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count when 1t involved negro rule. pur,
and simple?
SoMD POINTED QUESTIONS.

SOMG POINTED QUESTIONS.
Were the fruits of the war mere
Socom apples to be turned to ashes in
such n brief span? Are the thirteenth
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to
be nulllified in their very essence be-
cause they failed Of their purpose In
the South? Are they for home use
only? Is the flag TO become again n
haunting lie,' and feat over a military
deslotism, first in the Philippines and
later at the home? Was the memoir
able conflict between slavery and free
dom use ss? Have we gained nothing?
is the commercial greed. which domi-
mates In our councils and coerces the
President to do his bloody and dirty
work, TO make of the constitution q
new league with death and cove
nant with hell in the interest Of op-
preston akin to slavery? In order to
do all these things must we camp out
side the constitution and give the old
Interpretation of the Southern slave
holders to the declaration of indepcnd-
ence, and nullify all precedents and de-
cisions OF our Supreme Court? Did
this nation offer up of its best and
bravest upon the altar of liberty, the
blood of seven hundred thousand men
and spend and destroy five billions of
treasure. that we might have govern
the people, to find that in the brief
sian OF one mans life the sacrifice was
vain, the civil war n mistake. and that
the colored race has no rights we are
bound to respect at home or abroad?
AFTER MIR. BEVERIDGE.
Advertng to Mr.. Beveridge's quota
tions from the Bible, Mr.. .Tillman said:
II have heard that the devil can
nrfr fnr hi
Why. can quote scripture myself.
(Laughter.) Verify, verify. I say unto
you, Senator from Indiana" pointing
his finger dramatically at Mr.. Bever-
idge who sat within q few feet OF him,
you cannot gether figs from thorns
nor grapes from thistles.
IF we mete desDotism and bayonet
rule to that people, will it not be melted
back to us? 1t need not be from for
eien source, and 1t cannot be from
foreign source, that the government by
bayonet will ever Cypress the American
people. Our danger lies in familiarz-
ing our people with despotic methods,
in abandoning the American ideal and
the principles of our fathers.
The curse OF bayonet rule will come
back to plague you as sure as there is
God in heaven"
In conclusion. Mr.. Tillman said:
protest against the continuance
of this unholy war. The President has
declared that upon Congress rests the
responsibility. He shirks the burden
of his mistake and crime. and en-
deavors TO shift it to our shoulders. Let
us give those people a government OF
their own, the only serf-government. In
whatever form they might select, and
be rid of the burden as well as the
shame which mnst be ours IL we do not.
Let us protect them against outside in
reference. and in small part, COM
pensate them for the wrongs we have
done them.
I'm the name of Washington, JEFF
ferson and Lincoln. let us stop this war
which was hideous blundcr in it's be,
ginning. 1t is now a war OF conquest,
crime in the sight of God and man."
At S O'Clock the Senate adjourned.
TREATY MATTERS.
Washington, Jan. 29.-The Senate de-
cided to-day by vote OF u TO SO not to
reconsider the vote by which the Sa-
moan treaty was ratified. The vote
was taken on motion of Senator Jones,
OF Arkansas, and occurred immcdiate-
~ after the beginning OF the executive
session. The injunction OF secrecy
was afterwards removed from the vote.