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VOLUME XXXYIL
When the moon's paid light is gently fading,
And the veil of night la,darkly shading,
Our hearts will tremble and sorrow suppress;
To think of our hopcii that were,early blighted,
Our homes now dark, that once were lighted
' With the bright beaming glow of happiness.
Oh boon more precious to man than gold,
My pen can never thy beauties unfold,
Nor teach thee to linger my heart to caress;
The laurels that cleave to thy beautiful crown
May be worn by the peasant or men of renownk
But how may I win thee, sweet Lankness I,
They tell me to seek thee on the ocean wave,
And some nif point to the deep, dark cave,
Where solitude lingers—how sad to expressi
There the hearts of the victims seem lOck'd in
despair,
And mindSseem to wander, like phantoms of air,
Ye, Gods : this is never—true happiness.
*here contentment reigns in perfect sway;
From beautiful morn 'till close of day, •
With outstrtiiched arena. ready to bleu;
Each heart that pines with a load of sorrow,
'lt il l it - cheer up for the bright to-morrow—
This is true pleasure-11s happiness,
Something In your tone will tell,
- -Dear, I love you, love you well,'•
Something In your eyes will shine
Fairer tl&a they look In Enloe.
In your speech some sliver words,
• Tuning Into sweet nceord
Alt your bluntness will reseal,
•
Unaware; the love yOu feel.
-
If yon love me, thea, • l
Tell me not, but day by day, ,
Let love silent on me rise,
Like the sun In summer skies.
—S•ptonLer Atlantic.
•
f you or I
To-day should die,
'The birds would sing:as sweet to-nforrow;
The vernal spring
ller floweri vvoilld bring,
And few would think of u. 4 with sorrow.
, Yes', he l dead,
-
v Wouhl lheliie3 said:
The corn trouhl floss, the grass yield hay,
The ;Jattlif. low.
And ,anutner g",
And tow would heed us pass away
Ilow soon we pass:
How few, alas:
Itcnvqnbor thosesrlio turn to mold;
IVLose face 3 Cede
. Wlth aut nut zi•A. shade,
Neneath the sedd,;(l cluncllyard cold
'We eotiv.! 3111 i go--
They'tall our birth, they mourn t:s (lead
A day or more,
TM.2
Another takes our phiee instead
.7 illy fri."76
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
SPEEOH DELIVERED AT COOPER IN
STITUTE, NEW "Int CITY, MON
DAY EVENING, SEPT. 11TH,
ON THE GREAT'ISSUES
OF THE DAY.
SEW=
Jan. 1, 1875
'LAMES ANT) GENTLEMEN : I am
just on my way home from the gallant
State of Maine, and. there has follow
ed me a telegraphic: lispatch which I
will read to you. Nheers.] If it
was not good, you ?may swear I
would not read it. [Laughter.]
EICEECM!!!
`• Every l',mgress:ottil - di,trict, every county In
MauLt.pahiMan be a large majority. ,Cheers,
and cries of-*That is reform.•.; The victory Is
, Jeertvlietrulng : and the majority will. I think, cx
reed fifteen thcu.:and.•'
A Voice—We are on the home
stretch. [Laughter.]
Mr. Ingersoll—That dispatch is
signed by that knight errant of po
litical chivalry, James G. Blaine.
[cheers.]
friends, two policical parties
ale asking the votes of this people;
one wishes to retain the power that
-it . has hekl for sixteen years, the oth
er wisheS office. [Laughter.] The
Democratic party,- with the 'hungry,
starving eyes of a wolf, has been
lookin ,, at the national Capitol and
scratching at the doors of the White
Blouse for sixteen years. [Laughter.]
Occasionally it has retiml to some
congenial eminence and lugubriously
howled about the Constitution.
[Cheers and laughter.] The Repub
liCan party comes to you with its
record open, and asks every IMin,
woman and child in this broatt coun
try to read its every word ; and I say
to you. there is not a line, a para
graph, or a page in that record that
's not only an honor to the Republi
can party, but to the human race.
[Cheers.] - On every page of that
record is recorded some great and
:gloriOns action done either for , the
'liberty (if man or thy preservation of
our common country; [Applause.]
We ask everybody to read its every
word. The Democratic party comes
before you with its record closed, a
record of blot and blur, and stain and
treason, and slander and malignity,
and asks you not to read a solitary
Word of what it has done, but be
kind enough to .take its infamous
proMise for. what it will do. - Allow
me to,say here that eharacter=good
character—rests upon a:record, and
not:npon a prOspectus. (Applause.]
A man has got a good or a bad char
acter by what he has really done, by_
what he has really accomplished, and
not by what he promises. to do. If
promises would make a good reputa
tion;
.
Sathuel J. Tilden and the Dem
ocratic party would have one in
- twenty-four hours. [Laughter.] 1
propose to tell you this evening, my
friends,.a little of. the history pf the
Republican party, and a little of the
histo of the Democratic party, and
M try
Ohe Repuhllenh potty"
TOWANDA. PA
Original goehr.
=l=l3
HAPPINESS.
sr
J. C. MANN
411 fitithlV.
IF YOU LOVE NE
If yOu love Me, tell me not;
Let tnlehil it to your thought;
Let me , feel It in the way
That you say me yea and nay:
Let rue see It In your eye
When yeti greet or pass me by;
Let me bear It In UM tone
Meant fc;r nie and me alone.
If you here me, there will be
Soleethteg only I shall N'T:
Meet or tniss, stay or go,
It you love me, I shall know.
In your Mien some touch of grace,
Sonic 'stria smileittpou your face
While you speak uoi, will betray
IVbat your lips could scarcely say.
HOW SOON FORGOT
Yes, it is so—
difiraL
The United States of America is
a free county ; it is, the only free
country upon this earth, it is the only
republic that was • ever established
among men. We have read, we have
heafd or the Republic of Greece, of
Egypt, of Venice; we have heard of
the free cities of Europe. There nev
er was a republic in Venice, there
never was a republic in Rome, there
never was a republic in Athens,ther.!
'never was a free city in Europe., there
never was a Government not Cursed
with caste, there never was a Gov
ernment• not cursed with slavery,
there never was ..1; Government not
cursed with almost every infamy un
til the Republican party Of the Unit
ed States made this a free nation.
[Cheers.],'' I want no grander, no
higher title of nobility than this,
that I belong to the Republican par
ty and did a little toward, making
this Republican party a fact. la.or
der to ascertain what the Republican
party did for us—for mean to
refresh ourselves, for we all know. it,
but it is well enough •to say it now
and then in order to refresh ourselves.
In order to imderstand
. what, this
great party has accomplished, let us
for a moment consider the state of
the country when the Republican
party was born. When the Republican
party was born, there was on the Stat
ute Book of the United States of
America, a law known as the Fugi
tive Slave Law of • 1850, under the
provisions of which every man in the
State of New York was made by law
a blood hound; and Could
,beset,
could be hissed' upon a negro, who
was simply attempting to attain his
birtkright of freedom, the same as
yotilvould hiss a dog • upon a wild
beast That was the Fugitive law of
1850. F. It made every man, every
Northern man, It dog; • it put round
his ilea a - collar, and they did not
have the decency - to put the mart's
name on the collar, but they put, the
name of his master. I have raid it in
the State of Maine several times, and
I expect to say it several times again,
although I heard I outraged the re
ligious sentiment of the Democratic
party and shoc c ked.the piety of that
organization V saying it—[Laugh
tell—l did say there, and I now say
here, that the Fugitive Slave Law of
18 - ,0 would have disgraced hell in
her pahniest days. [Laughter] At
the same ; time in nearly all the-West
ern:States there was a law by virtue
of *Welt, hospitality beCame an in
dictable offerise. There was a law by
virtue of which charity became a
crime, and a'rian, simply for an act
of kindness exercised, could ; be in
dicted, imprisoned and fined. It was
the law of Illinois, of my State, that
if I gave a drop of, cold water, or a
crust of bread - to a poor fugitive
fimit slavery,
.:conid be indicted,
fiaed.and impriioned. Under the in
famous Slave law of 1850,, under the
inf . :goons black laws of the' Western
Stares where the Republican party
was born, if a womaa, ninety-nine
one-hundredths white, had escaped
from slavery, carrying her child in
her arms, had gone through wilder
ness and tangle and swamp and river,
and linallr got within one foot of
free soil, with the light of the North
star, beckoning her to freedom, it
'would have been an indictable offense
to have given her a drop of water
awl a crust of bread ? . And under
the .Fugitive Slave law it was the du
ty of a Northern citizen claiming to
ha a freeman to clutch that woman
and hand her back tei the dominion
of the hound, the Democrat and the
lash. [Cheers.] . What more? The
institution of slavery had polluted
and corrupted the Church, not -only
in the South, but a large proportion
of the Church in the North; so that
ministers stood up in their pulpits
here and in New England and de
fended the very laws that I have
mentioned. Not only so, but the
Presbyterian Church South in 1863
mtt -in General Synod, and passed
three resolutions, two of which were:
"/?(6 , 0,'p.d, That slavery is a divine
institution; • .11eolved, That God
raised 'up the Presbyterian Church
to protect and perpetuate that insti
tution."' • All I have to say is that if
God (lid it he never chose a more in
famous instrument to carry out a
more diabolical object. [Laughter.]
What more had slavery done ? It
ha(Lcorrupted our courts so that in
nearly every State in the Union if a
Democrat had gone to the hut of a
poor negro and shot down his wife
and children-before his very eyes and
strangled the baba in the cradle, his
testimony was valueless, and he was
not allowed to appear before a Grand
Jur3,• and prosecute the wretch. Jus
tice to him was not only blind, but it
was (leaf, and that Was the idea of
justice in the United States when Op'
Republican party was' born.
BIRTH 6i , TILE REPUbLICAN PARTY.
When that party was bOrn the bay
of the blood-hound was the music of
the nation. The dome of the Capitol
at Washington east its shadow upon
slave pens in which crouched and
shi?ddered mothers froM whose hearts
bakes had been torn by wretches who
arc now fur honesty and reform.
Then if a poor negro had tilled a
farm and watered it with the sweat
of honest labor; and if a Democrat
came along and seized upon the result
of his labor the cGtirts of tide United
States did' not know to whom that
corn belonged. [Cheers.] And when
that question came to be tried the
learned judges read' all the books and
all the . platforms of the Democratic
partY, and pushed their spectacles
back on their noble and expansive
foreheads, and came to. the conclu
sion that the Democrats owned that
corn. [Laughter and applause,] At.
the time the Republican party came
into existence, slavery' was not satis
fied with'being local, but endeavored
to use its infamous leprosy, as it were,
for pushing it into every territory of
the United StateS. , Recollect the
condition or the country at that time.
Boats went down the. Mississippi
River loaded with wives' : torn from
their husbands, with children torn
from the - breasts of their mothers,
while the same men who did this are
now shouting for Tilden and Reform.
[Great applause.] At that time we
were . a nation of hypocrites. , We
pretended to be a free governinent.
It was a lie. We pretended to have
a free Constitution. °lt was a lie. We
fir4.ettslett to . Lute Justiee in our
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TOWANDA, BRADFORD OUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28; 1876.
courts.' It was n lie. Above nil our
pretenses, and above all our hypocri
sies rose the crime of slavery like
Chimborazo, above the clOuds.
[Great" applause.] The Republican
party came into existence in 1860,
when it , elected Abraham Lincoln,
the greatest man that was everPrea
ident of the United - States. [Ap
plause] As soon' as he was - elected
the SOuth said : We will not stay
in the Union." The South said:
"You have no 'right to elect a man
'opposed to the extension of huirian
slavery," and James Buchanan said H
that they bad a right to go out of
the' Union, and there was another
little man who said, "I say so too,"
and his name was - Samuel J. Tilden.
[Great applause.] Ile read the Con
stitution of the United States and
several Democratic platforms, and
decided that the GOvernMent had no
right to do anything but defend. it
self. Recollect that &Imes- Buchanan
was an old - bachelor not only, but a
Democrat. [Laughter and applause.]
Recollect - that and saY to yourselves,
" Why should we . ever trust a; man
and elect him President of the United
States who prefers the eMbraces of
the Democratic party to the salvation
of the country ?" [Applause and
laughter.] Now, in view of this fact,
Lwant every man to swear that he
never {vill vote for an -old bachelor
fur': President again. [Applause.]
The Democrats claimed that this was
not a nation, it wai simply a confetti .
eracy, and that the old banner of the
stars represented a contract com
mencing with : " Know all men by
these presents, that this don't repre
sent a great and glorious and sublime
. people, ' put it simply represents a
confederacy." That was the doctrine
of the Democratic party South. It
was the doctrine of the Democratic
party North. It is still the doctrine
of the Democratic party North ands
South. [Applause.] The Dema
cratic party in the South collected
themselves together for the purpose
Of breaking up this Union. The Re
publican party said to them, " You
try to break up this Union and we
will break jour necks," and they did
it. [Applause.] The Republican
party came into power upon the heels
of the Buchanan Administration.
The Treasury was as empty of coin
as the Democratic party was of pat
riotisM and honor. We had to bor
row money of whom we could. • We
-had fro issue bonds and greenbacks.
What for Why, to buy shot and
shell and musket and cannon to shoot
enough Democrats to save the Union.
[Great applause.] There 'was a
vision then forced upon the people Of
the country, 'not into Democrat's and
Republicans, but into patriois and
traitors; arid thousands and thou
sands went out of, the Democratic
party to put down the rebellion.
[Applause.] But every one who thus
went into tnB service of the country
were known as Republicans'and those .
who were against the government
were known as Democrats. [4 .:
plause.] These Democrats 'went into
the markets of the world;: and they
maligned and they slandt3red these
efforts to raise money to Sustain the
government in its time of trial. They
said; "Your bonds can never be paid,
and your greenbacks are unconstitu
tional, and to such an extent did they
so 'slander and malign and calumni
atethe government that at one time
gold was 29(, wkiich meant that a
greenback yea worth thirty-four
cents on the dollir. Where were the
other sixty-six cents ? . They were
slandered and calumniated. out by
the Democratic party: of the North.
[Applause.] Two-thirds of the causes
which have brought about the pros
tration of 'American industry to-day
are to betrAced to th 6 Democratic
party of the North, (Applause,) and
every titne*u workbw men blister
your hands to' , pay a debt, take_ oil
the blister, and under it you will find
a Democratic lie. (Great applause.)
The Republican party has done noth
ing for sixteen years that , it is not
'proud of. The Democratic party has
done nothing for sixteen years'that
it is. not ashamed of. (Applause.)
The Republican party has not done
one thing that was not for the public
interests of the government for six
teen years. (Applause.) The history
of the Democratic party is an epitaph.
(Applause.) The DemoCratic party
to-day is searching around in the old
political cemetery of the by-gone
ages for a standard-bearer. They
have raised up that old cemetery
reminiseence,Charles Francis Adams,
(laughter and'applause,) who had his
henchmen at Cincinnati hoping that
he would =get the nomination from
the Republican party there, and who
was equally, willing to take it at St.
'Louis, and who was,also willing to
'be the nominee of the Republican
party in Massachusetts, but finally
the Dethocratic party,. wishing for
some evidence of respectability, and
knowing that no live man would lend
his name to them for a moment, have
groped in. this old cemetery for re
spectability and have fished out Mr.
Adams. t4aughter and applause.)
The law against violating the sacred
ness of the tomb ought to be enforced.
(Laughter.) The Democratic party
was not willing that this country
should be saved unless' slavery could.
be saved with it. There was neter a
Democrat North or South—and by
that I mean those who were opposed
to the • Union---:Who did not„ -think
more of the existence of slavery than
of the government of the Unito
States. (Applause.) They made 'a
breastwork of the Constitution- for
rebels 'to get behind and shoot down
loyal' men. (Cries of "bravo," and
applause.) The next thing they did'
was to discouiage enlistments in the
sorth. They did all in their, power
to prevent men from going into the
army, and that great statesman Sam
uel J. Tilden gave_ it its his opinion
'that the South could sue, and that
every soldier:that put his foot- on the
sacred soil of the South would be-a
trespasser and could be sued before
a Justice of the Peace. (Hisses.)
They denou:eil the war as an aboli
tion war in 'their tonventiotis, 'and
they denounced Abraham Lincoln RR
a tyrant. Of all the `men on earth
who have been clothed with nearfy
absolute power, Abraham Lincoln
was-one; and I know Of no man liv
ing or in history who used that pow
er without abusing it, 'except on the
MO' of ?limp (Appleusel). Thu,
REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
said to the rebels, " Hold on, hold
: s hard ; fight until ire get political pos
session' of the. North, and then you
'Can go In peace." (A pplause.)
' . IIOW DEMOCIIATASSI.f3TEp THE REBELS.
,
There was a ' man by the naine of
Jacob ThompSon, a very nice man
and a good Democrat. (Applause
and laughter.). This man had the
misfortune to' be a very vi g orous
Democrat, and I mean by that that
(luring the war a Democrat who had
a musket was a rebel, and a rebel
that did not have a• musket was a
Democrat .; (Applause.) I call Mr:
Thompson a vigorous Democrat/be--
causehe did not have a musket. He
was sent by the rebel government as
'Altair agent to Canada. When he
went there he took with him between
seven and eight thousand dollars- for
the purpose of assisting the Northern
Democracy. He got himself acquaint- 1
ed with the Democratic party in
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The vig
orous Democrats or real Democrats
of those cities had organized them
selves under the heads of " Sons of
Liberty," , " Knights of the, GOlden
Circle," . " Order of the
. Star,"' and
various other names. They held
meetings in Chicago, Indianapolis'
and St. Louis, their object being to
raise fires in those places,—in other
words to burn. down the homes of
Union soldiers while they . ', - were in
the field fighting for the preservation
.of the country. ' This was_their ob
ject, and they immediately 'put them
selves in connection with Jacob,
Thompson. On the 16th of August,
1864, they held a meeting in Peoria,
and there were Democrats there from
every part of the State. In- that
meeting a letter was read received
from. Hon. Fernando Wood, of. New
. York, of, whom I think you,. have
'heard, in which he said although not
present in body he was there in_ Spirit.
George Pendleton, William Pugh,
and other prominent gentlemen sent
their apologies and re7ets. I - was at
that meeting and read some *of the
apologies. - - They denounced the war
as an abolition war; they denounced
Americans; as tyrants. They said'
rouse brothers and hurl tht tyrant
Lincoln from his throne. The men
who made speeches' at that meeting
are now running for the most im
portant political offices in Illinois to
(fay on the ticket of ".Honesty and
Reform." Jacob Thompson wrote,
home, and we find his 'letter in the
rebel archivei, and he describes the
Meeting and says that he furnished
the money to pay the expenses of
that DemoCratic meeting. The ex
pelises of that meeting were paid by
rebel gold by Jacob Thompson, and
he has got filed a=Voucher or receipt
from these Democrats, who are now
in favor of Tilden and Hendricks.
They 'held their next meeting in
Springfield, the next in Indianapolis,
all the expenses of which were paid
by this rebel agent. • They went. fur
ther, and shipped. to these towns
arms for these rebels, in boXes mark
ed Sunday-school books. (Hisses.)
I said the expenses of these Demo=
cratic meetings were paid by rebel
money, and their object.was to burn
the 'homes of soldiers while they were
battling for the equality of human
lives: This rebel agent hired another
rebel 'agent by the name of Churchill.
He tried lo burn Cincinnati, and. is
now a good Democrat; (Laughter.)'
At Indianapolis a man by the untie
of Dodge was made one of their par
ty, and he became so sound that' they
were obliged to put him in Fort La
fayette. (Laughter.) The Demo
crats then met in Chicago, and, among
'other things declared the war' to be r
a failure. There never was, friends,
a more infamous lie told on the' face
of the earth. (Applause.) It was
only a few days afterward that the
guns of Farragut and the achieve
ments of the men in the field said
they lied. (Tremendous applause.) .
Soldiers Who fell in support of this
country, rise from your graves and
lift your skeleton hands on high and
swear that when the Democratic par
ty uttered theie words they lied.
(Applause.)
We then grew magnanimous and
led Dodge
,out of Fort Lafayette.
Where do you suppose Dodge is
now? He is in WiscDnsin. What
'do you suppose he is doing ? Making
speeches. Who for and what for ?
Tilden, and Hendricks, honesty and
reform.' [Laughter.] This same.
Jacob Thompson whom the Demo 4
cratic party shielded—this same man
hired men to barn down the city of
New York. Right in this great- and
splendid city of . .Teiv York, that. sits
so like a queen on the Atlantic, men
rose up in mobs to burn down asy
buns, simply because their walls
sheltered, the: offspring of another
race Every one who raised his hand
agiiinSt these institutions should have
had his brains crushed to atoms. It
was a disgrace to humanity
[Applause.] Every man that was in
that mob is to-night fir honesty and
reform. (Applause.)
Recollect, my.friends, that it was
the Denioeratic party that did these
devilish things When the great heart
of the North was filled with agony
and grief. Recollect that they did
these things when the ftiture of your
country and
. mine was trembling in
the Valance of war; recollect that
they did these things when the ques
tion was liberty, or slavery and perish ;
recollect that they did these things
when your brothers, husbands and
dear one ..sirere bleeding or dying on
the battlO fields of the South, lying
their,alone at night, the blood slowly
oozing through the wounds of death ;
when your brothers; husbands, and
sons were lying in the hospitalsdream
ing of Lome-pictures they loved.
Recollect that the 'Democracy did
these things when those dear to you
were in the prison-pens,.' with no
covering by night except the sky,
with no food but what the worms re
fusekwith no friends except insanity
and death. (Applause.)
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Now;My-friends, I have said afew
things„ to you about the Republican
:party and a few things about the
Democratic party. With a few .more
words I will quit this branch of tha
subject. Allow me to say that the
platform or the Republican party is
as broad as this continent. In other
word% 'lt Is as broad as humanity
Divehi Pcpplatiseg It - Ash nil to
come and help and to join who are in
favor of human advancement. It is
broad enough for Catholics, for old.
school Presbyterians, for Methodists,
and for infidels, provided they-are in
avor of humah rights—[applause]--
and the Republican party in its Mag.
nanimity,goes even further ; it is will-.
ing that the Democrat should Vote
its ticket. Bcynnd that magnanimity
cannot go. [Laiiighter and appluuse.l
The Republicans believe in giving
every man the result . of the labor of
his hands, will allow every man to do
his own 'thinking and express his
thoughts, whatever they may be. In
the Republican way there is room for
every one. [Applause.] Now then,
my friends, the first 'question which
is upon us is about - paying that debt
which we contracted for powder with
which to shoot these Democrats, and
the next is about protecting the
citizens of this country, both white
and black. We Owe a large debt,
two-thirds 'of it, tus - j tell you, catised
by the action and - .!,measnrqs of the
Democratic party/ Recollect that
,always. -There. arAome people who
have an idea that we can defer the
fulfillment of a promise so long that
it will amount to a fulfillment. {Ap
plause.] There arc some people who
have an idea that the Government
can make money by stamping its
sovereignty upon a piece of paper.
The Government of-the United States
is a perpetual pauPCr. It passes the
hat all the time, and it hits a musket
behind the hat. [Applause.] But
at the same time it produces nothing
itselfrecolleet that—it produces
nothing itself. The Government don%
plow the land, the Government don't
make the bricks,. _the Got'ernment
don't .chop down the trees b:nd saw
them into lumber. The Government
is a perpetual pauper, and the ,
Government cannot support the pee;:
pie, but the people have to. support
the Goiernment. The idea that the'
Government can issue money for the
people to live upon is the same as the
idea that my hired man can issue
certificates of' my indebtedness to
him for me to live on. [Laughter
and applause.] The United States
got broke. It had no money.
have beerf o , I think, fixed that way a
hundred Limes. Then it did as I did.
It had to go and borrow money, and
every gre4iback was a forced loan.
The only difference between that 'of
the United States and mine is that
mine is not a legal - tender. If I had
the power: 1 would have made they.
so. We borrowed the money and we
have got to pay it. And the delft
represents the loss inflicted upon the
country by the war. That is all—by
by the war. All the powder burned,
all the shots thrown, all the horses,
guns, and everything in the aggregate
is represented by our debt as so much
loss, and we will never be a sol Vent
people until,our net profits since the
war shall amount to, as mach as we
lost daring. the war. Then we arc a
square, solvent people. [Applause.]
The than that can't understand that,
thereis no need. of talking to on any
subject. [Laughter.] This debt is to
he paid. [Applause.] As a matter of
fact we ought to make the Democrats
pay it. [-Applause.] They lost the,
case. (Laughter and applause.) They
ought to pay for it. All we ask is
that they pay their,.share. and I tell
you that it is going to he paid. There
is, in the first place, to secure that
debt' a mortgage on a continent of
laud. There is a mortgage on the
,Republican party. (Applause.) AlSo
every blade of grass growing in the
United States is a guarantee that the
debt shall be paid. Every ear of
corn is -a guarantee that the debt
shall be paid. Every hill is a guar
antee that the debt shall be paid:
Every pine tree growing in the
sombrelordst is a guarantee that the
debt Shall be paid. Every thought is
a guarantee that the debt shall be
paid. And all the Coal put away in
the ground by the old miser the sun
is a gnarantee that the debt shall be
paid. (Applause.) And all the gold
and silver in the Sierra Nevadas
waiting for the miner's pick is a
guarantee that the debt shall be paid,
anti every good man, and every good
woman, every babe in the cradle, and
all the boys and girls bending over
their books at school, and every chap
that is goinc , to Vote the Republican
ticket is a guarantee that the debt
shall be paid. (Applause.). Why,
don't you see, it keeps coming, it
keeps coming—(as a telegram was
handed to him)—l have been. in that
country. •I have seen talking to this
people. •
"We have triumphed tl an Immense majority.
carrying every Congresshmal district and every
emnity fu our State, something we have nut nettles
ed:sinee ISIS
(The atidience then gave three
rousing cheers and a tiger for James
G. Blaine, by whom the dispatch was
signed.)'
And this dispatch is signed by that
man who clutched Um, Confederate
Congress by the throat and held
them until their foreheads became as
their records and until their tongues
spoke out like tdag3 of truce. This
is signed by James G. Blaine.
(Cheers.) Now, then, the question
is who is most apt to fulfill it, the
pal ty who made it and swore it was
constitutional nrollegal, or the party
that swore it was not constitutional?
Every time a Democrat 'or a. rebel
sees a greenback it says to him, "1
am one of 'the host that vanquished
you ;" and every time a Bepublican
sees a greenback-it says to hito, "You
and 1 put the i rebellion • down."
(Cheers.)
TILDEN'S ESSAY ON FINANCE.
.Now there is a gentleman by. the
name of Tilden who has written au
essay upon finance. Some peOple
call it a letter of acceptance. [Laugh
ter.] -Let me say here that under the
circumstances I don't think it proper
to say anything of-Mr. Tilden pt rT
sOnally. He is under the, shadow, as
I understand it, of a great grief and
son ow ; his, brotlter , has • recently
died, and so 4. shall orly speak of his
political action: • ; [Cheers.] 'With
Samuel as a man I 'sincere
ly sympathize; with Samuel Til
den as a politician do not. Now,
we have been told in this. essay that
one of the great. preventatives of
paying this debt is having a time
liked when to pay it.' 1 hare never
Ashen any notes that. I recollect Of
that there was riot something said in
the write Oent when !M tv he'reidi
„
and I had always supposed that it
was an exceedingly - . ;imPortant.part
of the note that there be at least an
indirect, allusion to some age or epocl •4
at which the maker thereof propoSed
to liquidate the aforesaid note.,.
I find all this time I Uve been mis
taken and that; nothing in the world.
will prevent it being paid so quick hs
to have.the date fixed when it is to
be paid. Tilden says the. reason of
this is that you cannot - pays note
without wise preparation, and a wise
system of preparation, and to have a
date fixed plays the very devil; with
this wise preparation. [Laughter."
He also tells me that it is necessary
to have a central reservoir of coin,
and that if you fix the date the res
ervoir is an' impossibility. He also,
tells me that you must approach this
thing by a slow and gradual process,
and that if you have ;D-day fixed you
cannot make your iprocess gradual
enough. [Laughter.] . Now, 10 me
read what, he says
" How shall the Government make
these notes•(greenbacks) at all times
as-good as specie ?,"
Well, in my humble
. view I had
supposed the way to do that was to
be ready to redeem.
..1 •had really.
[Laughter.} Tilden says:
" It has to provide in reference to
the mass which woulit .be kGpt in
use by, the. wants`of *business a cen
trat reservoir of , coin, adequate, .to
the adjustment - of the temporary
fluctuations of the international bal
ance.' [Laughter;]
I would like to say to the gentle
men who gave you a note I want the
date, and I will tell you . why - .
[Laughter.] " I have to provide so,
Sir, in reference to the - . reaslii. which
would be kept in use by the wants of
business, a central reservoir of coin,
adequate to the adjustment of the
temporary fluctuations . of the inter-_
national balance." [Laughter. But
Mr. Tilden did not,entfrely disgorge
his mind on this subject, so he
says:.
"As a guaranty against 'transient
drains, artificially created by panic
or spc:culations; 'it has, also to pro
vide-for the payment in coin of such .
'fractional currency as may he- pre
sented for redeMption, and such in
considerable portion of legal tenders
as individuals may from time to timei.
desire to convert for special 'nSe, or
in order to lay by in coin their little
store of money. If wisely . planned.-
and discreetly pursued, it ought not
to cost any sacrifice to the business
of the country. It should tend, on
the contrary, to the revival of hope
•
and confidence."
Now, if you want anything plainer
_than that2write it yourself es. [Laugh
ter.]
," The proper time for the resumeL.
flog is the time when wise .prepara
tion shall have ripened into perfect
ability - to accomplish the:object with
a certainty and ease that will inspire
confidence and
.encourage. -the
ing . of business. The earliest time'
in which steel' a result can: be.brbught:
about-is the best."
' And then hi- tells you . how to do
it:
" •
The specific measure-and actual
date are matters of details having
reference to ever-changing Condi
tions."
- That is what I told the fellow about
paying my note. [Laughter.] •
"They belong to the domain of
practical administrative statesman
ship. The captain of a steamer,
about starting from New York to
Liverpool, does not assemble a coun
cil over his ocean Craft, and :fix an
angle by which to lash the rudder for
the whole voyage.",
Mr. Tilden trim). - speaks about go
ing to LiverpOol. "A Yunnan intel-'
ligence nanst'be lit the helm to: dis
cern the shifting forces of water and
wind." Especially the wind, I take
it. ,fLaughter.] Then speaking of
the - legislation ,on the subject, he
says,- , "They are a snare and a delu
sion to all who trust then]." I will
read a little more and then L will
stop. Ile says it is impossible to fix
the day because you cannot, know
what the fluctuating balances_ 6f En
rope will be ; you'ean't tell how the
water will be nor how the wind blow;;
you must Jet it.reniain unfixed."
I want to know if the Republican
Congress did not know that they
could reticent ou the Ist of.Janilary,
18:9, how did the , Democratic .Con
vention„ know that they could' not ?
[Laughter.] How did they find out
so much of water and. wind, and the
tluetating balances between this coun
try and ,Europe? How did they as-"
certain so much about the.! central
reservoir- of coin ? How did they'.
ascertain these, when it was hnpossi-
Me for us to ascertain anything about
it? If the Democratic party can.say
iL can't be done in January, 1579, it
seems to inc that the • Republican
Congress;'‘c - Ould easily know enough
to know that it can be done. Mr.
.Tilden spoke of the gradual and safe
process of resumption, but he did
not tell us what it must be. He aim-
Ply says he cant tie a 1 - udder to a
particular angle. He says you must
trdst to. "human intelligence," tht
human intelli!rence being Tilden, and
in ease of his demise, Hendrick:4,
and they won't tell a . thing until the
crisis arrives.
..This is what he says.
Srow, suppose I read this letter, and
after having read it, got at the atmos
phere, en rapport—you know what I
mean—that I wag full of it and that
.wrote in the same vein", !Suppose
should, in the met 'solemn and im 7 .
pressive manner, tell . you. that' the
fluctuations canned in the
.vital.sta
(laity of shifting financial operations,'
not to say speculations of the' wild
est character, cannot be rendered' in=
stantly accountable to a true 'finan
cial theory, based upon the great
law that' the superfluous is not a nc
cessitA exeept . in vague thoughts of
persons unacquainted with the exit- .
envies of the • hour, and cannot,. in
the absence of a central reservoir of
coin, with a 'lnman intelligence at
the head, hasten by , any System of
convertible bonds, the expectation of
public distrust ; noinatter how wises-
ly planned and disOeetly purSued,
failure is assured whatever the real
result may 1!e. •
If that is notjust like it, I don't
knowwhere the-ditference is: Why,
if anybody in the.world came to'you
'with ainote upon which the date of
payment was not 'fixed, you would
att4V lig i ft 9 eitimr Intone or inns
I=l
$2 per Annum In Adva co.
cal. And yout.,would say to an.' man
in the Union
_who says he' is fOr
resumption and. counts the 'date:
ckit; that he is politically dis honest. -
But -the Republican party prippOse
resumption in l 8 9. Hard money is'
economy; paper money is extrava
gance; hard money means economy
and. national prosperity; We oucli
hardpan in all the business of the_
country, and now we •want hard.
money to do. business on ha;alpan
with. [Cheers.] The Republican
party will redeem - on the •Jst;oll Jan
uary; 1879, or if it fails it will fail as
the soldier fails to take a fort, high
upon . the rtiliipart with the'flag n his
hand. [Cheers.]'
TILE PROTECTION OF OUR CITIZF I NS.'
. _
• The next question is about the pro ,
teetion- of our own citizens. [Ap
plause.] The nation that canno pro
tect, its citizens at home and abjoad,i
ought to be swept from the map of
the world. [Applause.] ` The ti):i
ocratie Party tells us that the United
States of America can protect till of
its citizens When they are away from
.home. [Applause.]'' But thosejwho
are citizens of Louisiana, or _Mississ
ippi, or:any State under our the
Government is 'powerless - to prOtect
them!, I deny it. I saythe',GOVern
ment of the United States - not!Only
lids the power-:—and- unlesslt does),t,
it is infinitely dishonorable—to fira
tect every citizen at home as,ivell as
abroad. • (Applause.) . The . 9 - 0 - Ve
meat has the right to take its Sol
diers:across any State line or into
any city, county or Niard, for the Pur--
• pose of protecting every man whether
white or black. (Prolongedapplause.).
The doctrine of tte Democratic par
ty is the - old doctrine of secession! in
disgnise,—that the State of South Oar-
I °Him nr Mississippi 'mpst protect its
own citizens,—but that the Govern
,,ment of the United States has noth
ing to do with it. unless the Governor
or Legislature of the State calls upon.
the General Government. Thi.4 is n
famous. (Applause.) . The - Un4ed
States claims the right to draft every
citizen jnto, the Army. It claims the
right ,to stand everylable bodied•On
in front of a eannomin time Of war,
and now to' say that When' peace haa
spread her' beautiful wings over our
land, when 'sortie • citizen is struck
Clown, that the United States cannot
protect him when the United States .
.
will make him protect it; is infamous.
(A pPI a use . and cries of "Good, good,l')
The flag that will not protect itapro
tectors. is a dirty rag. '(Applause.) It
eoctaminates the air in which it
waves,
aves, and if.that is the true theory
of our government- despise it.• (A
plause.) It is the duty of this go--
ernment to see to. it that each find
every American bitizen has his righs ,
in every State of the Union (applause)
peaecablyl if we'. can, forcibly if we
must.. (Great applause.) The Re
publican Party Made the, black men
of this , country citizens. It put the
ballot in !,heir handS,.and it is the dn
ty of the Republican Party to see , to
it that.they have a peaceable oppot
tunity • to cast their ballOts. • (Al / '
plause.) ' There are plenty of men in
the South' who fought against tlic
government and who, were satisfied
with the arbitrament,of the war, and
who laid down their arms arniare
Union men to-day. I want the goVi
ernment to protect them too. (AP
plause.)- As a general rule, however,
the population of the South is turbu
lent, and the best men cannot control
it, and men are shot down for opinl
ionrs sake. It ought to be stopped
It is a disgrace, to American civiliza r
tion. They tell-, us, that the colored
men are treated . very Well. Oh yes ?
very well ! I read every little while
of two• peaceable white men going a
long not thinking ot, - anything, as
harmless and inoffensive as lambs ?
and they ; are approacWed by ten or
'twelve negroes, and the ten or twelve
negroes are shot, but the two peace
able white men don't. get a scratch.,
(Applause.) The negroes are the
ones to bite thedust; it is infamous.'
(Applause.) The Democratic party
don't care. Samuel J. Tilden don't
care. He knows that mp.ny Southern
States are to be carried by assaissina=
tion and murder. He knows that if
he is elected President,of the - United
States it will be by assassination and
.murder. (A ppla use.) -A nd he is
ingAhA they should go on. It is in
famous beyond the expri , ssion-of lan
cr.
ffuqe What party will' be most spt
to •
pr9serve the liberty. of the negrO,
the party that gave it or the party
that denied it? Who will be. most
likely to pteserrethe liberti - 6 of tl+
loyal white men of the South, the
men tlVt.fought for them or the men
that fought, against them ? ,
'111.1)EN IiND TILE NEW YORK DE:N.IOC-
EEO
• The-Democratic party r have as their
candidate for the Presidency Santhei
J. Tilden. It is enough for Me ti)
say of him that 4e is a Democrat. lie
Belongs, to the Democratic party Of
the city and State of New York. The
Democratic party of the city of New
York, as I understand it, and we have
heard of it ont-WeSt, never had but
two objects, grand and petit larcenyl.
(Great' applause.) IN'e have always
heard out west that Tammany Ilall
beara the saine relation to the,-peni
tentiary that Sunday. School (lees
to a e tirch. (Laughter and applause.)
I utalitstand that the Democratic
party. of the city of New York got
control '
.of this city When it didn't owe
-iv dollar, and that it has managed to
steal until it now owes abnut one hun
dred and sixty million dollars. I un
-derstand that .every contract ever
Made by the Democratic party of the
city of New 'York' waadareen3r in-dis
guise. (Applause.) I understand that
every election they eVer hati was a
fraud: I understand they stole every
thing they could lay their hands up
on and oh, what bands. (Laughter
and applause.) They, grasped and
clutched until they stole all that ie
was; possible fem. time people .to pay in
terest upon, and then clapping their
enormous hands 'to their burstinf;
pocketS, they began yelling -for hon
esty and rehnin. l(Laughter and myp
' plause.) I 'understand that Mr. Til
den was a ptipil in • that school, and
that he isnow a teacherin that, school.
I understand that when the war eom
meneed he said he weuld never aid
in the prosecution-of that outrage. I
tintlerstatid that, he. said in - 18 GO and
and. LSO; that .the Sciuthern ;States
ingli ti3Dtethrfrqloli
as a nation woUld break a treaty, and'
that they could rewl ,eqereion AS a'
nation would 'repel invasion. . , I Un
derstand that during the entire war
he: was opposed to its prosecution; •
that he was opposed tep the proclama
tion of emancipation, and demanded
that the document lie taken back
understand that he regretted to see
the chains tall from the 'limbs of the
itilored men. I understand that he
regretted when Ate Contititution oR
the 'United States 'was elevated an
purified pure as the 'driven snow.' I .
understand that he regretted when
the stain was wiped froth our flag and
we'stood before the world the only
pure Republic: that everexisted. It
is enough for 'meo say about' him,
and since the news from Maine you=;
need not waste your . timeln talking "
of him.
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lOW GOV: LIAYES FOUGHT THE REEELS.
• On the other side there is . another' •
man, Rntherfor(U B. Hayes. • (Tye; „
niendous applause.). I want to tell
you something •.about. this. man. In
the, first place he is an honest Man, he
• is a patriotic man,nnil whin this war
commenced Rutherford B.Hayes said:
" I 'Would rather go into tltis war and
be killed in thl cause of it than to .
h
live through .it., and. take no part in
it." (Applause.). Oompare, if you
please, that with Mr:'Tiiden's refusal
to sign a call for a Union meeting in
this city of New York,beaded by that
honored min who was at that tithe a
staunch Democrat, Gen. John A. Dix..
(Applause.) Rutherford B r Hayes •
as I said, a patriotic man ; he Weiat .
and dispersed rebel meetings' when
Mr. Tilde refused to dispersethese •
meetings. He bears now three wounds '
in his flesh received while helping, his
country in this manner. He is aLs6
a man of good character,- and,•a.s I•
said before, (rood character cannotbe
made in a day; good charactetv is .
made up, of. all good things ; the
ennobling things accomplished go in
to this grand thing called character,
and. the character of. Riitherford .B.
Hayes rises before the people to-day
like a dome - or honor, of patriotistn
and integrity.: • (Tremendous, ap 7
pla.use.) ' All the Democratic'snakes,.
with poisonous *tongues thrust out, •
cannot find a crevice in:the character
'd Mr. Hayes in which to deposit,
their malignity. ''lmagine' a man so
good that the Deinocratic party can- •
not lie about him. • I would also say
William A. Wheeler is also a staunch „
Republican as ever there was in the
party. (Applause.) There is no one
a greater advocate 'of refcirin than he. ..
(Applause.)
I have.told'alittle . about the °ty
clition or : the country *hen the Re
publican party was born, what it a
chieved, and a little abotit the Demo
cratic party, and a little about Mr.
,Tilden,,and now I am .goink to wind
ithis thing up. I want. you to recol
i4eCt that'the very Men:who fought for
Ithe Union, with veryfew exceptions,
were - Republicang. , There were some
Democrats, hut I cannot tell you why
they were there. With these excep=
tiolls the Democratic party is made
up of the worst elements of 'society.
The ; worst wards' in. - New I ork
,are
the ones that Will give the largest,
Democratic majority. There is not
.penitentiary in the United States
that Tilden and ; Hendricks 'cannot
carry five to one.: In the llemoeratic
party can be found the vicious - and
foul.• The man who wishes to answer
an argument with blows; he is in: the
• Democratic party. All Men who sym
pathized -with the South in its efforts
to destroy this government are now •
in the Democratic party ; all the men, z •
'who Shot our soldiers at • the ecoad-....
mark are now for honesty and
andlif Tilden should be elected P.l 7 Z'Si ..
..
dent of the United . States, all these '
mei:l.would be found shouting for Til
denand Hendrick§'my friends,
• Now, •
keep out of the Democratic, pary; _
(lo not *vote o that ticket, any young
man who is going to cast his first vote
—do not place' your future in the
hands of that party. 'The Republican
party, on the other hand, is theparty
Of reason, of progress and" education.
The Republican party is the one that
believes in the equality of human
lives. I believe it. lam .willing to
give to every human - , being every .
right that I chain for myself. My
friends, I believe the world going
to get xstter. I do. I believe we are
oetting.better all the time.. Samuel
J. Tilden says _we are , a nation of
thieves and robbers.
.I.ldon't believe
it. If we were, he ought to lie Presi- .
dent. .(Applause.), , I believe 'we are
getting better, and everyday the-Re.
publican party is in power Tste will be
getting better. And hosi ? By free
labor
.and free thought: Free labor
give us wealth. Free thought
will give 'its truth. Free labor has
.done everything that has-been done
in Ithe United
free
the
prObleul l of free- labor is to . do the
most work in the least time. .(A .
voice, "HOw about free schools ?")
Want free school :8 and I want Them •
divorced' Prom sgetarian influence.
(Tremendous applause and cheers.)
I want eVery school house to.ben
true
. temple of science, in which shall
be taught the laws of nature, in which
the children shall be' taught actual
facts, and I don't • want that school -
house touched or that institution of
science 'touched by any superstition
whatever. (Applauie.) Leave relig
ion with the church, with the family,
and more than all leave religions with •• -
each individual heart and man. Let,
evo;y man be his own bishop, let
every man be his Own pope, let every
man do his own thinking, let every
man have a brain of his Own, - let every
man have 'a
_heart and conscience -
,of his own. (Applause.) We_ 'are
gyowing better and truer and grand . ..
er., ,And let me gay,. Mr. Democrat,'2, ;
we_are keeping the country for your,
children. - We are keeping, education
for your children: We 'are keeping
te.old flag floating for your childreni
and let me say, as a prediction, that
there is only aireuough on this con
tinent to float that one flag: -
. (Cheers )
yon have beard from me . and •
you will liear t frOm Obloand - Indiana,
and those three silver Inigle sounds,
Hays and - . ,lheeler,
and the nation ,
hearing thestrhekt November say
that the men who saved our country?:
shall rule ; will say that the men
ivlio
saved.the,ship of State shall sail-it.
And now, ladies - - and gentlemen, I -
thank you again and. agao. (Loud •
and icing applause.). • . •
At the. close of the address three
theta l 4 were given for Gov. EdVrin D.
Mora. •
Tnt Utica Ohserver,one.of
strongest organs, is more candid than
Nome of its 4eiii6eratie coniempoia
ri es.) t Says : "LET US BE FRANK.
ON TII VI SURFACE THE RE
' PUBLICAN CHANCES-APPEAR
TO BE BETTER ..TIIEY.
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