The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-11

DdlLIS lines were drawn at CebIySOurg,
had insisted that the impending conflict
should be withheld until Lee and Meade
had argued, between the lines, the ques-
ton Of slavery in the territories. y
has GROWN FROM AN ILLUSION.
"And the senator from Kansas proposes
TO disturb the government itself. and ex-
presses the opinion that now is the time
10 anhihilate the legislative and executive
functions of the government and change
its principle into that of a committee of
public safety like that which existed
during the reign of terror in the days of
the first French revolution. Mr.. Presi-
dent, this whole proceeding, which has
grown into 4 magnitude which l have in
adequately described, has come from the
illusion that a fraction of society, useful
in itself of course, and indispensable
admit, can by force dominate every other
portion Of the body polite.
''# Does anybody suppose
that by burning cars, destroying property,
disturbing security, weakening credit,
the employment of poor men is TO be in
creased hereafter2 Why, they are de-
stroying the very thing from which they
derive their nourishment, the very thing
which they have helped TO build and
they are doing il at the command of self
appointed dictators, who have put them
selves at the head of their organiza tions
THE ONLY LIBERTY WORTH HAVING.
And people pirate about liberty-the
only liberty worth having in this country
is the equal liberty Of all men alike. lib
erty in its philosophical and common sense
dehnitiOn-the right of the individual to
exercise the freest action, up to and not
beyond that point where he infringes on
the exercise of the like right OF other
men. Beyond that it is the destruction
of the liberty of others by the more
strong, and is a subversion of the very
theory of the republic. 1t is the return
to primeval existence on the one hand or
as an alternative, to despotism on the
other"
In concluding, Mr. Davis said: II have
not said word about parties in this mat
ter. | shall expect the democrats, the
pOpulists, and the republicans to Join
hands in this matter so that a secure
and peaceful rest may de obtained at
last, after which the best efforts of the
executive department of the government
will be exerted to bring about the only
solution of the affair that can possible be
obtained"
THE GEORGIA LION AROUSED.
Mr.. Gordon also spoke in a tone of de-
fance and indignation. He said: MIR.
President, the senator from Kansas
clothed his somewhat extraordinary
speech with au assault on the two lead
ing political parties occupying this cham
Der. and he appeals for a third party. At
time like this, when the peace of great
communities is not only threatened, but
broken, when law is defied, when a great
central city, one of the first in this or any
other land, has its prosperity threat
ened by a reign of blood and fire
and terror, when great communities are
looking hither and thither for some
method of escape from the terrors which
surround them, when our very ciViliza-
ton, not to say the form of government
under which we live, is heaving under a
mad ground swell of agitation, il seems
TO me that any representative on this
floor has descended very far from the
lofty plane of craftsmanship and patriot
ism who stands at such an hour to appeal
for a party. What matters it TO us
whether we be republicans or democrats:
what matters it to any lover of his coun-
try on which side we stood in the great
American conflict in the past, so now we
stand shoulder to shoulder for the peace
of the country, for the enforcement Of its
laws, for the support of its dignity and
the perpetuity of its personal liberties
for the liberties of its people9 l do not
not wish to speak on subject like this
from southern standpoint. / will.not
.- NOT A SECTIONAL AFFAIR.
1T matters not to me whether the woe
which threatens Chicago be western or
eastern or northern or southern: it in
wolves in its meshes the very life of this
republic which is republic of order if a
republic at all. We are peculiar people.
We are a people who.govern their country
by vote, by ballot, and the will of the
people is its law, and when
the will of the people fails
to support the law, the government
must become defunct. We have no gov
eminent except the government recog-
nized and upheld by the free will of the
people. Law governs by the popular
will and protects private property and
private life. 1t protects the right of the
laboring man TO dispose of his labors and
sell it where he pleases, and when that
right is invaded by Mr. Debs or MIR. any,
body else, it is a defiance not only of
the laws of the whole country,
but it is an Inauguration of
system of slavery never known in the past
history of this country. The institution
of slavery has been wiped out in the
blood drawn from the veins of northern
and southern kindred, and there never
has lived a man on this continent who
had the right to order a man of his own
blood to cease from labor.
THE PROPHECY OF MACAULEY
"Why, sir, where is this country to-
day. stand here in this high chamber and
recall with some misgivings, l confess,
the woeful prophecy of Lord Macauley
that in some great public upheaval, like
that which confronts US to-day, this fair
republic would either lose its civilization
through mob law, or in putting it down by
the strong arm of power would lose
its liberties. Sir, ! do not believe
that, but | confess if such
doctrines as we have heard on the floor
this morning become popular, we'll may
wepaUse and consider whether Macauley's
prophecy is to be fulfilled or not Rather
would l think with the great Gambetta
when he said that all the liberty-loving
people of the country would unite to save
the country, however much they might
fight in politics.
The day is on US right now, aud I
stand here, not as a southern man, but as
an American citizen, and l wish my voice
could range through the heart of every
aw-breaker on the continent, when say
the men who wore the gray from 81 to '65
and confronted the stars and stripes. will
be found side by side with those who
wore the other uniform following that
flag, in unfolding the dignity Of the
country over which it floats. Applause. I
WILL RALLY TO TIE GOVERNMENT.
zone more thought. The distinguished
senator from Minnesota (Mr. Davis said
truly and wisely that the great backbone
OF the country was the common class. I
belong to that class l am a farmer and
only farmer, and as their representa-