The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-10-19
A GREAT SPEECH.

Carl Schurz, the eloquent Missouri Senator
recently, by request of the people, delivered a
great speech in Nashville, Tenn, from which
we take the following extracts:
FELLow-CTIzENs: When the kind invita-
ton which called me here was published IN the
papers, some Jealous partisans who had long
been doubling my orthodoxy, threw up their
hands in holy horror, exclaimlng: You see
now how far he has gone. Some OF the most
prominent rebels in Tennessee are among those
who invite him, and yet he accepts their invi-
tation." | plead guilty to the charge, and
more than that, while am happy to meet the
steadtast Union man, who, in the hour OF peril,
faithfully supported the national cause, am
equally happy to stretch out my hand to all
men who, having stood against us during the
civil war, are now ready to work for the res
toration oc universal peace, harmony, friend
ship and true brotherhood and had | lost u
brother in the great conflict, and were to
meet here the man who took his life, my hand
and heart would be open to him, did he show
himself ready To work with me for that great
end. And thus | thank you, Unionsts and
Conftderates, Republicans and Democrats. ma
tive and adopted citizens, white and black,
tell0w-citiZeus Ill, | thank you from my whole
heart for the friendly welcome you have given
me, and my gratitude for this high honor ] can
show in no better form than by laying before
you III what | am going to say the siHcerest
feelings OF my heart aud the maturest conric.
tiOus of my mind without fear and without
partially | have been called here by no sell
fish aspiration. You can give me nothing that
would promote my fortunes / cannot be Il
candidate for the presidency, owing to be-
nignant provision of the constitution, which
declares furrign-born citizens inehgiblc-a
high constitutional privilege might call it, for
il cxempts us from that most malignant OF all
moral dlSeases-a disease almost sure 10 Kill
whnmsoever it attacks-the presidential fever.
| Neither do | come here as partisan to coin a
little capital fur this or that political organZa-
ti"n for the welfare of the American people
stands 10 me above all party interest. have
| then nothing 10 ask of you, but that you hear
me, not for my cause, but for your own-tor
| that of our common country.
| You have invited ne To discuss before you
the present condition of public affairs aud the
problems they impose upon us. | will state them
as they appear 10 my mind in brIet review:
RESULTS OF TIE wAE.
The civil war left behind il al alienation oi
| feeling between those lately arrayed against
crch other, which is dangerous to the internal
peace of the country, and stands in the way
! of fruitful cooperation of the social elements
! Il ought 10 be dsarmed aud gradually extin
guished by rlst, generous and conclllatory
policy. In the first line general amnesty, the
| removal of political disabilities, which ought
10 have been granted long ago, should no longer
| be delayed. The new order OF things estab
| llshrd by the war. whose essence consists IN The
equality OF rights, is still distributed by adverse
Lee Il ..ts nod.
firmly maintained and secured by the co-ope
ration of all good citizens.
UsCRPNrIoN AND OPPRESSION.
Times of great peril and trouble have fostered
the habit of unconstitutional assumption o.
power, aud alarming acts of usurpatUn have
taken place We ought to return without de
| Law to the sound practices of constitutional
government, and local setgovernment ought
! Ia be restored to that freedom which belongs
To it under our constitutional system, and
which it needs to develop all its blessings.
Great abuses have grown up in our civil ser
vice: the system0f government patronage has
scandaously demoralized our political life, anc
most Injurious examples are given by selfish
practices in high places The civil servic,
ought to be reformed, the abuse of patronag,
abolished and all good citizens should CO oper
ate to restore our public life to the purity and
high tone of the first years of the republic
Shameless corruption, open and covert, has de
veloped itself in many places. There ought t.
be general house-cleaning to knock oil the
dust and to extinguish the vermin.
Our system of duties on imports is such al
! to favor some material interests enormously a
the expense of others, and to enrich the few
by expressing the many. 1t ought to be SO ad
iusted as to benefit the national treasury only
instead of privileged individuals and corpora
tons
Thhe people are GENEROUSLY taxed to promote
the payment of the national debt with unneces
sary rapidity. The taxes ought to be reduces
as much as will be consistent with cOnscien
tious discharge of our liabilities, so as to give
the business interests of the country time Il
recuperate, and to overcome the exhaustion
and losses caused by the war.
The business interest of the country is su!
fering under the uncertain and tittul tuctua
tions of values caused by an irredeemable cur
rency. We ought to return rs speedily as pos
sible to specie payments, in order to obtain o
fixed measure of values, aud to gain soundel
basis for our national credit
Corporations of tremendous power have
grown up which already exercise an almost
uncomfortable influence in our public concerns
That influence ought TO be guarded agains
with all the means within the power of tn,
people, and in the first. line the donation o
public lands to such monopolies to the disad
vantage of the laboring people ought to b'
stopped These views of the conditions OF pub
liz affairs and the prObelm to be solved ar,