The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-03-20
THE FULL TEXT.
Proctor Knott on the Condition of
Public Affairs.-An Important
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We printed some weeks since an eX-
Proctor Knott, of Kentucy, on the
condition Of our public affairs. We
have since found, in the Congressional
Record the whole letter, and we know
the readers of the REPRESENTATIVE
will be glad to see it. 1t is interest
ing reading.
81 do not know when my democracy
has been more completely outraged
than by the last insolent demand of
the goldites that the government
shall issue $5O0,OO0,0O0 in gold bonds
and retire the treasury note circua-
tion with the proceeds. They do not
seem to want to leave US even here
after.
Naughter.l
"You know, as everybody else must
who has half as much sense as suck
ing guinea pig, that whenever this
government agrees to pay that
amount or tithe of it in gold, silver
is doomed, SO far as we are concerned
to all eternity. AS old Judge Forbish
said to Johnny Moore, it had Jest as
we'll say goodbye, world, and how dye
hell Uaughter)
"Great God. how rapidly this long
suffering people are being driven to
the dreadful alternative of slavery or
internecine strife, to determine
whether they will tamely hold out
their hands and have the shackles of
remorseless plutocracy rivited upon
their wrists or fight.
Nov mark what l say, if the mex
Orable law of cause and effect has not
been eXpunged from the statute book
Of the Almighty, unless a halt is
called p. d. q. you may expect to see
the horrors of the French revolution
put on the American stage with all
the modern improvements, and that
within the next decade
81 remember / was suspected by
some of my friends Of political lunacy
in 1860 because l predicted that in the
event of Mr.. LincOln's election there
would be war between the states.
They could not see why it ought to be
SO. Neither could |, but | knew the
causes which were at work. and which
would in the long run produce that
result, and l regarded his election
simply as the spark which would ex-
plode the mine. So. when the frey
cloud appeared in less than one short
year which deluged the country in
blood for nearly a lustrum some Of
those who thought me a .croaker, a
mere dySpeptic peSSim began to re-
gard me as Byron did Jeffreys-as "a
id, discerning fellow" l tell you,
Senator, in all seriousness, l see far
more reason to apprehcnd the speedy
approach of a terrible revolution in
this country than Lord Cherterfie Id
saw in France when he wrote his his
tOrc prediction from Paris. Nor am
| alone. That gentleman, Astor, who
went to England some time ago,
bought him a. place on the island and
became a British subject, saw what is
coming as plainly as do, so he took
time y the fOrelock and skipped out
when there was not such rush for
statcroOmS as there will be after 4
while. He knew very we'll that if
things should keep on as you and
have seen them for some years past,
| the time was not far off when there
would be such a crowd of his class of
people hurrying abroad every outgo-
| ing steamer he might be showed off
| the gang plank.
Uaughter.)
'sOur good friend, Mr.. Sibley, sent
me copy of his magnificent speech
anent the Carlisle abortion the other
day. l was sick in bed when it came,
lonesome and low-sprited, my wife in
| Louisville under treatment for her
throat trouble, and not a God-blessed
| friend near me to cheerme up. read
it over, in some places two or three
times, and it stirred my old blood as
| the call of the trumpet stirs that Of
the war horse, or perhaps you will un-
| derstand me better when say it act
ed on me like good wine-King
| Solomon's favorte prescription to
those that be of heavy hearts, CAS-
the average United States senator is
not presumed to be familiar with the
writings of that eminent author. see
Proverbs XXI, 6, ~ Sibley and free
silver forever" applause
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