The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-28
PROCTOR KNOTT's LETTER.

Whst the Kentucky Statesman Thinks
OF the Bond Contract.
Following Is the fuR text OF Proctor
knott's letter read In the house last
week:
IT do rot know when my Democracy
has been more completely outraged than
by the last insoient demand OF the gold
ties that the government shail issue &c.,
oe.oe in gold bonds aud retire the treas
ury note circulation with the proceeds.
They do not seem 10 want 20 leave US
even q hereafter.
You know. as everybody else must who
has half as much sense as q sucking
guinea pig. that whenever this govern
ment agrees TO pay that amount or q
1.-THE OF IL in gold. silver IL doomed. so far
as we are concerned. to all eternity. AS
old Judge Forbish said to Johnny Moore,
1t had '.jest as well say goodbye. world,
and how dye. he'll
Great Godi how rapidly this long-suf-
fering people are being driven to the
dreadful alternative of slavery or inter-
nec1ne strife. to determine whether they
viii tamely hold out their hands and have
the shackies of a remorseless plutocracy
rlveted upon their wrists or fight.
Now mark what say. II the inexor-
able law of cause and effect has not been
expunged from the statute book OF the
Almighty, unless q halt Is called p. d. q.
you may expect 70 see the horrors Of the
French revolution put on the American
stage with all the modern improvements
and that within the next decade.
II remember / was suspected by some
n M Fia Dc ~ pxsn
because I predicted that In the event OF
Mr. Lincoln's election there would be a
war between the states. They could not
see why 1t ought to be so. Neither could
I. but knew the causes which were at
work, and which would in the long run
produce that result. and regarded his
election simply as the spark which would
explode the mine. So. when the fiery
cloud appeared In less than one short
year which deiuged the country In blood
for nearly a lustrum some OF those who
had thought me q croaker. q mere dys-
peptic pessimist, began TO regard me as
Byron did Jeffreys-as "a id discern
ing fellow" I tell you, senator. in all
seriousness. ! see far more reason to APP
prehend the speedy approach OF q terrible
revolution In this country than Lord Ches-
terfield saw in France when he wrote
his historic 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 q
British subject. saw what Is coming as
plainly as ! do. so he took time by the
foreiock and skipped out when there was
no, such a rush for staterooms as there
will be after a while. He knew very well
that IL things should keep on as you and
I have seen them for some years past the
time was not far of when there would
be such a crowd OF HIS class OF people
hurrylng aboard every outgoing steamer
he might De showed off the stage plank.
"Our good friend. Mr.. Sibley. sent me q
copy OF his magnificent speech anent the
Carlisle abortion the other day. I was
sick In bed when 1t came. lonesome and
sow-spirited, my wife in Louisville under
treatment for her throat trouble. and not
a Csod-hlessed friend near me to cheer me
up. I read 1t over. In some places two or
three times, and it stirred my old blood
ike the call of the trumpet stirs that OF
the war horse. or perhaps you will under
stand me better when j say 1t acted on
me like good w-ine-Klng Solemon's favor
tie 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. cd. Sib!ey and free
silver forever"