The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-05-14
MIR. SPECIE.
a soorehing Review in Congress,

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The following is the more important
portion of the speech of Hon. Hester CIV
mer, of Pennsylvania, in reply to Judge
Kelley, who stepped out of his way to as
sail the Buchanan administration. The
Judge found that he lad got hold of the
wrong man when Mr.. Clymer pitched into
him:
He (Mr. Clymer) declared that during
those four years purity in private life and
integrity In public life were the rule and
not the exception. Elections were free,
and uncontrolled by military authority,
and freedom of speech and of the press
were not abridged. The hight of the
people to security in their persons and
effects was not prohibited. Innocent per-
sons were not arrested and imprisoned by
the linking of a bell and innocent women
were not hanged. Then, there was Meth
er unbridled taking of gifts nor wholesale
appointing Of relatives to Office; no Black
Fridays to be inquired into; no corners in
gold or stocks to be accounted for, and no
Leet q Stocking frauds and contracts to
be Investigated. Then the Presidential
or other salaries were not increased, nor
was the Treasury depleted by the use oil
contingent funds for the ease, luxury and
splendor Of high officials. Ships of wal
were not used as pleasure boats, nor
were the soldiers of the Republic employ
ed as meniels IN the streets and houses
of the capital. During those four years
no Vice President of the United States
was IN complication with Infamous prac-
tees, no man questioned the integrity Of
Congress, 0 was Congress compelled to
purge itself of those who had stepped
themselves in infamy by their eonnection
with fraudulent schemes such as were ex-
posed by the credit Mobilier investiga.
lions of last session. In those days SOW.
ereign States were not reduced 10 a condi.
ton CT vassalage. The dregs of Northern
vagabondism were not forced into the
highest executive and legislative positions
by fraud and violence, and kept there by
the DEGREES of a corrupt J Judiciary sustain.
ed by Federal bayonets. Then, from I'M
der the very shadow of the Capitol came
no despairing cry from the people to be re.
lieved Of and protected from the burden!
and exactions of task masters, set ovel
them by the Federal authority, whom
they accused of malfeasance and corrup.
tion, by which their property was being
c~onfscated, their means exhausted, anC
their prosperity destroyed.
49, NA&N 6S0oSA " PANAA66NJ - ~ wa
stigmatized by Mr.. Kelley, the body poll
tic was not diseased to its core, so that il
might be touched nowhere without vile
corruption and fostering rottenness oozine
forth. In those days, spies and informers
AMI moiety grabbers We're not hired anC
sent forth to prey upon merchants, citi-
zens and corporations, so that favoriteI
might fatJen on d1es belonging to the
Federal Treasury. Then defaulters were
not screened in their speculations, or par.
doned if by accident they were convicted
and their bondsmen left unmolssted by
reason of their social and personal rela,
tions with those in authority. Then, nc
wild railroad schemes were fostered by
the Government, by which laymen anC
priest, widow and orphan, were plundereo
and ruined, by which ten millions of acres
ofthe public domain were given away
without consideration, for the enrichment
of "lnside rings" of gamblers and specula
tors and shame and dIshonor brought upon
the national name and credit. Then, manu-.
features, trade, commerce and business gen
orally, were not stricken as by the hand
of paralysis, starving men and women die
not march through the streets of cities
crying for work or bread, and receiving
neither. Then, honest industry received
its reward, and bloated fortunes coined out
OF the necessities of the people were
unknown. In that dav there were nc
privileged classes of bankers and bond.
holders with Golfers filled with immunities
granted at the expense of the people.
Then, there was Republican simplicity in
official life and manners, and there was nc
aping of regal magniicence in establish.
ments, intercourse, or equipage. These are
some of the things which did not exist dur
ing the administration Of James Buchanan,
that season of prohigacy referred to by
his colleague (Mr. Kelley } but they
had occurred in this season OF profigacy
Ia season of IA years difficulty in
which we were not at a loss TO deter
mine the responsibility of these high
crimes and misdemeanors, of the sins Of
omission and commission, Of all these ia
vasions of the rights and Liberties of the
people, ana of these violations of the Con-
stitution and the laws. He arraigned
the party to which his colleague be-
loRged before the barof the American peo-
pie.
He, (Mr. Clymer) had not lost faith in
the people. By sad and bitter experiences
they have been taught the delusion and
teachings of those who founded the Gov
rnmen Everywhere the people were
marshaling their forces and the late re-
suits of their detached conflicts Indicate
unerrIpgiy how we'll they understood its
momentous issues. When the general
and final judgement was rendered the peo-
pie would surely end this season of profit
gacy, and compel rulers and representa-
lves to turn to and practice those virtues
and principles which abounded when the
nation was born, which sustained the ma
ton in its gathering manhood, and, by the
abandonment OF which, suffering and dis
tress, disgrace and shame, had been fas-
tened upon the American people.