Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-02-23

posed tax on tea and coffee in time of
peace! TO make the foolish assertion that
such tax would make the State of Hi.
nois pay more than it had paid under the
tariffof 1872"
This still reiterate, and believe that
can demonstrate it.
But this very astute editor saysthat /
went on 'tO twaddle in a style ofvery I'M.
usual stiffness about taxing old women
and old maids" In reply 10 this, ALI
have to say is, that there is still more sill.
= illness in the "twedle" that our Govern.
mept cannot get along without resorting
70 these old women and maids.
But what else did1'dol
Appeal to The narrowest and fneanest
forms Of sectional prejudice"
"a need not, Ipresume, tell this House
tnAtn ever therelWas a man who was as.
sailed blythe abuIitiunists with unusual
iiierceness and fury, am that man. /
have fought them at home in order to
get here. But here, regret to say, that |
nave been compelIedto fight their natural
enemies as hard as everI fought the alb.
oiltlonists themselves. Designate tina: ap.
peal by what name you win, you will i.ev.
or near the last oft until every portion OF
the Union gets its deserved share oflhe pr.
election q privileges ofthis Government.
made no attacks either on the North
or the South. All who heard me know
that have been willing to give to gen.
ilemen Of the South all that | claimed
for myself. All know that where slavery
actully exists | would not lit my hand to
disturb, in the slightest degree, the con.
sIitutional rights ofthe South. l have
fought that battle again and again; but,
where freedom exists, all / ask is that 1t
shall remain. You ofthe South saw to
US, in relation to this whole subject of 81 !.
very, Hands of'-and you say well.
say to you, in your own words, in relation
to allterritory now free, "Hands OFF,
and then will say well. For every era.
ven heart that may falter from such at.
lacks as this, from those who have a per.
Sonal interest in the extension OF slavery,
and therefore in stiffling those appeals,
millions Of wronged freeman will arise.
like the high bird of liberty, to scream
them through the air. Tell the people, if
you please, that the Wilmot proviso has
no place upon the three million bill, and
then hurl your anathemas at me for tell.
them that It takes two thirds to get it be.
tore this House in any othe way, and that
the request has thus been made and de.
MED. II is his course, sir, if any body's
that fans the embers of abolition, and
lights that fire of indignation that, in its
race, after its orginators has broken
down the Democracy in so many free
States of this Union because they at
tempted to stop it.
But he says that "lugged into the dis.
cussion the river and harbor bill"
Hero is another of the counts in this
bill of Indictment against me; intended
quite as much, however, to kill off all
the distinguished statemen who stand
prominent in the Democratic party as
candidates for the next Presidency as TO
injure me, for all who know my consti.u.
ents know that the more work for this
the better shall | suit them. All these
statesmen are committed as strongly to
the Jackson doctrine of harbor improve.
ment as lam. But these men arc to be
killed ofby pretended stab at me.
But ''lugged in" also 'the French
spoliation bill. My allusion TO the French
sPoilation bill was very slight, merely to
show that those who voted on that were
Hsmuch entitled to be read out of the par.
~ as those who bolted upon tea and cof.
fee. r fo1s
But now comes another charge. ]
proceeded "to'parade myself through nay
hour before the House as at once an apos.
tate from his own party." An. apostate
from his party! Alb! who talks of thisl
"An apOstate!' Touch not that word.
Thomas Ritchiel Could you have but one
prayer, and could that be answered, you
woull pray high Heaven to expungs that
word from the English vocabulary. There
was once crisis in the Democratic party
when men in high places faltered, and
political treachery stalked Throughout, our
land. At that time one of my colleagu
and myself he on the stump as candi.
date for Congress and at the head of a
public press, both of US poor as poverty
were battling against the Wings and tina
mass ofpolitical rottenness, the old Con
sentative party. Where was then Thorn
as Richie, the man now who SETS him
selfup as the standard, the Procrustes o
Democracy Who then gave "aid ant
comfort to the enemy Every Wing orato
and every Wing newspapers. every barl
president, directors cashier, teller
stakeholder and debtor was quotin:
Thomas Richie. My colleague lost hi
election by fifteen votes out Of about 40,
900. How much the Richmond En-
,Guirsr contributed towards it there is bu
.ons opinion in our State. This man can
not touch my political integrity so long a
ahe poll-books of the past are preserved
and Will lat than anaalx "a dccidedlu Co