Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-02-01
SENATOR cRAY's SPEECH.


tin peddler, a citizen of Indiana Of the
name of FAM. Senator George made
legal argument showing that the Senate
had not The power to interfere in a crime
of that sort Senator Spooner answered
with bloody-shirt TRADE. The Con-
gressional Record then proceeds:
Mr.. Spooner--I do not wish to be mis-
represented, and what denounced as an
unspeakcable outrage was not the hanging
of anybody in efigy, but the lashing of
the man FAM.
Mr.. Gray--I did not mistake the Ian
guage of the Senator from Wisconsin nor
have | misquoted it, and he is quite right
in saying / would not do him an injustice
consciously, but the Senator from Wis
consin did dwell upon the hanging in
effigy of the honorable Secretary Of War
as an unspeakable outrage, though the
Senator from Mississippi had preceded
him in denunciation of that act in
which entirely agreed.
But, sir, the unmeasured language in
which that offense was denounced
amounted to nothing, and can well be
ascribed to the vehemence aud enthu-
siasm Of the eloquent Senator; but from
that fact so denounced he deduces the
| amazing proposition that the citizens of
Mississippi as a mass, nay that the people
Of one whole section Of this country
south of the Potomac, indorse and ap-
prove Of conduct snch as that. It is as
logical as II | were here to charge that
| the hanging OF President Harrison in
efiigy In the State of Indiana voiced the
sentiment of the COED people of that
state. and were to assert that they were
| 50 lost to all sense of decorum, to all the
/ 10 AFT otx ~
| the citizens of this country, as to be
parties to the lawless extravaganza of
few men or few boys in an out-of-the-
way locality. And it is Just as logical,
aud no more so, to charge that the act of
thirty or forty men or boys in Aberdeen,
Miss, is to be taken as voicing the senti-
ment Of the state. That is all.
But whether it be the hanging of the
President in effigy in Indiana, or the
hanging of the Secretary of War in the
State OF Mississippi or the hanging a
generation ago of the effigy of Daniel
Webster in the State of Massachusetts,
| it is all beside this question. The issue
rendered here by the Senator form Mis-
sissippi is one under the Constitution and
laws Of our country, and that the Senator
from Wisconsin has not attempted to
meet. | shall not enlarge upon this, for
l am incapable of adding TO or lettering
the argument of the Senator from Mis-
sissippi. but | rose merely for the pursose
OF offering an amendment that was sag
gested by his remarks to the resolution
| pending, and that this. to add at the end
of that resolution as it is now written +,
so that it shall read:
Resolved, That tina Attorney General
/ - cd 30 ..or - he 4a ta
report recently made by United States
Marshall John 9 Burton, of the northern
| district of Mississippi, concerning the
maltreatment of Henry ]. FAM at Abef.
deem. in said state, and also his letter of
instruction to the said marshal to which
the report Of said marshal was a re-
Spouse.
And further to amend by adding.
"And that he inform the Senate
| whether, in the assault alleged to have
been made by certain inhabitants of Mis-
sissippi, in that state, on the said Henry
j FAM, any right secured to him by the
| Constitution or laws Of the United States
was violated"
After further debate on the subject
Senator Gray spoke again ia reply tc
Senator's Plat and Hoar:
Mr.. Gray-Mr. President, ana sorry
that the Senator from Connecticut Mr..
Plattl did not have the privilege, as he
said he did not, of hearing the argument
of the Senator from Mississippi Mr.
Georgel, because If he had | am sure,
from my knowledge Of his character as :
man and ability as a lawyer, that h'
would not so misstate the issues rsiseC
by the Senator OF Mississippi in the mas
terly speech he made this morning. III
could never have been tempted to Ia,
down If he had listened to that speed
and the authorities that were cited ant
read in support of the argument, th'
monstrous proposition that there az
any rights which it belongs to
state to protect, and which presumabl,
it does protect, which can b
brought within the jurisdiction
Of this body, as coordinate branch OIL
the legislative authority, by that secont
/ clause of the fourth article Of the Consti
| tuition referred to by him. and referre
, to by the Senator from Massachusett
, Mr. Hoar yesterday, that" the citizen
Of each state shall be entitled to all tn
privileges and immunities of citizens i
the several states He wonld have learne
from the speech Of the Senator fror
Mississippi and from the decisions Of tn
Supreme Court read by him that tn
construction OF the language used il
/ that part Of the Cons sitution has bee
I. clearly and definitely settled aud deter
Z mined by an authority and an arbiter this
I. he is as bound to respect as / When "
! differ, as differ we may. about the COZ
! struction or meaning of clause Of thu
+ Constitution, he will admit ! am SUI
4 that the Supreme Court Of the Unite
4 States is the final arbiter as to this
4 difference whenever it has bee
brought to speak directly to /
will, therefore, for the information
the Senator from Connecticut-and l sa
that without any disrespect to his abilii
or learning as a lawyer, but in order
supplement the authorities that were
abundantly and forcibly cited by Il
! Senator from Mississippi-read to him
single paragraph from decision Of Il
Supreme Court in a very justly celebrate
case. / refer to the Slaughter-hou
cases, reported in sixteenth Of Wallac
70 Justice Miller, in delivering the opiniC
le of the court. addressed himself to th
~ very clause Of the Constitution, u
2 second paragraph Of the fourth articl
IS which the Senator from Connecticut h
N cited, that 1.-THE citizens of each sta
g shall be entitled to all privileges and in
* munities Of citizens in the several states
He goes on to say;
8. Its sole purpose wa to declare to &
. several states that whatever those right
Z. as you grant or establish them to yol
Il. own citizens, or as you limit or qualif