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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 22
e system of terminal annuities resorted to in England when the government was under pressure to borhich such estates could be held together. Great Britain still retains that system, and great estats is an excellent way to borrow money, and in England the government issues annuities when it must ially driven from the ocean. The ports of Great Britain and its colonies had been made depots frome war to a dollar a pound. It must be had in England or the laborers of her cotton manufactories warve. The steamship builders of Scotland and England supplied large numbers of blockade runners ofration of President Grant. A commission from England was sent to Washington to negotiate it. A trereaty. I said our claims as a nation against England are simply incalculable, and the only negotia of statecraft, we should say in substance to England: You have done more against our country than to the point of asking proper reparation from England. We had allowed to us by the Geneva tribunal[4 more...]
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 22
commerce substantially from the seas. When the war broke out, America's commerce was the second largest in the world, and not far behind that of Great Britain. When the war closed, our flag had been substantially driven from the ocean. The ports of Great Britain and its colonies had been made depots from which arms, ammunition, and every manner of supplies were shipped to the Confederates. Not to any considerable extent was this the case with the ports of other nations, save, perhaps, of Cuba. It compelled us to establish, Wendell Phillips. at an enormous cost, and maintain for four years, blockading fleets whose business was simply to prevent the running in and out of Confederate ports of vessels loaded with arms, ammunition, provisions, and every class of smuggled goods. As I have stated before, Southern cotton had advanced from ten cents a pound at the beginning of the war to a dollar a pound. It must be had in England or the laborers of her cotton manufactories would s
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 22
rnmental system of terminal Annuities position on reconstruction United States should have had Canada for the Alabama claims you shall never be Governor of Massachusetts I will be Governor of Mas years of the war to that condition under which he put his blockading fleets. The Dominion of Canada was made a headquarters for the concoction and carrying out of all sorts of incursions upon our t you to remove yourself as far as possible from being our neighbor, and give up the province of Canada. You have been an exceedingly bad neighbor from the beginning, and we want you near us no more. Cede Canada to us and we will settle all difficulties and give you a clean release of all claims. Grant was impressed with my idea, but the bondholders changed his determination. They claimed th,000, reckoning interest, one third of which we had to pay back because our fishermen fished in Canadian waters, and this one third was claimed to be the value of the fish swimming in the sea we might
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
n the speech in which he did this, and it was the most amusing one I ever read. He said in substance:-- Fellow-citizens, I am accused of being an aristocrat. It is said that I wear white gloves. Well, I shall have to plead guilty to that last charge. I do wear white gloves for the purposes of society. You are told that I go about dressed in a very expensive, cleanly manner. I assure you, fellow-citizens, that when I was a young man, and was a sailor before the mast on the coast of California, it became a part of my labors to carry rawhides down the banks to the sea, and wash them, and put them on board the vessel, and I had to put them in a pit to do so, and when I was washing them and stamping out the filth, I assure you, fellow-citizens, I was as dirty as any of you. But how does my opponent live? If you will come down to my cottage at Manchester-by-the-Sea and visit me, I will take you in my one-horse wagon and drive you around the town and show you our beaches, which are
Indiana (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
the Republican State Committee, and as the Republican National Committee wanted my services in Indiana, and promised to Views at General Butler's home at Lowell. Library. take care of my distrerican industries, beside agriculture, were carried on, and I hoped very much that Hendricks of Indiana would be the man Upon a conference with him I said I would support him if nominated notwithstanding the platform, because I knew how a man from a State like Indiana would construe it. But the delegation of the State of New York carried the nomination of Mr. Cleveland by insisting upon voting ay throughout the campaign to this end. It was supposed that a fusion could be made in Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Jersey; the fusion was made in Michigan, and we voted a generous tickete of the two parties was to the electors, they were to be divided in the same proportion. In Indiana the fusion failed, those having charge of the fusion party in that State, for some reason never
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
t amount of circulation without redundancy; and as each legal-tender note is, as we have seen, a part of the debt secured by mortgage of the whole property of the United States, without depreciation. Our debt now is $2,500,000,000, about $2,200,000,000 of it interest-bearing. Suppose we issue our legal-tender greenbacks, as I will call them for convenience, and buy up or redeem our interest-bearing debt that is due to the amount of $1,000,000,000. Then our debt stands, James F. Wilson, Iowa. Geo. S. Boutwell, Mass. John A. Logan, El. Benj. F. Butler, Mass. Thaddeus Stevens, Penn. Thos. Williams, Penn. Jno. A. Bingham, Ohio: managers of the House of Representatives of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. $1,000,000,000 of non-interest-bearing debt, and $1,500,000,000 of interest-bearing debt. Now, if that $1,000,000,000 of circulation is too much, i. e., more than is needed for currency, I agree with the gentleman from Maine that it will be depreciated. But what is t
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
and directly called upon by the gentleman from Maine [Mr. Blaine] to reply in some small degree as paper — to thus hear me. The gentleman from Maine seeks in the first place to meet this great qu I disagree. It is because the gentleman from Maine attempts to meet this question, I respectfullyand when he comes in he and the gentleman from Maine can fight the battle out. I am quite certain text class of arguments that the gentleman from Maine puts forward on this question is the proposalsas wrong, without the dictum of my friend from Maine [Mr. Blaine]. I did not say that Salmon P. Chant. five-twenty loan (which the gentleman from Maine contends was payable in gold) he says only somess of the country; because the gentleman from Maine tells them that the government will pay the pr for currency, I agree with the gentleman from Maine that it will be depreciated. But what is too shall be that exact loan which my friend from Maine yesterday thought would be so absurd — a loan [12 more...]<
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
ama claims you shall never be Governor of Massachusetts I will be Governor of Massachusetts anMassachusetts and he becomes Governor that council Tewksbury the Fast-day proclamation Appointees Harvard CollEvarts of New York, Judge B. R. Curtis, of Massachusetts, Judge Nelson, of Tennessee, and other genem. Mr. Blaine. Will the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Butler] allow me to read one sentence war by saying that I would be governor of Massachusetts. I then came to the conclusion that I coure is one other thing that the governor of Massachusetts by long custom and law can do, and that isPeirce, Secretary. God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Now, be it known that the goodtlemen who occupied many of the pulpits in Massachusetts were quite active politicians, and it was ver been appointed to a judicial office in Massachusetts, and a vacancy occurring on the bench in tt degree to the President who should visit Massachusetts during his term of office, and it was give[16 more...]
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
etting enough electoral votes for the fusion ticket. I labored assiduously throughout the campaign to this end. It was supposed that a fusion could be made in Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Jersey; the fusion was made in Michigan, and we voted a generous ticket with the understanding that the electors should represenMichigan, and we voted a generous ticket with the understanding that the electors should represent the respective parties to the fusion in the proportion of the votes cast by each — that is, if the Democrats cast one half the vote they were to have one half the electors, and the greenbackers were to have the other half, or whatever the relative vote of the two parties was to the electors, they were to be divided in the same pat in the campaign of 1888 I made a single speech in Boston in behalf of the tariff, and I repeated that speech at Detroit, at the request of President Harrison. Michigan was regarded as a doubtful State, as another attempt was being made to have a fusion between the Democrats and greenbackers in that campaign, such as was carried
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
party won, the preservation of the tariff was assured. I thought I would see, by a fusion of the greenback party and the Democrats in the Western States and in New Jersey and New York, if enough votes could not be procured to prevent the election of Mr. Cleveland by getting enough electoral votes for the fusion ticket. I labored assiduously throughout the campaign to this end. It was supposed that a fusion could be made in Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, and New Jersey; the fusion was made in Michigan, and we voted a generous ticket with the understanding that the electors should represent the respective parties to the fusion in the proportion of thediana the fusion failed, those having charge of the fusion party in that State, for some reason never explained to me, having given way. In West Virginia and in New Jersey the fusion also failed. The only hope was then in my drawing enough votes from the Democratic party from the State of New York to prevent its throwing its vote
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