The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-01
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l1n that point Ne, iaAanO1e) WOulG
ANSWER ALI THE IENEERDoEs
Of the senators distinctly and grayely,
and with due regard to the dignity and
1ecornm of the senate. He hurled back
with scorn and contempt every impu-
tation that his action here had been in |
daced by any other consideration than
that of the promotion of his people's in /
terests and the welfare of the whole i
country. He might occupy the senate |
for an. hour with rumors rs to the |
manner in which the senator |
from Georgia BROWN got 10 |
the senate, and the gentle |
man should learn from that fact valn- |
able lesson, that every senator should be |
left to adjust his accounts with his own |
constituents He avowed his RESPONSE |
bility-proud respOnsibility-for the in |
PRODUCTION of Riddleberger's name as |
candidate for Office, but proposed his
readiness to withdraw that name if 1t
were true, as report had it, that the
Democratic senator's would then with
draw their opposition to the election of
the officers of the senate. He admitted
the correctness of the newspaper state
ment read last Saturday by the senator
from Kentucky, (Peck) as to the speech
of the colored delegate, Morse, and the
motion for his expulsion was made by
Riddleberger, and he proceeded to ex-
plain that matter into meaning that If
the motive for expulsion had been on ac-
count OF color, the senator would prob
ably have regarded the motion as a
recommendation to Riddleberger. This
opposition to Riddleberger was in view
of the coming election in Virginia. 1t
was the desire to uphold the party,
which, while openly protesting ODE
dience to the constitution, held by men.
tai reservation, purposes
HOSTILE TO THE CONSTITUTION.
It was 10 uphold the party there which
did not believe in the right of freedmen
to vote; it was to uphold the party that.
while nominally accepting the Cincin-
natl platform in which a full vote, q free
ballot and an honest count had been de-
man6ed, had introduced constitutional
amendment requiring that no man
should cast ballot for any Office on any
account until he had paid a capitation
tax. This in effect, was to uphold the
party which had undertaken. by methods
of indirection, TO
DIsFRArSCHIsE THE CoLoRED MAN.
That was the purpose, and whether
his colleague had voted for that disfran-
chising clause he could not speak. He
| (Mahone) had never given that doctrine
his assent. either in public or at the bal
4 1Ot-DOA T Vi Ou6 nc "dnbEu pO1lIlCdl
serfs in Virginia. He wanted no longer
any condition of personal servitude. He
'asserted the right, sacred to all men, of a
| free, untFammelled, priceless, ballot; and
/ whatever might be the professions of the
/ gentlemen ON that subject, he stood pre-
| pared, here on this floor, by the courage
of the men who were behind him at
home, to assure the country that in Vir-
| ginia, at least, there should be
| FREE SUFFRAGE,
a priceless suffrage, full vote and hon.
est count. Applause in the galleries.
He stood here to guarantee the enforce
ment of the laws, and he said it, by the
brave men who stood at his back. in the
cause of freedom He would reform the
the senators that his friend (Riddleberg
err was made of sterner stuff than they
calculated, and would survive any record
or Investigation. The record refuted the
statement that he (Mahone) had been
elected by the Bourbon funding party
He had been a candidate of the people
| who had nominated him at the polls
bya
MAJORITY OF OVER TWENTY THOUSAND
i in an election where the senatorship haC
been an issue. He knew of no consid
Grafton which could have enticed him
to have taken q seat in this senate or tC
have taken hold of any place at the
hands of the Bourbon or funding party
of Virginia. He was under no obliga
lions to it or its champions, here or else
where. His allegiance, under God, was
to his country aud his first duty to thu
people of Virginia. 1t was, true tina
the readjusters' party had instructed fo
Hancock and English, but 1t was equal
ly true that it had forborne and pur
posed to forbear from instructing fo
Z - 1axa 4 So
Democratic party. He referred to thu
manner of his election, asserting tha
there had been a combination agains
him and that the Democratic party
which, like Cesar's wife, stood allow
suspicion, had been willing to com
promise itself in the United States sen
ate, for a few county offices. If thai
was the Democracy that the gentlemen
on the other side loved, he wanted
NONE OF IT FOR HIM.
The purpose of the Readjusters wa
to stay the retrograde movement of years
so as to bring Virginia back from mum
Der fifteen in the grade of states to he
original position in the sisterhood o
, states. Far be it from him that her &C
ton here should be controlled or in
fiQenced by, a caucus whose party haC
, waged war on his constituents and who's
party success was held paramount Il
. what he conceived to be the interest @
Virgins and the welfare of the Who'll
country. The Readiusters of Virgins
had no feeling of hostility; no words o
, unkindness for the colOred race. II
had faith, and it was his firmest hope
, that the
MARCH OF ENLIGHTENED CIvILIZATIO,
AND HUMAN PROGRESS
|, would proceed until Gods great famil,
Nf pfryt
j religious and political liberty. TIL
! colOred man has been loyal to Virgini
|. in all days of the conflict and bloodshet
which had come of the heroic struggle il
. the war of sections. By no act of his wa
either the clash of arms or his freedom il
voked. He has no. measured his duties b.
, the consideration of selfinterest. Not s.
: much could be said of the distinguish
statesman who urged the South to resis
the Readjusters in behalf of principle
, held to be fundamental. Virginia ha
: not forgotten her abandonment fror
that quarter, and needed no council as {
\ her duty. To him and the people of Vii
!, ginia, the South, as the phrase wen
was a mere geographical expression
. and no longer epitomized dream of a
. empire. 81 do net question: he said i
conclusion, " the granduer of that hop
and aspiration; but it was quenched
blood, and
THE SOUTH OF OUR DAY
! acceded to the decision. The Democra
ic party affirms that decision in il
. platforms and in the declarations of Il
3 chairman. am here to assert that VII
GINA, the mother of the union, renew
I her oi6-time faith and devotion to tn
| government her honored sons aided {
. construct; and in furtherance thereof
y 90 H,ae oh ov6 .
exert my every energy" Applause an
{ Kisses in the galleries.l
! Malone was warmly congratulated b
/? COnkling, Sherman, Dawes and othe
? Republicans.
Cenkling's Course.
!, WASHINGTON, March 27.-Senato
! Conkling, it appears, after much delibel
alton and consultation with his friend
! here and in New York, has determine
: to antagonize the nomination of Judg
. Robertson as collector of the port c
: New York. He has served notice o.
! the president to withdraw the nomins
ton. If not withdrawn he and hi
!. Friends will regard it as a challenge TO
combat In which either they or the ad
, ministration must 60 to the wall in tn
empire To set up Senator Conkling'
most pronounced enemy in the custom
house to reward his enemies, they assert
he nor his party will never submit to
Conkling's friends claim that this acton
, is not the result of the deliberatien o
President Garfield and his best counsel
ors, but was planned by enemies in dis
guIse In this Senator Conkling i
: greatly mistaken. President Garfielt
has never concealed from any one
: either in New York, Pennsylvania, o
! elsewhere, his plan in dealing witt
the Republicans in the distribution o
the patronage under his administration
Months apo he announced his deterniD