The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-05-26
Hon. ID. " yoorhee.


Daniel " Webster has been making anolA
81 speech on. more correctly. his one Gneld
ing speech has cropped cut agaiu. ! his time
IL j. melancholically severe. lie j. humila
ted. and hc -ays So. lie hangs las head In
shame, and hc admits g. He feels bad, and
looks So The extravaganza. and dishOaes
a. and shameful misuse 81 money. 10y thss
Administration, fills MS heart with alarm,
and his mouth with words OF sadness. We
have introduced the subject 10 venture a
worl of consolation.
Daniel Webster Y there Is much 10 soften
your sorrow and alleviate your fears. Let
Us notice few facts whee. induce rs 10
think that YOU have no more 10 be ashamed
OF now than you had eighteen months ago.
Within that pcrod you have seen an Admin
stration couniying az the destruction Of the
Government You have seen nearly all its
members active participants M the conspra-
CIV You have seen a Secretary of War
robb;ng the people, 10y illegal Endorsements
Of the notes OF party favorto, OF SS'9.OUo.
You have seen the same Secretary steal over
a million dollars worth OF Indian bonds
on have seen the same Secretary loading
Southern arsenals with arms belonging TO the
North, that the conspirators he Vas working
for might be able 10 assail al unarmed and
de!euceless people You have seen him,
when tic south was raging in open hostility,
order away whole parks OF artillery from
piusbnlg 10 Southern forts that hardly
had their walls built Y on have seen
all this knew what il was all for, and
YOU didn't "hang pour head for shame. -
\ on supported that Administration isom hrst
| to last. You helped elect i. aud YOU stood
by IL in IL cowardly abandonment oil the
Government, and It's open eonnivanco with
the rebellion But YOU held your head az,
and as high as you held il YOU could sec
rothing to be ashamed OF. You saw Sec
Rotary of the Treasury persistentiy dlsparaSe
The credit OF the Government, that II might
hc TOO poor 10 resist when the rebellion he
was then plotting should strike it. You saw
/ him go 10 New York 10 defeat the negotia
ton Of tho bonds il was his duty and hs oath
10 DO his utmost TO make successful. GU
saw our stock, ALWAYS before above par, 90
down 20 a figure that alarmed the whole IA
ton IL said the capitalists of the country no
| longer had full faith in the endurance OF the
Government And the Secretary meant 70
achieve Just that mischief You saw this.
but YOU didn't "hang your head for shamel :
You defended and oulogized that scoundrel
Secretary TO the last
You saw a trcachcrous. feeble, obstinate
no word of rcbukc or act Of resistance 10 a
nefar.ous scheme. opening day by day more
clearly It's deadly aim right before his eyes,
and YOU never raised that voice OF yours,
never silent before, 20 say one word OF
denunciation of his crime You didn hang
your head for shame on saw an armed
! iorcc surround a little band In Fort sumter
and saw them tied by the commands of the
President from preventing the erection OF
batteries % destroy them. ani You never
whispered your dsspmo al. You saw that
band attacked by olc bundled times thoii
number, AID the hag Of your country tori
down and trampled on with ieers and sheer
u dersion. and you didn't ''hang your heae
for shame" Iou didn't lit up your voice il
denunciation. The very day il was done yos
declared in Grecncastle that YOU. cas- 4 mem
Der of Congress, would never vote one dol
lar or one man 20 resist the South
Your hearers hung their heads for shame
but gou didn't From that time 70 this, yoa
have never publicly spent one minute os on
word in trying 10 nerve the people TO NEE
the fearful calamity which v0ur Southern "a
| sociates. AMI your friends, brought upo
them You have given all your little powe
70 cripple. cmbarrass and dispirit those VIA
D are giving their blood for their country -
b. \ ct you don't hang your head for shame,
till YOU see Encouragement aud fraud unde
an administration which IS laboring 70 saw
! the government harder than the one y0
: | supported labOred 10 destroy a. \ on sa'
frauds in contracts. and thefts OF arms. undo
an administration that lent the whole powo
5 of the government To ia ruin and you didn
4 blush You wait to feel rcpugnance {
+ frauds tin they are practiccd by scoundrel
under an ADMINISTRATION devoted TO the re.
ioration Of the Government. You sa'
q Cabinet officers steal public money r Oh
4 administration YOU supported, but you spar
- your bushes I'LL you see contractors ste
:, from the present administration. Don't 20
- think a blush or two might be appropriated
n distributed along that period when fraud
n and extravaganza. thelts and plundcrinl
we're used to assist rebellion, instead OF ri,
ng them all 20 tic time when the frauds al
7 thefts we're the unavoidable incidents OF
o gantc effort to put down rebellion
r. No nation ever encountered 4 war Nithol
- suffering from dishonest officers and fraudl
" lent contractors Probably this nation hi
y lost less by frauds, in proportion 90 Il
u amount expended. than any in the last hul
r. drcd year. There have been frauds N
vile theits, and the perpetrators rich
y deserve the pcnitcntiary But the friends
III this administration. instead OF conceaiu
70 them as the friends OF Mr. Buchanan did Il
. frauds under his administration. hunt the
down. aud dragged To light the gully on
= high and Low Daniel Webster Y waits
m blush for the frauds Of his opponents viii
=. fhfB have exposed, instead OF wasting l
bushes on the frauds of his friends which
- never trie,i 10 expose Ind. Journal