Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-03-01
gress previous to the war.

gree6 previous 10 the war.
"There are other Statesmen
from tho South who have suc-
cumbed to the fallacy that positions
in the Supreme court of the United
States are local questions to be sete
tied on demand OF local politicians.
It might be supposed that the Su.
preme court bench represented the
whole United States and that it be
filled without regard to politics or
lacality. 1t is not a football for
ward politicians to kick about
from one end of the United States
to the other. Such men as Calhoun
Benton, Reeves aud Crawford
would haye resigned their posi-
tiors in the Senate and gone home
in sackclo,h and ashes rathcr then
abandon q principle such as this to
a man without character or worth
and who had no right TO speak for
the great State of New York"
. At this point there was quite q
sensation among guests. OF this
Mr.. Hewitt took not the sligtest
notice but proceeded to ask;
care you less brave now than
you fathers were thirty years ago
when they sacrificed everything
they posed to their convictions,
that they will allow your Congress
men and Senators to misrepresent
both their country and the Soutba"
Proceeding, Hewitt went on to
praise the Wilson bill, particularly
the provisions which place iron
and coal with the tariff question he
eaid that Southern Representatives
had displayed lack ofintelligence
away below the standard OF the
men who preceded them. 1T was
hard to explain this," he said.
"After the war many Southern
men came North. Those who res
mained that had brains devoted
tn, ms elves to business with view
of regaining their shattered for-
tunes. Possibly the remaining de-
voted themselves to politics.
"The course of the Represents.
tives in Congress from the South
could not be explained simply by
devotion to section or locality, 1t
was the result of gross ignorance.
The present stagnaut condition of
trade was brought about by the sil.
YER bill, aud the South in solid
phalanx voted for the bill, thus
making themselves responsible for
this stagnation and demonstrating
that there was no greater enemy of
the public interests as the fool who
rushed in where angels feared to
tread"
The conclusion of Hewitt's
speech wac read in silence. The
gauntlet thus thrown down was
Immediately taken up by LINDSAY
Gordon, a young NJ York lawyer
# Virginia birth. He said;
with all due Difference to the
opinion of Mr.. Hewitt, I will ven
ture to say that the men who stand
| in Congress t,>dsy from the South
are as true. pure. upright, and sin
cere in their convictions and as
we'll equipped both morally and
intellectually, as any man there
from tho North, East or West. 1t
is possible, nay, even probable,
that the people in the North
may be unable to compre-
bend the Influences that
mould the sentiments of the South
ern people. Those of them who
have voted for the SILVER bill have
done SO with an eye to the advance.
ments Of their constituents and the
honor of the country at large. Nor
must it be understood that South"
ern statesmanehip is at q discoun,
today. TheTreafury is guarded by
a Southern man. The great navy
of Uncle Sam is being built under
the direction of Southern states
man. a Southern man is in charge
of the Interior Department and q
Southern man presides with dig
nifty and ability over the delisera'
tions of the House of Representa-
tives, A Southern map, great
pure and spotless, has been raised
to the Supreme court bench, and 9
Southern man is responsible fol
the new Tariff bill. This is the
record of the men of the South to.
day. They are Southrons, they
are statesmen, but, above all. they
are American citizens"