Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-08

The debasing effect Of party spirit
meyer betrsys iSself sshamelessly as in
TIL vote of General Malone with the
R@bublican majority of the Senate to
reier the bill for removing the disabili-
tiee Of Drf Tebbs to the Juditiary Com
mi eA, Which disposes ofthe subject for
this present session at least. BY the
vote of Malone the question was
decided against the ex-page OF
the Confederate Senate. A news
paper CORRESPONDENT in Washington re-
marks that this vote was todd. - 1t
was indescribably infamous. This ex-
Major-General of the Confedracy had
raised troops and levied war against his
country. Un,ier his orders thousands
Of men were hewn down in battle. 1t
is true enough that he has sought to
enhance his military glory at the ex-
pense of better men; but what reputa-
zion he owns was acquired in the war
for the destruction of the Union. He
entered into this rebellion in the full
ness of his manhood and the ripeness of
his Judgment. When the war was over
he enriched himself by entering into
combinations of spectators who robbed
the impoverished State of Virginia of its
railroads.
Relieved of his disabilities. Malone
enters the Senate of the United States
and holds the balance between parties
In the Government against which he
had waged war for four years. Yet this
ex-Confederate Major-General is seen
giving his casting vote in the Senate
against removing the disabilities of a
young man who desires to enter the
army as q surgeon, and whose only
crime against his country was his in
fantile service as a page in the Confed-
crate Senate. When Tebbs, the little
page, was carrying harmless messages
in the Confederate Senate, Malone, the
rebel Ma or-General, was sending dead
-iy missives into the ranks of his coun-
trymen; yet the ex-MajOr-General who
sits in the Senate, the arbiter between
parties, with his offenses pardoned, re-
fuses to pardon the Offenses of the eX-
page in the same cause. What will the
grizzly veterans on both sides who faced
each other in battle say of such an act?
VI hat will decent men everywhere
think of it?
The conduct of the Republicans in the
Senate in raising such question was
exceedingly pUerile, but the vote of
Malone with them was unspeakably
mean. The Republicans had at least
Srh1A b4o1iiA hAOtiNC, tuouSh fiu CAtlCIuClJ
small one, in making an issue over such
a case of disability as that of poor
mage. Senator Edmunds wanted to
erect a monument that there was a
right and wrong side to the rebellion,
and he bounced upon Tebbs for that
purpose; but Malone could have had
d, ne other motive but his innate baseness
and servil;ty. Fealty to his new party
&. ties required no such act of degradation
but he performed it with keen satisfac-
ton because it was congenial to his
treacherous nature. BY voting against
removing the d satellites of the ex-page
he was enabled to crafty in a small way
his hatred of those whose contempt he
had already earned. Malone, in his
tOrtuous career, has not only betrayed
his political associations, but he has
raised an issue which, if successful,
must cast an indelibie stain of repudia-
ton on his State and he has found
apologists and defenders. But for this
last act OF petty meanness there can be
no apology or excuse. The partially
of friendship must turn from its author
in disgust. Philadelphia Record.