Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-08-27
Secretary Sherraan's Speech.

zant of the fact, that in the essential
points elaborated in the Secretary's very
able speech; the President and entire
cabinet are a unity; consequently we
may really look upon the conclusion ar
rived at BY the Secretary, as the results
sf careful cabinet deliberations. Enough
has already teen sesa Of the results in
tho, States Of the South to cosn0ead the
visden of the President in rensving tho
troops hegp South Car,aina and LOUISE
80. While oil ero@gs esnsot b ct sncc
rigAtsd BY . si~pls "presto, change" yet
the broad eroupd Of allowing States the
exercise of tAeif constitutional right to
regulate their own affairs, appeals at once
to the commsn sense end justice of every
citizen; ssd ~hile wrongs ~ill continue
to b. dons, and time and forbearance alone
can heal the bitter personal anirnesities
engendered by psrty strife, yet in the
main great good has been accomplished,
and the foundation laid for compete
and peaceable solution of the southern
problem. The best elements of the South
are convinced of the good faith of the
government te ward them, and appear to
be laboring successfully in harmonizing
antagonistic interests, and in assuring the
colored race of fair and just treatment
of equal rights before the law. These
pledges were exacted by the President,
and are being carried out in good ta1th'
The result is the attention of .,,cse peo-
pie will be directed to developing their
material interests, and educating their
ignorant masses into indus; ~ious and
peaceable citizens, instead of cultivating
through their ignorance their desire for
political notoriety to the neglect of every
other consideration, which has undoubt-
edly been done by designing men really
for their own personal aggrandisement.
Although under the plea of friendship
for the colored race, placing ignorant and
inexperienced men in positions they are
not competent to fill, will always prove
disastrous to all concerned whether white
|or black: and those men who melted the
ambition and cupidity of the negroes by
appeals to their prejudicss against their
former masters were their worst enemies,
and the more intelligent negroes found
It out long ago. The South is certainly
enjoying a far greater degree of peace
and prosperity, under the new regime,
than she has for many years. This fact
alone covers the whole ground, and is
better than all the fine spun theories Of
party ethics and political claims.
However much we may have symPa-
thized with the Republicans in those
States, yet we look upon the action of the
President as in no way abandoning them
and their constitutional rights, but rather
as better means for the practical en-
forcement of those rights than the en-
ployment of our entire army, and inspired
by the purest personal patriotism and
desire to perform his entire constitutional
duty.
The sincerity of the President in his
efforts at civil service reform, is abund-
antly established by the results: In the
Treasury Department alone seven hund-
red and twenty-one thousand three hund-
red and fifty1six dollars sayed annually,by
dispensing with superauous help. 1r the
contracts for public buildings such chan
ges have been made as will reduce the
expenses several million dollars. And
this curtailing of expenses, the Secretary
informs US, is to extend to every minute
detail of governmental affairs.
The secretaryis thoroughly committed
to the resumption Of specie payments,
and unless interfered with by Congress,
is coufid ent it can be accomplished with
out disaster under the existing law.
In regard to the recent and still exist
ing conflict between capital and labor,
the Secretary believes in the power of
CONGRESS to arbitrate between these inter-
ests by general laws controlling inter-
State railways, and all other enterprises
in which labor and capital have combined
interests which affect the commerce Of
the country, as this is clearly right
guaranteed to Congress by the constitu-
ton.
The entire speech is full of interest. It
is plain, logical, practical expose of the
situation at the present time, and we are
clad to learn that it has met with kind
words from the press generally, and from
our purest public men.
1t is rumored that Judge Phillips, OF