The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1888-03-16

mated, VINO had inst declared that the war
was failure after he had been trying for
two years to make it so. No, Mr.. Presi-
dent, these pretensions are altogether too
diaphanous. They require to have the
drapery removed for an instant.
If cur friends who are opposing this de-
pendent pension bill imagine that enter
tain any feelings of i'll will or malevolence
toward them for the course they pursue,
they are mistaken. | do not very we'll
understand how they can act in any
other way | have sometimes thought
with curious reflection what my emotion
would have been had the result of the
conflict been reversed; if the armies of the
{ onfederacy had dictated terms of peace
III this capital, if the Georgia statesman
had fulfilled his insOlent menace to call
the roll of his slaves in the shadow of
Bunker Hill, and if the flag that now
floats above us had been dishonored
and degraded rag; if this Chamber
TO spoliate and sack it, if this country had
been destroyed and overthrown as you
tried to destroy and overthrow it, T the
Constitution of the United States had be-
come an antiquated relic and American
citizenship a forgotten, attribute, II slav-
ery had been declared to be right and
liberty wrong, and if the theories of Cal
hOun and of jefferson Davis had been de-
clared to be the true measure of interpre
tation of the Constitution.
Mr.. President, such calamities were
imminent often during the war. From
the place where we now sit the challenge
of the sentinel uIon the hills of Virginia
could almost have been heard and the
reverberation of your guns thundered
hoarsely along the valley of the Potomac.
| have often reflected how | should have
felt if these results had been accomplished;
had my political sins been forgiven; had |
come back and SAID, Remove my politi
cal disabilities; allow me to enter your
legislative body and draw my salary pune
tually and with dispatch" Had | seen
the Confederate heroes m bronze mount
ing their granite pedestals in this capital,
Lee instead of Grant, DAVIS instead of
Garfield, STonewall Jackson instead of
Mcpherson, do rot believe that | should
have had any consolation in voting pen
sious to Confederate soldiers myself. |
doubt whether should ever have ceased
to be a conspirator l doubt whether in
some hidden and secluded receptacle. at
least in the sanctuary of my soul, had
not kept the Stars and Stripes enshrined,
and hoped that the day might again dawn
when il should be the symbol of the glory
and the emblem OF The power Of d united
country | doubt whether ! ever should
have believed that slavery was better than
liberty.
But. Mr. President, l should have re-
garded it as the climax of effrontery, as
the very apex and summit Of hardlhood
and audacity, | Will not say puslllaulmity
aud di>honor, when | had accepted a par
don, had my disabilities removed, and
taken the oath of allegiance to the success
4. : I b,1
peared day after day upon every occasion
when opportunity offered to denounce the
efforts made by my conquerors to reward
their own soldiers, and To Lagg.e about
the price that the yictors should see fit to
bestow upon the men by whom | was van
quished.
Therefore, Mr.. President, | say again,
without personal imputatlOn or Inference,
TO those who are under one pretext and
another attem pting to convince the North
that they can safely and patrlotically vote
tie Democratic ticket and elect Democratic
Pres itientS although 1913 votes in the elec
t0ral college are in those States saturated
with these sentiments, | do not think that
the North is at all deluded by such pre-
tentions.
1t is a little singular, Mr.. President.
that in all the years which have elapsed
since the war there never has come from
one of the states that We're IN rebellion a
single UniOnist, so far as | know, elected
| by Democratic votes TO either House OF
| Congress, not even by an accident. This
is not the truth.-EDITOR They never
have blundered into sending here a
man who was not in the Confederate ser
vice in some capacity or other; nor, so fal
as know, has any Governor Of any one
of the Confederate States since the wal
ever been a Unionist. The supreme test
that is applied is the test of service to the
| Confederacy. When l look over the roll
of this body and over the roll of the other
| House Of Congress and reflect how few OF
| those who served in the Union a1mies are
| found III the councils of the nation, | an
not surprised that we have witnessed the
demonstrations that we have heard anC
seen upon this bill and every similar bill
that is presented for action either in The
Senate or House of Representatives.
The Senator from Missouri, in the cours,
Of the debate last Wednesday, as an illus
tration of the magnanimity of the South
| assured US that of the $3.50, 900 900 o
pensiCn rs that had been paid $24O 900, 90,
had been contributed by the South; ant
the Senator from South Carolina Mr.
Hampton who evidently is a more accu
rate arithmetician, arose and said, no
S24O, 900, 900 but $500, ,O0O 900. ] wisl
that Senator, as ne is now present, wOult
tell US 10y what method of computation h
bas reached the conclusion that out 0
1888, 000, 600 paid for pensions the Soutl
has paid $500, 900, 900.
Mr. President, that is glittering gen
erality | doubt if they have actual
paid 1890, coo, instead of $3.50, 00J, ,00I
| should like if some eminent arithmeticia
would get ont his table Of logarthms
which is the usual practice on these occa
sions and tell US how it appears that th
South has paid $500, 900, 600 since the wa
closed out of the 1888, 600, 600 tlat hav
been paid as the sum total evdencing tn
nations gratitude to its surviving soldier:
Even if they have paid $500, O0O,0O0
have one single remark to make abor
that. They are very fortunate that the
did not have to pay the whole of it, ant
instead of grumbiing and compianjf
that they have paid 1890, 000,O00 the
: ought to be thankful they did not have t
foot the entire bill, as Germany mac
France foot the expenses OF the Frame
Prussan war, and as every other val
' quished and rebellious province has bee
z compelled to submit to eXactlOn and ra
e SOM Yet after the war has long SIM
r closed we have the jailors and murdere
@ of Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Libt
i Prison sitting here beneath the flag TIL
e they endeavored to dishOnor, leglslatlI
e for the country that they attempted
destroy, and trying to pinch, be-little, al