The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-04-28
US. SENATE.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY.
MIR. Jones, In Reply 10 MIR. Frye, Takes
the Gentleman of the Pine Tree
state to Task for His Harsh
Language Toward the South,
and RefuIes the SIanders-
Others Debate on the
Deadlock, Etc.

Washington, d. o., April Ex-senator
Edmunds asked leave for the committee on
the judiciary to sit during the recess Of the
senate, if that should ever occur, to pursue
some Investigations upon the subject OF
bankruptcy. Without objection leave was
granted.
The vice-president laid before the senate
the unfinished business, being the resolution
for the election of senate officers.
A motion to 90 into executive session was
lost-yess "a, nays a.
Mr.. Jones, Of Florida, regretting the
absence of the senator from Maine, Mr..
FRYE, proceeded to reply TO certain por..
tions of that gentlemaD's speech. DE said
he had been mortified when no heard the
senator from Maine getting in dirty little
narrow groove and undertaking to disparage
and condemn whatever he could find objec-
tionable in any quarter of his country: The
senator had characterized the civilization OF
the north as school book and bible, and the
civilization of the south as slavery and barbar.
ism. The time had come when that kind of
utterance ought TO end. Were the southern
psople responsible for that barbarlsm
RESPONSIBLE for it? No! 1t had
been planted here by superior power-by
the mother country--and upheld for years
under the imperial power of Great Britain.
The state from which he came was no more
responsible for slavery or the evils growing
out of it than the people of any of the states
of the union. In this connection he read
from Burkes speech in defense of the colo
nies in which occurs the sentiment that life
and liberty exists the strongest among the
masters of slaves. -,
After short colloquy with Mr.: Hoar with
regard to this innovation from Burke, MIR.
Jones said that nothing mortified him more
than to find this question brought forth in
connection with the senatorial deadlock.
Slavery had passed away, and there was not
man south of the Potomac who did not
rejoice at it. 1t was not part of decency or
of craftsmanship for any senator
from any quarter of the union
to come forward, even for party or political
purposee, to dig up the carcass of slavery, IN
order to in1sme and excite the public mind.
Mr.. Jones criticised what he termed the
unwise manner in which the right of suffrage
had been conferred on the negroes. The
manhood and spirit of the south had resent,
ed the domination of the negro. History would
write that chapter, and justice would yet be
done after the prejudices OF this century
had passed away; and when some future
MacauleJ or Glbbon should come to write
history on reconstruction 1t would be found
that the people of the south would be vindi,
Gated in the minds of all mankind. He had
read good deal of the oppression of tyr.
snny. and he had known
the people of the south
from his earliest boyhood He had never
expected to live to see the day when that
proud and naughty race would be compelled,
as he had seen it, to humilitate itself in
connection with this question of negro suf-
frsge. He had never expected to see, as he
had seen, the day when ignorant and thought.
less men, inspired by nothing but race
feelings, would take possession of the
polls and offer every conceivable insult
to white men in order to provoke quarrel,
and when those men would bear taunts and
humiliations for the sake of order. He then
referred to the charges made by Mr. Frye Of
fraud and violence in the election in Florida,
and read extracts from democratic papers to
show when fraud occurred in the south,
il was denounced by the democratic
press. The senator from Maine
had spoken of the murder of republicans by
democrats in Florida for the purpose of pre-
venting testimony being given in the con-
tested election case of Bisbee vs.. Hull. The
fact was, however, that the murder had been
committed by vilianous negro of the repub-
lican party upon one of the best young white
men of the state In concluding his speech Mr..
Jones devoted some time TO denunciation Of
the method in which the state Of Florida had
been carried for Hayes in 1876, and intimsted
that the present cry on the republican side,
of free ballot and fair count, was hypocrit-
ical.
An hour was then consumed in Intellectual
roll calls.
After some discussion by Messrs. Groome,
Dawes and others, of the present deadlock,
the senate adjourned.