The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-14

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cratic party in 1875, when this plan Is SUI
posed to have been inaugurated. | do nc
propose to go into discussion of what OF
Cured in 1873 | mean to say, however
that every telegram that sent when L wa
chairman of that committee was taken iron
the telegraph Office by the committee of in
vestigation sent there from this body, TIVE
of the members of it being now here, tn
Senator from Minnesota Mr.. Mcmillan
and the Senator from Wisconsin, Dir. Cam
! eron and but one of the whole number
there being several hundred, was found t.
be worthy of objection and criticism, ane
that was written at the dictation and reques
of the representative of the United State
/ Government then in Mississippi, g. Il
4 Chase.
The Senator showed that, at the suggea
ton of Chase, he sent the telegram warning
against any maltreatment of Gen. Warner
Republican of prominence; that he (tht
speaker) knew it was useless, and that he
sent it in the kindness of his heart, against
his own better Judgment.
After an able defence-one of the best
ever made in either house of Congress-oi
the old liquidation of the Union Bank
Bonds charge, Mr.. Dawes replied refusing,
however, to give the name of his Massachu-
sets martyr.
Mr.. George said
Now, to come back to the point where the
gentleman said had no right to interfere
l have a right to interfere. l have a right
to ask Senator who undertakes TO retail
here what l say is foul calumny upon the
people of Mississippi-and it is his duty TO
answer it-who his author is. have a
right to know whose falsehood he is backing
by his authority here in the Senate and to
tell the Senator that he cannot escape from
the responsibility which | now place on
him of having before the American Senate
and in the hearing of the American people
retailed an infamous Islander upon the people
of Mississippi by saying that | nave no
right to demand his authority. | have Il
right If he assumes it, as | understood
him to say he would, then, sir, he becomes
responsible for the talsehOod.
The Senator said he did not take back
what he had said. | say, sir, he did He
RECALLED our ears with statement of this
sort, that a Massachusetts man who had
gone to Mississippi had built a factory, and
had put iron shutters TO his house TO protect
himself and his workmen, and because he
had built a school-house or something of
that sort, or was heard to express certain
opinions his factory had been burnt and his
employees murdered. That was his state
ment, sir. ! asked him, as | was obliged to
do, land | did 1T with great hesitation and
modesty because | did not want to occupy
the floor who his man was, where was the
locality of this arson and murder, and | am
answered and the Senators who feel any
interest in this matter are answered that
this fugitive from Mississippi to Massachu-
sets was in danger i'll his Massachusetts
If violence he npO1n-
Gratis of Mississippi if his name was dis
closed. Sir, how frail an excuse Will
the gentleman undertake to persuade the
American people that the Mississippi Dem
ocrat is not only murderer and assassin
in his own land hut that he is ubiquitous
and can perform his part in Mississippi and
Massachusetts at the same time
| told the Senator that | had not heard of
any such thing; and it turns out that it
was no factory that was burned it was a |
Clubhouse When | informed the Senator |
that a Clubhouse was the most inhammable !
of all buildings, that | and others in my |
had suffered losses in that |
way, that it was the commoneSt thing in |
the world for Clubhouse to be destroyed by |
fire, and then asked him if he had any |
evidence that this mans Clubhouse had not |
been destroyed by the same accidents that |
destroy other peoples
Mr.. DAWES. And men were killed in the |
same way?
Mr.. GEORGE. Yes, sir; do not believe
your men were killed. You do not dare to
name your witness. believe your witness
to be a false witness.
Mr.. DAWES. did not expect you would
believe it.
Mr.. GEORGE. | am not in the habit of
men who do not disclose who they
are. | am not apt to believe such men
Mr.. DAWES. If you wanted to believe it
you would have to leave Mississippi.
Mr.. GEORGE | suppose the gentleman
would want me to believe lie like he does
do mt propose to carry my credulity that
far. Who is his witness, sir? Who is he
do not believe his gin>house has been
| do not believe he has been down
there; / do not believe his Massachusetts
man was ever there; | do not believe he
had a Clubhouse. Laughter on the floor
and in the galleries.
Mr.. Dawes seemed to be squelched He
sat down as suddenly as he had been set
down upon, and the day closed with tri-
lmph for the South, in general, and for
Mississippi in particular
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