Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-04-03
Washington News.
From Special to Boston Journal.
WAsutxcTox. Anril 1879
~ DEBATE on THE ARMY Bill.

In the House the debate on the Army Ap-
preparation bill was continued, and il seems
very probable that it will last through the
week. This afternoon there were 81 men,
bcrs who had inscribed their names on the
roll of those who are to speak, and many of
them who will read written orations, will
only weary the members of the House and
iniurc the republican case before the country
Mr.. FEYE's ABLE SPEECH.
There were some harangues of this char
actcr to-day. but there was one speech deliv
cred which the House and the country will
not soon forget. 1t was the speech by Frye
of Maine. and it made the blood run hot and
quick in the veins of many old soldiers to
hear IT, Sprnging to his feet when Chalmers
of Mississippi had ended his TRADE against
the republican party of the North, Mr.. Frye
thought that the time for endurance was
passed, and that the representatives of the
republican party could no longer sit dumb in
the Representatives Chamber when an admin
istration of eighteen years was characterized
only as a drunken despotism. He pressed
the Mississippi statesmen. Chalmers and Null
dron, home hard, and called a third witness
from Mississippi in the voice of the Okolona
States. citing the article which has
gone the rounds of the press entitled 1--WE
have captured the Capitol Using these
words rs n text, Mr.. Frye Sketched the sever
al efforts of the democracy to capture the
Capitol. and out of the ignomnious failures
of the past predicted under God similar fail
ures for the future. In 1892 South Carolina
established its armies and declared its indie
pendcncc. and proposed TO capture the Capt.
toll. but Jackson ground that State to pow
der.
THE CAPTURE OF BrRNs IN BosToN.
Then followed n thrilling and exciting sketch
of the capture of Burns in Boston, and of the
use of the army to humiliatc Massachusetts.
and To place again the shacklcs on fugitive
slave. When he spoke of the reception
which Burns met on his return to Virginia,
and of the universal JOY that the constitution
of the country had been vindicatod, there was
one man Davi, of North Carolina, on the
democratic side who, in 1879, had the cour-
age. the andacity to interrupt that silent House
by applause; hut his solitary plauditS grated
upon the stiffness Of that Representative
Chamber like harsh footstep in the chamber
of death and he was contcmptuously silenccd.
There never was time, said Mr.. FRYE, when
the South was nearer to the capture of the
Capitol of the country than it was then, when
the old State of Massachusetts had been hui
inflated Then came the war not led by
John Brown, who, with fifteen men and some
old flint locks frightened Virginia out of her
senses. but Il serious war, ending with the
deed of magnanmity AT .AppomattoX. Dur
ing the war Burns had become free. vet the
men of the South were not willing that he
should stand beside them at the ballot-boX
and cast his vote What then: There were
the Ku-klux. thu White Liners, and the ne
groes were slaughtered by thousands. The
history has been written by a pen of iron in
volumes of testimony that cannot be conro-
verted.
Then an indignant North and outraged jus
ticc demanded that a few troops should be
sent South They were withdrawn from the
frontier, altogether some 1900 men, and ii
few blue coats stationed in the South, never
at the polls to keep the peace and prevent
the murders which the white men of the
South claim they were powerlesS to prevent.
The consequence was that several Southern
States, with pure ballot, went republican:
but the troops were withdrawn and the result
was a solid South, but solid South is not
enough New York must be secured. and to
do that the Supervisors law is to be repealed
and Tildcn, who in 1865 organized the fraud
hy which thirty thousand corrupt votes were
cast in New York city. as Horace Greeley
proved, is again to lead the solid South with
New York to the capture of the Capitol.
TELLING WORDS.
But. SAID Mr. Frye, you have the House
by scanty majority, you have the Senate by
larger majority but you have not the Pres
idcnt yet. You have not repealed these laws
you will not repeal them until YOU in $ me
way snail remove the present Executive f ON
his chair. There never will be Il bl, ody
hand-to-hand fight again. You men of the
South know more Of the Northern men now
than then" With sentiments like these, Mr.
Frye sketched the history and defined the
purposes of the Republican party in words
which burned themselves into the hearts of
his auditory and compelled admiration. if it
did not force applause, from unwilling Dem
ocratic listeners.
IMPORTANT DECISION BY THE GREENBACK-
/ The greenbackers held a meeting tonight
and came to Il decision which may materially
interfere with democratic plans. They have
been undecided for some time as to their final
position on the question of the political legis-
lation. Forsythe of Illinois and one or two
others have been disposed to permit the ques-
ton to drift and not take any action as an or
ganzation, but strangely enough Lowe of Al
ALBANIA, an ex-COnfederate and anti Republi-
can, is the most radical in opposition to the
democratic policy.
\ meeting was held tonight to come to
some conclusion, and it was decided to take
radical ground in opposition to the democrats
and 20 move to strike the political amend
mcnts from the bill. Lowe of Ala is dcpu-
tized to do this. This will reduce the demo
cratic majority to one or two, and will make
| il quite uncertain whether the democrats can