THE ADVERTISER
THUKSDAY, AUG. 24, 1S70.
National Republican Ticket.
For President.
KUTIIHU.FOJID II. HAYES,
of Ohio.
For Vice President,
WILLIAM A. WIIEELKK,
of New York.
Gen. Banks, who was n Greeley
Iiberhl, Is enthuslastlo for Hayes and
"Wheeler.
Senator Booth of California, Inde
pendent, favors tha election of Hayes
aud Wheeler.
To-day Thursday Carl Schurz ad
dresses tho Germans at Cleveland,
Ohio, for Hayes and Wheeler.
The Republicans of the third con
gressional district, Kansas, have nom
inated Thomas Ryan of Topeka.
Gov. Curtain, of Pennsylvania, it Is
said, will stump Iudiana for the Re
publican ticket. Curtain supported
Greeley.
Michael C. Kerr, present Speaker of
the House of Representatives, died at
Alum Springs, Va., on tho 10th inst.,
in the fiftieth year of
born in TItusville, Pa.
his age. He
Tho Democratic campaigners start
ed tho lie that Gen. Hayes was a
"back -pay grabber," and now they
are sorry they said it, for It -was Hen
dricte that grabbed tho back pay and
not Hayes.
Gov. Tilden was elected to his pres
ent office bv fifty thousand majority
over Gov. John A. J)Ik. Democratic
J'ajicr.
His majority was not so large, but
whatever it was It was fraudulent.
Why isox-3enator Tipton a deserter
from tho Republican party and a
squeaking oraclo of Democracy ? Be
cause President Grant had tho good
fiotiKo to roruso to appoint Tipton's son
to an oflicc. That's tho solo and only
reason and Tipton lies when he pre
tends there is any other reason.
Keep It before tho people, that In
ISGiJ tho interest on tho National debt
contracted to suppress theDemocratic
rebellion was $147,000,000. In 1S7G
it amounted to only $100,000,000. By
Republican economy it has been re
duced in teu yoars over $47,000,000,
aud tho public debt Itself has been re
duced in the same time $059,700,000.
Senator Booth expressed a great
truth eloquently when he said the
othor day at Dauvill, Indiana, that "I
know not what others may think, bu t
as for myself, I see no road to progress
that docs not lead over its (Democrat
ic) ruin. For fifteen yoars it hasstood
in the pathway of our advance. For
fifteen years it has resisted every
.great political idea. For fifteon ynnrs
at haa endeavored to suppress every
grand political utterance, and the
ithne has come yea, the fullness of
lime when It Bhould cumber the
-ground ao longer."
Tho aid renegade, Tipton now be
Uieves In Democratic principles. He
i8 a J)emecrat clear through, and says
n fltate'iras a right to secede at pleas
ure. For.rhree years, he, as chaplain
of the iFIirst Nebraska Regiment,
prayed for tho overthrow of JefTDavis
-and for $125 a month in greenbacks;
3'at 'notwithstanding these terrible
hardships, ho was suffering in a bad
icause, forJeff was right aud the lost
cause ought to have been the winning
oauae. The miserable, deluded old
.man, how he must sutler at tho pres
ent time for praying three whole
.-years for tho defeat of seoession.
It is & very common thing to have
Tilden pettifogers speak of him as a
-4jreatxeformer and refer in a general
way to tiie -official thieved ho has pun
ished. But -did you ever hear any of
these follows .give any specific cases?
Did you ever hear them name over a
. Jong list of individuals whom tho old
-savages relenilesa reformer had pun
ished? We guess not. They don't
talk about it in that way, for the very
good reason that Tilden never pun
ished anybody. Not a single Tam
many or canal tliief has suttercd in
the least by any act of Governor Til--den.
He has not been instrumental
in -Bending any of them to prison or
in obtaining a dollar for any crooked
ness. The most Important thing he
haa dono was to set his old friend
Tweed at liberty, aftor a Republican
oourt aud jury had convictod him.
That's theklud of a rcfonnrTlldn
13.
Tilden, ub woll as Hendrlckw, wan o
secessionist in prlnciplo before tho
war. A lengthy letter written by
him, addressed to tho Democracy, In
1SG0, in opposition to Lincoln, suyn
the election of Lincoln would
be sufficient good reason for tho De
mocracy of the south to carry out
their threat of disunion. No Demo
crat living Is ablo to show by any act
of his or scrap of history that ho waa
not a secessionist at heart. But there
aro many acts of his of commission
and omission, and incontrovertible
history, going to show that ho was a
secessionist theoretically, and always
a consistent Democrat, In that respeot
And therefore wo cannot believe there
Jives a man on tho faco of the earth,
Bildier or civilian, who opposed seces
sion and rebellion from pure and pa-
.triotio motives, and now desires the
election of Tilden. Their support of
such a ticket as Tilden and Hendricks
gives the Ho to all their pretensions
or avowels of loyalty. If the coun
try should again be jeopardized as it
was in the days of Buchanan, Tilden
believing in the right of a State to
secedoat pleasure, would not oppose
it in any way, and every intelligent
man, of whatever party ho may be,
Isnows it. It looks reasonable to us i
that a man who votes for a candidate
who waa an avowed friend of tho reb
els, as was Tilden, is at heart, if a
reading, thinking man, a rebel, a dia
unionist himself. This Is a logical
conclusion and none cau escape it.
Indignation and denial amount to
nothing moro than hypocritical as
umptions for present political effect,
and an occasion for an exaggeration
and a lie.
Communicated.
Reform and Democracy.
A Democratic House of Represen
tatives at Washington haa now had
nine mouths In which to Institute and
prepare wise measures of reform.
Tho House, under the constitution,
has tho exclusive right to originate
bills to reduce taxation. They passed
no bills for this purposo, and never
had but ono such before them, and
this one was never taken up.
Hendricks, one end of their Presi
dential ticket, in his letter of accept
ance, charges that tho business de
pressions throughout the entire coun
try is owing to the mismanagement,
corrupt and unwise policy of Repub
licans. And yet during a nine
months' trial tho Democratic Con
gress did not originate aud pass a sin
gle act to insure better times in our
business affairs ; not one act to revive
our drooping commerce; not ono act
to reform the abuses of which they so
long and su loudly complain. It has
Investigated, and for this purpose has
had thirty committees at work. The
result thus far has been to besmirch
Secretary Belknap and that distin
guished Democratiogentleman George
H. Pendleton. They tried Socretary
Robeson, but failed. They did, how
ever, lind some of their own appoint
ees unfit for the positions in which
they were placed ; and to sura all,
they fall back aud say, "Well, we did
reduce tho appropriations several mil
lions." Let us scan tho following
figures showing tho expenditures for
the j'ears named :
isco
1SW
S3S5.05J.731
202,97,73 1
229.9I0.0S3
J'J0,-196,355
JS70 1GJ.8C3.021
1S71 1C5.SC3.022
1672. , M 153.201.S5C
Above is given the expenditures of
the Government for several years
during years, too, of high prices
showing in the aggregate largo re
ductions made by Congress when all
departments wero under the control
of Republicans, and not only were the
expenditures reduced, but at tho same
time taxation was correspondingly re
duced. The Congress which has just ad
journed made for the same objects ap
propriations amountiug to $147,722,
210, when prices are in all depart
ments of labor and industry at least
thirty per cent, less now thau in the
yoars above tabulated. We see from
the above that appropriations have
been reduced, but as wo said in tho
start the taxation is the same now as
one year ago. The burden has not
been reduced by one cent.
Tho appropriations this year are:
21111tiiry Acudciny .... 5 290,0t5
Pensions 9,553,500
Consular and Diplomatic.......... 1,158,579
FortlHcatlons 315.000
Legislative, Executive, Judicial 15.373.09C
Illvers and Harbors .. 5.000.OC0
Deficiencies - 81G.723
I'ostofllce....................................... 35,-175,701
Indians...-. - 4,070.119
Army...... -. 25,9S7,1C7
Sundry Civil 16.357,9a5
Total. H7.722.210
If these figures are kept in view
one can readily see tho hollowness of
this Democratic howl for reform, but
they will fail to find the measures of
relief which the country had a right
to expeot from men who saw so
plainly how deplorably all things
were from men who clamored for
power so bravely one year ago that
they might restore the nation to its
wonted prosperity from men who
wero placed In power because they so
plainly saw, and eo largely promised,
and yet after nine mouths have failed
to make a commencement. They
now ask us to trust them with further
power. They have failed to use tho
power given for any wise purpose,
and what then has tho nation to hope
for from them in tho furo? Simply
further failures. Wo see, then, no
good reason for granting their re
quest.
If it wero poesiblo for a practical
ballot-box stuflTer and official thief to
bo a reformer, then is Tilden one, aud
hla olti ally, Tweed, comes under the
itamo head, and also John Morrieey,
and Connelly, and Sweeney, and the
whole set of Tammany robbers who
now aro tho foremost of tho Tilden
leadera In New York. All reformers!
Tito ohalion in Vsrttiunl orBtnte
effiesrs and (iotogfei&UMi , will lafio
flum ou he filH tff &fpl(tijlj9t.
A MifitntMw! Ui frofii Willi Uio
HUmx.
VAKUixaroit, Auguat 18.
The oommiinUmor on Indian Minim
linn given pontllshloii to Gun. rjliorlUun
to ralfto one hundred Pawnee hcouIh
for tho Kloux war.
Kociotury Chuudlor has appointed
the following gentlemen ih uommlH
ehnierH to treat with the Sioux, aa pro
vided for in the Indian appropriation
bill, as piueed by congress at tho last
ocshIou: HCBuIIIss, Iowa; Gen W
Moneypenny, Ohio; A G Boone, Col
orado; Newton Edmunds, Dakota ;
Bishop H B Whipple, Minn ; A S
Gaylord. Mich.; S D Hinman, inter
preter; Chas M Hindley, Washington,
D C Secretary Gaylord will act as legal
adviser to the commission, and repre
sent tho interior department. The
commission will start at once and
will meet in Omaha Monday, 2Sth
inst.
The vote in New York in 1872 for
Governer Dix was 44-5.S01 ; for Gover
nor Tilden in 1874, the vote was 416,
391. On this statement tho Albany
Journal comments: "In 1872 it will
bo seen that Dix polled nearly 30.000
more votes than Tilden In 1S74, when
he was elected by 50,000 majority.
In 1S72 tho liberal vote wos against
Dix. and with Tilden In 1874. With
the liberal vote with us In 1876, New
York is certain for Hayes and Whee
ler. Tilden never can poll 416,391
votes again in this State.
JTotesTrom the "West.
Salt Lake Citv, Utah,
Aug. 12th, 187G.
I left Omaha on a short vacation
on August 3d, for the city of the
Suluts; arrived at Cheyenne on Sat
urday and concluded to remain over
Sabbath ; secured a room at the R. R.
House; had dinner and started out to
view the city. I was here four years
ago on my way to Colorado, but the
town then seemed to bo dilapidated
and runningdow n ; hence I was very
much surprised to find that the city
had at least doubled in population,
having now a population of about
4,000. The buildings of the better
and moro permanent class havo
taken tho placo of the shanty and
adobe. Large briok blocks aro now
seen ; well laid out streets, fino hotels
and business houses, are aeon every
where. The churches are keeping
pace with tho growth of tho city.
Methodist, Presbyterian, Congrega
tional aud Episcopal, all havo good
frame churches. I started from homo
to rest, but so far I havo failed. 1
preached Sunday morning In tho M.
E. church attendod Sabbath school
after service was invited to attend
the dedication of the A. M. E. church
at 3 p. m., which I did, and listened
to some of their Bongs negro "dit
ties" whicli carried mo back to the
dayes of "Dixie." Rev. Mr. Warren
preached tho sermon, followed by
Rev. Cowhick, of the Presbyterian
church, aud Rev. Sanders, Congrega
tional ; after which Bishop Shorter,
(colored) dedioated the church ac
cording to their ritual, which was
very solemn and impressive. To
close up the day, I led a young peo
ples' meeting at G p. m., in tho M. E.
ohurch, and preached another sermon
at night, by invitation, in thePresby
teriau church.
Monday a friend drove around with
his carriage aud took mo out to the
lake, about two miles from the city.
This lake and another one near the
city, aro artificial, aud supplied by
water from the Crow Creek. Sail boats
are plentiful and you can sail over the
lake for 25 cents an hour, or row in a
akiiTif you prefer it. We came back
to the city by way of the cemetery,
and the more popular lake near the
city limits. This is one of the pleas
ure resorts for the city and tourists.
It is a fino body of water; wo took a
row on it in a skiff and found the ex
ercise very exhilarating and refresh
ing. I intended to go on my journey
west on Monday, but waa persuaded
to remain over and deliver an address
Monday night in the Presbyterian
church, in connection wilh Mrs. A.
F. Newman , of our stato who is trav
eling for her health, and In the Inter
est of the W. F. M. society. We spent
a verj' pleasant evening, but failed to
see, as yet, where the rest is to come
in.
Tuesday, In company with Mrs.
Newman, we started for Salt Lake.
Nothing of consequenco occured the
first day. except herds of antelope and
plenty of jack rabbits, wero seen all
along tho road. Next day we passed
ootna ef ilia trautlcot aootiCl.y lu L
found on the U. P. road, and it must
be seen to be appreciated. Weber and
Echo canous are perfectly grand and
majestic ; towering peaks on either
side ; quaint imuges risiug up to meet
you on every side. On the left as we
dash down the canon is seen Devil
Slide two perpendicular row of rocks
some four or fivo feet apart running
parallel with each other for hundreds
of feet up the mountain side, the base
touching the clear waters of Weber
river, whilo Its top reaohesaway up
the mountain side, one of the most
curious formations we ever taw. On
we dash down the canon ; pass the
1,000-mile tree ; go through tunnels
cut through the mountains now it's
all dark in an Instant and we wonder
how long it will last. In a moment
out we dash into the sunlight render
ed more bright and dazzling from
the sudden transition from darkness
to light. Wo pass Devil's Gate and
Devil's Gap wicked names, but they
aro so recorded In the book of travels
and now we are out In the open
plains; here and there is a farm
house, with the wheat and oats grow
ing on either side, With irrigating
ditches running all through it. We
aro now in a Mormon settlement;
here we pass a store by the waysido,
in a little village, with the letters Z.
C. M. I., which means Zion Co-opera-tivoMerchantilelustitutlou,
and here
the Saints bring In their butter and
produce and get tho Lord's goods in
exchange for it. We arrive at Ogden
6 p. m., change cars for Salt Lake
City, secure our tiokets, and are soon
aboard the cars "Utah Central," fare
$2.00 distance 36 miles, through the
great Salt Lako Talley. In sight of
tho lako Btretching out to our right,
wo whirl along; pass farms, orchards,
momlowa and fields, until wo arivo at
Hnlt Lako City, at 0 p. in., and take
the 'bi)B for tho Walker liotiso, tho
Goutllo house of tho City, whoro wo
will remain whilo here.
Snlt Luko City is a romantic place,
and hart n wondorful history. Ensign
Peak, north of tho city, and 1,200 foet
abovo tho city Is where Brlgham
Young atood in IS47, directed, aa he
claims, by the angel of the Lord. He
is now to found Zion, tho city of the
saints; he holds in his hand the en
sign, or flag, and whichever way the
flag falls there ho is to build the city.
It fell in the direction of the south,
(because the wind was in that direc
tion) and there he decreed it was the
voice of the Lord the city should be
built. So they claim the Lord chose
the place for Zion, and the tabernacle
and new templo which they aro build
ing. And here tho chosen ones shall
come, and from all nations of the
earth the true seed shall gather in this
valley aud In these mountains. And
here the Saviour will come th second
time without sin unto salvation, and
shall reign upon the earth and fill the
temple in Zion with his glory, while
the Gentiles and all those who reject
the doctrine of the latter day saints
shall utterly be destroyed from off the
face of the earth. But the forceB of
Gentiles are now coming in upon
them, and Brlgham and his saints are
very much concerned to know what
to do with them.
If these rambling notes aro worthy
of a placo in your paper, I may send
you some more before I return.
D. F. Br ITT.
GENERAL NEWS.
Five hundred Crow Indians have
volunteered to join Gen. Terry, and
havo been sent to him.
A very interesting trotting match is
to take placo at St. Joe, Mo., on the
31st inst. for $2,500, between two
Kansas colts. Milo heats, three best
in i'e.
Thoro was recently a plot to rob the
First National bank of Middleport,
Ohio, by kidnapping tho cashier, but
it was frustrated by oi.eof the robbers
turning informor aud several of the
parties wero arrested.
A farmer noar Ft. Donelson, Tenn.,
was recently murdered for his money.
When found in some bushes his head
was severed from his body. Two ne
groes arrested for the crime confessed.
Tho murdered man's name was Mo
dish. On the night of the 17th a
train of cars was thrown from tho
track near Evansville, Indiana and
the engineer, G. W.. Sherer was kill
ed. Mr. Finkelnburg, Republican nom
inee for Governor of Misourl, declin
ed before his nomination, aud since
his nomination still declines. The
Republicans will have to select some
other man.
There Is said to bo Imminent dan
ger of an outbreak by tho Ute Indi
ans, Colorado.
The Republicans of Kansas have
nominated G. T. Anthony for Gov
ernor. Orders were issued at the War 'De
partment on the 16th to hasten the re
cruiting of 2,500 men for tho cavalry
regiments.
An outbreak by the Cheyonno and
Arrapahoe Indians, Texas, is not
feared et present.
The Short-Horn Breeders Associa
tion of Missouri met at Boonville on
the 16th. A largo number of cattle
men from all parts of tho State were
present, aud much interest was .man
ifested. Has Nebraska such an asso
ciation? She ought to have.
Senator Booth, of California.
Hayes and Wheeler.
for
Gen. Benj. N. Harrison, Republi
can candidate for Governor of Indi
ana, began his canvass of the state at
Danville on tho 18th. After Gen.
Harrison had addressed tho vast con
course of people, Senator Booth, of
California being present, was next
called out, and made a brief but' very
effective speech. He said ;
This call of yours thrills my heart
as it has not been thrilled for years. I
stand for tho first time in my native
state to speak to my lellow citizens on
political questions. I can only eou
gratyte you upon this auspicious oc-
casioZl 1 uan only coiurrainlate ths
liepuv-iicans of Indiana that they have
a leader in this canvass who bears an
historic name, to which ho adds lus
tre by his own ability and patriotism.
I can only rejoice with you that tho
first governor of tho territory of Indi
ana will give us a governor in the
centennial year. I do not deny that
so far as I am personally concerned I
recognize that there are great politi
cal questions bearing upon us in the
near future that are not touched upon
in tho divisions between the Demo
cratic and Republican parties great
questions of finance, great questions
of fiscal policy, methods of reform
and administration but when I find
the Democratic party as a compacted
mass, cherishing its old ideas, all oth
er questions in my mind are subscrib
ed to its defeat and destruction. I
I know not what others may think,
but a8 for myself, I can see no road to
progress that does not lead over its
ruin. For fifteen years it has stood in
the pathway of our advance. For
fifteen yoars it has resisted every great
political idea. For fifteen years it
haa endeavored to suppress every
grand political uttereuce, and the
time has come yea, the lullness of
time when it should cumber the
ground no longer. I do not deny that
the republican party has made mis
takes ; I do not deny that it has had
corrupt men sometimes for its agents,
but look at the past behind us. Think
of the great questions it has confront
ed of the hundreds of thousands it has
employed ; think of the difficulties It
has passed through, what It has ac
complished, and it seems to mo mi
raculous that its mistakes have been
as but tho ends of tho river that do
not affect its channels as it rushes to
the sea, and thero is this to be said of
it, that It made tho country's ex
tremity ita divine opportunity ; that
when tho catastrophe came over us
that good men all over the wojld sup
posed would destroy ua itsuatohed us
viotory even from the jaws of that,
and made tho evil that was to blot us
out from among the nations tho op
portunity to fix upon polity tho seal
of universal freedom ond make it the
guaranty of indissoluble union.
Sammy Tilden's "War Record.
Iramediatly on the closo of the rebel
lion in 1865 there was published In
Now York a volume of some five hun
dred pages called tho "Tribute Book."
Its object was to make and preserve a
record of the munificence of tho
American people during tho war for
tho Union. In its pagea are presented
copies of every subscription paper
known to have been made to help the
good cause.
The first paper of tho kind was in
aid of the Seventh Regiment of New
York on tho 17th of April, 1861. The
first name was Moses H. Grinnell,
fo llowed by W. M. Evarts, Hamilton
Fish, Royal Phelps A. V. Street, and
forty others, each $100. In this the
name of Samuet J. Tilden does not
appear, although many of his political
and personal friends aud associates
inscribed their names on this Roll of
Honor. Bear in mind that Mr. Tilden
is estimated to bo worth nearly $3,000,
000. Had the contributions been to
enable the regiment to go on an ex
cursion he would probably have been
among tho first to sign.
On the22d day of April came tho
great subscription to the "union De
fense Funda." William B. Astor led
off with $15,000; A. T. Stewart put
down $10,000 ; Jamea Gordon Bennett,
$3,000; August Belmont, $1,000; Oliver
ununioK, cjuu; wiiiiaui w. Jtlunc,
$250, and four hundred others appear
in like suras. Here again we find
the political associates of Samuel J.
Tilden, but his name does not appear.
On the same day there was a patri
otic mnafiiifv nf Mm honnli ami dni-nf
, vw M1 M U1 j
New York city iu aid of the imperiled
country, although a lawyer of emin
ence and accustomed to participate in
public, meetings of the day, the name
of Samuel J. Tilden does not appear.
A subscription was started in New
York, iu May, to help Frank Blair
raise a regiment in Missouri. Again
we find the names of Belmont, Phelps
and other democrats among the con
tributors. Here wasa ense commend
ing itself to Democrats. But the
name of Samuel J. Tilden does not
appear.
Samuel J. Tilden, remember, was
among the millionaires of New York
city. Commodore Vauderbuilt, a
more patriotic millionaire, gave a
steamboat worth about $750,000.
"The Tribute Book" makes a record
of numerous public meetings and fairs
to raise money for the Union ; but in
all tho five hundred pages of this book
tho name of Samuel J. Tilden does not
appear. Thousands of good names do
appear, and we hardly recall tho
ubsenee of another prominentcitizen.
In March, 1864. the great Metropoli
tan Fair was held iu New York.
"The Tribute book," contained twenty
pages of the names of tho contributors
several thousand. At this fair every
trade and profession was represented.
A. T. Stewart, again, $10,000 ; James
Lennox, $5,000 ; Morris Ketohum, $5,
000; and other daily associates of Til
den, in smaller contributions. The
aggregate was $1,351,275,94, and not
one dollar from Samuel J. Tilden !
What shall we say of a very rich man,
who saw, every day almost, other
rich men, his neighbors, giving mon
ey by the thousands to save our coun
try, and he refused to give a cent !
His name is Samuel J. Tilden. Sev
enty millions of dollars, it Isstated.'in
this book, were voluntarily contribut
ed in the northern States of the Union.
Many thousands of names of those
who in some woy helped to raise this
great sum appear in this volume.
Samuel J. Tilden's name is absent
from the rolls. Washington Chronicle.
THE CAMPAIGN.
Tho Claims of tho Democracy to rub.
lie Confidence The Majority in
the House Arraigned, and Dis
sected. Gen. S. A. Hurlbut, of Illinois, re
cently delivered tho following power
ful speech in the Representative's
Hall at Washington, tho House being
iu committee of tho whole
on the State of tha Union. Af
ter showing from a tabular statement
that the gross total lo3s on receipts
aud disbursements average $5.36 for
each $1,000 handled under Democratic
administrations, and only 57 cents
per $1000 under Republican adminis
trations, the speaker proceeded :
How has this House applied civil
service reform in its own appoint
ments? Has it retained competent
officers or appointed new ones for the
sole consideration of fitness? Sir,
tho advent of this Democratic House
to power was signalized by a pilgrim
age such as has uot been seen before.
Lean, gaunt, famished by long ab
stiuence, the multitude of applicants
passed belief. From Maryland to
Texas came tho hordes of oflice-hunt-ers
on the trail of their unhappy pat
rous, whose life they made miserable
by brazen importunity. They troop
ed to the plunder as the vultures seek
the carcass. You selected adoorkeep
er on the sole ground of his capacity
in the Confederate Congress, and you
summarily turned him out because he
houestly wrote to a privatofrieud what
you all felt but dared not say: that
office was a good thing to havo. It
was hard on Fitzhugh for lie was the
only man on the floor who felt "big
ger than old Grant."
-YauiKiructl out clcik. after elc.u;
srruv and exneriennfid in dutv iwl
filled their places with partisans
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You removed disabled Union sol
diers and filled their places with oth
ers of another stripe, and would have
made a cleau sweep but for the popu
lar indignation.
lou have twice exhausted the con
tingent fund of theHouse by needless
and extravagant sums expended for
witnesses on trivial matters, and have
run up bills to be met hereafter of
frightful amounts for making and
printing your investigations.
You have insulted the President
by resolutions demanding his author
ity for the exercise of his official func
tions outside of the city of Washing
ton, and have been ignorainously con
victed of ignorance of law aud of his
tory by Ills crushing reply.
You have demanded elaborate re
ports on all manner of subjects from
tho departments, and hindered the
public service by exacting these re
plies on matters which had already
been officially reported and wero in
print.
So much for sins of commission.
You have had a session of eight
months; what single thing can you
show of puplic benefit? What work
has been accomplished, what real re
form inaugurated?
The great question of currency, em
bracing in its scope the very life-blood
of national prosperity, haa been dai-
lied with and trifled with until the
country finds as little hope for relief
in this double-faced committee as
they find in the double-headed Presi
deutlol ticket of the Democratic par
ty. All convictions, if any there were,
on this question have been smothered
and subordinated to success by false
pretenses in the approaching cam
paign. But the temper and purposes of this
House are best shown by its debates.
Professing larce and true devotion to
the Union, this Democratic majorltyl
has listened to aud applauded tlie
most violent denunciations of the
party and the men who saved our na
tional existence, to defiant an
nouncements of a "united South,"
and to justification of rebellion and
vindication of treason. It has heard
and applauded tho denial in practice
of tho rights secured by the constitu
tional amendments and the assertion
of the civil and political supremacy
of one race and tho foredoomed infe
riority and subordination of the oth
er, and has tried by Interpolation into
the appropriation bills to repeal the
law giving to the nation some super
visory power over elections in our
great cities and the Southern States,
and thus crush out the chief barrier
against fraud and violence against the
citizen.
There are pending in this House a
vast number of bills seeking relief,
nearly all from the theater of the late
war; bills for tho remission of the
cotton tax and its repayment; bills
for damages done by marching armie3,
the amount of all will figure to hun
dreds of millions;, bills to relieve
postmasters and mall contractors;
bills to repeal restrictions upon com
missioning Confederate officers into
our army ; bills seeking compensation
in all manner of ways for thoso who
suffered because they first rebelled.
These, sir, are to wait until "after
election," with the implied if not the
express promise of Northern Demo
crats that in the event of success in
that election they shall be favorably
considered.
The majority of this House has de
fied the clear sentiment of the nation,
hns insulted tho enthusiasm of tho
North, and trifled with its unwaver
ing devotion and its vast sacrifices to
maintain the Union, and has shown
again the BloKening signc or mac
wretched yielding on great questions
to the Imperious demands of the
South which first won and now con
tinues the well-fitting title of dough
face.
Gentlemen from the South rise hero
day after day and ask whether we do
not know that it is their interest to
treat labor kindly. Certainly it is
their interest ; but they are not the on
ly people who aro not Wholly govern
ed either by reason or by interest.
Prejudice and passion are large factors
in human life and human action. -It
is a man's interest and his highest du
ty to treat kindly his wife, the moth
er of his children; yet how many
poor heart-broken women suffer dai
ly agonies from all manner of brutal
ity and abuse from their natural and
legal protectors. Any day in our
crowded cities you can see some hu
man brute, whose living depends on
his horse, over-load him, forturo him,
flog him, and in road passion cripple
and kill him. It was clearly his in
terests to treat him kindly, but he
does not do it. And yet neither wife
nor horse could provoke 6uch evil
passion as the enfranchised, perhaps
defiant, slave can call up In the
soured temper of the discrowned mas
ter. It is not possible for the best of the
race educated as slave-owners to bear
with absolute patience the equality
and perhaps the rivalry of the other.
Nothing but law backed by power can
muzzle these dangerous passions ond
force them to die off in ineffect
ual murmurs. And in the ordinary
jurisprudence of the affected States
there is no such live, effective law,
and no power to sustain it.
What white man has been brought
to justice for all these most miserable
of all possible forms of murder?
Public opinion sustains them, and
they walk the streets to-day un
whipped of justice. Aud then, when
forco aud violence ha3 had its full
work, when the freedom of elections
has been trampled down by armed
violence, when 30,000 voters have been
bullied iutos ilencein one singieState,
gentlemen who own their seats in this
House to these great wrongs say be
hold the peace and quiet which reign
in this Democratic State ! They kill
all the opposition, and have the quiet
of tho grave.
Sir, tho violent and forcible sup
pression of the popular will In any
state la the highest of crimes against
society and the nation. It was thus
that, iu Texos and Tennessee and oth
er States In 1S61, tho killing without
law or warrant of Union men made
them harmonious in secession; and if
they did not scruple to use these
bloody measures on their own race
and people, shall they stop now a3
against an intrusive people, whose
presence in their midst is. a badge of
subjugation and a skeleton reminder
of lost dominion ? No, sir, the tactics
so successful in Mississippi, so ueaily
successful in Louisiana, will assured -
ly be repeated thi3 year iu other
States.
The horribly and cowardly butch
ery at Hamburg the other day was
not in itself political, but It is fatal
evidence to show the temper of a large
class of white people, and the slight
consideration given to life when that
life, God given as it is, is incased in a
black skin.
If, without provocation, white men
troop in arms from one state into an
other, besiege, seize upon, and murder
uuofl'endlng persons, what bonnds can
bo set to this lustof blood when heated
by the stormy appeals of partisans and
fired by the passions of a great politi
cal election I
The Hamburg murdersjiro symto
matio aud the diseaso they reveal Is
constutional, deep-seated in the very
marrow of bociety itself. Yet gentle
men from tho North made mockery
on this floor of the horrible recitals,
until shamed by tho bolder, braver.
and moro honorable denunciations of
rap - .!'!!. fty rnPir Of tha KoUth. I
wait to see if even in South Carolina
any measure of justice shall be meted
out to the ruffianly crew, and not till
that is it done shall I believe to any
great extent either in tho apology or
tho denunciation. One honest, effect
ive wholesome hanging of a murder
er convicted, sentenced and executed
under the law will be more convinc
ing to me than all the possible speech
es on tho this floor or elsewhere.
One of the reasons why this Re
publican party must live Is to hold
6ome sort of terror over the perpetra
tors of thiscrlme ; for neither the past
nor the present of tho Democracy give
any hope of protection for tho weak
and oppressed them. For, sir, It is
the Democracy that denied the col
ored man any rights that a white
man was bound respect, aud so far
as it dare it does so still. It was De
mocracy that Insisted that the consti
tution carried slavery into our Terri
tories ; if it dared it would say so still.
It waa Democracy that permitted the
growth aud progress of theslave-hold-er's
rebellion ; that joined them in
the cry of a Union disolvable at will ;
that declared the election of Lincoln
cause for secession ; that denied the
right of coercion; that stripped the
unwary nation bare of her weapons
in the time of need ; that proposed
neutrality when it dared not fight ;.
that denied the right of self preserva
tion. It waa Democracy, assembled in its
highestsanhedrim in Chicago, in 1S64,
after Gettysburg and Vicksburg, that
by special high priests, of whom Til
den was chief, declared the war a fail
ure and insulted at once the good
Bense aud the high courago of the
people.
It was Democracy which condemn
ed the enlistment of colored troops,
which denounced tho proclamation
of emancipation, which opposed bit
terly, stubbornli', and ably the three
great amendments to the constitution,
which fought them by all tactics in
Congress which fought them in State
conventionsand in State Legislatures,
which denied and denies still that
they did ever become part of the con
stitution or arc now the supremo law
of the land.
It is this same Democracy, un
changed in principles, unaltered In
prejudices full, of the old passions and
uuholv traditions less de-fiaut thau
of old, because less secure, but more
artful, more designing, with more of
the fox and less of the lion that is
seeking again to worm its way into
tue conuuence or tne American peo
pie, and thus roll back tho progress of
the age, and plunge us luto bitter and
dreary days that marked their last
possession of national power.
A Senator the other day challenged
tho whole Senate to name a single
creditable thing done by the Democ
racy in twenty-five years, and the
challenge remains unanswered. But
you declined the past. You say it is
not fair to look back or inquire Into
the j)ast life. Parties, like individ
uals win reputation by their lives and
acts aud they cannot and should not
escape from this unconscious record
they have made. It is by what you
have done and left undone, by your
acts of commission and omission, that
judgment must pass.
You have forgotten that this coun
try of to-day is not tho country of
I860 or of 1812, and yet you try to
force the mighty limbs of this centen
arian giant of ours into the swaddling
bauds of his infancy. You try to
make this war-scarred and bearded
man lisp tho songs of his cradle,
and dwarf the grandeur of his manly
stride to the diminutive and feeble
efforts of hi3 first attempt to stand
alone.
You forcet the tremendous advanc
es, educational, physical, and moral,
that it has made since the Democracy
died of its own inherent worthless-
Fresh watersailora.wboseexperlence
has been in ilat-bottomed bateaux up
on some muddy shallow inland pond,
you ask to man and command the ship
of State in the midst; of storm and
peril.
For captain you propose a sleek and
snucr attorney, who shall bring the
tactics of Tammany and the ethics of
railway practice upon tho quarter
deck where Lincoln stood ; a cold,
calculating partisan who made
tho most of his scoundrelly as
sociates while they were prosperous,
and sold them out at a handsome
profit when they fell Into disrepute.
You would give the flag, symbol of
national honor, to the care of one
whose narrow soul never knew the
enthusiasm of patriotism.
You would give the great questions
of American industry into the hand3
of one whose whole active life has
been a successful legal robbery of all
the great means of intercourse meahs4
of intercommunication on which In '
dustry depends.
You would give the great question
of American currency into tho hands
of one who represented by, the gam
bling element of Wall Street and the
foregn jobbers who havo possession
of our bonds the hard creditors of
the nation and the harder creditors of
our people as individuals.
For first lieutenant of this old ship
your proposition is dark, misty, double-faced
and uncertain. Some of us
out West thought we knew him, but
the waters of Saratoga and the compa
ny of Tilden have had so singular an
effect on him that he might safely be
made Chairman of our Committee on
Banking aud Currency, which said
committee, as you know, Mr. Speak
er, is the moat utterly unsoivable
problem yet enunciated.
Hendricks Is John Bunyan's "Mr.
Facing-both-ways," and therefore su
premely fitted for the St. Louis plat
form. Thus candidates and platform are
equally deceptive, equally Intended
to deceive, and the whole programme
of the approaching campaign is a
speculation upon the credulity and
g illibility of the American people.
It is the right and the duty of every
citizen to sound the note of alarm
when danger is impending ; aud both
as individnal citizan and as one of
the Representatives of the people I
arraign Lefore the bar of public opin
ion the patty, the candidates, tho
platform, and tho Democratic mojori
ty of this House. I arraign them for
their bad and bitter record in the past,
f 2 their sympathy with great wrongs
and their hatred "to great rights. I
prove them by their own words aud
acts as unfaithful stewards and false
guardians when in power. I prove
them obstinately and per.si3teiuJy in
! the way of all the great developments
oi inniviuuai justice ana oi national
purification from the sins and crimes of
a century. I prove them justly con
demned and despised in tho part of
the country they betrayed ; aud. I see
them now emerging from the sack
cloth and ashe3 of sixteen 3ears with
the same unconquered prejudice, the
samo lust of arbitrary domiuion, the
same greediness for places, tho same
horror and contempt for equal rights
reduced to practice, with the eame
hollow professions and tho same em
ptiness of results which chracterized
their last appearance in public his
tory. The groat acts of the Republican
party stand iu wonderful relief in con
trast with these ; for sir, fromlSGO till
1876 they saved tho nation, and to
them as a party, is due the mighty
fact that we euduro as a nation to
day. History cannot be obliterated ;
for when you strike out tho record of
the Republican party you blot out
with it the greatest glory and the
greatest triumph of the country.
Strong in the past, securo of full ap
preciation for things well done, that
party stands to-day rooted in tho af
fections of millions of people, and by
reason of its high and honorable
course in the times of ansuish and
trial has won a reputation which
makes its promises of value, onI gives
n3urance of tho full and honest re
demption of all its engagements to
the people.
Tho New York Herald pays :
Our advice to Blufurd Wilson, after
reading the riaisted evidence, is that
he should abandon politics and President-making
und resume ugriculturul
pursuits. The United States does not
regard tho President as a thief, and
the more his enemies try to prove him I
to oe so, mo more tne people ilae mm.
It would uot surprise us to see tho
President go out of oflice as popular
as when he was llrstelected. Twenty
inousanu committees onnvestit;attnn.
each with a special Bluford Wilson
swearing to all lie knows, will not
blot out the memory of Appomattox
Court Houao and the famous apple
tree.
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