Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-08-17

the speech a paragraph from which
have read, will show that when
he was arraigned on that floor he
pleaded the baby act, and said he was
a boy when he wrote It. lie was
thirty years of age when he wrote
it. lie was a member of the house
of delegates Of the "Buckeye" State,
hence the title of the book, and in
one year subsequent to that he was
made minister from this country to
Peru. A Protestant as Buckeye.
A Catholic in New York, a Prot
estant IN Ohio, he denOunces the
priests and the clergy. He buys
his own books. Such is DemOcra.
cy. Snch is England vs.. America.
| guess now, sir, the only saving
clause is that, having pleaded boy
hood IN that case, he will plead
dotage IN this.
AS said, the fisheries treaty in.
wolves more than mere passing
view OF it would show. Still that
is enough for me. say it is poll.
tics on both sides of the ocean. We
hear of what is called Democracy
pure and simple. Jefiersonian De
mOcracy-that Jeflersonian DemOc-
racy which says that the people of
this country shall not hear debate
on a matter that concerns every
body, as | may express it, from
Passamaquoddy Bay to the Gulf
Of Mexico. And yet here IS the re.
pOrt-fye Republicans reporting in
favor Of considering this treaty in
open session and four Democrats
signing a report against it. That
is Democracy pure and simple !!
Shut ont the people of this country
from hearing what you have to say !
Let them know nothing Of what is
going on here that may disturb
their commercial interests, or even
their productive interests along
the coast That is Democracy
pure and simple; that is Jefferson.
ian Democracy, as you call it.
Mr.. President, there IS nothing
more apparent than this that the
other side of this Chamber was
made subservient to the will of the
Administration, and they, there.
fore, indOrse this treaty and the
Administration, with the Demo
cratic representation here, has
taken its position and can not,
ought not to be, and shall not be,
so far as am concerned, allowed
to deny it.
When it came to a vote on this
matter, not a Democrat in this
Senate voted to open the doors and
let the people hear the discussion,
and not a Republican voted against
it.; yet they call themselves the
Democracy "pnre and simple" the
JeffersOnian Democracy. If the
President of the Senate will Just
keep his ears shut for a moment, |
will say that sucb was almost the
fact in the consideration OF the eX-
tradition treaty. When it was
proposed to return people from this
country to England for the com.
mission of misdemeanors, or to
bring them from there here for
nothing less than the committing
OF felony, that treaty was post.
poned until next December, and in
order TO relieve the Senate at that
time to do what they refused to do
then, but two Senators on the other
side of the Chamber, voted to con.
time the extradition treaty until
next December.
Mr.. President, why do we want
a treaty with that government any.
wayi We shall never have a ma
tiOnal government until we have
whipped England for her deeds
She meyer leaves her footprints on
any soil where she does not leave
them with something that marks
the same Impress whore she can
put it down again. Our bOasted
Monroe doctrine is being annulIed
and wiped from the face of the
earth to-day, and we find gentle.
men on the other side of the
Chamber saying We must arbtrate
or we must fight. Has any one
asked us to arbitrate Has any
one challenged us to fight? When
either of the two propositions shall
be submitted here it will be time
for the American Congress to con.
slider one or the other. An Ameri.
can Congress will consider either
the one or the other when it is
presented. Then it will be time
for the American people to send
other and better and more courage.
Gus men than we represent them in
this body and in the other. |
would make no proposition of com.
promise. There is no such sugges.
ton made to US. We have nothing
before us but the ratification of this
treaty, which involves every thing
that is dishOnorable to us from the
tearing down Of the American flag
on the Canadian coast to the time
when an American Secretary OF
State could alilx his name and the
seal of this great Government to
such a compromise on paper,
| ask why do we want to make a
treaty with such a government,
anyhow We have a treaty, under
which certain criminals were to be
extradited, and here are oyer three
volumes of our books full of the
Winslow case, in which England |
stood off and said, "Ao. you can
not have him, unless you agree that
you will not try him for anything
else than that offense for which he
is extradlted y and from that day
to this he never has been surren.
dered.
England has never kept a treaty,
sho has never made one that she
did not violate. challenge a ref
utatlon Of that statement-and es
pecially with this government
That is case which stands prOml.
nently forward all the time, the on
Iy case that came up under the
treaty Of 1871, and there she re.
fused to conform to the terms other
own treaty, aud asks US now to
make another which comedies to
her the entire right to fish on the
whole Atlantic coast, up through