The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-01

ceeded in fronting "the crowd, by re-
moving several baskets and bundles Oh
bouquets ON a corner of the platform;
And such a speech! We have heara
but one excuse offered for such q meu,
lev of nonsense and incoherenee, ana
that is that the speaker must have
been drunk. After a few minutes OF
vociferation. without point or pith;
and one or two anecdotes too old ana
stale to bring out even a Democratic
OUTLAW, with the suggestion that ne
had Uery important business elsewhere
he quit and left the house. j..
Then came Mr.. Waterman ana al
ter removing few more heaps oil
flowers for a little larger space, lie
took his place on the same corner
Almost his first utterance was that he
had not come there to abuse or why
anybody,-the customary announce
ment of an intention to set in full ope-
ration the mud throwing machlne'
His lily conceived purpose was alter
wards fully manifested by spending a
large share of his time in denouneing
in the screaming accents of an iniuri,
ated fish woman, as "a purJerer anu
bride taker," one whom such able ana
arrant Democrats as Senator Thurman
of Ohio, and Judge Black of Pennsyl-
vania, in public speeches and letters
have pronounced beyond reproach OF
the first suspicion Of anything moral
| ly wrong in the matter referred to,
and one whom the people Of Ohio had
delighted to honor with repeated cleo
tions by uni 1raIielled and constantly
increasing maiOrities. 1t is really
amusing to see these moral plgml
with the calibre and range of a striped
backed woodchuck essaying to squirt
the accumulations of their vile tluld al
the man, who, in moral grandeur, Is
as far above them as Gabriel is above
grasshopper. 1t is probable that
Mr.. Waterman with his good nature
and excellent ability, would not have
been so unwise as to enter this skunks
cannonade, had not the way been
opened and suitable ammunition pro-
vided for him by the notorious Idr0o1.
In the course of his speech, Mr..
Waterman said that if he should make
any mistakes, he gave leave to any
one there to correct him, and guaran-
teed that the audience should give a
fair hearing.
In the course of his remarks he ac-
cused the Republicans of insincerity
aud q purpose TO create groundless
alarm when they suggested that the
hundreds of millions Of claims already
presented and filed in Congress, and
the thousands of millions that may
yet be presented by Southerncrs, may
be allowed and paid if the Government
should fall into the hands Of the parties
to which the claimants belong, because
he said it is 10 or 20 years since those
claims occurred, and they are all tout
lawed,' and besides provision OF the
Nth Amendment to the Constitution
provides that they shall not be allow
ed. Who ever before heard that a
claim could not be paid by one willing
to pay it because it was outlawed?
The trouble is not about the exist
ence of any obligation to pay, but
Of willingness to pay acthout obi
CATION. At the conclusion Of the
speech, Mr.. Wilkins, probably not
willing to rest under the implied adj
mission that no mistakes had been
made by going silently away, arose
and suggested that if he correctly I'M
derstood the speaker he had made a
mistake in insisting that the rebel
claims could not be allowed without a
violation Of the 14th Amendment OF
the Constitutions
Mr.. Waterman commenced to reply
by saying that he did not mean to be
exactly so understood, when an indi-
vidual in the audience passed to him
piece of paper saying "there it is"
Mr.. Waterman read it aloud and when
he pronounced the last word, at a
signal from the Governor, the faithful
ones commenced to stamp and soon
stomped out of doors, and this was
the "fair hearing" which Mr.. Water
man had guaranteed.
He had about the same control over
his audience that the Northern Demo
Gratis have over three-fourths Of their
entire party, the solid South.
*But neither the United States nor an Y
State, shall assume to pay any debt or
obligation incurred in aid of instruction
or rebellion against the United States, or
any claim for the loss or emancipation OF
any slave; but all such debts, obliga-
tions, and claims shall be held illegal and
void.
This section of the 18th Amend
ment every lawyer understands does
not exclude any of the many claims OF
Southerners who ask the Government
to pay for all the damages done to
Southern plantations, for private pro-
perty taken and destroyed, &C., &c.
Bills introduced in Congress to pay
these claims already foot in amount
several hundred million dollars, and
every lawyer knows, as we'll as Mr.
Waterman, that all that is necessary
to ensure payment is to pass the Bills
and have them approved by the Presi
DENT Ed.
Senator Edmunds, says the Wor
cester iSpu, met Col. Waddell O