The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-02-05

complain Of Referring to the accidental
letting fall of the rope which held the
Proctor effigy in Aberdeen, Mr.. Spooner
declared that il Faunce had been an old
Indiana soldier that efigy would have
fallen into the street, not by accident,
but with a rush and whirlwind of indig-
nation. He then pictured Faunce who
he described rs n mere boy being led
down the street of Aberdeen like n slave
in the older day, surrounded by two or
three hundred people, with n blawny man
marching behind him, and laying on his
defenseless head and body and face
for nearly 200 times a lash which with
every blow cut his face and head until he
was so disfgured that he could hardly be
recognized. An appeal. DE said, had
been made TO the Mayor of the city, and
had been made in cain. Think Of it! he
exclaimed III passionate tones. Alone,
far from his home, away from friends,
dashed and scourged in the market place,
in the presence OF 800 chivalrous gentle
men, and not one 10 step forward and
arrest that brutal urn. Then, Mr..
Spooner said, Faunce had been marched
out of the city of Aberdeen, been put
into train, and where he was now no.
body knows. He expressed his regret
that the Senator from Mississippi Mr..
George had felt called upon TO pronounce
a eulogy on jefferson Davis 1t was to
be expected that homage would be paid
to jefferson Davis throughout the South
on the occasion of his death. 1t was to
have been expected that he would be
borne 10 his last resting place surround
ed by his old companions and to the
music of mutfled drums, but he Mr..
Spooner) had hoped that no one would
deem it necessary to pronounce eulogy
of Jefferson Davis in the Senate Cham
Der of the United States. Itwould strike
a harsh chord in the breasts of millions
of men all through the North. The people
had not regarded him although the chief
of the Confederacy) as falser to the Union
and TO il flag, and to his oath, than thou
sands of his confreres. But the people
had not believed what the Senator Mr..
George said to-day about Jefferson Da-
Wis, that, whether under the Constitution
or the Confederacy, he had never betrayed
trust. he people believed, on the con-
trary, that he sat IN the Senate cham tier
betraying dsily and hourly and nightly
the highest trust ever reposed in man.
But it was not for that that they execrated
his memory. II was because they had
held him responsible for the atrocious,
the unspeakab able, devilish, horrible cruel
ties visited on Union prisoners ut Libby
Prison, Belle Isle. Salisbury, and Ander-
sonville. 1t was because thev charged
him with the r. sponsibllity of holding
men prisoners of war to starve them. He
CHR. Spooner) cid not know what the res
olution would accomplish in the way of
legislation or of constitutional amend
ment. but it would subserve one purpose,
if nothing el.e. 1t would turn the light
on that transaction at Aberdeen. 1t would
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ness and brutality there. 1t would show
that there was community, claiming to
be intelligent and law-abiding, where the
love of Jefferson Davis memory is
stronger than respect for law, stronger
than love Of Liberty, stronger than the
impulses of humanity the law of God
written in every human heart. If the res
olution would accomp ish nothing else, ii
would subserve that one good purpose.