3192 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. MAY 18, our manhood. To rob us of this would not enrich you and would During the delivery of the remarks of Mr. HousE the hour allowed make us poor indeed. Waive this demand which manhood forbids under t.he rule expired, and his time was extended by unanimous con­ you to make and us to yield, and the past can be buried forever. Upon sent, on motion of Mr. REWIIT, of Alabama. tuis platform we can meet and shake hands over the graves of our Mr. DAVIS obtained the floor, and yielded to tloldiers, and under the auspices of a1·estored Union march on together Mr. JONES, of Kentucky, who moved that the committee rise. in peace and frate1·nity to grander achievements than we have ever The motion was agreed to. known and a future fa-r more glorious than our paRt. The committee accordingly rose; and Mr. JoNEs, of Kentucky, hav­ Stripped of her wealth, and, I fear, growing poorer every year; ing taken the chair a Speaker pro tempore, Mr. CLYMER reported that crippled by the war, depressed in spirit, staggering under the weight the Committ-ee of t.he Wh~le on the state of the Union had had 11nder of accumulated debt, the South looks and longs for peace as anxiously consideration the bill (H. R. No. 3375) making appropriations for the as ever the mru:iner looked for the star by which be might guide his na.val service for the year ending June 30, 1877, and for other pur­ wandering bark a.right when "night and the tempest had gathered poses, and had come to no resolution thereon. around him." If any one section of this country haB a. deeper inter­ Mr. CLYMER. I move that the Honse now adjourn. est than another in the restoration of fraternal peace and the stabil­ The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at ten o'clock and forty ity of good govemment, the South is that section. If the northern minutes p.m.) the House adjourned. people cannot briug themselves to the point of trusting the honor and relying on the pledges of the South, they certainly cannot be unmind­ ful of the fact that her interest in keeping the peace is fully equaled PETITION~, ETC. by her inability to break it. But "·e have no desire to break it. If The followin·g memorials, petitions, and other papers were presented the flag that floats over this Capitol is not our flag, we have none; if at the Clerk's desk under the rule, and referred as stated : this is not our country, we have none; we are aliens in the land of our By Mr. .A.D.A.MS: The petition of W. D. McLean, James Stevens, and birth and exiles in the homes of our childhood. Here the bones of others, of Cohoes, Now York, envelope manufacturers, printers, and OUl' ancestors are buried, and her& we expect our dust to sleep when stationers, for such legislation as will relieve them from injurioutt our weary feet. stand still upon the thorny road we have traveled. competition by the Government through the Post-Office Department This country must be the home of our children; they will have no in the manufacture, transportation, and sale of envelopes, postal cards, other home, no other country but this ; here they must live, here die, &c., to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads. and here be buried. For party purposes our loyalty may be don bted, By Mr. BASS: Remonstrance o! T. Guilford Smith and 200 other and our names sought to be dishonored and detested, but if the time citizens of Buffalo, ~ew York, against the passage of the Morrison shouJd ever come w ben a foreign enemy shall invade these shores and tariff bill, to the Committee of Ways and Means. this country needs stout hearts and true to defend it, all will then see By Mr. BLISS: The petition of Ann Vashage, widow of Adolph in that hour of trial and national danger- Vashage, late a private of Company L, Ninth New York Volunteers, Whose dripping blade and stalwart arm for a pension, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Will hew a red circle in the line, By Mr. CHITTENDEN: The petition of Mrs . .M:. Hart, for a pen­ .And fence their country'!! flag from harm. sion, to the same committee. Mr. Chairman, the national conventions of the two great parties By Mr. CROUNSE: The petition of members of Grange 424, Pat­ will soon convene, when tlne or the other will nominate the man des­ rons of Husbandry, J effer~on County, Nebraska, for a return to former tined to preside over the affairs of this great country for the next four postage rates on third-class matter, to t~e Com.mittee on the Post­ years. It will be a contest fraught with momentous interest to the Office and Ppst-Roads. whole country, but particularly t.o the suffering South. Her people By Mr. HOPKfNS: Resolutions of the Pittsborgh Coal Exchange, will look t.o it with a concern more painful and profound than they protesting against the construction of a bridge over the Ohio River could regard any mere party ascendency. The struggle will possess at the foot o~ El~ street, Cincinnati, Obi~, and urging the passage enough of donbt and uncertainty on both sides to impress each one of a law whwh WIJl prevent the constructiOn of bndges over navi­ of the parties with the necessity of husbanding all their resources gable waters that will in any manner interfere with navigation, to and putting forth all their strength. From this fact let us induJge the Committee on Commerce. the hope that each will be induced to nominate :for _that high office its By Mr. LAWRENCE: The petition of J. W. Timberlake and other best and broadest man. citizens of- Logan County, Ohio, that the Indian Bureau shall not be I do not sympathize with the desire which I have heard expressed transferred from t.he Interior to the ·war Department, to the Com­ by some of my political friends that the republican party may nomi­ mittee on Indian Affairs. nate some narrow and sectional partisan, whose extreme and illiberal By :Mr. MAcDOUGALL: The petition of 1,173 late Union soldiers views may constitute an eiement of weakness to him in the contest. of Iowa, for the passage of a law granting bounty land to Union The situation is far too grave; and the consequences of the election soldiers, to the Committee on Military Affairs. · of such a man will be far too vital and disastrous to my section, for By Mr. .McF .A.RLAND. The petition of George W. Huntsman, of me to regard his nomination with any other feeling than that 6f sin­ Hawkms County, Tennessee, for a peru;ion, to the Committee on In-. cere deprecation. If the democratic party should fail in the colliling valid Pensions. contest to elect their candidate and victory should again perch on the Also, papers relating to the claim of Pleasant H. Starnes, late a cap­ republican standard, I earnestly trust that the best, the most national, tain in the Eighth Tenne see Cavalry, for pay as a captain from the the most just, the most honest, and the most liberal man in all the 17th day of Sept-ember, 1863, to the 7th day of April, 1864, to the republican party may be elevated to the Presidency. Committee on Military Affairs. The interests of every section of the country demand as the Chief Also, the petition of Mary A. Andes, widow of Adam Andes, de­ Executive Magistrate the services of a statesman who will stand on ceased, a private in Captain Hartsell's Company, Lillard's Regi­ an elevation where party will not obscure his vision or passion warp ment, United States Army, in the war qf 1812, to the Committee on his judgment, and who, by the exercise of a. liberal policy and a. broad Revolutionary Pensions. chadty toward every section of the country, will make each State By Mr. POTTER: The petition of John C. Hawley, that the Secre­ feel that it is a State and a component port of the .American Union. tary of War be directed to enroll his name as a. veteran volunteer as I hope he will have the breadth of mind t.o see that one section of this though he had enlisted as such under the provisions of the joint reso­ country cannot be given over to ruin and desolation without blas1-­ lution of Congress approved July 13, 1864, providing for the re-en­ ing the other ; that the blow which kills the South must also para­ listment during the continuance of the rebellion Of veteran soldiers lyze the North; that he will hold the military subordinate to the civil whose term of service was then about to expire, he being prevented authority; that he will fill the high places of the Government with from re-enlisting by rea on of his being held as a prisoner of war by statesmen of undoubted integrity and worthy of the high positions the rebels, to the Committee on War Claims. to which he may assign them; and that he will appoint to office honest By Mr. STENGER: The petition of 10 citizens of McConnellsburgh, and honorable men in every section of the country, and not a hungry Fulton County, Peunsylvania, against makillg any change in the tariff horde of political buccaneers, who will prey upon the people and con­ laws at the present time, to the Committee of Ways and Means.