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Show FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. I ai SENATE. a Washington, 0. Tho t-en-te re- fr sumed consideration of Tnurman's w rtaio.uiion asking the president for information in regard to military h t p'T-itiuus in Louisiana. Wi.-bt ai!dnusi the senate, review- t ing the circumstances attending the i: organization of t: Louisiana U gisla- I lure, and charged that the acts of the' coiist-rvulive memhers were illegal I. and revolution iry, and the use of the r military in diserMiiK llieui was entirely en-tirely prupvr. There was n peace in t j Louisiana, and could be none there i while the state was tilled with a.i3- sins and murderers. i ; Gordon said lie did not propose to t ' reply to the tpeech of West, but Lt it i go to the people ot the country and make its own answer, but he could i not quietly hit and hear the people he j loved as his own life held up us j arisasins aud munlerers 1 1 he i exhibited emotion it was nt of s anger but of indignation. He was amazed to see a spit it of i hate evinced upon the floor, towards i the people of one section ot the i country, and if he believed the ex- i presions he had heard here reflected the sentiments of the northern people, peo-ple, he would feel it was time for the atuthern people to die. If he believed be-lieved that those expressions foreshadowed fore-shadowed the policy of this government govern-ment tbwanU thy eouth, then he would say, "Let us have done with this (arte of local Hell-government," but he did no'- believe such sentiments senti-ments were entertained by the northern north-ern people. He believed a majority of the Anifjican people, north and south, abhond such a spirit of animosity. ani-mosity. He denounced the charges of murders in the.-nuth by democrats as false, and declared that wherever in the southern states honest men had control of affairs, property, life and liberty are safe as in any northern Btate applause in the galleries since the war not an arm had been raised iu the south against the power of the federal government, yet the southern! people were daily chargi-d with being disloyal to the government because there were cross-roads fights. It white men reeisted any outrage attempted upon them by negroes, they were denounced as osseins. Mtu were sent among the southern people who had no common hitrrest with them; they made laws, collected taxes and governed them, and then maligned the smne people. If the south asked how New England or the west would like that, and strove by every lawful means to overthrow these men, her people wero charged with being murderers and assassins. He denied there was intimidation of voters, and referring to the remark ot Morton yestenlay in reganl to the lies of the Associated Press reporters in the south, declared those remarks was a libel on the Associated Press. If they were lies, what were similar statements made by representatives I of leading papers north and west, who , had been sent south to investigate j matters? Why did he not denounce them as lies? Becauee he cowered before the power of leading northern journals nud dared not do it. (Applause (Ap-plause in the galleries, when the chair sergeant gave notice that a repetition would result in an order U clear them. Continuing, Gordon declared his belief that those who professed such a desire for law and order in the south really wanted disorder, knowing that peace meant their overthrow. He asserted that not one man in a thousand thous-and in the south was armed; not halt so many ivs before the war; there were not half so many military com-iAioa com-iAioa im Uion. Ho ettul ttitkt pood feeling existed between the blacks and whites'ot the sonlh until the recent re-cent bequest of a citizen of Georgia Geor-gia of SluO.000 for the education ol negroes He asked E.munds if thai was one of the acts of semi-barbarism that he attributed to the southern people in his speech yesterday. Edmunds Ed-munds denied using the language, but Gordon insisted that he said thai before the war the south was in a state of semi-barbarism, and some sharp personal remarks passed between be-tween the senators. Edmunds in the course of his remarks, re-marks, declared that all he wanted tt get at was the truth about southern affairs, and Gordon in reply declared that if the south had one desire more than another it was that tt e American Amer-ican people might know the whole truth as to the state of feeling in tha section. Hamilton, of Maryland, obtainec the fluor, but yielded for a motion U adjourn and senate adjourned. |