The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14
SENATOR GEORGES DEBUT.
His triumphant Defence of M1ssis-
sippl.
wAsHrxNroN, D. c, April 9, 1881.


country, by both Republicans and Demo
Gratis The Chicago Tribune Glitter Rad
I cal) acknowledges that Senator Georg
made it manifest that be is a man "Of grea
ability" The Post ofth city democrat
ic) SAYS that he hoored Mr. Dawes, "witl
remarkable skill and temper" In fact
Gen George did not wish to speak at all
After the great speech Of Mr.. Lamar which
was evidently prepared with care, he was 81
completely exhausted, physically, that th'
sieuth-hounds, Hoar and Dawes, turned
upon Gen. George, approaching the fact
that he was a young Senator, and the theory
that one who opens his mouth in the Senate
until he has served an apprenticeship o
two or three sessions, generally puts hi:
foot in it."
But they reasoned without their host
Senator Dawes was going on to denounce
Southern methods to arraign the Mis-
sissippi plan;" and finally recited the
startling fact that gray-haired hero, and
martyr, who, sixteen years ago, moved from
Massachusetts to Mississippi, had recently
passed through this city on his way home
again, having had his factories burnt, his
employees shot at, and himself and family
generally maltreated
At this point Senator George, who had
been pricked and goaded into replying, rose
and said:
Mr.. GEORGE. May interrupt the Sena-
tor from Massachusetts in order to ask him
a question?
Mr.. DAWES. Certainly.
Mr.. GEORGE. / should like to know the
name of the gentleman to whom the Sena-
tor has alluded. | have never heard of such
an instance in Mississippi. | have never
heard of anvbody's factory being burned or
anvbody's operatives shot at or murdered
in any way. | suppose the Senator will
have no objection to disclosing the name of
this person, Tell me who he was, where he
came from. what county he lived in, and
when all this happened. | should like to
know all about the circumstances. 1t Is all
news to US.
Mr.. DAWES. The Senator has just att
tanned position to be good lecturer to go
North
Mr.. GEORGE | 10 not propose
Mr. DAWES. Living in the State of Mis-
sissippi, from which every breeze comes la
den
Mr.. GEORGE. l ask the Senator, respect
fully, to answer the question which L pros
pounded to him. | undertake to say that
Mr. DAWES. The Senator had better
say it in his own time.
Mr. GEORGE. The circumstances which
have been recited by the Senator are un-
true.
Ne. DAWES. The Senator will excuse me.
The Senator has put a question to me. /
do not propose TO let t go by.
THE PREsIDISG OFFICER. The Senator
from Massachusetts, declines to yield.
After this, Mr.. Dawes went on with
lengthy TRADE against Mississippi, followed
by Mr. Hale, when Senator George, finding
he could not, in honor, longer maintain ST.
lence, said
Mr.. PRESIDENT, | had hoped that it
would not have been necessary for me at
this session of the Senate to occupy any of
the attention of this body i'll discussing any
of the various subjects which have been in
troduced here. | would not trespass upon
the time of the Senate now did | not feel
compelled to notice some of the remarks
which have been made by the Senator from
Massachusetts, Mr. Dawes in reference to
my own state. lie communicated TO the
Senate and to the country some Information
in relation to a gentleman who many years
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to the State of Mississippi, to have carried
his money there, to have built a factory
there, to have employed factory hands, and
after having lived there for that length of
time he was here in Washington yesterday
on his way back to Massachusetts,, giving
the information that his factory had been
burned and that his hands had been murder
ed | asked the Senator politely, and be-
cause I wanted information, the name OF
that gentleman, the locality of the factory,
the time when and the place where these
things had occurred. The
Senator declined to give these particulars
to me.
Although the Senator from Massachusetts,
may have met the individual he alluded to,
and may have received from him the infor-
nation which he detailed to the Senate, |
undertake to saw, from a somewhat extend
I'd knowledge of the people of Mississippi,
hat the whole thing is an untounded myth.
have never heard of factory IN MISSISSIPPI
oi having been burned. We have but two
Or three IN the State, and certainly if one of
hem had been burned it could not have es
capped my attention. / have never heard of
any mans factory hands having been inter- |
rered with, much less murdered, and l am |
bound TO believe that there is not a single |
particle of truth in the relation which the |
Senator received from his informant. | I'M |
lertake to say that no such man has lived in |
Mississippi, and that no such factory bas |
been built in Mississippi or has been burned |
in Mississippi.
When the Senator here in the presence of |
the American Senate and in the presence of
the American people undertook to blacken |
.he fair fame and name of the people OF one |
.he States of this Union by retailing what | |
,ay is an atrocious calumny, and when |
representative of that people asked him po- |
itely, for the purpose of enabling him to
their character, for the name ofhi |
Informant and for the locality OF the atrocl-
les which he had related, would 1t rot have |
been fair for him to have communicated 1t?
low are we 20 defend ourselves against in
visible and nameless slanderers how are we |
20 refute charges of arson and murder, when
neither the locality of the burning Is given /
Tor the names of those murdered nor the To-
,alitv of the murderers? l undertake here |
% make the statement that there is not a /
Jingle particle of foundation in truth for the
,harge which the gentleman has made before
he Senate. | do not mean to say that the
Senator did not get his information from /
he gentleman he saws he got it from, but |
10 mean to say that there is not the slight
st foundation for it and l defy the Sena
.tor and | defy his informant to the proof
Of the charge.
This is a very singular way to blacken the
reputation of a whole people. We have here,
ndorsed by an American Senator of great
character and representing great and en-
Iightened Commonwealth, q namelesS SLAM
ierer assumed or represented to be in his
fight from Mississippi to Massachusetts,; We
have the statement of that person, Endorsed
thus respectfully, thrown before the Ameri
can people. When we ask for some of the
iHdicia, some of the circumstances which I
will enable US To refate the charge, the Sem
ator declines to give them, and upon what
ground As | understood the Senator, up
On the ground that he would not expose his /
now in Massachusetts,, to the per-
sanal violence which would ensue from a
disclosure of his name in Mississippi that /
be would not expose his property in Missis-
sippi to further depreciation.
Mr. President, that viii not do, If the /
people of Mississippi are already mean /
enough to burn that mans factory and muir /
der his hands, certainly they do no. need |
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