The Rock Island Argus., 1879-05-20
Last NIGHTS Dispatches.
XLVTCONGRESS.



WASHINGTON. May Observation-Disclosures,
speaking on the legislative bill, said that
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 describe our government |
tai system need cot be taken too literally |
The important fact is that as between ma
tlonallty and state rights MIR. Webster |
threw his influence in favor of the former. |
Senator Eaton evidently got his inspira- |
ton tor Fridays speech from A. II. Ste !
Ven's history, . mischlevous book, the |
more 50 as it is written by sincere man
"a tact making its misrepresentation |
doubiy dangerous. Another Of Stevens |
mlSstatements was that Webster declined |
to vote against Calhoun's States Rights |
resolutions, of 1888. Webster had elab- |
orately denounced those resolutions, yet
Stevens SAID Webster ominously retrained
from putting himself on record against
them. Senator Blaine quoted further from
Weosters & views. Abiding to Hills asser-
tlon that he assented to secession as he
would to the death of his father with sad
ness OF heart, Senator Blaine showed that
III 'He georgia convention that voted for
secession, % voted against II aud POS for
1t. mn thought he would consent to the
death OF the old man rather than he in
minority: The senator from Georgia Hill
sald the Union was saved, not by the Re-
publi3ans but by the Democrats. In Con-
necucut 1t was not buckingham and Haw-
| ley, it was Senator Eaton who did it. In
| New York it was not Seward but Governor
Seymour. In Ohio it was not Chase but
Nailandnkham. But President Lincoln
did not think the Democrats we're helping
him along Is rapidly as the senator from
Georgia thought. Senator Blaine then
referred to the Democratic committee who
came to VI ashington TO effect the release
of Nallandlngham, but who would not
sign paper pledging their loyalty, which
was suggested by President Lincoln as pre-
ilmlnary to a revocation of the military or
der that held Naliandingham in arrest.
Senator Blaine spoke of the recent dis
cusslon about the use OF troops in Mary
land and Delaware during the war, and
said the oath required to be taken by vo-
ters was then only what every Senator has
to take.
Senator Bayard rose aud warmly de-
Tended the loyalty Of the people OF Dele
ware. lie said Senator Blaine could not
mention one unpatriotic act Of that State.
tie hadlalways personally resented any i'm
putation of disloyalty. The oath required
was an insult to peorle who needed 10
Indictment to loyalty.
Senator Blaine thought Senator Bavard
unduly sensitive. He had only quoted the
resolution Of the Delaware legislature.
The Schenck orders were issued on proof
that sedition existed. The Democracy of
to-day were seeking to carry out the priD-
ciples OF Calhoun and Breckenridge, not
those of Jackson and Douglas. He spoke
OF tie distinctive character Of the school
, books of the South, in which principle
hostile to the government were inculcated
, and gave the following from one of the
Southern arithmeties as a case in point;
IF ten cowardy Yankees have to ruu,
{ knowing that Confederates are following,
t how loug would it be before they were
| overtaken?' And he referred to the ad-
dress OF John S. Prescott, OF South Caro-
q lima, at the University of Virginia,in which
the speaker remarked that the MAY Flower
was filed with horrors and crimes, the
: jamestown with frecmeu, loyal to the
It country aud to God, aud saying other
g things in deuunoiaticno OF the May Flower
!. and in praise OF Jamestown euligrants.
= Senator Morgan said he doubted if suct
is school books were used 10 the South |
n so he would have heard of them. There
o was some other literature which ought /,
e be made known. He read. t-om the min
g utes o! the twelfth arnusl session Of tn
'e African Methodist Church held in Dece IN
% Der, 1873, In Alabama, to show that one
al of the members was charged with votin
t the Democratic ticket, aD4 the conference;
n upon considering the case decided tha
ID Jurisdiction be lodged with the North Ala
ze bama Conference Laughter.
a Senator Blaine qming read aa e1irsc
"a iroI2 3 speech 9. senator Hampton, 81
ID said Il that meant anything it meaut
ie GREAT deal. 1t HlesBi preparation for al
It. other 0oEiliot, or it was idle rhetoric. Sue
ID was the character Of literature throughoI
30 the South.
be Senator Hampton replied that the woTd
70, quoted did Dot mean GLCtaeT rebellion
or II the language was idle rhetoric it Wa
sc uot such as ,the Senator poured GU
10 Peace had her victories not less remove
ITS than war.
lr- Senator Blaine replied. IVES, b,
n peace did not prevail ct the battle
ne Waterloo. to which the Senator allUda
De He repeated that the language was eth
on idle rhetoric or pTodlgious menace,
Ie0 conclusion he said the laws to secure ia
and free elections ought no: to be repeale
The only object in repeating them was
,ra grasp political power. Every step tax
a;n by the Democrats wgg IL the e,same dire
oL ton. They want to strike down the Fet
~ erai to exalt the Southern power 9th
for measures are to follow. What they we
'os os he did not know. The RepGb!iea
ont would resist by every constitutional meal
On and tho democrats, despite the threat
IT. Beck and Baton, would be obliged to 50
'"' NIT in the end. Tbs power of governme
co was pQt to be put down by threat
,e es, oompulsion by political party. 1t fail
on to be put down by the rebellion. 1t COZ
a meet g more serious one which the ae1Gt
rk from South Carolina seened TO fo'
mn shadow.
yds oeHs'of ahce s@iu he was iequoS.e0
' own knowledge, that the partisan sch
literature spoken of by Blaine is non,
istent. During the var few such yol
sble were circulated, but since then no soGth'
child had seen one,
Senator Logan, as reply to the ass
ERE ton that under the Democrats the ar
rsr- was not used to keep the peace, he II
an extract from speech by Hon. g.
resi- Pendleton, in the House of Represer
tives in 1858. defending the Presidel
use of the troops in Kansas and il
'oMs for that purpose, the tenor of which
ads that governments have Dever been OF
the4 Thrown By military power unless {
G OF ueok nass and corruDtion had Drecedeu