Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-30

iaiu WaSto yuur ueius ana display yeG
your fortitude and courage, your
heroic suffering and sacrifice. Itwas
for this you suffered dismem berment
OF your territory, and sent your DDS
to the field to return 10 ruins that
were once their homes. 1t was for
this you so reluctantly abandoned your
allegiance to the common country
to be last in war and last t. 90 out
On! ingrat.tude, thou basest aud
meaDest of Crimes" He would not
occupy any more Of the time of the
Senate with the subject of VIrginia's
debt, but would refer now to an inter
r2gatory put last Fridsv, by Senator
VOORHEES, to Senator logan, as t.
whether the latter would indorse the
papers of an applicant for ihe smallt 81
! post>office, VINO favored Reputation
either Of State or National debt. He
would ask the gentleman (Voorhees)
how he found it compatibie with his
| principles to associatsSNWltn Sena-
tors from States who had lepu.
d ated, but had not fepudiated ?
He mad never heard Mr. RiddIeherge er
express favorable opinion, evn oil
the views Ofthe Senator from Indiana,
on the national debt. daughter. J
He quoted from John w. Daniel, one
OF the leaders Of the bourbon party in
Virginia, announcing the Ubiquitous
measures of the Federal financers, and
proposing to reverse them. He recon.
mendsd the Senators from Indiana
aud Delaware Messrs. Voorhees, aud
Bay yard) TO try and reconcile their dil-
ferences of views on tue financial
| question before the Senator from Ii
nois agaio discussedethe subject. AS to
the Senator from Georgia Mr.. BROWN,
| who seemed to be 80 much
troubled about readjustment, he ques-
| toned whether the world had ever
| prOduc ID man who could SO neatly
readjust himself to all conditions and
circumstances Qaugnter) that he Just
| had got ahead of the people and the
Democratic party, in an attempt to
dissolve the Union, and was the first
governor in the South to confscate
private property, in the courts of Sa>
vann8h, and to seize Fort Pula XII be-
fore the act OF secession. Rumor had
it that the presidency of the Confede
rate States was the gentleman's obj5c
at that time. In the ensuing tfuggle he
Mr.. BrOwn) was earnest for the cause
until its fortunes began t. waver, aud
then he abandoned it with his MALTA /
After the war he was next beard of in
the Chicago Republican convention.
Ii fact. that gentleman might say
With the poet laureate Brooks: men
may come and men may go, but L go
on forever (Laughter). He was
next heard of as a radical candidate
for the United States Senate, but was
beaten bya more moderate Republi-
ca0, the late Joshua Hill. He next
appeared as the appoiutee of
carpet-bag governor OF Georgia.
the prince of carpet bsggers, Bul
lock, to the office of chief Justice of
that State, which posi- ion he subse
quently resigned to take the presidency
OF railroad company; now that the
gentleman was marked as the leader
of the Democratic party, and his ex>
planation was that the Democratic
party had used him and abanoned
him, but that it had righted itself and
relied on his (Brown's) grand reserve
OF undylng and Interchangeable priDci-
pies. (Laughter) That gentleman
had alluded to "rumors of bargains.u
LII there were any truth IN those ru-
mors then he (Mahont) was ID
debted for any advantage he
might draw fr1m it to the fact that the
Senator from Georgia did not know
of the appointment. LaugLt4r.1 On
that point he (Mahone) would answer
all innuendoes of the Senator's, dis
tinctly and gravely, and with due
regard to the dignity anu decerum of
the Senate. He hurled back with
ecorn and contempt every imputssion
that his action here bad been induced
by any other consideration than that
of toe promotion of his peoples inter-
est and Of the welfare of The whole
country. He avowed his RESPONSE
b1llty. his proud responsibility,
for the Introduction of Mr., Rid
dleberger's name rs candidate
for office, but professed his readiness
to withdraw that name, il it was true.
as report had it., that the Democratic
Senators would then Withdraw their
opposition to the elec ton of officers of
The Senate. The oppoNtion to Mr..
Ridoleberger, he said, was in view of
the coming election in Virginia. 1t
was desire to uphold the bondholders
there; it was desire to uphold the
party which, while openly professil
obedience to the Constitution, held by
mutual reservation a purpose hos
tile to the Constitution, and which
did not believe in the rig ht Of freed-
men to vote; it was to uphold
his party that while nomiUally ac-
ceptiDg the Cincinnati platform, in
which full vote, free ballot and an
honest count had been demanded, had
introduced a constitutional amend
ment requiring that no man should
cast ballot for any Office, on any ac. |
until be had paid capit.ti
tax. This effort was 10 uphold The
party which defied the Democratic
creed, and which had undertaken, by
methods of indiscretioD, to disfran- |
chise the colored man, that was the |
purpose. He had never given |
that doctrine his assent, either
in public or at the ballot
box. For one, he wanted no political
se1fs in Virginia. He stood prepared |
here Cd This floor, by the courage of
the men who were behind him at |
home, to assure the country that in
Virginia at least there should be free
suffrage, pficele suffrage, full vote
and an honest count. (Applause in
the galleries.) It was true, he said.
the Readj justlng party had instructed
it's electors for Hancock and Eoglish,
but it was equally true that 1T had for
borne and purpOsely forb1rne from
nstrncting for those cauidates as
nominees of the Democratic party.
The purpose of the Readjusteis
was t. stay the retrograde
government of years 30 as to bring.
Virginia back from number fifteen in
The grade of States to her original
position in the sisterhOod OF States.
Ear be it from him that his action.
loo, should be controlled or Influenced