Frye opposed the repeal Of tn
election law, chiefly because of the effeC
Of their operations in New York, wher
false registration, repeating, voting of dea
: men and couvicts, had been stopped by tn
enforcement of these laws. The Dem
ocTsts cried out against the law, becaus
like any law for the suppression of Grim
it operated against the Democratic part
more than against the Republican part!
Ii the criminal code were repealed and th
e prisons opened, the Republicans woul
soon beln hopeless minority. He conclut
ed, what a spectacle do we behold TO- -da
union between the confederate Den
t ocracy of the South and this Tamman
e Democracy Of the North. Have they fo
q gotten history and that it repeats itself
t They have worked together befor
d worked for salary and against the right
n of man, worked for despotism and again
Republic. The one finally made a ma
II attempt to destroy the government, Il
&c other cheered it on; the one fought f
q years 10 achieve its terrible purpose, Il
n other sympathized, but coward like, dart
IS not help; the one sowed wind and reape
Lu6 WIFI WIN, kAC JluSI CElDREu al
e shivered before the blast; the one mourn
le over blasted hopes, broken families, ruin,
a fortunes and devastated country, the 9th
lamented only the loss of political pow,
TO and now once more they clasped hanC
le the Confederacy demands that all prott
to ton to voters shall be withdrawn; that
~ military officer shall, with armed men,
be cure to the trembling black citizen {
ID right to vote; that the Ku Klux a
K white leaguers shall reorganize; IL
re scourgings, beatings and EssassinatiC
o, shall go unwhipped of justice and Ia
Id many as before. Shouts amen q
to amen. TammaDy demands that /
on thieves, vagabon3s, gam mblers, tramps, 10
ss ers and bad citizens shall again control {
hs elections in the city of New York; Il
ne corrupt judges, false witnesses and D
be jured applicants shall again swell th
re msjorities; that false registration, repe
er ing, Stimulating voters and manipulate
he shall once more overcome the VIII
re of the people and the Conteder
Democracy should back their am
sr- Together they demand that th
ID wicked will shall prevail or the army 81
be starved or all departments of COVE
OF ment shall perish. But the old shiI
na state sails calmly on. She has encount
ed in this voyage deeper seas, fer
Jul waves, aDgrier storms, more danger
he shores, aad has found safety from th
lc- all. The great pilot is at her helm,
freighted as she is by the hopes of n
ob- all powers of darkness cannot pre-
ne against her.
ted MIR. Finley, 10 replying to Mr. Robe,
Ter contended that members of congress v
&C State and not United States officers,