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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-03

an act in relation TO public revenue; for the
benefit Of Yalobusha county; passed.
The Finance Committee recommended that
5. b. No. 30, making an appropriation for the
erection of a fre-proof building for the blind
in the city of Jackson, do not pass.
BILLS PASSED.
s. B. No. 236, to amend an act TO incorporate
the Oxford Mills Company.
;. b. No. 2l3, TO authorize the Board of Su-
pervisors of Pike county. to purchase safe.
5 B. No. 242, to prevent the sale Of iutoxica
ting liquors at Lafayette Springs, Lafayette
county.
S.B No. 206 to prohibit and regulate the
sale of liquors in the town OF Sarepta.
H. b. No. 1872 TO pay reasonable eompensa-
ton to G. NJ Brooke, an attorney at law, for
services rendered by him on behalf of the
State.
H. b. No. 152, for the relief of J. ". Piersou,
of Choetaw county.
II. b. No. rs, to ascertain the outstanding
Indebtedness of Bolivar county, with amend
ments.)
Substitute for S. B. No. 1876. to transfer GER
tain lands, the property of the State, to the
Deaf and Dumb institution.
s L. No. pa, TO incorporate the Commercial
Bank of Vicksburg with amendmeut)
II. b. No 40l. for the relief of the Mobile and
North Western Railroad Company.
ii. b. No. 20, to incorporate the Greenville
Cemetery Company.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
by Mt. DIfcAejI-
5. B. 263, an act in relation to the Public
Schools of the city of Vicksburg. Referred 70
Committee on Education.
By Mr.. Humphries-
s. B. No 264, act to authorize the Chi
cago, St Louis and New Orleans Railroad 10
consolidate with other companies. Referred to
mmittee on Railroads
BY Mr. Singleton
s. b. No 255 act for the relief of Wesley
Drane, of Holmes county. Referred TO Com
mittee on Claims.
BY Mr.. Cowan--
s d. No. 286, an act to amend an act to
make the county of Warren a separate Cir
cult and Chancary Court District. Referred
to judiciary Committee.
By Mr. Cowan-
5. b. No. 267 an act to amend an act to APP
point an agent to investigate frauds and col
lect revenues due to the State. Referred to
Finance Committee
By Mr. Anderson
S. B. No. 268, an act to change the name Of
Sharkey county. Referred to Committee on
Counties and County Boundaries.
By Mr.. Gayles-
5. b. No. 269 act to prohibit the working
of convicts in Bolivar and Coahoma counties.
Referred to the Committee on Penitentiary
and Prisons.
Mr. FitzGerald offered the following resolu-
ton which was adopted
Be it resolved, by the Senate, That the SEN
ate will not suspend the regular order of bush
ness, under any circumstances, without unan-
imous consent.
Be it further Resolved, That no bill shall be
introduced in the Senate after tonight, until
the close OF the session, without unanimous
consent.
Mr.. Cowan moved to strike out "to-night "
and insert Friday night
At 10 o'clock, on motion of Mr. Bills, the
Senate adjourned.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-03
HOUSE.
NIGHT SESSION.

THURSDAY, February %, 1850.
Senate met pursuant 10 adjournment.
Lieut.. Governor Sims in the Chair. Present
50; absent :.
Mr. Rogers introduced
5. b. No. Do, an act TO amend section 9 OF
an act in relation 10 public revenue; for the
benefit Of IaIobusha county; passed
The Finance Committee recommended that
;. b. No. 20, making an appropriation for the
erection OF a hre-proof building for the blind,
IN the city of jackson, do not pass.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-03-03

thalrman on part OF the House.
s. B. No. 166. and substitute, to facilitate the
construction o the Greenville aud Birming
ham Railroad from WinonG to Greenwood,
were called up ami the substitute adopted.
Mr.. Applewhite entered motion to recon
slider the vote whereby H. B. No. 402 to estab-
ish Stare Normal School in Lauderdale
county. was lost.
s. l0:25 on motion of Mr. Montgomery, the
House adjourned.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03
Mr.. PheIns,s Aprech.

The copperhead speech of Mr. E. j. Phelps,
printed on our first page to-day, was delivered
in Burlington, in 1864, at one Of the regular
meetings of the Democratic association of
Burlington, at their rooms in Payn's Block.
As it was not a public meeting, strictly speak
ing, held in the city hall but a Democratic
club meeting held at the rooms of the associ-
alton, it is not remarkable that the papers of
the day did not make more than a passing
note of it, The full report OF this speech
was made at the instance Of a citizen of high
character and standing in Burlington, who
employed Mr. John II. Converse, a compe-
tent stenographer, TO make it. Mr.. Converse
is now one of the junior partners of the Bald
win Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, and
is a gentleman Of the highest character for
integrity and sobriety. In making up its ex-
tracts from the speech for publication. the
Rutland Herald took care to do Mr. Phelps no
injustice, as is attested by the fact that these
excerpts include the only passage that at all
breaks the awful copperhead bitterness Of the
harangue. For the sake of strict historical
accuracy, it should be said that the speech
was made on the 9Th of September 1864, and
not on the 9Th of August MS at first stated
Reference to the files of the Burlington daily
papers shows that this was the case. The
error in dates arose from slip of the pen by
the reporter in writing out his short hand
notes
1t is significant fact that, to Boston re.
porter who interviewed him on the subject of
this speech, Mr.. Phelps attempted no denial
of it, and expressed no compunction for the
sentiments which it contains His only re-
greet was that in some parts the speech, as
given by the reporter, is ungrammatical and
inelegant in expression.
Still further is it significant fact that there
is abundant evidence that there is in this
speech nothing more bitter aud disloyal than
was constantly heard from Mr. Phelps in his
private life and conversation during the whole
period of the war. On some occasions, the
Herald relates he became intolerable, as once
in the presence of Chief Justice Pierpoint.
his kinsman, and Hon. F. f. Woodbridge,
when, after having rasped the gentle and
kindly but intensely loyal spirit of the good
Chief Justice by his sneers he sighed out
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03

One of the speakers at the Democratic
meeting Wednesday evening endeayorod to
make a strong point against the Republican
party because, with its protective principles,
it had nominated for President a man who
theoretically believes in free trade. Well.
suppose 1t las, and suppose it should seat him
in the Presidential chair; what then The
President Of the United States is not a dicta-
tor and could not repeal the tariff laws even
were he so disposed. Democratic orators may
preach up protection, and endeayor to prove
that the plank in their platform which declares
for "A tariff for revenue only" means some.
thing quite different from what it reads but
they cannot wipe out the fact that free trade
is u distinctiVely Democratic doctrine, and that
the only danger to be apprehonded in the way
of injury to American industries by free trade
legislation arises from the domineering iuhu-
ence of the Southern wing OF the Democratic
party in Congress. But the mere fact that
Gen. Garfield is a member of the Golden
club Of English free traders proves nothing
against his fitness TO be the standard bearer
of the Republican party He stands, upon
this question Of the tari1, precisely where
the majority Of Republicans stand to-day
This is abundantly proved by his record in
Congress, and we challenge any Democrat to
furnish evidence that his vote upon this ques-
ton ever belied lis professions In a speech
made il the House Of Representatives, July
10th, 1850, he said-gud lie could not have
made better statement Of Republican doe
trine-
81 hold that properly adjusted competi-
ton between home and foreign products is the
best gauge by which 10 regulate international
trade. Duties Mould BE- So high u.at Oiir man
UJactRrerS can JairlV compde ,riH tie .fJragA
Product, but not so high as TO enable them to
drive out the foreign article, enjoy monopo-
ly of the trade, and regulate the price as they
please. This is my doctrine of Protection
II Congress pursues this line steadily, we
shall year by year approach more nearly to
the basis Of Free Trade, because We shall be
more nearly able to compete with other ma
tons on equal terms. l am for Protection
that leads to ultimate Free Trade / am for
that Free Trade which can only be achieved
through q reasonable protection"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03

We earnestly invite especial attention to
the vile cspperhead speech of Edward J.
Phelps, the present Democratic candidate for
Governor Of Vermont, delivered at Burling-
ton on the 9TH day Of September, 1864, and
printed on our first page to-day If any
Union soldier, who fought to put down the
rebellion, nay, if any loyal Democrat, any
where, who so far forgot his partisan bias as
to stand by his government in its hour of
peril, can read this outrageously bitter and
disloyal speech, and then so to the polls and
vote for Edward J. Phelps, he must be made
of kind of clay we know nothing about.
Look at it This speech was deliberately
made in September, 1864, after that great and
glorifed political saint and martyr, Abraham
Lincoln, had already served nearly one full
term as President and was then in nomna-
ton for reGlection-after his great honest,
loving, sOrrowing heart had been literally
laid bare before the American people, and
after the whole nation, as it were, had learn
ed TO love and venerate him, and to hang
confidently and lovingly upon his words of
wisdom, as though uttered by inspired lips
When this speech was made, the war had been
fought out almost to the bitter end the re-
bellion was even then ready TO collapse, and
the authority of the nation, so long defed,
was about to be reGstablishcd thro ughout the
land, II was just at this critical point of
time that Mr. Edward ]. Phelps, that ''ele-
giant and Rristocratic gentleman" and dis
tinguished lawyer of Burlington, decided to
come to the front and put on record his high
and mighty opinion of Abraham Lincoln and
the men who gathered about him to save the
nation. At such a time as this Mr.. Phelps
thought it not beneath his manhood to
contemptuously sneer ut President Lincoln,
then but few short months from his martyr
dom, as this twentieth rate, back country
attorney" without one qualification as a
statesman, not one, not one'-as Abraham
Lincoln, falling into the embrace of
Charles Sumner, and Horace Greeley aud
Henry Ward Beecher and all that class If
MLSCRE1NTS.
1--WE are fighting, now said Mr., Phelps,
ito turn loose all the niggors." 'We are
fighting now for the Niger and nothing but
the Niger" and then, after saying that
neither Republicans nor Democrats will
stand this, he asks, "candidly and dispassion-
ately, whether or not they have got enough
of this attempt TO break down the distinc-
tons that the Almighty set up, and to white
wash the niger" etc, etc. If they have, he
implores them 10 vote the Democratic ticket
(McClellan) and stop the war. If they have
not got enough, he tells them TO send the rest
of your children down to the slaughter" and
give the rest of your property to fatten the
rest of this mess of villains that is hanging
on to the skirts of the war" He goes on to
sneer at the soldiers the government was
then lSG4) sending to the front, calling them
ringers and Hessians, and says that with
such a miserable set" the war can new
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03
"warminrUpthe Old Hatred,

The SriHlfCM Republican while depre-
eating the publication of Mr.. Z. j. Phelps =
indecent copperhead speech delivered at
Burlington in 1864, Gust one day be
fore Mr.. Charles n. Davenport made his
notorious copporhead speech from the town
house steps in Wilmington as calculated
to revive unpleasant memories and almost
forgotten animosties has to admit that 't
was bad speech, and that "a great many
foolish and violent things were said during
the war by men who are now probably
ashamed of them" We should think so :
But how happens it that these very men who
were first and foremost in making these bad
speeches" and in saying these foolish and
violent things all through the time when the
very existence of the nation was in peril. -
men like Z. J. Phelps and Charles N. Daven-
port,-are the identical men whom the Re.
publican now constantly and persistently com
mends to the people of Vermont as most
worthy of their confidence and support Why
is it that this self-constituted guardian of
Vermonts political affairs Gltdys sympathizes
with and commends the copperhead aiders
and Rbettors oftreason and rebellion, and lust
as constantly undertakes, belittles and abuses
nearly every man, who, instead of making
''badspeeches" of which he is now ASHAMED, &"
stood up manfully and loyalty for the govern
mont? But the Republicans preaching will
be in vain. The day will never come in Yer
mont when the disloyal and disgraceful con-
duct of such men as E. ]. Phelps and Charles
N. Davenport will be either forgotten or for
given. So long as they remain in the seclu-
sion of private life, their misdeeds will
rest quietly with them but whenever they
thrust themselves or permit others to thrust
them, prominently before the public, the ug-
ly ghost of their discreditable record during
the war will rise up to plague and thwart
them. And it is right that it should be so.
The Northern man who gave sympathy, aid
and comfort to the base and wicked attempt
to disrupt and destroy the nation, ought new
er to be, and never will be, put into any 20
sition of public trust and responsibility, and
the Republican is simply wasting its energies
in its constant efforts TO force such men to
the front in Vermont.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03

Our wonderfully enterprising % neighbor r,
the Detdmer, wrestling with the great prob
lem how to do something so novel and start
ling as TO divert public attention from the
woefully sad plight in which it has managed
lately to involve itself and its responsible own
or and director, has really done it at last
After testing the pulse Of its sensitive %
readers 10y throwing out occasional feolers
from time to time, it has finally ventured
boldly to launch out into IN entirely new and
unoccupiod field of journalistic enterprise
from which the bravesl and most defiant Of
newspaper guerrillas have hitherto shrunk,
and in which it is not now likely TO have eth.
err imitators or competitions; except possibly,
in class of publications seldom read by day
light, and never even named in respectable
society. In its eagernesS to gather fresh and
important news for its intelligent readers, it
appears to have organized n very jealous
corps Of practced eavesdroppers, on kind
Of sneak thief plan, whom it employs TO
stcalthily dog the footsteps of prominent citi.
zens, with instructions to creep up and slyly
listen to and report private conversations for
publication in its columns. Now this is very
heightened and gentlemanly business unques.
tionably, and ominenty worthy and charac-
toristc of its inventor. But even such bust
ness ought to be well done, if done at all
and therefore VIC venture in all possible kind
ness to suggest TO our onterprising young
ncighbot, il il means to make its new depart
ment success, the propriety Of employing
for this important work somewhat higher
order of intellect and intelligence than now
adorns this particular department Of its organ
lied wisdom sufficiently high, indeed, cor.
rectly to comprehend and report whut is said
and done in the strict privacy OF social and
domcstic life We know, indeed, how diff
cult it must be TO find this order Of iutcli-
gonco in combination with the other more es.
soutihl qualities requisite for this kind Of
business, and fully realize the other serious
obstacles in the way Of faithful discharge Of
the delicate duties imposed on these caves
dropping reporters. We can imagine, too.
the very great risks they constantly brave of
humiliating personal chastsement if detected
in the performance Of their high and rcspon-
sible duties still we really think our enter
prising neighbor iuhrling "the pure moral
atmosphere which it constantly breathes, by
infusing more Of its own inspiring PERSONAL.
ty into it, might easily elevate this peculiar
bran ch Of its "reformatory' work and mis-.
sion TO higher prominence and usefulness
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03

or be successful and he winds up by patron
izingly declaring his confidence that God is
not going to let this nation go to ruin for the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of a miserable dirty set of
politicians, and on the strength of this conf
dence predicts the election Of Mcclellan.
But we must stop here with these few spec
linen sentences, showing how Mr. Edward J..
Phelps, Democratic candidate for Governor,
felt in 1864, when the war was still in prog
ress. Let no man fail to read the whole
speech, word by word, aud then, if he still
feels any inclination to vote for this Mr.
Phelps, we shall spend no more time in argu-
ing or expostulating with him. We especial
ly ask the Boys in Blue" to study this speech
of the man who, when they left home and
friends to serve their country, thus stabbed
them in the back. Again we say, let no
man, Democrat or Republican, civilian or
soldier, fail to read this speech Is the man
who could deliberately utter such atrocio us
sentiments, in such cold-blooded and afro
cious language, fit to be Governor of Yer
monty
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03
The Local Campaign.

The work of the campaign has been push
ed in Windham county during the past week
with a vigor never before equaled within the
memory Of the present generation. Last
Monday evening Col. X. Haskins and Hon
o. L. Buttcrfeld spoke at West Dover, Hons.
J. L, Martin and E L. Waterman spoke at
Ward,boro, and Hon. c. Il. Eddy and L. N.
Read ESD, spoke at Cambridgeport. On
Friday afternoon Col. Haskins and Judge
Poland spoke at Wilmington. On Friday eve
ming Col. Haskins spoke to a large audience
at f. Dover for nearly three hours, making
''the greatest effort Of his life On the same
evening Hons. J. NJ. Tyler and b. b. harris
spoke at Grafton. Saturday afternoon Po-
land, Waterman and Harris spoke at Towns
bend. In the evening Haskins spoke at
Williamsyille Messrs Fuller Harris and Stod-
dard at w. Dummerston, and Poland and
Martin at Bellows Falls On Monday eve
ming of this week, Hons. Butterfeld and
Boyd Of Wilmington spoke at Stratton and
on Tuesday evening Col. l. X Fuller and
Hon. L. /. Waterman held a good meeting at
the same place. On the same evening Mar
tin and Eddy spoke al Westminster On
Wednesday evening Hon. G. b. Eddy of Bel
lows Falls and ]. G.. Eddy of Bratteboro
spoke at Dummerston, Butterheld, Stoddard,
and Gen. w. w. Lynde spoke at Marlboro,
and Haskins spoke Mt jacksonville. Tonight
Friday, Eddy and Read will speak at Jamaica
and Hon. Geo. F. Edmunds at Brattleboro.
Tomorrow night Hon. ]. l. Martin viii
speak at S. Londonderry, and a rally will be
held at Putney. In addition to the work
done at home, several of our local speakers,
including Tyler Harris, Haskins and Martin
have also been engaged on several evenings
in campaign work outside the county
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03

rebel flag was among the decorations"
at the Hancock ratification meeting in Wash
ington last week.
Evidence accumulates that the Democrats
have thrown up the sponge in Maine and
given up all hope of carrying that State.
The Virginia Democratic papers are saying
very uncomplimentary things about Wade
Hampton for trying TO crawl out of what he
said in his Stanton speech
The official returns of Alabama show
Democratic majority of $4,000 in place of
the modest 5000 at first reported. In 1876
Mr., Tilden's entire vote was only l02. 900.
The boys have overdone the matter.
j. X. Osgood, the temperance worker. who
declined the prohibition nomination for gov
ornor OF Maine, will take the stump for the
Republican ticket.
A company of Republican torch-bearers,
returning home to Montpelier from a rally at
Waterbury the other, night, gave Atkins a
rooster serenade, For some unaccountable
reason the recipient of this eminently appro-
pirate attention resented it as an insult
L. II. Cove, chairman of the Maine Green
back State committee and Secretary of State
under Gov. Gareelon, has written letter de-
claring his purpose to hereafter act with the
Republicans. He will take the stump for the
Republican candidate
The Democrats are trying to feel happy
over the fact that the Tammany and the anti
Iammany politicians have covered up their
differences and pooled their issues-but this
won't keep New York from giving 90, 600 ma
jority for Garfield, however
Daniel Dougherty, the Philadelphia lawyer
who nominated the superb" at Cincinnati,
feels very blue about Hanoock's prospects.
lie says he wishes somebody else than Mr.
English had been nominated for Vice Presi-
dent, and that if the Democrats fail TO carry
Indiana in October, as now seems certain,
the jig will be up for Hancock,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03

The prospect for brilliant sweeping Re
publican victory in Vermont was never more
fully assured than it is to-day. In every sec
ton of the State the people are fully aroused,
and nothing like the present enthusiasm has
been witnessed since 1870 The attempt of
the Democrats TO throw dust in the eyes of
Republicans by charges of waste and proAiga-
cy in the management of our State affairs has
fallen utterly fiat, for it has been conclusiyely
proved that they are false, unfounded, and
have not a peg tohang on. Remember that
it is a vote for Farnham Ii Vermont, next
Tuesday, which in reality counts for Garfield
in November, and lei notliAg keep on array
from tie polls.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03

We belong to party that is not afraid to
show its head in every State in this country
from Maine to Florida, from the city of New
York to the Golden Gate Of San Francisco.
Theirs is one which has virtually no existence
out of the Northern states.-E. j. PhclpSs
speech accepting tie Democratic nomiaatioH
for Governor.
Read the address of the Alabama Republ-
can State Committee, rs summarized in last
weeks PHOENIX, and see why the Republican
party does not show its head in the South in
this campaign. and why it has virtually no
existence out of the Northern states" Such
astounding frauds as were perpetrated by the
Alabama Democrats in the count of votes at
the recent election in that state were never
before heard of or imagined in a country pre-
tending to call itself civilized
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03
x AND RECORD AND FARMER FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1880.

"When will this cruel war be ended 2" The
Chief Justice stopped in his moditatiye walk
across the floor, and, confronting Phelps, nm
swored with n gesture rs emphatic as his
words "When every such damned copper
head and traitor as you is hung, as you ought
TO be-" To our Windham county readers
there is hardly need to point out that this OK
perience Of Mr.. Phelps with the mild and by
no means usually profano Judge Piorpoint
was almost exactly parallel with that Of his
friend Mr.. Chas. N. Davenport, with the late
Judge Kellogg, when the latter. Indignantly
threatened Mr.. Davenport with arrest and
imprisonment in Fort Warren unless he stop
ped his disoya talk.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-03
That 800 Reward.

Time and space are too precious this week
to be wasted on the Davenports. We there
fore only take occasion to say that We haven't
yet received that 800 reward" which was
offered for any reliable tangible evidence"
etc Nothing has ever before so brought the
DlJdmer into contempt as has the refusal of
its owners to pay over this money. We have
good reasons for believing that they have al
ready lost more patronage on this account, in
discontinued subscriptions, than the full
amount of the reward