Daily Republican., 1879-03-18
In Power Again.

day AZ IL O'CLOCK, from the eie'eh
States which followed Jefferson Davis
into treason and rebellion, there will
appear in the Senate but one man aud
he a negro, who does not now as then,
proclaim the doctrine of State rights,
md vaunt with bareiaced impudence
his devotion to the cause which had 1t
succeeded would have brought ruin
upon the nation. To-day, just eigh-
teen years and two months after Jeffer-
son Davis ami his -eo-conspirators in the
capital of the nation proclaimed their
| treason to the Government of the Uni
ted States, the Senate will pass into the
control OF the party which jeff. Davis
then as now typifed. 1t is doubtful if
the history Of any other nation furn.
ishes such a paraellel. Had such trea-
son been perpetrated in France the
traitor would have been guillotined; if
in England he would have been, hung
and if in the German Empire he would
have been shot. But in the United
States the treason Of JEFF. Davis is laud-
ed in the Senate and already the pro-
position is made in Mississippi to
raturn him to the Senate. Two
weeks ago when proposition
was made to place this arch traitor on
the pension roll Of the nation, and
which proposition was only defeated by
a party vote, Mr.. Lamar, Senator
from Mississippi, who was a rebel, pro-
claimed in his seat in the Senate that
he had no excuses to offer for the trea-
son of Jefferson Davis, but he was "the
noblest man Of his section--a section of
noble men," and he declared farther
that history would accord to that fig
ure head OF an accursed cause the same
place and the same praise which be-
longcd to Hampden and Washington.
In that same debate and the same hour
another Senator from Arkansas, and
who had also been rebel, declared
that Jefferson Davis would scors TO be
q peusioner of the United States, and
would spurn any proposition which
might be made to place him upon what
a Republican had called the "IIonor
roll of the nation" In that no. soon
to be forgotten night, only Senator
Chandler had ~. nerve and the bod
ness to arise in his seat and derounce
these reasonable utterances in the Ian
guage which they deserved. 1t was
Chandler who declared that Jefferson
Davis, "with treason in his heart and
perjury upon his lips, took the oath to
sustain the government which he meant
to overthrow" and it was hs who told
the advocates of .'the lost cause" that
they little knew tho spirit Of the people
of this country when they came into
the Senate Chamber, with bravado on
their lips, uttering eulogies upon him
whom every man, woman and child in
the North believe 20 have been dsu.
BILE dyed traitor" These withering,
scathing remarks Of Chandler We're re-
ceived with only an answer of laugh
ter and defiant shouts Of derision.-
These ex-rebels know that they are
now masters of the situation, and
that to-day as the Forty Sixth
Congress assemblies, the bottom rail
is on top once more. In few
months more the nation need not be
surprised to hear that the Legislature
of Mississippi has elected Jefferson Davis
to the seat now occupied by Senator
Bruce, whose term expires in 1851, and
who IL the only representative ofhis
race in the new Congress. Then,
indeed will secession only In spirit,
but incarnate in the person of the man
who only eighteen years ago began the
attack upon the Union-resums con-
troll of the highest law making power
of the nation.
Well may the people of the nation
stop, ponder and ask, "whether are We
driftins?" When Congress meets to-
day in an extra session made necessary
by the desire of the ex-rebel element
to remove the much needed safeguards
which the Republican party had plac-
cd around the ballot box, and by their
consequent refusal to pass the bills
which authorize the appropriation OF
money to pay for the maintenance OF
the Government, there will BIZ in the
lower house majority OF Democrats,
under the control of such men as Fort
Pillow Massacre" Chalmers, Blackburn,
Hooker, and hunton, while in the
Senate, Butler, Garland, Harris, Hamp.
ton, Vance, and the rest who
glory in the cause that was lost
will have full sway. There. is certain
ly enough in this prospect to alarm
and arouse the loyal men of the coun
try. to create a public opinion, which
uAhappily does not exist-an opinion
which. while it shall always demand q