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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



are we poverty-stricken with the greatest crop? 179; a 

 substitute offered for the bill, 179 ; the bill under consid- 

 eration means downright repudiation, 179 ; strange mis- 

 takes made by the preceding Speaker, 179 ; more green, 

 backs in use three weeks ago than in any time from 1868 

 to 1873, 180; the railroad mania, 180; that fatal issue of 

 greenbacks in 1873,180; the banks are expanding, 180; 

 a mistake to say there is no money in the West, 180 ; I 

 denounce the bill the issue admits of no compromise, 

 181 ; the national integrity shall not be sacrificed, 181 ; 

 extracts from the press, 181 ; their meaning, 181 ; this 

 bill justifies the most serious apprehensions, 181; the 

 greenback is the most powerful enemy our country has 

 ever encountered, 182; the indications all point to the 

 greenback as the rallying -cry of the most aggressive ele- 

 ments of society, 182. 



It is wrong for productive labor to conspire against cor- 

 porations, against bondholders, against capital, 182; the 

 act demonetizing silver was the most deliberate and in- 

 excusable fraud upon labor known in the legislative his- 

 tory of the world, 182 , object of Germany and the United 

 States in demonetizing silver, 183 ; this money power was 

 not content with the demonetization of silver, 183 ; if the 

 greenback currency sustained the country during the war, 

 it is more a necessity now than then, 183; we should 

 learn something from history, 184 ; the resemblance be- 

 tween the financial policy of .this Government and Eng- 

 land is impressive, 184 ; the objects of contraction, 185 ; 

 its effects on the country, 185 ; it is said the panic came 

 before the resumption act passed, 185 ; extract from the 

 report of the Silver Commission, 185; every millionaire 

 is opposed to repeal, 185; the ruinous work of contrac- 

 tion goes on, 186; what is the cause of the disease which 

 has brought so much distress on the country ? 186 ; the 

 financial policy now prevailing, 18(5 ; another evil has been 

 contraction in a wonderful degree, 186 ; then there is an- 

 other thing breach of faith, 187 ; the question before the 

 country is between paper and bank credits, 187; upon 

 what demands do we propose to resume gold payments ? 

 187 ; where are we to obtain an adequate amount of gold ? 

 188 ; the Geneva award was not brought here in gold, 

 188; the British Indian loan, 188; the amount of gold 

 necessary to maintain specie payments is not in posses- 

 sion, 188; you can not resume gold payments, 188; 

 what do you propose to do with that great structure, the 

 currency, production, and trade of the United States ? 

 188; attempting an impossibility, 189; the laws of trade 

 can not be controlled by the wisest and most potential 

 of governments, 189 ; the millions cry for the privilege 

 of work, 189 ; the greenback currency is a forced loan, 

 189 ; now what are the obstacles to resumption ? 190 ; 

 how is it we want twice the amount of currency we had 

 in 1860 ? 190; historical reference to France, 190 ; how is 

 it in England, the great business of commerce and trade 

 is done by drafts ? 190 ; so much for the difference be- 

 tween the habits of France and those of the Anglo Saxon, 

 191; it is assumed that specie payments will injure the 

 debtor class of the country, 191 ; the bondholders are as- 

 sailed as the rich men who oppress the poor, 191 ; suppose 

 you undo the work attempted, what will result ?192 ; in the 

 passage from peace to war there was a great loss, 192 ; 

 our country needs not only a national but an internation- 

 al currency, 192 ; the struggle now pending is on the one 

 hand to make the greenback better, and on the other to 

 make it worse, 192 ; this is the era of purification, 192. 



After nearly three years of preparation, what have we 

 accomplished ? 193 ; futile to hope we can maintain re- 

 sumption, 193 ; it can be maintained only by the destruc- 

 tion of the greater part of the present paper currency, 

 193 ; the bank circulation must also be largejy reduced, 



193; this is the storm-cloud that covers our heavens, 

 193 ; business distress was least when the currency was 

 fullest, 194; the return to prosperity was stopped by 

 this resumption law, 194 ; what is the extent of the in- 

 jury thus inflicted ? 194 ; consider the wrong done to in- 

 dividual debtors by this contrived shrinkage of values, 

 194; the bill as amended, 195; the bill passed, 195. 



In the Senate, the bill reported from the Finance Com- 

 mittee with an amendment to strike out all after the 

 enacting clause and insert, etc., 195; the insertion, 195; 

 its amendment, 196 ; bill passed by the Senate, 196. In 

 the House a motion to suspend the rules and concur in 

 the Senate amendment, lost, 196. 



In the Senate, the bill making appropriations for the 

 support of the army considered, 196; details of the bill, 

 196 ; the 29th section against employing the army as a 

 posse comitatus, 197; recommendation to strike out, 

 197 ; amendment proposed and agreed to, 197 ; motion 

 to strike out considered, 197 ; a very important matter, 

 197 ; useless legislation, 197 ; explanation of the meaning, 

 198; opinions of Attorney- Generals, 198; object of the 

 section to limit the use of the army by marshals to cases 

 where bylaw they are authorized to call for them, 198; 

 where exists to-day the grievance which this provision 

 of law is intended to correct, 198 ; it is rather a singular 

 statute to pass to say that the army shall not be used for 

 the purpose of executing the laws under any circum- 

 stances unless authorized by act of Congress or the Con- 

 stitution, 199 ; provisions of the Constitution and law 

 examined, 199 ; other criticisms on the section, 199. 



It seems to be presumed that the laws of the United 

 States executed whenever physical force is necessary to 

 that end, by the use of the army, 200 ; suppose a collector 

 about to seize an illicit distillery is resisted, where is the 

 aid to come from from the body of citizens, the posse 

 comitatw, not from the army, 200; the arrest of the 

 slave in Boston, 200 ; proceeding under the Constitution 

 and laws it will be very seldom when such power will 

 have to be employed, 200 ; if statutes seem to authorize 

 it, it does not imply that they harmonize with the Con- 

 stitution, 201 ; illustration of the strikes, 201 ; the army 

 can not be used as a posse comitatus, 201 ; the posse 

 comitatus belongs to the civil power, not to the mili- 

 tary, 201 ; can a -sheriff call in a battery of Federal ar- 

 tillery to suppress a mob ? 202 ; as an army or as sol- 

 diers they would have no right or authority to answer 

 the demand of the sheriff, 203 ; it is time the country 

 should see the distinction between civil authority and 

 military authority, 203; you can never make a sound 

 argument by supposing extreme cases, 203 ; the courts 

 through their civil officers alone technically have author- 

 ity to execute the law, 204 ; proceedings until the army 

 is legally called in, 204; insurrections and domestic 

 violence are not sectional in their character, 204 ; when- 

 ever the idea obtains that you need a military power to 

 govern the great body of the people of this country, you 

 have given up the fundamental theory of your system of 

 government, 204; the amendment proposes only a verbal 

 alteration of the section, 205 ; different views of Senators, 

 205 ; should we not define for what purposes the army 

 may be used, and for what not used? 205; this section 

 creates a crime, 205; it is the duty of the Government 

 of the United States to see that we have free passage- 

 way through all the States, 206 ; the intention of this 

 section, 206 ; all human force in this country is regulated 

 by law, 206 ; why we affirm this to the army, 206 ; an 

 affront to the army and to the Administration, 207 ; pro- 

 poses new and extravagant penalties for violation of 

 duty, 207; if the acts referred to are unlawful there are 

 punishments provided for them which are sufficient, 



