The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-04-15
mENAEOR &PRAGaE ON THE
STU AHON,
SOrrOWimE, Alarm
ed aI the Prospect.

Senator Sprague, in his recent speech be-
fbre the Senate, SAID:
Sir, ] have been deeply interested in the
Republican party. In means l bave con-
Aributed more than any member of this
Body, and in character quite as much to the
fhrtherance of that success. Ia point OF
means, think my contributions in that di-
Bection ould offset the contributions of the
members of the Senate.
And what position do we occupy to-day
Is there peace at the South: Is there a
bpirit of harmonious influence here in the
Senate towards those people? Do their oc-
Equations prosperI Are they not III state
Of chronic revolution? And have you not
bad four long years in which TO assure peace
among that people?
iii have called 10 the individual attention
Of Senators, and have called To the atten-
lion of the body,the fact of the loss ofnearly
all may say, to-day all of your Industrial
Interests; but the apathy which seems TO
have been inoculated into every nerve and
into every vein of this body, and of the
Country, will not allow them to believe it
until the mischief is upon them. Your inn
migration fell off thirty thousand last year
NJ from the year before. Why is that sop Is
ID not q clear case that it must be sof Where
nan these people obtain employ ment by
anoming here If they take possession Of
the farms at the West can they produce sui
MNicient to supply themselves, at the cost OF
Everything now, with the ordinary necessa-
ries of life? Sir, it cannot be done. They
cannot come here; and Is IL not a shame
Ind disgrace to all your legislation tina
II should be so?
M You have lost your commerce. You ash
the reason for it, and there is not man IL
this chamber that gives satisfactory rea
son for the loss, except and because we arr
hot paying specie for our bills The reason
is plain and simple that the construction o.
your treasury is such that you, in common
with the capitalists of the country. are
Specializing upon every industry and upon
every laboring occupation. That is the rea'
son, and there is no other. L told you the
other day that the condition in which the
crops of the South were placed, consequent
on high prices, was the most dangerous
and disasterous position that it Mas possible
to pace them in, tor the apparent high
prices here give stimulous to the opel a.
# tions in and the production of cotton in
~ Egypt. in India and in Brazil. 1t is my de-
ms liberate judgment, and nobody can gaihsay
M it, that in five years you will be clamoring
here for a tariff to keep out foreign cotton
~ How are you going TO pay your debts with
NJ that state of things? Send more bonds t
Europe, send more OF your capital ava!
from the industries of the people!
There is q paralysis throu bout this bod,
and throughout the country. ] have point
ed to Mexican society, l have pointed q
# Italian society, and II l. have read any Inlni
| find that when they. powerful. civilized
refined. commenced the decentralization ant
loss of honor and virtue and prosperity
they occupied q similar position to that II
II which this country is placed to-day.
Ifdrored the election OF Gen. Grant an 0flpo
sifiOR TO the aspirations OF one connected icu
me 6y family ties did that because L fel
that Grant had not learned the practices o
those who had had charge of the govern
ment that he would have capacity 70 SCI
through the intricacies of the things abou
him, and would Judge more correctly of tn
exact condition in which things were, un
biased, unprejudiced, uninfiuenced / pdtch
ed his inaugural 1eith anxiety. listened &
erery cord that he uttered, ItcGtched his couR
tendnce Responded TO the cords tchereiH
profeSse9 to be the champion Of freedom an
liberty; that he should be independent and fear
Tess IN the discharge Of his duties; but tceH
dtedV t1tth q SOrroloiHg heart a7hen heard tho
ctdttSe IN hts inaugural thGthe could protect N
n government debt. sGlo that the cdIteT thai hd
possessed the body polite ofthe Americas RGtio
had got 10 him. lucent dtcou dtshedrteued, Sol
Totoin9, alarmed. But Sir, will not give u
the ship, even with that Impression. / hop
he will discover the error into which he hs
been led By bad advisers and will retrac
retrogade, turn away, as he would from
charnel house.
For making this bold speech, the Radical
have charged Senator Sprague with bein
deranged. They will find the people of tn
whole country, ere long, affected with
Ike insanity