Year: 1865

the statements of the Senator from


Union to be false on this subject, for


am acquainted with the facts Mr. DYE


one of the arrested parties, is my cousin


and was arrested and brought to Indian


apolis. thrown into the Soldiers Home


and after long Imprisonment, was re


leased without any charges ever being


made against him.


Mr. BENNETT, resuming said / viii


answer the Senator from Lawrance.


had intended to mention no names. as


knew the relation existing between Mr.


Dye and that Senator. but now that his
name is out without my fault, / will say
to thst gentleman that his claim of re-
lationship is an unfortunate one. For
charge on this floor that that man DYE
was the ruling spirit in that disgraceful
affair: that he is n violent and dirty
traitor. and should have been hung, ioT
the good of that community. long ago


Mr. COBB. again interrupting, said
the Senator from Union would not dare
say that in the presence of Mr.. Dye.


Mr.. BEN NNETT, resuming, said that
he had made similar remarks in the town
where Mr. Dye lives, and authorized Mr..
Cobb to repeat to him his remarks on
IL
of Dye, he said he was not only a traitor
but a coward, and if he should ever
have courage enough TO attack him, there
relations


Mr. COBB said Mr.: Dye is bigger
than the Senator from Union.


Mr.. BENNETT said: Fighting does
not depend upon size but upon "pith. "
The race is not to the strong, but to the
active, the vigilant, the brave. TO the
charge of the Senator from Nigo, that
Wayne county people had mobbed the
ballot box, and prevented men from
voting fo. Mcclellan, I have only to
deny, in the same tone that the Senator
makes the charge, and l hurl the slander
back to him, and tell MIN that his state
ments are false, and vile calumny
upon the good people of Wayne county.
Now. then. the issue is fairly made l
defy the Senator to the proof


Mr. President, the whole trouble with
the Senator and his party is that "Old
Wayne steadily votes the Union ticket.
All the Senator could find no Demo
cratic examples to exhibit on this floor
No Democratic county in the State has
enterprise, public spirit or manhood
enough to compete for the location of
this College. Why not ask for it in the
Democratic county of Sullivan? But
think l can assist the memory OF the
Senator. l can point him to some Demo
cratic regions where mObs, and murder,
and treason, and all the other damnable
villianies known in the dark catalogue
of crime, have been current. South
Carolina is an eminent example, to which
I !; bal Sho
was always Democratic. the headquar-
ters of Democracy. Tell me, sir, what
crime has not blackened her escutcheon
Tell me, sir. what Democratic State has
not been guilty of treason, and whose
skirts are not dripping with blood of
murdered victims? ? Tell me sir, what
Republican State has not been true to
the Union. and done her whole duty in
the hour of peril Sir, l admit that
Wavne county can not boast of some
of the clories of such a civilization as
the Senator would admire. Her people
organized no lodges of Sons of Liberty,
except in cases of the precious few of
which the Senator speaks. hlie the
constituents of the Senator in Sullivan
were recruiting for these midnight lodges
of foul traitors, the people OF Wayne
were recruiting the armies of the Mon.
" lille his constituents were following
Bowles and Horsey. the people OF ayne
were following Grant and Sherman.
While his beloved disciples where col
lecting money to arm themselves against
a draft the people for whom ] plead were
hauling wood and provisions to the
families Of their brave soldiers. While
his constituents were skulklng toward
Canada, these people whom he would
slander were sending their sons TO the
front. lis true that many of the peo-
pie of Old Wayne wear .shad bellied
coats" and .'broad-brimed hats. which
the Senator seems to think crime but,
sir | submit that even that kind of a
ring is fully as credltable as the
greasy butternut garments worn by the
sovereign people of Sullivan. Sir, under
these drab coats, the Senator could find
4 spirit Of philanthrophv, of religion, of
LOYALTY, that the Senator NAV be
stranger to. and which is unknown in the
dark regions he represents. And under
those broad brimmed hats. there are
brains sufficiently cultivated to enable
the owners to distinguish between trea-
son and loyalty, and 10 pity the con-
dition of such forlorn, ignorant, God
forsaken wretcbes as inhabit the clay
hills and dog fennel valleys of Sullivan.


Mr. President, l ask pardon for enter
ing at such length upon subject so
foreign to the question properly in de-
bate; but, sir. l can not sit still and
allow the studied prosecution made by
the Senator upon the worthy, gallant and
loyal people of Wayne county to pass
bv in silence NV random remarks,
made on the spur of the moment and in
the heat of debate. will doubtless fall far
short of what the subject demands, but
/ have no apology to offer.


One other matter referred to by the
Senator. and am done. He drag. be-
fore the Senate the recent unfortunate
difficulty beteween Mr.. Julian and Gen
eral Meredith I can only say that,
that affair is family matter of our OWE.
and one which we intend to regulate
without any outside interference. The
Senator and his friends need not lay the
fattering auction to their souls that they
will make any capital out of the affair