Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1879 — Chandler’s Last Words to Democratic Senators. [ARTICLE]

Chandler’s Last Words to Democratic Senators.

During a discussion on a bill pending in the United States Senate on the SOth ult., Senator Chandlei", _ of Michigan, delivered the following brief speech: We have now been three months and a hxt t' In this Capitol, uot without certain remits. Wo have shown to the people of this Nation Just whst the Democratic party tun. Hie people have been t* l formed as to your part) ’a euila ami alius. By fraud and violence 1 , by sliot-KUiis and lUt-ue ballots, you hold the present majority In both Houses of Congress, and you have taken an early opportunl y to show what you intend to do with that majority thus obtained. You are within sight of the proml-ed land, hut, like Moses of old, we propose to tend you up Into the mountain to die. 1 Orest laup bier. J Mr President, we are approaching the end of this extra sees ion, and Its record will soon become history. The acta of the Democratic party, as manifested In this Congress, justify me In arraigning It before the people of the United States on the pol tleal Issues which It has presented, as the enemy of the Nation, and as the author and abettor of rebellion. Mr. Chandler proceeded to arraign the Democratic party as follows: 1. For having resorted to revolutionary measures to carry out their partisan projects by attempting to coerce the Executive by withholding supplies, and thus accomplishing by starvation the destruction of the Government which they had failed to overthrow by aims. 2. For having lnjuicd the business Interests of the country by forcing the present extra session, alter libel al compromises- were tendered to them prior to the close of the last session. 8. For having attempted to throw away the results of the recent war by again elevating State over National sovereignty. We sacrlticed more than HOO.UOO lives and expended more than 15,000,000,000 to put down this heresy, and to perpetuate the NatlonaHife. They surrendered this at Appomattox, hut now they attempt to renew this pretension. 4. For having attempted (there are honorable exception*, aud long may they be remembered) to damage t)re business interests of the country by forcing silver coin into circulation of less value than it represents, thus swindling the laboring man and producer by compelling him to accept elghty-flve cents for the dollar, and thus enrich the bullion owners at the expense of the laborer. Twelve hundred millions of dollars is paid yearly to labor alone to this country, and by forcing the eighty-five-cent dollar on tie worklnuinen you swindle them out of $180,000,100 yearly. 5. For having removel without cause experienced officers and employes of this body, some of whom served ami were wounded in the Union Army, and wnli appointing men who had in the UeUil.Ar > y attempted to destroy the Governin' n 6. For having instituted a secret and Illegitimate tribunal, the edicts of which have been made the supreme governing power of Congress, in defiance of the fundamental principles of the Constitution. The decrees of this junta are known, although Its motives are hidden. 7. For having held up for public admiration that, arch-rebel, Jefferson Davis (great laughter on the Democratic side), declaring he was inspired by motives as sacred and as noble as animated Washington, and as having rendered services In attempting to destroy the Union which would equal in history Grecian fame and Roman glory. (Laughter ) You mar laugh. The people ol the North will make you laugh from the other side of your faces. (Renewed laughter.) 8. For having undertaken to blot from the statute-book of the Nation wise laws rendered necessary !))' the war and Its results, and iusuring ’nife, li.oorty and the pursuit of happiness” to the emancipated freedmen, who are now so bull-dozed that they are seeking peace in exile, although urged to remain by shot guns. i 9. For having attempted to repeal wise legislation which excludes those who served under the Rebel flag from holding commissions in the army and navy of the United stetaa. • ■ 10. For having introduced a large amount of legislation for the exclusive benefit of the States recently in rebellion, which, it enacted, would bankrupt the National Treasury. 11. For having conspired to destroy all that the Republican party has accomplished, many of them breaking their oaths of allegiance to the United States, and pledging their lives, their fortunes and their scored honors to over throw this Government. They failed, and thus lost all they pledged. Call a halt. The days of vaporing are over. The loyal North is aroused and their doom is sealed, f accept the Issue on these arraignments distinctly and specifically before the cit'zens of this great, Republic. As Senator of the United States and as a citizen of the Üblted States, I appeal to the people. It Is for those citizens to say who is right and who is wrong. Igo before that tribunal confident that the Republican party is right, and that the Democratic party is wrong. They have made these issues, not we, and by tticm they must stand or fall. Tills platform which they have constructed is not only for 1879, but 1880. Tbev cannot change it, for We will hold them to it. Thev have made their bed, and we will see to It that thev lie thereon.