The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-27
U. s. SENATE.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY
Mr.. Jones, In Reply TO Mr. Frye, Takes
the Gentleman Of the Pine Tree
state 10 Task for His Harsh
Language Toward the south,
and kefutes the slanders-
Others Debate On the
Dead-LoeK, Etc.

Washington, D. o., April Ex-senator
Edmunds asked leave for the committee on
the judiciary to sit during the recess Of the
senate, if that should ever occur, to pursue
some investigations upon the subject of
bankruptcy. Without objection leave was
granted.
Tho vice-president laid before the senate
the unfinished business, being the resolution
for the election of senate officers.
A motion to go into executive session was
lost--yeas "a, nays "a.
Mr.. Jones, of Florida, regrettng the
absence of the senator from Maine, MIR.
Frye, proceeded to reply TO certain por-
tions Of that gentleman's speech, He said
he had been mortified when no heard the
senator from Maine getting in a dirty little
narrow groove and undertaking to disparage
and condemn whatever he could find obiec.
lionable in any quarter of his country. The
senator had characterized the civilization of
the north as a school book and bible, and the
civilization Of the south as slavery and barbsr-
ism. The time had come when that kind of
utterance ought 10 end. Were the southern
people responsible for that barbarsm?
Were the people in New England
responsible for it? MOI 1t had
been planted here by 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 tho people of any of tho states
Of the union. In this connection he read
from Burkes speech in defense of the colo
nies in which occurs tho sentiment that life
ard liberty exists tho strongest among the
masters of slaves.
After short colloquy with Mr.. Hoar with
regard TO this innovation iroin Burke Mr..
Jones said thatnothing mortified him more
than to flnd this question brought forth in
connection with the senatorial dead lock.
Slavery had passed away, and there was not
a man south of The Potomac who did not
rejoice at it, 1t was not part of decency or
OF statesmanship for any senator
to come forward, even for party or political
purposes, to dig up tho carcass Of slavery, In
order TO inflsme and excite the public mind.
Mr.. Jones criticised what he termed the
unwise manner in which the right of suffrage
had been conferred on the negroes. The
manhood and spirit of the south had resent.
ed the domination of the negro. History would
write that chapter, and justice would yet be
done after the prejudices of this century
had passed away; and when some future
Macsuley or G bbon should come to write
history on reconstruction it would be found
that the people Of the south would be vndi.
Gated in the minds of all mankind. He had
read good deal Of the oppression of tyr
amy, and he had known
the people of the south
from his earliest boyhood. lie had never
expected to live to see the day when that
proud and naughty race would be compelled,
as he had seen IL, to humiitate itself in
connection with this question of negro suf.
frage He had never expected to see, rs he
had seen, the day when ignorant and thought.
less men, inspired by nothing but race
feelings, would take possession of the
polls and offer every conceivable insult
to white men in order tC provoke a quarrel,
and when those men would bear tsunts and
humilistions for the sake of order. He then
referred to the charges made by Mr.. Frye of
fraud and violence in the election in Florida,
and read extracts from democratic papers to
show when fraud occurred in tho south,
1t was denounced by the democratic
press. The senator from Maine
had spoken of the murder of republicans by
democrats in Florida for the purpose of pre.
venting testimony being given in the con.
tested election case of Bisbee vs.. Hull. The
fact was, however, that the murder had been
committed by vilianous negro of the repub.
lican party upon one of the best young white
MI m of a state In La, nj