The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-09-28

SAT-. in the security of the rights
Of all. Your power win be
strong in the restored brother
hood of all Americans, and the re-
public viii be proud Of all her sons.
am, gentlemen. with fraternal
grcetingg your friend and fellow
citizen. G. scBea
The Speech Of Gen. Carl Schu,z
We publish below a synopsis Of
the speech delivered by Gen. Carl
Schurz, the distinguished Senator
from Missouri, at Nashville on tie
goth inst. We regret that our linn
tied space precludes the possibility
of publishing the entire speech, for
we regard it as one of the ablest,
wisest and most statesmanlike po-
litical efforts delivered in the South
since the war. Gen. Schurz was in
vited to Nashville by men of all po-
litical organizations, who were IA
miliar with his aversion to mere
partisan policy Oh the part of the
Government during the present ex-
igency, and who knew that he was
one of the few living American
statesmen who was actuatod by a
patriotic desire to see the union Of
the States cemented and Ferpetuas-
ed by a genuine Fraternity among
the sections. His speech did not
dissappoint their expections. It
was in. keeping with his splendid
intellect and in harmony with his
catholicity in politics. In the fol-
lowing synopsis we have embodied
the substance of the Senators re-
marks as near as possible:
He thanked the members of all
parties in Tennessee for their invi-
tation to speak at the capital of the
State, and said that it afforded him
sincere pleasure to meeton the oC-
casion all steadfast Union men
whether they had been Confede-
rates or Unionists, Democrats or
Republicans. He had no selfish
aspirations to subserve in coming
among US. He bad attained as high
position in the Government rs the
| Constitution would allow him TO
i.fll, as his motives therefore, could
not be aspersed. The great object
of his life was to act part in har-
monizing all the discordant ele-
ments engendered by war and as
sist in restoring that fraternal feel
ing among the people of the whole
Union, which was so necessary to
the perpetuity of our Government.
He was the champion Of a liberal
and magnanimous policy on the
part Of the Government. An advo.
cate of general amnesty, and the
removal of all political disabilities,
as the only effectual remedy for al
laying sectional preiudices and dis
arming sectional resentment. He
denounced the shameless corrup-
tion of the present government of
ficials. The civil service was scan
dalously demoralized, owing to the
improper and vcnal distribution OF
Executive patronage. All good
citizens should unite in extin-
gushing the vermin that infest the
federal edifce. He thought the
present system of import duties IA
vored the interests of a few and OPP
pressed those of the masses. He
condemned the policy pursued in
paying the public debt. The PEG
/ pie arc GENEROUSLY taxed to promote
its payment with unnecessary and
injudicious rapidity. The taxes
should be reduced sufficiently to
enable the people to recover from
/ the paralyzing effects of war.
The shifting value of our curren-
4 cy demonstrated the necessity for
a speedy return to specie payment.
The sooner we do this the better
it viii be for the business interests
of the country. Senator Schurz
then entered upon the discussion OF
the causes of the war. The wal
was simply the result of antago-
nism between free labor and slave
ry. Say what you will this was the
only issue. The people of the
South had great resources-theil
valor was equal to that of any ma
ton that ever added lustre to his
tory-they had able generals and
wise statesmen, but they failed.-
/ Why? Because as long as the in
spiration of victory fattered thC
poor men they chung to their mus
kets, but when disasters and de
feats took place the cry arose, "thC
rich mans war, the poor man:
fight Then again no European
nation could be the open ally of tbs
South, for slavery stood in the way
1t confronted free labor, and mona
tion could afford to have a confic-
between the two on their own soil
Slavery isolated the South from thu
world, and it is worse than useless
to shirk this historic fact Tn,
warts over. a new order of thing.