New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-12-28

Pesieaeal Csrraptisn In Great Dritala.
a., prom 4 late lecture by Chariss ,BradlAughl
Aud our politics take different ground
from of old. OF old 1t was Wing and Tory
Nov we oyenothing to Whigs and Tories in
the past, and We owe nothing to them in our
day. 1t was TO the Wings We owed long
Parliameuts and the vile stamp act, which
brought on the misery and the shame of the
long struggle with America. which the To
ries atterward carried on. They tell me you
have corruption here. But have we none at
homes l will quote to you the language of
Mr.. William Ewart Gladstone. The editors
Of your papers here who correspond with
the London Times send full details of your
political scandals post haste to England
But Mr. Gladstone said: III. .a O. .,.- .
There are . number Of men, class of
men in this country, who subsist only by
increasing the national expenditure, a class
OF men who are so powerful that govern.
ment is pOwerless to resist OF control them,
unless aided BY the vigilant supervision OF
Refer to our pension list of twelve months
ago, and it contains the names Of Mr.. Bid
we'll and Mr.. Murray. They were clerks in
the foreign office. One had f900 year. and
the other fl30O. Each of them spent many
thousands year, and one saved over half
q million, and the other nearly two millions
sterling. These two gentlemen were for
eign office agents, and in defancA cOf law
they took commissions from every 990reign
office employee. OF course that 1Ras not
sent to the American papers. Ii it had
been q matter Of the same kind in connec
ton with your government, We should have
seen it in the front columns of the Times
Then one other fact l discovered. We
have prince of royal blOOd-the Duke
of Edinburgh. He paid visit to the
colonies, and we allowed him f34O0 to
pay for the presents he made there. We
did not ask him for the presents he re-
ceived, because that would not have been
nice, and if we had we should not have
got them. We did expect, however, that
he paid the money he claimed for presents.
Well, the colonial journals said that he left
the cOlOnists and their committees to pay
no small proportion of tn III. And in q blue
book l found. among overdue balances OF
absconding and dead paymasters, the sum
Of f45O borrowed by the Duke of Edin
burgh, as paymaster of the Gaiatea, from
the pay chest, which he had forgotten TO re-
turn. IT that had been President Grant.
would not the papers have rung with it 7
do not mean that YOU are all virtuOus
here, but do mean that virtue or vice is
not necessarily an attribute of a monarchy
or a republic. You may have vicious re-
public if the people GO not do their duty,
but unuer monarchy, even if the people
bic and bear great deal.
There are only one or two words more
would like to say. l do not pretend that
the Masses of the people in England, for
whom speak tonight, have yet arrived at
the republican views l hold myself. There 1
are many who have, and all unite together
for the reforms of which l now show the |
need. We will not let our dream of re-
public stand in the way of achieving what
we can get most easily. And the men in |
England asked me to say to you IN America |
that you should judge them as they wish to
judge you-as striving to do their best for |
the land in which they live, to make it en-
durable and more useful for happiness for /
both them and for you. l wish had the |
power to speak to you all feel. My only
training has been the rough buffeting of the |
world, but represent the men who mean
to wrest the government of the country i
from the few families who now hold it, |
We preach no mock equality, NO sham
brotherhood, no delusive liberty; but we
mean to make our land a land where a man,
though born on the lowest round of the
ladder, may climb to the highest, if he have
courage enough and virtue and endurance
enough to do so. Loud and prolonged ap-
plause.9