The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-10-27
SPEECH By HENRY WATTERsoN.

Toledo, from which the following ex-
tracts are taken:
FELLow-CITIzENs: The present situation OF
public affairs In the United states is someth NO
more than anomalous. 1t is in the highest DE-
suit your intelligence and discredit my own Il
should perpetrste the conceft of att .mptfne
70 oyerreach your credulity with the pretense
that there Is a crisis. There Is no crisis.
dangers there are. indeed, as always: for am q
the prevailing incertitude and Indifference the
absence OF organized conviction inifcates a
rank, unwholesome growth. which, whilst Civ
ing show OF current prosp Gritty. is calculated
server. Our body polite. however is not going
TO the dogs 1t has al least escaped the dogs of
var Onr National unity is stronger than ever
.t was. Among the people IN re are no
touger any frrepressible conflicts. Reace
perzades the States and the sections which
compose our Federal fabric. 4 he war is over,
ana the issues tfIit begat il are settled irrex-
0cably and forever. Slavery is no more
,h ,thbe1gns d, Of or Fsgretted in the South thar1
i NV aSs9' ~ as
nistdf Cur 6 oyernm6at has surgiF1d the
ueiage pnshaken and uhtarnished our con-
stit1tional system has emerged from an era of
fnischieyous theory, which. beginning with
faise notions of reconstruction to end with
iilusory notions of finance. for long time
threatened it. All the while the people have
got on. somehow in spite of rdemagoglIes
And now, with General Butler as the Demo
cratic standard-bearer in Massachusetts, and
Seneral Chalmers as the Republican standard
bearer In Mississippi, surely the country is
safe; IT is more than safe, because what those
great warriors and statesmen lack of making
II so We may confidently look to see supplied
by General Malone.
congratulate you, fellow-citizens. upon
this eonsummation so devoutly to be wished.
and shall not mar il 10y any forebodings that
40 not spring from the most ordinary sugges-
uons OF q prudent sagacity, l rejoice in being
able TO feel and to say that we are fellow
citizens, that we have rich. prosperous and
the future of th Renia si , + G1e fnl W wnt may
uld promise. But we have not reached the
millennium; not even here in Ohio, albeit the
nome OF the Truly Good. We possess great
property. and to the wise and just and fruit
1ul administration of this belong certain obi
cations and duties Ii is these which bring us
together on this occasion.
In the report of speech delivered the other
evening by Senator John Sherman, for whom
following passage. which. as can well remenI-
Der the Senator's first Appearance in the Ma
oonal Capitol as Re representative in Congress,
Is TO me not without a touch of pathos Sena-
tor ShermHn said: II am already getting old
ana my hair is turning gray, but my attach
meht TO the Republican pdrty is all the
stronger, and it is so because | believe that
party Is the bulwark of our cOuntry's liberties
and progress. Ii | could believe that the
with the power of this great Nation. | would
not be here making speeches to you am
mere because believe the Democratic party
cannot manage this country of ours" / have
no doubt the Senator is sincere. He declared
thifig was JustifiabIe 10 keep the Democrats
out of power. This is precis sIy the
: splFit Wnlcn brought the between the
States II is the spirit which sees nothing
wrong within; everything wrong without the
party lines. Yet there is scarcely criticism
winch might pass upon the present Admins
tration with which Senator Sherman would not
concur. Does he indorse the alliance with Ma
hone in Virginia? Does he fndorse the alliance
with Chalmers in Mississippi? Does he indorse
the course of the President in forcing his
secretary OF the Treasury upon the Republ
ans OF New York; Upon two leading meas
ures at least in the last Congress he voted
against the Administration, and he is every
the River and Harbor Eili" which the Pres
dent vetoed. Now. felow=citfzefis 1 am NOT
growing old and my hair is not turning gray,
Dut l viii love no party better than l love my
country, honor, justice and truth | have
seen the Republican party violate its Obli-
cations &c each of those cardinal virtues and
because it did so have seen one after another
81 It's fathers and foundefs leave it. Seward
Ihase. Blair, summer, Greeley, a died OUT
were on the eve of quitting il when the one
went 10 his grave and the other went into re-
before il, the Republican party has being dos
ng the last few years The work appointed +
me slaEe. II united the people in defense of I
he l MON. Somebody had to save the Nation 1
! credit, and, being in power and having the I
Is hands, by a sort of Gods mercy, il did not +
axe the wrong shoot, though many o. its
oremost leaders. notably Senator sherman
md the late Senator Morton, started out ori,r-
nally as wrong as the Democrats whom
hey afterwards denounced. And what has
Is traditions, ii has been conspiring and re-
piring TO keep itself in power BY a stretch
u state ghts, which would IN Ike tn ghoss of
onn I: CainOun open its eyes, II has counted /
nd refused to count Electoral votes. Pro-
esslng TO be the sole guardian Of the National
lOnOr, II has league Itself with reDud iation- /
SITS, and become vehicle of Reputation, in
ne states Up 10 a very recent date Mr.. JAY
Hubbeli was its one official Civllservice Re
ormer, and likely specimen he was. do ad-
nit But. as if jealous of Mr.. Huhbelrs name
nd fame. the Republican President Of the
Jnted states4although as Nice-president he
ad won some CIV l-service laurels at Albany
nd delsewhere-resOlved to submit His claims
2 a competitive examination. With the
reasury at his heels h appeared, in
ne person of Judge Folger. at Saratoga,
There. by the aid of Gould Millions
nd the opportune and undctectcd m
3 secure the last and greatest triumph of
ivii-seryice Reform the defeat of a Gov
orations, and the nomination of a Governor
ictated by the Administration
That tendency Is undoubtedly the con soIida-
on or interests designed exclusively for
ne many In the hands of the few. the con-
entration at Washington of powers hitherto
lN1ded among the States, and an elevation
the stock Exchange into a d epqTtment OF
1e Government do hot m an that
lere is any present purpose to create "A
ew place in the Cabinet for Mr.. Could ar
Ir Vanderbilt Under the title of Sec
stary OF The Loaves and Fishes and Keeper
the Pres dents Pocket-book. In politics
3 IN private business, there may be su IA a
! Iig as silent partner ship. which rs we
X
, work with effect But do mean to say
lat the policy of the Republican party has
eadily courted the money po er. that II is
laped TO produce aggregations OF vast
ealth, and that il looks for its perpetuqtion
} the union II has achieved betwe n ths
Oliticians nd the capitalists. There are two
always from Washington to New York
hich are known to the public But th re Is
third which has not yet appea ell o. any of
lgugh it is the most important of ALL 1t is ,
airline. connecting the White
ouse with Wall street.
This is not mere figure of speech just
)nsider for moment what money can do ;
M now much money the policy of the Repub-
can party nts enabled corporations and Indi- !
duals 70 amlss. Forty years ago the most /
orid imag nation among the writers of ex-
aNagant oInance. racking its invent on for
fable of untoward riches, put the entire f n
Inc of the Spada family, collected through
sneratlOnS, concealed for az = and finally
nearthed bv the Count of Mont Christie. nj
hundred millions of francs-twenty m II ous ,
dollars. With this sum that reioubtable
ero worked miracles, almost social revOlIl-
on, in France. Later another French novel;
I, OF what the critics call the realistic
inooi' so' produced a colossal millionaire.
d not venture to put the figures beyond the
NIT ser by his iliustrious predecessor. Ole
lndred millions of francs-twenty millions of
)llarsl Why. there are fifty men in AMI
bout New York worth more than that who I
mt consider themselves very weIl-to-do
ther. and are working. toiling, shaving, suffer-
g day and night TO earn competency for
emselves, cheered by the single hope that, ,
able to leave someth n0 behind to ep the
off from the door of the W dow and the
IAN If he were living the Count of ,
onte Christie would be a beggar by the side of
~ Gould, VINO has 500 90 francs: so much [
oney, indeed, that not satisfied with his mill {
ms, he must carry the redress of his private /;
rOngs into the public business OF the country
I'd make accomplices of Chief Magistrates I
id Secretaries of the Treasury in the punish I
ent of recalcitrant Governors.
instance this case rely b. way of illus
alton. Mr.. Gould may be within himself e
rmless enough. His recent operation may +
merely an ep sodc. 1t may have been
ce IS lry to protect himself. But we have
en- how a great capitalist, joining fo.ces with b
weak President, may slide the voice OF 4
e people and dir the destini : of 1
party in the Empire Stite of the Union.
hat might not be accomplished by a great u
pit Hist having the ambition and the genius ::
JIlius CsPSar? II
is il not time TO try the vir- il
e of a change in the political complexion of q
g Government? Senator Sherman says that
ne but Republicans are mt to govern ie a
uniry. II used to be a maxim in business n
at when an employe got to thinking hims Elf
iispensable that WAS good time TO dis
arye h IN: for that man might die This ought n
be e iualiy sound doctrine in politics; though :,
what / have said of dangerous a