Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-25
NEW THINGS POLITICS.
S,nator Hoar's Speech Before the Essex
Club.

Ny mugwump friends seem to be want
to be told some new thing all the time.
When any reference is made to the princ-
pies upon which this government was
founded, they think it sufficient to say
they heard that rs long ago as 1875. Well,
if it is necessary to talk of something new,
| will state one or two things that seem to
me to he new. In the first place, in fiji
teen of the thirty-eight American States
no man can get an Office or receive any
mark of public honor under the present
administration if he was loyal to the cOun-
try in the time of her extremity. Now,
we do not complain that the present ad-
mnistratiOn,p puts in Office men who served
in the Confederate army or who Sympa-
thised with the Confederate cause
We expected that When We conquered
them they were to 60 back and enjoy the
rights of American citizens. What we
complain of is not that the men who were
on their side are admitted to the privi-
leges of citizenship, but that the men who
were on our side are excluded; and that
! is thing which never happened in this
government until the 4th If March, 1855.
! Applause. Now, that is not talking
about old, but about new, things, and if
! the American people have spark of spirit
! in them they will complain of them.
Another thing is new. We all know that
whatever constitution you may write on
paper, whatever laws you may engross on
parchment whatever your theoretical
| form of government may be, you have
neither constitution, law nor politi-
cal rights rs a republic-you have no liv-
ing republic-unleSs the president of the
administration and the measures of legis-
lation are the fair result of the will of Il
majority of the people, and unless you are
| to have honest elections, honest votes,
honest counts Now, we are perfectly
willing to submit to Democratic rule if
the majority of the American people so
will it, but we are not willing to submit
to rule brought about by the methods
by which Pillsbury attempted to steal the
| State of Maine four years ago, and by
which Mullen undertool, tOSuppress votes
in Cincinnati Applause Now, what
! has happened Not between 1851 and
| 1868, wheh there was rebellion not prior
to the emancipation act of 1868, when
there was slavery; not in 1865, when there
was the luhluX khan, but in this year OF
grace, 1883, under the power which at
present rules IN the White House. Mr..
Pillsbury, known only for the services he
rendered TO an attempted usurpatlon OF q
Democratic minority in Maine, is hOnored
by the administration with principal
federal Office in Massachusetts. Mr. Null
len, whose offence was so gross that his
distinguished counsel did not undertake
to make any defence for him, kept 100 ne
groes locked up by force during election
day to defraud them of the right to vote
and was sentenced by the United States
court with n most emphatic condemna
ton of his conduct by the presiding judge
he is pardoned out by the President OF
the United States inst before another ONO
election. And if newspaper statements
be true he has been restored to his posi-
'tion in the police force in Cincinnati