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VOLUME LXXXIIL
SECOND 0111.01.
FOUR O'CLOCIg.
SENATOR SHE RMAN.
IMMENSE MEETING AT CITY HALL!
THE REPUBLICAN ,WATCH FIRES
BURNING BRIGHTLY.
Fall Report of the Speech of the
Evening.
IREHRiS BY HENS. THOMAS M. MARSHALL
AND GEO.. T.'IIIIIVRENCE.
Bon.. John. Sherman, the gifted son of
Ohio, arrived'in the city on Sunday after
:norm and put up at the Monongahela 'Abuse.
He, was called upon during Sunday and
Monday by l ilistmgaisbed citizens of both
panties; who were anxious to receive his
views 0n the questions which enter the
canvass. _At seven o'clock last evening the
Second Ward Club, numbering some one
hundred members, and the Central Tan-
mer Club, of the same strength, proceeded
to the Monongahela - House with a band of
anuEdc, as a guard of honor, to escort the
'orator of the evening to the, Republican
Headquarters, City Hall, where a mass
- meeting was arranged to be held. Mr.
Sherman, in an open carriage, and acccom-
- partied by Hon. J. K. Moorhead, Hon. S. A.
Parriapoe. and 'Hon. John Alison, was the
observed of all observers, as the , procession
moved through the streets, and greeted on
allsides with enthusiastic outbursts froth
the masses lining the pavements.
Arriving at City Hall it-was difficult for
the clubs to force their way through the
:streets gorged with hundreds of men who
were unable to gain admission into the
commodious hall wherein fully six thous
and persons had assembled. Although sev
eral large meetings haye been held in, the
present campaign le the Republicans of
the county, :still never in the history of
local politics has such a -monster meeting
- been drawn together in Western Pennsyl
vania. Nor was the number in attendance
more remarkable than the wild enthusiasm
which prevailed. The attendance- and
.spirit manifested went to show that the
people have been fully'aroused to the im
portance of the campaign, and that the
pledge given in her behalf at the Chicago
Convention will be more than redeemed in
-October and 'November. . •
- The meeting. was called to order by Hon.
-.T. P. Penney taking the chair, on motion of
Col. .1. H. Stewart.
B.EDIARICS OF NIL pragick.y.
Mr. Penney, on taking the chair, said :
FELLOW-CITIZENS-•-Allow me to return
my sincere ,thanks for this high compli
ment fh being called upon to preside over
so large an assemblage of the Union Re
. publicans of the county of Allegheny. I
feel deeply honored for very many reasons,
among which let me specify, first, for the
noble cause which engages the interest of
us all ; honored because it cornea from the
great Union party, and because of the flag
-of our country which that party is now
arrayed to defend. I 'feel proud in the
memory of having been myself the bearer
of the first flag given to the sunlight in-old
Allegheny,'inscribed . "Fr& e Soil, "Free
. TSpeech and Free iSien"--I feel proud of, the
party which in 1860 erected the Rail
-Splitter of Illinois. I am proud oit
i
now • when the • same - banner, crowded
with all its laurels of victory; as
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gathered, together its wise men under 4.
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folds to consult upon the highest arid m t
--enduringinterests of the Republic. 11 - am,
proud to, confess that these, men have been.
_ :faithful and that they hair, made a,
civil
record equally deserving ofour admiration
.with their military triumphs-1 am
Trend of it becauseit stands up Slit and
resents the name or' Grant as its t great
leader; because it countenances no distinc
tion of chits in the civil rights to.be Conce
ded to all; because it elevates the dignity
.of labor; beiause it receives the tanner's
boy and the printer as candidates for its
_highest honors, and goes once more to vie
-tory under a leadership " that never yet
knew defeat. I have now to present to yon
- the suggestions of y our ,Executive Com
• reitteefor the further:organization of. this
' . meeting.
- Col. John H. Stewart then nominated ad
' -ditioMil offihersas followsi
" - Vice Presidents.
' - Wm. M. Lyon, George Black,
M. Swiutzvrelder, Charles Beerman,
James I. Kuhn. Esq, Joseph Abel,
Campbell B Herron, B.P. Jones
Joseph Hartman, - David Lewis,
Thomas J. Craig. • John E. Jones,
- Thomas M. Marshall,
Jo h n B
C. G. Hussey, Jon n n
Brown,
' Hon. Thos. M. Howe, Col. D. L. Smith,
Jos.S. Morrison,Esq, Alfred Slack,
CoL R. B. Roberts, John Megniw,
' , liathanßrookaw, Lieut. James Wells,
Charles Wood, Robt. Carson,
J. J. Siebeneck, Esq, Samuel Kay,
John t3eiferth, S. S. D.Thornpson,
' Samuel Gallinger, H. F. Eggers; .
Samuel Walker. Julius Stharnke.
Secretaries
It. B. Parkinson,Esq, Earle S. Gardner,
-Thomas Kerr, _ Dr. J. H. Roberts,
James M. Murray, John W. Hay,
Fred. Metzger. J. F. Starke.
These nominations were unanimously
agreed to, and the officers therr ascended
the ]platform. With , them also entered
Mr. Sherman, whom the presiding officer
then introduced, in a few felicitous re'
marks' , as the expected orator of the even
ing. The enthusiasm of the andience i in
receiving the distingnithed Senator from
'Ohio surpassed anything we have ever be
fore witnessed on any similar occasion.
.-After•oheers, three- times three, in which
i .every man took part, three .cheers for
-"Hon. John Sherman" were main called
-for and given even more loucliy than
fore. This This scene of exeitement was ,Pro
tracted-for some moments, but silence be
ing_st last-obtained, Senator Sherman paid:
... • MT FELLOW CITIZENS,: I have accepted
lithe invitation of your, State Committee to
-take,part for a few days in the canvass now
-going on in your Commonwealth, not in
'the hope that my opinions may exert any
- - - influence in shaping those of your dwa
I" people, but, rather. that' by coming here
and mingling among your citizens in • the
various portions of your State, I might find
out how the citizens of Pennsylvania pro
, pose to, vote next October. lam haPpy to
be'able to - state to you that so far as Ohio
" 6 . is concerned, she has already settled the
" 'result of this canvass. [Long continued
cheers.] Perhaps there may have been
some 0 I you who have felt alt gering doubt
as to the way that Ohio would cast her vote,
but it gives the pleasure to know, and to
assure you also, as the consenting opinion
of well informed citizens of both parties in
my State, that in November Ohid will cheer
all hearts by her, overwhelming majority
for Gen. Grant. It is to you, therefore, that
we now - look; to Pennsylvania, the Key
'stone State, the centre of the Union to-Clay,
as she had been the centre of the old
thirteen Olonies, to know bow she,
teo, is , to L pronounce upon the great
issues before the nation. Your State
contains now a population greater than all
those Colonies bad at the era of the Revo
lution. Your State, from its central posi 7
tion, has a vast national influence; it is not
easily moved by. questions of a local or' a
sectional. character; her action upon na-
Itional issues has usually been conclusive.
As she goes, so goes the United States.
I come to ascertain from you whether the
Star Spangled Banner shall be entrusted to
the handxof Grant, Colfax and a loyal sub
mission to the laws, or to Seymour, Blair
and the re-inspired rebel element which
we have once beaten down. ("Neyer!
never!") -Ohio leans on her elder and
more powerful sister State of Pennsylvania
and appeals to her to take now, decisively
and permanently, her true place at the heal
of the loyal sisterhood of States and pro
nounce lier sincere preferences i for Grant
and Peace. (Applause.) ' .
I wish now to. allude to a. most peculiar
and strange element of this canva-s—the
surprising, matchless impudence of the
Democratic party in making at this time
and in this manner any contest at all.
Eight 'years ago, they threatened us with
war, and they made the threats gool in a
-rebellion that cost us four haltered thou
sand livtE and more than four billions of
dollar , . Now, when the war has been .
ended by your valor, and slavery is dead,
they say "Let by-goner be by-gones."
Thank- God! It is so; by-g ,nts are
by-goties, but ne ertheless, nations,
bite mohviduality, recognize the teach
ings of experience, and our 'peo
ple are not again to be misled as they have
been before. Time was, when a party took
up the cause of the enemies of our country
and failed to secure its triumph, that they
went under in disgrace and were no more
heard of. The Tories of the Revolution
joined themselves to the cause of George
III.; when that failed, they disappeared,
certainly they ran no candidate against
Washington for the Presidency. So, in IS h.!,
a misguided and unfaithful narty was
found sympathizing with tlie public enemy,
and in due time that party, the Federalists,
yielded to the popular sentiment and dis
appeared from the view r.f men. So, in the
' Mexican war, there were found some citi
zens who opposed that conflict with the
neighboring nation; yet, when the war
came, most of our people went in for its
support, while the few who did not take up
the cause of the co intry speedily disap
peared from the public sight. My fellow
citizens, it is an axiom of American opinion,
clearly settled by many precedents, that a
party, that any and everybody who oppose
theniselves to a national war. risk thereby
their own polairal existence. certainly all
their political influence, forfeiting it forever
in the event of the failure of their friends.
Now, did the Democratic party them
selves wage, or did they even threaten, our
late war of rebellion? If they were not the
guilty participants, or instigators, who
were ? I know, and so do you, that at
least all the Southern Democracy were
guilty of this. I know, and gratefully bear
this testimony, that tens of thousands of
honest and patriotic Democrats went for
their country before party, upheld the flag
of the Republic in the ranks of the Union,
and are members of the great Union party
to-day. But other hundreds of thousands did
not follow their example. Instead,they sym
pathized with and, had they dared, would
have aided the enemies of the Republic.
Why, in Ohio, they even nominated as their
candidate for Gavernor that man Vallan
digham, although for his flagrant disloy
alty he had been sent bodily out of the
loyal territory. So, at Chicago, in '64,
whefi the national fortunes, even its very
lie, hung in suspense while the terrible
c,ntest went on, while Grant was almost
hidden from loyal eyes in the midst of his
dead heroes, while Sherman bad disappear •
ed beyond the mountains of Georgia, iu the
outstart of his-march down to the sea, while
gallant Phil Sheridan. was laboring in the
valleys of Virginia toorgamze means for the
'
ti
`. rotec,icni of your own Pennsylvaniafrom
rebel invasion, while the brave Farragat
as tied to his mast-bead at Mobile—
ere was the Democratic party then?
me tell you. - It was then that they
• ed the white flag of surrender, at Chi-
ca o, and demanded that peace should be
ma e, because - the war was a failure.
Th n and , there, presided over in
their Convention 1 by Heretic) Sey
mour, they . proposed to abandon
the integrity of the Union! Suppose that
they had succeeded! These are unhappy
things for any of us to look back upon. We
will gratify-their wish to let by-gones be
by-gones, if they will show barely a decent
respect for tho opinions of mankind, dis
band their treasonable organizations and
disappear from the sight of ,the world.
For that Deniocratio partY, in the hour of
danger of the Republic, deserted the cause
of their country, and never, never can wipe
out that stain. But no, that same Demo
cretin party, the same leaders, the same
Seymour, reinforced by the rebels whom
we fought, now ask, you to entrust them
with the political Power of the nation.
Never was greater impudence known out
of hell. I may well denounce it as Satanic,
torn is impudence equal 'to that shown by
that old Democrat. himself when he. strove
to rise again and snatch at the lost cause
from his perpetual purgatory. (Tremend
ous applause.) .
Let-me point you to another fact. The
wiser leaders of the DemocracY had at last
come to know that, to be again successful,
they must change everything, candidates,
principles, even their very 'akin. They
wished to make this change at New York
—to inaugurate new questions, new issues
and new men to carry them. If the lead
had been given to these wiser head', the
result would,have been far better for them,
the party and perhaps for the country. But
no! these more prudent counsels were
°vent:tied by the rebel heart of the Democ
racy, instigated by such men as Vallandig
ham and Hampton. The wiser ones fore
saw that they - were thus to be led to an in
evitable death; but the combination of
Copperheads and rebels, too strong for
them, insisted upon the old issues; the
Partivielded to their pertinacity, and now
for its punishment, is about to be consigned
- to IN faun resting place.
Let us see how the case stood. That New
York Convention was a curious mixture of
white, blue, gray and some black. (A
voice, " Williams . '') : They wanted a' new
candidate. There was my old friend, Mr.
Pendleton, an accomplished •gentlemen /
with his new way to pay old dents, his re
markable greenback theory. But ho stood
no chance whatever, not even more than
myself, and they laid- him on the shalt
Who next? There was a gallant soldier of
your own State, General Hancock, with a
good war record, Conservative in his ideas,
but Democratic in his tendencies. Re was
proposed-as a candidate;, but, poor man, he
did not stand even bait 'as much a chance
as mine. for I was the friend of, at least
some of the catididates, while he was the
PITTSBURGH, TUESDAY, SEP"
friend of none. Then there was a veiy
plausible gentleman from Indiana, so
smooth and plausible that butter would
melt at the sight of him; a gentleman who
could climb a _greased pole without diffi
culty; an artist in soft and flowery speeches,
the accomplished and adroit Hendricks.
But ho would not do; he had never opposed
Unionism enough; he had, somehow,
some time or other, somewhere said or
done something that looked as if he
were favorable to the Union at heart, and
he, too, was shelved. Then said tho wise
men, "We must have a new man entire
ly." They wanted to bring up Chief Jus
tice Chase. And he, was willing enough,
indeed he was anxious for it; he wanton it.
badly; but the Democracy had no thought
of him whatever. • : this selection would I
have sbowh too much of statesmanship and
the people would .have been tempted
to forget - that 1 this was the old
Democratic party, and so his strength,
at iPI highest point in the Convemon,
reached, if I inn not mistaken, exactly
three and a quarter votes. 'And so, thr. ugh
T all devious and Winding ways, this Con
venticn went about in search'-of a candi
date until they found Horatio Seymour,
the hero of thol e Now York riots, the
"friend" of the rioters and murderers, a
man who never felt a patriotic sentiment
Or did a patriotic deed, and him they nom
inated
Then a Vice President was to be selected.
This people, from sa i experience, have
learned to look sharply at this part of their
tickets, and do not want to be cheated.
Well, certain soldiers and sailors, more
than a hundred of whom were rebels, nad
organized . an outside Convention in the
same city, and they nominated a soldier,
Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jr. What did the
Convention do when entreated to-accept the
nomination? They would not agree to it
or give him a single vote. They nominated
Frank Blair. When I speak of this gentle
man I cannot but see him in a double light.
Time was that I knew him in Congress
and out of it as the fiercest of "Black Re
publicans"—no man more violent than he
in devotion to Republican principles. His
family had quarreled with the Democracy,
while he himself, a brave soldier, had done
good service - for the country, for all of
which nevertheless he has become that
country'S most dangerous enemy. Be
emnh.g involved in a quarrel with som-?.
' Missouri politicians, and being a man who
loves or hates with equal intensity, he
carried that quarrel into his politics at once.
Having strong passions but no prudence,
sagacity or discretion, no people can -ever
1
safely confide to him high trusts. A few
days previous to the Corivc•ltt‘m, he an
nounced himself, in. his Brieibead letter,
as a candidate for either place on the ticker.
The sentiments of that letter were most
atrocious, although he truly declared that
there was no real qUestion except that of
reconstruction. Ho talks of compelling
the army to undo the work of Congress. I
would like to see hint try to make Grant .
and Sherman do that. (Great applause.)
That letter touched the Democratic heart
And - secure() his nomination - .
What next ? • The platform was then in
order. It was elaborated by a cimmittee
of one *.eember from each State. Every
resolution in that platform reiterates some
mere axiom of American politics. All such
compositions are mere cheats. The great
body of this one enunciates general truths,
much the same with what may he found in
the Republican ,platform. For example,
look at the declaration in which buth par
ties are agreed, that the question of suf
frage must be left to the people in each
State for themselves. When that was put
in by the. Democrats, Wade Hamp
ton—who stands infamous before the
world as the murderer of thousands of our
soldiers, a character cruel and merciless
teyond expression, sparing neither the eick
nor wounded from his butchery—stood up
'to say that "this was all very. well, but
what do you mean by States? Do you
mean the States as now reconstructed or as
_they were in 1865? All I want is that you
should say, as they were in 1865." The
leaders squirmed at that; they said,
"anything you desire shall be done,
but please consider that - we are going
to have a hard fight of it; if we
fix it as you say, the Republicans will
hurt us." Then Hampton asked to insert.
"three words," that "we declare all the
acts. of reconstruction to be unconstitu
tional, usurpatory and void." They agree d
to that, that phrase of Hampton's appears
literally in the platform of the . Democracy
and in those "three words" lies burled the
whole essence of this contest.
Thus I have touched upon the history of
the platform and the candidates of the De
mocracy. The rebels made both. No
Northern man bad any hand in Blair's
nomination; Preston firstrnamed him, For
rest and Hampton seconded him. Th. se
candidates and this platform are before
you, honest Democrats, for your decision.
I Willyou take them or will you adhere to
the Union and follow Gen. Grant?
Now as to this matter of Reconstruction.
[What does it all. mean? ;Is it the terrible
bugaboo that Democratic leaders would
have you believe? ; I can! explain it to you.
Its entire plan is here in my bands, em
bodied in the %fifth and XlVth Amend
in.ents to the CorenitutiOn. All the laws
known as the Reconstruction Acts are sim
ply enactments to, carry 'them out. I my
self reported the first Act of March 2d,
1867, which. being temporary in its nature,
has been now displaced by the XlVth Arti
cle. Not a clause of these acts remains in
force this day. All of them have answered
the purpose for which they wore passed
and they are now out of sight, discharged
from operation. The XIIIth Article
- forever prohibits Human. Slavery; as such
all the States adopted it, but I eay to you
that if the acts Of Reconstruction were
swept away, all would fall to the ground.
So of the fourteenth artic!e. (The speaker
quoted that article, section by section,
briefly elucidating its provisions.) Now
mark, my friends, that this amendment
was subrnitwd to all the States. All the
people hada chance to vote upon it, in their
State or Congressional elections or both.
What was the result? All the Northern
States, including even New Jersey,
voted - to ratify it, and, : but for
Andrew Johnson, who, in his hatred of the
Republicans, used his Executive influence
to defeat it ; the . ,S.)uthern States would
have done the same. But as they* thus
felled, we-went to work to secure ,success,
and to that end proceeded to reorganize
those States, so that sevennf them voted
for It , and the XlVth `Amendment is now
the law of this land: Yet, if you elect the
DePUNratia ticket, you agree to their doo
trine, and all you have of Southern recon
struction would be swept away. .This is
indeedtbe only real question. -: •
How does the South feel in this matter?
According to Rlair the ouly question Is:
"Shall those States as now organized be
overthrown „hy armed and revolutionary
'force and be given up to the old sway of
,the ,rebels?''.: - What is the true state of
affairs at thißouth?, Are the people in the
; proper -.4xmdltiOn, socially or politically, to
use this power if zurrendered to them
exists on inio ?
this A
great, dlverifity of „opn.
point; the facts are very differently repre
sented. But; neverthelvss, the testimony
is too clearly one way to bolisputed. The
,most recent evidence we have comes from
Tennessee. Otte speaker then read from
the recent report of a Legislative Commit
' tee of that— Rata, appointed to in-,
vestigate cases - of. violent and - mur-
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dorous rest ei to the laws. He also
quoted der I tiofis of Pirate Semmes.
as to the no' iirth of the Democracy and
how he fel the war on Democratic
principles. ) also quoted prominent
Southern spi n's and journals as to the
effect of aDi icratie triumph now upon
the Recut. Ition policy. He pro
ceeded:) Hi Southern - authority warns
Mr. Soymou tat there is to be no paring
and smoothi iff of corners, that the party
now stand sc •ely committed as Hampton
fixed it that if he dares to
hesitate, may, find his Booth,
as Lincoln id. In the face of such
desperate in ',ions, neither one life nor
a thousand 1 would have any protection
whatever, ot i suffered to stand in the
way of thef fillment of the rebel aims.
ill
The spec speaker then quoted the declarations
of Vance, ise, Lawton, Battle, the. Rich
mond D spatch, and other journals and
speakers, touching the bearings of this
election.
The speaker proceeded to say that the De
mocracy are in earnest, and so sure and
certain as Seymour and Blair are elected
civil war will be inaugurated. Here let me
read to you the testimony gathered from
negroiss in the South, relative to operations
of the Ku-Klux-Klans, and I trust no man
present is mean enough to disbelieve it be
cause a black malt tells it. The speaker
read various extracts of testimony relating
to outrages perpetrated on harmlesapeople
living in the South by the bands of young'
men who -compose the awful Ku-Klux or
ganization. The case of Lewis Powell of
the Fourth District of Tennessee was cited.
He testified that one night a mas
querading party visited his house
and asked for sgmething to eat.
His wife set about to prepare a meal
whereupon, after accusing her of belng in
sympathy with tie Union Leaeue, they
fired two shots through per heart. The
husband called for assistance, but the
neighbors, trembling thrugh fear of the
t
Ku-Klux, refused to into ere. The fault
of Powell had been that e once wore the
army blue. Richard M ore, of Lincoln
county, Tennessee, testified that he sus
met by_a party of Ku Klux, knocked down,
' pistols taken from him land then 'he was
Isubjected to one hundred and seveutv-tiee
lashes on his bare back. His offense
had been that ho once wore the ar
my blue. This, said the speaker, gives
but a faint idea of the outrageous conduct
of these bands of young men who no doubt
number nearly four hundred thousand. and
and go about committing all sorts of gross
wrongs. G. T. Brides, of Connersville, a
white teabher, gives his testimony to the
effect tha, ii gang of Ku-Klux men visited
that ritee and after committing a number
of outrages, proco-did to dm school house
of the vii age and toppled over the steeple
and bell tower, for they don't like ehurehes
arid schools. This is the kind, of outrages
and the condition of ate: rs in all the
South°. n States. Every district has its
organized secret band parading the country
visiting, outrages on the i eople, murdering
helpless negroes, burning churches and
leveling school houses. If Seymour and
Blair are elected what will be the result?
Why every Northern man in this South will
_be driven out, their wives and children will
be made refugees and their property con
fiscated. Four hundred millions of negroes
will be reduced to slavery again or to a ter
rible subjugation. The entire country will
be in a state of search e. If Grant and Col
falx are elected the States will be recon
structed under the laws provided, and all
the guaranteed required will be gained and
peace and order will bo restored to all parts
and the people of Pittsburgh as well as
everywhere wilt go on undisturbed with
their industrial pursul .
The s p eaker continued : The cry of
distress has been heard from Horatio Sei
mod!' dyer his nomination. A letter from
him, which I first saw in this morning's
Pittsburgh papers, is well enough for you
to notice. He says: "I am gratified with
the kindness of friends, but they have
plunged me into trouble. Ido not know
how the canvass will go, on, but now that I
am in the fight I shall do the best I can. I
see the Republicans are trying to dodge the
financialissues. Our papers must not allow
this ; they must push the debt and taxa
tion upon public attention." This was his
despairing cry. Push the taxation anddebt
*upon the people. Well, my friends we don't
avoid those issues. We are prepared to
meet any question they may present. The
Republican party has presented with
in the past few years great finan
cial questions. When the war was
first waged our treasury was empty,
and ways and means to carry on the war
had to be secured. We devised the best
currency system a people ever had in the
greenbacks. We - all remember when the
Democrats said that they were worth noth
ing and that they would soon be obtained
by the bushel for the carrying away. We
levied a just system of taxation, placed
duties on imported goods to protect home
industries, and thus did a good thin g in
doubling the productive interests of the
country. Mines were opened and operated,
milts built and worked, ten thousand miles
of railroads were laid, telegraphs construct
ed and an impetus given to all trade. There
was discovered here in Pennsylvania a
source of wealthin Petroleum to supply the
plate of cotton and to , provide
for an exchange. , In every way we
have made rapid progress in the
development of the country. Let
me ask who created our great national
debt? It was the Democratic party. If we
had evenhanded justice to-day as there
will bo on Judgment day, this will be the
verdict. Democratic speakers will tell
you that the hat on your head, your vest,
your pante, your coat, aye! your o ffin and
shroud, is taxed by the Republican party;
and I expect they will say theta tax-gather
er will be sent after your soul on its winged
tight to the realms of bliss to se
cure a tax. Now, my — friends, n-t a
single article named is taxed, for every tax
on the farmer, and in nufacturer, or the
industries of the land xcepting whisky
re
—has been repealed. o,when Seymour
appeals to have us talk about taxes, I will
tell him that we we compelled in the•
early part of the war to tax everything
from necessity, but we have been repealing
these taxes since the close of the war, and
to-day everything which we eat and wear,
excepting that which is. imported, is free. W
On whom do the taxes fall? e have
placed taxes on all luxuries, on coffee and
sugar, and spices, and from this source de
rive an annual income of one hundred and
sixty millions of dollars. These taxes fall
so lightly as to be hardly - noticed by the
laboring classes, but all the rest of the taxes
fall on the better classes, those who wear
expensive broad clothe, and our ladies,
God bless them, pay taxes on the silks and
satins they wear. People who drink chem.
p ag ne pay taxes, and all those who deal in
luxuries. Next la the Income tax. Do the
laboring men pay that tax t I have heard
of one Democratic speaker who told his
audience that his wife could not make a
pound of butter, or his mother pick a goose,
but there would be a tax gatherer .about
after his dues. No tax falls on labor,
unless where the income exceeds one thou
sand dollars. Not a laborer in Pittsburgh,
a -sa l
i nl v md ,
n or a farmer, unless he Is a rich one, pays
Ligon the Governmen t :
daenadler
a tax on income. From this source of tax
millions per year: Then the Stamp tax. It
4 derivess
bankers,gthentite
is aid , 13y an m i er h c oa ha v n .
whose transactions 0 large. Now York
i
city alone pays nearly one-fourth of this
entire tax, on heavy bonds, checks, deeds,
dfafts, etc The License tax is paid bs cer
tain_professiontil classes and yields twenty
millions per year. On manufacturers there
is no tax, excepting where the sales ex
ceed five thousand dollars per year,
and how does this tax affect the
laborer ? I have calculated that - a
coat for which ten` dollars is paid
bears a tax of just two cents. The taxes
on sales are on capital not on lab for la
bor is protected throughout in our system
of taxation. What other taxes have we?
On g ,, ld watches, on carriages above a cer
tain value, on piano fortes, and plate, and
with the exception of these enumerated,
there are none others. The whole system
is so arranged as to fall only on the right
persons—only on capital.
What hnauoial issues have the opposition
presented? They talk much about the Na
tional Banking System, but did they con=
damn the National anks in their New
York p'atform ? They said not a word
about them. What did they say in ,their
platform about greenbacks? They shelved
Pendleton, of Ohio, with his platform.
They say they will pay the obligations of
the 'United States, where it was expressly so
stipulated, in coin. That is right. Then
they say they will pay those payable in
greenbacks, in such money. That is also
right; but did they say how the 5-20's are
to be paid, whether in coin or greenbacks?
They did not. From their plank of equal
taxation of every specieS' of property we
dissent—it is not ours. They would put
the poor man's plow, the farmer's harrow, -
the mechanic's tools under taxation. Here
we take issue. We would not tax any of
these articles. We say it is wrong to do so.
No tax ought ever to rest on labor or the
preduction of labor. I will agree, if there
is any Democratic laborer present who will
promise faithfully to pay taxes on the
whisky he drinks and the tobacco he chews
and smokes, to give hill . ' a forever quit
claim of the United States.
So far as attempti have been made to tax
Governm , nt securities, the speaker , said it
never has been and never can be done.
Under the form of one Government the
power of Congress to borrow money is
supreme and no State can interfere or tax a
Government security. If they bad the
power to do so they could destroy the power
of the Government. Indeed no State, was
ever mean enough to attempt it until
the Democratic Convention proposed it.
We have had national debts hanging
over our Government since the earliest
periods of its existence, and no party has
ever attempted such a thing. Why - don't
the Democrats try it? Have they not New
Jersey and Delaware, and, the spei.ker was
mortified to say, Ohio, wherein to make
the experiment? In Ohio, last fall, the
Democratic majority in the Legislature
talked long and loud about taxing-Govern-
neat securities, but they did not do it.
The could'nt if they would, and would'nt
if they could. They can never do it. But
they say why don't the United States tax
these securities? We do tax thein the same
as all - other capital.' A man who owns
bonds and derives revenue ft om them
must pay the taxes thereon. The Demo
crats are only anxious to tax the bonds of
the Government, not railroad and other se
curities. This is the meanest, nastiest kind
of repudiation. If the Government wants
to levy a tax on all debts it will rdo it, but
there will be no discrimination. The Re
publican doctrine is this, that these bonds
can be taxed like all other bonds and se
curities. My fellow citizens, I thank God
that this country is honest and rich enough
to pay all its debts. if the people of the
United States ever attempt to cheat their
creditors it would be the meanest thing
' perpetrated since the birth of Adam. A
country so rich in resources, with so many
blessings showered upon it by the Almighty,
should pay all its debts.
There have been great and grass mis
statements made as to the expenditures of
the Republican party in its administration
in time of peace. Some make the most
extravagant assertions. Mr. Hendricks,
United States Senator from Indiana, says
that from the 30th of June, 1865, to the 30th
of June, 1868, the immense surnOf twelve
hundred and seventy-eight millions of dol
lars had been derived bythe Treasury from
various sources. This great sum of money,
he said, showed in three years of peace an
average annual ordinary expenditure, after
deducting one hundred and seventy-five
millions per annum for interest on debt, of
three hundred milliOns. I made inquiry
into this statementland found from official
sources that the receipts were correct. Now
what become of the money. From the
same sources I learned that 5450,000,000
were paid during those three years in inter- 1
est on the public debt; $206,000,000 of the
principal had been discharged ; $140,000,000
had been paid to soldiers, having been
due and unpaid previous to June Seth,
1865 ; $49,000,000 had been paid as
bounties to the soldiers, some of which the
boys here must have received; 811,000,000
was paid for property destroyed during the
war, $750,000 of which was paid Pennsylva
nia for repelling the invasion of rebel
hordes. Now this leaves an average annual
expenditure, for ordinary expenses of the
Government, of only $123,000,000, so that all
this talk about the extravagance is bum
combe. (The speaker here took occasion
to pay a high compliment to Gen. James S.
Moorhead, who had been so active, atten
tive and industrious in looking after Pitts
burgh interests, and he - hoped Gen. Neglev
would prove a worthy auccessor.)
After peace was restored the demands on 1
the Treasury for appropriations were great,
as Gen. Moorhead, who served with the
speaker on the Committee on Ways and
Means, could attest. Railways wanted aid,
rivers had to be improved and opened, and
the speaker could not recall a single ap
propriation excepting those for the Freed
men's Bureau and Reconstruction pur
poses, that was not voted for by the Demo
crats. The opposition make the Freed
men's Bureau cost an immense sum of
money. A large amount of the money ap
propriated has been expended in caring for
and protecting, feeding and educating the
poor blacks of the South and many of the
indigent whites. In the three years, 1865-8,
the cost has been about three and one-fourth
millions of dollars, and the entire cost
since its foundation to this date has been
but five millions of dollars. The man who
is mean enough to grumble at this great
national charity is mean enough to vote
for Seymour. The Republicans are re
sponsible for the expenses of Reconstruo
tion, but that has accomplished thaxxl
end of securing to our National sla
tura loyal and true Union men.. The
speaker would for one never have voted to
admit a representative from the States so
long as they were governed by red-handed
rebels.
didmore
It is for yon to say whether the great Re
publiban party that sustained our flag,
va
wiped
d ped vii o l u za t t s i l o a n ve an ry
rad lisrt ice t m ha en t t than all
others combined ever have . done—a party
composed of the intelligence of the coun
try—a party in which ninety out of every
hundred of the brave soldiers are found—a
party that never furnished a rebel or a
traitor-the great Union party of the United
States,will be permitted . to govern till the.
Demooratellearnwisdom. As Lincoln used to
say, a homely expression, "it-i's not safe to
swap horses while crossing a stream," and
we are now crossing a stream in the affairs of
our country. The contest is not over till a
black Republican can take up his carpet bag
NUMBER 216.
and start front Pittsburgh_ or any other F 1
Northe , n place, and in peace take 1.,
up his quarters in the South, and before iris
cabin plant the flag of his conntcountry,The Republican party has a great mission ;.
yet to perform. It has got to spread the
great net works of railroads, of which
Pittsburgh is one of the centres, across the
(Continent. We are not to have only one
Pacific Railroad, but three or four of them. it
It has to spread churches and'school houses
•
and colleges. It has to educate the young
Ku-Kluxes (4 the South not to upset
churches. This is no time to surrender
the political organization that has been 1.
great in peace and faithful in war. What
will you gain by placing the Democrats in
power? If it had acted wisely and start
ed out in a new line, there would r:
have been many of its old party members
who loved the name of Democracy adher
ing to it; but its leaders are contaminated
withideas of slavery, and while it exists
there will be danger of the resurrection of
slivery. This nation is cut of its swaddling
clothes and is old enough to take care of
itself, and will do it. The speaker was I
thankful that the Union party was so care
ful in its choice of a candidate. Grant was
not nominated because a Republican, but
because a voice came up from the rnortz I
demanding his nomination. A voice came
np that the great hero who had the fortune of
doing more for his country than any other
mau of the age was a, successor worthy of
Lincoln. Ah ! my friends, think of the
succession to Andrew Johnson!
The speaker here paid a glowing tribute
to Grant as a man, hero, soldier, and politi
cian. He narrated how after the battles of
the Wilderness, where ten thousand brave
boys fell, he pad met him with all toe
marks of the true hero about him—caltn
and possessed, his eye bright and confident.
He had grappled Lee, and quietly smoking
his cigar gave forth the memorable ex
pression, "I willfight it out on this line if
it taket all Summer." It is eminently
proper that the people should honor such a
man with the highest gift at their disposal.
The speaker next spoke of Schuyier Col
fax. How he had been an humble printer
boy and emigrated tc‘lndiana and hewed
his way up and up the ladder till he got to
be editor of a one horse country newspaper.
How he was sent to a State Convention, at
which his ability was small as to direct pub
lic attention towards him. He ran for Con
gress nun was defeated, but-neither he nor
his friends were discouraged. He made
another trial and was elected, and
for many year: has been I identified
with the affairs of the country, and
more or less before the people. Ho is a.
man of unblemished character, of great
alility, and pleasing manner and address.
If out of the Providence of Almighty God,
Gen. Grant shall be called away by death,
Schuyler Colfax will never betray his
party. i [Applause.]
With such candidates, continued the
speake-, and such principles, the rank's
should crowd on to victory. The first wave
of popular opinion came from Vermont,
and it took the wind out of many sails. A
few days hence Maine will be heard from
with a majority of from fifteen to twenty
thon.and,and we will hear from State after
Slate until nothing will be left iof the
copperhead-rebel party, and Seytrur will
be permitted to retire to the cove ed peace
and quietness of farm life.
The speaker concluded by returning his
thanks to the audience for the attention
with which he was listened to, and hoped
that he would be able to better entertain
them on the occasion of another:visit.
The speech was a masterly effort and
.produced marked effect on the audience,
and everybody was pleased with Hon. Tno.,
Sherman as an orator and expounder of the
priciples held by the Union Republican
party. , / -
Hon. Thos. M. Marshall was loudly call
i. He .-•
ed for, and finally came forwatd: -Le said
he was in bad health; in no condition to ad
dress the audience, and besides had been
appointed to speak at Kittanning to-day,
for which occasion he would reserve him
self. He promised, however at another
time to speak at length to hi; fellow-citi
zens on the issues of the campaign. lie
had been talking in campaigns in Alle
gheny county for twenty years, but
proposed to retire after the ,present;
when Rebellion and Democracy would
be effectually and forever sikiielched.
He was proud of his fellow-citizens of Al
legheny county—felt proud when away
from tome—it was so pleasant to say that
he came from a county that gave tea
thousand Republican majority. He was
glad, also, to get back home—not like the
man who left the Third ward. Mr. M.
found he was making a speech in spite of
himself, and after some further' remarks
retired, repeating his promise to speak at
length on some other occasion before the
close of the•campaign.
Hon. George V. llswrence, of the Twenty
fourth District, was the neat and last
speaker, and entertained the audience for
fifteen or twenty minutes in , reviewing the,
issue before the people. ain remarks
elicited marked applause. When he con
cluded the meeting adjourned with - three
rousing cheers for the National, State,
County and City tickets. •
The Charges Against Commissioner Rollins.
[By Telegraph to the ratsourg bessetie.3.
NEW YORE, Sept. 7:--The investigation
into Mr. Binokley's charges against Com
missioner Rollins and Deputy Commission
er Harlan was resumed, to-day. The only
evidence of importance elicited was from
J. D. McHenry, formerly Inspector of In
ternal Revenue, who testified to the brand
on certain barrels of whisky being, myste
riously changed while being carted front
North river to Fourteenth street;
and to
seeing S. N. Pike hand a cheek for one hun
dred and five thoustuid or tenthoussndtive
hundred dollars to Mr. Har at his office
next day, remarking at the time it was a
note from a friend. ,Collector Smyth waa
discharged and examined as
,a witness, but
gave no evidence of importance. The ex
amination was adjourned till to-morrow
noon.
Old Defenders of Baltimore.
(Ey Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Gazette.]
BALTIMORE, September 7.-In conformity
to the annual custt.m of the Amciation of
Old Defenders of Baltimore. they yesterday
attended divine service in aibody at Light
Street M. E. Church. The Association now
numbers only about forty-live members.
On the 12th inst. they will partake 4if their
annual dinner at Garanstown.
• Prince Edwards Mead.:
(By Telegraph to the Tlttahureb Galette.3
BoSTON, September7.—The United States
cutter Hugh McCulloch arrived today front
Prince Edwards Island, bringing General
Butler and other, members of Loommittee
who recently visited,that island,in the
inter of the Governnent.. •
A linrderer Again liespitaL
Illy Telegraph to the Pittsburgh elizetle.]
. PriIIa:MILPHIA, &pt. 7.—Alfred Alexan
der, under sentence ot-death, has again.
been respitedty the Governer, this times
. for an indefinite period. .
Funeral of Ex-Governor Seymour.
UV Telegraph to the attaburgh ealetto. l
TIABTFORD, Septetuber, 7.—The-Inneral
of 'Ex Governor Thos. H. Seyi;uour took
place in this city to-day.
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