The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-21

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nifty he recovered. He Immediately
sworo that his confession was the raw
ing otdclirium! He was reelected by
the Republican party and vindicatcd
at the polls. Tho disfrane hised De-
mocracy proceeded to pay tho bonds
under tho mandate Of the Federal trib-
unal. My friend from North Carolina
(Mr.. Vance) suggested that he could
not be received with Riddlebcrger.
lie would have been received by the
Republican party ofthis Senate with
avidity and gulped down without q
single word Of protest or question.
We are told by tho Senator from
Ohio aud other Senators that we have
grovelled at the feet of tho Senator
from Virginin. deny ii emplatically
and distinctly. Tho Senator from
Virginia said in his opening address
here at tho commencement Of this ses-
sion that he had been invited to our
| little tea party. If finvitcd, it was un-
officially; ifinvited, It was not by tho
Democratic caucus. state here, with
out divulging any secrets Of the party,
that for one, with certain other GEN
tlcmcn that l SEQ around me, pcrsis-
tently opposed any invitation TO the
Senator from Virginia, and denounc-
ca ii from tho beginning; denounced
it in caucus and out of caucus. / say
if that Senator was invited to Demo-
cratic caucus, it was done by an in
dlvldual, and not by the official action
oftho caucus to which belong. No,
Sir,
RE WAS NEVER INVITED THERE
by the authoritative action of the
| Democratic caucus--neyer.
Mr.. President, we have witnessed
remarkable scenes in this Chamber.
Eighteen months ago the President of
the United States declared in a speech
in tho State of Ohio that lie would new
CT, 30 help him God, extend his hand
/ IN friendship across the bloody chasm
| to any man who had been engaged in
the rebellion who did not openly cx-
press his repentance Tor it; never
would he grasp in friendship the hand
| OF any ma) that struck Mt The life Of
the nation until he publicly and OPEN
~ declared his repentance Of that great
crime. The Senator from Massachu-
sets has ruug changes on il here over
and over again the junior Senator.
" hen did the Senator from Virginia
repent? The other day we saw the
Senator from Virginia stand in the
midst Of the Republican Senators, and
Ill emphatic accents declare that for his
part in that struggle he had no repent
ancc to express, no apology to make.
i have no apology, he said, to make
any man in that struggle, and then
after this heroic declaration he fell
back into the amorous embrace of the
Junior Senator from Massachusetts,
and they billed and coocd together
while the air was heavy with tho fra
GRANGE OF flowers sent here from the
executive conservatory to grace the
wedding feast.
Two years ago almost I said on this
floor that there was not Confederate
brigadier, recking Us they called it
with loyal blood, spotted and stained
with treason, that the Republican par
ty would not take in its embrace if he
would only agree to vote the Radical
ticket and give power TO the Radical
party. Sir, the waters Of the Jordan,
all the medicinal springs from the DAYS
OF HippocratcS down to this, have not
the healing virtue Of one single ReDub-
lican ballot; it covers all sin, hides all
iniquity. The chief recommendation
the Senator from Virginia gives your
candidate for Sergcant-at-Arms is that
rulI.7FLEDGED TRAITOR
before he was eighteen years old, and
commanded company in the Confca-
crate army. That is his chief recon-
mendation; yet to-day all is forgot
ten; you take him into full fellowship
and communion without any eXamina-
tion by Tie church or session. He is
ready for the new Jerusalem, the tenn
pie not made with hands, "cternal in
the heavens"
Mr. President, where is the consis-
tency Of this party that controls the
Government? Gentlemen, you have
to-day. by an accident, control of the
organization Of this Senate; YOU have
planted the flag Of Democratic Viz
ginia in the midst of it's hcridetary
foes. Sir, there is legend among the
Mortimer Of the oltlen time of a Dan
ish King whose banner had waved in
triumph over q hundred stricken fields,
till at last he fell in defense ofit, with
his fierce warriors around him. His
hereditary 1oemen seized that battle
flag and bore it off in triumph, 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 mourn
fully and sullcnly in their midst. Sud
denly hush came over that band Of
rev elcrs. In their midst stood the form
ofthc dead king, and his spirit hand
seized that flag and tore it away from
his hereditary foes forever. Sir, if
the gallant livingRof Virginia (and she
has thousands as brave as any that
ever rode through shot and shell and
sabcr strokc) 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 gal
liant living redeem not this flag from
where it stands to-day, polluted bv
the grasp of those who have always
traduccd and slandcrcd it., | would cx-
nGct unlcr Cod thni tlao II