The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-24
HAMBURG: HUTLER

Nhtus sstSt-N skuCNtiou
ofPer>onnl Privilege In the Senate.
WASHINGTON, July aa-The question OF
personal privilege, related in the Senate by
NC Butler, OF South Carolina, was devo-
tel chiefly TO calling Representative Miller,
: Of Pennsylvania names. "a person, in
another place, in discussing a contested
election case, has made wanton attack
upon bis character, and committed breach
Of parliamentary privilege, for which he
WIS not called or ordered. lie would not,
al this late day, be betrayed into n contro-
rssy with the individual, whose acquaint-
snce he had never had the mistor-
tune to make, but would rather leave
him to the judgment and contempt OF all
honorable men Tor attacking another in
forum in which he could not be answered.
and under cover Of the privileges OF the
forum, declining to allow correction Of
the talsehoods he vas uttering, or its garb-
ling Of the evidence, peryersion OF the
Truth and Justification OF the record. lie
hsd wIths,ood the mastitis Of the Republi-
can party in the past and could afford to
dismiss with this brief notice the yelpings
Of this cur OF low degree. The name OF
this creature be believed was Samuel q.
Miller" .tE--77.
In the speech OF Mr.. Miller, delivered on
Wednesday, on the contested election
esSe Of Smalls vs.. Tillman, there was no at
tck npon Butler in bis legislative capaci-
Y. Unfortunately ior him, he made for
himself IN odious record before he was
Permitted TO occupy seat in body which
be does not now and never will adorn.
Nr. Miller dealt with Butler, the rebel, the
bully and the prosecutor OF helpless and
Prosecuted race, and not upon his own rep.
tsentation, but upon that OF competent
Eiinesses, he identified Buffers par
hapation in atrocious cruelties. 1t was
NE hmous Hamburg massacre to which
vi. Miller referred TO demonstrate the
reality Of negro persecution. 1t will be re-
nenbe'ed that q company Of colored
niliia were drilling in an out.oi.the-way
street Of the village 1t was on the 4th Of
July. 1876. Complaint war made that the
company obstructed thcstreet. There was
Sne kind OF n trial, the company was
compelled to disband, and then ensued the
n.ssacre. The Augusta Chronicle describes
the killing Of the negroes, and says the
iotce Of mounted white men amounted to
several hundred. "They were armed witt,
nSolvers and were under the leadership OF
General Butler"
The Charleston Ne,rs and Courisr, com.
Eeltingupon the affair, says: Assuming
that the account Of the Hamburg fight,
given by the Augusta newspapers, are in
the main correct, we fine little II any cx-
rrse Tor the conflict itself, and absolutely
none Tor the cowardly killing OF the several
negro prisoners who were shot down like
nbbits long after they had surrendered" ;"
The same paper identifies Butler with it,
and makes further comments upon the
infamous transaction. u a
lhis proof, from Democratic papers, was
quoted by Mr.. Miller, and also copious ex-
tracts trom the report OF Senator Cameron,
o. Wisconsin. in which the most revolving
hr,cherles are detailed. s,its.f < 4 ;
II may be said that after SO long an in.
lerSGl II was not necessary to reproduce
ms Hamburg inia,ny, but the fact is that
in South Carolina and other portions OF
The South there is very little change ex.
eePt that the negroes are n little more self.
elian', no, so much at the mercy OF the
eoSarily whites who menaced their lives
sAen II was safe to do so. The elections
Se mere farce, as is shown by the numer.
Sa contests that are always pending be.
iGs the House. No.: 80 =
The olense OF Mr. Miller was recalling
70 notice these iniamies in which Butler
t,SasHeipaied; and Butler in his retort used
s ;ns Mng1ace peculia, to him in his bully
Il ill., anu clustering moods. RS 5;;3.@e.
h,s a,.sa. admission to the Senate was nota-
bi;Isn', pnbi;.sn' and but ior the aid OF n few Re
aver pv.iGan Senators, including Messrs. Con-
ysnia bs as'e,s91 M M and Cameron, Of Pennsyl-
delaye,i IL ,ba;. n;a wade wade Hampton would have
men. '' cenatorlai Isll1sss statess