The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-07-20
WHAT THE HOUSE HAS
DONE.
A Record That Does Honor to
the Democratic Party and
the Country.


What has the present House of
Representatives done for the coun-
try? The organs of the Administra-
ton which are edited by the Gov
ernment advertising; the ring Re
publican politicians which have
not been locked up in the peniten-
tiaries; the conventions of Office
holders whose only purpose in life
is to keep their hold upon the pub
lie Treasury, and one or two news
papers like the New York Tribune,
which are on the fence with one leg
down on the Republican side, sol
emnly assure us that it has done
nothing. They tell us that the
House has forfeited public conf
dence and proved by its deeds that
the majority in it ought at the
next election to be swept away, and
the benches it occupies filed by
men who were true to the country
in its hour of peril and who, when
the hour of peril passed robbed it
upon the right hand and on the left;
who turned every one of its depart
ments into a den of infamy; used
It's highest offices for the purpose
of making money; plunged the
whole country into financial panic,
from which it has not yet recovered; /;
turned by its vicious legislation mil
lions of men into the streets to beg;
filled the work houses and jails, and
brought disgrace and shame upon
the Republican institutions at home
and abroad. The men who did all
this, so-called Independent journals
like the Tribune, are asking the coun-
try to again place in power and to
give to them again the opportunity
to continue their work Of destruction
and drag the nation to still lower
depths of financial and political ruin.
Let us see what the present House
has and has not done:
1. 1t has not elected a Speaker
Schuyler Colfax, who used the high
Office to enrich himself; who was
bribed and bought by every band
of adventurers and swindlers who
came to Washington during his
term of office, who was caught il
the Credit Mobiler iniquity, who was
detected in stati onary frauds to the
House and exposed as atbroker, re
ceiving regular commissions from ,
New York paper establishment. |
has not elected Speaker like James
@. Blaine, who used his position t.
influence legislation in favor ofrail
road subsidies, who accepted pay a,
agent of firearms company, who
sold rulings and legislation for ST
much cash down, in the shape o
railroad bonds.
?. Since it met last Decem Der. /
has not been devising ways an,
means, day after day, to get money
out of the Treasury. On the contra
ry it has cut down the extravagan
estimates of the department, and,
the Senate will pass its bills, has re
duced the running expenses Of til
Government nearly forty millions c
dollars per annum. Instead of max
ing places for the creatures of tn
Administration, creating offices fo
men to live in idleness at the ex
pense of a sorely taxed people,
has abolished every Office that wa
5 not absolutely necessary, and, so "a
z as it could do so, stopped the leak
il the public treasury.
! 3. 1t has not legislated a freed
mans bank into existence and pla,
ed it in the power of a lot of men I
/ steal the eai nings and savings {
the poor colored men of the SoutI
; amounting to millions Of dollars
' On the contrary, it has taken th
: robbers and swindlers who did tn;
infamous wsrk by the throat, e,
! posed their rascality and directe
: the officers of the Government {
{ send their names before the gran
q juries.
4 J. It has gone into Presidel
v Grants Cabinet and dragged out OF
q of his trusted advisers, who abuse
his high place, who robbed the dea
. veterans Of the war, who aided
S cheating the living soldiers on q
d plains: who demanded money f
$ every nev appointment he mad
: and brought him to a trial for hi
q many crimes.
8. It has shown how the funds