New-York tribune., 1880-06-16
@EEH0ID ORR GENER0SIrY"

Ley no one say lIaI lUf IJtHl lAldAli I'tIAi -
no, magnanimous. Being in Lower IN both
branches in Congress it has not cut of the pen
sions of the soldiers who fought against 1t IN
what Senator Eaton, OF COnncc' icut, calls the
late ;ylr between the different sections OF the
"comtIy." For fear their generous action
should ful t0 be appreciated, several Demo-
cratic :, nators stood up in the Senate the other
day and called attcnt on to themselves and the
noble and forglying spiilt they had shown. The
bill under consideration was one granting pen
sionS To the soldiers and SlilOrS of the Mexican,
Creek. Seminole, ana Black Hawk wars, most
of the brnciicia'ir, of the proposed bill being
rN- Coufcdcra.rS for whose benefit It con-
tuned II provision rrcalng the law against
prn.ioning those who voluntarily engaged IN
"or alnl,d and ahcttcd the late rcncllion against
" the authority oi the United States 1t WAS
PROPOSED to amend the bill 10y including the sur
yi,Ing officer. and soldiers who fought for the
I'niou i'm what the statutes describe ~ the late
"rchrlion against tlr authority Of the United
"Statc,." but which senator Ea;on calls the
" late war between the different sections OF the
county,
Democratic Senators opposed the amend
mcnt. not brcau.r OF any hostility to Union
SOiHiNl~--OU, uD--l'ul wv lNN' Wv - HRN Wv VIZ
irct of il wa, to defeat the original proposition.
And some Of them while opposing 1t took occa-
sion 10 dlSpa. their generosity toward their late
enemies. MIR. NOprhcrS, after referring to
the great Mexican war as one that shed
glory upon ercry part of this country i'll
sisted that hc was AZ willing and aS generous
to vote pensions to the suN iyors ,0i the war
for the Union as any other Senator, though he
Opposcd the amcndmcnt rs intended to defeat
the bill Mr. Eaton opposed it because it would
increase 50 largely the annual expenditure.
When asked if ne would support ii if il involved
only a million additional expenditure, he
thoulllt pcl haps he might. "IO get one grcdt
" good," hc said. would even adopt this thing,
| d" Nbich Il unncrcssary." We have already
| provided" he continued, and are providing
every day, every week, and every month for
" thc welfare of the soldiers in the late war be-
tween the Gincrcni sections of the country.
Mr. BioWn the new Senator from GcOrgia, mag
nlnimouSly expressed Il willingness that the
amendment should take effect whenever the
" soldiers vino aided in the maintenance of the
" Union and served in that war shOuld have
waited the same length OF time that the SOL
d" dirrs who served against Mexico have
waited"
Mr.. MaXry, Of Texas, who was Il soldier in the
Mexican war, and likewise ON the Confederate
side in the Ilc war, opposed the amendment,
but said that he would not dctHct from the
honor and glory of those men who fought to
support the flag Of the Union in the dark days
"of the late war;; which was very good in him.
lie appealed 10 the record tJ show that he had
never failed To reward in the most generous
manner" the suldicrS of the late war, and had
meyer attempted to "dccry, or in the slightest
"manncr in any way driract from thos" who
fought under the llag of the Union IN the late
"war. This gcnllrmm spoke of the Mexican
war as having added to the country that grand
"cmprc which was carved from II foreign
"lamd,n while the late war WAS an intcrncclnc
difficulty which added nothing, but spent
hundreds of millions of the wealth of the
country North and South, and the best blood
Of the land in both sections of the Union. Not
witlstandng which he was willing to be "gcn-
"crous" " to the soldiers of tho Union, and not
dcciy or dctract from Il EN-. MagnanimOus
man
This is really noble. There is something
nspirting in the spectacle of these Democratic
Senators standing up in tho Senate of the
United States and telling how generous they
have been and are willing to be toward the
Union soldiers. A delusOn prevailed few
years ago that the party which carried on the
! war for the Union and suppressed the rebellion
exhibited magnanimty rather unusual when
they not only granted amnesty to Senator
| Maxcy and his fellow rebels, but restored them
| to all the rights they had forfeited, admitting
them to the highest Offices In the Government
they had sought to destroy. But Senator
Maxcy says they wcro admitted back to their
seats in the Senate chamber by the,ycry terms
"of the Constitution" SO they owe nothing
to anybody's generosity. On the contrary, they
complain that they havo been frequently
t,catcd with unkindness by references to the
past The only display of generosity that has
been made is by the Democratic majority in
| Couglcss, who have generously" reGralned