Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-27
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 7th, 1868

IT. ON ~"
sIrupnly EVRNINp MARCH 7th. ts0s.
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This is, indeed, not Cooper Institute,
daughter and spplause) u may not hold
rs many people, but this Is spontaneous
meeting. 1t was not pre-arranged according
10 liked programme was nVta snrop'e
or periodic assemblage oil certain class oil
persona for certain purpose ! know some
thug about theistyle IN wneh tht'se tneeilhgs
are gotten up, and everybody mere eompre
hends them. Their sole eheel' SO Jar as 'ley
have any, Is IN distant pottiohs ol the couh
try, where they are teiegrH phed-and at dis-
tance, like everything else they look exceed
| ingly charming. lLaughter) lhey are very
much after the fashion OF the Cihclnna'l, So
/ called and grossly mls-calleu, Union meeting,
not long ago, which was IN spirit and IN eject
n miserable failure ('Good, } very mpehi
too, after the fashion oi the meeting at 90
lumbus, oi which you have read IN telegraph,
or the meeting at indianapolis, some opera
tor true tohis vocation he'd, he says q was
attended By thirty thousand people ven
ture the assertion that not TWO Thousand people
| outside of the city OF indianapolis were pres
ent on the occasion, But It was apreconcer-
ted effort the meeting last night was part
of the programme 1t was artificial, tn's IS
natural Those VINO spoke there were Plead
ing for power plead Tor liberty (Loud
applause They spoke to men in power and
holding Office | speak TO and Tor the people
There is not single othce-holder, venture
to say, in this meeting, who does not derive
his title FROM the people. Was there single
one present last night, who did This, then,
is the difference. Coming Immediately from
Washington, having witnessed with the coni
mon satisfaction of the people OF this coun-
try the expiration of that Congress, am here
TO speak in the first place briefly OF some
things which have been done IN that body
during the recent session, and the session
which preceded IT, ! will not 10 back 50 lar
as the extra session when general insanity
prevailed throughout the country ana when
the representatives of the people were TO a
} large degree excussble, because while they
had doubtless contributed TO that insanity, II
was reflected back upon them againi hut after
D period gwen for meditation, alter the logic
a Of events had begun to work out, after the
experiment of war had been tried lor one year
it seams to me that wise men, men in whose
: hands you ought to deposit the power that
4, belong to you, should have meditated little
while and with some degree OF wisdom have
o proceeded 10 legslste Tor the true interest
n Of the country Did they do ~ C'No.ro
! What has been he Legislation financially, 10 De
>. gin with that2 Where were We them What va
II your currency Gold How much have 20,
If seen lately Of it? You read OF II IN th
stock market impalpabe, invlslble--a thinI
that belongs to the past it will go into th'
collections of those who have curiosity 70
coins What is Your currency now2 ('Greer
lback.'0 Greenbacks nor is that all ("Post
~ age stamps") Postage currency, and t
1. what extent2 Nearly thousand million
~ already, That is what is offered to yon,
: Is the entertainment TO which yon wern invi
ie ed, or rather which you were compelled to az
S. cent though not invited Io in 1860 You
y, public debt-what was it theni The eno
nous snm of seventy-one millions. Woul
" YOU not be willing to compromise on that Il
a. day2 No doubt even they to whom that wor
"compromise" is most odous, who feel toward
lit As Romeo towards the word "banisment,
would be very willing to settle the debt
this country at seventy-one millions IL
now, actually or prospectiyely, because %
anpropriations reach that extent-$2, ,277 00o
600. That is what this Congress has appr
i. priated They have given to the instrume
talty of this tremendous debt tha power th'
IA. belongs to il, the issuing of what is called
government currency, binding everybody |
some sort OF paper tie to the government
. the establishment of grand national pap,
mill-a national bank-and to the 9TH
schemes of finance which were formed in Il
Y brain, or found lodgment there somehow
y other, Of the Secretary Of the Treasury Th'
', have, by this fundamentally, obtained abs
- lutte control of the entire country ThrouG
40 a tax law, the like Of which never was impC
ed upon any but conquered people, th'