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(Saaaaaaora ta Murray A Oardoa.) Tba fonowlBglrBt-alaaarampaBbaarapraarBtadi wik Rrlil.k h Maraantila Flra laa. Ca of Englaad f,0O0,0H gralll.k OommanUI lira la. Oa,, r (aglaad SlOOM.000 Nortk Amartaa.af Pklladalpkta ,1,M ptra AaaMlatlo. ft Pkltadalpkl 1,100,000 Watartawa Flra, Naw Yark, laaaraa larm praparlF aaly !"?'?? M.blla Flra Dapa.laa.nl laa, ua ...... iia,.'-" Paraama la tba amaatry wanllag iaaaraaM, aaa ka.a It pmptly aalaaad la by addraaatog aa la ma at by tataar. UaMM pMalbla ralaa la Orrl- 'rT-,ua. . nam (aaa la PM'a otar aw. AKURBW PERTkVwr, : T. BROORHAiii, CmarAald, Ma I. U70-ly. Af-u. WAR CLAIMS. SPEECH OK Hon. Benjamin II. Hill, OF (iEORGIA Delivered in the United States Sen ate, January 27, 1879. "Magnanimity Iii Vlrtary la a higher Vlr. ttte than Courage In llattlc.' Tba Banato, ao la Committtaa of tha Wbola, having und.r eon.ldcration tba bill (8, Ni-. S60) for Iba relial of Warrtu Milohcll Mr. HILL o aid: Mr. I'rkbiuint : I aupoo tbat we had an well meet horo aa anywhere the quoDlion niado by Ih is bill. I ehall role Bninnt it bccaime 1 think It ought not to nana. 1 am not driven to this ooume by whut in called policy, because tho gentlemen on the other oido are seek ing to mako political capital out ol' this and like claima. I am Influ enced by no snch coneidoratlon. On tbe contrary, if I were influenced in this cusc by tho precedents which Re publicans hare set us in proriouiCon grciuies, I should feel constrained to vote for the passage of this bill. I know that by act of Congress tbe United .States Government have paid some very large claims for cotton Hoized by Generul Shoiman at Savan nah ; and if the Senator from Massa chusetts Mr. Hoar, as is-implied by the question ho propounded to tho Seuator from Kentucky Mr. Mo Creory, takes iho position that none of the cotton seir.oti by Uenoral Shor man at Savannah ought to be paid for by the Government, then tho Senator from Massachusetts takes position against tho payment of claims tbat bavo bocn allowed by the United Status Government and by act of Congress. Hut 1 have not investigated to see which way that Honiitor voted on the question. It would be entertaining and interesting to examine and see how he did vote. One claim for eotton seized at Savannah by General Sher man, amounting to over f 500,000, was paid by the votes ut a Republican Con grats when tho House and Senate were both, 1 believe, about two-thirds Repub lican. Mr. CONKL1NG. What case was l hut ? Mr. HILL. The caso of Lamar. Tbat was a very large claim. It cer tainly had very little loyalty behind it to push it through. I suppose we must concludo that that case was large enough to go through Congress by its own momentum. Mr. DAWES. Wasnoltliat a judg ment of the Court of Clniins ? Mr. HILL. I have no recollection that it was. It may have been passed upon by the Court of Claims. 1 do not rotnember. Mr. DAWES. 1 think It was. Mr. HILL. Certainly there was nothing In that cuso wbicb made It better than Ibis and many others either before that Court or before Congress. 1 do sot know how that got through. Mr. DAWKS. Idonotallirm thatit was, but I will inquire. 1 think it was. Mr. UlLlj. I only say to tbe Sena tor from Massachusetts that whether it went throughonc tribunal oranother, 1 happen to know it went through un der Republican auspices. 1 mention this simply to show tbat I an not thtnic our Irionds on the other side should be at this late day exceedingly virtuous on this subject of loyal claims. I have not made tbe examination. Others profess to have made that examination, and '.hoy say not only this claim but claims amounting to a hundred million dollars of liko character have been paid by tho ilcpublican parly during the last ton years. I do not know whether they have or not ; I am not a man to delve in this kind of records ; but certainly we do know tbat a very large number bavo been paid, amount ing to very large sums of money. So, if 1 should follow precedents in this case, the precedents set by gentlemen on the other side, I should feel it my dutv to vote for this bill. 1 am willing to concede, too, that this gentleman now asking rcliot at the bands of tho Senate is not in the character of a great many others. Ho is most evidently an honent man from all the evidence I bavo. 1 know bim but slightly personally ; but I have a great many letters I mm a great many Demons in relation to bim, and I am satisfied from all tbe evidence that he is not only an honest man, but tbat he is incapable of preferring a claim be fore this body, or any body, that he does not beliove to be just and right. I believe all that the Senator from Ken tucky has said on tbat subject is cor rect. So I do not vote against this claim because 1 have any suspicion that the gentleman who prefers it is anv other than an honest, correct man and that he sincerely believes bis claim ought to be paid. But, Mr. President, I vote against ibis bill because, in my judgment, it is what we call par exctllcnct a war claim, and I am against the payment of all war claims, whether they be loyal or dtsloval. unless it be perbaps some lew exceptions in favor ol religious, educa tional, and cbaritablo institutions ; and there are very few even ot that char acter tbat I will except. 1 vote against their pavment upon principle. 1 have considered this quoelton very carefully, anil for a long time, and to-day is the first occasion 1 have expressed publicly inv views upon the subject, because I did not desire to express them until after carelul consideration of me ques tion. Now, why do I vol against this claim T It is, as 1 have said, emphati cally a war claim ; tbat is, it is a claim for compnatiopj by reason ol losses incurred during tbe war and by ae oi war. My Brat reason lor not voting tor it i that we cannot pay all of tbis kind of claims. Tbey would bank rapt the Government. H i impossi ble that the Government should be ex pected to pay all these claima and elaim standing on as good footing aa this in every respect If we cannot nay them all, to undertake to pay eome la unjust to tbe rest ; it ta an nnjust discrimination ; and why should it be made T On this subject of loyalty it la a cari ous spectacle to witness in the Senate of tha United Statos my excellent friends on the otbor aide wbo ire anx ious to prove tbat this gentleman waa disloyal, and therefore vote against this claim, ana some gentlemen on idw side ooem exceedingly anxious to prove that be waa loval ana tnereioro win vote for bia claim. I shall not trouble mvself to consider tbat question. The Question of fovaltv M on that must yet receive its definition in tibs coun try. 1 1 has never yet received it, Tbe word " loral " aa used br gentlemen on tbe otber aide, and tbe word 11 loyalty " at all, in any Judgment, is net a word rrprknbto in a popular OovWMtaM. I do dislike, I confess, to hear it. What do you mean by " loyal 7" Do you mean by " loyal a man who was devoted to the onion of the States un der the Constitution f If you thus define ft there are thousands, many thousands, In tbe South wbo are and ever have been loyal in tbe highest sense. It was an easy matter for gen tlemen living in Maine and New York and Massachusetts during tho terrible ordeal through which we passed to proclaim their devotion to the Union a very easy matter. Everybody con curred with tbem. It would bave re quired some courage for my friend bora Mr. Allison in Iowa to have said that be waa not for the Union. And where it waa such an easy matter to have professed unbounded devotion to the Union, 1 do not think that such profession baa much merit in it - Hot further down where tba sun waa warmer and tba feeling were more heated, it required courage when the tost was made for a man to say he was devoted to the Union. Tbat man ia entitled to some credit, and I do know there are thousands and tens of thou sands who, undor tba most trying ordeal to which human courage waa ever subjected, stood up ami pro claimed their fidelity to the Union to tbe last moment. Yea, air, there were thousands of men throughout the Southern States who were fearlessly defending the preservation of tbe Union, and resisting the current tbat was against tbem, when hundreds and thousands who for years bav been loudly blatant in declaring their devo tion to tbe Union where it waa safe to do so, would not have dared to open their mouths on that line. Yet tbeae gentlemen up here ure par txcelltnct loyal, and Ibbso gentlemen down there who fought against aocossion until it became an accomplished fact and sub mitted to disunion as they would sub mit to tbe doath of a father, from necessity only, and then in Borrow and saduess ol heart, are denounced as dis loyal becauao they did what they could only do in tboir conscience or fact, go with their own people when they were determined to go and did go these men are now held op a disloyal, and Senators in this body aro exerting their wits and exhausting their patience and Industry to find some little circum stance that may taint somebody with disloyalty for the purpose of defeating bis rights I Aa 1 say, this question ol loyalty baa yet to receive a definition. It has not yet received a proper defini tion, and cannot be properly defined until passion sball subside, and sound reason be fully restored. I know thousand of men wbo were ready to give everything to prevent the act of secession, who were devoted in their hearts and livea to the preserva tion of the Union ol theso States; wbo felt conscientiously bound under the teachings ot tbeir tile time and under tho ciroumstancea tbat surrounded tbem, compelled aa they wore neces sarily, compelled conscientiously, not by duress, compelled by nonest convic tions aa the result of a policy which they did not approve, to go aa they did go ; and, air, I know that they were just aa devoted to tbe Union as gentle men who in a ainerent Climate ana on more convenient occasions could safely proclaim tbeir loyalty and who are now denouncing them ao disloyal. It is all rong, Mr. 'resident. This gentleman I dare aay waa a Union man. I know thousands of Union men In the South who war nev er guilty of an act of infidelity ta tbe Confederacy and whoyut never aaw tbe hour nor tba moment that they wouia not have terminated tbe war on tbe basis of honest re-union. Tbey were ready at all time to do It and their senlimeuta were not oonoealea, yet they went with their eeclion. Shall we say that this ia disloyalty, and tbat thov only were loyal who desirea mat one section should become me conquer or of another tection of a common country 7 Is tbat what you mean by loyalty 7 If you mean by loyalty devo tion to the Union, desire to preserve the Union, dostro even that tbe result of the conflict on term honorable to both should be tbe preservation of tbe Union it that is the meaning ot loyal tv. there are thousands and millions in the South who were loyal and always were loyal. But if you mean by loy alty a desire that one section of a com mon country abould become the con. oueror ot another section, it will be a fatality for tbis country it anybody is loyal. I am not ashamed to aland up here and say tbat I believed tbe great est possible calamity tbalcould happen to tbis country waa for one section to become tbe conqueror ot another sec tion of a common country ; and yet the Bun has never shone for an bonr when in my heart of hearts the highest political ambition I ever bad waa not to see the American Union nnder the Constitution preserved, perpetuated, and obeyed forever. And yet, sir, there never was an hour when I would not have laid down my life and my all rather than bave Been one section of a common country become tha conquer or of another section of that same com mon) country, and I believe tbat the wiae men of this country will yet wake up to the fact that tha greatest trustor. tune that has ever belallen ns among our many misfortunea is the fact tbat a Buccesstul party to a sectional war obtained Immediate and unchecked control of tha wbola Government ever both sections. So tbis talk about loyalty and dtoloy ally has no weight wbatevor with me in this case. 1 vote against tnta otii from higher and different considera tions altogether. I aay that it tba vl. denoes of loyalty in this case are to ba aoeeptad aa eatisfaetory, and if tbat aennition oi ioyay -arnica a uuim. n. tha otalv Draper on la to ootain, man there are thousand of men wbo bav baea wronired. reduced to noverty, at tar porerty, Sontb, who, "In time tbat triad nan's souls," gave higher eridmae of devotion to tba Un ion than baa baaa give by equal thou sands who ar aa ready to denounce tbemaarebela. It la vary wall lor genii men wbo hava never bean put to tha test, it i vary wall for gentleman wbo hava never naa weir courage tneaj, vat well for gentlemen wbo bav v. r been where ft required courage to defend tba right aa tbey neiievea it, verv well rur B-enueme wbo eonia get nj In the North and any tbey war for tba Union and receive tba andmowd plaudit ot every listener, vary wall for gentleman of that eort to talk about tbeir devotion to tha Union and tbeir loyalty, but I tell lb era tbeir devotion aad lovallr baa navar been lee tad Sir, 1 bav ea men lino I bava been in the American Cawgreaa wbo bava beta, on all oecaeiona, parading their devotion to tba Union and aaiag everv oocaeioa to draoanc Soul ham men aa disloyal, who, la Bay beart of bearta I kauarva, a tbey aad . uvea ta tba floats, would bava rivaled William 1 Yaaer m their oVavoWoa to Tby hwB aaa lamparament, aaaa aVBiiaailisa, to aaa aaavw of mind, and tbey would go on which ever side waa popular, whether in tbe North or in tbe Sooth, perhaps honest ly ao. The gentleman to whom I bave alluded waa honest in hia convictions. A gentleman of naturally extreme tem perament and extreme ways of think ing will take an extreme position in one climate or the alber. The people of this country ought to wake up to the conviction tbat tba lata war was an honest war ; it was a war based upon honest differences. (The people of tbe South had been taught to believe in wbat was called the sovereignty of the States, but the first people who talked about secession were tbe people of New England. Tbe North believed one way, the South believed tbe other. Tbe North was opposed to slavery, the South was in favor of ft ; but yet the South did not bring 4a alavea to this country. It waa an honest difference of opinion on tbe power ot govern ment and tha rights of property, and each man who was faithful to bis own side ought to command tbe respect of every man on each side and on both aides. 1 like courage tbat is exhibited in defense of honest convictions, wheth er those convictions be right or wrong. 1 do not like tbat courage tbat is loud nt when it is wftst. Human courage under all circumstance M a thing for human admiration. We are told in classio verse tbat the vory gods look upon It with favor, and 1 admit that those gallant men of tbe North, Dem ocrats and Republicans alike, who met and slew the Hotspur of secession in the day of his vaunted power and strength were the right royal heirs of a truly regal heroism. But Ihete men who, thirteen ytart after thit Hotspur hat been dead, art forever exhibiting their t'alstaflian courage by flicking their TOX (J UE-8 WORDS in the thighi of thit dead hotspur for no purpose but to claim undeserved rexcardt and honort from a deluded people, are not entitled to the respect of either gixts or men. I ao not say that anybody ia doing it here, but this perpetual talk about loyalty and disloyalty, this perpetual talk about rebels, is all wrong, it doea not come from a magnanimous spirit. Magnan imity in victory it a higher virtue than courage in battle. It it of the very essence of Divinity ittell. And why cannot toe American people, North and South, wake up to realize tbe fact that four million, or eight million if you choose to call tbem ao, of people in tbe South honestly differed on questions of politi cal duty and allegiance with a larger number, twenty millions or more, in the North, and unfortunately went to war on tbe subjeet 7 Tbe war is over ; the Union is restored ; it is time that we should leave the passions of tbe war where 1 propose to leave it losses behind. But. Mr. President, I bav been be trayed into saying a great deal tbat 1 did not intend to say. I merely intend ed to give my reasons briefly why 1 cannot vol for this or any otber like ill. I will proceed to give another reason. To pay soma ol tneso diiis ana not all of tbem, ia not only unjust in fact but unjust in its effects. Those wbo are not paid and are equally de serving hava to be taxed in order to oompeusat tbos who are paid. Now, there are tens oi tnousanas oi people in the South who lest everything in tbe war, wbo were devoted to theUnion aa far aa seatiment oould make them de voted, and who were faithless to the Union only in obedience to circum stances tbey could not control and a power they couia not resist, iney lost everything. Are you to tax them In order to pay my friend from Ken tucky? vYby,Bir,throughoutlheSooth there are thousands upon tnousanas oi soldiers who went to tbo war and who lost evervlhinz, lost their arm, lost their legs, lost their health ; many of tbem lost tbeir lives, l bey can never get anything for tbeir losses; tbey will never bbk anytning iur auu.r iuw. Nobody in this Hall on either eide of it wonld pretona to pay one oi tnoe men or their widows and orphans for their losses. Tbe maimed Southern soldier will never come here and ask for a pen. sion : bis widow and orphans win nev er aak for a pension. They accept their lossea a the penalty ot failure, aa orav men ought, Am l to tax mew people, these wonnded and limping sol- diera. tbeir destitute widows and or phans in tba Booth, a groat many oi whom bave'notbing but their land, and many bave not tbat -am I to tax tbem for the purpose of paying those claim ant that com here and aay tbey must be paid because they are loyal, and when mv loval frionde on too otbor side will not believe tbey were loyal at that 7 It ia not right. The fact of the business I tbat tbe war which w have baa in many re spects cannot be judged by tbe rules which bav neen eaiaoiioueu lor urui nary wars. It was a peculiar war, a war of a sectional character. It was a war between citizens of tbe same country unfortunately divided by sec tional linea. ion cannot repair in losses of the war. You oould not do if tou were to undorlak to do it, and, in my judgment, the sooner our people in the South are taught not to ba looking' nero vo uovernmsna iur aua reparation of their losses, the sooner thev are taught that the only means by which tbey can repair their losses is to go to wora nae uuueai, men muu do it bv frugality and industry and time, tbe better it win o lor tnom, tu batter it will be for the country. Tbe tens of thousands throughout tbe South who are best entitled to pay, viewed from anv stand-point, who are the most deserving, wbo made the greatest sac rifices, who ar in too moai neea, can naver cot on dollar of compensation, and will never ak one dollar ol com pensation ; and I protest against tax ing them to pay a lew others who bave the ability to come her and worry Congress into granting tbem compen sation. Let tbe losses of the war go, and if people want to avoid losses by ware in future let tbem be taught to avoid having war at all. That is the best wy. I think, sir, an parties augnt io taxe this position. It Is a Httle painful to m to see mntlemcn ol one parly seek ing to make political capital out of cases oi inie kidu, wa v.uv. a.uv protesting tbat it ia not right. Why not agree to vase vo. wmmuu puviaiv.., that these war losses cannot be paid 1 Tba Government ia not able to pay them : tka Oorercmwt ought not to oar them. In view of their peculiar character and tba circumstance of tha war, and tha aooaer tba people are taught that, tba better, and let these constant Irritation about tbe payment of war losses oease. As 1 said, I might mak a tew eioepilon in favor of re ha-ioas. educational, or charitable insti tutious. but I should mak very few of that sort Where lb property da stroyvd waa of each a character as to be oi rrwatiMiWieianporUoc and great pub- bo benefit, not onry to on section oi lb eoantry, bat to all aniiona of tba eon a. try. I reaM think It weald b lagitf. aAtMprapAaMrbikB beasat to RE pay that kind ol loss. There are, I think, porbapsa few cases of that kind, but put tbem altogether, to far as my knowledge extends, they would not ex ceed bait a million of dollars. Mr. President, perhaps 1 ought not to take tho time of tho Senate, but I will give my idea of the character ot these war claims, loyal and disloyal, by an illustration from real inoidonts. 1 will give you, first, the character of a claim tbat will not be paid, and it is a type of many millions. Early in the month of September, 1805, it became necessary for me, in the discharge of a professional engagement, to travel one hundred miles in tbe immediate track of Sherman's march throgh Georgia. One day, about two o'clock in the af ternoon, 1 became exceedingly hungry. I said to tbe youth wbo was driving tbe hone : "You must slop at tbo first favorable opportunity and let me get something to eat" I shall never for get tbe expression or the young man. "Ah I" says he, "mister, I don't reckon you will find anything you will con aider fit to eat in tbis part of tbe coun try j Sherman has been along here." "Well," I said, "but tbe people in this part of tbe country live on something, do they not 7" "Ob, yes, but 1 don't hardly know how it is they live ; they seem to live, though." "Well," 1 said, "I can live one day on wbat they live on constantly, I am pretty sure, and therefore we will stop at the most favorablo chance apparent" It waa not long before we came to a very good- looking frame dwelling, two stones high, a dwelling of a character very well known in the South, conlainingsix rooms, well built, and indicating in for mer times a country family well-to-do in the world. The fencing was all gone. Tbe chimneya were standing on tho outside, showing tbat tbe outhouses had been burned, but there atood the main dwelling ; and I said to the young man : "Stop bore, and I will see if I can get something to eat ;" and I went in. I was met at tbo door by a vory excellent looking lady, modest, but evidently refined and educated, aa she turned out to be a country luny oi great hospitality, but with evidence ol poverty all around ber, and she look ed prematurely old. She said to me when 1 made known my purpose oi stopping, " hy, my dear sir, 1 would ba glad to give you anything that I could, but I have nothing that you will have I suppose, nothing tbat 1 feel In clined to otter you." "Anything that you bavo," 1 aaid, "will suit me, be cause 1 am exceedingly hungry." She aaid, "I can prepare for you nothing' but some potatoo and soma eggs, but I have nothing in wbicb to cook the potatoes except the ambers ; we are In the habit of roasting them in the aabes. I bave nothing in which to cook the eggs except the ashes or a broken skil let I have not a whole pioce of furn iture or a whole kitchen impliment on the premises ; everything is broken." She banded me a seat. She said : "I have banded you the best seat I have, and the back of tbat is broken aB you see." "Why iaallthisr "Why," she said, "Sherman's army passed along here and did alt this. wen, i told her tbat 1 would take the potatoes and eggs, and aha put them in the asbea accordingly, and while they were roast ing I said to ber i "Will you please give me an account of your experience and trials wbsn Sherman'a army pass ed along here 7" She aaid she would. I cannot give it all to the Senate, but oenaiuiy it waa una ui ma muat, intvi- esting narrative I ever listened to in my lite. The lady waa one wbo had married abouteight years before tho war began. She was well raised and graduated at j - i . r. T c , i a leraaio college in ueorgta. odd anu ber husband settled tbat place and built that bouse ; they bad about one thousand aero of land, thirty slaves, and all needed personality, and were entirely out of debt, and perfectly bappy. l hey naa inree children corn to them, the oldest at the time of my visit being only twelve yean old. air. tni.n.. Jur. x roeiucni, i ucaire to ask whether Warren Mitchell got any of that woman's eggs and potatoes or not. we aro trying bio rase now, not hers. Mr. HILL. I will come to Warren Mitchell's case. I will show you bow it applies to Warren Mitchell's case, but I shall do it in my own way. it turned out tbat her husband went into the Confederate army and lost bis lite in one of tbe battlea in Virginia. Hia remains were brought home and buried in eight of where wo wero sit ting. About a year after bor husband was killed in Virginia in tho Confeder ate army, Sherman's army passed through Georgia, and all her slaves except one, her cook, called Aunt Millie, left Tbio aunt Millie was raised with tbis lady, and nursed her in ber infancy and was given to ber by her father ; and she said she would never leave her under any circumstances, and she remained with ber. But to mako a long story short, everything tbey had was taken. All the stock, all tbe provisions wore taken away. Everything that could not be carried away was killed or broken or burned, except one cow, two banksof potatoes, and one small crib of corn. The cow wad saved by Aunt Millie claiming it aa her own, which she did for the pur pose of saving it The corn-crib was saved in this way ; tbe lady sat in her bouse with ber three children and saw everything being burned ; seeing the torch about to be applied to the last corn-crib she summoned courage ana went out with her babe in her arms and ber two little children by ber side and aaid to the officer wbo seemed to have charge of the sport : " Sir, have yoa a family at home 7 " The officer aaid ha bad a wile ana two children. ' What would you think," aaid she, "if a Southern army should pass through your country and take the last mouth ful ol oread your wtie ana cnuarea bad?" Tha offloer waa a man. He lifted his bat most gallantly and then said to bia squad, " Don't fire that crib,'' and said to tbe squad in the garden, "Don't disturb further those poUtoea," and that is the way the lady saved tha erib of corn and banks of po tatoes. I tha mean time tha aquad bad ron into the bouse, pulled down all tba pictures, defaced the walls, broke all tbe furniture, broke every thing she bad In tbe sbapa of kitchen atentt's, and carried off all ber silver war and cutlery. Tb last sb saw ther were pulling tba covering from the grave of her husband, and sup posing they were going to take bis body off, aba fainted away. But Aunt Millie stopped tbem by telling them " for God'a sake not to make war on tbe dead." and ther li ft. This M a literal fact. That woman had raised a patch of on acre of potatoes and one small field ot corn, working with ber own bands and aided by this good woman Aant Millie, and her three lit tle children, end they had lived on tbat aaant allowance from tba time Sher man's army passed by nntil 1 met ber. Mow, Wbat woman win never com PUBLICAN, bora to bave ber losses repaired ; she win never come here with a claim De- fore ConirreM and ask tor compensa tion. And now I will give yoa another claim. A few weeka atler 1 took my scat as a member of tbe HouBe in tbe Forty-fourth Congress, I received a card one day by a messenger wbo said that a lady dosired to see ma in tbe Speaker's reception room. I went in. She was exceedingly well dressed. She had velvet and diamonds and laces all over her, and the first speech she made to me was to express the great gratification of all Georgians that I had been elected to uongress, " tor now," she said, " all Georgians will get their rights. She soon made known tbe animus of that speech, for in tbe next sentence she eaid she had a claim be fore Congress which she desired me to support, and abe knew I would sup port It because su was a ueorgia iaoy, born and raised in Georgia, and she knew I would support ber claim. " Well, who are yon 7 If you were born and raised in beorgia, why are you here in tba condition I see yon 7 " "Ob," she aaid, "when Sherman's army passed through Georgia they de stroyed my property, but," she added, I married one ot the Federal omcers, laughter and came North." nr. Hurt ti. nne look nor revenge in that way. Luughtor. Mr. lin.lj. lea, sir. sue man led a Federal officer. The first woman 1 mentioned lost ber husband in the Con federate army, and therefore is disloyal. The second woman married an officer in the Union army and therefore is loyal ! Well, bor statemeut waa true because she produced a very compli mentary and flattering letter from General 8herman. Evidently the letter was genuine and not dictated by a wo man. Jojenks in mat r.o. itip.i But I will aay in justice to General Sherman that 1 am satisfied he gave tbat letter more on account of the woman's husband, who was a Federal offlcor, than on account of her claim. I assume and believe be did. But I asked this lady " what is your claim for?" " Why," sbo said, " for poreonal property destroyed by Sher man's army." " How much ia your claim for 7 " Eight hundred thousand dollars," she said, whereupon 1 became bewildered, r.igbt hundred thousand dollars of personal property of one person destroyed by the warf Yes, she said, it was well proven, proven by the very omcers and men wbo destroy ed it, wbo set fire to it, and she named quite a number of Republicans in the House who she said bad promised lo vote for ber bill ; but tbey had told ber it waa very Important for her to gel a Democrat, and best of all a South ern Democrat, to introduce it. There lore she came to me aa a Democrat and a Southern Democrat from her own State her dear Georgia to in troduce ber bill. She aaid the Repub licaoB assured ber tbat if she would get a little re-enforcement from the South and from the Democratic party her bill would certainly become a law. I said to tbe lady, "it will be very dif ficult to make me believe tbat tbe whole country ever at one time had eight hundred thousand dollars' worth of personal property." But she said " It is ail nroven. it Is all rwht and the Republicans are ready to vote tor it I do not say tbey were t l can only tell you wbat the woman said, and aa she is loyal yon ought to accept ber aa a good witness, I Laughter. I Seeing that ber entreaties could do no good, she finally said to ma that 1 had to vote for ber bill ; that ah had a great many friends among tbe news paper men, and abe aometimoa wrote for tbe newspapers herself; and, look ing at me with all the air of oommand and of on having authority, abe said, " Mr. Hill, if you don't vol for my bill you will never go to tbe Senate." Thereupon, I made the lady a bow, gave bor flat refusal to bave anything to do with her or ber bill, and left. Those are Bpocimens of tha charac ter of what yon call Southern claims. This first claim will nover come bore ; the second and cases like it will always bo here ; and I saw this same claim of 1800,000 for the woman wbo became loyal by marriage and for whom Re publicans were ready to vole I saw tbo samo claim paraded through the Northern press in the campaign of in.o as eviuence mat ii tne ooutuern Democrat ever did get here in power and the Democratic party bad the ma jority, tbey would tak everything tbero waa in tbe Treasury. Jiow, should 1 vote to tax tbat woman who fed me on the eggs and potatoes to pay this woman in velvet laces, and dia monds? But this claim, says my friend from Kentucky, is not Mitchell's claim, to come to the honest truth of it? I have not an unkind feeling for Mr. Mitchell; 1 admit he is a good man ; but doc not everybody in the Senate know that it is a speculative claim ? Is it not a more speculative claim ? The woman I spoke of in Georgia lost ber living, the living ol herself and hor littlo children, and she doe not coma here lo ask yon for a dollar. Here ia a genlloman, a good gentleman, wbo went by permission of tbe military authorities Into the South during the war and bought a large amount of cotton by which he hoped to realize a tortune, as you all know. He took the chances ol war in bis speculation, and tho rbnnces wore againBt him. Sball we tax that woman who fed mo on the eggs and potatoes and tax the little land tbat she and her children are working for the purpose of paying these speculative osses ol .Mr. Mitchell r nouiu line right? Would it be just? I will not do it. All over the South there are hun dreds and tbonsanda of people, limping, weak, poor, impoverished by tb war, laboring as best they can for a bare sustenance, asking Congress for noth ing, not looking to the Government for compensation for tbeir lease, and here and there is some man who baa lost something, wba baa lost some property, or laueu vo mass wnai pe nopeu iur is some speculative venture, coming here and asking Uongress to nay losses, i for one shall not do it 1 am against these bills, therefore, upon principle. 1 do not need any constitutional amend ment to make ma vote against them. There will be a great many bard cases, I concede. . war is nothing out an ordeal of bard case, i do not know anvthina- nroduced br war except bard cases. - Yoa cannot repair all those hard cases. Mr. Mitchell ba a bard case ; but bis case is not harder than thousands ot other who lost like prop erly or other property, and who were just at loyal aa be was. Yoa cannot repair toes losses. Ml It go lonn, thorofore, tbat w tak the position distinctly and emphatically that tbo talk cf paying Southern war claims must end. Teach it to onr people, and to all tbe people, let all this political excitement on tb subject end. Mr. President, 1 am tb humblest man In tba Democratic party. That party, after eighteen years of absence, I trust and believe, ia about to return full-fledged to power. I think it will bava possession of every department of this Government. It certainly will have it if we convince the people North and South that wa doservo to have it ; lor evidently the peoplo aro well saliefiod tbat tbe Republican party does not deserve to be continued in power, and the only question with the people ia whether tbe Democratic party does deserve to bo Intrusted with power. If I had control ot tbe party, aa I bavo not, and shall never have, if my voice were worth anything, there are four things I would have the Democratic party to proclaim to the world in most convincing terms and adhere to with unflinching fidelity. I would have tbe party to say : 1. We will not pay war losses, loyal or disloyal, unless wa make a tew ex ceptions of religious, educational, and charitable institutions, and very few ot these. 2. Wa will vote no more of the pub. lio money and no more of the publio credit, and no moreot the public lands to build up or enrich mammoth mo nopolies in the shape of railroad cor porations. 3. we win in good taitn pay every dollar of tbe publio debt, principal and interest, in good money of tbe standard value. 4. WewillrestoretheConatituticnto tbe country and honesty and economy to its administiation, confining the general Government to its limited, dele gated sovereign powers to promote the local welfare of tbe peoplo. Do these four things, and, in mv judgment, the child is not born who will witness the termination of Demo cratic administration in this country, and the tongue ha not been gifted with language thut can express tbo prosperity which will follow to all our people in every section of our country. Should Parents Scold. It has neither reason, religion, common sense, nor experience to recommend it While there are reasons, manv and weighty, lo justify its total abolition. It sours the temper of the children ; so that one thorough scolding prepares the way for two or three more. It Bours your temper, provided it is sweet which is a question it you aro prone lo scold ; and thus the more you scold, the more you will have to scold, and because you have become crosser, and your children likewise. Scolding alienates the hearts ot your children. Depend upon it, tboy cannot love you as well alter you bavo berated them, as tbey did before. You may approach them with firmness and de cision, you may punish with severity adequate to the nature ot their otlenccs, and they will feci the justice ot your conduct and lovo you notwithstanding all. But thoy bate scolding. It stirs up tbe bad bleed, whilo it discloses your weakness, and lowers you in their esteem. Especially at night, when tbey aro about to retire, their hearts should be molted and moulded with voices of kindness, that they may go to their slumbers with thoughts of love stealing aiound tbeir souls, and whispering peace. A Colored Conflict The Atlanta (Georgia) Constitution, says: "An eternal warfare seems to rage between tbe country negro and the town darkey. Tbia was illustrated at the passenger dopot yesterday. A colored youth from 1 ike county approached a town negro, and tbe follow conversation en sued : " Whar bouts is de ticket office? " " Right dar fo' yo' eyes." " Fo' whose eyes f " Tone." ' Is yon de ticket office ? " " Look y or, nigger, don't you gimme none o' yo' slack. " I'm a mighty slack man, olo man, wen I gits stirred up." " An you git stirred up ef you stan' roun' yer fool in' longer wid me." " Dat'a de kind o' ex'cise wat I'm a pinin fer." And with that thoy clinchod anil bad a right lively tussle. They wero sep arated, however, before a poliroman came along, and the Pike county darkey found the ticket office. The town negro, it may be well to mention, was badly used up. Brotbor Talmage, of tbe Brooklyn Hippodrome, said in a recent semi ser mon that God liked tbe Mongolian type ot physiognomy so well thai lie bad made lour hundred million Chinamen and only ono Denis Kearney. It is due Divine Providence to say that while He has made several millions of clergymen in His time, Ho has never created but one Talmage. The Infer ence is that M r. Talmage is only an ex periment and tbore is no likelihood that be will be duplicated in a burry. An old Pennsylvania farmer says : "One night mine old dog Bombs bowls all the evening, and be howl like every tings when me and minolrau goto bed, and in the night Katrine she vake me up and aay, "Hans, I not sleep pretty much any. Bose be bowl ao, vat is de matter? And I say ."Somebody will be dead pretty quick already." And den wo go to sloop mit ourselves, and de next morning 1 look in mine paper, and, by jingo, dere was a man dead in Cincinnati. An Iowa bride shot herself because she heard that her husband bad anotb er wife. It turned out to be untrue, and she feels chagrined as she foels the bullet rattling against her ribs. fret ITcss. Another Illustration ol the soundness of tbe advice of Davy Crock elt or eome one else to suicides, nrst, be sure you're right, then shoot a bead, A colored firm recently dissolved nartnership and posted tbe following nolioe to th publio: "De dissolution of copaiships heretoto resisted betwix me and Mono Jones, in oo narnor pro fession am heretofo dissolved. Pussons who owe must pay to tbe subscriber. Dern wbat tbe firm oee must call on Jones, as de firm ia involved. A newspaper in tba inside coat pocket saved a New Yorker's lit from an assassin's bullet. Tbe time Is not far distant when it will be suicidal flora man not to take a paper. Now is the time to subscribe for our bullet proof Journal. Don I expose your lite to tbe pistol ot tbe assassin, fire terms at the head of this paper. Actual occurrence in a Chicago street car : Stylish lady holding a lap-dog is ia about ready to leav tbe car. Dog manifests impatience. Lady says, in sweetest tones: "Walt, darling, till mamma pot on bar gior. Th fbotprint of tha aavaga traced in tba hand la sufficient to attest the preaaaoa of man to tb atheist, who will not recognise God, whoa hand I Impramsd apoa th mire obIvsts. - NEW WABU1NUTN LOCAL INSTITUTE. Messrs Kelley, Boyle and Savage, Committee appointed to arrange for a Local Institute at New Washington, bave issued a programme teeming with sprightly subjects for consideration, and complete in every department Tbe time ia February 21st and 22nd. Commencing at 10 a. m , Friday. Tba District ia compotod of all tbe town ships and boroughs of that section ol the county, and teachers from all sec tions are cordially invited to attend. On Friday afternoon ltcv. G. B. Ague ' will deliver an address of welcome. In tbe evening J. II. Kelley, J. A. Gregory and Ben Garrett will lecture. On Saturday afternoon 1. F. McKen rick, Esq., will lecture on " Men of on Idea." Prof. J. A. Gregory will also lecture. In the evening A. R. Reed wilt lecture on "Education and Ele ment in Civilization," Smith V. Wilson, Esq., on "Character of Nero," M. L. McQuown, on " Dignity of Teaching. " Tbe Institute will be held in th Odd Follows' Hall. Good music will be furnished and a pleasant and profitable meeting ia anticipated. No teacher should remain away. INSTITUTE AT PENFIELD. Although wa were unable to attend the Local 1 nut i tut at Penfield, we are find to report a good meeting. Fri ay evening and Saturday's sessions were bold in tbe Presbyterian church. F.'G, Harris, Esq., lectured on Friday evening on the "Law Giver ot Israel." Rev. J . B. Greer, of Curwensville also lectured on "John tbe Baptist" A very large audienoe listened to these lecture. APPARATUS FOR THE SCHOOL ROOM. It is indeed alarming, th number of school bouses in this county, that are destitute of the useful articles of appa ratus. Many arejwitbout outline maps, globes or charts, the walls presenting a gloomy and dismal appearance. Be it said, however, to the credit of a num ber of Boards of Director, who bar manifested enterprise in tbis direction, that nothing more commendable could be attached to your official duties. The Boards of Decatur, Woodward, Morris, Girard, and a number of others pur chased tbe New School Map of Penn sylvania, for each of their respective schools. Nothing more useful could have been placed in a school room for tbat amount of money. We heartily endorse Dr. Wickersham's opinion tbat a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary should belong to every school house. PERSONAL MENTION. Mr. Frederick Shoff, President, and . Thomas Flick, Secretary of the Board, ot Bcccaria township, were acceptable companions during our visiting tour io that township. Rev. Hull, of New Washington; Rov. Berry, ot Wallaceton, and Rev. G. W. Stroup, of Karthaus, are engaged in teaching in their respective locali ties. COMPOSITION. The "Pleasure of Memory," written by Hannah aV. Tate, member of Bower &h0ol. What a dreary old world tbis would be it we had not tbe faculty ot remem bering, it an pleasures and enjoy ment aa tbey passed away would be forgotten, it tbe laces ot our dear friends would fade away from our minds aa soon aa we were parted from them. But it it not the case; we don't firopose discussing the power itself ooking into the different degrees wbicb exists within difterent persons but I would aay right here tbat many persons destroy their memories by reading great quantities or useless matter a novels, Ao. But it is " Th Pleasure of Memory" we wish to say a fow words about. Tbe boy when be becomot a man, bow bis thought re vert to hit childhood days. What a glowing description he can give of bis youth ; of bia sports, bis joy ; and even ot bis little Borrow The mem orie of aged persons may become ao shortened tbat tb transaction of yes terday, or even to day, are forgotten, yet the days of their youth are ever retained. The dear faces of lather, mother, brother and Bister are so im printed on tbe mind tbat they will never be obliterated. When loved onea bave gone to tbeir rest with tbe blest beyond tbe skies, how their good deeds, kind acts, pleasant smile, and delight ful associations, will crowd npoa ns. Then let us all ao try to live tbat we may ever have pleasant recollections. WHISPERINO. Everywhere tbe query comes lo me, " How would you stop whispering? " or, " What would yon do with whisper ing?" and, from its universality and frequency, I should judge it to be th one trial of the pedagogue's life. At the outset I should not deal with it a a tin. It is an annoyance, but it re quires very different handling from ly ing, stealing, slander, etc. To begin I should exert myself, to tbe farthest extent, to make my school, trom morn ing to night interesting. I would leave nothing nndonethatl could do to render my school-room, myself, and my classes attractive. I would see to it that my boys and girls are busy all the time. Then I would not expect to bring my school to perfection in a day or a week. 1 would work away on these more necessary matters for a while, and then if whispering or other d is- order scomod in the ascendant, I would try putting tbe golden rulo, " what ever ye would," etc., on tha board, in full tight of every one, and reducing all short-comings to a violation of this most comprehensive law. With a large percentage of the offenders a few ar guments will auffioa; and I know ol no belter argument to follow this than the clear necessity there is of all of ua learning concentration of thought Kinereon says a want ot thit is tb ain of the American natioa. Our pupile want to learn very soon, that when they bav become capable of studying earnestly and continuously for an hour, without thought-wandering, Ihey are making the best of progress, whether they have finished many books or not 1 would therefore tesch tbem kindly, but firmly, th need of there being no communication during ttudy-time,how. ever great tbe necessity may sem to be. By and by, tor pritent disobedi ence and the annoyanc ol those about bim, I may find it necessary to do ' ' something mora. Pupils sometime say they cannot keep from communi cating ; and with aueh pupils I know of no better plan tban to take tbem at , their word and proceed to doctor tbem sick persons. Proscribe a seat alone, perhaps, with their facet turned toward the corner or side ol tbe room. For those who seem to b cb-oaio cases, an exercise in " mack talking" after school serves often as a earatira. Placa a good scntene on tb board, and set the troubloaome on to storly. ing or saying it over. When a little child tbat ia continuously tronblssoan by his much talking, a clean bandage tied around hi mouth aid bis mem ory. But, after all, paint and penal lies are only for extreme eases ; and I believe if tba teacher doea all aba ought lo do to render ber aobool a cheery and busy place, tb infliction of punishment will be aeldem resorted to. K. B. F. in Practical Teacher. CLOT is a. Never attempt to axplain wbat yoa do aot thoroughly understand, last yoa injur both yourself and yoar pupils. Enoourag Irequtnt questions frota yoar pupils. Book quesoos aaay ftve yoa an inorea oi woik, bat yoa will b more than repaid by th result.
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