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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.