Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-31
NEW YORK CRY. i ~ :. !
The Radical Chargs oE 1slsosien
Frzuds-EloquentE Etndicafiaps :,


The RADICAL Charge 90 sElset zen
| Frsud.-Eloqnent NtndteRttsns !,
| While ihe Bill 70 enforce the hi.eenth
amendment was under discussion IN he
United States Senale. Friday might, Ar.
Carpenter, Qf Wisconsin, male; The Old
s.ereotyped fling about 'cqEIupsiop IN
New York. city, NLersupoHa senator
Thurman, Of Ohio-wlio, by the way, is
one of the readiest debaters in ille Senate,
and one of the ablest men in the whole
country-made thS following complete
and eloquent reply: fsl ~ g.5S
What, siFsl Frauds in New York.
There are nomore frauds in New York, in
proportion, than in any other great ciiy;
and II one party cheats there more than
aaother, then Unjust say that this party TO
which my friend from Wisconsin belongs,
and which has all the education, and al
the genius, and all The learning, and which
Is supposed TO have a little bit of the cum
ming of the rest OF mankind, must be in q
state of immense stupidity ia the city of
New York. Sir, ever since | was boy
have heard this same cry about frauds in
the city of New York. There never was
an election carried 1by the Democracy In
the city of New Iork thai there was not
the same Jeresliad about fraud, precisely
the same; and venture to say that the
youngest Senator on this floor viii not
live long enough 10 see an election IN that |
city carried by the Democratic party that
there will not be the very same lamen-
tations, and lamentations more touching
than anything that is to be found in the
book Of Jereniah, over the election
frauds in the city Df New York.
put it to my friend, does he not know
hew it is about New York; If you want
to deal upon any topic whatsoever you
select New York If you want TO point
out the place where the-e is the greatest
Gu ming in the world in business, yOu
point to New York If you want TO
point out where there IS the greatest
degradation of morals, you point to New
York. II you want to point out where
there is the greatest shoddy, you point
to New York. In word, you take
New York as a sort of Cosmos, q sort of
of all there is that is good
and all there is that is bad. New York |
is big place, and you propose by this
bill to go into that city, with million OF
more inhabitants than there
are in some of the States of this Union
you propose to go into that city of New
i YoJk on the ground that she is the sink
of fhiquity, the SOdom and GOmOrrah of
of the United States; and one would
.hink, 10 hear Senators talk about New
\ York, that if Abraham could he visited I,
by the Lord once more, and the question
was upon the salvation of New York,
Abraham would have to jew the Lord
lOwn below the ten men which He agreed
% save SodOm and GOmorrah for, and get
lim to accept less number, or New
York would be destroyed.
Oh, no, Mr.. President; tiiis via not do.
New York is the greatest city in the
United States, the city that has the great
st wealth, the city that has the greatest
collection of learned men. and literature
n the whole country. If thai city has
become Sodom and Gomorrah, So that
The Congress of the United States, the
whole power of the Republic, Is to be ex-
erted to put down crime and fraud and
cheating and perjury there, then hope
40 American thereafter will be found 10
BOAST of the great Republic. 1t is the |
,reat city whose name is known wherever
civilization exists, nay, beyond the limits
If civilization. If that city, which is
,ur pride and our boast, Is q mere sink of
niquity; if she il 4 thing that stinks in
he nOstrils of al honest men, and the ]
yhole power OF the Republic is to be
'rought TO bear upon her, and the heel
# the nation is to be set supon her, then,
or Gods sake, do not boastof New York
Y pay any more pilgrimages 10 that city; {
10 not visit her any more; shun her Is you
you'd q pestilence, keep away from her;
ct her be an anathema maranathas do not ]
ny more go to New York You have
'Onds to sell, do not 60 there; you have ,
money to borrow, do not 90 there any
nOre; you have goods to buy, and want
redit, do not 60 there any more: go TO i
Baltimore, that slaughtered the patriots of
Massachusetts, in 1861; go to Richmond,
bat accursed city of the rebels; go to
60 somewhere else; do not go
0 that sink of iniquity, that conceAtTa-
ion of all that is vile, the city OF New =
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