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OUR ELOQUENT SENATOR.
Mr.. Edmuuds, of Vermont: l ask
for the reading Of that section which
It is proposed to repeal. The acting
secretary read as follows:
Sec. 1918. No person who had serv-
ed In any capacity in the military.
naval or civil service of the so-called
confederate states, or either OF the
states in instruction during the late
rebellion, shall be appointed to any
position in the army of the United
States.
Mr. Vest: Mr.. Presidept-1 do
not want to detain the senate.
simply want to say, as one OF the
class that comes within the ban OF the
law that is proposed to be repealed,
for I served in the military and civil
service of the late confederacyi that l
do not believe that the senator from
Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) voices the
sentiments of the American people
upon this question. I am glad 10
believe, sir, hat the people OF the
United States. the great body of them,
are anxious to obliterate every mark
and monument of the late war be-
tween the states, OF between the gov
ernment of certain states. LIDO not
believe that the people of the United
States in this age and with u civili-
cation, desire to erect any monument
of the occurrence. Recent events
have shown if they show anything,
that the great body of the people oi
this country, north, south, east and
west. desire, above all things,
material advancement and ma
terlal prosperity without going back
to the obsolete ideas Of sectional hale
and secfionai strife ~ ss4as
Mr.. President, the senator from
Vermont says that the government
must keep before the people the evil
dences Of its triumph, that the gov
eminent must preserve the fruits of
the war. Does the senator mean to
say that this statute is necessary to
preserve the frults Of the war, to keep
before the people the successes Of the
United States in that war? Your
flag, our flag, ave in triumph in
every township of the bread Union.
From n end of the Union to the
other not IA man, woman. or child
disputes the national supremacy. Your
taxes are collected; your national
name is respected Sir, do the peo-
pie need anything else to recollect the
war except the graves ofsour common
dead and the common gallantry of
the soldiers of both sections? Will
any senator, on the other side of this
chamber tell me that this statute. con-
celvable in the, bitterness of the strife
that came just after the war when
mems passions were afiame, as sword
aud -bayonet had been sfiame through
cut the land, is necessary for any pur-
pOse except to voice and express the
hate that ought to have died with the
success of the national government.
Now l will say to the senator from
Vermont, for Que, speaking for my
sell, why | object to this statute.
When we were received back into
the Union-althOugh 1 believe the
dogma of the republican party is that.
we were W out of the Union-we
came back upon the express terms OF
equality before the law, or else a
fraud was practiced upon the coun-
try sad upon it's history. You meet
us to-day as co-equals here. repre-
sentihg sovereign states. I ask the
senator from Vermont, il a war
should be fragrant now with a foreign
nation, if he would accept our blood
and dur armsin defense ofthls country
or not? 1 ask now the senate of the
United States to say would you ex-
pect or would you desire Or would
you even permit the cenfederates
that fought you in the late war to fight
for the country to which they have
sworn allegiance or not? If you
from the army aud navy of the United
States those whose blood and whose
arms are ready for the defense Of our
common country.
Sir, l do not propose to mince
words in regard to this subject now.
but l say to the sonatorfrom Vermont
that itis useless for hin to tell me that
he believes my professions of loyalty
to this country when he heaps upon
my brow the ban of prescription and
OF hate. 1t is useless for the senator
to say that he has no personal feeling
of uDkindness to any senator on this
side of the chamber. when in the
same breath he says, "Yeu are not the
equals of the other citizens Of the
United States; although you say you
are loyal to the government, we art
not willing to trust you"
As l said once before on the arrear
ages of pension bills when pendin!
in the senate. l ask and those wh(
were with me ask nothing from thi
government except the simple con
cession that we were honest in gu
devotion to the confederate u al,
honest when we swear that we &C
cept all the Iegiti mate results ; and t,
those who rlsked all and lost all
every just and generous mind shoul
,concede that much.
Sir. to-day the people of the Unite,
States want peace, not IN terms, bu
peace In fact. They want the mate
rial prosperity Of the country advan,
ed. They want the past put benin,
them. except in SO far as il may bin
the Union closer between the SCI
tons by demonstrating in that grea
war the gallantry of the commo
American name and the commo
American lineage. The senator ask
why revive this question? Sir. W
simply ask for the Legitimate cons
Quences of what tho senator and b
colleagues say when they profess I
believe that we are worthy to repr.
e sovereign states upon this foo
as senator's of the United States
What Inconsistency is it when W
are admitted here. and our brail
such rs it is, is given to the publ
service. aud yet we are told mat OF
blood, u arms are unfit for the mi
itary or naval service of our commo
country
This is the reason why we object
this statute. l object to it becaus
while the profession is that we al
believed to be sincere in our profe
sions of loyalty to the Union. Tn
statute says in so many words, "Yo
are unfit to be trusted in the cOmmo
defense of this whole Union OF who
you profess to be loyal citizens"
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It is understood that Eli Perkil
rode Apollo, the horse that won tt
Derby at Louisville. Iu the pictur,
and statues Apollo is always repre-
sentsd as carrying q Tyre.