The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-03-17

not 1t is not for me to Judge. will not Judge, but
will say II he votes as you the Repnblcansl want
men addressing the Republicansl you in your
hearts respond to every word am uttering when
or me to-day for making effort to rescue the gen
tleman not from treachery, but from the charge
of it,"
Mr.. Malone (rising); 81 cannot allow the gentle
man to make such an tnsinuation."
Mr.. Hill: 81 made no tnsinuation.'
Mr.. Malone: "You do emphatically, and un
manly one."
Mr.. Hoar expressed his emphatic indignation a,
the degrading exhibition which the Senator from
Georgia had made. 1t the first time in the pol
tiles of the country when Senator had undertaken
In advance of the act, to deliver lecture to his
peer, and TO inform him that if he did certain
thing it would be degrading and treacherous. II
none Of the business of the Senator from Geor-
gia how any other senator should his vote. No
slave-master nor plantation overseer should crack
his whip over American Senators. [Applause.l The
utterances of the Senator from Georgia an in
suit to the representatives of the American people,
That gentleman had been chosen as a Union man
to State convention and had cast vote which had
carried Georgia into rebellion and from that day to
this he had learned nothing either of consistency
constitutional duty or proprety of personal beha-
vior. Applause on the Republican side.l The gem
tleman had undertaken to draw comparison be-
tween the position of the Senator from Illinois (Mr
Davis and that of the Senator from Virginia,
with much honeyed commentator Of the former.
The Senator from Illinois had been elected by the
Legislature OF a State which had an average Re-
publican majority of from $4,000 to 100000.
Mr.. Davis.-The Republicans not in ma
jority in that Legislature. They were numerically
in the plurality, and 1t was the Independents and
Democrats of that body who elected me to the
Senate.
Mr.. Hoar.-The people of Illinois were then and
now largely Republican. I am not crtticising
the Senator from Illinois. shall deem 1t unworthy
of me to do so. He has thought 1t his duty to cast
his vote for the Democratic organization of this
body, although las he has informed) it was repug-
nant to his taste and his judgment in many partic
ulars. The Senator from Virginia, who owes his
seat to State which cast 200 Republican votes
and $4,000 Independent Democratic or Re-adjust-
ment votes, as against $4,000 Bourbon or regular
Democratic votes, will vote Of he does so) for an
organization that commends itself to his taste and
his judgment. There are Democrats in the South
who mean to live In a nation, and not in an aggre
gate Of petty provinces any longer. There are Dem
ocrats in the South who do not mean to live any
longer in the graveyards and among the tombs
whose face Is towards the morning, and whose
brow the rising sunlight of the future generations
Of this country is already beginning be visible.
OF such Democrats the avantcourier of this column
has already reached the Senate chamber after long
waiting and yearntng. The Republicans of the
North desire to stretch forth friendly hand. That
desire is inspired by miserable ambition for Of
ice or for political Victory butby spirit patiot-
ism which loves the South fully much 1t loves
the North 1t is in the spirit of united, not of a
divided country 1t is in the spirit of the future and
not of the past; it is in the spirit of unon and
OF sectonalfsm, that we are holding out our hand
to those brave and noble Democrats Of Virginia
whose representative took his seat to-day on this
floor.
Mr.. Cameron (Pa) moved to go into executive busi-
ness re5ected-years IS, nays 81. He then moved an
adjournment which was also defeated-31 to 81, Mr.
Malone voted with the Republicans.