The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-24
Senator HOar's Morning.

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If there is to be auother debate owe,
senate Offices, next December, conse
quens upon the balaLce Of power repre-
sented 10y Malone and Riddleberger il
may DC safe TO predict that Mr.. Hoal
Will not repeat an old speech of his bid.
oing southern men initiate Malone and
SET their faces toward the morning OF
Massachusetts morality and progress
| S'hce that tirst speech wRs made, the
horrors of Tewksbury have been uncov.
has been "whitewashed" by the Masss.
chusetts Legislature. The Springfield
fep"olscdn, while endeavoring legitimate.
~ 10 parry all possible thrusts made at
the civilization OF Massachusetts, admits
that there il baais enough os tTu,l, in
the Iewksbury affair to make people
claiming "all the morals" blush for their
degeneracy, if not hypocrisy. But right
Oh the heels of this the representative
men of the commonwealth have conse.
Grated, as far rs they could, the inramy
OF man who has been held up as the
incarnation Of the worst form of poli,i.
Cal, ii not commercial turpitude. Gen.
Butler asked to be elected to the Govern.
orship principally to uncloak the fraud
of the Puritans who had, with one slight
iut.rmission. held power for q genera.
tion. He has, in popular estimation.
kept his word, and it's said that the la.
boring classes of the Old Bay State were
never 80 convinced of his fidelity to that
pledge. But the roltenness uncovered
at Tew ksbury IL as nothing compaled
with what the Republican, Legislature
has exposed voluntarily. Garfield once
rebuked an Illinois Representative for
making "an indecent exposure of his
mind" The same taunt may be applied
to the Massachusetts Legislature which
reversed, without the Rlightest cause
except the election Of Garfield to the
Presidency be ejustification-the following
resolution of censure passed by the
United States House of Representatives
in the month of February, 1873:
Resoired, That the House absolutely
condemns the conduct of Oakes Ames,
member of this House from Massachu-
sets, In seeking to procure Congressional
attention to the affairs Of corporation
In which he was interested and whose in
terest directly depended upon the legis.
iatlon OF Congress- by inducing members
OF congress to invest in the stock of said
corporation.
The Springfield Republican and jour.
nails OF that character insist TINT "the
lapse OF 10 years has not changed syl-
liable OF the facts on which that resolu-
ton was based. Oakes Ames's letter.
are unmistakable now, as they were
then, III their confessions Of the corrupt
purpose for which he placed Credit Mo-
bllier stock among his friends in Con-
gress: Nothing has changed but the
public sentiment of Massachusetts that
then reVolted at bribery and now CLOSES
It over and tries to pass it of for 'intcg.
rlty OF purpose and of character"
Our esteemed contemporary, with n
vlrtuous glow OF shame, mourns at the
moral callOusness" of such an action ::
depiores the loss of distinction between
honesty and corruption is shocked mt
the power of money in buying formal
obliteration Of spiritual shortcomings
and frankly admits that the moral sense
OF Massachusetts is in decay Under
these circumstances, ana in the face of
such discoveries, Senator Hoar will
hardly have the assumacy 10 pose ma
saint or point Southern Senators to the
morning light Of Massachusetts, that
flares from the pit and not the empyrean.
Nor will Senator Mahone exhibit him.
sell as o convert worthy of Southern
emulation. The trouble with the ruling
elements in New England is that they
have "quenched the spirit" The out.
ward garb of superior piety and moral
excellence remains, but the whited sep.
ulchre is filled with dead mems bones
within. Christianity Of the old fashion
Is at low ebb. The fundamental doc.
trines of the Gospel that make the fami-
ly relation holy one have been disre.
garded, in monstrous degree, while
rationalism and divorce go hand in hand
with nameless iniquities springing from
the eclipse 9: faith. a valiant Baptist
editor OF q religious paper frankly dem
onstrates the decline of religious and
moral sentiment. the infreauency of
church attendance, the looseness of the
marital relation, the professionalism of
the pulpit. denominationalism gone to
seed, rivalry Of religious factions for the
mere husk Of ecclesiasticism This terri.
bic writer groups together the crimes of
spurious Christianity and sees no hope
of remedy except in demolishing one.
half the churches and making the other
half conform TO the teachings of gen.
uine Gospel. Amid this moral cataclysm,
this Pharisaism of respectability, this
gigantic wrong, this cancerous prosperi.
ty, this feverish glare-this Tewksbu.y-
this Oakes Ames saturnalia, the sleek
figure of George +. Hoar rises, and
gazing paternally at Bishop Malone, of
the African Church, South, points to the
morning due East !-Itugusfa CAronscle
and Cbnsfitutionaiiet.