, 1879-08-11

uEe4 from tue atatuto-boOk, Whclf. like thfaa
i. re.o Iosfi Of 'he PASSIONS Of civil strife, null
eltfzens." VI ''o
so;ne dars Inter-, Mr.. blackburn tas,,ca
'an6a.st i edition ot rs sneec !n sct another
lss modified anu Qua1|ac.l declaration flnnilt
went to the country In tho following form;
"We DO not tnsend to stop until wo hass
etr,sHen eta, 'e tass T.staEc ot sonr warmeasurcs
born Of the passcn. incident 10 ciyil strifc, nd
Of The citlzens.h
Next on tue tat 10 tho speech Of Senator
enoft," IN which he iakcs the ground tlm9'
There u no rebellion, nor auy thfeutoned, nor
any uomGstic iprDar anyHl,ero The Union ts
ssmensed m s,y te blood TINT was shed t9 de'sn.o
South. East,. ai,d Weat: mud our only real
difference rela.ea to The odmtnistration Of ito
internal affarf Of The Gosern1nent.H
lnstcad OF tho rash speech OF Senator Tlur-
nat', madc Al the close Of the Fort,.itth Con.
9rcas, at tho time TINT MI. Beck was anpounc.
imE the Democratic position, and III which Mr..
Thurman took tho ground that Congress had
the full right under our Constitution, to with.
hold supplies unless lilo President consented to
redress Of Etlcyanccs," tho Committee has
seen a. to substitute twenty-five page epecrh
upon Thy Jurors Test and tho Election laws, In
which :Mr. 'rhurmnn Ar1ucs at length aQuEnst
any right existing In Congress to oxort any su-
pervteion over The clcetoN of ts own mctnbcra.
While Tic "Rodross.ot. Grievances" speech Of
Senator Thurman, when attracted National at-
~ the Quo campaign, n speech Of tile Hun
Randolph Tucker, OF Virginia, las been put ID
lIs place This spceeh l,as as ono Of Us n,otsoes
e. M .l,o = ktttc-pags, "Gr!ovauees and Supplied eo
he maintams that the House and Senate haze
sncll power oyer tic purse ut tle people ns
enabios them to reure:: grievances ~ the prsca
q a. supplies; md holds With two ENGLISH MI
been considered before supplies" mud "shat
gr1eyaacea aud supplies 60 hand-1l-hand.'
Among the speeches stumbled to those who
licutvs of Ohio, Is ii'at Of senator Eaton, Ut
Connecticnt,-etghtceu pngcs,--in .w1licll ho
argues At length TO show that ths Union IS a
Confcferaeg, a1d that tho Constitution Is a
contact Getween luaependent soycrelentcs.
has given tho title. "Thu U,iion ind It's Enc
n,es,"-tn which ile argues TINT the opposition
trine fa really trcaaon against tic Union; Or, =.
he Expresses It, ~ he is II tgAitor who would
divide this Statca, how ts lie less u traitor Who
Woni!i tlcetEoy the States" lie also maintain.
extremists, and that they wcso the real enemies
Of the Unton; and, in tlIc courso of hls spccci,
he gives notice t1iat, It war comes n.ati1, thu
destroycrs, OF l.o States (neal.Ing tile NYrth.
never again bear tho flag Of tho country, but
that they Of the South Wonll maintain their
rights in the Union, and to q man do battle un-
der tho Stnrs- ..id-Strpes. He charactcrIzcs tic
present Republican position as q conspiracy to
destroy the Slatcs and rcyolutlontzo the Coy
0rnn1ent
There mrs two. speeches from Senator yoor-
htcs,--oDa attempting to show thnt Tie Detnu:
tho Union soluicr; the other being m assault
upon t!c guards wt'lea the Election laws throw
about tho ballot-box. u
Therc src also two speeches from Gen. Ewing,
-one upon tle silver question, In which 1lo
takes much moro extreme positions than he Is
now represented to assumu in tho speeches
which he has Tho opportunity to revise.
Therc to also spoorh b. Senator Mcdonald,
In which hn c1altns that tho Government has no
right to assume my control whatever over illo
elcction OF congressman.
In addition to The political material furnfshcd,
asserting the doc.rineof Statorighls aid attack
Committee, comprising forty-slx pages, ia also
furntshcd.-a report which viii rGTnaln through
tho history OF American politics as ono Of thn
most dtsVracefnl aucunonts eVcr prepared. In
that It treats as truthful the immense mass OF
falsehootl and perjury which that Committee
received as valid evidence.
Thcra is also q speech Of Senator Wallace,
forty.el9ht pages In length, which viii no re-.
numbered "a the effort witch he md Senator
Cockrc1l delivered tosether,--Cockrcll having
been asked BY Wallace to read q portion OF Ills
speech TO tllu Senate, and, becoming deeply In
tcrcsted. at various points, injected into Wal
1aco's specch good deal of clo4uanre ot bis
own. Which Is Wallace, and which is CockrciI,
4 10 now impossible to determine. This tolnt
document, howayer, closed With n series Of
tAblcs pretending to give The estimates Of tho
Departments mud the appropriations snade trum
1858 to tho present time, for the purpose Of
showing tho Groat economies 8ecur0d bY the
Democratic party. It must have been from
theee tables thlt Gen. Ewing obtained
the figures for bis Lancaster 8prccl.
They abound IN the grosscst errors, whtcl. arc
sufficiently nppatent from single statement:
that the estimates for ono year nro set at Si5,-
000.000 In excess Of tho Official figures rs they
appear upon the hooks at tho Treasury. lilo
object Of such mlsstatomgnts Of course, Is 10
cover up the iact that for tho year 10 question
the appropriations mado By the Democratic
House exceeded tho cstlmatcs By nearly $685.
0oo,0 ,0UO. As the tables appear With this mis-
statement Of Wallace, tile appropriations seem
10 b $1,0o0, 600 less than the estimates. Such
MISREPRESENTATION, However, might be expected
from Senator who, as Chairman OF IN In
yostleattng Coumtttec. did not hesitate to
slnuRa1o nto print - official matter originating
with his Committee, mass OF papers charging
Republican Irregularities which Wrro never 10
any sense evidence before HIS Committee.
ARREARS OF PENSIONS.
THE QUESTION OF THEIR PAIAgNr TO iNMATHs