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


luton is passed, that will be the
shape into which it will be distOr-
ted, | care not how it may be
amended or how it may be i'm
proved by gentlemen who offer
amendments to it.
| am not much Of a stlckler for
precedents; but | question wheth-
er the Senate can find a precedent
that will Justify this hasty action
here Oh Monday morning. 1 can
not close my eyes and declare |
will not see. know as well what
the bug is under this chip as ]
know that is not a question OF
socialism; it is not a question OF
nihilism ; it is not a question OF
murder by one man Of another
but it is a great and growing ques-
ton that has been great from its
inception, aud has been grown from
the time that it started.
If | could simply vote for a reso'
luton that would express my re-
gret at the death of policeman
over wonderland believe he is
the only man, so far as | have
heard, that was killed-if | could
express my regret at the injury OF
any children and women in London,
if could express my regret here
at the mere fact of the Parliament
houses having been blown up and
the Tower of London having been
shaken, if the resolution were put
in that form, should vote for 1t
readily. But when you offer
resolution which is really express
i've of the sympathy of this Govern
ment with that, then | am not ready
to vote for it and can not. Though
| may be the only one voting
against it, | may reyerently thank
God that have got moderately
used to voting by myself. | there
fore ask that this resolution 90
over until Wednesday. ! think
that is reasonable request. by
that time we shall have more in
formation. We shall have time
then to frame a resolution express
i've of our regret at the death OF
any of our friends if any of them
have been killed; we may express
our regret for those who have been
MANNED by name, if that be Sena-
torlal but to express any regret
or to express anything that may be
construed by any possibility into
an expression of even common fell
lowship with the Government OF
England in the struggle which
Ireland is making against her or
she is making against Ireland, |
can not aud will not vote.
Mr.. HOar. Mr.. President, | do
not propose to enter into any dis
cussiOn at this time. The state Of
my throat and lungs would prevent
it If | were otherwise inclined. |
only rise in consequence OF a word
which has been uttered by the
Senator from Virginia and in con-
sequence Of an intimation which |
see reported in the morning papers
attributed to the representative OF
her Britannia Majesty's govern
ment in this country.
The Senator from Virginia seems
to treat the occurrence which has
taken place in London, OF the
authenticity Of the reports ofwhich
there can he no question, as If 1t
were a methOdOf warefare adopted
by Ireland or the Irish people
against England, aud their method
of asserting their rights in the con
test which has been going on for so
MANY centuries. Now | have
among my own constituency, III
the city where | dwell and in the
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts,
very large number Of persons Of
Irish descent. They are an intelli-
gent, patriotic, manly, brave race.
Their clergy are scholars and men
Of learning, men of piety, men Of
humanity, and men OF charity.
Their youth are growing up I'M
der the influence OF American in
stitutions and American schools,
acquiring with IL marvellous rapidl-
ty the habits of free government
and the character which becomes
freemen and sOvereigns in free
government. And | think | am
justified in stating that the doc
trine expressed in this resolution
is their doctrine as it is the doc
trine of all other American citizens;
that Whatever wrongs they have to
complain of, great as they have
been as is admitted in the past,
great as they continue 10 be as |
believe in the present at the hands
of England toward the island of
their origin, and for which they
have the love that all mankind
have for the sport, where they or
their ancestors were born, the
making by secret methods OF as
sassinati0n a warfare, not upon the
wr0ngdoer, not upon the repre-
sentative Of the wrOngdOer, not
upon the army the instrument of
the wrongdoer, but unoflending
women and children, is as repug-
nant to the nature of that generous
and brave race as it is to the ma
ture of any other class of American
citizens.
Mr.. Riddleberger. Mr.. President.
| should not ask the indulgence of
the Senate a moment longer but
for the fact that the Senator from
Massachusetts has assumed that |
hold that this proposed mode OF
warfare was adopted by the Irish
people. | said | was not called on
here to approve the method even If
it had been adopted. l disclaim
that have any knowledge of this,
and also deny that any other
Senator here has any knowledge
upon which he can base any assum-
ption as to whether this was the
work of a few people or a number
of people, whether it was the work
of one man ar a thousand or mil
lion, That Is the reason asked
that we shall not express any
opinion about it at all. | repeat
that | am not called upon to ex-
press my approval Of these meth
DDS. lam not called upon to express
my disapproval Of anything, nor
to express sympathy with England
in this matter. That was all, and