these
accusations. If they are false, stamp them with the brand of
ignominy; if they are true, deal with the facts proven as you think
is just and right."

The debate upon the report attracted much attention and was
participated in by many Senators. The motion of the majority of
the committee was adopted by the vote of 44 yeas and 17 nays. The
Senate thus denied that the case made by the legislature of Ohio
did justify an inquiry into the election of Senator Payne. He
filled out the measure of his term and still lives at his home in
Cleveland, honored and respected, at the age of eighty-five.

Congress adjourned August 5, 1886.

I had been invited to deliver an address, upon the celebration of
the sixty-fourth anniversary of the birth of General U. S. Grant,
at the Metropolitan church in Washington on the 27th of April,
1886. The text given me was "Grant and the New South." As this
brief speech expressed my appreciation of the character of General
Grant soon after his death, and my presage of the new south, I
insert it here:

"Ladies and Gentlemen:--Our friends have given me a very great
theme and very little time in which to present it to you. The new
south is one of the mysteries which time only can unfold. It is
to us, and, I fear, will be for generations to come, one of those
problems which tax the highest abilities of statesmen. It is like
the Irish question to England and the Eastern question to Europe.
We can only judge of the future by the past. I can base my hope
for the new south only upon the probable results of the changed
conditions grafted upon the old south by the war; more a matter of
hope and expectation than as yet of realization. Still we may hope
very much even from the present signs of the times and upon what
the south ought to be if not upon what it is.

"We know what the old south was. It was an oligarchy called a
democracy. I do not speak this word in an offensive sense, but
simply as descriptive of the character of the government of the
south before the war. One-third of the people of the south were
slaves. More than another third were deprived, by the nature of
the institutions among which they lived, of many of the advantages
absolutely indispensable to the highest civilization. Less than
one-fourth of the population were admirably trained, disciplined
and qualified for the highest duties of mankind. The south was
very much such a democracy as Rome and Greece were at