The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-25
JUDGE CAMDEN's SPEECH.
Continuation Of His Remarks.
lCOSCLUSION,

! cheek does not blush at the develop
ments that have recently been made in
the Congress ofthe United States, in re-
gard to the corruption Of its own MEM
bers? The fact has been established be-
yond doubt that Congressman have sunk
so low as to accept of brides to betray
| their constituents. And an American
Secretary of the Treasury was compelled,
! by force of public sentiment, to resign
his high place in consequence of frauds
upon the public treasury, committed
either by his connivance or criminal neg
ligence. The Credit. Mobilier and the
Sanborn Contracts will long be remem-
bered as Il garment of infamy which must
ever cling to the parties involved in
! them.
Let me call your attention to the
! financial embarassments of the country,
| by asking you of the Republican party,
what relief may We expect by continuing
the Republicans in power. l. it not evil
/ dent from the action of the last Congress
upon that subject, that that party is in
competent to master that great and vital
public interest? Where is relief to come
from? Not from the Republican party,
because they are pledged 10 continue the
present policy. If relief we are 10 have,
! il mdSt come from II change i'll the
| administration of the National govern
| ment. There must not only be- Il wise,
patriotic and sagacious statesman III the
| Presidential chair, but all honest and in-
! tclligrnt Congress, men who possess the
! patriotism to drop their individual inte-
/ rests, and whose aim is to promote the
welfare and prosperity of the country.
/ Let Il, have Il change.
" nat is the condition of your country?
| Why, sirS, it is Us one vast farm, with It's
fences in ruin; the choicest meadows al
/ lowed to grow up in weeds and fifth; and
where neatnc>s and order should prevail,
disorder and devastation stalk through
the beautiful heritage bcqucathrd to u hy
our fathers. What is the condition of
South Carolina and Louisiana? Every
well informed man within the sound Of
nv voice knows that in the desolation
Of Poland or the devastation of Ireland.
OutrageS such as are every day perpetrat-
ed upon the people of the South, We're
unknown. Even in the city of Washing
ton-our national Capital-under the
very shadow of TIE tomb of the immortal
Father of his country" the people have
been sooutraged by the corruption Of the
railing power, that even Radicalism blush
e. nj the result of the investigation.
Think Of it. will YOU? Think of Il Pres
ident of the United States signing and
approving fiji by which his own salary
was increased 100 per cent. Think of II
Republican Congress, at it, closing hours.
passing law whereby its mem-
bers wrongfullv withdraw from the
publictreasury 81, ,0oo"ach. They contend
that the Radical party Is not responsible
for this great wrong, because some DEM
ocrutic members voted for and took the
money. but having majority in both
houses of Congress, they and the Presi-
dent are responsible for it,
Indulge me, if you please. in again re-
ferring to the financial condition "fthe
country. Why this universal cry Of hard
times?' SirS, Notwithstanding the fact
that nine wears have passed since the war
closed the National debt l. increasing.
Revenue collectors and other officials are
almost rs thick rs grasshoppers in
Kansas; and the whole substance of the
country is being eaten up and Squandcr-
ed bv the army of ottice-hOlders and gov
crnmcnt contractors. who are tattcning
upon the labor Of the poor. The New
England States, while they control, by
Radical legislation, the money interests
Of the country pay comparatively moth
ing 10 the support of the government
bv direct taxation. West Virginia pays
more than the great State of Maine and
her ncighbors Of Vermont and Rhode
Island. Our productions are taxed to
death, while theirs 30 comparatively free.
And old Virginia, in her present impOv-
criShcd condition. with less than $4,000
900 banking capital, pays more govern
ment taxes than all the New England
States with their hundred millions.
1t is claimed by the Radicals that the
tax is imposed upon business, but has not
the New England States, with all of their
vast wealth no luxuries from which taxes
could be- raised.
The financial condition of the country
is known and felt by every one Of You.
Not farmer in Gilmcr county but has
experienced. TO his sorrow, the hard times
that have fallen upon IL. And 1t should
be borne in mind that this state OF things
j. due to the miSmanagement OF
Radical Congress. The Democratic party
have had no hand in it, except to oPpo>"
the ruinous policy of the party in power.
This is of itself reason sufficient for Gust
ing the Republican party; enough of
itself t. put at the helm of government
a party under whose administration the
history of the country was an era Of pros
pcritv such rs the world had never known
But further than this, what does this
Republican party now propose? Why,
gentlemen, not satisfied with the mass OF
negro legislation they have already
forced upon Us, they propose to pass the
Civil Rights Bill a law which does away
with Your State law concerning free
schools II law which seats the black
child i'll the same free school with Your
child, and which inhictS heavy fine and
81 long imprisonment if You dare IL resist
it. 1t goes further: YOU are prohibited
10y its provisions from keeping sacred
from African intrusion the very grave
wards of your dead; the landlord may
not refuse colored man seat AT the
table with his white guests, or bed in
common with them, for if You object to
any of these thing> the same pains and
penalties stare YOU in the face. And it is
idle, my friends, for these Republicans to
tell You that they are opposed to the
Civil Rights Bill, You recollect
how they prayed for your vote>-those
of YOU whom they could not dis
franchi<e-and told YOU they were op-
posed to negro suffrage;-how Wiley.
and all the great lights Of RadicaliSm in
this State assured YOU they were OPP
posed to negro suffrage, and Yet, what
was the result? Why, sirs, our Radical
Legislature used such indecent haste in
adopting the Fifteenth Amendment
that they became laughing stock to a
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