The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-16
SOUNDING THE ALARM.
THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN, OUT
POURING ON FRIDAY LAST.

speeches of Senators TRANQUIL and
Schurz and Horace Greeiey-A Bold
Letter from Governor Fenton-Hones,
Words that Will Ring. Through tn,
Land.
The New York papers of Saturday devote
agreat part OF their space to the full reports
ofthe proceedings of the Liberal Republican
mass meeting, held in the hall of the Cooper
Institute, on the preceding evening, and
which was even more completely successful
than our Geographic dispatches had led us to
believe.
The meeting was announced for eight
O'Clock, but as early as six citizens began
gathering in the vicinity of the hall, and be.
fore seven O'Clock. when the doors were open.
ed, the streets about the building were blocked
with people. pressing for admittance. AT
twenty minutes past seven O'Clock, forty min
Ites before the time appointed for the meet.
ing, there was not an inch Of standing room
even left unoccupied within the hall, while the
corridors were equally crowded with those
pre- ssing to get In. Quite a number Of ladies
had entered with the first rush and secured
seats near the platform, but the great mass OF
the assembly, was made up of substantial and
respectable voting citizens. The absence OF
GLC lOuEu ACh4Ou o1u u lut0 j "SS pa
ticularly noticed.
On the platform were seated q great mum.
Der of the solid and substantial men OF the
.clty-bankers, lawyers, merchants, literary
men, and pOliticians-betng representative
men of the great body that filled the hall, and
which constituted one OF me most lnhaentlal
gatherings ever convened In this city. Among
the number were such men as Waldo Hutch
ins, Isaac Sherman, David Dudley Field, ex-
Senator q. B. Stanton, Sinclair Tonsey, the
Hon. Horace Greeley, Theodore G. Glaubens-
klee, General George W. Palmer, George
Wilkes, Ira Q. Miller, Judge Freeman, J.
Fithian, ]. Soils Ritterband, Judge John Z.
Porter, Enoch L. Fancher, Ethan Allen, Rufus
F. Andrews. ex-Msrshal Robert Murray, E. G.
Squier, Benjamin A. Wallis, D. D.. T. Moore,
and q host of similar well-known gentlemen.
Colonel F.A. Cenkling, who was called to
the chair, briefly stated the objects of the
meeting, and the following resolutions were
then enthusiastically adopted:
A Declaration OF Principles Held by
New York Republicans who Favor
the Cincinnati Convention.
We believe that the political action of indi-
viduals and conventions should be left free
from the influence of political patronage; that
business men should not, under the fear OF
unjust official interference with their affairs,
be compelled to pay tribute for political pur-
poses.
be, created for public convenience, and not as
rewardsfor partisan service, nor tor personal
ACKNOWLEDGMENT; that the acts of officials
should be confined within the strict letter OF
the laws creating such officials.
We believe that the triumph of Republican
principles is of paramount Importance to the
whole country, and that the success Of those
principles In the approaching national cleo
ton does not depend upon any one indi.
yldual.
We believe that the prosperity Of the whole
country demands thorough, radical and lmme-
diate reform In all departments Of the public
service, civil, military and naval; and mat the
tone term principle" for the Presidential
office will conduce more to that end than any
other measure.
The reading of the resolutions provoked ap.
plause at every sentence, and they were
adopted with cheers.
Speech OF senator TrumbGIl.
Senator Trumbull was now introduced aud
received with "three times three" The con-
GLIDING passages of his mastery speech are as
follows:
have thus briefly stated to you questions
which have been already settled. have
stated to you that slavery has been abolished;
that the rights of all the citizens of this coan-
tIy Q6Vo Decu 6etdUilouCuS tAoS II So0Ah
has been put down; that the States have been
restored to their former position 10 the Union;
all these questions have been settled, and any
person who now undertakes to disturb them,
or to agitate the public mind In reference to
them, must do 30 for the purpose OF diVerting
attention from the living Issues of the times.
And what are those issues? | have tried to
state to you what they were, and to show you
the
IMPROVEMENTS OF TIE FEDERAL GOVERN
MENT
upon the rights of the Stale and local gov
.ernments. They relate to amnesty-to the
SECURING of equal rights for ALA great prin-
party. They relate to a reform In our revenue
service BY which taxation should be reduced
and go arranged as To bear equally, ais far as
possible, upon all branches Of labor and in
dustry, without depressing any one branch for
the benefit of the other. [Applause.1 They
relate TO the publication OF the civil service
of the government, that the administration OF
the government by one who plumbers should
be driven from power and the government
placed In the hands of honest men.
WHY CANNOT THIS BE DONE
had hoped that all this could be accom-
plished through the fundamentally of those
who had control Of the government, but the
experience of the last session of Congress and
of the present session has satisfied me that
LQ0 IelOEm CduuOG bC oSSOWPIoh0o eoASu6a
suoh an agency as the ruling spirits now con-
trolling them. Processing to be for amnesty,
they defeat every amnesty bill offered by
means of homogeneous amendments. Profess
sing to be for civil service reform, they will do
nothing practical to accomplish 1t. Protes-
sing with a loud voice to be In favor OF the
fullest investigation and removal OF abuses,
they appoint committees contrary to all par
liamentary precedent and all common sense.
IApplause.l If the object Is to find out
whether abuses exist,
- THESE INVESTIGATIONS
are 30 organized as to be controlled by the
friends Of the accused, and every person ID
carefully excluded who believes hat abuses
exist and desires q thorough Investigation.
Is that the way you dealt with abuses In this
city {? Suppose when you discovered that
millions of money had been squandered In
this city, and that the officials we're called
upoS to appoint q committee of investigation,
and select their own friends for the Office
Iapplause and lac3hterl- do yon think you
would have unearthed them? Why, 1t took
your committee of seventy, with the assis-
lance of the ablest lawyers in America,
months to ascertain where the money OF
which you had been robbed had gone, and
who had stolen 1t. I think In q very few
weeks you will be able to find out. Yet Is 1t
any wonder that the duties of the committee
were arduous In ferreting out the corruption
with which nearly every department OF the
city was reekiBg?