The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-01
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10 any lord Of Scotland here,
Highland or LoWland, far or near,
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Nov permit me TO say that the seha-
tors can no more realize my regret than
they can measure my Amusement, that
my colleague Johnson) should have felt
it incumbent upon himself to join the as
saulting column in this chamber, He
first introduced the question of my polit-
ical consistency, and if he preferred in
consistency next, he would introduce me
to this honorable body not as his col
league, but as a repudiator of the public
obligations. The sense of justice of my
fellow senator renders IT necessary for
me to apologize for noticing my col
leagues criticism on one hand, and his
perversion on the other. However much
he and his cohorts may endeavor by
cheap logic of attorney TO demonstrate
what ought to be, l am by my conVic-
tons and my sense of honor what am
in this particular. and have largely the
advantage of my colleague, for if take
him by his record, diminutive as it is,
he neither knows what he is or what
duty he came here to perform. Laugh.
ter.
Senator Malone then proceeded to
give an exhaustive history of the politics
and financial history of Virginia, for the
last decade. He declared that the Re
adjusters had never repealed any of the
funding contracts made by Virginia, but
asserted that the bill passed in 1871 by
tire Virginia legislature, and known as
the brokers' bill, which had been adyo
Gated by his colleague, repudiated and
forcibly rcpudiated one third of the
debt. The Virginia Readjusters held
that two-thirds of the money Virgins
borrowed should be paid, the other third
belonging to West Virginia according tc
every principle of law and equity. Since
1871 the Readjusting party had denied
To her creditors the war interest, anC
had proposed 10 pay the rest in full; its
adversaries had funded that war interes
and proposed 10 repudiaie one half tha
which Virginia was in law and honor
bound to pay. He would like the sena
tors from West Virginia to tell the coun
try what that state had done with
reference to the payment O
one-third of the debt con
tracted by the commonwealth of Vir
ginia, and whether it has ever proposed
to pay one dollar to maintain the honor
and dignity of the old Commonwealth
He criticised the action of his colieagul
in not defending the people of Virgins
from the accusation that they were dis
honorable = dishonorable, too, In the
opinion of men who represented stat
which by arbitrary legislation had re
duced her debt from S243, 600, 600 to $S4,
000, 1000. He sent to the clerks desk ant
had read a table showing the extent tt
which the debts of the southern states
have been scaled down. Reputation
honorable REIMBURSEMENT, dishonorable
SOh Virginial' he said, twas it for thii
that you barred your bosom to the sol
dIers' tread and horses hoofsl Was i
for this you laid waste your fields anC
your heroic suffering and sacrifice
Was it for this you suffered the dismem
berment of your territory, and sen
your SONS to the field to return
to the ruins that were once their homes
Was it for this you SO reluctantly
abandoned your allegiance to- th'
common country to be lost in war
and at last to go out? Obi ingratitudt
thou basest and meanest of crimes.n HI
could not occupy, he continued, AM
more of the time of the senate with thu
subject of VirgInia's debt, but would
refer now 10 the interrogatOry put las
Friday by Senator Voorhees, to Senator
Logan as 10 whether the latter would
endorse the papers Of the applicant fol
the smallest p6stoffice who havored th'
reputation of either the state or nation
al debt. He would ask the gentleman
(Yoorhees) how ne found it compatible
with his principle to associate with sen
ators from states that had repudi ated
but had not readadiuste1. He had new
er heard that Riddlebarger ever express
ed favorite opinion even of THE viewl
of the senator from Indiana on the na
tional debt. Laughtcr.l He also quot
ed from John W. Daniel, one of tht
leaders of the Bourbon party in Vif
ginia, denOuncing the ubiquitous meas
ures of federal finances, and proposing
TO reverse them. He recommended thai
the senators from Indiana and Delaware
(Voorhees and Bayard), to try tc
reconcile their differences of views 81
the financial question before the senator
from Illinois again discussed the sub
ject- AS TO the senator frnm Georges
(Brownl, who. seemed to be 50 much
troubled about the REIMBURSEMENT, lie
questioned whether the world had evel
produced a man who could readjust him
self to all creditors and all ciTcumstan
ces, as IlaughteFl that gentleman, wht
had got ahead of the people and of the
Democratic party in an effort u dissolve
the union, and was the first governor in
the south tn confiscate private property
in the court Of Savannah and 70 scizt
Fort Pulaski before the act of secession
Runner had il that the presidency of the
confederate states was the gentlelnan's
object at that time. In The struggle thai
eRsued he (Brown) was earnest for the
cause until it, future began 10 waveF
and then he aband. med it with his mil
itia. After the war he was next heard ofin
the Chicago Republican convention. In
fact, that gentleman might say with ,tlss
post laureate's brook: $50
..Men may come, and men may 90.
But go on forever"
daughter He WIS next heard of a:
radical candidate fDr the United States
senate, but WAS beaten by a more hoder
ate Repablic4n-tle late Joshua Hill
He nexf appeared rs an appointee OF
the carpet bag, governor of Georgia
lprince of carpet baggefs BniiOek) tC
the Office of chief justice of thai state
which position he resigned TO take the
railroad. Now that gentleman was hen
as leader or he DrnfocTatic party, and
his explanation that the Democratic
party had erred and abandoned him. buI
that now 1t had righfe1 itself and relied
on his (Brown,s) grand reserve of IN
dying and interchangeable prins i.,ies
GAughter.l
That gentleman B-ewn- sihid.
ed To tn Tum0Es of bargain. Ii in. re
were assg truth in those rumars. thea n
(Mahous) vas indebted for any adranf.
age he might draw from it to the fact
that the senator from Georgia did mol