The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-09-14


thought he ows1 unote than he ooald pay.
! would it streaRt4 your confidence Ia
him if he sh0aId Announce his readiness
to meet his notes 4nd ct the same time re-
issue new onesf He owes Ss much at the
end Of six months us be owed when he be-
gan, and this is Whist they are pleased to
call redemption. As / said in the Senate
once, it is like trying to bail out boat
with sieve. IL lows back one way az
fast as you take It out the other. What
wanted tOsAy HRAb gHCe sthas we should
obstruct our government, not that we
| should diminish thn volume Of our circu-
lation and restrict business; but / said
this, that j would deny the right of the
] government to Oouipel the honest man to
take dishonest mOney f he did not want
to do it. And advocate that, from and
after January next, no note Of paper shall
be compulsorily receivable, and to allow
the people to take Il for whatit was worth.
Don't compel the man who has worked
| all the week, and Il Sntitled to his ten dol
lars, to accept that which is only worth
six dollars or EIGHT sdUllars If 80, you
have wronged that man.
This was the doctrine of the Democratic
party of Andrew Jackson, of Calhoun, of
| every man who has adorned the Demo
cratic roll since the beginning Of the gov
eminent. What was the answer of this
guardian of the public honor and credit,
Mr. John Sherman? Upon the introdnc-
] tion of that resolution caucus was held
by the Republican Senators, and it was
resolved that the measure should never
pass the Senate. Such was the way that
a Democratic attempt to secure honest
money was met at the hands of Repub-
lican Administration and Republican
| Senate.
LAND GRANTS AND RAILROAD SUBSIDIES.
Another thing-dO you believe it safe
and right that this land of ours, upon
which we live and of which all human
power cannot create one part, do you
think it right and just, do you think it
statesman-hke, do you think it patriotic
that millions of acres of fertile land, ca
pable of bearing glorious crops and filed
with mines of mineral wealth, should be
given over to half dozen artificial bodies
called railway corpOrations3 Is the text
of the American people " Eat, drink and
be merry, for tomorrow we die ?" No,
we look TO the future, and we say that this
great domain shall be preserved for future
generations, that they may reap the fruit
of our good guardianship and trusteeship.
That is the doctrine of the Democratic
party But the doctrine of the Republi-
can party is to feed fat those who do not
need fattening; to make the strong strong
er at the expense Of the weak, and to
make the rich richer at the expense of the
poor, and in proof of this assertion point
to these land gifts by act of Congress
from 1868 until Democratic majority in
the House put stop to them. Fellow
citizens, this is not subject to be dis
cussed lightly. 1t is subject upon which
man might spend more than day to
show the terribly reckless course of this
party that has made these grants for all
time without regard to succeeding genera
tions. / can remember when first entered
Congress, some twelve years ago, how the
lobby Haunted itself in the face of the
public how men would sit there and put
conditions in the passage Of laws, and
they did it by money, and that money
was the money of the people of the United
States Subsidies and grants Of all sorts
were distributed with lavish hand. No
wonder that the wine flowed freely and
that Washington was gay place, and
that the Republican party was popular
with class. They were
FATTENING ON THE CORRUPTION.
When the Democrats came in power in
1875, in the lower House, it put an end to
all their grand dinners and their recep-
tions and their influence, and their power
was gone Let any man who was ac-
quainted with the corruption of those
days look at Congress to-day and tell you
the difference. Was it the Republican
party that caused this reform No, it
was the will of the Democratic party that
placed an honest majority in the House
of Representatives. Another thing
would like to call your attention to is the
attitude of the Republican party towards
THE coIoRrD PEOPLE
of this country. There has been a con-
temptible meanness by that party and It's
leaders towards the negroes that meets
my most hearty contempt They knew
that they were ignorant, they knew that
they were weak, and not able. to protect
themselves, and what have they done p
They have professed to be their warm
friends and admirers. They have told
them that they were fit to occupy any
station in the government. They told
them they we're the equalof any man in
every respect. What has it all come to
when the opportunity is given them to
give substantial proof Of their love and
admiration IChallenge any man Of any
color or party to name single cOlored
man who holds an Office under the United
States government BY the vote of the
national Republican party. have seen
80 much of this thing that IL b very fa-
miliar. have BEEN In Washington for
twelve years and have been householder,
and being taxpayer and residing in
Warrington great portion Of the time,
and being member Of one Of the houses
Of Congress, / know whereof ] speak. In
1870 they began to apply to the Republic
can Congress and to make the District of
Columbia what they said was
sqn sfaA black MAN'B PARADISE,
place wheFehe would have to work very
little or not at all, and could snpport him
self by voting the Republican ticket.
Well, It brought . good many there, bat
things went on so that, they confessed
themselves they began 70 recoil from the
work they hsd beg6ng They commenced
by destroying the house Af delegates in