The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-29
senator RIaInc;s Remarks.

Senator nIaine's Remarks.
On Friday Mr.. Blaine replied to
the remarks of Mr.. Hill, of Georgia,
on q former occasion reading from the
proceedings Of the Georgia Couven-
ton that passed the ordinance Of Sc
cession, to show that Mr.. Hill voted
for it, though he had previously told
his constituents that he would con
sent to a dissolution Of the Union as
be would consent to the death OF his
father-ramely, from necessity, and
then with sadD ess of heart. lie saw
by complimentary biographies of 9th
er gentlemen that they did not will
lingly go, but were dragged into Sc
cession by their States, while the
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Will
iams) was dragged into secession be-
cause his State did not so out of the
Union.
MI. Williams asked Mr.. Blaine
whether he did not hire a substitute
instead of going to the wal himself.
Mr.. Blaine replied that in the con
scriptjon law passed by the Congress
of whial he was a member, there was
no exemption of members of tho leg
i%slative department. He was among
the first men drafted. aud, not caring,
to resign as a member Of Congress,
he sent a substitute. What would
the Senator from Kentucky have done
if he had been drafted?
Mr.. Williams replied that he should
have gone to the warif he had been
on the Republican side.
Mr.. Blainez-Bat it was not your
fight on that side. The honorable
Senator went into rebellion because
his State did not go out Of the Union.
Mr.. Williams-Did you substitute
go2
Mr.. Blaine-No, he was Il sealy
fellow. and a Democrat, and a lounty
jumper.
A voicc-Did you pay half price |?
Mr.. Blaine-No, full price-more
than an average Democrat is worth.
Laughter The Senator from Ga,
Mr.. Hill, said the Union was saved
not bv tie Republicans, but by the
Democrats. In Connecticut it Was
not Buckingham and Hawley, it was
tue Senator (Alr. Eaton) who did it.
In New York it was moi Seward, but
Gov. Seymour. In Ohio it vas not
Chase, but VallandighUm. But
President Lincoln did not think the
Democrats were helping him along as
rapidly as the Senator from Georgia
thought.
Mr.. Eaton-Does the Senator de-
sire to make a personal attack on
me?
Mr. Blaine--Not the slightest.
Mr.. Eaton-If so, let him make it.
Mr.. Blaine said he had been show
ing the mistake in supposiug that the
Democrats of the North saved the
Union, and then referred to the Dem
ocratic committee who came to Wash
ington to effect the release of Mr..
Vallandigham, of Ohio, but who
would not sign q paper ptedging
their Loyalty, which was suggested by
President Lincoln as a preliminary to
the revocation of the military order
that held Mr.. Yallandigham in arrest.
Mr.. Blaine referred to Ae letter of
President Lincoln, addressed to Mr..
Corning, of New York, in which he
gives a little advice, saying that the
army could not be maintained if de-,
serters only suffer death.
"Must l." President Lincoln ask
ed, "shoot a supplemented boy,
while I woul6 not touch a hairof men
who would encourage him to DESERT
men who would fight in a bad cause
and impede the operations of the ad
ministration by inlammatory appeals
and other meansP To silence the agi-
ia ton anil save the boy is mercy"
Mr.. Blaine said the scene had
shifted. At first it was the Ky. Sen.
who said the Democrats would, in a
certain contingency, deny supplies;
now the proclamation came from the
North. The Senator from Connect
cut represented Hartford, where the
convention met during the war of
1912 to resist the conflict with Great
Britain. Mr.. Blaine said he was a
MAI of courage.
Mr.. Eaton said he had never taken
u great deal of stock in the Hartford
convention. 1t belonged to the fa.
theirs Of men On the Republican side
of the chamber
Mr.. Blaine expressed his sorrow
that the Senator denounced that con-.
yention. He should, to be consistent,
carry out its principles. He then ar.
gued thu the Democracy of to-day
were seeking to Garry out the princi
pies of Calhoun and Breckenridge,
not those of Jackson and Douglass.
lie then spoke of the distinctive
character of the school books Of the
South, in which principles hostile to
the Government were incalculated,
and he quoted as a case in point the
following question from nj the
Southern arithmetics:
"If ten cowardly Yankees have two
DAYS start and make eight miles a
day, how long will they run before
being overtakcn by five bravo Con
federates who are pursuing at the
rate 81 len miles a day."
And be referred to an address Of
john S. Prest3h, q South Carolina,
at the University Of Virginia, in