Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1876 — COL. R. G. INGERSOLL. [ARTICLE]

COL. R. G. INGERSOLL.

■ r* 6,1. Robert G. bwertolLot Poorle, TH.. «w>ke in New York, the other night. to whal the ZrttaiMft) ox that city, aetcrmes audirncc which?duriag the UM Un Jcmui, nnv xiirele snraker bre attracted.” The Hew Ymk Ttera the ad drciw as “one of the beet political apoechoa ever delivered in New York.” The Hon. George Opdyke presided over the nwJTing, aniJuUoduced Col. Ingerof laughter?, . i. 1 .* 1 ~/* ted- | rateiaJty power that tttyptyldfor •lateen Wiri wt other wishes office. The Democratic party, with starving eyes Wtiiu Hquso "for bixlcmmi ycwTs. Ocooioß>ily It has retired to some congenial eminence «ad luguhrioasty bowled about theVonntitution. The Republican party comp U> you with It* record open, aud ask* every man, read it« evcry.Wtadi and J.nay p, you there is not a line, < A pity in that record that is not only an honor to the R< • publics <i party, but to the human race. On every page of that record is recorded tome great and glorious action, done either for the liberty 01 man or the preservation of our common country. We aak every bo Sy. to read ih every word. Tee 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 sot to read a solitary word of what It has done, but be kind enough to toko its infamous premise for what it will do. Allow me to aav here that character—good character—rests upon a record, and not upon a prospectus. A man has a good or a bad churn Sr bv what he hac reafay done, by what be Jtaa realty accomplished, and not by .what he promises to do. If promises would make a rood refutation, Samuel J. Tilden and the Democratic party would have one In twentyfour hours. 1 propose to tell you this evening, mt friends, a little of the history of the Repttb'flcan party, a little of the history of the Democratic party, and flrat the Republi-

can party. The United States of America is a fret country; it is the only free country upon ttrtrtße mfly Republic that was ever established among tpen. . We have read, we bate heard, of the Republic of Greece, of Rgypt, <4 Venire; we have heard of the free citick of Europe. There never was a Reputelie iu Venice, there never was a Republic in Item,, there sever was a Republic in Athens, there never was a free city in Europe, there never was a Government not cursed with caste, th re never was a Government not ssuaxs-arjiaw: famy until the Republican party of the Unit d Blases made this a free nation. I want no grander, no highar.tiUa of nobility instr this, that 1 belong to the ItepaWk-mi party tod did alfltie toward making the EKSEC3& ie Republican narty did torus—tor u*—l mesa to refresh mirselvsa, Mwe all know it, but it is w«l enough to •ay it now and thtn tyqrdrafo afresh our•elves. Inorder to understand what this great party hu accomplished , let us for a moment consider the state of- tty country whan the Republican party was bom. When

tbe Rspubltym party was bora Stare was on the rUtute book of the United Statesol Atueric* a la w known m th# Fugiths Slave law ot IttiO, anaer the provisions of which every man in the State of New York was made by law a bloodhound and could be act, could bejdsaeti, upoq j who was •imply attempting to attain his birthright of ireedom, the same as you would bias a do< u;>on a wild beast That was the Fugi*> tivc law of 1850. It made every man, every Northern man, a dog-. It put round hjs nock a cellar, a#d they did not have the decency to put the man’s name on the collar, but they put the name, of LU master. At toe same time in nearly an cf the Western .States there wm a law by virtue << which hoepiUlity became an indietable %ffense. There was a law by virtue of which eharity became a crime, tnd a man, simply for an act of kindness cXereihed, could be IfidiqraL irnpii*me<LJUM fined. It was foe 'fawDol Illinois, ofmf State, that if X gave a drop ■of cold water, or & crust of bread tea poor fugitive from slavery, 1 Could he indicted, fined and imptreouea. Under the, infamous ■Slave law of 1850, under the infamous Black laws of the Wqsterfi Stateswtyn ttyßepublican party was born, if a woman, w-luOths white, had escaped 'from slaytyf, carrying her child in her arms, had‘tone througn wilderness and tangle aud sWAnfo andMvcr, And trnaliy got Witiltn tfne foot of tree soil, with the light of the North sfaY beckoning her to freedom, ft would ' Have been an iudictable otfMe to have given her a drtip for water and a crust Of bread. And under the Hugi ive Sfavy law ft wauld hAve beqn the dutv of a Northern . citigfih otelming to be a freeman, to clutch uttyt, woman and hand her baclcTo the dominion of the hound, tty Democfst, and the lash. What more? Tue Institution of slavery tad polluted and corrupted the church, not only in the South, but a large proportion of the church of the North, so that ministers stood up in their pulpits here and in New England and defended the very laws that I have mentioned. Not only so, but the Presbyterian Church South in 1863 met in General Synod and passed thrte resolutions, two of which That afarery is a dtgtts ihatittiiian; Hesaljxd, That God raised up the Presbj teriau Church ■South to protect find perpetuate that institution.’’' What more had slavety eone? It h*d corrupted our courts so that, in nearly cveryßtot-ofltyUnion-.tfa Demoerot hfid

gone to Uie hut of > poor negro apd«*tak down htavtfhqnd children ■eyes, and strangled the babe in the' cradle, his testimony was valueless, and he wag no* ■showed prosetutdjSlrwrelch. Jatne to not onljrfßfc but was deaft'*id the idea V justice in th* United StsJjL ■when the Republican party was born. When that party wtaa,be** to* bay of the bloodhound was the munc oftfieNation. The dome of the Capitol at Washing leu cast its ■had*wnajbn|l«e Aetfe th *hidh hrodetedl and shuddered 1 mothers frondwfcos* breasts babes haibeen tbrn, bt Vlg> Jire MOW ror mmesty tnd reform. Then if a poor negro had tilled a farm and watered it with dke sweat of honest tabor, and if a Democrat came along and seized upon the result of his tabor, the courts of the United States did not know to whom that corn belonged. And when that question came to be tried, the learned Judges read all the hooka and £d^Mh!J©ir O §^3¥‘Ss^n P W noble and expansive foreheads, and came to the conclusion that -the Democrats owned that corn. At the time the Republican party came Into existence, slavery was not satis*®d with being local, but endeavored to me Recollect condition >.«of ike country at that time. .Btots went dpwn the Miaaouri. river lofcfo* with wivW toft* from their HuM-' fcWtvU, *Mh rihilrirea Sys the Mrwfr •of their moumrsTwhi!^the same men whrt

atid this are now shouting for Tilden and Reform. At that time wo Itation of have a free ctnstltu lion. a pretexted to was-a Jia cfouds . > The Republican party came into mctatauco.A* 18Mo»wbw <ft ttuat wii ever President ox mhjv mica. states firtryjfa tgM • , iffiftght to elect * w tne #xMi™on oi niynaii.

they bad a right to go out-of toe riaion.wnd there was another little man who said: “I tar so, too,” and his bdtae was Samuel J. Tilden, Ha noad Ufa Constitution of the United States and several Democratic platforms. Mid decided that the GoverameuCbsd no right to do anything except to ■ defend slavery- Retailed t4>& James Jtachs-.an was sn bld bachelor not only, but a Demo-, eml Recollect that, and say to yoursetyej: “ Whv should we ever trust a man and elect partv to’ the ailvation of the country? 1 Now, In view Of this fact, I wild every man to swear chut be nevCr Wil! vote for an Old bachelor attain. The Democrats claimed that this was net a Nation. It was simply w confederacy, and that ihe old banner of the Xrs reprinted a contract commencing With "Know all men by these presents that this don't-represent a great, and glorious, -and sublime beople, but it represents a confederacy.” That was the doctrine of the Democratic party South. It was the doctrine of the Dumocratic party North. It is still the doctrine of the Democratic party North and South. The Democratic party in the South aflftseted themselves together for the paroose ■of breaking up' this Union. The Republican party said to them: ** You try and break up this Union and an# will break your necks,” tod came Into power on the heels of the Buchanan Administration. The Treasury was as empty tot coin as the Democratic party was of patriotism and honor. We had to borrow money of whom we could. We had to issue bonds and greenbacks. What for? Why, to buy shot and shell, *»d muskets and cannon to shoot enough Democrats to save the Union. There was a division then forced upon the people of the country, pot into Democrats and Republicans, but into patriots and traitors; and thousands and thousands went out of the Democratic party to aid the Government to put down the Rebellion. But. every one who thus went into the service of the country was then known as a Republican, and those who were -against the Government were known as Democrats. These Democrats went into the markets of the world, and they maligned and they slandered these eiforts to raise money to sustain the Government in its time of trial. They said: “ Your bonds can never be paid, ana your greenbacks are unconstitutional;* and to such an extent did they so slander and malign and caluifiinate the Government that at one time (fold was 24W, wfitoh meant that a greenback was worth 34 emits on the dollar. Where were the other 66 cents? They were slandered and caluminated out by the Democratic party Of the North. Two-thirds of the eausos which have brought about the prostration of American Industry to-day ate to bp traced to the Democratic party of the North, and every time you workingman blister your hands to pay a debt, take-off the blister and under it you will find a Democratic lie. « The Republican party has done notliing for sixteen years that it has not been proud of. The Democratic party has done nothing for sixteen years that itJs not ashamed of. the Republican party has nett done one thing that was not for thenubtic interests of the Government for sixteen years. » , The history Of the Democratc party is an epitaph. The is searching around -in the old political cemetery of tne bygone ages for a standardbearer. They have raised up in Massachusetts (that old cemetery reminiscence. Ctarjps Fratyfo Adams, who had his henchmen, at Cincinnati, hoping that he would get the nomination from the Republican party thety,«nd who was equally willing to take it at St. Louie, and who waa also willing to Mi the nominee of the Republican party in Massachusetts, but finally the Democratic party, wishing for sorus* 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 respectability and have flshed out Mr. Adams. The law against violating the saeretyess bf the tomb Ought to be enforced. ,Tha Democratic party not WilMbg that SffassKW.s Democrat North or South—and by that I mean those who. wqty opposed to the Union —who aid not think more of the existence ofalavary than of the Goverbment of the , United Blates. They made a breasEWork of tHbydid wus to discourage enlistments in the-Nortte They did »U iu Uuiir power tG JRfflSiß! it as bis opinion that the South could Sift, anjl that every soldier that put his foot Ob the sacred sou of the Sop th would be a tres-. paffierjand could lie sued before a Justice

of tus Peace. They denounced the wfir as an aboppon war pi tpeir conventions, and they dfenvuitcea Abrahum Lincoln as a tyrant. Of'oil the rfteh on earth who had been closed with nqprly absolute power, Abraham Lincoln was one, and I know of nq other man living or in history, Wno used that power without abasing it, eXeiptoft the side o£ mercy. They said to tpejepels: “Jlofd onfhold nard; fight on until we get political possession of the North, antftheu you can go in peace." * .aiil ••; i There was a man by the name of -Jacob Thompson, W ! vdry nice man and a good Democrat. This manti ad the miafortuffe to be 4 very vigorous pcuwcrat, and I mean by that that during the war a Democrat who bad a musket was a rebel, and a rebel that did uothave a musket was a Democrat. • r call Mr. Thompson a vigorous Democrat; bfo cauifi he d!d h.• re a musket. He was sent by the rebel Government as their agent to Canada. When he went there he took with' him between seven and eight thousand dollars la money for the purpose of assisting the Northern Democracy. He got himself acquainted with the Democratic party in -Ol3<r» *ndfan< and ~ Illinois. The vigorous T>emocrats or real Democrats of those States had organized themselves under the heads of “ Sons of Liberty,”, Knights of the Golden Circle." ‘“Ordfer of the Btar,’ r and various other names. Thay heH -meetings in Chicago, Indiauapolis and. St Louis, their object beiflf to ralffe fires in those places; in pther words, to burn down the Lhomes of Union soldiers while they were in The Held fighting foe the preservation Ofthe country. This was their object, and they immediately put themselves in communication .with-Jacob Thompson. On the 6th of August, 1864,A11ey held & meeting in Teoria, pkrt Of th*e State. In that meeting a letter was read, received from the Hon. Fernando wood, or New York, of whom I think you have heard, iu which be Said tbstAMboilgh not present in body, he was thdrojw spirit. George Pendleton, George' E. Pugh, and other prominent gentlemen, sent their apologies and regrets. I was at that meeting and read some of the apologies. They de-, nounfed the war as fin abolition War; they denounced Americans as tyrants; They said, Rouse brothers and hurl the tyrant Lincoln from his throne. The men who made speeches at that meeting are now running for the most important political offices in Illinois to-day'on the ticket of “Honesty and Reform?’ Jacob Thompson wrote home, and we found his letter in the archives, and -M describes the meeting And says that he furnished the money to pay the Smms of that Democratic meeting. The' uses of . that meeting were paid by rebel by Jacob Thompson, and he has got a voucher or receipt from these Demo erats, 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 wsefo p*jd by this rebel agent. They went further, and shipped to these towns armn so s echoolfooofcs. I said the expenses of these muxity, Ha nfßir ODject was to burn the while they wercjmtdhyj ’whelagent by then am* Id Was man by t£?n*m e of Dodge Wta made MMaderof their party, and ♦he became bo , aMnd that they vtawttiged topfit MmAn I Fort Wayette. V

The Democrats then met In* Chicago, end among other things, declared the wgr to be a failure. There nevsr was, friend*, a more, infamouo He told on the fare of tins earth. It waa only a few days afterward that the Ruas of Farragut and tty achievement* of ie men In ths field said they tied. Soldier* who fell in support of this country, rise from your graves and lift your skeleton hands on high ahd iwear that when tbe Democratic party uttered these words they Ited. We themrrew magnanimous and let Dodge ont of Fort Lafsycte. Where do you suppose Dodge is new? Hets |n Wisconsin.What do you suppose ha is doing? Making, speeches. Who for acd what lor? Tlldys, Hendricks, honesty and reform. This same Jacob Thompson whom tbe Democratic party shielded—this same map. hired men to burn down the’citv Of New York. Right in this great and splendid city of New Ydrk, that sits so like a queen on the Atlantic, men rose up in mobs to burn down asylums, simply because their walls sheltered the offspring of snother race. Every '"one who raised his hand uga)nst these iastitutiens should have had bis brains crushed to atom»It was a disgrace to humanity itself. EVCry man. that waa in that mob is to-night for Tilden, honesty and reform. Recollect, my friends, that it was the Democratic party tnat did these devilish 1 things when the grest heart of the North was filled with agony and grief. Recol’ect that they did these things when the future of your country and mine Was trembling in th» balance of war; recollect that they did these things when the question was liberty, or slavery, and perish; recollect that they did these things when your brothers, husbands, and dear ones were bleeding or dying on tbe battle-fields of the South, lying there alone at night, the blood slowly oozing through the wounds of death; when your brothers, husbands and sons were lying id the hospitals dreaming Of home-pictures they loved. Recollect that the Democracy did these ttyngs when those dear to you were In the prison-pens, with no covering by night except the sky, with no food but whht the worms refused, with no friends except insanity and death. Now, my friends, I have said a fevC 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 the subject. Allow me to say that the platform of the Republican party is as broad as this continent. In other words, it is as broad as hnmanity itself. It asks all to come and help and join. who ar« in favpr of human advancement. It is broad enough for Catholic; for PJd-School Presbyterians, for Methodists and for infidels, provided they are in favor of the eternal equality of human rights; and the’ Republican party in its magnanimity, gpos even further; it is willing that the Democrat should vote its ticket. Beyond that, magnanimity cannot go. The Republicans believe in giving to every man the result of the labor of his hands, will allow every man to do his owp thinking and excess his thoughts, whatever they may be. In the Republican way there is room for everyone. 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 d4bt, two-thirds of it; as 1 tell you, caused by the action and measures of the Democratic party. Recollect that always. There arc some people Who have an Idea that we can defer the fulfillment of a promise so long that it will aihount Jo a fulfillment. Ttyre are some people who Have an idea that ,tlie Government can nfoke money by stamping its sovereignty upon a piece of paper. The Government of the United States is a perpetual pauper. It passes the hat all the tithe, and it has a musket behind the hat. But at the same time it produc-s nothing itself. The Government don’t plow the land, the Government don’t make the-brlcks, the GovKent don’t ehop down the trees and taw ihto lumber. The Government is a, perpetual pauper, and ttye Government cannot support the peoffie, butethe people have to support the Goveri)ment Theidqa, tfiaj the Government caii isaqp' money for the people to live upon is the* same as-the idea that ®y hired ma» can issue, certificates of. my indebtedness to him for me -to live on. The United States got broke. It had no money. I have been, I think, fixed ihatway* a hundred timt;s- .Then did as I <did. It had w go ana borrow money, and every greenback was a forced loam The only difference between* that of *kbe United States ana mine Is that mine is not a legal-tender. If I had the power I wovrld'have made them so. We borrowed the moody and we have got to pay it, and the people haye got to pay ft. And the debt represents the loss .inflicted upon the ebuntry by the war. That is all —by the war. All the powder' burned, all tbe shots thrown, all. the hordes, and everything in the aggregate is represented by our debt as so much * loss, and Me Will nevqr be a solvent people , until .our act profits since the war shall amount to as much as we lost during the yvar. Their we fare a square solvent people. >The man that can’t'understand that,, there is np nepd of talking to on any Subject.. This debt is to be paid. As a ma ttw off act "we ought tte make the pay, ft; They lost the casd. They ought tq pay for it. All we ask is that they pay their share, and I tqlj you it is going to be paid;.r There is, in f the first place, to secure that debt,; a mortgage qn a .continent of land. There is a mortgage on the Republican .partir. Also every blade of grass growing fo* the United States, is a guarantee that the debt shall be paid. Every ear of corn Is a guarantee that the rttelvt shall be paid. EvUry pine tree growing in the somber forest is* guarantee that the debt* shall be paid. Every thought is a guarantee that the debt shall be paid. All the coal put away in the ground by the old miser the sun is a guarantee tfiat the debt shall be paid. Ana ail thfe,gola, and silver in the Sierra N evades waiting fw' the miner’s pick is a guarantee that the debt shall be paid; and every good man, and every good woman, every babe in the cradle, and all the boys and girls bending ovdr their books at school, and every chap who Is going to vote the Republican ticket, is a guarantee that the debt snail be paid. '■ . A ' Now, then, the question is who is most wt to fttlfil I this National debt,. the iparty Who made it and swore ft was Constitutional and legal, or the party that swore it Was hdt Constitutional? Every time a Democrat or a rebel sees a greenback it saye.fo hfeu .‘?.D am one of the host that vanquished you;” and every time a Republican sees a greenback it says to him;. “ You and I pu; tue rebellion down.” The next question is about the protection of our own citizens. The nation that ean--not protect its citizens, at home and abroad,, ought to be swept from 1 the map of the world. The Democratic pony tells us that ihe United States of America can protect all of its citizens when they are away from home; but those who are eitizens ofhouisiana or Mississippi, or any , State naflet our flag, the Government is powerloss to pro tect them. I deny ft. I gay the Government of the United States not only has the power —and unless it it is infinitely dirtionorable—to every citizen, at home Os well as abroad, but the Govennneht has the

right to take its soldiers across any Stat* line or into spy city, county, or ward, for* th* pnrpbse of protecting every man, whetbei.white or black. [Prolonged applause.]. The doctrine of the Democratic party to the old doctribe of secession in disguise—that the State of South ‘Carolina or Mississippi must protect its own citizens, but that th* Government has nothing to do with; it unless the Governor or the Legislature of, the State calls upon the General 1 Government This is infamous- The United States claims the right to draft every citizen into the army. It claims the right to stand everv able-bodied man in-front of a eahnon otur land, when some citizen is struck down, that the United States caanot protect him when the United States will make himpro-

is tbe true theory of our Government I despise ft. It la the duty of this Government Ito to it that SMk and overy American citizen has all bis rights In every State of the Union, psseeably If we can, lorcfbly if wc must The Republican party made ths black men of this country citizens. It put tty bsftot In their hswds, and ft is ths duty of the Republican party to see to ft that they have a peaceable 1 opportunity to cast their ballots. There are plenty of men in the South who fought against the Government pad who were satisfied with the avbit-. rament of tbe war, and who laid down their arms and are Uflton men to-day. I want the Government to .protect them, too. As a general rule, hoteever, the population of the South is turbulent, aad the best men cannot control it, and men are shot down for ophiloa’s nuke It ought to be stopped It is a z disgrace to American civilization. They tell us that the feblored men fire treated very well. Qh, ©ts, yary urall! 4 read every little while of two peucabTC white men goiDgalonraatthtaklfig of anything, as harmless and inoffensive as lambs, and they are approached by ten cr twelve negroes, and the ten or (twelve Bew<W SS» <tot, but the two peaceiblc white men don’t get a scratch. l : hs wegroeS' are the oqiia who bite the dust: knows that many. Southern States are to becarried by aMassination and murder. lie knows that if he is elected President of foe United States it will be by assassination and murder.' And he 18 Willing that they should go on. It is Infamous beyond the expression of language. What party will be most apt to preserve the liberty of the negro, the party that gave It or. Xhc party that denied it? Wfio will be most likely to preserve the Mbarttelicf.Stife loyal' White mtor 'of the South, the men that fought for them or the men tbgt fought againstftjhem. .V Tfie'Ddnfocratlc party have as their candidate far. the,-Presidency Mr. Bamuel J. Tilden. ,It is enough for me to say of him that he Is a Democrat.' He belongs to the Democratic party of the city and State of New Yortr. The Democratic party of the qity of NbW York, as I understand it, and we have heard or it out West, never had but two objeefe,grand and petit larceny. 'We have always heard out West that Tammany Hall bears the same relation to the Penitentiary that a Sunday-school 1 does to the church. I understand that the Democratic party of ithe elty* ofi Nbw York got control of the city wtyn r lt didn’t ovye a dollar, and that ft Has managed to steal until it now , .owes ® about one hundred and sixty mil lions. I understand that every contract ever made by the Democratic party of the city of New York was larceny jn disguise. I uriflerstind 1 . that every electron they ever had a fraud- J I. understand that they stole everything they could lay their hands Ihpon, and oh, What hand’s! Thev grasped and clutched pntjl they stole all that it wds possible for the people to pay interest upon* apd ityn, clapping tbdreporihbtis blinds to thefr bursting pockets, they bogfin yelling far I honesty and reform. [Laughter and applause.] I understand that Mr. Tilden wfie a pnpilin that schodl, and that he ia.MW a. teacher in that School. I ilnddrstimd that when the war commenced he said hq would nevfcr aid in the prosecution of that outrage. I understand that he said in 1860 and 1861 that the Southern States could snap the.tie of confederation as a Nation*wbuld break s’treaty, Sid that they could/epsl coercion an a Nafiotl would repel invasion. .1 understand that during the entire war he was opportd td its prosecution, that he was opposed to the proclamation of emancipation, and demanded that tty document be taken back. Lnndnratand: that he regretted to see the chains fall from, the limbs of the colored meii.- I undar'starid that he regretted when the of the United States was elevated ahd purified pure as the driven snow. ,1 understand ttyt he regretted when the stain was wiped from opr flag and stood before the worifl the only true Republic that ever, existed. It is enough for me to say about hinj, ahd since the news frpm Maine .you need not waste ymir time in talking or him. • On the other side there is another man, Rutherford B. Hayes. I want to tell you something about this than. In’ the first place he is ap honest man, ty is a patriotic man, and when tins wai- commended Rutherfprd. B. Ifayep »aH: “*1: would rather go into this war and be killed in the cause or it than to live through it and take ho part th it.” Compare, if you please, that with Mr. Tilden’s rerasal to sigh a call' for a Union meeting in city of New Yot*k, headed by that honored man who was at that time a stanch ! Ifemoerek G«nj Jdhn A. IM*. Rutherford B. Hayes is, as I said, a patriotic mail; he went and'dlßperfied rebhl meetings when Mr. Tihien ,rejus<t . tq dispense these meetings. He bears now three wqpndsin fiis flesh xecelved while helping hfe country in this manner. HpjsaUo a. pan of, good character, add, ds 1 said before; good char-, acter cannot be majle iq a days) good character is made up bf all good things; all the ' ennobling things accomplished go into thia grand thing called, chaxactcr, and the character of Rutherford B. before 'the people to-day-likd a’dome of honor, of patriotism, and integrity, A]l the Democratic snakes, with their, poisonous,tongues thrust ont, bamiot m? a . crevice in the ieharaeter «f tudeposit itheir malignity. Inwgjty 4; man M>go&d that the Democratic, party cannot lie about ih|m. I WbnM* also say-fthat' William A. Wheeler is -also as stanctea Republican as eyur there wqp in the party. There ia ho. one a greater aaVocate of reform than Jie, T have told a lfttle about the condition of ihe country when the. Republican party was borfij what it achieved, and ajlttie about the Democratic pfirty, ttnd a little about Mr. Tiltyh, and now I am going to trifid'this thing up. I want you oil to recolleOt that the -very, mfiii who fought for this Unjou, With very few exceptions, were Repiiblicans.

Thetnwere some Democrats, but L Cannot tall you why they were there. With, flieaa exceptions the Democratic party is made up of the worst elements of society. The worst wards in New York are the, ones that will gird the largest Democratic majority. There is not a Penitentiary fin the Ufiited States that Tilden.and Hendricks cannot carry five to one. In the Democratic party can be found the vteiouA and ■foul. The man Who 'Wishns to answer an argument with 1 blows, he the Democratic party. AU mpn.whoi sympathized with the South in its efforts to destiny this GbveminfenV are now in the Democratic party; all the njen Who shot our. soldiers at the deadlmarkßOW for honesty find reform, and If Tilden should be, elebtsd President 6f the* United Stated fill these men wouldjbq found shouting for Tilden and Hendricks. Now, mi-friends, keep otitdf t.ie Democratic party; do not that ticket, any young man who is going to cast his. first vote —do .not place your; futfirw in the hands of that party. The Republicap party; on the Other hand, is the patty of reason, of progression and education. The Republican party is the one that balieyas in the equality of huitf fin rights. I believe it. lam willing to give to every human b&* ing every right that I, claim fat myself.' Every man who wornt do that is a rascal. M/friefttlfi,’! bellfeve the world is going to get better. £ d<x» 1 bdlietb we'are getting better all the time. Saiqpql J. Tilden says. We are a Nation of thieves and robbers-,. I don't belloVe it. If We were, he ought to b 6 President. Ijbeliere we gfitilng betterj .and every day the Republican party is to 'power we will be getting better. And how? By, free labor Und free thought. Fro.e Ifibor will give us wealth. Free thought will give us truth. Free labor has done everything 'that has been done in theTTnlted States, betaaufienUKr problem of free laboy l* wdo she ■ We are growing bdtter, and triier. and grander- And let me say, Mr. Democrat, 'fire are keeping the country for youa children. We are Keeping the old Hag floating Tor your children; and let me say, aS:a. proliettoa, “SExit as > Well, you he»e heawl frdta rf«ne>nd you will bean from Ohio and litfiianm those throe silver bugle Bounds. Have* and vKoe&nd'toe Natftm

men who saved the Ship of State shall sail IL And now, ladies ano gentlemen, I thank you, again and again. [Loud and long spplausej AW. Z