The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-11-08
FoR TIE EHPoRIA EEYs.
THEIR PROMISES.

THEIR PROMISES. p,
eve have listened. we have heard. and
they have not spoken Alright" Words
Of similar impoII were spokento an aneis1 /
nation foC not Obeying the principles Of
equity or the dictates os s0iSdona.i = -
ALLOW me-to ask The hoRest American
citizen who is willing TO base Isiudgmsnt
or his opinion upon that philosophy
which traces defect back TO its cause?
Is not the above sentiment applicable to
IA. as 3 nation or as people, to-day ?
When the evil genias of man was array.
ed against our Government, with intent
TO sunder and despoil, nearly 5000, 600
of It's loyal Inhabitants arose to its de
Tense, battled for nearly Eve years against
our enemies, after about one fouith of
them perishing by sword, disease and
famine, the Government was apparently
restored; notwithstanding the great loss
Of life and the vast am 5unt of treasure
expended, hardly one of our Govern
meut's enemies, yes, even enemies of true
manhood, have eeen called to the bar of
human justice. as yet, although g 900, 600
loyal citizens are said to be represe nted at
the seat of government, asking equity
for themselves aud justice to all the gov
erned. Yet in each similitude have We
not failed, as far as the wishes of the
people or the loyal inhabitants have tried
TO dictate. Our Representatives have
failed to do justice to our enemies; they
have let traitors reign in high places;
they are allowed 10 exult over our Gov
ernment uumolested aud uurebuked, and
yet no ray of light appears. Those that
went TO battle for our country and the
maintenance of our Government are
treated as vssssls. The ciizsn soldier
who left the sweet comforts of home and
took his life in his hands, is forgotten.
When he complains be is told ace hired
goa; although lift had not been for THEIR
lndomitable courage and loyalty our couu
try, our government, all. all would have
been lost. So says the history of the past
Twice In the past three years our Rep
reseniatives have been before US asking for
our suffrage with all the geuuineness aud
dislngeDuousness that they we're master of
promising that they acre lOlling TO ID
justice to the savioIs of our Government
TO whom they claim that they owed their
elevation, and great honor to represent
them 10 the councils of our nation. How
well have they performed their promises
in the Thirty Ninth Congress-? After
oscilating six months, they made dive,
elbow deep, into the public treasury for
themselves. In order to palliate that act,
they passed an act called Equalzirg the
Bounties; in fact, il was an uuequalizsr.)
La the Fortleth Congress. the great Peter
Funk OF Ohio. Is. K would make
motion, now and then, just for pastime,
as hesrtless and as cold as the pJla' winds,
forgetting the pillows which this Gov.
eminent rest7 upon; forgetting tie warmth,
the pIomptrsss aud the slacrity that SONS
OF his cons .Ituents marched 10 The bat le-
field Offering up their lives that the Gov
erument might 1--we. While we have been
expecting justice, he aud his competitors
have been Yacilaling their time away heart
lessly forget ng their promises to do jus
tee TO the preseTvers of our Government.
Surely "we have listened, we have heard,
and they have not spoken Alright" They
have said TO the rich buy our bonds and
you shall pay no direct tar. We will
nearly exhonorate you from taxes. The
Producing and laboriug class must pay it,
although it is large. We paid them about
fifty cents per day { some get bounty to
defend our homes and our common coun-
try. We will tax them TO pay the nation
al debt, we have hedged them up so thai
they can do no business without bearing
the stamp of our misfortune; we have ia
creased the tariff 80 it ceases 10 be a rev
enue tariff to certain extent; it now add
wealth to the opulent and manufacturers,
and impoverisbes the poorer ella or
''makes tl.erch richer. and the P9o- poor
er." owe have listened, we haye heard
and they have not spoken Alright On,
We monu rents of self aggand'zemsnt; ye
Representatives of the people. do ycl
hear that thunder from the Key Stone
State, and It's sister. Let it awake you Il
your duty, while you stand as the senli
nels Of this Grand REPUBLIC Harl that
accidental Potentale from the place
which he so much misrepreseuts, anC
then do Justice to him who has imperiIeC
his life in the defense of his country by
giving him monthly stipend of Two o
three dollars, so TO heIp him to pay The
taxes which you have allotted him to pay
Then the echo of that thunder will cease
but not until then.
Speaker ColTax assigned as a reason
why the last Congress did not vo te email
! stipend, because there was no petition tc
that effect. Let every Grand Eucsmp
meat of this Republic ses that there is I
petition circulated from Kansas to Maine
so there will be no blame resting on GU
shoulders, and then we will see who viii
be Presid, nt. n. w. w.
October 30lh, 1867.
Philosophers say that shutting the eye
makes the sense of hearing more acute
A wag suggests that this accounts for th
many closed eyes that are seen IN ehurcl