The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-05-25
NEWBERRY, S. c. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1881.

their employees, dependent upol
them for their daily bread, to vote
their will and their bidding, and
made a travesty and mockory OF
free elections. "A free ballot and
a fair COUNT If | do not show as
to Maine before get through that
such a thing as a free ballot and q
fair count is scarcely known
there, then | shall be moro mis-.
taken in the effect Of evidence
than | have ever been before in
my life.
The Senator from Virginia said
in his speech:
The desire Of our people for cor
dial relations with all sections Of
q common country and the people
Of all the States of the Union,
their devotion to popular educa-
ton, their efforts for the free ell
joyment Of priceless suffrage
and an honest count Of ballots,
their determination to make Vir-
ginia, in the public belief, a de-
sirable home for ali men, wher-
ever their birthplace, whatever
their opinions, and to open her
fields and her mines to enter
prise aud capital, and to stay the
retrograde movement of years, so
as to bring her back from the fit
teenth in grade to her original
position among the first in the
sizterhood Of States, forbid that
my action here should be controll-
ed or influenced by a caucus whose
party has waged war upon my
constituency and where party
success is held paramount TO what
[ conceive to be the interests Of
Virginia and the welfare of the
whole country.
He asks a blessing for Virginia
He will pardon me for saying
that 'the voice is Jacobs voice,
but the hand is the hand of Esau.'
| think l. hear the republican par
ty coming to him, and in the Ian
guage Of Rebekah to her SOD, ex-
claiming, Upon me be thy curse,
my son only obey my voice, and
60 fetch me them The republi-
can party says this to the Sena-
ator and the Senator responds for
Virginia with the voice OF Jacob
but with the hand Of Esau.' He
says that he is called upon to de-
fend Virginia from those who at
tack her and ought to have been
her defenders. have never at
tackled Virginia; could not fin d
it in my heart to attack that
State. | have seen her fair bosom
rent and torn by the rough plow-
share of war. | have seen too
much of the accomplishing, un-
tagging devotion of her fair and
beautiful! daughters, and splendid
gallantry and daring genius of her
peerless sons. | have received
too much Of kindness and hospi-
tality and consideration at their
hands to attack Virginia, and |
have given some evidence at least
of my desire to defend her by talk
ing the chances of death upon her
beautiful hills and classic fields,
and so has the Senator. | have
made no attack upon that old
State. Ny own blood is mingled
with her dust, and l would as
soon think Of attacking the grave
yards of my own dead as to at
tack her. If l had any inclination
to attack anybody in Virginia,
it would be those Of her sons
whose course, l believe, is bring
ing dishonor and degradation up
on her. If l had any disposition
to attack the old mother of States
or her SOUS, or any Of her people,
it would be those who are asking
blessings in her name and receiv-
ing them for themselves. | havo
not only Dot attacked Virginia,
but | have attacked none of her
sons. But | am not content as a
southern Senator to permit her
junior Senator, or any other Sen
ator, to impugu my motives and
aspcrse my integrity because l
see fit to vote as my inclinations
dictate in this body.
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And now I crave the indulgence of
the Senate while I discuss another
matter. The Senator from Maine
apologizcd for the remarks he made in
this Chamber upon the ground that
be was a new member here, the
youngest SENATOR | believe be said,