Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
LETTER FROM CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, March "a, 1873.
THE WEATHER

THE WEATHER.
After spending a month or more in the cold
State of Minnesota, turn my face south
ward, with the assurance of finding more
genial cline. The winter hangs on here like
dead beat to free beer saloon. There is
no getting rid Of it. One day you think it is
gone, and the sun comes out with an attempt
at warmness, but perhaps before night a bleak
pail of clouds will emerge from the western
horizon, and soon the ground will be carpeted
with snow. The bad weather has hung on so
long that the people of this northern latitude
have about concluded that the winter will
not fairly get out of the way before the fourth
of July. Really, it has been the most severe
winter ever known. thas lasted the longest,
and been the coolest, with the most snow.
THE coNaREssMENs STEAL.
The transition from cold subject, like the
weather, to hot one, like the Congressmen's
steal, is rather sudden; but time is limited and
we have to mix up cold and hot in "hotch'
potch" together, as the lawyers say.
Seldom has anything stirred the northern
mind like the recent theft of million of dol
lars or more, by rotten and corrupt Con-
gress. The more they think of it the less
they like it. It is thorn, indeed, in the side
of the North. Particularly from sanity New
England do we hear howl. The pocket
nerve, you will understand, is the tenderest
one in New England anatomy. Touch that
with rudeness and the subject squeals
But we cannot blame the people from all
sections of the country for kicking up at this
unexampled piece of villainy. One of the
saddest, most revolving pictures mankind are
called upon to witness, is the spectacle Of
people robbed by their own representatives.
The members contracted to serve at $4,000
year, and then on the last day Of their term of
service, at the end Of two years, deliberately
put their thievish hands into the treasury and
took therefrom $7,5O00O, or fifty per cent.
more than the agreed compensation. Should
1 agree to work for you one year for one
thousand dollars, and then on the last day of
the year claim fifteen hundred and forcibly
take it, the case would be precisely similar.
For the ofense could be put into the peni-
tentiary four or five years, and that is just
the fate that ought to overtake the thieving
Congressmen. Every one who engaged in the
steal ought to be punished as we are wont to
punish other thieves. But this, unfortunate
ly for an outraged and robbed people, is i'm
possible, and their only remedy is to consign
every one of the rascals to the tomb of pri.
vate life for the rest of their days. The peo-
pie had as well make stand here as any
where. They cannot longer submit to rob-
berry. Let it be understood from Maine to
the Gulf that not one of the rascals who
voted for the treasury steal is ever to be trust
ed in public life again. 1t makes no differ.
ence as to his politics; be be Democrat, Lib,
eral, Rebel or Radical, stamp him as unwor-
thy the confidence Of an outraged people for
evermore That is the feeling here, and l
hope it is in the South. Whenever one of the
back pay scamps puts out his head for Office,
spot him and beat him. Don't regard his
politics, or his professions, or his color, but
drive him out and teach him that robbery is
a crime not easily forgotten or excused.
have been in the North considerably for the
past few years, but never saw the public
mind 80 stirred up upon any subject as it is
upon this. Let the cry be taken up in every
district, and let every rascal be spotted who
gave his vote to the STEAL
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