Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-20

the gentleman was speaking of the meI
OF the south the other day, he spoke O.
those who resigned aud afseTWaTd tool
service on the Confederate side.
Mr.. Garfield did not speak Of tbose
who, having resigned, took service, bui
L spoke Of those who, being still under
oath, contemplstingly violated it and
struck against the United States.
Mr.. Tucker-Ii you had go qualified
your phrase 0loey should not have in
terrupted you the other day, for know
Of no such psrson. The reason why l
interrupted the gentleman the other day
! WAS that | represent on this floor a dis
| trict and little town where sleep the
! remains OF one Of the nOblest Americans
who ever trOd this soil TmeaniGg Robert
Il. Leel He sleeps ia death, and no
dishon0r can ever, by implic 4tion or ex-
preston, be thrown on that honorable
grave that the representative from thet
district will not rise here and rspgl.
Sansstipn and some applause
Mr.. Tucker then proceeded with his
argument, in the course of which he
quoted the gentlemen from New York
deWet' as saying yesterday that the
government was cOnfesseGly an edu-
Gator Of the country" and commenting
on this he said: Confessed by whom?
L never confessed it. | not oulv
don't confess it, but deny it in toto. I
deny that this government can go into
our common school system in the States
and upset 1t acc0r1ng to the views of
members of congress here who know
nothing in the world about ir. This gov
ernment-aDd | beg my Democratic
frIends to remember it-hss no misSirn
except to execute its power, and to per-
form its duty uQder aud its subjection TO
the supreme law of the land, the cOnsti-
tuition of the country" The speaker,
with strong emphasis and great effect,
continued: "ShOw me either the power
to pass this bill or that this bill is essen
tial to carry out a power conferred, and
[ will vote for it; but otherwise, before
God and my county, I cannot vote for
l.. The only Limitation to the growing
corruption of the cCuutTy is a limitation
in the power of the government. / be-
IIeve that the mission OF the govern
ment at this time is economy, retrench-
ment and reform. We have reached
that time when it becomes US to put
brakes down; to cell halt on lavish ex-
p9ndItures. Ii a tax is only one cent to
carry out an unconstitutional scheme,
will Teme nbtr the adsge "thst 1t is the
last straw that bre AXIS the camel's back, u
and L will vOte against it. If thisscheme
Is got Though, somebody would come
with another like scheme for big show
at Yorktown, or Bunker Hill. or Chi
cago, and in the language Of the old
ScOtcn pr0VeIbJ Many miCkl le makes
mucBle." 1t was the accumulation of
lttties that made taxes burdensome and
oppressive. He declared bimse,f opposed
altogether to extravsgaut government.
10 Cb9y the constitution of the country
was better than to sacrifice it to sentI-
mentsl patriotism. He was in ishesrt
OF hearts in favor of q centennial appro-
prlatiOn. He had no objection to show
ing the progress which the United States
had made under the impulse of free in
stitutions, in art and science, in manu-
faetures, in agriculture, in COM
meIce, in mining and in ell in-
dustrial pursuits, although bis State
Jagged behind in sll these great
enterprises, for reasons for which he
would not more tnan advert to. He
had no envy of the prosperity Of the
sister States himself, and his associates
from the south knew no motive but a
patriotic one Of advancing the greatest
Interests Of the Union in conformity to
the constitution. Referring to the fact
that the legislature of Virginia had de-
c1ned to make an appropriation for the
Centennial, he explained that one res-
son was provision in the State cOnsi-
tuition, framed in 1857 and forcei down
their throats, preventing the State from
making any appropriation for anything
except to pay her debts and carry on
the government, but he said Virgins
would be there; her people who are able |
to go will be there. She hiss given six !
daughters to the Union (reierfiU6 to the |
States made out Of territory ceded by |
herr who will be there, and another Of |
her dauehters will bs there (referTing to |
West Virginia, taken away from her by |
but old Virginia, rent in |
twain, Impoverished in her weeds OF |
widOWhOod, with q heart high for the |
prosperity Of the common country, will |
be there i'll the spirit, and when the gov
ernment is restored TO its pristine puri- |
ty, when the principles of the reVou.
LiOn are re.sstshlished, ard liberty is |
proclaimed throughout the land to
every man, under the palladium of the
hG6eGs corpus, unrepeslsble by an |
edict OF the President, or by an act |
Of congress-, on account of constructive /
rebellion, yet shall the time come when
we shall unite with Massachusetts in O
splendid close of Webster's great speech |
forty years ago: institutional liberty |
under constitutional Union. Yes, lib |
erty and Union, one and inseparable,
now and foreverl" Without taking sc. |
ton the committee Iose and the house
adjourned.