The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-10-20


Cd and authorized, and are hereby re-
quested and authorized. to direct that
Thomas Harriott be committed to close
further orders of this Congress-
And yet all that he had done was to
refuse to take the Continental money.
He had simply given his opinion on the
legal tender law. just as the Democrats
of Indiana did in regard to greenbacks,
and as few Circuit Judges decided
when they declared the Legal tender act
unconstitutional. It would have been
perfectly proper and right that they, eve.
ry man of them, should be. like Tnomas
Harriott, committed to close jail, there
to remain until further orders"
How many Democrats, during the war
declared the legal tenders unconstitu
tional, and that they would soon paper
their houses with them? How many
said they would soon be worth only five
cents per bushel? If they had said the
same thing in the time of Washington,
jackson, or Adams, they would have
signed a bill to put them 10 dungeons, il
necessary. [Cheers Now let us see
how good men OF those days agree wit b
you. There are 50 msny cases in point
that the trouble is to know which one
not to read. Here is letter: let us see:
81 am informed that the Connecticut
Assembly are very unanimous in the
common cause, and am ,ng other acts,
have passed one for raising aud equip
ping forth Of the militia, An
other act for seizing and colfiscating for
the use of the colony, the Estate of those
putting or continueing to shelter them
selves under the protection of the minis
terial field, or arm Or assist them in
carrying on measures against US
The situation of our affairs seem to call
for regulations like this. and should
think the other colonies ought to make
similar ones Of such of them as they
have not already made"
This letter was written to Gov. Coke,
dated January 6, l776; and signed by
George Washington. He didn't believe
that men protected by government had
right to speak against that govern
ment. So thought Jefferson, Hamilton
and many other good men "a4-
Did not the Democratic party as a
party oppose every measure for the pres
ervation of this Government And the
fathers in describing such persons say
they must be secured and i'm prisoned
That is the way they carried ON war.
Let me say a little more on this point.
There is nothing like finding out about
the fathers. Great laughter.1 They
didn't care either whether man was a
private individual or Governor. One
Of these men was Gov. Eden, Of Mary
land. Congress passed q resolution re-
Questing the Committee Of Safety TO Sc
cure his person and pager He was
another snake in the grass. don't know
whether he was related to the old snake
or not. Perhaps he was his grandfather.
But there was bigger snake in our
Eden than ever was in the Garden
Laughter. There was another, Alex
Ross, who was served likewise 1t made
no difference whether the man occupied
high or low position: If his speech or
actions did harm they put him in Jail.
There was also another man by the name
Of Parke. He didn't want to be res.
trained. He started to PhiIad elphia
without pass, and the General of the
army arrested him, and he was put in
Jail and kept there for months and
months als-az
While upon the shject OF arbitrary
arrests, I must touch another subject
The Democrats also charge that we in
terfered with the elections. Let us see
how the fathers stood upon that ques.
ton. The people of Queens county, in
the State Of New York, undertook to
play nutrality-to act as Kentucky did
during the war. They refused to send
deputies to the Con vention at New York.
They were going to stand on :heir dig.
nifty, just as Kentucky stood on hers, and
it's very small thing to stand on
These gentlemen voted against sending
any deputies. They proposed to obey
their King George, and said we want n o
Convention. They committed no overt
act. They simply voted against send
ing men to this Convention. Let US see
what our fathers did with them. They
simply sail: @
Whereas, A majority Of the inhsbi-
tants of Queens county have persistently
refused to send deputies to the Conven-
tion; therefore,
e Resolved, That all such persons in
Queens county aforesaid, as voted against
sending deputies to the present Conven.
ton OF New York. and named in . list
of delinquents in Queens county, pub
lished by the Convention Of New York.
he put out of the protection of the
United Colonies, and that all trade and
intercourse with them cease: that unre