The Danger Of The Republic

One of the best speeches inadö in the Senate on the case of Caldwell was that of Senator fciehurz, froia which we niaka the following extract: Do wo not soe and understand what ia going on around us ? What is it that attracts to the capital of the nation that herd of monopolists and speculators and their agents who so assiduously lay siege to the judgment and also to the conscienees of those wlio are to give to tho country its laws ? Wh'it is it that filis the lobbies of these halls with tho atinosphere of toraptatiou 'i What is it thab bringa foith such melancholy, such deplorable exhibitiona as the American peo-" pie have been beholding this winter, and which we would have been bnt too gla to hiele from the oyes of the world abroad ? It ia that policy which uses tho power.of this great government for the beiu'tit of favored interests ; that policy whioh takes money out of the pockets of the piiopls to put it iuto the pockets of a few ; that policy which in every country whero it prevailed has poisoned the very fountain of legislation. Do you think that the consequences can be different here ? Are not your great railroad kinga and monopolists boasting that they eau buy whole State Legislaturas to do their bidding '( Have we not seen some of them st.ilkiug around in this very Capitol like the soveveign lords of creation ? Are not somo of them vaunting themselves already that they havo made and eau make profitable mvcstmenta in Congressmen and United States Senators V Have we not olisoived the charming catholicity of their operations and the breadth of tbeir cosmopolitanism, as shown beforo the Credit Mobilier Committee of the House, when Dr. Durant said that he did not oara whethar the man he supported for olection was a Ecpublican or a Democrat, provided he was a good man 'f And now if you let them kuow that a niau who has purchased his soat bere, or for whom it has been purohased, with moncy( will bc secure in tho eujoyinent of the nroperty eo bought, I ask ym, wi)l not tTieir enterprise bo limited ouly by their desires 'i It is time that ve should face the dangers which Ihreaton thinrepublic. Hhua no ïiionaichiill ttadxtions, 110 pretenders of historio right to disturb i!s L'eposu and to plot its Qverthrow. It is not likelv to succumb to the shock of force. But there havo been república whose original Constitution was as healthv as ours, but which dicd after all of the Blower disaaso of corruption and demoralization, and that decat of Constitutional Jit'e and anarchy of power which always ;;o hand in hand with them. It is time for us to keep in mind that it requires more to make and preserve a republio than thu mero absence of a king, and that when a republic decaysits soul is apt to die first while its outward form may still be lastittg. I hope and trast that wo nre still fer froto thatpoint: but no candid obsorver will deny that there are symptoui3 of a niovemonï in tlmt directinn. But tuero aro symptoms ;ilso which inspiro thé hopo that tho dowmvnrd iiioveinont may soon bn ohecked, and tliat pcrhaps ecking has already eomm.meod. What is our office under oiroumstánctes likn these? This is tho Sonata of tho United Statos. Whon the American people struggle against the power of corruptiön, there Senate shoiild march in the front rank to leád fhe advtineingcoltitQlij Their Sënate should at least hold liih its standing of imrify and honor, which is to restore the waning confidehoe of the citizens tó tbe integrity of the law-rnaker& i-r pergoool disagreements, wliataarrelfl of party may divide us, this is higner than pcrsouul consideration.and thnn party, imliu this at lenst the ra of tho United States should bo unanimous. A Washington belle enn speak five lifferent laiignwgeSi hst (oulcin't bake n Ioaf of breud to save her lile.