Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-28

vessels, and they able neither to fight
nor run.
So that though few years before,
England was Inundated before our
power, Spain Of late has laughed at US.
He showed how the expenses of the
civil service had increased in the last
3 years by s9,000,O00, the army and
navy by S, 000, 900, aud nothing to show
for it except body of 10000 Office
holders whose chief duty was to act as
corrupt election agents. How under
the manifestations Of the Indian ring
the expenses Of that bureau had been
raised from 80, 900 to SS,3Sl,000
aud the Indians starved and diseon-
tented at that
Then he came down to small things
and shwed 100000 had been stolen in
the job of making head stones for the
dead union soldiers, aud the expenses
Of the White House increased nearly
100 per cent from Buchanan's time to
that ofGrant.
Aud finally he quoted Gov. II. S.
Foote himself as insisting upon the
alternative OF national ruin or the re-
moval of such band ofswindlers from
power.
The trenehant irony and brilliant
sarcasm tempered with a warm glow of
good humor, with which all this was
given, cannot be reproduced in this
abstract, but one point we will no.
tiee in reference to q portion of
Gov Foote'S subsequent speech, that
no attack of any kind was made upon
the Governor; he was on the con-
trary spoken of in terms of COM
pliment and distinguished consid-
Grafton, and the only passage in the
speech which the Governor himself
was able to point to as even aggressive
was the simple quotation of one Of his
former speeches without note or COM
ment.
Governor Foote however commenced
his speech with the declaration that he
had been attaeked-the truth is that
the assumption that he had been was
necessary as the groundwork of the
speech he made, and, as Col James
would not accommodate him by doing
so, he had to torture the quotation of
his own words into an attack.
He said that we had not come to
laugh but were on very serious bust
ness, and quoted Cato's sarcasm on
Cicero as the facetious consul against
his antagonist He then commenced
his counter attack upon Col. james
for his vote in favor of the funding
bill. He must have forgotten for the
moment that he was for the time stand
ing on a radical platform, and radicals
were, as Col. james afterwards re-
minded him, sedulously lobbying for
that bill in the State legislature when it
was underconsideration; but Gov Foote
has stood upon so many platforms in
his time that it is excusable for him to
forget sometimes what is his position.
Next he undertook to say that none
of the allegations had been proved
against the republican government
(Which he conteuded to be the purest
and most virtuous ever known and
taking up especially the case of Mr..
Robson asked triumphantly why, if
he could be proved guilty, he had not
been impeached. The obvious answer
to which was the result of theimpeach-
ment of Secretary BeIknap, who had
confessed his guilt, and who on theim-
parchment was pronounced guilty by
every Senator except two, whether
Democratic or Republican, who ac-
knOwledged the competency of the
court, but yet was brought off by suf-
fcient number of Senators declaring
the court incompetent to try him be-
cause he was no longer a public officer
when he was impeached.
He then recited the glories of the
Republican party in having freed the
African and placed in his hands the
ballot and the sword for his defence :
and then for their unexampled magma
nimity in liberating the rebels from the
penalty of their rebellion. I'VE knew
here all about the Stokes and Senter
quarrel which restored to us the suf-
frage without any great magnanimity
on the part Of the Republican party. ]
And lastly as the consummation of the
benefits ofrepublican rule he said that
! Il had made as all rich. A broad grin
pervading the whole audience was the
appropriate answer to this astonishing
assertion.
His next topic was that with which
the radical prints have been so much
filed of late, the Solid South. He con-
tended that the white people of the
South were now united in the same
wicked purpose as they were in 1861
lie ought to have remembered that he
was then and there addressing Southern
men who knew better-who knew that
they entertained no such purpose,
and who also knew that, if their
rising ia 1861 was wicked, no one had
urged them to it so vehemently as Gov
crnor Foote himself
The rest of his speech was occupied
with a eulogy Of Mr.. Hayes, and
scandalously slanderous attack on Mr..
Tilden. The SANDERS, all Of which and
their refutations were known by heart
in that audience, became so offensive
that he was interrupted by somebody
calling for three cheers for Tilden and
Heudrieks-this was a breach OF eti-
quette for which there were strong ex-
cuses to be made, but it excited the
Governor to a rage which carried him
away from all the bounds of decency;
he denounced Tilden and Hendricks
aud their supporters as murderers,
thieves, idiots, lunatics-butwe forbear
to follow him. If he had made u IA
vorable impression on any of the au-
dience it was all gone now; unmitiga-
ted disgust was the one sentiment pre-