Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1869-04-07

Even ne, Deglns 10 see tnat everything s
not lovely. His assertion, that he has
spent his money more freely, than any of
co-conspirators, in order to bring the Coun-
try to its present ruinous condition shows
ON what the party ''of great moral ideas"
base their claims to honors and preferment;
and shows how deep must De his shame and
contrition when he shall see himself as
others see him.
Read what he says:
'Sir, have been deeply interested in
the success of the Republican party, In
means have contributed more than any
other member of this body, and in charac-
ter quite as much to the furtherance of that
success. In point of means, / think my
contributions in that direction would offset
the contributions of all the other members
of the Senate.
And what position do we occupy to day :?
Is there peace at the South ? Is there a
spirit of harm onious influence here in this
Senate toward those people? Is there
government among those people !? Do
their occupations prosper Are they not in
a state of chronic revolution ? And have
you not had four long years in which to as
sure peace among that people?
I have called to the individual attention
of Senators, and have called to the atten-
ton of the body, the fact of the loss of
nearly 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 be-
lieve it until the mischief is upon thom.
Your immigration fell off thirty thousand
last year from the year before. Why is
that so? Is it not clear case that it must
be so? Where can these people obtain
employment by coming here? If they
take possession of the farms at the West
can they produce sufficient to supply them
selves, at the cost of everything now, with
the necessaries of life Sir, it cannot be
done They cannot come here; and is it
not a shame and disgrace to all your leg
islAtion that it should be so ?
You have lost your commerce. You
ask the reason for it and there is not
man in this chamber that gives satisfac-
tory reason for the loss except and because
we are not paying specie for our bill. The
reason is plain and simple that the con-
struction of your treasury is such that you,
in common with the capitalists of this
country, are speculating upon every indus
try and upon every laboring occupation.
That is the reason, and there is no other.
1 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 disastrous position
that it was possible to place them, for
the apparent high prices here give a
stimulous to the operations in and the pro-
duction of cotton in Egypt, in India and
in Brazil 1t is my deliberate judgment,
and nobody can gainsay it, that in five
years you will be clamoring here for tar
if to keep out foreign cotton. How are.
you going to pay your debts with that
state of things Send more bonds to Eu-
rope, send more of your capital away from
the industries of the people
There is a paralysis throughout this
body and throughout the country. / have
pointed to Mexican society, have pointed
to Spanish society, have pointed to Ital-
ian society, and if I have read anything l
find that when they, powerful, civilized, re-
fined, commenced the Generalization and
loss of honor and virtue and prosperity,
they occupied similar position to that in
which this country is placed to day.
1 favored the election of General Grant
in opposition to the aspirations of one con-
nected with me by family ties. I did that
because felt that Grant had not learned
the practices of those who had had charge
of the government, that he would have ca
pacity to see through the intricacies of the
things about him, and would judge more
correctly of the exact condition in which
things were, unbiased, unpreiudiced, unin-
huenced. I watched his inaugural with
anxiety. l listened to every word that he
uttered / watched his countenance. re-
sponded to the words wherein he professed
himself to be the champion of freedom and
liberty that he should be independent and
fearless in the discharge of his duties but
went away with sorrowing heart when
heard that clause in his inaugural that he
would protect the government debt. saw
that the canker that had possessed the
body polite of the American nation had
got to him. I went away disheartened
sorrowing, alarmed. But, sir, 1 will not
give up the ship, even with that impress
sion. hope he will discover the error in
to which he has been led by bad advisers,
and will retract, retrograde, turn away, as
he would from a charnel-house.
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