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

ELoouEHcE IN THH SENATE.
We are told by the Senator from Ohio
and other Senators that VIC have grovcled
at the feet of the Senator from Virginia.
Mr.. President, it is not true. deny il em-
phatically and distinctly. The Senator from
Virginia said in his opening address hero
at the commencement Of this session that
nc had been invited to our little tea party.
If invited, it was anoficially if invited, it
has not by the Democratic caucus. l state
were, without d,vulging any secrets of the
party, that for one, with certain other geD-
tlemcn that see around inc, persistently
opposed any invitation to the Senator from
Virginia, and denounced it from the be-
ginning; denounced it in caucus aud out
of caucus. say, if that Senator was in
vited to 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 tho author
itative 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 chasni to any man who had been en-
gagged in rebellion who did not openly ex-
press his repentance for it; never would
he grasp in friendship the hand of any man
that struck at the life Of tho nation until he
publicly and openly declared his repentance
for that great crime. The Senator from
Massachusetts, has rung the changes on it
haro onl
ator. When did the Senator from 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, no apology to
make. l have no apology, he said, to make
to any man for my participation in that
struggle, and then after, this heroic declara-
ton. he fell back into tho amorous embrace
of the junior Senator from Massachusetts,
and they billed and cooed together while
the air was heavy with the fragrance of
flowers sent here from the executive conser-
vatory to grace the wedding FEAST.
Two years ago almost said on this floor
that there was not q Confederate brigadier,
rceking as they called it with loyal blood,
spotted and stained with treason, that the
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
Hipocrates down to this, have not the heal
ing virtue Of one single Republican ballot;
it covers oil sin, hides all iniquity. The
chief recommendation the Senator from
Virginia gives to your candidate for Ser.
geant-at.Arms is that he was a full Hedyej
traitor befor, he was eighteen years old, and
commanded company in the Confederate
army. That is his chief recommendation
yet to day all Is forgotten you take hiu,
into full fellowship and communion without
any examination by church or session. He
is ready for the New Jerusalem, the temple
notmade with hands, eternal in the heavens
Mr. President, where is the consistency
OF this great party that controls the Govern
ment Gentlemen, you have oday, by an
accident, control of the organization of this
Senate you have planted the flag of Demo.
cratic Virginia in the n,idst of its beret3i.
tary foes. Sir, there is legend among tho
Northmen Of the olden time, of Danish
king whose banner had waved in triumnh
over hundred stricken fields, till a. lass
"o aS'' III uCiSuSc VI IL With MS nerCc war
riors around him. His hereditary foemen
seized that battle.a Gag and bore it off IN tri.
umph, and at night, with wine and wassail
his foes celebrated their unexpected victory.
The wine flowed red and the song rose high
around the flag that hung mournfully and
sulenly in their midst Suddenly a hush
came over that band Of re .elers. In their
midst stood the form of the dead king. and
his spirit had seized that flag and tore il
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 saber stroke) do
not in the coming fall redeem this flag, dear
to me as my own honor, because in Virginia
rest the ashes Of my fathcrs-if her gallant
living redeem not this flag from where i,
stands to-day, polluted by the grasp of those
who have always traduced and slandered it,
l would expect, under God, that tho awful
majesty Of Jefferson himself. father of tho
Democratic party, would darkeu this Hall
and with spirit-hand would wrest that ban-
ner from those who have always hated il
and give it to loving hands.-From Senator
Vests speech, april l2M.
VENGEANCE UPoN A MULE.-Old Silas
was very revengeful man. Now, Silas
owned mule, and one day the mule faiscd
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