The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-19
Especial dispatch TO the Baltimore Sun
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-Two notable speeches
were made in the Senate to-day. one by Mr. CALI
sc1 Erl,"rida, and the other by Mr.. Vest, of Mis-
Africa Mr. Cali took as f5Irlteed dt me e war mo
fair ballot and an honest count impartial suf
frage, &c, the charges upon which have been
made with so much iteration and reiteraiion by
Republican Senators, and more especially by
those from New England. He reviewed the
laws and regulations concerning the elective
franchise in the three States of Massachusetts,
Rhode Island and Connecticut, and showed
what is already generally known, but seems
somehow or other TO have been lost sight Of
that such thing as impartial suffrage or a fair
ballot is not in existence in either OF those Com
monweaths. BY the laws Of all these States
thousands and thousands of men, white not
black, are absolutely DISTINGUISHED, and in Mas
sachusetts, as Mr. Call exhibited on the most
irreiutable evidence, system of espionage and
terrorism over the voter is exercised by EN-
ployers which has no parallel even in the wild
romances fabricated by the outrage shriekers
about the South. As TO the Acknowledgement of
voters il the 10000 or more colored voters of
the State of Maryland who exercise the right to
deposit on every election day their votes without
let or hindrance for the Republican candidates
should emgrate in body TO the Republican
State Of Massachusetts, not 1000 of them would
be permitted to vote under its laws As to the
State of Connecticut, there never was such
travesty on popular government as il presents.
MI OdII, III llc COuIcc vi HIS SptCCH tO-Uay,
touched upon the representation in the popular
branch Of the Legislature, and read from the ap-
portonment SYSTEM showing that towns and
cities OF from twenty TO forty thousand popula-
ton were only allowed the same membership as
towns Of from five hundred TO one thousand pop
ulation. Mr.. Call omitted to mention that the
large towns are generally Democratic, while the
small ones are Republican. 1t is about time that
the New England Senators were reminded that
they should take the beam out of their own eyes
before under akng to remove the mote from The
eyes Of others. 1t would be much better if they
would take their new ally, Mr.. Malone up into
their own section, and naugurate the crusade
there where ii is most needed for free ballot
and an honest count. Mr.. Vest made both an
eloquent and an argumentative speech In reply
to the assertion of Senator Sherman, few DAYS
ago, that no Republican community had ever
repudiated, he gave a concise but graphic &C
count Of the So 900, 900 Indebtedness deliberately
repudiated by the Republican State of Mime
sofa, without one shadow of justification, and
also cited the numerous instances of Reputation
by Republican counties and townships in the
Northwest. Mr.. Sherman was unable to make
any adequate reply to this showing, but he was
much more taken aback when Mr., Vest, quoting
from the official correspondence of the Treasury
Department, showed that only eighteen months |
ago Mr.. Sherman had laid down the rule that
any Federal official in Virginia found acting
with the repndiationist or Malone party would
be removed