The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 28, 1885, Page 1

"| confederate state senate) ) on » Connecticut (Mr. Hawi United States be, and he is here | requested, if in his opinion it he | jern peop! rincempattble with the public jin that ternble struggic to day he- » ‘ i 1) Y the J2th. : in hea d oa the pro- ): ‘ . A és eee : posed with all my torce measures Sth of January, which will bell cs ‘ 1 6eNe D> d. E and i thou Tie « Rol t : he : helming majority of the South- | i @ : a. URI, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 28. 1885. NO G 1 PPO A mm Ae ] aueNwa in| ee Hey ii ods in departments at at PTT V y. that he was a mem- } ern conted erest, to communicate tothe SEN-| Hiege, that Jefferson Davis was ash! Itowill do vou good to look through and save you lots of eH oe cco : , . {the God he worshiped. He made a ns —— ne ve ees ee cere : Occ? anistakes unquest onably, and), age z evaeenmesst aby br Ta i | frou Missouri t war department by Gen. Wm. who would not? Met and surround- ' | 8 ' 3 x v 5 ca “ i i + r ret + 2 able ¢ ict probably the whole matter | eprobated, it ix not desirable that ught probably the whole matter j Be A Pause =) 8 ae ee oa. who would not have been mis fmemiber of tic Dociy: shout. cers et eee ceed Ee ; SPE per> SOOE Haken ant mible ordeal through = j : oe i eho i i * “®" | so often as the senator from Mis- | peor other, but very Tike | which he passed? But ! should hold | GSAS ean i ana eamic ayo Lr Ey, +] > \ : — : Z ‘ * ne document, only 1 th Hulett a See hoes | NDR Gn hoe soi { 5. Gk Hosiery, Notions, Trunks, Valises, Groceries, FOF ADEE A PPAI OS” Ete OUU efcetto the menione< of the aa : ¥ Z } : } i ; » the correspondent of the | pit is left to ' ‘ 5 5 : < : G tine { ‘ Cd Steck eoods in GB paper mmebethink 9 ma |Galthe tute isan ho le oma : i : ‘i eS = eRe Use if I did not state here x : a a Vernon mnbies. Everybody ordially iVitGCd TO VISIE On efore, 1 desired to have | mistaken in the xuthentic 4 Gen. Sherman is entire document in , assertion that the people ot the con- pe trom the government printing federate states did ce as a Very important part of the ory of the country. T still think flict. I say nothing of its merits, I worth while to do that, not for | sav nothing of its history, [sin sake of revivii | | make an svowal here in be taking | any controversy a hing hi so. or : nything of that rt, oF absent man, who has suffered much, part in any personal quarrel, but use of its histor‘e r. Vest: ! importance. T very much j history, and who is entitled to ths regret) ayowal trom one who shares with introduction of this resolution, i - : | him to-day the responsibility of that atas a 5 fecderate lav that as an exconfederate I have | Struggle and its results. slightest objection to the largest | aus Se | Mr. Morgan: unt of publicity to the political Gen. Sherman ry of the late confederate states, 2 . = & i . | nal connection with the army of the regret it tor the reason that Mis, -. . } z . jt nited States he has access to the es the senate of the United States | | war department for th pas © purpose of e attitude of becoming indirect- | Pe . - ae a conducting his private quarrels. least a party to a personal con- | Mais : k- Now, sa. sh: i fte! sy in the public papers of the} ' Bae x ey : es ee se i this paper has been ordered by the United | pay s i lered by the senate of the United again re-j : | printed and made an executive doc- | I we deny to Jeffers: : try. The senate of the sh id over SOV ito make investigation even l ° ment? ha member ot o ay this body rose vIS > name of common alled attention to libels upon in the public press, but the rule fe senate has been, and I pre- manity, night to make his state ment and send it to the war depart- ment and have it sent to the senate of the United States im the that it will be adhered to in uture, to remand any same senator eaBe has complaint of this sort to | form? For, while it may be true fiediesiteenmned by eos that one of these citizens is under a country and by an appeal to | disabihty in respect to his civil rights + jan vers, isn r that } as opmien through the same | nd powers, it is not true that he is i = : - Se She ny less a a na n. 2 mM of communication by which | 27¥ ‘es # Man than Gen herman because of that. While it may be {so the not sympathize | with their leader in that terrible con- | assumes that because he has a nomi- | Hs {the loyal people of that state, tor | whatever may be thought of his past | wre See i ‘: | concerned he never was accredited } bmammoth store, M. S. COWLES M Corner Park Ave., and 6th st. confederate states senate. The state of Missouri was never out of the Union; there never was governor that cou there never was a ie ature tha rit, bur there are state-! cou from the confederacy he would put Pelect bins; and in the name « ments there and letters of a. striking! that down by military coercion of the confederate government. That is 1 | the statement which Gen, Sherman { 2€ a part not of the news-—| s speak, 1), character, which in my judgement, protest against the continual i repeti- ; may becon made ‘There is no question of his- | | we sentiments that Ij day, but of : : i \ Grst i torical fact in relation to the chara ‘ter of that movement between Gen. me J ever j have heard the senator fron: Mise souri so often make. f It is out— ) Sherman and Mr. Davis. RICH ERCANTILE CO. FULL. cission upon the issues involved that terrible conflict. But the sena tors on this side of the chamber te impute disloyalty to the oath that we have taken to support the constits tron ot the United States, ‘The senator says that I have been in the habit of alluding to the fact im Mr. Sherman: Mr. President, I may ase pa ; tT Sherman: : me : published before—he produces reso j side of the record, aad when he says|a spirit of boasttulness that I had Should not have s: 2a word about or oe ae . : hould not hav id a We : ee rea een seetine ot |that there is no personal controversy been a member of the contederate ithis matter, being restrained by a utions adoptec vy 2 meeting ot States and! it will be very much a matter of sur- ‘prise to Gen. Sherman to learn that | } so Se oe | between these two distinguished gen- : > | nen his statement comes in direct ith one of the | from the Southern States who were ter nen his statement c ec t sense of personal delicacy on = ac- Democratic count of my relation w conflict with the assertion of Gen. en named in the ] futi about to participate in the Rebellion | gentler esolution, u i age niapiEtay : {Sherman himself, tor, when he was in which they resolved that they but for the fact that senators en the | interviewed bv the press of St. 1.ours} as to Mr. Davis’. denial, he world orgamze a seperate govern- gard this as a mere personal contre. ; MEME CANE H ment, at Mon‘gomery, A'a., and | fixed the day, the same day that was| otber side of the house seer to ee f ther side of the hou cem r refused the ec derate govern <e a statement, and said: versv between twocitizens. I know | is not for the press of the ountry; it is a personal matter be subsequently adopted. Soest t A ne i faa {tween me and Mr. this 1s a controversy between h They | ality ot rade by G c. = mee a { ipersonality of itis made by Gen. and Jefferson Davis. He says ia | tee of three persons—not of two BS oan himself the correspondence that he does not | the senator from Connecticut errone- | Mr. Vest- Mr. President; I havea know Jefferson Davis; he did not / ously stated—consisting of Jetterson ies words to say = , Ww $ y of | Davis : Mr. Shdell and Mr. Ma 2 = . see — w capes was —o of | — is was € ell = : ial | Sy ne en eee > yas a y, fory, should be appointed oO carry . . - ee od Coe aay eas as e “| duige in no debate that arises in this and he never has had any personal | into execution the resolutions adopt- | The + * : rs Tr t + | relations with him whatever. There- | ed, and that 1 portion of them should 1 Dasacterio€ debate aiachic theaene remain in congress so as by their} a eae aaa 2 lator from Kansas always indu'ges 1s Davis.’ so resolved that a commit- miselt body without being personal. tore there was no controversy of a 1 Ithat vosition in the senaie. It is not true. ‘The record of this senate show that upon twe occasions only have I ever alluded and then from the nature of the de hate—to the tact that I had occupied contederacy once when I dehvered a eulogy up- on Mr. Hiil, with whom I had serv- ed in the confederate senate —every senator will recognize the appropri ateness of the allusion at that time and again to-day, when in order te assume the full share of responsi ty which is sought now in certair quarters to be put upon Mr. Davis for the war, and its results, I alluded in passing, to the fact that I had oc cupied the position in the confeder ate senate that I occupy herete-day el was inflicted personal character between true that he is under the reprobation teelings toward Gen. Sherman On the other hand Gen. Sherman, a poray citizen ot St Louis, attends by invi- sonally of the kindest descrip So ene econ tloved by milhons in Umted them. | | operations in the South. If that 1s | | = § ot at ok pot Grobe ee eit a é : | ess ae constituent, and I i the United States because of his tation the Frank Blair grand army | € my personal friend; I have connection with the rebellion, at is | post, composed of seldiers, their Teason to think so: but it is | UONe the less true that he is yet be-/ wiyes and fammes. In the course votes to prevent congress trom tak— ing measures to defeat or delav their) whatis? Think of it!) That mem-| bers of this body should conspire to-} ' impressed most emphatically upon the records of the sen _ -,. .{ ator is averbal horror and an not a conspiracy, in the name of God; = terror. The sen- oral common law In the ola 'there was an offense calied that of being a common scold, or communts justice (and justice to a man} m th y be great diversi- | opinion, but whois still entitled | i { ; i t While it may be Was actively States. that he ainst the ere mg cone government of the Umted States in id honest trial betore this ; z F other tnbunal) to say that the | open = tare and as the presi eof this reagioon commits the confederacy during the time ot ate of the United States in- | tee rebellion and the lv atleast to the side of this mal controversy which belongs strug- gles that were made between that and the government of the United States, :tis not true that he was any n. Sherman and his friends. x right, is it manly {mere particularly the enemy of the Mr« Davis. cannot. be | United States than I was or than upon this floor unless it as many senators on this floor to-day h the mouth ot some one who | Vere: Sto advocate} Mr. Ingalls: Mr. President.when- it | ever any question espouse and le of the centroversy—-s arises in Row to use the yovernment of H Mited States and its instrumen- | cts Jefferson Davis 1s mvolved the dem- ic party can always be found Davis. I om <Ala- in a personal controversy, no eu the side of Jefferson tT What may be its senator fr merits, no; have heard the Twhat may be the position of ities to ir? bam: repeatedly air t same senti- ments he has expressed to-day. ‘by his millitary rank to make an ex- | tor Gen. Sherman than myself. No which | {would be regarded as a matter of | that there 1s no man on this floor f that meeting, entirely 7 772, | gether w sr the same oat A : me of i meeting, en acly Pine - | gether ees unde - 1€ same - h rixatrix, which was punished un- vith anv prepara > he calie anc ancti ab S ar ' 24 i it wit ent anv preparation ig is calle and sanction all of u e under, der the old English statute with the upon, in pursuance otf their customs, The senator savs I was | credited to the senate of the y: that there was no yovernor. no jegislature. from whom I could receive my credentials. Mr. Presi- dent, I received my credentials trom the governor of the state of Missow never ac confed ¢ ti, elected by 25,000 jority at s g a private chamber a _ should goto a private c e nd Muckineestook of to make a speech, and he does so, a i there with others resolve that they | briet ee ae: eR 4 eee i will aie Gas — up = a menttothe senator from ikancas. were substantially stated in the pub- | ot ours but actually prevent) . : : lic ane st St. iano et ga toatl from ae “teei | PU re ip at aEa Me If an officer of the army of the} and defending its life! That is a ie seas ee hie face in regard United States, whether retired or | Conspiracy, If that is not a conspir-| e se ae that comes up for not, has put upon him any insult | @cv God knows what 1s. } - 5 | discussion. whatever, which among gentlemen, Mr. Lamar: Iwishto bere say) a4, President can the issues ot the late war be brought into this ques- tion to-uay. The confederate states are dead. The soldiers that fought planation to the proper authorities, , senator here entertains a higher ad-| tor the confedercy and for the Union to show that the imputation upon his | miration for his military sazacit¥ | steep side by side. having illustrated honor is not correct and that he only jana genius. But Gen. Sherman} by matchiess deeds of valer the ne | | reproach, he is bound in honor and | who personally hus kinder feelings \ did what he was justified in doing in | was betrayed. by hs teelings and by! roism ot both sections. The epitaph speaking of an historical character. | misinformation. into an allegation | to-day 25 Thatis what Gen. Sherman did. ! and charg clers over That ts the letterthat he sent after | that a could be put upon them inst Jefferson Davis| was put by the old chror the chival no man Iry of the feudal ages: would not ot | time of profound peace. I receive course, prescribe any such punish- |mv election to the provisional com gress of the contederacy from a leg sslature elected by the people Missouri in a time ot profound peace and betore there was war flagrant » the state. I know that technical no state could secede; it is net my disposition to-day to go back int that question ; and but for this per- sonal allusion I sould not have don- so. And let me say now to the ser- lator from Kansas that my credentia® to the contederate senate or to the | United States senate were never die- | puted by my own constituc: am the knows what I reter to. | grom among the many testimon the following, written by; of Phelps Co, od we «ele Carter, 4 z : pre to the depart- | can ever susta is not! he® ights es “] have uscd Sherman's PRICKLY Asu mere Can come no guod tren Sir. L have heard the senator from oe read at letter. | the truth; andt is ool ohecnerecomadets rust. ee sc Westrgation. ts only esuit Missouri upon more than one oc- There is not a word of personal letter from Jeffcrson | With that declaration th hould ; . q rge it not as me oh- casion allude with something ot kindness to J son Da or that if a Sout! cat | any acrimonions «ise