The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-02-27
BLOOD ON THE MOON.
EX-GOVERNOR PROCTOR KNOTT
MAKES LURip 'PREDIc rloNs.

He Says Bi-Metaltsm Must Come or We
Will Have Revolution, and 1t viii be
Worst One than the French Revolution,
Too. 80. -.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-Congress-
man Hatch, Democrat from Missouri,
in a five minutes speech in the House
last Thursday aroused the opponents
of the gold bond resolution to great
enthusiasm. He had but little time,
he said, to explain why he was to be a
pail bearer at this financial funeral
In word, it was because the passage
of this resolution would make every
debtor pay his debt in gold. He read
amid much demonstration letter ad-.
dressed by ex-G Governor Proctor Knott
of Kentucky to Senator Blackburn OF
Kentucky in which Mr.. Knott charac-
terized the pending proposition as the
'slast insolent demand OF the goldites, y
''They don't seem to want to leave us
hereafter. Whenever the govern
ment agrees to pay gold, silver is
doomed for all eternity. As old Judge
Forbis said to Johnny Moore, Good
bye, world; howdye Hell9" (Laugh-
ter and applause.)
The letter continued: "Great God!
how rapidly this long suffering people
are being driven to the dreadful alter
native of slavery or internecine strife
to determine whether they will tame
ly hold out their hands and have the
shackles of a remorseless plutocracy
riveted upon their wrists, or fight. -
Nov, mark what, I say. if the mex
orable law of cause and effect has not
been expunged from the statute book
of the Almighty, unless 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 with
in the next decade. IrememberiI was:
suspected by some of my friends OF
political lunacy in 1860 because pre-
dicted that in the event of Mr.. Lin
coins election there. would be war be-.
tween the States. They could notsee
why it ought to be so. Neither could
I, but I knew the causes which were
at work and which would in the long.
run produce that result, and / regard
ed his election simply as the spark
which would explode the mine. So
when the fierce cloud appeared in less
than one short year which deluged the
country in blood for nearly a lpstrum,
some of those who had thought me a
croaker, mere dyspeptic pessmist,
began to regard me as Byron did JEFF
freys-as a id discerning fellow.
I tell you, Senators, in all seriousness,
| I see far more reason to apprehend
the speedy approach of terrible revo-.
luton in this country than Lord Ches-
terfeld saw in France when he wrote
his historic predictions from Paris.
. Nor am I alone. That gentleman AS
tor who went to England some time
ago, bought him place on the island
and became British subject, saw
what is coming as plainly as l do, 50
he took time by the forelock and
stepped out when there was not such
a rush for state rooms as there will
be after while. He knew very well
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 crowd OF his
class of people hurrying aboard every
out going steamer he might be showed
off the stage plank" s