Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1879 — Senator Chandler. [ARTICLE]

Senator Chandler.

Tho last speech made in tho United States Senate, before the passage of the Thurman Election bill, was made by Senator Chandler, of Michigan. It most effectually stirred up the Rebel Senators and their friends. Here it is: History is repeating itself to-day. There is a proverbial sating that the Bourbons never learn anything’ and never forget anything. The proverb is very applicable to the Bourbons of this country. In .1857 the Bourbons hid control of this Government. You had a majority in both Houses, a majority in the Supreme Court, aud the whole of this Government was under your eontrol. You brought up the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and forc>-(l your Northern men, us you are doing now, to vote format lepea), and you did it by the same means then. S,r, yiSu coffwded your men till you crowded them off the brnlge. In 1857, when I took my seat in this body with Jell Davis [laughter] there were here forty-four Democrats, twenty Republicans and two Independents. Of these Democrats, Twenty-eight wire from tho Sgutherir States, sixiouu from Northern States and two Independents. Then, as now, the Independents iu ihis body, upon every question cbnnected with slavery, voted with tire South. You in caucus then decreed that Stephen A. Douglas, because he asserted that be did not care whether slavery wus voted up or down, should be degraded from tho Chairmanship of the Committee on Territories, and there were but three Northern men out of sixteen who dared to tesist caucus d ctatiou, and you degraded him and pul him off that committee. Then you crowded your men off the bridge, and they sank, to a man, Into the waters of obl.vion, to rise no more forever. Sir, of these sixteen members not a solitary man from the North ever came un to the surface of the waters of oblivion. You crowded them off the bridge. You compelled them to vote for measures which the North could not and would npt submit to. Sir, to-day you are doing the self-same thing. To-day we have iu this body lorty-one Democrats, thirty Republicans and one Independent. To-day, as twentv-two years ago, on all questions connected with States’ Rights ■*tne Independent paity, as a unit, votes with the Democratic parly." To-day you havi?, as I said, forty-two memoers in this body, fortyone leaving out. the Independent party.“ You have twelve members from the North, and i hey .are arranged thus: From California, one; from Indiaua, how as then, two; from New Jersey two, now as-then; from Ohio you have two, you had but one then; iroui Oregon you have two now, you had two then; from Pennsylvania you have one now, yon bad one theu; from Rhode Island you have none now, but you have one from Connecticut and one from New York. As I said histoiy is to-day repeating itself, and you are to-day repeating what you did in 1857." YoUare crowding your yneu oil the bridge, and the men ot t i-day, as ihe men of 1857, will sink into tho waters of oblivion to rise no more forever.

Look at the < hanges that have taken place since that lime! Sir, the : eople are more thoroughly aroused to day ngainst this doctrine, this"heresv of Stale Rights, than they were from 1857’ to 1861. You proposed to pension Jefferson Davis, and every single oue ol your Northern allies voted to pensiou him. You eulogized him as a patriot, to be compared side by side with Washington and all the patriots of the Revolution, and every one of your Northern allies voted aye. After the close of the Rebellion you claimed that you were poor and sufferiug, and we fouud you poor and suffering; we found you ragged and poor, and we clothed you;.we put upon you tl e robe of American citizenship, which you hail forfeited, and we kill, d for you the fatted calf ami Invited )ou to feast, sup; osing that you. after being cloilied, were in your rignt mind. And when we invited you to feast you said. “ We have always owned that e.lr. and you have no interest in it.” [Laughter J Noiv you inform ur that you are going to repeal all the Republican measures. What is the job you have undertaken? Yon are goin.' to undo all that the Republican party has done. Where do you begin? Do you begin at Appomattox, o • before? It is very important to know where you commence, and then to know where you propose to stop. You have undertaken a very large job, for a party of your size, and with the people who are to sit Judges upon your acts.

You b ive undertaken to unseat a man in this body. But you wdl deny that you have undert iki li the job. You have simply undertaken to investigate the case of a Senator oi\ this flooi that has been decided by the litgiiesftribunal that could act on that question. Sir, therg are twelve Senators on that side or the House that every man on this side be? lieves to lrave [oorer titles to their seats than the honorable Senator from Louisiana has to hie. By fraud and violence yon occupy your tea'A. Now show ua the road how to vacate seats in this body if you dare. • \ Mr. Eaton called Mr. Chandler to order, but l:ia i dipt.of order was overruled by the ViceI’r. s dent. There being considerable confusion in the chamber, Mr. Davis (Dem., W. Va ,) asked for the enforcement of order both in the Senate and In the gallery. Order beisg restored, Mr. Chandler resumed' as - follows: I think that every Senator on this side of the chamber believes that there are twelve Senators on that side Who hold their titles to Beats upon a slimmer, poorer basis, than my houor< d friend from Louisiana. That is what I intended to st ite—that it is our belief, and It is my belief, that their seats were obtained, and are held, by fraud and violence. That Is what I'now say. But, Mr. President, I did not rise to discuss this question; 1 simply arose to say to the other side: “You have your day in court; make the most of it. Yfeffr , time is short.” The people of the North have taken this question in hand, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from end to end of this laud, the people are aroused and alarmed at the statements that have been made and (he action that has been taken in tvls Senate chamber, and In the House, w.tliln the last sixty days. Let me say to you, 'gentlemen on the other side of the chambers " Jfene , mene, ttkel upharein” is written all over vour browS., s [Applause In the galls r es, which was promptly checked by the Chaff.] —A couple of Bucksport, Me., were married by a Justice. He afterward discovered that his term had expired at the time of the ceremony, and that it was illegal. The “husband” proposed a seuoud. marriage, but the womandaid she belieyed she did not case to, that she had had enough of married life for the present, and she left town for Bo«ton. •• ■*: