Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — A Speech by Mr.Klafne. [ARTICLE]

A Speech by Mr.Klafne.

Horn JEmesli: feTainrsferSOTiarge and enthusiastic Hjeettqa 1?¥V 1S * n Boston a few evenjAgßiMta ’JMKMm received with tremendous applause, and it waeeoraufrw ■rimßtawwfturriMW<B ar '‘' l increased as his well-chosen pomM and welbreundad sentencea tail cnltattfri of the vast audltfice. He lain opposed to the\ctevtjwn of Bamuel J. Tilden to the Presidency.' [Applause, and unfaithful, and wncu iflay bleeding gt-fiYSTlnPore from wOffodsby horde*; he pagEd bv •on Ute'ottaw'ride wfti Wave Worth! and comfort to her aaemiec. HiunjopiMMU to Mr Tilden because,iMeb«ri>wirte D in favor of the ,resumption-u[;Bpeae ( n»jMuntß on the bad reputation of the West* Iff" the worse reputation of the South to sink it in the Interest di Southern cfaims. I am opposed to Mr. Tilden beeauao he,' moraOthun any other Northern map, and wore UtN> »ny other Southern Wn, remawate thriq/atal struct ion of‘property.’ I‘fall opposed to Mr. Tilden because in the name WMf reformer { be is used b< thbt dfahoMratte and disreputable gang (J us# that every honest America? the Democracy of the cite of Ne»| 'York. [Applause] I am tfppdfeed fo/jfr. Illdcn because he is a member of the DCiqhifratic party [cheers]—that party *#' just'dnd so good that its iMudidaia-tereaifr.’Miririfrhu-setts [Cheers.] that party whieh|orjorts yW” -8 has espoused no idea ana co poliij||-that was not at war with the highest civilizOTion. More than fifarieen years' tad the honor to bte elected to Congress,’ the timfe I entered upon the’ floor of ttaMbuse there was under discussion the test oath, or what is commonly known as the iron-clad oath. It was an oath made to prevent men in rebellion agAinst too Governmbntftoming again into the Legislature of the land, without at least a sufficient guarantee of their loyalty. In the Committee I saw a smxmth-faced man named Thpnfas A. Hendrleki, and I heard him say, And I agreed with him: ‘‘Do you want a test oath? Let me,” said he,ln a..epirit of prophecy, “let me toll you that' Beauregqrd, Lge,w4cff'Davis, Slidell, when the time when they could take this oath comes, will be seeking their personal safety, and will never bother yog," 1 thought so too- 1 thought that I dreamed had I thouMlaben that I should live to see seventy who were the associates of BeauMflkrd, Davis und Sllfiell, seventy of them, fill did last September, walk up to the the House and take the modified oathL That one act shows the liberri spirit and HdKncy of the Republtean parly. They hate j|oderated and charmed the oaths so tbfl|Atery 'man from the South Mko ever theforitf of rebeUldn, of diAfriritLf b» .fl*f®bat he will not hear arms against his coqntry, and that he will support its ConsiftnWon, and these scamps from the South are let in on the promise that they will do nothing hurtful or wrong aghln. They said they felt at home there, and they they began al once to rule the HfltttMmnd the House was as much under goulherSaictation as it was under the Adimnistfauba of Buchanan. It was said as a little Jeu 'ffifirthe Northern Democratic wabers aid ifaf ijow .enough toaneeze until the SoutheflVNßlm.bexg took .snuff. [Laughter.] ThSto-fllere .seventy of them, and there were faera Democrats in the House. ThessjgH|nty had A.cpnstituimcy behind them, Q&ifrout thirteen millions, and the North haa about thirty-two or thirty-three millioms, And when they came to organize the* HouJl&f very one familiar with the routine that the division of power and the assigbfartft of places was not made with refcren4e«4s‘*the proportion ofapopulation. Jfiutjriten you give to the South its proportion vw-tacat it lloerally, foblwhen you eons derlhdWfustries of the North, its mauufsfebtrt<fl*it6 commerce, and its great trade, itstepnucb larger than whpn you consider, ft oufly»<ilft regard to the matter of population ffrtagh ir two and fl fialf times larger, j rtslfiatNdw the Housers governed by UjJytyjine standing 6oMmittecs, and to two of tbuw is intrusted the* care of all the of th<4 America® people, its commerce, lorfign ' and manufactures, its rtStS’its the regulations of its social*rrtttk>ns between Slates and nations, ite and, fact, ali that makes up thgiNsfltei is intrusted to these committeqft. ,1 hfanr, as has fay predecessor, who is here upqfcthis pl.itform (Gen. Banks), occupied IJiattolace as Speaker of the House;' I'tßouglrfrgave full justice to the South wiisu • Pgtte“mtem ■one-third of the plaeee on tnose - GfaMnittees. Well, what;dp ypu»flto>p«atfl» Bit I need not ask you whul,yo# BMpp<fre|fa»Uk>u saw it In the papers that with less.than oneth rd of the population they took two-thirds of the commit ees, and the crats looked hatoiy. [ApplausfgfifjbKet Cox being jokodMrtut it,said h"£&j|Bad of it. “ Thank JW, Master cMMB, 1 am ’umble,” said Uriah Heep. They gave to the South, to of Tennessee, the Chairmanship ol vour Committee on Naval Afiafrs, wlth lWA|»rtlt relations to your commercial interests. I»-4he South thereisnß a mud-soovr totftJißof the Pptomac. ConDiffilttwe on Commerce .was a JUtofelb*' whb would not kfiow a three-master Tiam one of the "elms on th'e'ccimnion.'”llJaj§hter.T I don’t want to say the man. [Laughter.] JBHb ford, and he I was About tW’|w»rest specimen of . that breodastfrpeder saw. [Laughter.] Wiih" twrate*t»»atoht of tbe thirty-one they proceeded todfaMMe. They tell us that we aroriwaxa taffitig'of the war—that we go back flf£riyviara. u I *ra talking of existing tilings. so go back of the year tote, and,)Mtoforfhe year the great Presidential ifihckl. Well, they proceeded to,,legislat£ (¥ Mig|jße flr.-t thing they lormed wps a bod^Tra tes. But one thing just here. When “BtejyMf e twenty-one, of the Uhairmansftros to (he South and ten to tbe N rth tlldWßM|M?yn Democratic members from Ntov BBWtml. Whnpv r heard ofdt before? WMfaMriwr live o see it again? Barnaul trid urn he had exptected and'llttd .had prpqajfsd 4 tom .a committee, andtoatw “ hungry mMg” tU|*uJd up from Missouri OVeVbiglre hmPhejroflt. A New England mats stood no chau^NplA t a man with a Tebel • record. ' single Chairmanship was given to New England. The first thing theviouse founO-ta-toMyay w«s these rules. Rules are outgrown*Sl the pgriuMnqptary eyimrignccof ftnQathers, and were derived originally f exance the one which Terera to the generakgr>propriatidis for any depflrtMnt pLw JPfon to<he regular appropriations; ftpw the also tinkered and tNapcarttaMtatee nnances: Said he: “ They go to, c&use it is the mvc W ■Hatdtoone. means tmbins that these clrirtk vfffl He arraigned theConfMilHteC&gWW all Its >oose legislation, ftdfruyftig paper for Its Investigating Cotnhri foes, Ito attack on the private character of good men and patriots.”