The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-15 00:00:00

ICE.

THE TENURE-OF-OFFICE ACT.

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nevertheless, repeat his warning. The affuirs of the
country were being mismanaged and ruined by nle,n,
the class he had spoken of before. The people a P,,,lfe
land would not tolerate such a state of things. '1 0
men who controlled the affairs of England—Glads.
and Disraeli—were not lawyers, they were men of vitae
culture, with the instincts of statesmen, fit to contro
the destinies of a great nation. He bad felt deePif
y
interested in the Success of the Republican 111‘t,
in the past, and had contributed to it, he tlong„ei
as much in character, and' a good deal more in ni;
,0
than other Senators ; indeed 0
, he believed -1
contribution of the latter kind had been greater wlte
e f
those of all the other Senators combloed. When a
war broke upon the people without warning, and f°l-,
to
them unprepared, he had been among the first to rush o
the support of the Government; but now there Suess
great danger pending, and he felt it his duty to warn tio
people of it. Ile read a long account of the character
and career of the notorious Judge Jeffreys and a tri
condition of England in his time, which, he said, Wass:e4
I.ke the condition of this country at the present time. --'`'r
)ears ago America had come out of a great civil 0,
Since that time the great work of Congress had been
or should have been, to restore harmony and proal3Qr.'k
to the country. How had that work been ettvir,
on? Is there, he asked, peace at the South? Is °fee/ 1
prosperity or contentment among the people the-?
Are they not rather in a state of chronic revolutiest
Is there justice, in the land? Who that is A P;jo
man dare attack ono that is rich in any collet la t f,
laud? Is there protection for the rights or liberties ~
the citizen in this boasted land of freedom ? The iln,W,lt
gration to this country had fallen off 30,000 during the ',6"4 i
year, and would continue to fall off, because the,indtl
and agriculture of the country were so prostrated at 1,„
West that immigrants could not find remunerative
ployment, and if they went to farm in the West °e'
could not sell their products for enough to supply °feat
le
with the necessaries of life. WLonever any one in "s,
Senate, or elsewhere, asked the reason of the dere
sion of our commerce and manufactures, he was °tbe
to be met with the answer that it was owing to
..
fact that we were rot paying specie ; but the real re''f
son was that the legislation and. the administration
the Government wore so shaped as -to encourage nqolo jk
tel to speculate upon every industrial oCcupan
fd, Ir
in the country. If this course was to be
centinuect
in less than five years there would be a clamour
lig
I a tariff to keep out foreign cotton. But great as /sh.
the mismanagement of our national affairs in every."-.
partment, the greatest abuses were in our financial rilr
o:
e;
That policy was directed and controlled by the banker
They no doubt gave as good advice as they could;
experience had always shown that dealers in ranae
knew little or nothing about the 'relations of moaef to
other occupations and interests. The bearing of all tle
upon the pending bill was this : -If the legislators et t 0
country had done their own work so badly, how Ou
they dare to assume the powers and duties of the &eerf
tive also ? He had wished for and aided in the election
,o
General Grant to the Presidency, because he believed tube
he (}.resident Grant) had not been contaminated 1:1 ':ii
politicians, and had tho capacity required to see thresobo
and defeat their machinations. He had listened to t
inaugural address with intense interest, and had been
pleased by the President's expression of his purpose `ov
~,,t
independent in the discharge of his official duties; v,
when he heard the passage asserting the sacredness Of I.'
i,
public debt, he had gone away disheartened and sortnc
ful, because it had shown him that the canker that 1)°,1
sossed the American body politic had got poss6ssies
jog
the President also. Still he was not without hoPe• ,
hoped that the President would yet discover the We:
error into which hal advisers had led him, and would tni ,
away from this policy as from a charnel-house. Writi'„%
interesting- biographlcal sketch of himself, Mr. sprsbu
finished his speech."
The vote followed, showing 37 Senators for the "lids
or
as amended, against 15, all the minority being
mocrats, including the Republican Senators Fessell;
den, Grimes, Al'Donald, Ross, Sprague and War
/4, and the bill was passed. Its defeat in the IlOuso
"ej
due principally to Benjamin Butler, who canvass
earnestly, while strongly opposed by Binghtir9;e;
a member also of the Judiciary Committee, to ivb7o
the bill was referred ; but it was asserted t"
Butler and Logan had been, and were, supported",„'/
the President. Butler bad been twitted by Bilig;
barn for joining the Democrats, but that part'
went with Bingham in voting Butler down, 0
def
hed
he endeavoured to get his motion carried 10.0
i
the previ)us question, and this enabled him Iviiio
effect to retort. Judge Noah Davis made '1),
O.
maiden speech as a member of the House, 31),
'
arguing for absolute repeal. The fight was
fined to the Republican party, the Democrats 539
inn little, though voting in a body fur But
motion, by which the House refused to - eonel
in the Senate's amendment. As our reader's hoof
the the majority for the original bill was 99 against 71/1",,,
but on a Joint Committee of Conference being
#a1)10-
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pointed, it was reported back substantially 'as -
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adopted by the Senate, and passed by both llouseo
of Congress thus modified; the news received tbct
week being that the President bad signed it, an
it had therefore become law.
Senator Nye's reply in defence of the lasvi-ierg,
which Senator Sprague termed a personal atta.c
greatly amused the galleries, and was the comic lijoi
cident of the debate, setting aside the most corsifr,
all Senator Sprague's speech. He alluded to l''
Sprague as the Boanerges from Rhode Island. "Lett
it never enter the Senator's mind that the danger ,no
o
to a Republic lies in the direction of knowing '—g
much. Danger Resin the direction of not knowilj
enough. And again," said Senator Nye, " I hope
e,
the honourable Senator's forebodings will cosset
The lawyers will not hurt him. If he does not scan
I be
to use them they will not charge any fees, andl it
does they will not charge him enough to Mal°
felt by him."

A Deputy of the Cortes, now sitting in Mau6ct
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has called for papers relating to the introduction into SY
of goods for commerce by the Hon. John P. Hale, uO-0
his diplomatic franchise as American Minister, There,
probably no good feeling towards Mr. Hale in that s 9
sombly.
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