The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-02-01
THE ILL TREATMENT OF FAM.

and the pursuit OF happiness, winch the
states denied him by force and by fraud.
THE ILL TREATMENT OF FAM.
But it was not necessary now to dis
cuss that question. AS to the course of
- Attorney General i'll the matter, Mr..
Spooner said that he was glad that the
day had come when the United States
had an attorney general that would take
notice of an outrage on an American citi-
zen.
He denied that there existed in the
North any feeling of animosity toward
the people of the South. Long, long ago,
in a general way, for all the sorrow and
suffering and trouble brought upon the
American people, had come full, formal
and complete forgiveness. There could
be no better evidence of it than the fact
that, long ago, all the Southern States
were represented in both houses of Con-
gress, and that, too, mostly by gentle
men who had fought under their flag
and against the American flag.
The hanging, in etfigy, OF Secretary
Proctor, had not only brought out the
feeling OF bitterness that existed in the
South, ana which lad no counterpart in
duy vi lHC ouI II ii'l' hiSv
brought into sunlight that reck Iessness.
that cruelty. that brutality, that inditfer
ence to law aud to decency, which the
country had, for many years, occasion to
complain of.
Referring to the accidental letting fall
of the rope which held the Proctor effigy
in Aberdeen, Mr.. Spooner declared that
if FAM had been All old Indian soldier,
~ 70 ,,t, FL
street, not by accident, out with rush
and whirlwind of indignation. He then
pictured FAM, whom he described as a
mere boy, being led down the street of
Aberdeen like a slave in the olden days,
surrounded by two or three hundred peo-
pie, with brawny man marching behind
him, and laying on his defenseless head
body and face, for nearly two hundred
times. a lash which, with every blow. cut
his face and head until he was SO disfg-
ured that he could hardly be recognized.
An appeal, he said, had been made to
the mayor of the city, and had been
made in vain. Think of it, he exclaimed.
in passionate tones. Alone, far from his
home, away from friends, dashed and
in the market place, in the
presence of three hundred chivalrous
gentlemen, and not one to step forward
and arrest that brutal arm.
MIR. sPCoNER ON JEFF. DAVIS.
That night, Mr.. Srooner said, FAM
had been marched out of The city of
Aberdeen, been put into a train, and
where he was nobody knew. He expressed
his regret that the Senator from Missis-
sippi (Mr. George had felt called uron
to pronounce eulogy on Jefferson Davis
1t was to have been expected that homage
would be paid to jefferson Davis through
out the South on the occasion of his
death. 1t was to have been expected thai
he would be borne to his last resting place
by his old companions and t.
the music of muffi-d Iums; but he (Mr.
Spooner) had hoped ii at no one would
deem it necessary to pronounce eulogE
of Jefferson Davis in the Senate Chamber
Of the United States. 1t would strike IA
harsh chord in the breasts of millions of
men all through the North The peopl
had not regarded him, although the chief
Of the Confederacy, as ialser to the Union
and tc it's flag, and to his oath, than |
thousands of his confreres; but the pao-
pie had not believed what the Senator |
Davis, that, whether under the Consti |
luton or the Conlederacy, he had never |
trust. The people believed,
On the contrary, that he had sat in the |
Senate Chamber betraying, daily and
hourly and nightly, the highest trust |
aver reposed in man. But it was not fer
hat they execrated lis memory. It. was
because they had held him responsible
or the atrocities, the unspeakable devil
sh, horrible crueties visited on Union
prisoners at Libby Prison, Belle Isle.
and A ndeI sonvllle; it was be-
,ause they charged him with the respon-
'ibility of holding men prisoners of war
20 starve them.
He (Mr. Spooner) did not know what
he resolution would accomplish in the
way of legislation, or of constitutional
but it would subserve one
purpose, if nothing else 1t would turn
he light on that transaction at Aberdeen.
It would prove the existence of spirit
If bitterness and brutality there. 1t
would show show that there was COM
nunity, claiming to be intelligent and
aw abiding, where the love of Jefferson
Davis memory is stronger than the i'm
pulses of human ity-the law of Goo,
written in every human heart. If tho
resolution would accomplish nothing else,
t would subserve that one good purpose.
Mr.. Platt said he understood Mr..
Georges contention to be that Congress
vas powerless to pass any law to protect