The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-14
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wAslIsGToS, March 0, 1880.
Yesterday Mr.. Bayard spoke on the Ftz
John Porter bill. The galleries were literally
packed. Logan had kept the floor for
week, speaking about three hours a day, to
prove an officer Of the Union army n COW
ard and traitor. Logan tried to be cool
and argumenta,ive, consequently he was ab.
surd. If Logan is not fiery and imprisoned
he is nothing. Carpenter also had his say
against Porter, and argued that if court
martial decisions were to be reversed by Cor
gress, it was high time GRAFT
was made President. | didn't exactly zee
the continuity or logic of the argument but
suppose am dull. Bayard is one of the
few men whose speeches read better than
they sound He is clear, thorough, correct
and soundly logical, but he has no personal
magnetism, and his voice is not very good,
yet what he says is SO true, and his language
is so choice and terse, that he always draws II
crowd. The Republicans seem to be sue
ceeding in giving political complexion to
this bill. How keen they are! How inglo'
rious Fitz John Porter is Democrat; he
is, as he claims, unfairly and unjustly de-
graded by military court. He claims jus
lice from his country, and now q Demo
cratic Congress considers his claim, ergo it is
political measure? Do make 1t clear 10
you, i'll do, it is more than do to my
self.
wish could be silent about the latest
scandal. | am ashamed, thoroughly and
heartily ashamed, TO touch it. Ashamed
of newspapers that revel in it, of peo-
pie Who gloat over it. of state
Of society that makes it possible, but above
all of the fact that a woman lives on earth
that can consent to be a party to it. A wo-
man comes here who says Senator Hill has
ruined her, and who demands $4,000 rs the
price of her honor and virtue. Great heaven
Has honor then sunk so low? Is virtue II
drug in the market that II can be bought so
cheaply? OF course Senator Hill refused 10
be blaclmailed. / would as soon
think of trying to backmail
the great pyramid of Gizeh as that
rugged old Roman. He is firm in his con
scousness of honor and rectitude. mot ten
cents" was his reply to the woman or her
agent, 80 the woman wants to let him alone
but her lawyer, Mrs. Belva Lockwood, has
already "filed suit" lis that the correct legal
term y for damages. The woman don't want
q suit. She would like very much to draw Il
years salary from the Senator, but she breads
a suit. So she makes n confession of her
intentions, of her sad life, out of which honor
and virtue have long ago utterly
vanished, and consents to its publ
cation. / am not prepared to
speak of Mrs. Lockwoods share in the trans
action. She is easily deceived by women
She instinctively sides with the womanin all
such cases. This is noble weakness to
which our sex is not generally subject, and
honor her for it. / think she has been de.
ceived, both in this case and that of Miss
Horton, in which she also is counsel. She Ii
something of u fanatic, and, as such, is easily
deceived. She has had to fight her way
the bar, and would not risk losing il
by advocating what she knew, or sus'
pected to be, an attempt at blackmail
but her soul goes out to every woman IN
trouble, and her hand and brains are freely
at the service of every oppressed or mistreat
ed sister. / believe this scandal, and the
Morgan affair are Radical traps. That party
would so dearly love to have Southern Soma
tors in the same ugly category with Cameron
and Conklingg Isuppose theirnext discov'
cry will be Southern Mrs. Sprsgue. Blu,
it really does seem to me they have made q
gross mistake in selecting Ben Hill, and ]
am glad oft. He is quite able to fight his
own battles.
Judge Terrell, Of Austin, is in the city,
Time seems to have forgotten the Judge he
looks as young as he did ten years ago. He
says Houston has "big boom" in Texas.
Il mean the city, not the Senator from
Bexar,) which /, as whilom resident Of that
plueky little city, am very glad to hear
A gentleman and his wife we're talking to
me a week or two since about going 10 Texas.
any wife" said the man, 'is afraid to 60
10 Texas she has read SO many dreadful
things about the awlessness of the people,
but have persuaded her at last to 60"
"When will you locate 7" | asked, in his
own yernacular. swell, i Though. would take
her 70 Dallas first, you know it's more like
the northern tows, moro sorter civilized than
any other portion of the State" And this
beautiful individual had spent several days
in Galveston; had passed through Houston,
and even been in San Antonio
Senator Maxey is preparing a speech on a
postal bill, which believe Is 10 be introduce
ed, and, in looking up some
points regarding Rusk--to whom we
owe our three cent postage law--discovered