The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-11-13

gain residence, and do 1t exactly With tht
same safety that = rebel can travel through
ont the North, stopping wherever he has
mind to. and running for Judge In any city.
ZACH CHANDLER.
RattliDg Speech by the 6talwart Mlchigar
Senator at Milwaukee.
Governor has alluded to the greenback heresy
do not propose to treat it ~ 4 living issue
The same experience that you Of Wisconsin
had We had in Michigan. The heresy tool
root and grew for season, but il died las1
year. But there is an issue-living, important
vitsl'eBoth houses Of Congress treated it as q
living issue, and that is the issue to pay some
thing with nothing. 1t originated some ten OF
twelve years ago, and was first called the Ohio
idea. ltwas to pay OF the bonded debt Of the
country with promises never to pay. A great
and fatal mistake was made by the originatora
OF the Ohio idea, and that was their belief that
tho great mass Of people Of the United States
were dishonest. Now, every ereenback and
interest bearing bond was iseued for value re-
celVe'i, for real consideration, sud it was
expected that the debt would be paid honestly.
These people who originated tho Ohio idea
sought to cancel this value received by 4 some
thing in this form:
The Government Of the United States prom
'ses to pay nothing to nobody. never"
That was the paper, honestly described, with
which ., they proposed to pay on the Obligations
OF this Government. Upon that iesue we had 4
solid South. With reference to The free o1in-
age OF silver, that was the bill we laid upon the
table: That is the living iesue, or was when
ene democratic party died. Now the laboring
man can take hls pay in gold, or silver, or
paper. The moment you pass that bill, gold
ceases to become q 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
are issued, laborers are the losers. 1t il =
lion holders and bullion specu!a.ors, I do not
gay that u any person in the Congress Of the
United States WAS bought to support that meas
uro, but do say that the button speeulators
can well afford to pay $l0, ,O0O, 900 for the PRIV
l;ege OF swmdilng the people Of this country. l
Or sstalgn tne Democratic party for that attempt
cd crime. But there is danger even greater,
and thatl the presentation of the vast, the al
most Incaiculable amount of rebel claims,
those now presented amount to the enormous
sum OF s2OO, CO0,OOO and they are being
pressed for payment The Only barrier b.
StafGA
treasury. is tho Presidents veto, and thank
God for that veto! Here ia copy Of petition
that has been circulated all through the South. :.
And we also petition that al soldiers. or
their legal representatives, Of both armies, be
paid in bonds or lands for lost time, lost limbs
tiict" WA
Think Of it! Every rebel soldier paid for
his lost time in fighting to over
throw this Government; for his lost
Limbs, for the lost lives. Why, they wanted
to commence BY pensioning jeff Davis, and
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 is, Are we or are we not nation? We
had the whisky rebellion il Pcpneylvania. It
was conquered, and we said, Now We are = na-
tloa south Carolina rebelled against the
tariff laws Of the country. Andrew Jackson
happened to be in the Presidential chair. and
ho was informed that South Carolina. under
the Leadership of John c. Calhoun. had in augn-
rated rebellion Said Jackson:
Let South Carolina commit the first overt
oct Of treason, and, by the Eternal, I will hang
John =. Calhoun and everybody in America'
including John G. Calhoun, knew thai he
would do it, and the overt act was not COM
mltted. Then we were sure We had q Govern
ment
At this point Senator Chandler reviewed the
and then resumed:
When tho rebels surrendered at Appomattox
they surrendered to Government When
they surrendered their people and their arms
they surrendered to the Government Of tho
United States OF America. They simply asked
that their miserable lives might be spared. We
gave them theirlives, and told them to 20 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 1t to them. We
killed the fatted calf, and invited them to the
feast, and they gcandly informed us that they
had always owned that calf and wero not thank
full for it. by the laws Of war and Of nations.
they were in hight bound to pay all expenses OF
the war and OF the nation. They were in all
justice bound pay the cost of the Rebellion, but
We forgave them with 3 magnanimity unknown
to the nations of the earth. We made mis-
take, but the greatest mistake we ever made
was i'll not hanging enough Of those rebels to
make treason forever odious. I go back to the
Senate aud feel that have 4 Rip Van Winkle
eleop. 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:
"Fail to obey our demands and we will starve
your Government to death"
These are tho men who surrendered at Ap-
pornattox, yet who now hold = majority in both
houses OF the Government Thirty-six Repre-
sentatiyes from Southern States hold seats in
Congress to-day without q shadow of right
They are there in violation Of law. This state
OF things ought not to be- It must not be. It
shall not be. Twelve Senators occupy their
seats by fraud and violence, by shot-guns and
tissue ballots, yet, by 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 1850 Then they were crowd
ing the animal of the bridge; now they are do
ing the same thing, and Maine Ohio, all the
States, show the inevitable results.
The speaker reviewed the work aud history
OF the Republican party at considerable
length, and then took up the subject Of re-
sumption, and arraigned the Democrats -
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 sklrmish. We don't know whe will
lead US to victory, but perhaps that silent
man who sometimes smokes = cigar-you
eeem to have heard of the manor, perhaps,
the Secretary of the Treasury. No matter
who it is, we shall make these rebel Brigsdiers
know and understand that they have got to
obey the laws of this country-that we are At
last Government"
NASpV