The Van Buren press., 1876-10-24
Brevit!es from the speech of Senator
Thurman.


Thurman.
A people who fail to condemn corrup-
ton, thereby invite and sanction its con-
tinuance. ~
people who make animosity, hatred
and narrow sectional feeling successful
step ing stones to place and power, un-
dermine at the aame time their. pesce and
prosperity, and the perpetuity Of their
government,
With what face can the people com
plain Of hard times. il year after year
they elect and re elect the very men
yhose policy, legislation and rule have
ntributed so much to bring suffering
and distress upon them? ~
1t Ia uadeniable that SO far ~ our dis
tress Ia the result Of either Legislation o.
sAe want Of legislsiiop. bad policy. or
the want of wise policy, We resPonslusr
/ i.y res,s upon our radical rulers, VINO
have had unlimited control for The past
fourteen yeais. #a8 ifsis
There is not department Of govern.
ment whose expenditures do not exceed
any expenditures by it in time Of peace
before the radical party came into power.
It is plain that there should be-a change
Of administration. The men who have
contributed so largely to bring about the
distress are not the mon TO remedy II.
rne same influence that made IN err
in their previous policy will continue to
make them err. They are in = rut and
they cannot get out Of il. lA ah
In this unwarranted use OF the milli-
tary under attorney general Taft's In
struet.ons they are trying to use the
sword of the government to put down
the will Of the people, That's alliit is.
i Ny friends, what poor soldier was
there who fell on that terrible day, when
Cester led his headlong charge on the
Indians, and whose white bones are now
bleaching on the plains, who didn't con.
, tribute to the wealth OF the secretary OF
i war Belknap)9 Andyet there d NO Of
fcial corruption, and yet senator Morton
says we have the finest civil government
, the world ever saw.
For more than ffty years the demo-
, cratic party ruled this country, and. .all
the time II ruled, there was peace and
prosperity everywhere. In all these fifty
wears there was no man executed for treai
, son. In all these fifty years there Was
, 40 man punished for political offences,
aud in those years we grew from little
, strip OF fifteen states ON tho Atlantic
, coast to an empire reaching from ocean
to ocean. The party OF Jefferson, Mad
ison, Monroe, of Jackson, tie men who
, believe in them, the men Of their school,
these old fathers before me, who cast
their votes among them, their children
can be trusted with this grand republican
J government,
81 NEXT UNITED STATES SEsA1E.--Tho
terms OF Twenty-Five Uuttcu spsntcs surs.-
tors expire on the 4th Of March, 1877.
? They are Messrs. Goldthwate Of Alaba-
= una, Clayton, Of Arkansas, Salisbury. OF
4 Delaware, Norwood, Of Georgia. Logan,
of Illinois. Wright of Iowa, Harvey, OF
Kansas, Stevenson. Of Kentucky. Merrill.
, Tor rather Blaine) )-ef Maine, Boutwell,.
OF Massachusetts, Ferry, of Michinn,
Window, OF Minnesota, Alcorn, Of Mis-
sissippi, Hitchcock, Of Nebraska, 0ragin,
!. Of New Hampshire, Frelinghuysen, ot
. New Jersey, Ransom, ~ North Caroii-
ma, Kelly, OF Oregon, Anthony. Of Rhode
= Island, Robertson, Of South Carolina,
!. Cooper. Of Tennessee, Hamilton. Vi Tex
J, as, Johnston, of Virginia, Davis, ol
i West Virginia and Howe. Of Wisconsin,
. or these, nine are democrats. who will
! without doubt, be succeeded by dem.
! ocrats. Clayton, West, Alcorn aud Rob
I: ertson. republicans, will, utmost certainly
4 be replaced by democrats the vacs1cv
y now existing in Louisiana will be 6lled
q by a democrat, and Hamilton, OF Texas
/. independent, has democratic successor
. As the senate now stands forty two re
publicans. thirty.fve democrats and two
d independents, the changes above noted
4 would, IL no others were made, leave \
very nearly balanced thirty eight repub
licans, thirty five democrats, and one in
II dependent. But the following states alss
Q, elect new senators. this winter Illinois
Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts
ID Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New
s. Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode lslant
and Wisconsin, and, perhaps, Michigan
I; are among the doubtful! ones. II two Q
OF these were to send deme Gratis, tho senat
ct would stand thirty-six republicans. aIi'
4! thirty seven democrats, with one tnde
pendent. 1t will be seen. therefore, tha
to It 10 by no means impossible that the nex
m senate shall have small democratic ma
1T jority. II the.republicanlmanage con
tinue to make arbitrary arrests in u
;e south, they will probably SO grcatl
- alarm the north. as To ding even the sen
y - ate into democratic hands.--New lor'
Herald sF s.a
Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep )--Ohio'
!, majority is $4,000 less than u shout
~ have been. aud Indiana swell the les
or or said about Indana's majority the bette!
n Harrisburg Patriot (Dem. THE re