The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-04-22

triotic, and had more pride OF country
tDan TO endorse II. A man who fomented
strife and stirred up sectional feeling and
inculcated luminosity could not be a states
man, nor could he be patriot. lie then
proceeded to reply to chsrges made by Mr..
frye OF fraud upon the ballot In Texas, de.
nying explicitly their truth, and referred to
the charge that In Harrison county, IN that
State, violence had been resorted to to keep
Republicans from the polls. This whole
sale charge against the people OF that coun-
". unyerihcd by a single record, by single
afhdavit, or by a single statemen.-except
The statement Of the Senator from Maine
was false. He meant 1t in 10 offensive
sense 10 the Senator, who Of course had
made his statement on information, but
ne branded the charge as false from be-
ginning TO end. The sun OF heaven
did not shine upon a land wherein
thought In utterance and IN action by peo-
pie OF all classes and conditions was more
free than In Texas and the Caroinas, and
every allegation 10 the contrary he stood
here To denounce rs false and slanderous.
The Senator from Maine had tainted the
South with It's poverty, which poverty had
been brought about by war aud by infamous
carpet.bag governments hat had been placed
| over the southern States under the recon-
sttuction acts. The people OF the South
were now striving in every State to make
| an honorable payment or honorable adjust
| ment OF their debts. They were taxing
themselves TO the utmost capacity for the
| establishment of free schools. believing tina.
| universal education must 60 with universal
suffrage. The coored children had the
same per capita raised for school purposes
as the white children had all over the South.
The people Of the South would redeem the
South. They would place her where the
| blood and lineage OF her people, where her
glorious climate and her fertile soil, de-
served that she should be placed. All
bringing OF the bones Of dead issues into
this chamber would not prevent the South
from becoming the equal in intelligence, IN
cultivation, in labor. and in aspiration, oil
the North, East, or West. The people OF
the South were Of the same race as the peO-
| pie OF the NOrth-a race which had never
been dominated by an inferior race, and
| never would be. That race meant to GOV.
ern IN the South, and forty or forty thou.
sand entering wedges such as was supposed
10 have been inserted in Virginia would not
dcviate il from its course or change the re-
suits.
He dwelt at some length on the Improving
prosperity Of his State. inStancing in proof
Of it the fact that in 1866 there were but 800
miles Of railroad in that State, while 10 day
there were 5000 miles OF road in active ope-
| ration and nineteen roads IN course Of con-
strucliOn. he asserted that his State had in
| all other rcspC ct> increased in material pros
pcrity. and declared that those salient facts
gave the he direct to every statement in the
speech Of the Senator from Maine. Reyerting
10 the question before the Senate. ho asserted
that the fight was made by the Republican
party not for a free vote and fair count,
but 10 obtain political power. As long as
by objureaiion, by denunciation, by SIAN
| der. and BY abuse, The Republican parry
kept the South under the impression that
The carpet-bag government would be again
placed over il, it would be solid. and could
not be broken. II could be broken only by
kindness and Sta'e>manship.
\ motion to adjourn having been made
aud voted down.
Mr. Call took the floor IN denial Of the
charges made by Mr.. Frye, OF Maine. yes
terday against the freedom OF the balo; IN
Florida. The charge which that Senator
had emphasized that in the contCsted-elcc-
ton case OF Bisbee Us. Hull the witnesses
were kept from testifyIng by murder rested
on the fact that peaceful Democrat had
been killed in a crowd OF col0red persons.
He (Mr. CalD bad never seen or heard OF a
sideraiions on black or white in Florida,
and he challenged anybody 10 bring any
reasonable evidence Of such outrages.
Commenting on Mr.. Frye's remark as + o the
small amount OF money appropriated for
the maintenance Of free schools in Florida,
he asserted that in proportion to her
wealth that State gave as much 10 the
school fund as Rhode Island or Massacbu-
sets. He (Mr. CALI bad never made use Of
any such expression, "starving serfs,' a.
lapplied TO the workingmen of Massachu-
sets, which The Senator from Maine bad at
tributed. He could not see where the Sem
ator had obtained that expression.
In concluding his speech, he made some
reference TO suffrage in Massachusetts, and
the usual uninterestns cOlOquy ensued be-
tween himself and Mr.. Dawes upon that
subject.
Mr.. Dawes continued in n humorous way
to rdicule the idea OF an honest vote in the
South, taking for his text an article clipped
from the Charleston Is. CO. NecS OF the 18th
of March, in which the following sentence
occurs: "In their Democrats) eyes cheat
inc as a means of securing on honest gov
ernment is a widely different thing from
cheating for the benefit OF local workers and
machine.made office-Seekers." This, he
u.
going on in the South-a warfare 30 impor-
ltant that any man who could strike blow
was welcome in the ranks OF the Republican
party.
Mr.. Hampton said that the doctrine laid
down in the article read WAS Democratic
doctrine in so far as IL demanded lair vote;
that that paper had been striving to re-
nress fraud, and he had never said that
there had been no fraud. lie would say,
with clear conscience, that he had never
seen one, nor by any act, word, or thought
of his had there ever been one. lie had
advocated the rights OF the colored
man in South Carolina. He had tried
to show the people that the Interests OF
both races were identical. He owed his
election as Governor TO the colored vote OF
South Carolina. There bad been lrregularl'
/ tics and frauds; he admitted that, but be
pleaded as justification cruel carnage com
United on the people OF south Carollna' ne
would announce here, as ne nau uohe e'se'
where. his unalterable determination TO try,
at the earliest possible moment, 10 recti!
this wrong, hod
YESTERDAY telegraphed t. inquire as 10 tne
truth of the charges that Massachusetts
man CbarIes Heaih) had suffered persecu'
| lion i'm Louisiana, and he had been INFORM
ed by telegram from New Orleans that
I comnlete yindication of the people OF Cald'
well parish would be forwarded to him J., I'M ID
mediately. He had also received letter
from a Mass ichuselts gentleman stating
that Hcath's reputation was net such rs
ought to be defended by the Senator from
} Massachusetts, (Mr. Dawes. Mr.. Jonas de.
. cIined TO give the name Of hi, Informant
for fear he would imperil bis life In Massa