Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-01-30

any conviction that there has been
| guilty completely on the part OF
| any Of the citizens Of this country,
but only asa declaration OF my abb
horrence Of these methods that
have been employed, and my con-
yiction that those who employ
them are not alone the worst enc
mics Of the cause that they assume
to represent, but Of the cause OF
civilization and good government
everywhere.
Mr.. Riddleberger As the Sena-
tor from Kansas has referred to one
incident, have a paper in hand
giving a full account which | will
read:
| An American traveller whose name is
not known, was in a train of the North
western Railway going from London to
| Liverpool on Saturday, when an excited
discussion arose over Americas response
| bility for the dynamite explosions. The
opinion was freely expressed that the
United States was greatly 10 blame for
harbOring such men as OD0noyan Rosa.
| The American defended his country IN
vigorous language, and was attacked by
a crowd of the passengers. The Amer
can drew a revolver and kept his assail-
ants at bar until the train reached Chester,
when lac jumped from the carriage and
escaped.
That Is about as nearly killing an
American az / can hear that any
Englishman came by the explosion,
according to the dispatches which
we had read in the Senate up to
Saturday evening, when this resolu-
ton was promulgated. can APP
preciate very fully what the Senator
from Kansas has sa d, and ! make
the application as suppose where
he intended to direct it when he
said dynamite is in the souls Of men
and men make dynamite possible.
am not defending dynamite. lam
not here to defend the use Of dyna-
mite; am not here 10 condemn it. |
am not here 10 condemn it because
it is used in violation Of laws or Of
constitutions by people who have
no government with power to de-
clare war. | can recall-and it Is
an unpleasant rcc0llection-what
transpired once at lIarper's Ferry,
when the lives Of women and chill
dren were placed at imminent risk.
That was at a time when tho Con-
stitution Of this country SAID that
slavery might live south Of a certain
parallel Of latitude. can rcmem-
Der these things, and the public
sentiment Of this country said that
the men for whose benefit the Har-
per s Ferry raid was intended to
liberate ought to be free, and they
justified the means to that end
Constitutions were pierced by pixies,
and laws were troddcn under foot
and yet the decision Of this country
was finally that constitutions were
made only to guarantee the liberties
to which men were entitled. | say
here, sir, from this place, that the
people Of Ireland, save and except
only the fact that they are not chat
tells subject to sale and delivery, are
as much in slavery as the African
was in the South aye, more, for
among these certain persons could
own property and, in some States
South, vote but an Irishman can
not even own the land where he
lives except with the consent Of the
British Crown. Ask me then to
give expression to anything that
can be tortured into sympathy with
England in a matter Of this sort ! !
can not and will not do it.
1t is true, as the Senator from
Louisiana says, these Irishmen are
not soldiers. No, sir; they are not
citizens even. Soldiers are never
assassins, he says. True, brave sol
dicrs never were. An Irishman can
not even be citizen, much less
soldier, and he can not be a police
man unless he first turns his back up
on his own country. If the blowing
up Of the Parliament House of Eng
land shook every government center
from Paris to st. Petersburg ! am
glad to know that we did not feel
the thrill over here and but for the
introduction Of the resolution offer.
ed by the Senator from Delaware, it
would have passed away with the
dispatches Of Saturday and Monday
morning.
Now, sir, ask whether any Sena-
tor here has heard single reason
advanced why the Senate Of the
United States should pass this reso-
luton. There Is no reason except
the one that the resolution was Of
lorod and is pending, and you dare
not vote against it. That is the
only reason for voting for it, When
we vote for it we DO something
Affirmative; and if we were wise we
would do nothing affirmative, and
then we could be charged with no
neglect Of duty.
No single reason has yet been adj
yanced why this resolution should
pass. 1t just simply stands here as
a resolution of an experienced Sena
tor from the State ofDelaware, and
therefore it must pass. That is all
there is in it. Ifthcre is any other
reason | have failed up to this time
to find it in anything that has been
said in its behalf.
Mr.. Hawley. Mr.. President, the
American people have twice had
solemn experience OF the awful
crime Of assassination. Ineach case
tho wild news went shuddering on
the wings Of the Lightning to the
uttermost corners Of the earth, and
from every tribe and nation, pagan
and civilized, came back solemn and
indignant dcnunciation. The crimes
in question to-day are far worse, far
meaner, far yiler, and more deyilish
They have not the logic ofassassina.
ton they are not directed, as the
bomb was against Alexander or
against Napoleon, to the ruler of
country. They are simply an in
senate dash against humanity. Who |