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EOirOBUL NOTH*.
Tbs Demoorzts seem to be in doubt
whether to “address*’ the President or
the people. Address them both, by all
means, or the record will be incomplete.
Oovebxob Colquitt will address, by
invitation, the Sunday School Union of
Brooklyn this evening. The Governor's
reputation as a Sunday School orator is
rapidly becoming national.
A Mas named Bullock, who historians
say was once “counted in" as Governor
of Georgia, is about to become a grocer
in Elmira, New Tork— not a green gro
cer, however, by any means.
Tbs Legislators of the State of New
York has agreed to redaoe< the legal
rate of interest to six per omit. It has
been at seven per cent, since the adop
tion ef the Constitution of 1854.
The case of the State against ex Treas
urer JoifKs, will probably go to the jury
to day. Whatever the verdict miy ba
it will be taken by bill of exceptions to
the Supreme Oonrt and a decision will
not be rendered for several months.
The Philadelphia limes, one of the
ablest and most independent journals in
the country, says of the attempt to muz
zle the grand jury of Bibb oonnty: “It
“certainly seems rather late in the day to
“dispnte the right of a grand jury to crit
“ioizs the oonduot of the public bas
eness."
The Chicago Inter Ocean of current
date contains 196 pages, eight pages of
reading matter, and 188 pages of names
of persons who have not paid their taxes.
No one caa dispnte the wonderful vim
of Chicago. She “booms” as tbe Ameri
can oity with the longest list of delin
quent tax payers.
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The St. Paul Minnesota grand jury is
trying to break up tbe brothels. A
baokmau was summoned as a witness
and replied in the affirmative when
asked if he had ever taken men to these
pfacrs—adding that some of thore men
he now bow on the jury. His testimony
cimo to a sudden terminalion.
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Hannibal Hamlin has been inter
viewed. He dosen’t believe tbe South
ern Senator j are as loyal as the men who
wenivwi in 1860, thinks Gbant will be
nominated if he will oxMMMtnt, hints that
Mr. Blaine injured himself by bis >o
lion on tie Chinese bill, and says the
Greenback craze will soon die out.
The Senate disposed of the Legisla
tive, Executive and Judioial Appropria
tion bill yesterday. Motions by Mr.
Edmunds to strike out all the political
riders were negatived, and the measure
was passed by a strict party vote. As
the bill was amended by the Senate it
will have to go baokto the House, where
the amendments will be promptly oon
ourred in. Mr. Hates will theu take
his veto message from the pigeon hole
and anothor leaf will be added to the
reoord.
The Attorney-General of South Caro
lina is preparing to institute proceed
ings against the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad for alleged viola
tions of its oharter. The specific acts
complained of are three in number :
Failure to oonneot with the South Caro
lina Railroad at Columbia, and refusal
to o&rry freight consigned to that Hue ;
discrimination in freight tariffs in favor
.of terminal and against intermediate
points on its line; and charging for the
carriage of cotton by bulk instead of
weight.
To the cxolusion of a great deal of
other matter, the Chboniolb publishes
ibis morning the full text of Senator
Hill’s reoent speech injthe Senate. We
know, however, that nothing we oould
give the public wonld be more accepta
ble than this great effort in defense of
the Booth and of Const itntional Govern
ment. The Chboniolb is the only paper
in whioh tbe whole speech has appeared.
Extra oopiee of this issue ean be obtain
ed at the counting room.
Norwich, Connecticut, merchants
weo recently prosecuted tor selling
Solidck beer, which was charged to be
•n intoxicating beverage. Professor
Wtt.t.iwaw, the State chemist, said the
liquor contained four per oent of alcohol
wad was intoxicating. But theory went
down before praotise. A cloud of wit-
B esses swore that they drank from twen
ty. /Ive to fifty glasses per day without
s eoo intoxicated or experiencing
any ill This evidence was so
eonvincii 'V that the case was dismissed.
“Coii" J. Bryant, who persists
that he is cha irman of the Republican
SUte Committed of Georgia, agrees with
Secretary Evarts abont the possibility of
building up a Republican party in the
Rtate. But the “Col.” thinks a good
deal of money will bfl needed. It is
hardly necessary to add that the “Col”
is at the North on a begging mission.
If Bryant raises funds enough to start a
newspaper the Democrats will not be
able to carry tbe State by more than a
hundred thousand majority at the next
election.
OI K CAPITA!. UUMPSK.
Veear da Lm ('•■■taltrv an Its Way—Ar-
IMWI ’la the Jaaea lae.
[Special to Chrooicls And Constitutionalist ]
Atlanta May 20 —A delegation from
Coear de Leon Commandery, Knights
Templar, headed by Eminent Com
mander Watson, left at six o’olook for
Augusta.
Argument in the Jones cases is pro
gressing, Hammond and McKay have
wpoken for tbe SUte, and Mynatt for
tku defense. Toombs and Hill both
nptrlr to-morroy.
Qdxbt: “Why will men smoke com
mon tobacco, when they can buy Mars
borg Bros' ‘Seal of North Carolines’ at
the same price.” feb6-eodly
Wtf\i & CoWtitafioiidtot
AC ft OS* THE WAVE.
Chllllac \f wi Frm the C'hllLPerii vlan War
—Communicatloaa Captured aad Reports
One Hided.
London, May 20.— The Timet' finan
cial article aaye : “Peruvian advices,
official aDd other, oontradict Valparaiso
telegrams about the progress of wsr,
and call attention to tbe fact that Chili
has control of communications. The
news therefore is necessarily one aided.”
The Hvrl-a Plebiscite.
The Swiss Plebiscite does not actually
revive capital punishment, bnt leaves
each canton at liberty, as was tbe ease
until 1874, to euaot it or not. Both con
ditions of validity, viz : An aggregate
majority and a majority of the cantons,
have been secured in favor of his per
missive measure.- Catholic and conser
vatives advocated the measure, pointing
oabthe increase of murders since the
death punishment was abolished.
A German Hl* team no Realm*.
Beblin, May 20.— Von Forckenbeck
has resigned tbe Presidency of the
Honse because of ill health and political
differences with a majority of tho
Reichstag.
THE DARK MU(DOW.
A Farcer Upon Branch** Bank la Richmond
Cornea to Grief—A Check Raised for Fire
Hoodred Dolla-a.
Baltimore,— Chancing P. Bedford,
a young man of 18 or 20, and recently
clerk in the banking and commission
honse of Thomas Branch & Go., of
Richmond, Va , was arrested here this
morning charged with obtaining about
five hoodred dollars from the Mer
chant’s National Bank of Richmond, on
forged checks of his employer’s firm on
Friday last. Redfirdis held awaiting
the arrival of officers from Richmond.
He confesses having drawn the money.
Two Youthful Murderer*.
Boston, May 20.—1n the Somerville,
Mass., Police Court, to-day, Edward
Reardon and Thos. Murphy, both nine
years of age, were arraigned on a obarge
of manslaughter in causing the death,
yesterday, of Hattie Goodshed, by
throwing stones. Murphy was liberated
by bail in $4,000 being furnished, bht
Reardon was committed in default of
SBOO bond.
Cauaterlelter* Arrested.
New York, May 20.—A raid was made
last night by the polios on a house in
Cannon street, and Chas. Green and
Wm. Edwards were arrested on a oharge
of counterfeiting twenty-five and fifty
cent pieces. In their room were fonnd
all the appliances for making counter
feit money, including staff moulds and
other articles. The prisoners are held
for trial.
Buford Get* a Change of Venue.
Frankfort, Ky l , May 20.—Thomas
Buford was brought here by train from
Lonisville, this morning. The Oonrt
oonvened at 10 o’clock, Judge Mc-
Namara, ou the bench. Geo. M.Alurtis,
for the defense, made an a
change of venue. The Court xreßTded
that as the law was mandatory he would
grant the change. OwertoD, in Owen
oounty, was fixed upon as the place for
the trial, the Court to oonvene there
July eighth.
DISHONORED DRAFTS.
Failure* in Foreign Firm* and Foreign Bank*
olleavy Liabilities.
London, May 20. —R. G. Threlfali,
oottou manufacturer of Preston, has
failed; liabilities, £86,000. 0. M, E.
Smitz, iron-monger of Middiesborougb,
has failed; £60,000. It is thought that
the reoent Heavy failures iu the iron
trade may compel oue or two private
banks to transfer their business to larger
institutions.
Loly Salbe & Cos., merchants in the
Bpanish trade, have failed.
W. Polok & Cos. and Symons & Cos.,
both of Rotterdam, have failed in eon
sequence of the failure of the Afri
caanisoha firm. The liabilities of the
latter will fall heavily on the Meihinger
Bank, the Darmadat Bank and Bank of
Rotterdam. One of the Directors of the
Afrioaanisebe firm tried to oommit sui
cide at Antwerp, but was unsuccessful.
He is now under surveillance in the
hospital. It is expeoted his extradition
will be demanded. Another Director of
tho same company has fled to Spain with
his family. The latter, whose name iB
Pineoffs, was a man of great commer
cial and financial influence. He was a
member of the First Chamber and one
of the leaders of the Liberal party.
INDICATIONS.
War Department, 1
Office Chief Sional Office, >
Washington, May 20, 1
For the South Atlantic States, falling
or stationary, followed by rising barom
eter, generally higher temperature, in
creasing winds, mostly from south to
west, partly oloudy weather and local
rains are probable. For the Gulf States,
falling or stationary, followed by rising
barometer, warmer, southerly winds,
generally shifting to cooler northerly,
partly cloudy weather and rain areas,
accompany local storms. Ohio Valley
and Tennessee, nearly stationary, fol
lowed by rapidly rising barometer, warm
southwesterly, shifting to cooler north
erly winds, partly cloudy weather and
frequent rains, accompanying local
storms. Middle Atlantic States, falling
barometer, increasing southerly winds,
warmer, partly cloudy,or cloudy weather
and frequent rains, accompanying local
storms, followed dnrirg the afternoon
or night by rapidly rising barometer and
winds shifting to oooler northerly.
Rererd, 4:16, P- n.
| Bar, | Thr. | Wind, jWeather.
Augusta..... 29 8088 jNW 3.Fair.
Charleston.. 29 86 80 S 8 Cloudy.
Corsicana... 29 67 97 ,S 12jClear.
Galveston..J29.B3B3 <3 14Clear.
Jacksonville 29 84 85 NE 6 Clear.
Key West .. 29 90 84 NW 9 Clear.
New Orleans 29 84 85 8W 12 Fair.
Punta Rassa 29 88 80 ,W 9 Clear.
Savannah... 29 84 84 8 lOtFair.
St. Marks... 29 8683 W 12Fair.
Lw*l Brport.
|7. A. M.| X. P. M. I 9. P. X.
Barometer. ..29.915 29.829 29 827
Thermometer 71 j 88 77
Humidity.... 85 34 61
Wind NW 5 SW 2SE 3
Weather Clear. Fair Clear
Mean daily temperature, 78.7; highest,
89; lowest, 66; depth of river at 3, p.
m., 8 feet 7 inohea.
A Perjurer Jailed.
Nrwbcrg, N. T , May 20. —Robert H.
Berdell, ex President of the Erie Rail
was, was arrested in New York this
morning on a charge of perjury and
taken to Goahen, Orange ooanty.
Which U Cheapest?
A package of Duke’s Durham, eon
taining twenty pipe fulls of the best
smoking tobsoco made, or one common,
cigar ? Eaeh costs ten cents.
may'2o eod
AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAT 21, 1879.
THE OVERRIDING RIDERS.
THE APPROPRIATION AGONIES
FOB THE PRESIDENT.
Tk* Seaate Puwa the Lrcld.lirr, Execu
tive aad Jadielal Appropriates Bill—Ed
ataade aad Hl* OWeetlaas Rated Oat—Mc-
Daaald Introdace* a New Idea.
Washington, May 20. Mr. MoDon
aid, of Indiana, asked leave to introdnoe
a bill authorizing the President to em
ploy militia and land and naval forces of
the United States to enforce laws when
ever their execution is obstructed by
combinations too powerfnl to be sup
pressed by jadieial authorities, eto., and
preventing military from being used as
a potse ccmmitatus, except in eases au
thorized by the Constitution and laws.
Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, objected
on the ground that previous notice had
not been given.
Mr. McDonald then withdrew the bill
and gave notice that he wonld ask leave
to introdace it to-morrow.
Tho Senate resumed consideration of
the Legislative. Judicial and Executive
Appropriation bill.
Snanders, White and Jones.
Mr. Saunders read a short speech in
opposition to the bill, saying that the
use of military is necessary to secure
fair elections in the South.
Mr. White, of Maryland, said the
politioal clauses of the bill were not ex
tensive enough to meet his views, whioh
were opposed to all Federal interference,
civil or military, in State affairs. In his
jndgment there is no snob thing as
national elections. Elections are either
State or municipal. Senators and re
presentatives are agents of and respon
sible to tbe States. There has been no
prototype for onr form of Government.
Mr. White made onnstitntional and his
torical argument to support these views.
Mr. Jonas, of Louisiana, followed in
a speech warmly defending the people
of Louisiana from charges made against
them, of violence and disloyaltv, and
insisting that they respeoted United
States authority, and were united iu
their effort to secure good government.
At four o’clock
Tlie Vote Was Taken.
Mr. (Edmunds’ motion to strike ont
the clause repealing tbe statute relating
to the test oath was lost, yeas. 26; nays,
37. Mr. Edmunds then moved to strike
out the clause establishing a mode of
drawing United States jurors—lost,
yeas, 27; nays, 37. He then moved to
strike out the clause repealing the Stat
ute relating to United States Deputy
Marshals and Supervisors of Elections—
lost, yeas 27; nays, 37. He then moved
to strike ont the clause repealing Seetion
5,522 Revised Statutes, whioh punishes
interference with or obstruction of Dep
uty Marshals and Supervisors of Elec
tion, in the performance of their duties—
lost, yeas, 27; nays, 37. The bill was
then read a third time and passed—yeas,
37; nays, 27.
The Senate then proceeded to consider
the Contagious Disease Bill and without
action adjourned until Thursday.
The Silver Bill.
The Silver bill was further considered.
A motion to lay the pending section on
the tajle which the Speaker said would
be to carry tbe bill there also, was de
feated. A substitute for the third see
tion of the bill providing that the owner
of any silver bullion may deposit the
same in quantities of twenty ounces and
over, at any mint, at its aotnal market
valne in the United States not exceeding
par, which value shall be ascertained by
and under regulations to be pre
scribed by the direotor of the mint,
Transfer of Cases From State to Federal
Courts—Powers of the Government and
Rights of the States—Proceeding* In the
House.
The Honse resumed as business of the
morning honr the bill to amend laws
relating to the transfer of oases from
State to Ftderal Courts, aDd Mr. Urner
concluded his argument against it: He
asked whether, if an officer in the execu
tion of the fugitive slave law had com
mitted homicide, that offioer would have
been left (as he wonld be under this bill)
to the tender mercies of a Massachusetts
jury ? And he asserted that the protec
tion of the Government ahonld be guar
anteed to Federal officers. There was
bnt one power, sovereign and supreme
in this broad land and that was tbe
power of the Government of the United
States. Mr. Frye, of Maryland, moved
to lay the bill on the table.
capital gleams.
Proctor Knott Postpone* Hl* Report on (lie
President’* Veto.
The Honse Judiciary Committee were
to have met to-day and it was anticipat
ed by the Democrats that the report be
ing prepared by Chairman Knott on tbe
Presidential veto, would be submitted.
A communication from that gentleman
was reoeived, however, to the effect that
he was otherwise engaged this morning
and wonld not be able to attend, and de
sired a postponement until to morrow,
when it is said by a prominent Demo
cratic menber of the committee the re
port will likely be presented. A ittmor,
however, prevails that the programme
has been ohanged and that an address
on the subject will be issued to the peo
ple through the Democratic Campaign
Committee.
No A ijournment In Sight.
The Ways and Means Committee have
postponed consideration of the subject
of adjournment recently referred to that
committee.
Salt for Damage*.
Baltimore, May 20.—The trial of the
case of Bernard Manrice vs. Admiral
John L. Worden, United States Navy,
was commenced in the Conrt of Com
mon Pleas to-day. This is an action
instituted by Maurice, formerly Assist
ant Professor of French at tbe United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis,
and Professor in St. John's College,
Annapolis, to recover $20,000 damages
for libel, whioh consisted, as plaintiff
says, in vile assertions from defendant,
couched in an endorsement of plain
tiff's resignation of his position at the
Naval Academy.
An Exploding Poller.
Baltimore, May 20. During a politi
cal discussion to night, on Baltimore
street, between Democratic ward politi
cians, Johu Bnckheimer was shot in the
head. It is now suppneed fatally. Ber
nard Callahan and O’Hara were arrested
charged with the shooting.
Uamatlable Letter*.
The following unmailble letters re
mained in tbs Angnsta Post Office, May
20th, 1879. Miss Bessie Norwood, Ab
beville 8. C.; Janie Whatley, Greenville,
S. O.; 1 Blank.
It is stated that the mnrderer, Cole
man, now confined at McPherson Bar
racks, Atlanta, grows more and more
hopeful that the senteaoe of death pass
ed upon him fonrteen yean ago, will be
commuted.
A WIFE DISHONORED]
Csamatlaa ll* the Higher Bedel Circle* of
Kentucky.
Louisville, Ky., May 18.—Consider
able commotion was produced b society
circles here to-day by the ainounoe
ment that several parties beldbging to
tfie best families in the State ware actors
is a very dark scandal. as
stated am that Mr. William H Tomlin
son, biotber of ex-9eoretaiy telknap’s
wife, wns prevented from k> ing his
cousin, E. Stanley Bowman, by the in
terference of his father and aj peals of
his mother. Tomlinson gad iowman
are partners iu business, the 1 ther of
each haviDg given* both tfi ir start
ing money. Two years ago Tomlin
son married Miss Jessie Bu. ner, of
Greenville, Mississippi, who w ll attend
ing school at Harrodsburg,
then the home of her hnabantVs.family,
Miss Buckner was as accomplished as
she was beaatiful, and while iu Ken
tucky was in the care of Phil. B. Thomp
son, Jr., Milton J. Durham’s successor
in Congress. Miss Buckner L?jae of a
distinguished family of Mississikpi, and
is a cousin of Senator Becks wife.
Bowman’s uncle is tbe regent of the
Kentucky University, at Ashland, Hen
ry Clay’s old home. His fatter was
late United States Collector at Lexing
ton. The oanae of the breach between
Tomlinson and Bowman was thd discov
ery, by the former, of an improper and
criminal intimacy between Bowityn and
bis wife. The confession was.forced
from both, the wife declaring tjiat her
hnsband’s partner and consin bail drag
ged her with wine. Her husband sent
her to Mississippi, and Bowman fled to
Washington. It is feared tbatperions
tronble may yet grow ont of the(affair.
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THE DEEDS OF DERBY. >
Race* lor Derby Stakes In Kentucky and In
England—lnteresting
Louisville, Ky., May 20.-4Bh was
the first day of the Spring living of
the Lonisville Jockey Club. first
race dash for a mile and a quarMwas a
dead heat between Fortuna aniF Glen
more with Keene Richards, 3rd;
time, 2:10£. Lord Murphy wen the
Derby, Falsetto 2d, Strathrmre 3d,
Trinidad 4t-b, One Dime sth, Gea, Pike
6th; time, 2 37. The first heat of tbe
3d race was won by King Fare, with
Peru 21. Victim 3d; time, 144. In the
2d beat King Faro was the favori2Tf>ver
tbe field at largo odds. Coming into
the stretoh Pern, Ella Rowett and
Kingsland pushed him very hard, and
Ella Rowett, forging ahead forced <i ter
rific paee and won by a nose; time, 1.42}.
She now became the favorite the
odds of 1 000 to 300. Tho two off
well, the mare leading King Faro clear
to the home stretch, when the horse
made an effort and beat her by a neck.
Time, 1:45. The track was in good con
dition and the weather warm, theutime
fast and the sport interesting. at
tendance exceeded 150C0 about halt *>hal
number occupying the field, whit a is
always full here on Derby day. 'Lord
Murphy’s time is the quickest e'gjAnade
in the Kentucky Derby. W(
Tbe .English Diyby„
London, May 20. —The following is
the prinoipal betting on the race for the
Derby stakes, to take place on the 28th
inst. : 11 to 2 against Gadogan ; 6 to 1
against each of the following : Ohari
bert, Talmouth and Victor, and 11 to 1
against Roan Davy.
PRINCELY PIONEER.
Manning the Cake Knife at Hook and Lad
der Hall Last Evening.
Foreman Platt and his trusty com
pany have invaded many glowing locali
ties, bat of all their reoord, the 3oene at
the hall last night waß the brightest.
Full to the utmost, their handsome
room on Greene street presented a very
bright and hospitable appearanoe, as
the bright chandeliers revealed a large
crowd of lady and gentlemen friends
who had gathered to eiijoy the bounty
of the hour and dispense the oompli
ments of the season. The even
ing was pleasautly varied by
music from -Dr. and Miss Southard,
and others, while a most refreshing
course of delioaoies was dispensed to
the entire oompany. The occasion was
properly one to consummate the ontting
of the cake, voted Pioneer at the recent
bazaar of the ladies of Curtis Ohuroh,
and'around the festal board, a pleasant
gathering assembled. Foreman Platt,
his assistants and committees deserve
great credit for their elegant reception,
whioh, in the langnage if a popular lady
in the room, was one of tße finest enter
tainments yet given in the', city. Pio
neer made many more friends by their
hospitality iast evening.
A BARBAROUS DEED.
The Cold-Blooded Murder of a Colored
Woman.
f Atlanta Constitution.]
We have the particulars of a terrible
murder which occurred in Anderson
county, near Pendleton, South Carolina,
last Wednesday. The circumstances
make it one of the most glaring instances
of cold bloodshed we have ever chroni
cled. William FergnsoD, a white plan
ter living in Anderson connty, was told
one day last week that a negro girl nam
ed Mattie Hatton, who lived on a farm
near his own, had oharged that he had
made an attempt to rape her. Fergnson
denounced the report as a malicious lie,
but as he continued to hear it., resolved
to stop its circulation in a more effectual
manner. Last Wednesday he loaded a
shot gun heavily, and went to the field
where Mattie and some other nfgroes
were hoeing cotton. He asked her
if she had made the assertion which
had been reported as coming from
her. She said she had. Fergnson
then told her it was a lie and that she
knew it to be so. He demanded that
she retract it in the presence of the wit
nesses then nresont. The girl refused
to do so. Ferguson repeated the de
mand. Again Mattie Hatton refused.
Tbe demand was made tbe third time
with no better success. Fergnson then
appeared to be exasperated, and level
ling his gnn fired both barrels at the
doomed woman, the shot entered her
head, tearing it fearfully to pieces. She
fell without a groan and died almost in
stantly. The negroes were horrified at
this brutal act and scattered like scared
sheep. Ferguson looked for a moment
at the woman and then fled from the
scene. He has not since been heard of.
To the honor of the good people of An
derson connty, it must be said that they
are unanimous in their denunciation of
this awful crime, and are doing all they
can to bring the criminal to justice. It
ia probable that a reward will be offered
and the mnrderer brought to justice.
Col. O. A McLaughlin, of Union
Point, is the champion bee hive reporter
of Greene connty.
Mr. John P. Mclntyre, pattern maker
at the Central R aiiroad work shop in
Savannah,' met with quite a painfal ac
cident on Saturday.
THE BLACK MAN’S WRONGS.
A* Doled Dot in Plteaaa Note* In a Richmond
Convention.
Richmond, Va., May 20.—The Color
ed Convention held a secret session to*
day, lasting several hours. The com
mittee on organization submitted a plan
which was fully discussed and adopted,
but it was decided not to make it public.
A committee on grievances was appoint
ed to whioh was referred a large num
ber of resolutions for consideration and
report. A oommiitee of three was ap
pointed to go to Washington and consult
with leading Republicans upon the best
course to pursue in efforts to secure the
amelioration and “improvement of the
oondition of the colored race. At the
evening session which was public, the
committee on grievances made a report
setting forth at length and in detail the
wrongs and grievances of the colored
people, and submitting a series of reso
lutions recommending the colored peo
ple of the State to organize societies for
the purpose of petitioning tho legislative
and judicial departments of the State for
a full recognition of their rights as citi
zens, and if such rights are not
fully accorded, that they are advised to
emigrate to other States or Territories,
where there is no distinction on aooouut
of color ; expressing sympathy with
Edmund Kinney and wife, now in the
penitentiary for intermarriage, and
pledging every effort to have the obnox
ious and unconstitutional law wiped out;
recommending a thorough organization
of the colored people for the purpose of
bettering their political, financial and
commercial condition, and thereby se
cure an influence which cannot be taken
away from them; recommending appeals
to school boards of the State to appoint
colored teachers wherever they can be
procured, oorapetent to fill positions
now held by incompetent white
teachers, instructing colored children;
tendering the heartfelt thanks of tbe
colored people of Virginia to the Hon.
Alexander Rives, Federal Judge of the
Western Distriot, for his firm and deter
mined action in securing the enjoyment
to colored people of all rights and
privileges accorded by the Constitution
and laws of the United Statep, particu
larly the right to servo as jurors; reoom
mending that the colored people of each
county and city petition the Judges of
the State Courts to summons colored
men as jurors, aud that all refusals, and
the grounds be taken in writing, and
referred to the Executive Committee, to
be hereafter appointed, which shall pre
sent such refusals to the Legislature,
and ask the passage of such laws as will
prevent the future abridgment of such
rights and privileges; and finally en
dorsing the efforts of their suffering and
oppressed colored brethren of the South
to leave the States of oppression and
find other homes where their politioal
opinions and rights will be respeoted.
THE JONES CASE.
Conclusion of tlie Testimony—Gov. Smith
autl the Treasurer—A Whip ot Snake*.
[Atlanta Constitution.)
In the summarized report of the evi
dej gee gjp.en j-A these columns on Sun- j
dify, itt Clbl. ’'loads’ testimony it read
that ho admitted an error or mistake im
paying tho past due bonds in question.
This was just exactly tbe opposite of the
statement as made and reported. He
did no" admit an error or mistake, and
from the rontext preceding that phrase
in our re >ort we presnme all careful
readers saw : t was caused by an omission
of the types.
Counsel fo-- the defense recalled Col.
Jones to tho tand for the purpose of
having him r ake further depositions
concerning his acts as treasurer. He
testified that when, upon giving up the
traesury, he rendered the statement re
quired by law, it was one made up un
der great stress for lime and embarrass
ments of tho situation. When oe gave
it to the Comptroller General he said
to him that he would not vouch for its
correctness, bnt would come next day
and endorse it, “errors, omissions and
corrections excepted.” Witnesss had
been harrassed about the matter for ten
days and, in addition, was in bad health.
He does not know now what was in that c
account. Referring to the testimony of
Colonel Goldsmith, witness remembers
something of the sort happening as his
patting his hands to his head. When
they, Governor Smith, Goldsmith and
himself, were talking together and Gov
ernor Smith told him if he did not
charge hack these items he had some
thing more on him worse than that, he
was so shocked by tho threat that he
seemed to see
A Bunch of Snake* Before Him,
and to realize that there was a plot on
foot to ruin him. He then put his
hands up to his head—he was so aston
ished at such a suggestion. He never
agreed to the charging back upon
him. He said if the accounts could be
arranged so as not to compromise
himself or his sureties he wonld
consent to it, but nothing else. He also
testified that he sold the Nutting bonds
at par and realized more money for the
State than was expected by any one. He
also swore that the $21,500 of Angier
bonds were cancelled in the Treasury
here, and he had something to do with
the cancelling.
Oa cross examination Colonel Jones
testified that the account of the Fourth
National Bank was correct and his ac
count rendered to the Comptroller-Gen
eral, in whioh he brought the State in
debt to him over $25,000, was not cor
rect. Witness said he knew he was en
titled to a credit of $140,000 that he did
not include in that account, but he was
so annoyed that he left it out by mis
take. He does not think the State owes
him anything, or that he owes the State
anything. The reason he did not get a
warrant for $61,230 for past due interest
paid was by a mere mistake. He ascer
tained he was entitled to it only when
Dr. Bozeman testified to it bef ore the
Auditor. It was about Chrismas 1873
that he fonnd his accounts ont of balance
and he never got them to balance after
that. __
Crop Prospect* In lowa*
Burlington, lowa, May 18.—The
Hawkeye, of this morning, contains
special crop reports from more than one
hundred points in this State. They
show an increased acreage of wheat and
corn, and that both of these crops are
in excellent condition. The season has
been dry, whioh has enabled farmers to
plow lands that were not tillable in a
wet season. In a few localities the
drought has done some damage, but as
a rale the recent rains came in time to
leave the crops in good shape. Rain
will be needed in most of the sections
within a week or ten days to keep the
crops in good condition. Oats and hay
will fall short of the yield of last year,
owing to a decreased acreage sown and
a dry season. Other crops promise a
good yield.
Sooth Georgia croquet clubs are span
ning the sward with wire wickets
again.
Wm. Pilcher, Esq., an old citizen of
Amerieus, is dead.
ST. CLEMENT’S WAYS.
A Requiem Mass for the Repos* of the Soul
uf Rev. Dr. DeKuven—Roman Catholic
Paraphernalia of Worship Among Pnilntlel
phin High Church Episcopalian*—l.niup*,
Images, Candelabra, Stole, Amice ao<l
Sign* of the Cross.
[Baltimore American.]
Phlladblphia, May 14.— 1d St. Cle
ment’s Church this morning a Reqniem
Mass was celebrated for the repose of
the soul of the late Dr. James DeKoven,
who died recently in Racine, Wisconsin,
after being called to the rectorship of
St. Clement’s. A stranger upon enter
ing the ohnreh was struck with the
strong likeness existing between the
paraphernalia of worship laid out before
him and that familiar to the eye in the
Roman Catholic Obnrch. Seven sanctuary
lamps were pendant from the high arch
of the chanoel, one of which barns con
stantly aad is denominated the perpetu
al light. The altar hangings and can
delabra were also there, while in other
places were obsrved images of tho Cru
cifixion. In the congregation were qnite
a number of Low Churchmen, who un
doubtedly were present to learn in what
manner the requiem wonld be celebrat
ed, sinca there is no requiem service in
the ritual, except tho ordinary Episco
pal service for the dead,
The service, which probably was never
before celebrated in an Episcopal
Cbnrch in the United States, was novel
but awe-striking to the people of tho
Protestant faith. On the altar burned
thirty candles in five sets of oanderlabra,
containing each six candles, arranged in
pyramidal form. Shortly after seven
o’clock the distant sound of chanting
voices was heard, and the organ pealed
out an accompaniment to the choristers,
who in a few moments made their ap
pearance at the rear of the church, and
marched up the central aisle in solemn
procession, headed by Father Mortimer,
who was preceded by a young man dres
sed in an alb and carrying a tall cross
of silvered metal. There were in the
procession about forty men. all dressed
in cassook and snrplioe, including Fath
er Mortimer. Of these some thirty were
choristers and the remainder were instru
mentalists. Upon reaching tho sanct
uary thev ranged themselves on either
side of it and Father Mortimer, having
taken up a baton, gave the signal, and
the impressive strains of the introduc
tory to Cherubini’s Mass in D minor
were begun by the organ, accompanied
by the cornets, bass viol, violins, and
kettledrum.
During the introductory Fathers Pres
cott, Maturiu and Danvers Convers
emerged from a door at the side of tho
sanctuary and proceeded to the altar,
where they stood and recited the Kyrie
Eltison, Faither Prescott in the middle,
and the deacon and sub-deacon at either
side of him. The officiating clergyman
from this time forward gave an almost
identical reproduction of the actions of
the priests in what is called a solemn
high requiem in the Roman Catholio
Church, except that no incense was
used, thereby necessitating an omission
of the ceremonial of incensing the altar,
book, etc. In many other respects the
service was an almost exact representa
tion of the Solemn High Mass. Father
Prescott was robed in, an alb, arnica and
chasuble, the latter being of black ma
terial. Father Maturin, as deacon, wore
no chasuble, but had a stole and amice
on, and Father Convers, the sub-deacon,
wore nothing above his amice and alb.
After singing the Dies Tree, Father
Maturin sang the gospel, the book being
held up by the sub-deacon upon his
forehead, as is done in the Catholio
Church. Returning to the altar, the
deacon took the ohalice on the middle
of the altar in front of Father Presoott.
After the prayers Father Prescott turn
ed towards the people, made the sign of
the cross, the Preface was sang exactly
as it is in the Roman Catholic mass, ex
cept that the language used was, as in
every other part of tbe service, the En
glish. The music used both iu intona
tions and responses was identical with
that used in the Roman Catholio Church.
In the communion service, Father
Prescott, holding a wafer of bread in
his right hand and supports g the latter
with his left hand, turned towards the
-people, and the deaoon and snb-deaoon
’ lid likewise, the deaeon holding in his
s .-nds the chalioe. Then, simultane
oi vly, the sign of the cross was made by
be * celebrant and deaoon, the former
wiin the wafer and the latter with the
chalice. The elements were then elevated
for a few moments, aDd, while so held
up, three male members advanced from
the body of the church to communicate
on behalf of the congregation. _
In administering the communion, Fa
ther Prescott moved the bread up and
down, right and left, in the form of a
cross, before each communicant, and the
deaoon did the same with tho chalioe.
Turning then to the people, the cele
brant, extending both arms, gave the
blessing as it is given by the priest in
the Roman mass, except that it was
given in English, and the csremonies
then terminated with some brief prayer.
The choristers retired, forming a pro
cession as they did on entering, their
voices dying away as they entered the
sacristy. The lights were then extin
guished, and thus ended the mass for
the repose of the soul of Dr. DeKoven.
California Mining Companies In New York.
New York, May 18.—The passage of
the new California constitution is driv
ing to this city a number of the leading
mining corporations, and it is expected
that hereafter all mining companies that
organize will do so under the laws of
New York State, so as not to imperil
the capital in California. The Balwer
and Golden Terra companies are said to
be moving thither. Tbe Dunderberg
has located here, and the Standard,
Mariposa, Homestake and Ontario com
panies are already located hero. The
York morning board have been trebled
in valne. The movement is to the gain
of New York and to the loss of San
Francisco. _ _ /
Brevities.
Summer at last.
The picnic season is in full bloom,
St. Paul’s Sunday School had their
picnic at Schultz’s Hill yesterday.
The coloaed people had a barbecue at
the Lafayette race course, yesterday.
The drill of the Knights Templar this
afternoon will attract a large number of
spectators.
Cotton is still advancing. Middling
is qnoted to day at 12$, a quarter of a
cent higher than it was yesterday.
The children of St. Luke’s Sunday
School went *np the canal to the Locks,
yesterday, for their annual picnic.
The annual target practice and barbe
cue of tbe Richmond Hussars, will take
place at the Schuetzenplatz on June 9tb.
The annual picnic of St. Patrick’s
parish took place at the Scheotzmplatz
yesterday, and was a most enjoyable af
fair.
| A silver card cise fonnd by a colored
boy is at the office of the Chief of Police,
and the owner can get it by identifying
property.
In the Mayor’s Court yesterdsy two
parties were fined one dollar each, one
required to pay three dollars and one
five dollars.
$lO A TEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THE UNIONANDITS ENEMIES
IF HE 18 A TRAITOR WHO WOULD
DIVIDE THE BTATES, HOW 18 HE
LESS A TRAITOR WHO WOULD
DESTROY THE STATES?
Speech of lion. Benj. H. Hill, of Georgia.
In the Senate of the United States, May 10,
1879, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Appropriation bill being under consideration,
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, said:
Mr. President— l am very much obliged to
my friend, the Senator from Kentucky, aud the
Committee on Appropriations, for yielding to
me at this time. I would not speak to-day at
all bnt for the faot that I am compelled to
leave the city, and perhaps, possibly at least,
not to return until this bill shall have been
disposed of. There are some observations
which I desire to submit; and as this is the
only opportunity to do so, I will avail mysolf
of the kindness of the committee in suspend
ing the reading of this bill to proceed now
with wliat I have to say.
Motive* of the Opposition In This Discussion.
Mr. President, it is known to the Senate and
the oountry that the discussion of tho ques
tions involved in this and the kindred bill be
gan iu tho last days of the Forty-fifth Con
gress. Tho result of tho discussion then ne
cessitated the calliug of an extra session of
Congress, aud since the assembling of this
session the discussion has been almost con
tinuous iu the two Houses of Congress. I have
taken no part in it hitherto, because, in my
judgment, there was nothing in the legislation
ponding that justified discussion, nothing in
the snbstanco in- form of the legislation whioh
in my jndgment could even exenso the elabor
ate discussion whioh has been had; aud I sup
pose if we wore to apply the test, nine-tenths
of the arguments which havo boon made Slid
placed upon the reoord havo no application
whatc-er to the immediato subjects involved
in either of the’bills.
1 have watched the discussion with vorv in
tense, I might say with anxious, interest for
discovering if I could the true reason, the ac
tive inspiring motive of this discussiou. Why
lias it been thrust upon the country ? The
legislation proposed is simply nothing more
nor le-s than tho repeal of a very small por
tion of legislation which was enaoted during
and since tho war. legislation which had no
placo upon our statute book for the first seven
ty-live years of our history: and why has such
an earnest, such a heated, I had almost said
such an ill-tempered,- discussion boen thrust
upon the country on tho occasion of repealing
a few statutes of the kind alluded to ?
I have no desire to do any one injustice. I
have watched this discussion solely for the
purpo.-o of arriving, if I eould, at the real mo
tive which lies at the bottom of it. lam thor
oughly satisfied that the motive is very plain
and unmistakabio. A great party in this conn
try have entered upon a well-considered, or I
ought to say ill-considored, but determined
purpose of reopening the sectional agitations
which have so long divided this country for
tho purpose of consolidating one section of tho
country against the other, solely for the bene
fit of that particular party, and without refer
ence to the good, as I think, of the conntry.
Now, sir, what is the result ? The country
now beholds the extraordinary spectacle of an
extra session of Congress, of weeks and
months of agitated discussion, the whole pur
pose of which discussion, at least on one side
of this House, seems to be to oonvince one sec
tion of the country that the people of the
other are not to be trusted in their fidelity and
patriotism to the country. Suppose ihey suc
ceeded in establishing that proposition; if it be
true they have established a proposition which
demonstrates that the Government is on the
eve of failure; if it be falge, why should they
seek to impress upon the oonntry a condition
of things affecting the integrity of tho Union
itself which is not true ?
I shall not go through the many arguments
and speeches that have been made on this
floor which seem to be inspired by nothing on
earth but hatred to one section of this country
and the people thereof. I cannot afford to do
that. Speech after speech has boen made
>vbich could have no other purpose, which
lias no other meaning. Do Senators expect to
benefit the country by such a course of pro
ceeding ? Do they think they promote the
good of this country, of any section of it,
when they labor no industriously to prove to
one portion of the people that another portion
is not to be trusted ? Are they not citizens of
the same Government ?
Now, as an illustration of what I say, pardon
me if I select the two most distinguished gen
tlemen of the Republican party, gentlemen
who above all others have distinguished them
selves for their ability in the discussion of this
question, who I suppose from their position
and character in every respect command per
haps more than any others the confidence of
the party to which they belong. The distin
guished Senator from New York (Mr. Conk
ling), in the veiy effective speech which he
made on tho 24tli of April, reminded ns that
"one of Home's famous legends stands in these
words: ‘Let what each man thinks of the Re
public be written on his brow.’” and the Sen
ator wrote on the forefront of his speech de
livered on that important ocoasion a most re
markable declaration which he must excuse me
for saying illustrates the animus of the speech.
He commences in this way:
"During the last fiscal year the amount of
national taxes paid into the Treasury was
•$244.831,46!.18. Of this sum one hundred and
thirty million and a fraction was collected un
der tariff laws as duties on imported merchan
dise. aud one hundred and four million and a
fraction as tax on American productions. Of
this total of $235,000,006, in round numbers,
twenty-seven States which adhered to the
Union during the recent war paid $221,204-
263.87 The residue came from eleven States.
I will read their names: Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Miss’ssippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia These eleven States paid $13,627,-
192 89. Of this sum more than six million arid
a half came from the tobacco of Virginia. De
ducting tho amount of the tobacco tax in Vir
ginia, the eleven States enumerated paid
$7,125,462 62 of the revenues and supplies of
the Republic.”
What does the Senator here say, what doos
he write on the forefront of his magnificent
oration ? It is that all the customs revenues
of the country are paid by the State at whose
port the revenue is collected. If his argument
be true. New York pays over *90,003,000 of tho
customs revenue, because the port of New
York is a great port for the wholo country, and
he credits the twenty-seven States with the
payment of all the customs revenues collected
in that port and Boston aDd other northern
ports. He should credit it to the city of New
York. It is all paid at the city of New York.
The Senator might have enlarged his argu
ment: he might have selected from the West
ern Slates a group of elevon States that pay
perhaps less customs revenue than the eleven
Southern States. I doubt whether the great
State of my friend from Ohio pays much on the
Senator’s method of computation. Certainly
those great interior States that have no ports,
according to him, pay none of the customs
revenue. How much would Ohio pay under
that rule ? How much would Indiana pay ?
How much would Minnesota pay ? Tho Sen
ator might have gone further If New York
is to be credited with all the revenues that are
collected upon importations at New York, New
York ought also to bo credited with all the pro
ducts that are exported from the port of New
York, and the distinguished Senator by figures
could have proven that New York was tho
largest cotton-growing State in the world !
Why should so distinguished a Senator, so
able a Senator, find it necessary to commence
his speech with an argument of that kind ?
What had it to do with the question ? The
qnostion pending in the bill which he and scuss
ei was whether it was wise and proper to use
the Army to keep the peace at the polls, and
the Senator commences hi* argument upon
that question by giving a statement of the
revenues collected for the support of the Gov
ernment, and puts tho statement in such a
form as to show that all the revenues are paid
by twenty-seven States, of which New York
pays half. What had it to do with the ques
tion? Nothing. Then, if tho Senator found
it necessary to make such a B‘atement, why did
he hazard his reputation in such a manner as to
make a statement, the incorrectness of which
could not fail to bo seen by any one who un
derstood the facts of the case? And then he
put it in the strong form of figures, and he had
the benefit of the old aphorism that figures
will not lie. The Senator’s phraseology is very
curious, too. I say nothing of his refusal to
permit a correction to be incorporated in his
speech; which I attempted. He goes on; he
says:
"The laws exacting these few millions from
eleven States, and these hundreds of millions
from twenty-seven States, originated, as the
Constitution requires all hills for raising reve
nue to originate, in the House of Representa
tives.”
Where is the law that exacts these few mil
lions from eleven States, these hundreds of
millions from twenty-seven States? Is there
such a law known ? Is there any revenue law
of this conntry which is not uniform ? Is there
any law of this conntry which could justify
that distinguished Senator in saying that
eleven States pay so few millions of rev
enue and twenty-seven States pay so many
bun ired millions of revenue, and, to hm bn,
I*.
emphatic words, that this revonne in this dis
proportion is exacted by the laws of the coun
try? I do the Senator no injustice whnn
I say that the purpose of the statement is indi
cated by the application which is made of it:
"This vast revenue is raised aud to be raised
for three uses. It is supplied in time of severe
depression aud distress, to pay debt inflict! and
by rebellion—
' Why was it necessary to say that ?
"To pay pocsions to widows, orphans, and
cripples’made by rebellion; and to maintain the
Government and enforoe tiro laws preserved at
inestimable cost of life aud treasure.”
Why should tho Senator make a statement in
figures that is not coirect, and speak of the ex
actions of a law that does not exist in relatiou
to revenue, and then seok to arouse, as doubt
less his method of stating facts does arouse in
so many minds at the North, a prejudice
against these eleven States that have been so
wicked as to make it necessary for such enor
mous taxos to be collected and who under the
laws are reqnired to pay bo few of the taxes ?
Everybody knows that each section of the
country pays according to its consumption of
the importations into the United States. It is
hardly necessary to say that the money collect
ed by the Government at the port of New York
is not paid by the city or people of New York,
or by the State of New York, but is paid by the
people of tho country all over the country who
buy and consume tho goods imported. All the
point I make on this is to ask the country what
could have been the motive of so distinguish! and
a Senator for making such a statement which
had no relevancy to the subject under disons
sion—what could bo the purpose except to use
hiß groat powers, aided by a singular computa
tion of figures, to impress his section of tho
country with feelings of antipathy and dislike
to the Southern people.
But, sir, we had a more remarkable exhibi
tion than that yesterday I pass for the mo
ment from tho honorable Senator from New
York to the distinguished Senator from Ver
mont (Mr. Edmunds), for if these great men
say theso things, what shall wo not expect of
tho smaller men, the legions of them? The
Senator from Vermont yesterday, who may,
perhaps, be called with’ fltuoss the iegal ad
viser of tho Republican party, who seems to
feel under special obligations on all occasions
to interpret the law for that party, with all his
distinguished ability, absolutely came into Iho
Senate and had re id from the Secretary’s desk
a large nurabor of clauses of the Constitution
on the subject of the powers of the Fed* rat
Government, and then had all the acts of Con
gress, almost, I believe, without an exception,
from the administration of President Washing
ton down, read, had the set of 1789 lead, the
act of 1792, tho act of 1795, the act of 1807,
tho act of 1833, being careful to notify the
country in whose administration those various
acts wore passed, beginning with the sacred
administration of Washington, and then quali
fied all that with extensive quotations from
that great work written by Hamilton and Madi
son and Jay, known as tho Federalist. For
what purpose ? Why all that ? Would any
man believe it ? For the purpose of taking the
position and seokiug to enforce upon the coun
try the idea that tho little bill prohibiting the
use of troops at tho polls had the effect to
change and modify, if not to repeal, all thia
legislation to wliicli I have alluded, that that
bill was in conflict with (he clauses of the Con
stitution which ho read, that it changed tho
legislation of tho country from the days of
Washington Io the days of Grant, when that
Senator must know, when every legal mind o ’
this country must know, that the bill which
was pending before the Senate yesterday did
not affect in the slightest degree or repeal a
single provision of a single statute to which ho
referred previous to 1865; not one; I sflirrn it
with confidence, not ono. When the bill shall
become a law, if it shall become a law, the acts
of 1789, and of 1792, and of 1795, and of 1897,
and all those other acts will remain perfect and
complete just as they always were before the
passage of the act of 1865. They will not bo
repealed, they will not bo changed, they will
not be modified in ono singular particular.
That is not the woist. I have tho Senator’s
speech before mo, audit is a labored effort to
impress upon tho country what the Senator
would not say in precise language himself,
but to impress upon the country tho idea
that Washington and Jefferson andJacWm,
and all the d ; stinpnisiiod Presideats of thi“"
country anil the Congresses oftheir day in'p&BH
ing these laws had tho purpose in view of en
abling the President to omploy the Army to
preserve the poace at the polls, and that by
passing this bill and declaring now that the
Army and Navy shall not be brought to tlm
polls during tho elections we are coming in
conflict with those statutes that come down to
us from tho days of Washington; and yet every
Senator knows that there is not a word of that"”
oorrect, as I have stated.
Why, sir, tho act of 1795 and tho other acts
alluded to by tho distinguished Senator from
Vermont were not intended to give the l’reni
dent power to use the Army to koep the peace
at the polls, or to interfere with the elections,
and that. Senator know that it was impossible
that that legislation could have had such a
purpo-e. Why do I say that he know it ? Bo
cause during all those years of our Republic
there was no law enacted bv the Cougressof tho
Uu.ted States giving to the Federal Government
control of elections in the States. The Presi
dent could not send tho Army and Navy to en
force a tilalo law: ana every law during the ad
ministration of Washington and Jefferson and
Madison, and soon down, regulating the time,
place, and manner of holding elections, evon
j’or members of Congress, was a State law; aud
even if the power had been conferred by tho
Constitution upon Congress to enaot laws to
regulate these elections, that powor had not
been exercised. Now, why should a distin
guished Senator like the Senator from Ver
mont get up in the faco of this conntry and
make an elaborate argument to prove that the
purpose of this legislation is in conflict with
the legislation of 1789, and 1792, and 1795, and
1807, when he knew that at the time of tho en
actment of those laws the Federal Government
ma le no pretension to regulate elections, had
no law to enforce on the subject of elections,
and left the regulation and conduct of elec
tions exclusively to tho States ? And if wo do
by legislation what tliiH bill proposes, that-is,
direct that from this time forward the Army
and Navy shall not be used to interfere with
elections, do we not re-enact what was the
practice, what was the custom, and what was
the law before tho war ?
But there is another proposition, and it is all
over the argument of tho distinguished Sena
tor from Vermont, the argument on tho as
sumption that when we take away from the
President tho power to u u e the military at
elections we take away all power from the
President, and he makes an argument to prove
that we not only take it practically for elec
tions, but wo take it away for all purposes.
Ho gave several instances to prove that a
criminal of any character against the laws of
the United States hi s only to make election
day a house of refuge, and for that day at least
he cannot be disturbed by the Army. He as
sumes, and bis whole argument goes upon the
assumption, that if tho Army cannot be used
the Federal Government is powerless. And tho
conntry is to be impressed with the idea that
we who favor this bill, wo who desire to pre
vent the use of the Army at elections, really
intend to destroy the power of the Federal
Government, even to enforce any law that may
exist on the statute book iij any matter.
Mr. President, the speech of the Senator
from Vermont ought to bo studied by every
statesman in this Union, for it shadows, as
that distinguished Senator only knows how to
shadow, the great distinction that lies at the
bottom of all the differences between tho two
parties that now contend for the mastery in
this Government. This whole argument goes
upon the idea that there is no protection for
the citizens of this country save by the military
arm. This whole argument of the honorable
Senator from Vermont is replete with the idea
that when you withdraw the Army or” fail to
furnish the military arm for tha protection of
the citizen, he is without protection; when
you fail to give the President the Army and
the Navy to enforce the laws, the President is
without power to enforce the laws.
Well, sir, if we have arrived at that condi
tion of things, our condition is indeed lament
able. We haTe been taught from our youth to
believe that this was a country of self-govern
ment, that the people are able to protect
themselves, that freemen did not need a stand
ing army and a navy to protect themselves—
protect themselves from themselvo*. It has
not been customary to teach our peoplo that
they must look to the arms of military power
through a Federal centralism for the protec
tion ard preservation of their rights; and yet I
challenge any gentleman to give this speech a
critical reading, and it goes altogether on thn
assumption that if military protection is with
- there is no protection worth having re
maining, and the practical result of the Sen
ator’s argument is to show that by passing tbs
bill, which simply declares that the army and
the navy shall not be used at the polls, we re
peal all the acta which authorize the enforce
ment of the laws previously passed, and leave
the President powerless to enforce the laws
and the citizens without protection. ’
pi heard a similar argument from that dis
tinguished Senator on another memorable oc
casion. I noticed it then, and I call the atten
tion of the conntry to it now. I heard it on
one of those bills during the last Congross be
fore us making appropriations for the Army,
in which there was a clause prohibiting the
Army from being used as a posse comitatus to
execute tho laws. If Senators will turn to the
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