Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-10-30

to organize them into Jury and pu them
right up here and swear them in and impesch
Mr.. Greeley for high crimes and misdemean-
ors, not in office, but Ii the prospect of obtain
ng Office.
Now, observe the constitution of the United
| States Is document ef some considerable i'm
portance to this people, and among other
things. 1t lays down with great stress he var
lous duties OF tn various departments OF the
| government, and it is expressly plain and per-
nlclous when it C mes to define
THE DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT
| OF the United States. 1t says the President
shall want you to observe that the word is
enlpha tic; it is the imperative, not "may:"
but the President "shail" not may, can,
might, should, or, on t whole it would be
better, or that he ought to do so. but it says
the President " Shall recommend to Congress,
from time to time, such measures as IN his
iu -gment will conduce to the public Welfare" :"
Horace says he will do no such thing.
agree" he says, with the Cincinnati conyen-
ton, that as far as the tariff, taxation, inter-
nal revenue, and other financial questions,
! On the whole of tn Sc national questions
! wl.lch concern us all, L would not say anything
/ at ALL" [Laughter.1 And the Cincinnati plat
! form was written after the Constitution of the
United States, and therefore must be binding
| IA laugh.l
Then, gentlemen, observe another part Of
| the constitution. How ii prescribes the enact
ment of laws. It saws that every bill when it
|
be Seut to the president. What for? Does 1t
say that he shall Immediately sign it in the
dark IA laugh.l Not bit of it. No, it
says Every bill, when it shall have passed
the senate AID the house, shall be sent to the
| president. and if he approves 1t, he shall sign
| it, and if he don't approve it, he shall return
| 1t to the house in which it originated, with
his objections thereto. Mr.. Greeley saws he
VIII not 90 any snch thing. He saws he agreed
that under 10 circums tances will he use the
Upt 011301 -aif hail
| ii elected president exercise the powers en-
joined on him by the constituti n /; he pledges
himself in the most solemn form til II language
can command that under no considera ton, no
m tier what outrage may be pushed through
congress, in the way of depressing the people,
by financial bill, that he
WOULD NOT USE HIS VETO
Now, gentlemen, the veto power of the con-
stitution, though it may have been abused, is
yet one of the most precious and inestimab!e
powers conferred for the benefit of the people
on the president. Let me give you one in
stance only last winter, partly through mat
tention, and partly by the svmpatllies of
Others and partly by the energetic action of
still others,a bill passed congress giving 10 one
! J. Milton Best, of Paducah, KY,
! $4,000 COMPENSATION
| for house destroyed by the Union array
| Gen. Grant sent that bill back with his obiec-
! ton, which was short, and simply this: That
no nation ever had, and no nation ever
could undert Ike to repair all the ravages of
war; and while he had as great sympathy with
1 Mr.. Best as he could have, which be showed
/ by making him postmaster at Paducah, that he
/ could not, in &C nscenCe, sign that bill, for if
/ he did it would open the doors of the treasury
| for at least hundreds OF millions of claims
! based exactly on the same idea. [Cheers.
/ There is 10 child in Milwaukee young enough
! to live to have seen The end during its life
/ time Of the drains upon the treasury that that
precedent might have made. hen the bill
| came with Gen. Grants veto, and objections
! thereto, there was IN neither branch OF Con-
! gress corporafs guard of members to op-
/ rose such veto. (Cheers) And yet Mr..
Greeley says be would have signed it right off !;
that's the way he would have treatedit Now
| would like, upon that showing of facts, to
/ ask the verdict of my twelve Liberal Repub-
| lican assistant Democratic friends? (Cheers.)
| There is
ANOTHER OBJECTION HAVE TO MR.. GREELEY.
He has lately been traversing some of the
I states of this Union, addressing large au-
diences from tho rear end of Pullman car ;
scouting at the top of his voice that tle great
need Gf this country, was amnesty.
! Now, gentlmen, [ MAINTAIN that you may
| search all the records of history, ancient, mo-
dern, aud medieval, and all the wars known
! since govern ents were formed, without find
/ ing a parallel to the clemency. and mercy, and
! forbearance, and generosity of this govern
ment toward tie rebels. lCheers. just think
| of the
FOUR LONG, WEARY YEARS OF WAR,
/ OF the countless treasures that Were swept
out OF existence forever. and the still more
preci ia lives that fill 800, 900 bloody an hon
/ orable graves. Against YOU there was more
! than million of en-, and three millions as
! aiders and abettors in the treason. With the
/ war closed, there has not been q single life
/ de anded, there has not been a single dollar
/ OF properly of any rebel confscatea Icheers l.
/ dollar And when have
said that l have not told you half,
/ the disa bilities have been removed from the
millions. and at this very hour there are not
/ to be found existing III the length and breadth
of this country more than 285 men who are
under olitical disabilities. That penalty, So
far as the laws of the United States extend,
merely deprives them of the right to hold
! office bat do, not deprive them of the right
/ to vote.
Gtntlemen, such clemency, I say, can no.
| where he found.
| But yesterday, at the close of the Franco
Prussian war. in single city revolt was
! gained, and but for few weeks the COM
mune held sway in Paris against the tempo
rary government of NJ. Theirs, which sue
ceeded the fall Of the empire. For that brief
rebellion In 81 gle city against temporary
! government, 30, 900 men have been sent into
TRANSPORTATION FOR LIFE,
moro than 100 have go to the gu.lotine, and
more han double that number are lying in
French prisons to-day awaiting trial. And we,
with this Incomp lrable rebel iOh, 20 large that
/ this does not furnish unit to our millIcn have
no eXacted a single dollar rfet nor a sir gle
| life. (Cheers.) And yet Mr.. Greeley makes
an lie on these 285 men. l am ready to
NEE him on that issue. The Republican
part, has stripped the disabilities from every
one OF these, and have gore SO far that at this
hour, if the House OF Representatives, was
open, YOU would fnd the seats of % members
filled by men who were officers IN the rebel
lion.
These 285 men are those who violated th ir
particular oath as sena ors atd representatives
and joined the rebellion: off GERS who violated
oaths and joined the rebellion, who deserted
their positions on the distant fontier, and.
under circumstances of peculiar atrccity and
joined the rebellion; they are the men who
deserted our ships on foreign shores, who left
cabinet positions to- in the rebellion; who re-
signed t, ON the federal judiciary and soiled
the ermlne ; and, finally, they are the men
who, trusted in diplomatic stations, brought
their government into shame by joining tue
that make up the 2S5. AS Mr.. Greeley is sc
urgent for amnesty let US not discuss these
men as C ass, but take one or two individu.
} ais; let us take one at least, MIR. Jacot
? thompson, who was Secretary of the interior
under buchanan, the man with whom Mr.
, Greeley hobnobbed at Niagara III 1864, when
Generals Grant, Sherman, Logan and others
l were at the front. But while Mr. Greeley was
: hurryng to and fro on this errand of peace
| Jake thompson had no lea whatever of sucI
negotiations. He was foohng Mr.. Greeley
, His object and his purpose was far different
from that supposed. We know now, by let
ter IN his own handwriting, over his own sig
7 nature, just what he was there for. He was
there for an object of inconceivabe wicked
ness, an object which I have not language
l sutficien to designate. He was there organ
2 lzlng consolracles, as you veil know, tt
burn the cities of tue north in the night time
He had $500, 900 IN the banks Toro to an(
2 Montreal with which to organize bands of des
[ perate men. who were to burn these cities. in
l Volvlng IN the hopeless destruction every con
, siderable city in the North. Your own beauti
, ful city was one especially mark ed for de
strucIon. Thompson tells us why he dld no
g succeed. There was certain Greek fire
Y which did not ignite quite so rapidly, and die
not burn over so large surface as warranted
t IN the patent, and then there were so man,
e Lincoln hirelings abou,, too many detective,
+, that were interfering with the Democratic doc
!, trine of local sef-goyernment Laughter
e And now tins man with this incoueeivabl
1 wlckedness, organizing rebellion, organizing