The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-29
'7HE ABERDEEN OUTRAGE.
Calls Out an EuIogy on Jeffer-
son Davis from Mr.. George.
MIR. CHAMBERS RESOLUTION
In tho United States Scnatc-NIr.
Spooncr Docs tho susJcct Up IN
4, Great style--A Lively Debate.
Other Washington News.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 2S.-The Senate re.
sumed the consideration OF Mr.. ChanG-
ler's resolution to-day in relation to tho
maltreatment at Aberdeen, Miss. OF
Henry J. Fauuce. Mr.. George made an
argument against 1t, declaring his be.
lief that the adoption OF the resolution
would be serious infraction Of the Con-
stitution and u very serious encroach.
ment on tho rights Of the people OF
Mississippi. He took up tho clause OF
the Constitution {scction 9. article y
which Mr.. Wilson, Of Iowa, and other
Republican Senators referred to yestcl-
day as authorizing the resolution, and
argued that no decision OF the Supreme
Court and no act OF Congress had ever
given such n construction to 1t.
Mr.. George went on to say that not
only did ho condemn the hanging ia eff
gy Of any respectable officer Of the United
States under any circumstance or under
any provocation, but that in the caso [
Secretary Proctor there was no provocs-
ton for the insult.
Among the distinguished sons OF Mis-
sissippi, Mr.. George referred to Jeilc,-
son Davis, as a man who had never be-
trayed his trust, or failed In the die.
charge OF his full duty, whether le
served the United States or the confed-
eracy. ~
Mr.. Spooner was not ready to admit
there might be circumstances undcr
which jurisdiction might be conferred
by Congress on courts Of the United
States to secure citizen Of the United
States in his constitutional rights OF life
liberty and the pursuits Of happiness
which the States denied him by force
and by fraud. l5. ,
Referring to the accidental letting fall
Of the rope which held the Proctor elligy
in Aberdeen, Mr.. Spooner declared thar
il Faunce had been an old Indiana SOL
dier that eiligy would have fallen into
the street not by accident but with
rush and whirlwind Of indignation. He
expressed his regret that the Senator
from Mississippi [Mr. Gcorge] had felt !.
called upon to pronounce eulogy on
Jefferson Davis. 1t was to have been
expected that homage would be paid TO
Jefferson Davis throughout the South
on the occasion OF his death; it was TO
have been expected that he would he
borne to his last resting place
surrounded by his old companions, and
to the music Of muflled drums, but he
(Spooper) hadhoped TINT no one would
deem it necessary to pronounce eulo-
gy OF Jefferson Davis in the Senate
Chamber Of the United States. The ps o.
pie had not regarded him (although the
chief Of the Southern Confederacy) as
ialser to the Union and TO its flag and TO
his oath, than thousands OF his confcd-
crates. But the people had not believed
what the Senator tMr. George) said to-
day about Jefferson Davis, that, wheth-
er under the constitution or the Confed- (
cracy he had never betrayed trust. Tho
people believed on the contrary, that
he had sat in the Senate Chamber, be-
traying jdaily and hourly and nightly
the highest trust ever 1cpoaed in MANI
But it was not for that that they exc
Grated bis memory. II was because thew
had held him responsible for the atrocI-
ties, the unspeakuble, devilisli, horrible
crueltles visited on Union prisoners at
Libby Prison, Belle Isle, Salisbury and
Andersonville. II the resolution would
accomplish nothing else, it would show
that there WINS community, claiming
to be inteilent and law.abiding; where
the love OF Jefferson Davis memory is
stronger than respect for law, stronger
than love Of liberty, stronger than tho
impulses Of humanity-the law OF God
written in every human heart. III the
resolution would accomplish nothing
else, it would subserve that one good
purpose. X, 4.
Without action tho resolution went
over until tomorrow.