The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08

The Spring Elections. of
Republican Sweep in ST. Louis.
The SerImmage in the Senate-aah0ne and
Voorhees, Come Into Close Quarters
WASHINGTON, ID. C., April 2.-SENATE
Resuming the thread of his speech Mr..
Lamar described the divisions in the
Democratic party in Virginia The Re
publican side of the chamber had pro-
claimed its readiness TO combine with
| what the country calls the repudiating
wing of the Democratic party in Viz
ginia. 1t had proclaimed that when a
section of the party should bolt from
the Democratic party under the banner
! of reputation, the Republican party,
not on account of Reputation, but In
spite of il, was willing 10 embrace that
reputation section. Republication was
no hindrance in the way of Republican
senators stretching out their hands
across the bloody chasm to unrepentant
rebels, covering them with honor
and greeting them with applause. He
did not believe the northern people
would stand this thing. They would
| not tolerate this alliance with the re-
pudiating sentiment of the Southern
| States. The sentiment of national pride,
| of national honor, would dash it into q
thousand pieces, even if it has to rend
the mighty structure of the Republi
| can party. National honor could not
take into its embrace the leprous
| body of state reputation, without be
coming infected with its poison, and
this alliance would not succeed. In the
south the majority Of the Democratic
party had spewed the repudiaiing ele-
| ment out of its mouth, and the Republi-
cans had rejected the offal which the Re
| MOI PnrIxy annfC he'd
| at This was only an attempt to sub
| stitute in the south for carpetbaggism,
backed by federal force, a repudiating
element backed by federal patronage.
| The first had failed and caused reproach
on the Republican party, the last would
meet similar fate. The senator from
Pennsylvania, MIR. Cameron, had an
nounced that this was an effort to break
up the solid south. What harm had the
solid south done the prosperity and hon.
or and glory of this country? 1t was
| but a short time ago she had become SOL
| id. If her history were taken from that
time it would be found she had been
keeping step with the prosperity of 9TH
er sections. He alluded TO the corrup-
ton which had disgraced the country
during the period of reconstruction, and
asserted that since the advent of the SOL
| id south into legislation no such scan
dals had occurred He had himself
heard a noted lobbyist say: "Since
those internal Democrats from the
south have got here the lobby bust
ness is dried up" There was no solid
south as factor in legislation, but there
was one point on which the south was
solid and would remain so. 1t was SOL
| id for the defense and protection of its
own civilization, its own society, its own
religion. He would consent that any
senator ON the other side, with two ex-
ceptious, which he would not name,
should write the history of the carpet
bag government in the south, its charac-
ter, its officials, and operation of its laws.
| He would agree to submit that history
to any audience in the world TO dcterm.
inc whether that section ought not 10
throw off that government and keep
united and solid to prevent its recur
renee. He asserted that peace, content
ment and prosperity existed among the
colored people in the south, and quoted
from the remarks of Bishop Simpson to
that effect. In conclusion, he said il
had once been his conception to have
two grand republics on this continent
but that was gone, it had passed forever
out of sight, and one had come into Its
place. Ii stood before him now, simple
in its majesty. 1t was that of grand
mighty, indivisible one republic on this
continent, too mighty to be unjust. toe
good to be oppressive, throwing its loving
arms around all sections, Omnipotent fol
protection, powerless for oppression
cursing none, blessing all.
Mr.. Hoar ridiculed the idea of Mr.
Lamar criticising the Republican party
for allying itself with the repudiating
element of the south, asserting that thu
1 ka1 81
sippi With whom was the Republican
party to ally itself? 1t could not havt
a solid north, that would be unpatriotiC
in the eyes of the senator. 1t could moi
ally itself with negroes of the soutl
properly, or with carpet-baggers, and
could not ally itself with anybody whC
was willing to pay any part of the south
ern debt if he did not pay the whole
but must turn to that remarkably homes
and consistent portion of southern Dem
ocrats, which in Virginia proposed II
pay the debt and refused to raise tai
for its payment, and which in Missis
sippi owed debt of $23 100000 and de
clared but 1920 600 was to be paid. H
denied that he had any bitterness to
wards the south. 1t was the heart wisl
of the people of Massachusetts to have
rich, prosperous and contented south
: To accomplish that they would shu
up their factories, let gras
grow in the streets of thei
: commercial cities, and let poverty haun
their counting houses. Let the Senate
from Mississippi show a single practica
measure in regard to which the peopl
of the North were to pay taxes, and III
I people of the South were to ge. the bene
: fit, and challenged him to find North
, ern Republican who would vote agains
| xzyoc of tho South HHyaC fyra nm "
it was not the South, it was fraud and as
, sassination; it was not the South,
was the Bourbon Democracy, with it
spirit of rebellion, of hate, of assassina
ton, of cheating, that the people of tn
North hated, and against which their un
dying warfare was to be waged. Thu
} Senator from Mississippi alluded to thu
people of the South as "my people,
When the Senator could stand up an(
say, like the Senator from Virginia, Ma
hone, that he lived in nation and NJ
longer in an aggregation of petty prov
inces, when he could speak of the whole
country as one people, when he cOulC
speak of America without regard to sec
ton or occupation or parallel of latitude
as his country and his people, then ,
new era would have come, but until theI
the old spirit would be here and the ole
warfare be going on.
A long and at times angry colloquy
ensued between Messrs. George, Dawes
, Voorhees, and others. Mr.. Logan anC
Mr. Butler then had sharp passage o
words over Gen. Sheridan's report re
garding murders committed in Louisi
ana and Texas when he was in command
in the south, after which Mr.. Voorhee.
took the floor and sent to the clerk,
desk and had read an extract from the
! | I'll. L. II. LT-L.
as a renegade Democrat, and charging
that his acting with the Republican!
was in consequence of disgraceful bar
gain. Mr.. Hoar objected to its being
. read, and Mr.. Voorhees, stated he would
lndorse it and make il his speech. Mr.
Hoar then raised point of order agains
the reading of the article, which wa!
oYerruled by the president pro tenn, Mr.
Ingalls,. Subsequently Mr.. Voorhees,, a
Mr.. HOar's private suggestion, disclaim
ed any Endorsement of any expression!
in the article which might be construed
in any way of making personal quar-
rel with either OF the gentlemen alluded
to. At this point of the proceedings
when the discussion had lost all its lif,
and fire, when the audience in the gal
leries had become less numerous, an(
when all were looking forward to imme
diate adjournment, the most exciting
scene of the day took place. Mr.. Ma
hone, of Virginia, rising Unexpectedly
said:
al rise TO ascertain whether correct
ly understood the senator from Indians
as saying the article which he had reaC
: from a Philadelphia paper was hi
speech. In that article am referred t.
as q renegade Democrat further on a
'RepudiationIst,' and further on a
having entered into a bergain with Re
; publican senators in regard to the OF
ganization of the senate. II have re
cited correctly what is stated in tina
article, l ask the senator whether that i
his speech-(a pause)-and 1 pause TO
areply."
Mr.. Voorhees,. who had in the mean