The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-05-11
IN DEFENCE OF THE SOUTH.
A sPIRITED sPEKCH By sENA tor HILL
ANsVERING REPUBLICANS.

ANSHERINN RhPUBLfCAN6.
an. y..t WAR the south win Fight Uuaer
the stars a.d stripes-ClaiIainG that North
a., De~scrats were the Men who Really |
saved the Uuion-Mr. Chandler's Reply.
WASHINGTON, May 1o.-The Legislative, |
Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was
The regular order this morning In the Senate.
The reading OF this long and usually uninter-
eating bill was suspended to allow Mr.. Hill Of
Georgia an opportunity TO mako q speech
which for some days past he has been waiting
A.. chance TO deliver. There was a small at
tandance Of strangers whom Mr.. Hill began.
nut "a he proceeded the news circulated about
the Capitol that he was making great speech.
and people nocked In to hear him. A large
number OF members went over from the House.
Such Republican leaders as Blaine. Conkling.
Hoar Edmunds and Logan gave the closest at
tention to the speaker. Mr.. Hill was not tame.
neither did he eat FIRE. He said great many
plain but unpaatable truths In very direct
way His personal attacks were not prefaced
nv apologies. At times, Mr.. Conklng seemed
amused at the keen thrusts made by the Geor-
eian and, toward the close Of the speech evil
IDENTIFY lost his appreciation OF Mr.. Hills wit
for direst wrath was plainly to be seen in the ex-
preston OF his countenance. Mr.. Blaine wore
disappointed and uncomfortable expression.
Logan was numerically ridiculed on an I'M
lucky EXPOSITION ne nhu nHuo Ol Tue NOnshiNu-
lion, Chandler paid little attention to the
speaker until the famous blood-letting" let
ter, written by old Zach In 1861. WAS read; then
he fairly woke up and fixed his brilliant oye on
HE audacious Georgian with a most deadly
the radical speeches which have been made
since the extra session began. he defended
Tho speech was also fercely aggressive.
Mr.. Hi surprised his Northern acduaintancee
san SS1T hop ' man. ne He had ys
hred to preseESS the 60, government I'm Early Ear in
4 SS BIZ y% ISs 5.SS sosS
S1:s "a 6 h 2s he po%s BY Hag.
si ;ss 35 Sso Sy' Of BAD Is%
PaSicap a' position f Sy Charging that their
sutSori;y as an element in the Federal Govern
nent To prove this purpose he 9 quoted IN
6onkllnG's speech on the Necessity for the, use
q the army 70 suppress TIE turoyglept people OF
eSe to protect herself. what other State is able
The. logical CONCLUSION is that the States must
o the weTS tSe
beginning; One was the Secession party. the
She. the b PARTY ,ss The S former ee
eb u aO the Tebeliicn. Tho other element was
centralize all the power Of the land in the Fed
bral Government.
largely devoted % meeting the charge Of Mr.,
ponkling and others that the country was in
attacks on the radical leaders were fierce.
end especially on poor i ChandleT, whose blood,
much gusto. In 1865. be had a Correspondence
With that great and good man Horace
IN America. Mr; Greeley was, honest IN this
convictions. and boldly declared them. In his
stter, 10 that gentleman, in reply % sometime
That had been said concerning him. he wrote
srs Of the Tr'5ass having in the winter Of 1860
warned the people against secession, and told
s% Ss war sn ySpS war; SHny N %
Free Sellers said II the South desired TO secede
SSS dS 40 Oo 60 In e6 1Re 81 n
Constitution. They pledged themselves to form
knsw one on the model Of the old; TIL \:
eons,itutonel rights by the extremists OF H.
North to destroy Its properly ana peca1se tae
iosdeTs. said that secession should Sc accom-;
plished in peace; MI. Greeley said they wanted
were hundreds OF thousands Of persons who
believed that the only YAK 10 Sy9d war was r e
feet and preserve their slave property. II thel
had believed that war would result they neve
The representatives OF the South must b
trusted, The South, sought to avert the war
he Their epublicans claim 10 have saved the Union
but II there had been no Republican party thu
would hSSs been no secession. no Returning
Boards and Electoral Commissions.
North have aDolher war IT will cut deeper thai
the first one. Would they make war becaus
polls. and because they wanted 10 say 70 IN
Because nI the representatives Of tho South stoo
here as bulwark against those who wonl
ststes S' i frS must have war they viii main
tain their rights In the Union; but trust TIER
Will be no War The men OF the south S6a w 0p tb
country. The people would take charge OF IN
question; He assured those who heard mr.
OF the South but they had cause 20 be alarme
BY such threats as have been made by the lead
" Mr. Hill said il was through the very agsnc
Of the authority and SOVEREIGNTY OF the stat,
are able sG to be here today not through intm
dA9n and fraud It is net true . taE N we az
the Republican party. Why, should we not be
Can you YToHdeT2 hi wiIl mot s spsa soiS
have '0T made during the last four week
ana ssnd1bT nt US e w evgr' Tyer
vile story OF fraud, no, matter how unworthy
belief, Is pRrAdcd against tho southern people
and no matter how much testimony Of goo
men we bring forward to refute these falsehood
that testimony IS cried down. We REGARD w
Republican party as merely sectional. We Ioi
the Democrats OF the North BECAUSE we admir-
their course during the war. We had terrlb
ordeal but they had one perhaps worse III
Gdety 10 the Union they believed In led them
dRht against US but after the war they met us
men and that is why wo 20 with them. II Il
soulh were solid against the Constitution
would DO reprehensibe, but they were not. "
are solid for preserving the Copstitution an
ita principles. 1t 10 not we but Northern me
who seek strife and who are against the Unto
L was not the Republicans but the NorthsI
Democrats who saved the Union and they W
preserve it. We could not help them to save
but we arc here to help them 10 preserve II.
Born and reared amid tho traditions
slavery, he yet wished when secession was pr
posed that slavery should perish rather thi
stand in tho way Of tho maintenance OF q
Union. In disunIon he saw, anarchy: horrC
tho destruction Of States. and only despousl
Dlsunon in any form was nothing but bloot
waste and ruin 10 all races and conditions
mon. o.,
Mr.. Chandler defended his letter; said
was justified by the occasion that all compr
mise had been refused. and that the time (
negotiation had passed. He DID not howey'
explain why In the face Of such facts, he a.
had advised delegates 10 be sent 10 the pea