The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-05-29
BLAINE
How the Maine Senator Stirred Up
u. the Brethren.
Some Highly Interesting Read
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from the Congressional Record.]

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Mr.. Blaine The honorable Senate,
4 from Georgia. the other day, made q
speech that was remarkable. Among
other things, he depicted the over
whelming grief he had at the secession
OF the Southern States; and, when he
was called upon by the independent
voters of the county Of Troup to repre-
sent them at the secession convention,
/ he wrote this letter to them, as he says
will consent to the dissolution of the Union
as would consent to the death of my father,
never from choice, only from necessity, and
then in sorrow and sadness Of heart.
I Well, he was elected on that plat
form, and he went to the convention,
and the convention, as we all know,
passed the ordinance of secession. And
in the evening of Jan. 10, 1861, he
writes to a friend letter which he
quotes himself:
| DEAR SIR: The deed is done, Georgia this
day left the Union. Cannon have been firing
and bells tolling. At this moment people are
filling the streets, shouting vociferously A
large torchIight procession is moving from
house to house and calling out speakers The
resolution declaratory passed on yesterday and
similar scenes were enacted last night The
crowd called loudly for me- but my room was
dark, my heart was sad and my tongue was ST
lent. Whoever may be in fault is not now the
question. Whether by the North Or by the
South or by both, the fact remains; our nation
has fallen. The most favored sons of freedom
have written page in history which despots
will read to listening subjects for centuries to
come to prove that the people are not capable
of,self- government. How can [ think thus and
feel otherwise than badly? ! 1.lt. YET
These are very just sentiments; and
now I want to read the wonderful dec
laration Of the ordinance of Georgia.
which the Senator from Georgia would
consent to have, enacted as he would
consent to the death of his father, and
that so pierced his heart with sadness
when it was accomplished. I want to
read it, and my friend from Connecti-
cut will observe its language, as he
boosted the other day that Connecticut
was {" a free and independent State"
Mr.. Eaton-l did not boast. I said
that was the oath that Connecticut
voters had to take. ''s@t.'o 4.f,j 245.a'"3
Mr.. Blaine Here is the ordinance
to dissolve the union between the State
Of Georgia and other States united with
her under compact OF, government en-
titled the constitution of the United
States" This is the original journal of
the Georgia convent IN. It is a rare
ho low of
from some cause is very hard to pro-
cure. '.-'. -.
We, the people of the State of Georgia, in
convention assembled do declare and ordain,
and it is hereby declared and ordained: ~, :,
That the ordinance adopted by the people of
the State of Georgia in convention, on the I'd
day of January, in the year Of our lord 1888,
whereby the constitution of the United States
OF America was assented to-, ratified and
adopted; and also all acts and parts of
acts of the General Assembly of this State, rat
flying and adopting amendments of the said
constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and
abr@gated.
We do further declare and ordaia, That the
Union now subsisting between the State of
Georgia and other States, under the name of
the United States of America" is hereby dis
solved, and that the State of Georgia is in the
full possession and exercise of all those rights
of sovereignty which belong and appertain to
free and Independent State.
That was the ordinance which the
Senator from Georgia said to the people
of Troup he would consent to as he
would to the death Of his father, and
the ordinance which the evening after
it was passed SO filled his heart with
sadness that he put out the lights in
his room and would not make a speech
to crowd outside serenading him.
l have read the yeas and nays on that,
and what is my unbounded surprise to
find that the Senator from Georgia
himself voted for the ordinance. Here
he is, chill of Troup." I believe I am
right in saying that he is the man.
There were two or three Hills, all vot-
ing for it, but chill of Troup" voted
for it, and he e. cannot say in de-
Tense of that vote that he did
it because there was one of those
tempestuous and tumultuous rushes of
public opinion which bear everything
before it and which no man could re-
sist. We know what that is. It some
times assumes such positive and por-
tentous force as to have mobilize vio-
lence. That was not so in this conven-
ton. On the call Of the yeas and nays
there were 2O8 in favor of the or
dinance of secession and eighty-nine
against it, and in the eighty nine were
Alexander FL. Stephens and Herschel
Y. johnson, who had that very year run
for Vice President on the Douglas
ticket. The Senator from Georgia (Mr.
HilD, who would consent to it just as
he would to the death Of his father,
made up his mind that, if 208 men
wanted to murder the old man, he would
| join them. Rather than be in minor
ity he would join the murderous crowd
and be parricide.
Nobody would possibly infer from
the speech that the honorable Senator
made the other day that he had voted
for the ordinance, and do not say this
with any feeling, because I have none.
It is now indeed 6 most extraordinary
thing to find gentleman from the
South who was originally for secession.
I do not know who was. I see very
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