The daily gazette., 1881-03-31
THIRD EDITION
MIR. BROWNS REPLY TO MIR.
MALONE,


Mr.. Brown, (dem.) of Ga, regrettirc
that Mr.. Mahone's speech had MOI
been printed in the Record, proceeded
to reply to some portions Of it. Ont
OF the points dwelt on by the gentle
man with the greatest satisfaction wal
that dissecting his (Mr. Brown's) rec
ord. The gentleman had seen proper
to bring that record before the coun-
try and had grossly misrepresented it
The gentleman had charged him will
Inconsistency. He admitted that the
position which he now occupied upor
certain questions, was not the position
he had occupied at the beginning OF
The war, known as the war of the re~
bellion. He had gone into that con-
test to maintain slavery and State SOW
ereigni.y. He had sincerely believed
that he was right in both. The war,
however, had settled both questions.
Slavery had been abolished, and he was
content that it was abolished. To
this extent he might be said 10 be in
consistent. The gentleman had ad-
vised him to readjust his record. He
would be unable to readjust himself so
as to take the position which that gen.
tleman occupied to-day before the Sen
ate and the country. He proceeded
to answer the charges made against
him yesterday by Mr.. Malone, of Vir-
ginia. That Senator had said that he
(Mr. Brown had had ambition for the
Presidency of the Confederate States.
There his statement was very wide of
the fact. He had positively refused
to permit his name to be used for any
Confederate position whatever. The
gentleman had charged him with with.
holding the militia of Georgia from
the Confederate cause. There again
the gentleman had been misinformed
about the facts. He had never with
drawn with his militia from the Cons
federate service. That charge of the
Senator fell to the ground as unjust
and untrue. The Senator had denied
that there had been any bargain. He
(Mr. Brown) had not asserted that.
he had said that the air was full of
rumors of that character. No gentle
man who walked the streets of Wash
lngton or read the newspapers of the
Union this morning would doubt that
that statement was correct. Not only
was the air full of rumors, but it was
on every tongue that there was a con.
tract of that sort. He did not state
that the charge that there was bar
gain was true, but proceeded to make
a resume of the facts which led to that
conclusion.
PECULIAR COINCIDENCE.
1t was peculiar coincidence that the
Senator from Virginia, who, up to late
period had always been a Democrat,
should vote with the Republicans on the
organization of every committee, aud
that II. "a very short Tme atterward the
Republicans should meet in caucus and
nominate his iDtIma . frlends-Mr. Cor.
ham, who bad bolted the party aud been
read outSof it, and Mr. Riddle berger,
who had always been a Democract. Ii |
might have been no bargain; ii might |
not even have been an understanding,
Dut we would call 1t a peculiar Gomez
dence." Ii there was a bargain the
Democrats would not ba parties to it,
II 1t had been carried out on one side
they would not help to deliver the goods.
STORY OF THE COON.
The situation reminded him of the
story of the coon and the skunk. The
The coon had lett home uae day, and on
his return toup1d some other animal IN
the hollow GF his tree. He thought II
:. sa4.s = f,s.Iecat aud challenged it as such.
"No," said The poleGat, Il am a coon,o
"You donir look like a COON"
"But l am a COON"
You don't talk like coon,n
"but 1 arm a coon"
lyon don't smell like coon, and you
ain't coon" Laughter
This TRANSACTION did not look exactly
Ike proper transaction aud did no,
smell like proper Transaction Laugh
ter 2he Republican side reminded
nlm OF the mau who caught wolf and
then had to Gail to friend 10 help him
lei itgo; or rather II reminded BIN of lie
man who had won an elephant at a
rafh7 and did not know what 10 do with
hun. The Republicans had won The
elephant IN this Case aud were not Ia a
very good eondltlon to get rid of hlm.-
II they did not stasd by his friends lie
u gut turn ami T6nd every Chairman of
theirs. Laughter- He also Akened
the Republicans To the astronomer who
lei Into state of great excitement al
discovering au elephant IN the moon
only to Ind that there was mouse he-
tween the lenses OF his instrument. Pos.
slbly bis Republican friends had mol
caught Tue elephant thty thought they
nad, Tor 10 might turn out 10 be the
dlmibutive form OF little mouse.
In conclusion he asserted it To be his
outy 10 stay here and prevent the con-
summation of what the pu6hcthought 10
be bargain.
Several dilatory motions were then
made and votsd Gown
Mr.. Beck, tdem.l OF Kentucky, called
atte entlon 10 the fact tnaG grave alarm
existed every where As to tho spread of
reputation doctrine Ia the Republican
party ami hA said he would therefore
move to reter the resolution to the
committee on Epidemic Diseases
Laughter.
Tue motion was ruled out of order.
General EOFetyft NetOs.