The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-03-06

than dishonest white mans govern
ment. While the beringed and bejew-
elled fingers of the Southern aristocracy
had been endeayoring to pull down the
nation, not single instance could be
cited where the black people had not
been loyal to the Constitution and de-
voted to the flag. History would forever
record the fact that black m IN had run
boats past Fort Aoultrie and that a
black arm had sustained the flag of the
Union OF top of Fort Pillow. Applause
on the Republican side.
In Arkansas, only last week, four
members Of the Legislature had resigned
because they had been elected by fraud,
intimidation and violence. The same
election which returned them to the
Legislature had returned q member tc
this House who had not yet handed IN
his resignation.
He then quoted General Rosser's de.
claration that Southern gentleman
could whip a Yankee every time, and
suggested that at the point Of the bayo-
nets and the end of the sabre and in
300 battleields the North had punched
that idea out of the South. If Lee
and Beauregard and Rosser had
been hung at the gibbet, as
they ought to have been hung,
after the contest was over, they would
not now be teaching rebellion and
treason to the young men of the South.
General Bradley JocIlson had said that
the government was controlled by the
Confederates. He thanked God that
that control was passing away, and that
the Confederates would be compelled to
take back seats. He congratulated the
country that the other side of the cham
Der would be free from the dieration to
which it had been subjected-a dictation
which had been hun illating not only to
the House but to the entire land.
Crisp said that be :ore he would char
acterize the geatleman's remarks as they
deserved to be characterized, he would
expose to the House and to the country
their deliberate and wilful inaccuracies.
The charge had been made by the gen
tleman in a speech delivered in July
last--a charge that he could not eyade
by prating about his loyalty. No as
SAUL had been made upon that; no in
timation had been made that the gen.
tleiian was not true loyal soldier; and
it was entirely out of place for. a
gentleman, when charged with delib-
crate inaccuracies, to say that he was
a soldier in the army of the Union. The
gentleman had charged that the commit
tee On elections had been appointed by the
Speaker. This he Crisp had denied,
and he now quoted from the Record to
show that the committee had had been
elected by the House. The only charge
he had made against the gentleman
from Ohio was the charge Of ignorance,
and he left it to the House if he had not
submitted proof sufficient to convict the
gentleman before any jury on Gods
earth. The gentleman, from his re-
marks to-day, seemed to be willing to
fly from the position of ignorance and
assume that of malicious defamation. He
Crisp said that with full knowledge
of the meaning of words, malicious de-
famation of the Speaker of the House
a gentleman who hada had no contro-
versy with the gentleman from Ohio, q
gentleman who stood before the House
and the country as an honorable and
high-toned man. The gentleman from
Ohio had come in here and made
statement in direct contrayention of the
Record, so that he might say malicious
things of man who occupied high
position IN the Democratic party-things
which he had absolutely failed to sus-
tain. The gentleman had cited the case
of Thoebe vs.. Carlisle. In justice to the
committee on elections and in
Justice to Mr.. Carlisle, he would
say that the committee had
formed docket for the trlal.of these
cases, and that that docket had met the
approval of every Republican member
Of the committee.
The gentleman had criticised his
small vote in Georgia, and he called at
tentiou to the fact that there had been
no opposition. The object of the gentle.
man in referring to his district seemed
to be to Justify the Republican party in
some outrageous conduct which was to
come in the future. He would not fol-
low the gentleman into criticism of his
war record. There was nothing in his
(Crisp's) record that he was ashamed
of, nor had he any regrets to express.
The gentleman had spoken about
honesty, and had assumed a
high moral position. When the
gentleman assumed high position
of honesty, the inquiry Was natural
whether there was anything in his char
acter or past life which would lead the
public to accept his statements. He
then referred to the well known pro-
ceedings which took place ii. the Ohio
State Senate, when Kennedy, as Lieu
tenant Governor, presided over it, stat
ing that but with seventeen of thirty
SIX members present the gentleman had
entertained motion to turn out four
Democrats and seat four Republicans,
and had refused to permit the Demo
cratic members Of the Senate upon their
return to place on the journal their pro.
test against the injustice and iniqulty OF
such ruling. This was circumstance
by which gentlemen could determine
what value could be placed on the opin-
ion of the gentleman from Ohio on the
question of honesty. Applause On the
Democratic side When it came TO
politics the gentleman figured that II
was the half of SO. Laughter. That
was the kind of gentleman who put him
self on the high pinnacle of honesty aad
said that he was the friend OF the South
and that he wanted honesty and fair
dealing down there. Laughter. The