Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-03-29

and horses foot. 1t was for thi. you
laid waste your fields and displayed
your fortitude and courage, your heroic
suffering and sacrifice. 1t was for this
you suffered the dismemberment OF
your territory and sent your sons to the
field to return 10 ruins that were once
their homes. 1t was for this you 80 re-
luetantly abandoned your allegiance 70
the common country TO be the last IN
war and the last to 90 out. On! ingratl-
tude, thou basest and meaRest Ofcrimes
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 the Interrogatory
put last Friday by Senator Voorhees, TO
Senator Logan as to whether the latter
would endorse papers OF the applicant
for the smallest posiofiice who fayors the
reputation OF either State or
National debt. He would ask the gen.
tleman tVoorhees) how he found 1t
compatible with his principles to asso-
ciate with Senators from States who had
"repu Hated" but had not "readjnsted"
He had never heard Riddleberger
express his favorable opinion even ofthe
views Of the Senator from Indiana on
the National debt. Laughter.l He
also quoted from John w.
Daniel one OF the leaders OF the
Bourbon party in Virginia denouncing
the iuiquitous measures OF Federal
finances, and proposing to reverse them.
tie recommended the Senators from
Indiana and Delaware Voorhees, and
Bayardl to try aud reconcile their differ
ence OF views on the financial question
before the Senator from Illinois again
discussed the subject. As to the Sena-
tor from Georgia Brownl who seemed
So much troubled about the readlust-
ment, he questioned whether the world
had ever produced a man who could so
readily readjust himself to all conditions
and all circumstances. Laughter
That gentleman had got ahead OF the
people and of the Democratic party in
the effort 10 dissolve the Union, and vas
tie first governor in the South to
&C niscate private property in the Courts
Of Savannah, and to seize Fort Pulaski
before the act Of secession. Rumor had
il that the Presidency OF the Confeder-
ate States was the gentleman's object at
that time. In the struggle that ensued
he Brown was earnest Tor the cause
until its fortunes began 10 waver, and
then he abandoned IL with his militia.
After the war he was next heard OF in
the Chicago Republican Convention.
In fact, that gentleman might say with
the Poet Laureate's BROOK
"Men may come and men may go,
But 90 on forever"
I Laughter. He was next heard OF as a
Radical candidate for L. ). Senator, but
vas beaten by more moderate
Republican, the late Joshua Hill. lie
next appeared as an appointee OF the
carpet bag Governor of Georgia prince
Of carpet baggers, Bullock) to the office
Of Chief Justice OF that State, which posi-
ton he subsequently resigned to take
the presidency Of a railroad company.
Now that gentleman was here as u
leader OF the Democratic party and his
explanation was that the Democratic
party had erred and abandoned him,
but that now it had righted itself and
rallied on his Browns grand reserve
OF undying and Interchangeable principles
(lalghter) That gentleman had al
luded to the "rumors of bargain" II
there were any truth in those rumors
then he Mahonel was indebted for any
advantage he might draw from it to the
fact that the Senator from Georgia did
not know Of the opportunity. laugh
ter On that point he Malone would
answer all the inuendoes OF the Senators
distinctly and gravely, aud with due
regard to the dignity and decorum OF
the Senate he hurled back with scorn
and contempt every imputation that his
action here has been induced by any
other consideration than that OF the
promotion Of his peoples interests and
of the welfare OF the whole cOun
try. He might occupy the Senate for an
hour with rGmOrs as TO the manner
in which the Senator from Georgia
(Brown) got to the Senate, and the gen
tleman should learn from that fact the
valuable lesson that every Senator
should be left to adjust his accounts
with his own constituents. He avowed
his responsibility, his proud respOnsi'
bility for the introduction OF Riddle
beryer's name as a candidate for office,
but professed his readiness to withdraw
that name il it were true, as report had
il. that the Democratic Senators would
then withdraw their opposition to the
election of the officers OF the Senate.
He admitted the correctness OF the
newspaper statement read last Saturday,
by the Senator from Kentucky lBeck),
as to the speech of the colored Delegate
Morse anu the motion for his expulsion
made by Riddleberger, and he pro.
ceeded to explain that matter, intimat-
ing that If the motive for expulsion had
been on account OF color the Senator
would probably have regarded the mo.
ton as q Recommendation 10 Riddle
berger. This opposition to Riddleber-
ger was in view OF the coming election
in Virginia. IL was q desire to uphold
Bourbonism there; it was desire to up
hold the party which, while processing
obedience 10 the Constitution, held by
mental reservation purposes hostile TO
the Constitution. IL was 10 uphold the
party there which did not believe in the
right OF the Freedman to vote. II was
to uphold the party that while nominal
ly acceptin. the Cincinnati platform in
which "A full vote, free ballot and
an honest count had been demanded, had
introduced constitutional amendment
requiring that no man should cast a
ballot for sny office Of any account
until he had paid a capitstion
tax. This effort was to uphold party
which denied the Democratic creed and
winch had undertaken, by methods OF
in direction, to disfranchlse the colored
man. That was the purpose and wheth-
or his colleague had voted for that dis
iranchising clause he could not speak.
Tie Mshonel had never given that doc.
trine his assent, either in public or at
the ballot box; for one, he wanted no
political serfs in Virginia. He wanted
no longer any condition Of personal
servitude. He asserted that the right
WAS sacred to all men OF q free,
untrammeled ballot, priceless
ballot, and whatever might be the pro-
tessions OF the gentleman on that sub
ject, he stood prepared here, on this
floor, by the courage OF the men who
were behind him at home, to assure the
l.