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the South rallied round, would insure peace
full and prosperous country.

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He read an extract from the speech of But
Ter, condemning the position of independence
In politics, declaring there was no such thing
as halfway,ground. and Illustrating the fail
ure of any such attempt by reference to Long
street, who had begun by beng an indepen
dent, and had brought upon himself nothing
but scorn and contempt. He, Sherman, ad
mired the courage of any man of the, South
who had the independence to think and act for
| themselves, and the Republican party could dc
nothing less than open its ranks to such men.
He referred to Mason, Hunter and other
Virginia statesmen of the past, who had cut
| off from the Wings and allied themselves to
the Democrats. The most conspicuous case
| of independence In politics was that OF Sir
| Robert Peel, who had never been worse de,
| nounced by the Tories, whom he abandoned,
| than Senator Malone had now been denounced
| by Democratic Senator's. He declined to dis
cuss, at this time, the position of Senator Ma
hone on the question of the State debt. He
was not sufficiently familiar with the subject.
One of the officers of the governent was now
making up an elaborate table as to States,
cities and counties which had repudiated or
scaled down their debts, and he understood
from articles written by Porter of the census
bureau, that ten of the Southern States had
repudiated, re-adjusted or scaled down their
debts to the amount of Sl30, 1000 900. He went
on to argue that the proposition to elect few
officers was entirely too narrow bases for
revolutionary movement. If, as had been
stated on the other side, the election of Riddle.
berger was to effect politics in Virginia and
help to break up the..Bourbon Democracy there
so much the better. That would be an ad-
ditional justification for the position taken by
Republican Senator's.
Reverting to the question of Virginia IS State
dubt he said his own advice to the people of
that State, and to the State of West Virginia,
would be to pay the whole of it between them.
Congress had been in fault in not providing,
when it severed West Virginia from Virginia,
what share of the State debt should be assumed
and paid by West Virginia. He had, perhaps,
himself voted for the measure dividing the
State of Virginia, without thinking of that
point, but he always had regretted that it
had not been provided for. The State
government Of West Virginia had, however,
appointed commissioners to arrange the mat
ter with the State of Virginia, and those
commissioners had gone to Richmond for the
purpose, but there had been disagreement,
and finally the Democratic party had come
into power in West Virginia, and the debt
was repudiated.
Senator Davis, West Virginia, challenged
the correctness of this statement and declared
that in the revised constitution the Democrats
had inserted a provision not exactly similar
to that in the constitution of 1868, for pay
ment of the debt whenever a settlement as to
amendment took place. He said the Demo-
cratic party Of West Virginia was
the only y . party t,, that had oa. N moved Y.
Davis own motion, the commissioners had
been sent to Richmond. These comT issioners
hadn't agreed with the commissioners from
Virginia and their report had been made by
Campbell, leading Republican. West Vir-
ginia was ready at all times to take its fair,
just and equitable proportion of that debt and
he hoped the time for doing so would
soon come. 1t was the Democrats and
not the Republicans who had sent the com.
missioners to Richmond.
Senator Sherman resumed his speech aud as
serted it to be fact that all movements look
ing to reputation had come from the Demo-
Gratis. He recalled the time when two Demo-
Gratis had proposed to repudiate the debt of
Ohio, when it was only S25, 100000. The good
sense Of men of both parties had frowned
down the proposition. One of its authors,
McNulty, had been driven to Washington,
where he was elected clerk of the Democratic
House of Representatives, and the other, By
ington, had been driven into exile. From that
time to this there had never been any talk of
population in Ohio.
Senator Sherman concluded: Every party
going out of power should yield gracefully to
the inevitable. The matter should not have
occupied Gi hours. when the majority had
plainly intimated its desire to change certain
officers the minority should have yielded to
that desire. He appealed to Senator's on the
Democratic side to allow the majority to pro-
coed with the ordinary course of business.
They might denounce the Republicans for
their connection with the Senator from
Virginia, Malone. The Republicans should
take care of that. They might denounce them
for voting for Riddleberger. They could take
care of that. But when they said they would
not let the majority go on with public busi-
ness except as they should dictate, they put
that majority in position which they could
not surrender without endangering the gov
crnment. The majority must rule or there
was in this country nothing but Mexican re-
public.
side, Vance, Hoar and Bayard the Senate ad-
journed.