Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

CHANDLER ON DAVIS.
Northern Sentiments in Regard to the
Late Confederate Leader.

Late Confederate Leader.
AS little offset to the fulsome eulo-
gies of Jefferson Davis now going the
the speech made by Zachariah Chandler,
in the United States Senate, March 1,
1S79 on the proposition to grant am
nesty to Mr.. Davis. 1t took the loyal
people of the North by storm at that
time, and will always be deemed per-
feet exposition of their sentiment in re-
gard to the Confederate leader. Mr..
Chandler said:
Twenty-Five years ago tomorrow, in the old
hall of the Senate, occupied by the Su
preme Court Of the United States, L. in com
pany with Mr.. Jefferson Davis, stood up and
swore before Almighty God that would sup
port the constitution of the United States, and
took the oath to be faithful to the Government
During four years l sat in these halls with
Mr.. Jefferson Davis and saw the preparations
going forth from day to day for the overthrow
| of this Government. With treason in his heart
| and perjury upon his lips, he took the oath to
sustain the Government that he meant to over
throw '0ltt
| Your armies were scattered all over this
broad land, where they could not be used in an
emergency; your fleets were scattered wherever
the winds blew and water was found to float
them. Your treasury was depleted until your
bonds bearing per cent. principal and inter-
est, payable in coin, were sold at SO cents on
the dollar for current expenses, and no buyers.
| Preparations were carefully made. Your
| arms were sold under an apparently innocent
clause in an army bill, providing that the Sec
| retary of War might, at his discretion, sell
| such arms as he deemed it for the interest Of
| the Government to sell.
| Sir, eighteen years ago last month sat in
| these halls and listened to Mr.. Jefferson Davis
| delivering his address, informing us what your
| constitutional duties to this Government were.
and then he left and ent cred into the rebellion
| to overthrow the Government he had sworn to
| support. ] remained here, sir, during the
| whole Of the terrible rebellion, and l our
brave soldiers by thousands and
hundreds of thousands, aye, l might
| say millions, go forth TO the theater of war,
| and 1 saw their shattered ranks return L saw
| steamboat after steamboat and railroad
train after railroad train arrive with the
| manned and wounded, I saw with my friend.
| Mr.. Burnside, when he commanded the Army
| of the Potomac, piles of legs and arms that
| made humanity shudder. And I saw the
widow and the orphan in their homes and
| heard the weeping and wailing OF those who
had lost their dearest and best
| Mr. President, I little thought at that time
| that would live to hear in the Senate of the
| United States eulogies on Jefferson Davis,
| living living rebel eulogized on the floor OF
| the Senate of the United States.
Sir, am amazed to hear it, and can tell the
| gentlemen on the other side that they little
know the spirit of the North when they come
| here at this day and with bravado on their
lips utter eulogies on a man whom every man,
lswoman and child in the North believes to have
been (toubledyed traitor to his Government