The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-14
ZACH. CHANDLER.
The Michigan Senator Opens Fire
for Cornell
WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT FRAUDS.
How the South Rejected the
Fatted Calf. c

standpoint in his usual forcibIe STYLE his view Of
the political situation being heartily Endorsed by
his audience. Doctor Bacon. chairman of the Re
publican Committee OF the town. introduced tn,
Senator. who spoke as follows:-
FELLOW CIrrzENs:-when address you to-nighi
as fellow citizens do so in broad sense. Now Ii
has become customary in some portions of this
land to conhne citizenship to narrow limits-to
citizens of Flushing. or citizens of New York, but
l address you tonight as fellow citizens of the
United States Of America. tApplause) A great
crime against republican insttutionsa crime against
this government of ours--a crime against civil lib
erty throughout the world. While shall confne
myself mostly this evening to the history OF that
crime yet shall first allude to certain present v-
ing issues, some of them local and some national.
Yon cannot. must say in the first place. confue
your discussions the present time to State issues
you cannot. tell you. ignore national affairs. No.
whole nation are upon you in the coming election.
opening battle Of the campaign of 1880, IL to be
fought right here and now in 1870 The eyes Of the
whole people Of the United States upon you
the citizens of New York, and you vote on the
4th November next your verdict will be recorded
and therefore you cannot confne yourselves mere
as recorded will have important influence on the
vote of the whole country in 1880. Now. will first
glance at the financial question.
ABOUT FINANCES.
The financial question has somewhat aQtated the
people OF the United States for the last two three
years. and has somewhat agitated the people Of Now
York But that question has been settled and settled
tor all time too It was settled in the contests OF
1874 and 1878, when the time for resumption of
specie payment was fixed. We had then little
man in the Presidential office. who was some
of o talker. who vetoed the bill for imitation
and rendered it possible fix the day when
resumption should be fixed fact. Applause.l
Though somewhat active with the pen. though NOT
much of a talker as said. he sometimes used other
Now was in the Senate At tat time H when TSur
man, of Ohio, stood side by side with me every
vote as far as ! recSllect. voting for axed
that question. but We settled 1t in such
way as it can never be disturbed.
Gus nations to mark the SPOT where a great crime
had been committed-a murder, for example-for
upon it, that in course Of time monuments
would arise marking the spot where the crime
or attempted to DO committed on our financial
system. and. following the custom Of Eastern na-
tions; we every day for the last forty days
attempted crime. and we propose to continue at 1t
till we have built monument Of gold coin brought
backs, soft money and imitation. (Applause.) Tho
opposition to the repeal OF the Resumption act
at last and forever defeated and l thank
otto enough to vote for resumption, and
for it, but my friends the democratic party as
party voted against it. We had one great object in
view in passing that bll-that was to give tho
people an absolutely safe currency.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
But my friends. there is another question on
1t nssr ere
ns S1Sas q HI Se.s sssss
have presented certain claims Of
great magnitude as claim, .rt for the improve
| improved. Now. hold in my hand q list Of moro
than 50 900 Of just such claims that are to-
day before the two houses Of Congress. Bills are
amounting to more than $4,000. ooo. 900; and
H asi' / tell you moreover. that though you
| may kill them today, they will come up in
another session. aye. and in another century. they
will come up in every possible shape and way. You
may think these people cannot be in earnest in
pressing and insisting these enormous claims
now But tell you, my friends they in
earnest. and In dead earnest ut that. And to show
you that do not overstate this matter will read
to you petition now being circulated throughout
the Southern States And here let mo say to you,
there is nothing on earth between these claims
except the Presidential veto. and 1 thank God
for that veto. daughter and applause). The petit
OF the United states shall pay In lawful bonds OF tho
United States, all citizens OF each section OF the
the government armies OF both sides during the
late war, in bonds bearing three per cent per
num-" This is the substance of said petition. Now
him for his services in the defence Of
or wounded soldier entitled to claim ON
the gratitude Of the country that has not been pad
to al soldiers or their legal IN bonds
or public lands for lost time for loss of limbs and
for loss Of life while engaged in the late unfortunats
soldiers shall DO paid for their lost time and their
lost limbs while fighting to overthrow the country
every and woman and child Of you. and tell
you the only thing which stands between your ma
Presidential and you oil have to thank
God that you have Presidential veto.
WHAT KNOWS ABOUT FRAUD.
You have all heard the cry of Fraud fraud"
(Laughter.) Have you not? know something Of
nSs II naxS sS S s1ss
fraud at this time. But know all about it. The
cry has been often repeated Fraud. fraud. fraud
that would pause to give you few statistics OF
fraud. Now all the money collected during Folks
administration was So "a on $1,000. During the adj
ministration of Taylor and Fillmore it was SO q;
Psrces. SIS SC; Buchanans. SO %; Lincoln's 81 Al;
Johnsons, forty-eght CENTS Grants first term forty
cents, and Grants second term, twenty-six cents
on the $1,000. But tho great question for us to
settle is. are we or are We not q nationr we nave
supposed we were nation. When our constitution
adopted there were very acrimonious debates In
the Convention that adopted 1t. and ut one time IL
looked us II no compromise or settlement OF the
| OF compromise made Its appearance IN
the Convention and the constitution was
people and the people of the States Endorsed it. We
| had rebellions subsequently, but they were all
~sS of nrosotpa itse In tho
days ofJackson South Carolina raised tho nag OF TO-
beilion. and the threat was then made ina tina;
few discontents under Calhoun they would
overthrow the government. and General Jack
son at once exclaimed:-"Lct south Carolina
commit tho first overt act Of rebellion against
the government. and. by tho Eternal I
will hang j. G. P'-tapplause-and
cverv man woman aud child In America
at that time including Calhoun, knew that he would
do ~ Then again. later, rebellion raised it's hide
ous hcad and threats were daily and hourly mado
10 dissolve the Union. When they said this to Old
Bon Wade of Ohio his answer was;-"Gentlcmen.
DON'T DELAY Il on my account" (Iaughtcr.)
nut they went into it and were de-
feated. and wo restored TO them all their
him N tonk hpm IN
orr bosoms az brethren, hoping they had repented
Of their sins and their heresies We killed for them
the fsttcd calf and invited them to tho feast. and
| they gravely informed that they had always
| owned that calf. Q.aughter.)
Now, on looking back the whole field. In
my humble judgment. the greatest and gravest
| mistake made was that we did not hang enough