New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-11-10

patronage; for If there be any danger to
the statesmen, to the statesmanship, 10
the smooth working Of the administer
ton over and in the authority committed
to it, it is the constant intersection of
this disturbing matter of patronage.
Applause / do not believe that there
are any men in the country that are so
much interested in the reduction Of this
matter within manageable limits as the
public men of the country who are i'm.
peded and clogged and hsrassed-I don't
mean members of the executive govern
ment alone, but members of the Senate
and members of the House of Represen-
tatives-by the constant and inevitable
pressure Of these harassing influences.
would say to every public man that II,
indeed, we should ever succeed in staving
the dominion and control of what Is
called caucus and caucus machinery, the
public who have thought their interests
most connected with 1t, have thought
that they could least spare its support,
will be within the phrase of Brutus when
the tyrant Caesar was slain. Here
comes his body, borne by Mark Antony,
who, though he had no hand 10 his death,
will receive the benefit of his dying--a
place in the commonwealth, as which of
you would not" Laughter and APP
plause. And such q place-a place
where authority, support, continuance in
places of trust and honor depend upon
the spontaneous judgment and concur
| ring voice of the independent, the
watchful, the intelligent the patriotic
citizens of the country. [Applause.
believe nobody has anything to fear from
| this Improvement bat those who, occupy
ing positions to which the private judg-
ment and spontaneous action of their
fellow citizens would not assign
them, fear that the ladder on which they
rose will be stricken from them and leave
them to tumble back into the mass Of the
citizens. And now, gentlemen, you all
can see, as Republicans think the citi-
zens of New York, without much distinc-
ton of party-cau see how tyranical such
scheme may become-I do not say that
it ever has become in the Republican
| party-such scheme may become, in
| party like the Democrat party. You all
| know how the voice of Tweed was more
| potential than the wishes of all the
i worthy men of this city; and if can
| Judge from what seems to be very con-
siderable revolt against the renewal of
this one man tyranny preparing for the
next election, there is the same distaste
| for it now that there was then. Zap
/ plause.1 There is no doubt that the
people of this city, the people Of this
State, the people Of this country, have
the power, whenever the pressure Of this
/ incubus shall become indispensable, to
throw it off by the effort of giant; but
| it is in the minds of all good citizens, of
every party, that we must see to it that
the regular and every day working of our
political machinery forbids the accumula-
ton of such tyrannical authority. Zap
| plause.
| THE FINANCES OF THE COUNTRY.
| Now, gentlemen, the third subject
which, so far as the executive authority of
the Republican party in possession of the
| government has had to deal with it. is
interesting to them and interesting to you,
and so far as your present impending
elections are to touch upon it, constitutes
the main excitement of that election. |
mean the finances of this country. Zap
plause Now, there is great danger, as it
seems to me, that because we have been
in an irregular condition of our finances,
made necessary during the war, and have
gradually advanced upon the evils, and
one by one have overcome them, there is
danger, it seems to me, that we should be
too easily misled into dissatisfaction with
condition of things which really, when
we remember what in former times Of
peace we were accustomed to, must be
considered a satisfactory condition of the
circulating medium of this country
never knew time before the war when
every man in the country was entirely in.
different to the actual security of the bills
that he carried in his pocket as he is now,
TApplause. never knew time wheI
businesshhad less occasion to feel any con.
Germ in regard TO paper money of the
country, provided only it was measured
by that measure Of strength and hon
esty -convertibility into gold and silver
[prolonged cheering and applause thai
they would feel and that they do feel now,
Nor do l believe that in the Republican
party there is any disposition either Il
deride or to decry that paper money
which is associated in our minds with the
struggles and the throes of great natio1
contributing the strength of its youth t
the battle field and the resources of it
wealth to the Treasury of the country
| Applause. ! What was the legal tender
as provided by this government under the
stress of war? Why, people talk about i
as if some other financial scheme nigh
have been resorted to, as if having pow
er of taxation able to lay taxes of ont
hundred per cent. if necessary, the gov
eminent might have maintained adhesion
. to its specie standard and filed the Treas
ury by taxation. By taxation to bank
rupt people! What could the govern
ment do with all the property of thu
country turned into the hands of tax
gatherers, and all the people ofthe country
turned out of their property Did any
body ever hear of financial system o
that kind; that government, becoming
the owner of all the property and thl
people homeless and penniless, was in 9
condition to carry on war2 No. Just o.
by the CONSUMPTION, when it becam
necessary, ell the youth of the country
, were summoned to arms, so by the proc
lamation Of legal tender, all the wealth o
, the country was marshaled to the aid 0
the government, and told to settle thei
, accounts in specie payments after the wa
was over. Immense applause.] Whel
the battles were finished, the soldier
went home to till the soil and work at tn
bench and fill the professions, aud in
crease the wealth of the country. Wher
the war was over, the good faith Of thi
people, with their affairs in the hands o
the Republican party, undertook so =
+ manage and adjust the progress Of it
wealth that, as speedily as possible, tn
/ promises, on the faith of which thi
, agency of finance and legal tender werkei
| out the safety of the country should b
! brought up to the performance Of tn
| promise. and the maintenance, in fact