The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-06
THE DEAD MICHIGAN STATESMAN,

Eloquent Speech of the Late Senator Chana-
| Ter, Delivered at Milwaukee a Few DAYS
before his Death.
MR.. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITIZENS: Your
Governor has alluded to the greenback heresy.
do not propose to treat it as living issue.
The same experience that you of Wisconsin
had we had in Michigan. The heresy took
root and grew for a season, but it died last
year. But there is an issue-hving, Important,
vital Both houses of Congress treated it as a
living Issue, and that is the issue to pay some
thing with nothing. 1t originated some ten or
twelve years ago, and was first called the Ohio
idea. ltwas to pay off the bonded debt of the
country with promises never to pay. A great
and fatal mistake was made by the originators
OF the Ohio idea, and that was their belief that
the great mass of people of the United States
We're dishonest. Now, every greenback and
Understanding bond was issued for value re-
celVed, for real consideration, and it was
expected that the debt would be paid honestly.
Ihese people who originated the Ohio idea
sought to cancel this value received by q some
thing in this form:
The Government of the United States prom
Uses to pay nothing to nobody, never"
That was the paper, honestl y described, with
which they proposed TO pay Off the obligations
OF this Government Upon that issue we had a
solid South. With reference to the free coin
age Of silver, that was the bill we laid upon the
table. That is the living issue, or was when
the Democratic party died. Now the laboring
man can take his pay in gold, or silver, or
paper. The moment you pass that bill, gold
ceases to become a circulating medium, and
becomes an article of traffic. Four million dol
lars are paid out each day to the laborers of
this country. The moment silver certificates
ar6 issued, laborers are the losers 1t is
Democratic project for the benefit of the bull
lion holders and bullion SPECTATORS. do not
say that any person in the Congress of the
United States was bought to support that meas
ure, but do say that the bullion SPECTATORS
can well afford to pay 10000, 900 for the priv
llege OF swlndling the people of this country. I
arralgn the Democratic party for that attempt
cd CRIME. put there is danger even greater,
and that Is the presentation of the vast the al
most ncalculable amount of rebel claims
Those now presented amount to the enormous
sum of $4,000, 100000, and they are being
pressed for payment. The only barrier be
tween these rebel claims and the United States
treasury, is the Presidents veto, and thank
900 Tor that veto! Here is copy of a petition
that has been circulated all through the South:
Sand we also petition that all soldiers. or
their legal representatives, of both armies. be
paid in bonds or lands for lost time. lost limbs
and lost lives in the recent unfortunate con-
fiet"
Think Of it! Every rebel soldier paid for
throw this Government; for his lost
limbs, for the lost lives. Why, they wanted
to commence by pensioning jeff Davis. and
every Democrat voted aye. But we have more
important matters before us, of which this
years election is the primary skirmish of the
battle that is to settle them. The one great
question u.s. Are we or are we not a nation? We
had the whisky rebellion ia Pennsylvania It
was conquered, and we said, Now we are ma
ton. South Carolina rebelled against the
tariff laws of the country. Andrew Jackson
happened to be in the Presidential chair. and
he was informed that South Carolina, under
the leadership of John G. Calhoun, had inaugu
rated a rebellion. Said Jackson:
"Let South Carolina commit the first overt
act OF treason, and, by the Eternal, will hang
John q. Calhoun and everybody in America,
including John G. Calhoun. knew that he
would do it, and the overt act was not COM
mitted. Then we were sure we had Govern
ment
At this point Senator Chandler reviewed the
origin, progress, and result of the civil war.
and then resumed:
When the rebels surrendered at Appomattox
they surrendered to Government When
they surrendered their people and their arms
they surrendered to the Government of the
United States of America. They simply asked
that their miserable lives might be spared. We
gave them their lives and told them to go home
and behave themselves, and obey the laws.
They had forfeited their property, and we re-
turned it to them. They had forfeited their
citizenship, and we restored it to them We
killed the fatted calf, and invited them to the
feast, and they grandly informed us that they
had always owned that calf and were not thank
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they were in right bound to pay all expenses of
the war and OF the nation. They were in all
justice bound to pay the cost of the Rebellion, but
we forgave them with magnanimity unknown
to the nations of the earth We made mis-
take, but the greatest mistake we ever made
was in not hanging enough Of those rebels to
make treason forever odious. I 80 back to the
Senate and feel that have Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep. The same conditions that existed twenty
years ago are there now. Then they said:
Do as we want you to do or we will shoot
your Government to DEATH"
Now the same persons say:
"Fal to obey our demands and we will starve
your Government to death"
These are the men who surrendered at Ap-
pomattox, yet who now hold majority in both
houses of the Government. Thirfy-six Repre-
sentatlves from Southern States hold seats in
Congress to-day without shadow of right
They are there in violation of law. This state
or JnlnSS ought not TO be. 1t must not be. It
shall not be- Twelve Senators occupy their
seats by fraud and violence, by shot-guns and
tissue-ballots, yet, by a majority thus obtained,
they propose to rule this Government precisely
as they did twenty years ago. The Democratic
party occupies precisely the same position it
did in 1857 and 1860. Then they were crowd
ing the animal Off the bridge; now they are do
ing the same thing, and Maine, Ohio, all the
States, show the inevitable results.
bo nd
of the Republican party at considerable
length, and then took up the subject of re-
sumption, and arraigned the Democrats as
having tried to repeal the Resumption act after
resumption had taken place. In discussing
the political outlook for 1880, the Senator be-
gan by saying:
"The elections this fall are simply pre-
paratory sklrndsh. We don't know whe will
lead us to victory, but perhaps that silent
man who sometimes smokes a cigar-you