The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-05-22
SENATOR BLAINE.
He Makes a Vigorous Attack Upon
the Democratic State-Rights
Heresy.
Speeches of Hill, Eaton, Bayard, and
Salisbury Briefly Reviewed. a..

WASHINGTON, May 20.
Mr.. Blaine won new laurels yesterday in the
Senate Chamber, He had packed audience.
the British, Danish and Brazilian Ministers,
with several Secretaries of Legation, occupying
the diplomatic gallery, while Gen. Sherman
and other notables were on the floor The
House not being in session, a quorum of Repre-
sentatives were present, and the beauty and
fashion of the metropolis graced the scene
Mr.. Blaine was in the best of health and spirits.
He spoke without notes, occasionally referring
to memorandum on his desk, behind which
he moved to and fro, advancing and retreating.
There was no hesitation, no gaps to release the
attention of his listeners, but he went right
ahead in his characteristic explosive style, now
hitting some Senator on the other side of the
Chamber, then reading passage from Webster
or some other authority bearing on the dues-
ton, and using it as a text for terse argument,
now indulging in tilt of words, yet through
his sarcasms, and his reasonings, and repair
tees there ran a vein of old-fashioned practical
sense that was unansWerable
Mr. Blaine, speaking on the Legislative bill,
said attempts were being made to show that
Webster recanted and changed his views on the
nature of our Government in his closing years.
The chance words used by different men to de-
scribe our governmental system need not be
taken too literally. The important fact is that,
as between nationality and State rights, Web
ster threw his influence in favor of the former
He quoted Webster's own comments on the
Capon Springs speech, showing that he had
been misrepresented by the construction placed
on that speech in the South. Mr.. Blaine read
from Webster's comments on the constitution,
fO no off hot f1n o1,1t;o
adopted by the Constitutional Convention of
1877 declared that the Government
should be national and not a mere
compact between the States. Webster
used the word compact" when he said
the Government was the result of
a compact between all the people, and not be-
tween the States Mr. Eaton had evidently cot
his inspiration for Fridays speech from A. H.
Stephens history, a mischievious book, the
more SO as it is written by sincere man, fact
making its misrepresentation doubly danger
Gus. Another of Stephens misstatements was
that Webster declined to vote against Calhoun's
State-rights resolutions of 1885 Webster had
deliberately denounced those resolutions, yet
Stephens said Webster ominously refrained
from putting himself Cd record against them.
Mr.. Blaine quoted further from Webster's
views. Abiding to Hills assertion that he as
sented to secession as he would to the death of
his father, with sadness of heart, Mr.. Blaine
showed in the Georgia Convention, that on the
vote for secession 80 voted against it and 20S
for it. It seemed, said Mr.. Blaine, that as 20S
voted for it Mr.. Hill thought he would consent
to the death Of the old man, rather than be in a
minority.
The Senator from Georgia (HilD said the
Union was saved not by Republicans, but by
Democrats. In Connecticut it was not Buck
ingham and Hawley, it was the Senator (Eaton)
who did it. In New York it was not Seward,
but Gev. Seymour. In Ohio it was not Chase,
but Vallandigham But President Lincoln did
not think the Democrats were helping him
along as rapidly as the Senator from Georgia
thought. Mr.. Blaine then referred to the
Democratic committee who came to Washing
ton to effect the release of Vallandigham, but
who would not sign paper pledging their 10y
atty, which was suggested by President Lin
coin as preliminary to a revocation of the
military order that held Vallandigham in
arrest
Mr.. Blaine spoke of the recent discussion
about the use of troops in Maryland and Della
ware during the war, and said the oath required
to be taken by voters was then only what every
Senator has to take.
Mr.. Bayard rose and warmly defended the
loyalty Of the people of Delaware. He said
Mr.. Blaine could not mention one uApatriotic
act of that State. He had always personally
resented an imputation of disloyalty. The oath
required was an insult to people who needed
no Indictment to loyalty.
Mr.. Blaine thought Mr. Bayard unduly sensi-
tive. He had only quoted the resolution of the
Delaware Legislature. The Schenck orders
were issued on proof that sedition existed. He
then argued that the Democracy of to-day were
seeking to carry out the principles of Calhoun
and Breckenridge, not those of Jackson and
Douglas. He then spoke of the distinctive
character of the school books of the South, in
which principles hostile to the Government
fol1o
one Of the Southern arithmetics as a case IN
point:
eff ten cowardly Yankees have two days
start, and make eight miles day, how long will
they run before being overtaken by five brave
Confederates, who are pursuing them at the
rate of ten miles day."
He referred to the address of John s. Pres
colt, of South Carolina, at the University of
Virginia, in which the speaker remarked that
the Mayf1ower was filled with horrors and
crimes, the jamestown with free men, loyal to
heir country and to God, and saying other
things in denunciation Of the Mayfower and IN
praise of the jamestown immigrants.
Mr.. Morgan said he doubted if such school
books were used in the South If so, he would
have heard of them. There was some other
literature which ought to be made known. He
read from the minutes of the twelfth annual
session of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, held in December, 1878, in Alabama.
to show that one of the members was charged
with voting the Democratic ticket, and the con-
ference, upon considering the case, decided
that jurisdiction be lodged with the North Ala
baIna Conference
Mr. Blaine, resuming, read an extract from
speech of Senator Hampton, and said that if it
meant anything it meant great deal Itmeant
preparation for another conflict, or it was idle
rhetoric. Such was the character of literature
throughout the South
Mr.. Hampton replied that the words quoted
by the Senator did not name another rebellion.
If the language was idle rhetoric it was not
such as the Senator poured out @Peace hath
her victories not less renowned than war"
Mr.. Blaine replied eyes, but peace did not
prevail at the battle of Waterloo" to which the
Senator alluded. He repeated that the language
was either idle rhetoric or a prodigious menace.
In conclusion. he said tue laws to secure fair
and free elections ought not to be repealed.
The only object in repeating them was to grasp
political power. Every step taken by the Dem
ocrats was in the same direction They want
to strike down Federal TO exalt Southern power
Other measures are to follow. What they were
he did not know. The Republicans would re-
sist by every constitutional means, and the
Democrats, despite the threats of the Senator
from Kentucky Beck and the Senator from