The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-12
HOT SHOT
From Blaine and Old Zach
Chandler.
Full Text Of Their Speeches in the U. s
Senate Last Friday.

The bill under consideration was the
repeal Of the Supervisors Election law.
BLArSE's REMARKS.
Mr.. Blaine-Mr. President, l want Ia
make q single remark on tho bill itself, II
there Is To be a vote upon It, although my
remarks may be merely a repetition 81
what has been SO admirably said by the
honorable Senator from Vermont. l desire
simply to put a punctuation point In PRO.
gress OF things az they are now going on,
and that punctuation point Is to mark the
high.tide which the a%ntient doctrine OF
State rights is reaching in this Chamber
and in this Congress. That question has
engaged the attention Of the American
people for Just about fifty years. 1t has
had its ups and downs, its victories and It's
defeats. II was strangled for the time by
Jackson; 1t was dallied with BY Van
Buren,; II rose to full strength under Polk
and Pierce aud Buchanan; 1t m~arshaled
itself for q deadly struggle under Breckin.
ridge; aud II | mistake not a majority OF
Senator's who sit on that side Of the
Chamber supported Breckenridge when be
embodied thatdeadly hefesy.
In whatever there wa In the issue be.
tween Calhoun aud jackson that side OF
the Senate Chamber represents Calhoun.
Whatever there was in the contest divid.
Ing the Democratic party between Breck-
inridge and Douglas that side OF the
Chamber represents all the evil there was
In the politics OF Breckenridge. And I de.
size here to affirm and point out that there
never was belUle the rebellion, there never
was at any time in the history OF this
country, any such assertion Of State rights,
any such assertion OF mastery Of the State
government over the Federal Government
in its wi domain, as Is here asserted by
the heirs lineal of Calhoun and Of Breck-
inridge.
snail not debate this bill. It were use
less. 1t has been exhaustively debated.
The whole measure il q removal Of the
Federal Government from its proper do.
main and the installation Of the States
into degrees Of power that were not dream
ed Of by Calhoun and were not asserted by
Breckenridge.
We thought there had been something
gained on this question In a costly war
and in amendments TO the Constitution.
But the tide as it now sweeps is ION the ebb,
andthe power of tho Union, the power OF
the Federal Government, was never so
weak as these laws aud these proceedings
will make it.
Pass this bill. While warning of all in.
reference or control Of the Federal Gov
eminent you voted down on the nther bill
Ia proposition that armed men should not
come to the polls. You voted down on the
other bill a proposition that armed men
should not come TO the polls with the ex-
press intent OF interfering with the rights
Of voters, and you did 1t under the paltry
bubble that It was not within the cOnsti-
|tutional power Of the United States Gov
eminent to warn bIoody.handed ruiians
from the polls where the Representatives
in the Federal Congress were being chosen.
Pass this bill. Pass it Us the triumph Of
the re.actionary party against the spirit
Of the Union. Pass It in defiance Of all
The lessons and all the teachings that have
come from a bloody and aborIive rebel
lion. Pass 1t, and mark itas the high tide
Of that Reaction which were it 10 rise
higher could lead only to another and
more formidable rebellion against the
legitimate authority Of the Union. Zap
plause on the floor and In the galleries.