Year: 1879

sceptre. Down with the pictures of Lincoln
and the scoundrels who surrounded him in the
battle days of l66l-65. Down with every anti
Democratic idea and idol. These are the watch
words for 1880.


MIR. BlAcKBURN's REJoINDER.


Mr.. Blackburn having como down from the
chair during the reading of the article, said. in
an excited manner Mr. Chairman-If this be
not the first time have been forced to com
plain of unfairness at the hands OF my friends
on the other side, it is certainly the first time
l have ever been compelled to make such COM
plant against the gentleman from Maine. l
have but this to say: regret that every re-
curing day brings up some personal assault,
which, it seems to me, fair dealing, honesty Of
construction, and ordinary manhood, would re-
pudiate With each recurring day, l find my
self forced to repel some miscOnstruction given
by some members of the House to language
uttered by me in the shape Of garbled quota
tions, else unwarranted, unfair,
unnatural construction placed upon somebody
elses language by members of that side Of the
House So far as the newspaper article which
the gentleman from Maine has read to the
House is concerned care nothing for it, for
that paper is contribution from Ohio to Mis-
sissippi, and simply repeats the unfair, ungen-
erous and untruthful effort that was made here
yesterday to misrepresent me. l care nothing
for its utterances. But when the gentleman





the injustice done me by the editor of that in
consequential Sheet it then becomes u more Sc.
rious matter, then group the paper and the
gentleman from Maine together and say to
this committee and the country, that it occurs
to me they are well mated. The one is as un-
fair as the other is iliberal and crazy.


SPARRlNG.


Mr.. Frye-The one was colonel in the confed-
crate service, and not carpet-bagger from
Ohio. The one was the peer of the gentleman
from Kentucky in that service in the South.
OF the other have nothing to say. (Applause
on the Republican side.


Mr.. Blackburn (who had by this time moved
into the area in front of the Speakers chair,
and who stood there, surrounded by many
Democratic members)-But I have this to say
OF the other. He seems to be more perfectly
familiar with the history, antecedents and mer-
its of the adventurer than I care to be.
Whether he served in that army or the other is
matter of no concern to me. 1 simply desire
to repeat that in the article which the gentle
man has read, complimentary to me, as he
chooses to term it, in order to twist it to parti-
san purpose, he perpetrate,a an act Of gross in
justice, to which tie gentleman from Maine, to
my utter amazement, has sought to lend his
high authority.


Mr.. Frye-I did this and nothing more. I
heard the speech of the gentleman from Ken
lucky when it was made on this floor, as taken
down by the Associated Press reporter, and sent
all over this country, and I say had not
scintilla of doubt that the construction which
this paper has put on that gentleman s language
would be put on it in the South. If that gen
tleman made declaration on the floor of the
House which the Associated Press at the time
could declare to be what it did declare it to be,
and which the Okalona States from dispatch
in the Associated Press could declare in it's Joy
to be what its heart desired it to be, then it is
not that has to be called to account for any
thing have repeated to this House. I say it