The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-05-03

next great contest with this power was under
the administration of Andrew jackson when
the people rallied to his support and the mons.
ter was slain Again it revived under lIarri-
son, whose place vacated by death was soon
filled by John Tyler. The latter having been
reared in the school of jefferson and Jackson
demo .racy vetoed the "flscal agent Mr.
H. referred to Treasury notes, said jefferson
had approved Of them and that they carried
us successfully through our second war with
Great Britain as well as through the Mexican
war. When the great Rebellion broke out
Congress in 1861 and 1862 authorized the issue
of full legal tender paper to the extent of sixty
millions, and that this paper because it was a
full legal tender always kept upon a par with
gold. In 1858 while all atteltion was directed to
the overthrow Of the Rebellion the Hamiltonian
elements again asserted themselves and secur-
ed a National Banking law authorizing the is.
sue of three hundred million of Bank notes,
and also prevailed on Congress to make the
further issue Of government paper, merely par
tial legal tenders They induced the govern
ment to repudate its own issue by refusing to
accept this paper money for customs dues.
The effect of this was to depreciate paper and
by making a special market for gold, to pay
duties on imports to cause it to command q
high premium above the par of this partial
| legal tender paper. Mr.. II further contended
that the National Banks had since controlled
| the legislation Of Congress on the subjects of
money and revenue, and that the National
| Bank paper was direct tax on the people to
the extent OF nearly twenty millions per year.
that the law oil ie6e making the principal OF
the bonus payable IN CON- nad III the o-Zo
alone cosi ,''e people .hrce nunered ml'hons
anu tnal 'ne raw eehone'lAing SILVER anu the
81 ~ '"''eu eilat;l "' ooo aop proposihs al"
',.oo,hanrs and ,ho ~ ,,.oo,;o,, az u,
enrrannv ,,al;o,, ahar.h,' iii Wv.
nr;cea or p Iabor nroJ,c,s or iahor
and investments in Real Es,ote had hoon
denreciated fftv ner cent had cost Tho moo.
nle of this conntrv over IA OOO O0O 06(N
that the nract,cal effect ga held "a the ob;act
of these measures was to nlaca The neonis in
the hands of the oliparchists to enable tho
latter 70 control IN nrice of labor nf trans.
nortat;on of the rates of interest m n,ouev
That while we boasted of having liberated
| a 900 600 of colored man from southern sja
more than fonr times fo,ir miII;.n of wh;ts
men to worse than southern bondaoe M
NJ charged that the nlatforms of the Demo.
Gratis at 81 Lou;s in 1875 and ot tho Ranub,
licans at Cincinnati the same wear were dic.
tated in the interest of National Ranks-
that these nlatforms were reendorss Il nv tbese
ma rites in the State Conventions in this S,ate
In 1S77-thst thew were only two fact;ono nj
one vreat NationaI Rank PARTY and tho,
the onlv anti.national hank nartv was tbe
Nationalists M Fl admitted that the Ia ~
tn remouetize silver and The hill nassed Inv
the House of Renresentatiyes IN reneal tbs
Resumption act were in the right direction
), and while no donbt MANY Democrats and
many Republicans were entirely sincere in
the support of those measures. vet the sev.
ersl parties must be Judged by their Mat.
forms. He, the speaker ..had been charged
by some of lis old Democratic friends With
being "re urrectjoni-t" because he ouoted
apairs hem he platforms of their last Ma.
tiopal and S;,,p Conventions. IF the mem.
bers Of H.. ii pq,ries we're sincere in % the
symn.ou, of sudden conversion, there was
but one " to Or we that sincerity. viz by
ioinip,, y Natinnalists. He said the neo.
pie wound .>,t aupport az their standard.
boz. H., ,n ling fall those who had nledo.
ed .nemse,yes to the support of National
Bal.ks Nr, H. illustrated the danger ot
such II 4 n conversions by party leader,
bv ap anecdote as to an iniidel at sea whc
il, i r,u had been found ia hi, state room
on j. knees praying and when his comrades
told him the storm and danger was over
: an hfd been for some time he reproyed
them for not telling him sooner, and said Il
they had done so, he would have sooner
stopped praying, for he found he wasa id
poor hand at that business ANYHOW. Mr.. Fl
said some of the recent measures proposed
by certain members of Congress were very
crude and inadequate and showed that thew
were but poor hands at the business of mon.
ey reform. He said that lust now the Ma.
tionals had created a storm around Congress
many of the members felt that their old
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these rising angry surges of an oppressed.
injured and indignant people and hat were
likely to sink these old barks. and that con.
seauently many were falling on their knees
and were praying, and some of them did il
very awkwardly. He excepted such men as
Ewing of Ohio. Voorhees nf Indiana on
Kelly of Penn'a., and many others. He
was however AFRAID that II some OF these
seeming converts would discover at the nj 1t
election that these old barks had outriddden
the storm and the sunshine of power, and
prospect of plunder smiled again on them.
they would like the old infdel at sea, regret
that they had prayed 30 much. At all
events said Mr.. II. If you are not penitents.
come here and occupy the anxious seats.
Ifyou propose to be our standard bearers
then we will know certainly that your seem.
ing repentance was only that you might again
deceive and betray the people.
Mr.. Ii. charged that Hayes had never
been elected by the people and that the
country was disgraced by his occupancy Of
the Presidential ohair,cbaraed that the
chief actors in this stupendous wrong were
| Moves, our Minister to France and Sherman
the present Secretary of the Treasury
and that corruntion existed evervwbe,e
Mr. Hughes was not verv com n,;msy,.rv ),
Tiidan end ooiJ ,Ls, pS;y alS a;; ~ ',
~ hurn a1a 'aiH ;nS w Husseasea neNae,
no mo'9' W p"'s''A' Sou'ago W 'eaa grea
PamIy,
that MS acquiescenoe 10 measures that leo
70 the inauguration OF Hayes exposed him
10 the suspicion tnat he assented to them
certainly II he did not his cowardice wa.
criminal.