The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-21

of he matter Those who have this currency In their
possession to-day received nothing Congress issued At
forty when worth only four hundred TO ons,
and closed the transaction by refusing pay dime That
is ibe history of that transaction.
Mr. WELLER Allow me TO ask the senator whether
there win not be difficulty in the way J think that
IL interested in The result If this amendment be
adopted will it exclude asjory OF the Senate from
votng2 Most OF us descendants OF revouuonary SOL
ders.
Mr.. TooMBs. am; and if this amendment be adopt
ed do think shall be entitled to vote on the passage
of the bill Tits of all Judicial assemblies law OF
all deberave assemblies that has right TO vote
upon decide regard that in which be is interested
matter what he intends to do with his interest OBJ
that rule. differ from my friends from kentncky
and New York. No matter what they may do with thsir
money hold that 1t is eternal principle beyond and
Of natures God and is observed every whsrethst
should not for by which he is 10 be benefited
If this bill shall be amended to give me an interest
il shall certainly never become law by my vote
But sir was endeavorng to show the great justice q
this amendment You may say IT Is small but II - All
pos and i ms y i ns e-ses Pslu
snd asn i1onso om Ssrra Gays that the
give ID. Senate the history of this matter have the law
before me He is utterly mistaken to there having been
any such scaling Shef in the present modern sense 81 thA
nestle debt of the United States, IL compelled to
abate one ot title de might hare had oan-oice GER
tinsses He might have kept his communication cerfcatss
PAYABLE per cent per annum and redeemabe IN ten
years When the assumption act was passed. the new gov
had into operation Then we had money and
we were in this condition. the assumed tbs
debt Of the old confederacy SO that these commutaion
certificates debt expressly assumed oy the con-
stttion Of the United States and the new government
was in different position from the confederation for y
was reach the pockets every citizen OF the Omitted
States 1t true, my friend fnyH that the interest
before that had Nd not sn ss e, ssa
becn psa We had TO borrow money to pay the interest
on our fsre,yn debt which existence ss nation
depended-held By the Dutch and other people who had
loaned their money to tr. my friend win look into the
history of the country he VIII nd that one reason why
the domestic debt not honorcd was that
would not pay her quota The requslton was made ana
she woud not pay H. She said she poor and that
may have been good Mr. Madison, IN the debates
in the federal convention, brought hrt fact to the noce
of delegate the convention from Connecticut ana ne
plead guilty and justified the ground OF poverty
not worth while reproach the government for NOT
doing what these very States would not DO Ihe Woulc
The debt which now bring to your notice not Of
the debts which Congress had the 70 put into
the assumption act of Alexander Hamilton in lI90he
most unequal unjust and the basest act upon the
records your country. No owning there debts Of thc
country, although they were payable in Spsnisn miien
having loan-oice certificates you 60 to providing JOE
the officers who included in this bill insist that there
another large class OF the soldiers o. me
and all the domestic creditors except the holders ot tne
currency might fund their debts at sixtysx ana Two
thirds the dollar and get certificate for The resi-
due which should bear ntere three per cent begin
ming in the year 1900 Beorc that time they had autnor
lied the States settle with the Soldier and account %
him for the former depreciation He had bis owD nAro
earnings they authorized him to put them into Inc
assumption act that to ths funding Of the debt precisely
who had furnished his means for arms powder ana
lead any provisions the army OF the Unied Stae
funded by the State general government ana me
of l7S0 authorized him to come Ia in the same way
vndicate the honor of my and Of yours from this
char of repudiaon by showing that was oongatofy
fund II be found that II was better TO take
IL dtrA
and third per in another certificate TO bear three
per cent interest," he migk do III but they did not require
MIN to 40 So or nI any psnsy ior mot oo,ng ~ ~ ebs
Congress did take of dmc scale one cent OF
them.
Therefore say it is injustice to the country aIegs
this floor, that ancestors, directly or inrecuy,
eectuay in any other way, scaled dime to this acp
They put precisely the foundation as the po?r
you wanted to do so II you preferred yonr security
these terms you might take it; If you did not you held
the certificates which, at their maturity were worth wen
ytbree shings in the pound. Before lI94 they were
worth premium Of three shllngs In the pound, instead
of being worth only two Bhillngs and sxpencc. II IS
very certain that in 1874, when these communication cerI
except State requisions and the States would not comply
with the requisons Every character of public secdriy,
home aud abroad depreciated especially the domestic
debt Of every sort matter how sacred The soldier who
did get Communication, the soldier who got halipay
for life and communications but only his daily pittance In
the service of his country received If he chose oan-oce
certificates and he authorized to fund them on the
same terms
IJ ou going to do justice why should these partic
ular officers of the revolution have all sympahies
cited for them Why not extend them to every soldier
Why the children of those who bled and died
the battlefield for whose orphanage you gave what
you had promised their ancestors in this deprecated cur
ency which sold for two shiings and sixpence in the
pound? There nothing for any but for this ayorie
class On this question there great controversy be-
tween the ederaists and republicans in early history
Some of those officers wanted disband and desired half
pay to keep them from doing They would not dis
band they stayed Newburg They did not have mon
artb not because such their DESIRE but account
Of the republican tendency of the people The soldier Of
the revolution preserved to that very liberty which some
of its officers at Newburg and who surrounded the egs-
stors of the people Philadelphia wanted to wrench from
them after having wrenched it from the British Sir,
enough from the days of the revolution to have
any Roman told about No myths
be put upon Ws cannot start story, the
Romans did, who ashamed of their ancestors that
their founder was nursed by she-wolves. We are too
near the revolutionary period for thaa the witnesses
are not dead This is history that do TO open
but il is necessary for the vndcaon Of justice and TO
protect the honor Of my country am ready for IL and
let the responsibility lie upon those who here and
ask give this favored class OF officers privileges
the patriotic soldiers who not only fought for and
liberty from the British but wrested il from the
hands of of his officers Sir demand JUS
tce the soldiers of the revolution who not only won
public liberty but preserved against enemies abroad and
at home.
Mr.. EVANS. 1t seems that the senator viii not
obtain his object in the particular way in which he has
thought proper word the amendment II is not true
understand the history of the times that the OF eighty
dollars which due the soldiers who served 10 the
end of the paid in continental money The money
Of which the senator speaks and which be has seen in pos
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