Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-27
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
THE SENATE.
Report of Proceedings Of the sen
ate in Extraordinary Session.

mittee on the Judiciary to SIT during
the recess of the Senate,i that should
ever occur, to pursue some lnVesu-
cations upon the subject OF bank
ruptcv. Without objection, leave was
granted.
The Vice President laid before the
Senate the unfinished business, be-
ing the resolution for the election of
Senate officers.
The usual motion to GO into exec
utive session was lost-yeas "a, nays
"a.
Mr.. Jones, of Florida, regretting
the absence of the Senator from
Maine (Ir. Frye proceeded to reply
to certain portions of that gentle
mans speech.
He said he had been mortified
when he heard the Senator from
Maine getting into dirty little
narrow groove, and undertaking to
disparage and condemn whatever he
could find Objectionable in any
quarter of his country. The Senator
had characterized the civilization of
the North as schoolbook and
Bible; that of the South as the civ
ilization of slavery and barbarism,
The time had come when that kind
Of utterance ought to end Were
the Southern people responsible for
that barbarism? Were the people
of New England responsible for it ?
No. It had been planted here by
q superior power by the mother
country, and upheld for years under
the imperial power of Great Britain.
The State from which he came was
no more responsible for slavery or
the evils growing out of it, than the
people of any Of the States Of the
Union. In this connection, he read
from Burkes speech in defense of
the colonies, in which occurs the
sentiment that the love of liberty eX~
lists strongest among the rnssters OF
the slaves. After a short colloqny
with Mr.. Hoar with regard to this
, quotation from Mr. Burke, Mr.. Jones
said that nothing mortified him more
than to find this question brought
forth in connection with the Senate
rial deadlock. Slavery had r.ssed
away, and there WAS not man south
of the Potomac who did not rejoice
at it. It was not the part of decency
or of craftsmanship p for any Senator
from any quarter of the Union tc
come forward here, even for party OF
political purposes, to dig up the car
cass of slavery in order to infame
and excite the public mind.
= He criticized what he termed the
J unwise manner in which the right Of
? suffrage had been conferred upor
2 the negro. The manhood and spiri
of the South had resented the dom
ination of the negro. History woult
write that chapter, and jus.
tice should yet be done, af
| ter the preiudices of this
: century had passed away; and wher
some future Macauley or Gibbor
should write the history of recon
, struction, it would be found that the
| people of the South would be vindi-
Gated in the minds of mankind. He
had read a good deal Of oppression
and tyranny, and knowing the people
. of the South from his earliest boy
t hood, he had never expected to liv'
2, to see the day when that proud ant
n naughty race would be compelled
3 as he had seen it, to humiliat
|. itself in connection with this ques
), ton of negro suffrage He hat
2 never expected to see, as he hat
e seen, the day when ignorant ant
b. thoughtless men, inspired by moth
v ing but race-feeling, would TAX
+ possession of the polls and offe.
every conceivable insult to whit,
5 men in order to provoke quarrel
and when these men would beal
= those taunts and humiliations fol
: the sake of order. He then referred
!, to the charges made by Mr.. Frye O
4 fraud and violence in the election
!, in Florida, and read extracts from
g Democratic papers to show tina
?. when fraud occurred in the South i
V was denounced by the Democrat
press. The Senator from Maine ha
spoken, he said, of the murder of {
Republican by Democrat, in Flori
da, for the purpose of preventin!
E testimony being given in the con
:. tested election case of Bisbe
VS.. Hull The fact was, how
=, ever, that the murder ha'
been committed by a villainou
. negro of the Republican party urol
/ one of the best young white men 0
: the State. In concluding his speecl
t he devoted some time to the denur
Is cation of the method in which th
= State OF Florida had been carrie,
y Tor Hayes in 1876, and intimate,
r that the present cry on the Republi
= can side for free ballot and fai
4 couut was hypocritical
An hour was then consumed i
:; Intellectual roll calls, and after som
i, discussion, by Messrs. Groomt
Dawes and others, of the presen
deadlock, the Senate adjourned.