The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-05-28

IN congress- SPEAKS Tor itself, and was
intended as = reply to speech of Mr..
Kelley, arraigning the Administration
of President Buchanan:
Mr.. Clymer said that during those
four years purify in private life and
integrity in public were the rule and
not the exception. Elections were
free and uncontrolled by military au-
thority, and freedom of speech and of
the press were not abridged. The
right of the people to security ia their
persons and effects were not prohibit
ed. Innocent persons were not ar
rested and imprisoned by the tinkling
of bell, and innocent women were
not hanged. Then, there was neither
unbridled taking of gifts nor whole
sale appointing or relatives to Office /;
no Black Fridays to be inquired into !;
no corners in gold or stocks to be ac-
counted for, and no Leet 81 Stocking
frauds to be Investigated. Then, the
Presidential or other salaries were not
increased, nor was the Treasury de-
pIeted by the use of the contingent
fund for the ease, luxury, and SPLEEN
dor of high officials. Ships of War
were not used as pleasure boats, nor
were the soldiers of the Republic en-
pIoyed as menials in the streets and
houses of the capital. During these
four years no Vice President of the
United States was in complication
with Infamous practices; no man
questioned the integrity of Congress,
nor was Congress compelled to purge
itself of those who had stepped them
selves in infamy by their connection
=
exposed by the Credit NJ Obilier iaves
tigation of last session. In those days
sovereign States were not reduced to
q condition of vassalage. The dregs
of Northern vagabondism were not
legislative positions by fraud and Vio
lence, and kept there by the DEGREES
of corrupt Judiciary sustained by
the very shadow of the national Cap
itol at Washington came no despair
ing cry of the people to be relieved of
and protected from tile burdens and
exactions of task masters set over
them by the Federal authority whom
they accused of Inalfeasance and cor
ruption, by which their property was
being confiscated, their means exhaust
CA anu bnCAG prosperity AtSstA Y J SOs LII
that season of profligacy, as it was
stigmalized by Mr.. Kelley. the body
polite was not diseased to its core, so
that it might be touched nowhere
without vile corruption aud restoring
rottenness oozing forth. In those
DAYS spies and informers and moiety
graDbers were not hired and sent
forth to prey upon merchants, citizens
1,aA So toe
might fatten on dues belonging to the
Federal Treasury. Then defauIters
were not screened In their populations
or pardoned, if, by accident, they were
convicted, and their bondsmen left un-
molested by reason of their social and
personal relations with those in au-
;hority. Then no wild railroad
schemes were fostered by the Govern
ment, by which layman and priest,
widow and orphan were plundered
and ruined, by which tens of millions
of acres of the public domain were
given away without consideration, for
the enrichment of inside rings" of
gamblers and spectators and shame
and dishonor brought upon the nation
al name and credit. Then manufac-
lures, trade, commerce, business gener-
ally, were not stricken as by the hand
of paralysis; starvingl men and wo-
men did not march through the streets
of cities crying for work or bread, and
receiving neither. Then, honest indus
try received its just reward, and bloat-
ed fortunes coined out of the necessi-
ties of the people were unknown
that day there were no privileged
classes of bankers and bondholders
with Golfers filled with immunities
granted at the expense of the people.
Then there was Republican simplicity
in official lite and manners, and there
was no aping of regal magnifcence
in establishment, intercourse, or equi-
page. These were some of the things
which did not exist during the admin
istration of James Buchanan in that
season of profligacy. referred to by my
colleague (Mr. Kelley; but if they
have occurred in this season Of profit
gacy--a season of fourteen years in
which ii is not at all difficult to deter
mine the responsibility of all these
high crimes and misdemeanors, of all
lhese sins of omission and commission
ofall these invasions of the rights and
liberties of the people, and of these
of the Constitution and the
aWs-he arraighed the party to which
MS colleague. Mr.. Kelley,) belonged |
before the bar of the American peo-
pie, -.f
lie (Afr. Clymer,) had not lost faith
n the people. By sad and bitter ex-
1erience they had been taught the de-
usion and folly of abandoning the |
yirtues,- the principles, the constitu
ional practices and teachings of those |
Who founded the government. Every |
where the people were marshaling |
heir forces and the late results of |
heir detached conflicts indicated un-
,rrin9ly how well they understood its |
nomemtous issues. When the general !
md final judgment was rendered the |
1eople would surely end this season |
If profiigacy, and compel rulers and |
representative to return to and prac-
ice those virtues and principles which |
when the nation was born,
which, sustained the nation IN its
truggling infancy and ennobled it in
is Strengthening manhood, and, by |
he abandonment of which, suffering
nd distress, disgrace and shame. had
'eeH fastened upon the American peo-
lie. - 80
The Presidents Daughter Married.
The marriage of Miss Nellie Grant
o Mr.. Sartoris took place at the White
House on Thursday morning last, and
he big dalfes are filed with glowing
descriptions of the grand affair. The
ollowing is the story in brief:
The affair was made as private as
'ossible, none but special friends of
he family being admitted.
There were eight bridesmaids, who
we're all dressed alike in rich white
,ros grain silk, high corsage, skirt
cry bouffant and en- trni17e white ov-