Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-11-07

SENATOR CHANDIEI' 5 NOTED SPEEcE.-Tle
last notable effort Of senator Chandler was
made late at night on the 81 Of March, when
the Senate was considering the amendment
O. Senator Hoar excluding jefferson Davis
iron. I'll, benefits Of the provisions Of the
Me4lcau war pension bill. senator Lamar
had made a fiery speech declaring that seces-
sion was iustihabla and that jefferson Davis
was not q traitor but a noble and high
minded man Other Democratic senators
including Nj Thurman. had apoioEzed for
or defended the secession movement. At
tins Juncture III the debate Mr.. Chandler
took the floor and ended il by the following
crushing and whitening speech.
Mr. Ereadeat- twenty-five years ago to
morrow. IL the old mall of the SENATE. nov
occupied by the Supreme COurJ Of the uIted
States I. IL company with Mr.. jefferson Da-
Wis. stood up and swOre before Almighty GOD
that ! would support the constitution Of the
United states, and he took the oath with me
10 be faithful 70 tins Government. During
four years / sat Ii this Dody with Ny defer
son Davis, and saw the preparations gong
Oh from DAY 10 day for the overthrow Of thls
Government. With treason il his heart and
perjury upon his bps he took the oath TO
sustain the Government that be meant 10
overthrow, '"' Your armies were scat
tered all over TINS broad land, where they
could not be used IL an emergency your
fleets were scattered wherever the wlndr
blew md water was found 10 float them
where they could not be used to put down
rebellion your treasury was depicted until
your bonds bearing o per cent, principal and
interest payable IL com, were sold at 80 cents
0Y1t 1plipw ffr M
buyers. Preparations were carefully made.
Y our arms were sold under al apparently IL
nocent clause IN an army bill providing that
the Secretary Of War might. at his discretion,
sell such arms as he deemed II Tor the interest
of the Government 70 sell
Sir. eighteen years ago last month ! sat IL
these halls and listened TO Jefferson Davis
delivering his farewell address. informing
what our constitutional duties TO this Gov
eminent were. and then he left and entered
into the Rebellion 10 overthrow the Govern
ment that ne had sworn 10 support l re-
manned here, sir, during the whole Of that
terrible Rebellion ! saw our brave soldiers
10y thousands and hundreds Of thousands
aye. might say mllhonH--pass through 70
the theatre of war, and ! saw their shattered
ranks return. / saw steamboat after steam
boat and railroad train after railroad train
arrive with manned and wounded ] was
Win my Irleuu from Ahuut lslAnu MI,
burnside. when he commanded the Army Of
the Potomac, and saw piles Of legs ana arms
that made humanity shudder. ] saw the
widow and orphan IN their homes and heard
the weeping and wAillug Of those who had
lost their dearest and their best MI Presi-
dent ! little thought ut that time that /
should live TO hear IL the Senate Of the Uni
ted States eulogies upon jefferson Davis, Nv
lug-a living rebel eulogized on the floor of
the Senate of the United States Sin. ] am
amazed TO hear 1t; and / can tell the gentle
men on the other side that they little know
the spirit Of the North when they come here
at this day, and with bravado on their lips
utter culoWes upon a man whom every man,
woman and child IL the North believes to
have been double-dyed traitor 10 his Gov
eminent