New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-11-19
THE LAST WORDS OF SENATOR
CHANDLER.

THE LAST WORDS OF SENATOR
CHANDLER.
a Proper Characterization Of Deu0.
cratic Aims aud Purposes-Rebel
Claims Considered and State sover.
eighty Defined An Eloquent Message
From tho Condnes Of the other
World.
The following is condensation of the
speech delivered by the late Senator
Chandler on the evening preceding his
death:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOw-CITIzENs: It is
becoming the custom Of late to restrict the
United States and in the halls of Congress YOU
will hear citizenship described as confined to
States, and it is denied that there is such q
thing as National citizenship. I tonight adj
dress you, my fejlOw-citizens of Chicago, in q
broad sense as fellow-citizens of the United
States of America. A great crime has been
committed, my fe'low-citizens- crime against
tutiOns throughout the world, G: ime against
civil liberty. and the criminal is yet unpun-
ished-that Is to say, he is not punished acco' d.
myself chiefly to the history Of a crime, aud
shall endeavQr to hold up the criminal to your
execration. (Applause.l
Before proceeding to that portion of his re-
marks indicated by the above, the late Senator
addressed himself to the consideration Of the
"Ohio Idea' and the National Bank system,
and then passed to that branch of his subject
indicated by the caption Rebel Claims" He
produced before the audience list of claims
now before Congress representing more than
5000 100000. He said the only barrier between
thran yoF$ h0 HYr;%n 81
claims was Presidential veto, and he thanked
God for the veto. Mr.. Chandler continues:
But these claims are not all. There are claims
tnnumerable which they dare not yet present.
You may go through every State in the
south, and somewhere, hidden away, you will
Grated. In the files of the Senate and the
House you will find demands for untold mill.
ions Of dollars to improve streams that do not
exist-where you VIII have to pump the water
the levees Of the Mississippi River for untold
millions. tell you that all the governments
of the earth could not erect and maintain these
levees, seventeen hundred miles long, through
a hostile populations; for whenever they want
ed an expenditure of hundred Thousand or
. million dollars, all they have to do is to cut
night, and all the governments Of the earth
could not maintain those levees.
We have already given the Southern people
thirty-two millions of acres of land which
they propose to bankrupt your Treasury, by
telling you, people Of the North, to build the
levees, to make the lands which you gave
overstating this idea Of Southern claims will
read you q petition which is now being circu.
lated throughout the South, and which has now
h9 !, %s - OF thousands s OF Signatures:
respectfully petition your honorable bodies to
enact a law by which all citizens OF every sec
ton of the United States may be paid for all
thl{sS n
and armies, on both sides, during the late war
between the States, in bonds, bearing three
Per cent. interest per annunl, maturing With
Every soldier who served in the Northern
army has been paid. Every dollars worth OF
property furnished to the Northern army has
been paid for: Every widow or orphan OF
pcnsiOned, so that there is no claim from the
North; but this means that you shall do for the
South precisely what you have done for your
own soldiers.
BIT have not yet reached the meat in this
cOcOanut:
'And we also petition that all soldiers or
their legal representatives, Of both armies and
Tor their lost time, limbs aud lives, while en-
gagged in the late unfortunate civil conflict
mat III soidlers be paid for The list time for
to bs aoS yes Se for
States are solid. They are solid for repudiat-
Ing your DEBT They are solid for Paying
their Individual debts through the bankrupt
law. They have repudiatad their State debts
by scaling, and then refused 70 pay the inter,
their municipal debts by repeating the charters
OF their cities and towns and Villages, and do
you think they are more anxious to pay the
ply their own honest debt2 tell You, no.
They mean reputation, and they don't mean
that your debt shall be of any more value than
their own, and when you trust them you Gre
milking a mistake, and don't believe you will
ever do 1t again.
But, my fcllow-citizens, we have matter
under consideration tonight of vastly more
that can be presented to us, and that is: Ale
we or are we not Nation? We have supposed
Tor generations that we were a Nation. Our
fathers met in Convention to frame COnsti-
tuition, and they found some difficulty in agree
Ing upon the details Of that Constitution, and
Tor time 1t was a matter Of extreme doubt
whether any agreement could be reached
Acrimonious debate took place in that Con-
vention, but finally spirit of compromise
prevailed, and the Constitution was adopted
by the Convention and submitted TO the pee
but to the people Of the United States, and
the people of the United States adopted the
Constitution that was framed by the fathers,
and for many long years the whole people Of
the United States believed that we had q Gov
eminent. The whisky rebellion broke out in
Pennsylvania, and was put down by the strong
arm OF tne government, ana we still believed
tnat we mao government: we contnued In
s1aI DelieI untll tne days OF General Jackson
Wnen SCUM CaroIna raised the nag against the
S %over1 Han1 armed men tr9d the SOIL OF
eo4sn Caroilha and tnreatened tnat unless the
tarln was nodned 10 suit tnelr view they
wo1lo oveftnrOW tne G0vernment: Ihis was
un i.. tne leaoersnlP OF JOIN =. Calno9n, car
took bis pipe out of his mouth when he was
Gao ana1 Catnou1 was IN repelion against the
s,ss.;. .sa anu saiu: LeC SCUM Carouna
Gcuinnlt tne nls1 act 81 treason against Inls
T GoS ne, ana Dy tne Eternal VIII hang
o oti,I =. Cainoun, anu evsIy man, I'M woman ana
I'LL lilly ~ iS Ha nci.uin8 Calnoun, knew
10y. .na. NJ uV IT, anu .tsI treason
x was noC colnm eu aga,nst t1e G9vernment,
t tpa even ong S.ate VI Sout1 Oa r, uhaeI
Moved !" the npwer of this Govern nU' 1 Wa
pUweH ~ Tue Rowes u Inls 0U;serlemt; We
rem temanned und .s tnaS impression unth nrst
Mosa a seat ~ tne senate on Ine TN Gay o.
Malcn, IooI. inSn agaln treason raised us
mead upon tne noors OF congress; treason
was threatened on the noors OF the senate and
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