The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-15

F'Sir, l have no word of menace to
utter on this floor, but in behalf of
every laborer and every owner of
the soil whom l represent, l warn
all such as value their investments,
that when these doctrines of des-
potism are sought to be enforced,
this fair land will again be convuls-
ed in agony, and the fires of liberty
will blaze forth again IS they did
one hundred years ago, in defense
Of the natural rights of man. May
the wisdom of our fathers, and the
beDignity of our God, avert such
an issue, but if 1t shall come, IL in
fatuation has seized our hearts, the
result will only add one more iR-
stance to the long catalogue of hu-
man crime aud folly, where Svarice,
like ambition, overleaps itself, aud
| in its unhOly attempt TO rob others
of their possessions, loses its own.
The above piece of clog QeBce is
from late speech of Senator .YOor-
bees, of Indiana. 1t smells strong
Iy of blood. During tho late re-
bellion, when unlimited opportuni-
| ty was afforded for the "tres of
liberty to blaze forth" we do. not
remember any wsrlike demonstraS
ton on the part of Mr.. Voorhees,.
''This fair land was convulsed in
agony them" and Mr. Voorhees, re-
manned quietly at home, without
nerve enough to shoot off anything
except his mouth 10 favor of the
Union which he ought to have de-
Tended, or the confederacy with
" hich he really sYmpsthized. Why
does this man who knows nothing
about war, unless plotting behind
hay stacks with the s'Sons of Liber-
ty"! is war, talk about ''menace'
now Who Is to do the killing and
who IL to be killed Before the
sfires of liberty" blaze forth in tnis
neighborhood, aud we take down
again the old musket We carried at
| Bunker Hill, we would like q few
details. If congress- refuses to re.
peal the resumption act, does Mr..
Voorhees, propose to lead ans army
of Hoosiers to the sack of Wall
street? If silver is not remone.
i tized are we to have war. sure
enough? Is the war, where thous-
/ ands shall bleed, to be waged over
/ the question of retirement of the
fractional currency We admit
honest difference of opinion on f.
| naneiaI questions, but are they so
serious that another civil war will
be necessary to settle them? Mr..
j YoOrhees speaks of plumber, too.
Somebody is going TO close his pos
/ sessions" Whose s'possessions. y
may we inquire, are to be despofi.
ked5 When will the plRSdefing
commence? War and bloodshefI
and the loss of possessions aafe lse-
[rions things. Is it to be q general
/ onslaught of debtors npoa creas-
torsS Is the oppressed farmer.
who leaves the Feaping machine be
bought on credit to rot In the field.
going to town to murder the mar
censrY agent who holds his note ?
Is this 10 be war between mort
eager aud the mortgage, merely,
or il it to be q general scrimmaQe be-
i tween those who believe in unlim-
tied silver and those who prefer &
gold standard Shall the man who
thinks January 1, 1879, good time
20 resume, be ruthlessIy slaughtered
by the man who thinks that Jauua-
Try /, A. d. 1900, better date The
currency question is q compEicate5
one at the best, and before il IL car
Fied 60 the pitch of absOlute blood
she'd We hope this Wild-eyed prom.
4 Of ruin from the Wabash vii
5. eli N definitely what the sahsins
e 60 Be about. and heW and cher
a1d when Wilson 20. Cfhzen.