The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1879-07-09
Another Blast from Chandler.



termination not to pass the appropri-
alton for support of q. S. Marshals,
Mr.. Chandler rose and made the fol-
lowing pointed speech:
Whether the adjournment rGsolu-
ton passed by the House is acted up
on to-day OF not, is immaterial- We
have now been three months aud a
halt in this Capitol, not without GER
tain results. We have shown to the
people of this Nation just what the
Democratic party means. The peo-
pie have been informed as TO your
party's ends and aims. By fraud and
violence, by s~hot-guns ana tissue-bal-
lots, you held the present majority in
both Houses of Congress, aud you
have taken On early opportunity to
show what you intend to do with
that majority thus obtained. You
are within sight of the promised land,
but like Moses of old, we propose to
send you up into the mountain to die.
Great laughter.) Mr.. President,
we are approaching the end of this
extra session, and its record will soon
become history. The acts of the
Democratic party, as manifested in
this Congress, justify me in arraing-
ing it before the loyal people of the
United States on the political issues
which it has presented as the enemy
of the Nation and as the author and
sbettor of the rebellion.
l arrsign the Democratic party as
follows: Erst:-For having resort
ed to revolutionary measures to car
ry out their partisan projects by at
tempting to coerce the Executive by
Withholding supplies, and thus ac-
complishing by starvation the de-
struction of the Government which
they have failed to overthrow by
arms.
Second-For having injured the
business interests of the country by
forcing the present extra session, az
ter liberal compromises were rendered
to them prior to the close Of the last
session.
Ihird-For having attempted to
throw away the results of the pres
ent war by again e~levating State
over National sovereignty. We sac
rifced more than three hundred
thousand lives, and expended FIVE
thousand millions of dollars to put
down this heresy, and to perpetuate
the national-h ie. They surrendered
this at Appomattox, but now they
attempt to enc this p%rotension.
Fourh-For having attempted
there are honorable exceptions and
long may they be remembered) to
damage the business interests of the
country by forcing silver coin into
circulation of less value than it rep.
resents, thus swindling the laboring
man and the producer by compelling
him to accept S. cents for a dollar,
and thus enriching the bullion own
ers at the expense of the laborer.
Twelve hundred million dollars is
paid yearly to labor alone in this
country, and by forcing an IS cent
dollar On the workingmen, you swim
die them out of one hundred and
eighty millions yearly.
Ffth-For having removed with
out cause experienced officers and
employees of this body, some of whom
served and were wounded in the
Union Army, and with appointing
men who had in the rebel army at
tempted to destroy the Government.
Sirth-For having instituted a
secret and illegitimate tribunal, the
edicts of which have been made the
supreme governing power of Con-
gress, in defiance of the fundamental
principles of the Constitution. The
DEGREES of this junta are known, al
though it's motives are hidden.
Serenth-For having held up for
public admiration that arch-rebel,
Jefferson Davis (great laughter on
the Democratic side), declaring that
he was inspired by motives as sacred
and as noble as animated Washing
ton, and as having rendered services
in attempting to destroy the Union
which would equal in history Grecian
fame and Roman glory. daughter. }
You may laugh; the people of the
North will make you laugh from
the other side of your faces. (Renew-
ed laughter
Eighh-For having undertaken to
blot from the statnte book of the Ma
ton wise laws rendered necessary by
the war and its r%esults, and insuring
life liberty and the pursuit of hap.
piness" to the emancipated freedmen,
who are nov 80 bulldozed and ku-
kluxed that they are seeking peace
and exile, although urged to remain
by shot-guDs.
Ntnh-For having attempted to
repeal the wise legislation which ex-
cluGes those who served under the
rebel flag from holding commissions
in the Army and Navy of the United
States.
Tenh-For having introduced a
large amount of legislation for the
exclusive benefit Of the States recent
ly in rebellion which, if enacted,
would bankrupt the National Treas
ury.
Elerenh-For having conspired
to destroy all that the Republican
party has accomplished, many OF
them breaking their oaths of allegi-
ance to the United States and pledg-
ing their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred bonors, to overthrow
this Government.
They failed, and thus lost all
they pledged. Call q haiti The
days of vaporing are over. The loyal
North is aroused, and their doom is
sealed. | aecep: the issue on these
arraignments distinctly and specii-
cally before the citizens OF this great
Republic. AS a Senator of the Uni
ted states, and as o citizen, | appeal
to the people. II is for these citizens
to say who is right end who is wrong.
| go before thar tribunal confident
that the Republican party is right
aud the Democratic party is wrong.
They have make these issues, not we,
and by them they Nest stand or
fall This is the platform which
they have constructed not only for
1879, but for 1880. They cannot