The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-08
MAHCNE'S SECOND EFFORT.
He Declares for Free Ballot
Full Vote and am Honest Count
Scathing Attack on Rem Hill and
Joe Brown.


I know I shall anions my Own ps>
pie, I shall not complain n That ia-
direction which has characterized ske
manner and methods 81 Senators in their aliS.
sions to me. must accept tie fact that they
cornpert entirely With their own sense u rflanly
department shd Senatorial dignity, howevsf
little they do with my 61n' Virginia Is aceus-
toned to meet occasions where sfe independent
spirit of the Anglo Saxon is required to seseft
itself. Virginia has ever met with fortitude
and becoming dignity every duty which desti-
ny has imposed, always; howeveI,, with much
contempt for small party lines, VIXEN principle
was involved in which her faith and hcrtf was
committed.
With abso.ute confidence in my loyalty to
her, and my devotion t5 svsry interest Of her
people, / will not relax my puTpGgs here to re-
pei every impeachment of the constituents Who
sent me to this chamber with clearly-deined du-
ties, WHICH they end comprehend. Twas elected
10 the United States serats te do their will
not to caucus to do its bid5inE; Virginia
earned her title of sold Dominion BIZ the
broad and independent action of her own peo-
pie, by the loyalty of her sons, by the instinct
of independence without help at the hands of
those who W6tld row. interfere with her af-
fairs. However feebIy Z fyaF EXPRESS that
spirit against the gratuitous care and Gs.tsern
for her at the hands of angers-strangers to
her trials, to her sacrifices, and to her will
feel that the spirit of her people inspires me
when l scornfuly repel, for them and for my
self, the ungenerous attempts to instruct Yir-
ginia Senator as to his duty to them and to
himself Seffatdrs should be willing to deal
with their constituents. I anaWst fer mine.
To HIM that would insinuate that my aCIfon in
regard to the organization of the committees Ct
this body and the proposed election of officers
has been controlled by impure considerations
land am 10th to believe that any Senator has
50 intended), Ill this laHgttAaA Of another say
If thou say'st am not peer -
To any Lord of Scotland here, r
Highland or Lowland, far or near,
Lord Angus. thou hast lied.
Now, permit me to say that Senators can no
more realize my regret than they can measure
my amazement that my colleague Johnston
should have felt it incumbent upon himself to
JON the assaulting column III this chamber.
He first introduces the question of my political
consistency, or, if he prefers, moons s.ency,
and next he would introduce me to this honor
able body, not as his colleague, bit as a re-
pudiator of public obligations. The sense
of justice to my feow-Senators renders it
necessary for me to apologize for noticing my
colleagues criticism on the one hand and his
perversions on the other. However much he
and his cohorts may endeayor, by the cheap
logic of an attorney, to demonstrate what
ought to be, am, by my convictions and my
sense Of honor; what am. In this particular
have largely the advantage Of thy colleague.
for if take HIM by his record, dfminutive as
it is, he neither knows what be is nor what duty
he came here to perform. Mr.. Malone then
proceeded to give an exhaustive history of the
political and financial histofyo Virginia for the
last decade. ..
He declared the Readiusters had 1naFtr go
pealed any of the funding contracts made by
Virginia, but asserted the bill passed in 1871 by
the Virginia Legislature, and known as the
"Brokers' bill" which had been advocated by
his colleague, repudiated, and forcihly repu-
dated, one-third of the debt of Virginia. Read
justers held that two-thirds of the money Vir-
ginia borrowed should be paid, the other third
belonging to West Virginia, according to every
principle Of Law ind squity. Since 1871 the
Readjusting party had denied to the creditor
war-interest and had proposed to pay the rest
in full. Its adversar1es had funded that war
interest," and proposed to repudiate one=hali
that Which Virginia was In Law and honor
bound to pay. He wOttld like the Senators
from West Virginia to tell the country what
that State had done with reference to
the payment of one-third of the debt
contracted by the Commonwealth of VIr-
ginia, whether it had ever proposed
to pay one silver to maintain the honor
and dignity of the old commonwealth. He
criticised the action Of his colleague in not de-
Tending the people of Virginia from the aocusa-
ton that they were -dishonorable,
too, in the opinion of men who represented
States which, by arbitrary legislation, had re-
diced their debts from $243, 000, 900 to SS4,
600, 900. He sent to the Clerks desk and had
read table showing The exteTt 10 which
the debts of the Southern States had been
scaled down. "Repudiation honorable read
iustment dishonorable? Oh, Virginia - he
said, sit was for this you barred your bosom to
the soldiers tread and horses foot It was fol
this you laid waste your fields and displayed
your fortltude and courage, your heroic suffer
ing and sacrifice it was for this you suffered
dismemberment of your territory and sent your
sons to the field to return to ruins that were once
their homes. 1t was for this you SO reluctantly
abandoned your allegiance to common country
to be the last in war and the last to go out. Oh,
lngratitude! Thou basest and meanest OF
crimes" s.. --..... . ...
He would not occupy, he continued, any
more of the time of the Senate with the subject
of the Virginia debt, but would refer now to an
interrogatory put last Friday by Senator V9or-
hees to Senator Logan, as to whether the latter
would indorse the papers of an applicant for
the smallest postofice who favored the re-
pudiation of either State or national debt.
he found it compatible with his principles to
associate with Senators from States who had
"repudiated, but had not ''readjusted." He
had never heard Riddlebarger express favor
able opinion even of the views of the Senator
from Indiana on the national debt. laugh
ter) He also quoted from John w. Daniel,
one of the leaders of the Bourbon party
In Virginia, denouneing the iniqultous meas
l1res of Federal finances, and proposing to re.
1od
Indiana and Delaware voorhees, and Bayard)
to try and reconcile their differences of views on
the financial question before the Senator from
Indiana again discussed the subject As to the
Senator from Georgia Brown, who seemed to
be so much troubled about readj1sIment, he
questioned whether the world has ever pro-
duced man who could so readily readjust
himself to all conditions and all circum-
stances. That gentleman had got ahead of
the people and of the Democratic party in the
effort to dissolve the Union, and was the first
Governor in the South to confiscate private
property in the courts of Savannah and to seize
Fort Pulaski before the act of secession passed
Rumor had it that the Presidency of the Con-
federate States was the gentleman's object at
that time. In the struggle that ensued he
Brown was earnest for the cause until its
fortunes began to waver, and then he aban-
doned it with his militia. After the war he was
next heard of in the Chicago Republican Con-
vention. In fact, that gentleman might say
with the poet laureate's book,
Men may come and men may go,
But 1 go on forever.
He was next heard of as the radical candi-
date for the United States Senate. but was
beaten by a more moderate Republican, the
late Joshua Hill. He next appeared as the ap-
pointee of the carpet-bsg Governor of Georgia,
the Prince of carpet-baggers, Bullock, to the
Office of Chief Justice Of that State. which po-
sition he subsequently resigned to take the
Presidency of railroad company. Now that
gentleman was here as the leader of the Demo
cratic party, and his explanation was
that the Democratic oarty had erred
and abandoned him, but that now it bad
rghted itself, and rallied itself on his (Browns)
grand reserve of undying and Interchangeable
principles. That gentleman had alluded to
rumors of bargain. If there were any truth
in those rumors, then he (Mahone) Yves in
debted for any advantage he might draw from
it to the fact that the Senator from Georgia did
not know of the opportunity. On that point
he (Mahone) would answer all innuendoes Of
the Senators distinctly and gravely, and with
due regard to the dignity of the Senator. He
hurled back with scorn and contempt every i'm
putation that his action here had been induced
by any other consideration than that of the
promotion of his peoples interests and of the
welfare Of the country. He might occupy the
Senate for an hour with rumors as to the man
ner in which the Senator. from Georgia Brown
got to the Senate, and gentlemen should learn
from that fact the valuable lesson that every