The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-05-18

lacIhc halfway company, lnauc il
very able speech in the support OF
amendment offered by senator Thur
man, designed to protect tsc interests
of the government and the settlers
from the cXactions of the great mo
nopoly proposed TO lac still further
subsidized. We suLjoin such extracts
from senator Casscrly's speech as serve
to show the scope and form Of his ar
gumcnt
GRANTS REPUBLICAN, MEA
TRES.
Mr.. CasscrIy-I listened to the sen
ator from Iowa Mr.. Howell when
he undertook to correct and deny with
some warmth the declaration of the
senator from Michigan Mr.. HowardJ
that the entire railroad policy of which
this bill is Il striking part, is in all its
features a Republican policy. The
votes since had the uniformity with
which every amendment to gard the
rights Of the people and the interests
of the government has been rejected,
must have satisfied the Senator from
Iowa of his error. The senator from
Michigan was right. If the senate
is Republican the policy is Itepubli-
can, and this measure is Il Republi
can measure in al its cnormity. 1t
Will be so regarded, and rightly re
garde.l, by the country The most
decided opponent Of the Republican
party in this chamber and elsewhere
could not desire for that party a more
assaiIablc position. As aquestiOn be
fore the country l am not unwilling
that they shall take such posi-
ton.
Mr.. Corbrtt We can take it.
NJ. C~asscrly--I hear a senator de
clare that they ctn take it. Very
rood, sir. The future will show
whether they can afford to take it
The senator may be able to speak for
his party lie certainly is for him
self. lie, too, like tic senator from
Michigan, ayows this TO be n Republi
can measure. They ought to know,
AMI the majority here should know,
which has steadily sustained this
measure thus far against all amend
meut.
All this justilics me i'll discussing
somewhat that view of the measure
[ should not otherwise have done so.
For the sake of the coui try it is bet
ter that q bal nieasu should fail
than that il should pass through to
the detrimcnt of the party which con-
trolls Congress.
Every such measure rs his inevIta-
bly, becomes, when an issue is made
upon it, Il Republican measure. Since
[ have been here | have observed the
course of the po!iI!cl! majority Of this
body in relation to the grants OF this
kind, and indeed in relation to every
measure, when, in anv aspect OF 1t the
aggregated money power in any of its
many forms. was or might be Oh the
one side, and the rights of the people
on the other. Almost invariably, rs
if in obedience to some controlling
law, the action of the political MAORI
" has been OH one and the same side,
and that side not the side of the poo
pie.
BY and by all this will como to be
fully understood, if it is not now,
among the people at large. Then it
will be for that party now and so
long dominant in the government
which has taken upon itself the load
of such a-pollcy, to carry it if it can.
Then L look to see the party to which
| belong, still faithful 10 its old ira
ditions and honorable history as the
chill and champion of the people,
rise to the height of its mission 10
deal with the greIt issues of the pres.
ent; and, renewing its youth again as
of old, move with resistlcss power in
tie cause of the many against the few,
and against consolidated power in all
its countless forms. Then will it
cope with and overthrow the party
miscalle Republican, which day by
day, and more and more with each
succeeding monstrOus measure it
brings forth, proves itself TO be not i'll
any sense the party of the people, but
the party of those who would Cypress
the people in the interestso of privilege
and monopoly a party which III the
name of humanity eXhausts 1t all IN
one direction and looks with cold and
unfriendly eye upon the masses,
whether of the old world OF the new,
against whom it bars the entry upon
the public domain, while it bestows it
in principalities of millions and mill
ions Of acres to be held by I'll Irnad
corporations i'll mortmain for the life
time of more than a generation Of
men.
WHAT THE MONOPOLISTS HAVE Z
TANNED, AND WHAT THEY NOW
DEMAND.
In 1861 Congress was brought by
an awakened public sentiment TO a
sudden halt in the policy which it
has been pursuing. / refer, ofcourse,
to the policy of vast expenditures-I
do not mean to say wholly unfruitful
OF good, though ut what cost?-the
policy of granting to transcOntincntal
railways aid in lands by millions and
millions Of acres, and subsidies in
money to the amount of tens Of mill
ions of dollars. There was good rea-
son for the public sentiment which so
arrested Congress in its What
had been the extent of the aid IN lands
and money granted by congress down
to that period? L have some figures
here from our most authentic source
of information, the report of Mr. VIII
soH, the commissioner of the general
land Office, now upon our tables. ]
read from page 81 of that report. 1t
will be understood, of conrse, that SO
far as it speaks of aid in lands the fig