American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-05-11
Northern Members of Congress
Raiding the Treasury.
Mr.. MONEYS EXPOSITION OF THE
CLAIM BUSINESS.

TOtn tine w aSiliuStoH TOSt anu OnlOn.J
Those Republicans who announce
themselves as ready to 60 into the
next campaign OIL the sole issue Of
opposition to the payment of South
ern claims, will, perhaps, not be sc
enthusiastic in support of such a
platform when they examine the
speech of the Hon. II. d. Money, OF
Mississippi delivered in the House
Wednesday evening, from which
valuable document we have prepar-
ed the following resume. Nj. Mon.
eysaid
'Tlie attempt is being very indnstriously
made to alarm the caution and economy oil
the Northern people with the scarecrow OF
Southern claims. PainstakinS newspaper
correspondents, with gre 1t hope and little
scruplc, searching for sensation, have pa
raded before the public a long list of de-
mands upon the Treasury in behalf of
Southern enterprises. They have been
circumstantially minute in detail and cX-
aggeratedly incorrect in the aggregate ex-
hibit. To swell the amount to a startling
total they have not failed to add together
the amounts asked in all bills for the same
object, and present their duplicated and
and Implicated amounts most unblushingly
as n fair and honest statement, The Re
publican stump orators in Congress have
perhaps stimulated an alarm they did not
feel, and solemnly and pathetically warned
the North that the Southern people would
demand pay for every house that was
burned, every mule that was famed, every
slave that was freed, and every bale of
cotton that was captured in the late civil
war. The evident design, however, of
their defamation upon this suh ject is to
create an impression that a Democratic
representation from the South is a stand
ing menace To the integrity OF the Treas
ury, and that each Southern repre- sentative
is here simply as a claim agent to
press every kind and manner of claims,
Just or unjust, fair OF false, with an OBJ
fuse sense of duty, an acute sense of spo
liation, and total insensibility to the
general good. Above al they teach the
doctrine. clear and sharp, that the Repub-
lican domination is the National safety,
insnring Administrative economy and
official honesty. The idea that these
gentlemen teach, that the rule of the ma
jority is dangerous. to the welfare Of the
country; is heresy not to be tolerated in
a free Republic. TO properly inform the
House and the country of the real danger
to the Treasury We will present an exhibit
of the claims made by Northern represen-
tltivcs for Northern communities upon the
NatioE's purse"
Mr.. Money here presented table
showing that, SO far, 155 such bills
have been introduced in the Forty
fifth Congress by Northern members
which, if passed, would take from
the Treasury the enormous sum Of
81 $50, 1920 OF this number
eighteen comes from Michigan
alone. Hubbcll, one OF the worst
Southern claim ranters in or out
of Congress, being father to eleven,
appropriated $6GO,00p. Massachu.
sets comes in for the modest sum
Of $6O,O0O,000, Pennsylvania being
content with something over 81 =
100000. Mr. Money continued:
.''rhis sum is so stupendous that it bewil-
ders the comprehension. The mind cannot
entertain at Que time the idea of even
thousand different objects but when we
reach huudreds of thousands, millions,
hundreds Of millions, billions, the impress
sion il Of vague vastness simply. How
contemptibly insignificant appears the sum
asked for by the South, compared with
that demanded by the North Even the
reckless inexactncss of the New York
Tribune, with its duplication of bills, brings
the aggregate amount asked by the South
to only $50, 000.O00, Millions, indeed !,
1t really appears ridiculous to speak of
millions, and | am ashamed of the wretch
ed poverty OF the Southern idea of appro-
priations when ! view the magnificent and
Titanic schemes OF our large natured neigh
bors of the North. In making this state
p,cut oil Northern claims do not, "a do ii o
gentlemen of the Republican party, take
account of the bills for pensions. l shall
not sectionalize the soldier for II party
benefit. | will rot drag the man who
offered his life for his country into the
arena Of politics and resent the dcpraved
dema.ogucry that would thus utilize him.
If nothing else can escape their touch
ask gentlemen to ut least keep Glands or