Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-03-29

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All available space vas filed at an early
hour With the expectation Of hearing speech
from Mr.. Malone.
The Vice Presiden, laid befare the Senate
q reaplution for the appointmenf of Senate
officers. stating that the Scaatpe from Var.
ginia had the Aoor. ~ sss-s
Mr.. Malone promised his speech bv ex.
pressing his regret thar he shonid be com.
pell again to interrupt the deliberations of
the Senate. | shall not complain OF that in
discretion which has characterized the man.
ner and method of the Senators IN their allu-
sions to me. must accept thar they COM
port entirely With their own sense of manly
department and senatorial dignity. however
little they do with my own. Virginia is ac-
customed to meet occasions where the indie
pendent spirit of the Anglo Saxon is re-
CURED to assert itself. Virginia ever met
with fortitude and becoming dignity every
duty which destiny has imposed. always.
however, with much contempt FOR small
party lines.
was elected to the United States Senate
to do their will, not to caucus TO do its
bidding. feel that the spirit of her people
inspires me when scornfnlly repel for them
and for myself the ungenerous attempt to in
struct Virginia Senator as to his duties to
them and to himself
1 StudtoES WliiiuS W utai Will
| their constituents. Ianswer for mine to him
that would insinuste that any action in regard
to the organization of committees of this body
| and the proposed election of officers has been
controlled by impure considerations, (and
| am 10th to believe that any senator has so in
| tended). In the language of another say,
IF thou sayest am not peer To any lord of
Scotland here, highland or lowland, far or
near, Lord Angus, thou has, lied
My colleague first introduced the question
Of my political consistency, or if he prefers.
Inconsistency, and next he would introduce
me TO this honorable body not as his col
league, but as a repudiator Of public obliga.
tiens.
The sense of justice to my fellow senators
renders it necessary for me to apologize for
| noticing my colleagues criticisms on the one
hand and his perversious on the other. How
ever much he and his cohorts may endeavor
by the cheap logic Of the attorney to demon
| strate what ought to be, l am by my cen
| vietions and my sense of honor what am.
| In this particular l have largely the advan-
tage of my colleague, for, if l take him by
his record. dimnutive as it is, he neither
knows what he is or what duty he is called
here to perform. Laughter. Mr.. Malone
| then proceeded to give an exhaustive history
of the political and financial history of Vir-
ginia for the last decade. The purpose of
the readjusters, he said, was to stay the re-
trograde movement of years so as to bring
Virginia back from No. Is in the grade Ut
States to her original position in the sister
hood of States. They had no feeling of hos
tility for the colored race. He had faith, and
it was his earnest hope that the march Of en-
lightened civilization and human progress
would proceed until Gods great family
should everywhere enjoy the blessings of
civil, religious and political liberty.
In conclusion he said: l am hero to assert
that Virginia, the mother of the Union, re-
news her old time faith and devotion to the
government that her honored sons aided to
construct, and in furtherance thereof pro-
pose to give my best abilities and to extend
my every energy.
At the conclusion Mr.. Malone was warm
ly congratulated by Messrs. Conkling. Sher-
man. Dawes and other republicans, and the
Senate soon after adjourned.