Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-09-29
in his claim for losses without regard t, the ques.

10 his claim for losses without regard % the ques.
ton of loyalty at all.
And then another rule, which certainly the law,
yers, ii there be any doing me the honor to listen
10 me now will look upon as remarkable, that
any person putting in claim for damages should
have his own evidence. should sustain that claim
by his own affidavit and that Of some other per-
son knowing the facts. Here comes John Smith
of Alabama, who has lost $4,000 by the union
army, and then John Jones swesrs that is so. This
would bankrupt the Rosthchds And these
the men that made Mr.. Tilden back out from the
doctrine of specie payments of 1879, and there is
not q southern rebel with claim to-day that does
not know nstinctvely and absolutely tnat when
this country comes down to the hard pan, to the
gold and silver dollar, you are never gong TO Pay
the taxes with portion of the rebel claims, for
you cannot keep the currency open at both ends,
the paper money at one end and the rebel claims
at the other. No, VIC will never pay taxes TO pay
southern claims. They cannot create southern
revusion, but by quietly working what is known
as the initiation sentiment they hope to pay for the
vast number OF mules and southern claims through
the manipulation of some form Of paper money.
Take one single claim. When we were taxing
everything during the war, from the solitary hair
that was left on the bald mans pate to his shoe,
we taxed cotton. and under the cotton tax col
lected SIC, 100000. Now they come forward aud
ask that the taxes be pad back, not 10 the men
who paid the taxes, but that this $40, 900 900 shall
be paid to the cotton producing States IN the pre-
portion of their bales Of cotton. There are ID
bills now pending for the payment of that one
claim.
And now, gentlemen. more startling than any
thing else, on Thur.day of last we, k there wa, a
derlsion r. ndered in The city of Portland, sac OF
Maine, in the u 5. Circuit court Judge Nathan
Clifford presiding, with Daniel Ga k, district
Judge for y h., sitting with hlm-aDd want the
attention Of the lawy ers Acknowledging the
Judgment obtained against Neal Dow. of the 18th
Me. regim IN Louisiana, giving judgment TO
the rebel against Dow personally for the sugar
seized on his plantation by forsgng party from
his regiment. They we're out foagipg and seized
some sugar, and the man sued for 1t. and Dow
said, III you are a loyal man we will give you
receipt, and you will easily get your pay for II y
New the sugar WAS used, and a large part OF 1t
sent to the hospitals. Dow says, eff you will
show me your loyalty, will give you receipt
for it," and he declined to do it, and got judgment
in La court. The u. S. Circuit court at Port
land affirmed that judgment, and ordered exc
culion to issue for $3.50. That being so, | say,
gentlemen, will it not enable the man that owned
the field at Appomattox TO collect ground rent
from Grant for the occupancy Of it and desruc-
ton of the fences and crops There has never
been so menacing q cloud as this hanging over
free people, More than that, this decision was
warmly disseuted from by Judge Clark Of N. IL.
lie was brought up in the true faith, but the SUI
preme court overruled him in the person OF CHI
ford. Clifford is an ingram, hungry democrat,
double dyed and twisted, dyed in the wool, and
coarse wool at that. Much laughter.l And, in
my judgment, he has carried that case for eight
years and never offered that decision until he in
his ignorance believed in democratic triumph.
If there should be a democratic dreamer here,
will not that gentleman tell me why any solitary
battalion or division of the army in the south can
not be sued for every article oftresfass Laugh
ter.
Let me read to you of the nature OF the case.
Ex-Gov. Wood Of Vermont, man of as pure char
acter as lives, writes over his name: 81 have
known Mr.. Tilden for twenty years. have de-
know that he holds tie opinion that the war was
unconstitutional. beard him declare, in CONVEX
sation with myself since the close of the war; that
every man in the United States Army that
marched across Southern soil was q tresspasser,
and liable to suit for damages in action for
tresspass." think that Clifford read that opinion
of Tildeu the day before he made his decision in
regard to BOWS sugar. And the democrats tell
you the constitution forbids the payment of these
claims. Never was anything more menacing and
alarming than that.