Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1879 — REPRESENTATIVE S NATORS. [ARTICLE]

REPRESENTATIVE S NATORS.

Quite recently Senator Conkling, of New York, made a speech in Brool - lyn, and about the same time Senator Gordon, of Georgia, delivered un ad. dress in Savannah. Both of these gentlemen are members of the United States Senato. They are recognized as representa.’ive men Their utter anees are accepted as the views of the parties with which they are associated, and, in the case of Senator Gordon, his expressions upon political subjects have a far wider significance: for, be mg a representative southern statesman, he speaks for the best thought of bis section, while Senator Conkling fortunately for the country, repre scats only the worst elements of the Republican party, (. oakling was vi olently sectional His Bio klyti speech’was full of bitterness. The New York Journal of Commerce, in c ommenting upon the tone and temper of the speech, says: The Northern seiiator in his speech was nothing if not sectional; and the represents’ive of a party. The Southern senator repudiated sectionalism with great vehemence and eloquence, and said not one wo ,, d to identify himself with any political oigaeizution. The former, in the low mid < nvemmied tone of his speech sank far beneath the level to v hi< h a man of his pretensions should ha?e ris'-n in discussing campaign issues. The latter took and I'is.ly kept the high table 4Uid- of patriotic thmigbt which so

many American statesmen—Senator [ Conkling chief among them—long ; ago deserted. Senator Gordon calls the Federal constitution “the omnipoteui arbiter from which there is no appeal.” He prays Lr a “broad patriotism. broad as the Republic itself.” He says: “God speed the day when the maxim ‘This is my country,’ all |my country—every section, every | Sta’e. every acre of soil over which i the fl tg of the Republic floats —shall p>e <»mi laced Uy every American free- | man!” It is said that the part of his i iddrvss containing these words of i passiom.tv devotion to the Union ‘elicited the most vociferous and prolot g" 1 appla 8 ” How is this?— Senator ('oujßiiig, in a speech totally ■ b void of patriotic enthusiasm, told . bear' rs it) effect that the Uni m is ' inted at the Sou'h; that State righ s as r. mpant as ever in the day|b foie secession; that the ex-rebels, I ' aving failed to destroy the Republic i by war, are now seeking to capture >! <l control it with a view of upsetting ' ail that the war had settled as we had fondly supposed. Ho declares that the national finances, prosperity econ omy, safety, right and justice are all imperilled by these bold, unscrupu lons So (turners. And, foranswer <o all this sound and ftny, the men of j Georgia, 15,000 or 20,000 strong, stood I out in the burning sun on Thursday 1 and frantically applauded every allu | sion of their distinguished senator to (he flag and the perpetuity of the Union I The time will comewhen the South will be better understood. The North vill not forever respond to a policy of implacable hate, nor follow men who are forever cultivating sectional animosities. who subsist upon misrepresentations and achieve triumphs by means whi- h bear the imprint of all that is odious in roli ics.