The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-09-23
SCHEDULE.
n. & D. & G. s. P R., Decatur Divis'n
Hon. w. G. Whittborne.

Gen. WhitthOrne addressed his fell
/ lOw-citiZens of Giles, on Monday the
18th OF this month. In his remarks he
ran briefly over the dOings of the last
| Congress, detailing however, with some
minuteness, the struggle of the heroic
minority during the memorable crisis
last winter, known as the 49, hours
''dead lock" in the House, pending the
consideration of the Civil Rights and
Force Bills. He portrayed before his
auditors the desperate eXpedients re-
sorted to by a reckless, dominant ma
! jority, in the effort TO regain their lost
power and position IN view of the in
| dicatiOns of the State elections of 1874.
it was evident to the Republican party
that solid Democratic victory in 1876,
in the South, supplemented by a like
result in New York, for instance, and
| Indiana, would give the country DEM
was on the wall" and BelshaZer was
trembling for his tottering throne.
Something must be done, and that
! something was to seize the ballot-boX
/ south of the Ohio-thrOttle free suff-
rage in the southern States, and thus
perpetuate Casarism in the doomed
land. But thanks to the gallant band
| that stood to their guns, and slept upon
their arms through the ordeal of the
dead lock-" so that the Civil Rights
and Force Bills failed or were so emas-
culated as to be practically harmless.
Failing In their purpose to capture. by
force most foul, the southern vote, they
must look to some other quarter for
succor in this their extremity. A dis
| astrOus overflow of their party was
imminent and how to avert 1t was the
stunning problem Fooled in their
Ubiquitous designs they call council
under the leadership of that trio of arch
plotters, Butler, May nard, and Smith
of Ala. Their race seemed well nigh
run, but their mission was not accom-
plished, namely, the further subiuga-
ton and humiliation OF the hated south.
As falling Lueifer elected from Heav-
ems high battlements, burning with
revenge and bent on mischief dire,
| turned his fiery eye on Earth's fair
Eden, so had these restless malcontents
plotted the overthrow of country, con-
stitution, and civil liberty This they
could only do by electing another Pres
ident or by perpetuating their power.
Casting their baleful eyes abroad, they
beheld the great commercial centres of
the Western continent situated in the
| North. There were the sinews of war,
men and money, there they saw the
plethoric purse of the bloated bond
holder grown fat on the blood and
| sweat and muscle of the toiling mil
iOns-there the great manufacturing
Industries, the foster children of pro-
tective tariffs, had absorbed the very
substance of PROSTATE labor. They
knew these monster, mOneyed monopo-
lies were the power behind the throne,
that they held the bonds, handled the
money, manipulated the Press, subsi-
died venal legislation, absorbed rail
road routes and telegraph lines, until
Gould, and not Grant, was king, and the
| common labOrer was practically en-
shaved. Now to conciliate this money
power was the aim of this hungry
horde of plunderers, and thus to con-
troll the vote of the dependent people.
How shall it be done? By making the
rich, richer, and the poor, poorer, by
| lessening the circulating medium, ell
HANGING the value of bonds, depressing
the poor mans labor and selling him
out soul and body, wife and children,
to the wealthy lords of the land. And
to-day, this is the vital issue, and the
point upon which turns the veal or
| woe OF the country. The watchwOrd of
the protected capitalist and the PAM
pered Stakeholder is hard money and
lower wages, while the plteous plea of
i oppressed millions, North and South,
goes up, "bread, give us bread for our
| wives and children" Let the battle cry
of the yeoman in the present crisis be
a sound currency, constant employment
and n reasonable compensation for our
toll. And while we avoid on one hand
Amrican Capitalization, let us eschew
Oh the other, JacObinical communism
Such 10 q sketch in brief of the Gems
well received effort, Would that all OF
Giles could have heard 1t.