The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

have ended for any injaiy which may
have been dono while the war was going
on. The argument goes as we'll against
loyal people as disloyal. The war was
not against individuals. Ths/ war was
against the belligerent party, the South,
and the difficulty is, although there may
be men, there may be women, there may
be children who have claims which we
feel ought to be paid, yet when we open
the door for the payment Of euch claiEis
it is impossible for the Republic TO do
termine between the good and the bad,
and while we are attempting to do what
will be solitary case of good we throw
open the door to evil which bids fair, If
we take bills introduced Into this House
as earnest of what is TO como, 20 heaten
the hour when bankruptcy shal. come
upon the Government by reason Of the
payment of claimants under the guise of
loyalty. This is the proper outcome,
perhaps, Of the Southern Claims Com.
mission. That Commission I,aiways re-
garded as an evil. That Commission
always regarded as political oxpedient
for the purpose of building up party in
the South in accord wits the Administra-
ton. Instead of being judicial court,
it was political court. Instead of being
court where justice was done, it was a
court that spread fraud and perjury all
over the land.
"The Loyal men of the South are SO
few that the evil that will be done by
leaving them out is nothing in compari-
son with the great evil that will be done
if we open the door and allow the ST..
GOO, 900 for claims upon our calendar to
be passed and appropriations made for
the benefit of men on the plea that they
were loyal people of the South. have
here time and again heard a threat
thrown to the Democracy upon this side
of the House which have thought for q
long time needed an answer, and it came
from Mississippi. have heard it said
here upon the floor of the House that
unless the Democracy of the North is
more liberal, that unless they would open
their hands and give out money more
lavishly from the treasury, the solid
South would soon go over to the other
side. say, as one Of the representatives
of the Democracy or the North, that if
there are any men in the South who pro-
pose to belong to the Democratic party
simply for the reason that the doors of
the treasury are to be opened to them,
the sooner they 60 over the better for
them, the better for our party; and when
the people Of this country see and feel,
as they are beginning 10 do, that they
Gun trust the interests Of the country with
the Democratic party of the North and
South, then We can make recruits in the
Northern States that will fill up our
ranks to the maximum. We have no
need Of that class of gentlemen that we
can only hold to party allegiance by
golden ties, by giving them the promise
of everything which they may ask out oii
the treasury"
The remarks of M. Bragg were re-
piled to hv Mr.. Ella. of I.nnieiane, .ghc
frankly said
upon the general features of this bill
do not know that desire to say any
thing now. What an about TO say is
called forth by thst portion of the extra
ordinary speech of the gentleman from
Wisconsin (Mr. Bragg in which he
alluded to certain 'taunts' made by
Southern members in reference to money
now in the Treasury, collected illegally
and unconstitutionslly; aye, and he
might have well said with the robbers
hand. In the course of my speech upon
the Mississippi Levee bill / did allude to
the fact that @86,0O0,000 were in the
Treasury of the United States, collected
without the semblance of law or Justice
from the impoverished South.
"Now agree with the member from
Wisconsin (Mr. Bragg) that the percent
age of loyalty in the Southern States
during the wsr was great deal less than
one per cent. / undertake to say that
the Southern man who was born there,
who was reared there, and who was iden-
titled with the Southern people, could
only have been loyal when ne entered
the Confederate army and did his full
duty as soldier in the armies of the
South. Such men were the only loyal
men in the South. They were loyal to
their country; they were loyal to their
God; they were loyal to the noblest and
highest and holiest emotions that ever
animated the human heart.
'.As regards the claims which are for
ever being urged by loyal claimants,
and known as war claims, let me say that
/ for one am willing, here and now, to
vote for a constitutional amendment
which shall close the books and forever
settle the accounts between these loyal
men and the Government. do not
stickle for their allowance or urge their
payment. Some few OF them are Just, no
doubt. and ought 70 be paid. / know,
personally, of few cases of this charac-
Ter; but in order to achieve peace, in
order to silence the tongue of slander, in
order to ease the hearts and minds of the
people Of the North who are jealous lest
some rebel be. paid, / am willing to end
ell this matter by a constitt:!;ona5 amend
a,lert .joybidding foreper the nn.nyaant Of
eveyy claim growing out Of the war;"
The remarks of Mr.. Bragg wefe in the
worst possible taste, but there is some ex-
cuse for his reproaches in the mass of
claims presented by Southern members,
and in the frankness with which they
go for. the old fag-and an appropria-
tion." Air. Potter is quiet, conserva-
tive Democrat os the highest character.
Louisiana hardly has more active rem
reaentative than Mr.. Ellis. When these
three members agree, it is pretty safe to
assume that ;ae presentation of war
claims is a waste of time and money, as
we'll Az damaging to the Democratic parl
ty.--Eharlestoa Ne,os and Courier.
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