, 1880-12-26


delegate and asked him If he would nj
make his servant surrender his berth to N
Randall; that ii lie did not, Mr.. Randa
would have to sit up all night. The del
gate very promptly told him that
he WOULD SoT;
that it was a mere question of whether n
Randall should be uncomfortable all night
whether his servant should be unconfor
able, and that Mr.. Randall had as we'll be u,
comfortable as his servant; and he went I
the negro and told him to let him know
any effort was made to deprive him of b
berth, and that he would pr 'tect him. Ever
Virginia delegate to the Convention ca
youcl for the truth OF this statement. MOI
this delegate was In every way identified i
the MOST intimate manner with thai elelnen
IN the Southern States which The Fool
represents as hating the negro with all III
tense hatred. aud yet he would no
consent to see his negro seryan
made uncomfortable to make the presen
Speaker If the House OF Representatives an
possible future President comfortable"
II would like to see which one OF 'th
fools who vex the ear Ut the public witt
their s1alvcllng lies about the oppression o
the negro would have done this. Whicllere
one Of them had been applied to. lie wouft
have fastened with obseQuious self-abase
ment to kick his servant out that the grea
man might enjoy his ease"
Royal next
DEF1sEs AND DEFENDS THE REBEL BRIG
ADLER
who, he says, represents to the Northern
mind an embodiment OF all that Is opposed
to law and order. "Howeyer mucil," lie
says, Northern men may declare that the
act OF the Southern man was treason, yet to
tho mind OF tbs Southern man his act WAS
not only right in the sight Of God, but en-
Joined upon him by his law. Having failed
In his contest he has loyalty surrendered the
propositions for which he fought, and he
proposes loyallyto abide by the covenant into
which he entered at the end Of the WAT.
Should Northern State attempt to secede
froln this Union, no part Of the country
could be relied upon SO surely to coerce her
TO resume her proper relations to the Cen
eral Government as the lately seeded
States The State Of Virginia to-day affords
"A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION
Of the conservative character OF the Rebel
Brigadier. Before the late War that State
had borrowed large sum Of money which
had been expended in creating her rail-
roads, canals, and public institutions, for
which she had given her bonds. Within the
past five years an effort headed by William
Malone, who was q MajorGenera1
in tile Confederate army, has been
set ION foot to repudiate
large part, II not all, Of this debt. In the
faA Of 1879 an election for members Of the
Legislature was held in Virginia, and the is
sue in that election was the reputation OF
the debt. In that election all the negroes,
who constitute the Republican party OF the
State, voted for Legislative candidates who
favored reputation, while every Rebel
Brlgadfer in the State, save and except Will
lam Malone, voted to make the State pay
her debt There exists to-day IN
every county III Virginia q feeling
Of bitterness between the repudiators and
the debt-payers more intense than any that
ever existed between any political factions In
the United States. Duels have been fought
over It. and constant personal collisions have
occurred, and are occurring, and yet every
single Rebel BriKadier' who now resides In
the State Of Virginia, except William Ma
hone, is on the side Of the debt-payers"
Royal discusses in his sixth chapter the
comparison between
AHtAAoE4As A+A1 +VI4dGNN N1N111LAxA0Ns
and says: It IS quite the fashion to institute
between the civilization Of
the South and the civilization OF the |
North. always to the very grea
OF that Of the South. In Octo-
ber, 1880. Senator Conkling made speech in |
the City OF New York, which has been her |
aided from one end Of this Union to another |
bf his claeQuers as very great production |
Of very great man.
He next pays his respects to Mr.. ConklIng:
Ar. Conkling was most unfortunate In his |
selection for illustrating the barbarism OF |
the South. Occasions may and do
arise In every Southern State when |
widows may exhibit the bloody
shirts Of their slain husbands, and |
yet while there is deep feeling
Of sympathy for the widow, there Is no feel
Eng Of regret for the husband, and common
consent, which has become common law,
APPLAuDs THE ACT OF THE SLAYER I
These occasions arise when All outraged hus- |
band takes the law into his own hands, and
siaughters where he finds him, whether at |
church or at fair, the traitor who has invaded |
The sancttty Of his home and corrupted the
vile OF his bosom. Mr. Conkling's ilIustra- |
lion may well suggest the inquiry whether
A4'1@@ - u 1o"tl c1Fll1ZaLlcl WHICH JuStfneS the
outraged husband In staying the man |
who has thus ruined his home
and bis life, even though it should leave to
widow the legacy Of husbands bloody |
shirt, or whether that Is higher civilization
which exhibits a terror-stricken husband
thus wsonged standing in the presence Of his
~i1e's paramour, shotgun in hand, yet
trembling and afraid to shoots
THE habit which In all the Southern States
prevails to greater or less extent OF pro-
tectfng character by holding him who assails
It to
4 PERSONAL ACCOUNT
Is also constantly referred to as an evidence
of the barbarisn of the Southern States.
do not propose to say one
Ward in justification of the dueilo, but this
1t least may be saidof those regions where 1t
Is resorted to: the possessor Of q fair chatac-
ler may feel sure, unless he do something to
forfeit It, that he will pass his life In the full
possession and enjoyment Of it exempted
from all danger OF having it besmeared and
oefouled with slanderous and calumnious
statements regarding him. With this bless
ing attained by tolerattng the duello, the in
atfry may well suggest itself whether