The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-05-06
ELoouENcE IN THE SENATE.

phaticalIy ana distinctly. Inc Cch"oi ''o'"
Virginia said in his opening address hero
at the commencement OF this session that
he had been invited to our little tea party:
Ifinvitcd. it was unofiicially; it invited, Is
has not by the Democratic caucus. state
were, without dlvulging any secrets OF the
party, that for one, with certain other gen.
temcn that see around me, pcrsistently
opposed any invitation to the Senator from
Virginia, and denounced it from the be-
ginning I denounced it in caucus and QUO
Of caucus. | say, if that Senator was III
vitcd to a Democratic caucus it was done by
an individual and not by the official action
of the caucus to which belong. No, sir;
| he was never invited there by the author
itatiye action of the Democratic caucus
never.
Mr.. President, We have witnessed remark.
| able scenes in this Chamber. Eighteen
months ago the President of the United
States declared in speech in the State of
Ohio that he would never, so help him God,
| extend his hand in friendship across the
bloody chasm to any man who had been en-
gagged in rebellion who did not openly cX-
press his repentance for it; never would
he grasp in friendship the hand Of any man
that struck at the life Of the nation until ho
publicly and openly declared his repentance
for that great crime. The Senator from
! Massachusetts, has rung the changes on 1t
here over and over again-the junior Sens
ator. When did the Senator irom Virginia
repent The other day we saw the Senator
from Virginia stand in the midst Of the Re-
publican Senators and in emphatic accents
declare that Cor his part in that struggle he
had no repentance to express, DO apologyt to
make. have no apology, he said to make
to any mau for my participation in that
struggle, and then after, this heroic dcclara-
ton. he fell back into tho amorous embrace
of the junior Senator from Massachusetts,,
and they billed and coocd together while
the air was heavy with the fragrance Of
flowers sent here from the executive conscr-
vatory to grace the wedding fast.
Two years ago almost said on this floor
that there was not Confederate brigadier,
rccking as they called it with loyal blood,
spotted and stained with treason, that tho
Republican party would not take into its
embrace if he would only agree to vote the
Radical ticket and give power to the Radi-
cal Party. Sir, the waters Of tho Jordan,
all the medicinal springs from the days Of
IIpocratcs down to this, have not the heal
ing virtue of one single Republican ballot
it covers all sin, hides all iniquity. The
chief recommendation the Senator from
Virginia gives to your candidate for Ser
geant.at- Arms is that be was full Hcdged
traitor bcfor. he was Eighteen years old, and
commanded company in the Confederate
army. That is his chief recommendation
yet today all is forgotten you take him
into full fellowship and communion without
any examination by church or session. He
is ready for the New Jerusalem, the temple
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens
/ Mr. President, whcro is the consistency
of this great party that controls the Govern
mcnt Gentlemen, you have to. day, by an
accident, control of the organization Of this
Senate you have planted the flag of Demo.
cratic Virginia in the midst of its herctli.
tary foes Sir there is n legend among the
Northmen of the oldcn time, Of Danish
king whose banner had waved in triumph
over hundred stricken fields, till a. last
he fell in defense of it with his fierce war
riors around him. His hereditary foemen
seized that battle. flag and bore it off IN tri.
umph, and at night, with wine and wassal
his foes celebrated their unexpected victory.
The wine flowed red and the song rose high
| VIC anu
sullenly in their midst. Suddenly hush
came over that band Of re clcrs In their
midst stood the form of the dead king, and
his spirit had seized that flag and tore it
away from his hereditary foes forever Sir,
if the gallant living Of Virginia (and she
has thousands as brave as any that ever rode
through shot and shell and sabcr stroke) do
not in the coming fall redeem this fag, dear
to me as my own honor, because in Virginia
rest the ashes Of my tathcrs-if her gallant
living redeem not this flag from where il
stands to-day, polluted by the grasp Of those
who have always traduccd and slandcred it =,
| would expect, under God, that the awful
majesty Of Jefferson himself. father Of the
Democratic party, would darken this Hall
and with spirit-hand would wrcst that ban
ner from those who have always hated il
and give it to loving hands.-From Senator
Vests speech, 1prH 12M.
VENGEANCE UPoN A MULE.-Od SiIas
was a very rcvcngcfu man. Now, Slas
owned mule, and one day the mule raised
his hind legs and smotc Silas, whcrcupon