Terre Haute Daily Gazette, Volume 1, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 August 1870 — Page 2

'he Evening §tzetk

AUGUST 1, 1870.

Ourself.

A recent correspondent of the eir Haute Journal, writing from Rocl^ to Col. Trussler's speech at Iwllace uses the following language,

lationto the editor of this paper: relation to which I heard "The most amazing thn S

the

Dem

accusing the State

say that were ifc state would Col. Bob Hudson, tto way

that the

have suftered teu^^y^

same. We entered on the duties of Indiana State Agent at New York in February, 1861, and held it two years, when we surrendered it to our successor in March, 1863. During the time we were acting as Agent of State, we never speculated to the amount of one farthing with the money intrusted to our care. Never used one dollar of it for any other purpose than paying the interest on the

State debt, and

the necessary expenses of the Agency, and at the expiration of our term of office, we paid over to our successor every dollar due the State, taking his receipt for the same, and then settled with the Auditor and accounted to him for the last cent he had us charged with. Could a public officer do more If any one has the temerity to question the truth of this statement, we challenge him to a full and complete investigation.

We had long been of the opinion that under the acts of 1846 and 1847, known as the Butler bills, the State of Indiana was bound to make some adjustment with her creditors, by which she would pay her debt, or satisfactorily arrange it, by the 19th day of January, 1866. Under our construction of the law, the State could preserve her honor and integrity in no other way. Believing then that the State would do, what she was in honor bound to do, and knowing that any step the Legislature would take in that direction would enhance the value of Indiana stocks, we bought all the stocks we were able to, at the then price. This, however, was over two years after we were Agent of State.

Gov. Morton differed with us in this construction of the law, as will be seen by his message to the Legislature, of 1865-6, and instead of us being together in this matter, our views clashed. But in a few weeks after the

Legislature met,

a bill tor"^cyust the State Debt," was introduced Into Ihe Senate, by Mr. Bradley 'Democratic Senator from Floyd. Abput the same time, a bill for a similar purpose, wasjntroduced by Mr. Branham, in the House. Mr. Bradley's bill passed the Senate by a large majority—every prominent Senator of both parties, voting for it. This bill was known as the "Hudson Bill."

Mr. Branham's bill also passed the House, both parties voting for it, but could not be passed through the Senate, and the Senate bill could not be passed through the House. A Committee of "Free Conference" being appointed by each House, they agreed to take both bills, and by taking the good features of each, make, in this way, the best law they could. With this understanding, the two bills were placed in our hands by this committee, with the above instructions, and the present law to pay the State debt is the result.

It is unnecessary at this time to discuss the merits of the Senate and House bill?, the offspring of both has met the appro bation of the entire people of the State and has almost entirely paid off the pub lie debt.

After the passage of this bill, and was seen that under its provisions the entire debt of the State would be paid— except the amount due the School Fund—in about four years from that time, Indiana stocks of course advanced on the market, and more particularly the Two and one-half per cent, stocks. This class of stocks having priority of pay ment by the conditions of the law, they became almost equal in value to the Five per cents.

When these stocks had reached figure on Wall street which met our ap probation, we sold out, and put the profits in our pocket. Was there any thing wrong in this? Was it not a legitimate transaction in every particular? It was a matter of no concern to the State. She did not lose one single farthing by it, for the State never redeems her stocks at less than there face, of course. It was only a question then, whether we should buy stocks when they were low, and sell them when they were high, or that some Wall street broker should do so. The people of the State had no interest in this then, and when they understand it, care nothing for it now. r: Can the correspondent of the journal, and the Editor of the Journal and all the

Journal's friends, now see how it was, an

why

llilWiillli

was

Of his attempting in h».p««.

his

bbi

went BO

Treasu^nt for

far as

Morion and your

told

that down

about

my everybody thought that it ?fnrton and Hudson who made the off the people, and asked him if he Sire?'heard of that §20,000 income that your valiant Colonel gave in the year after lie was Agent of State. He is thought to have made those Indiana 2% per cents pay handsomely. I presume it the Col. was Sid about it that he'd say that it was

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sin for a toil man to make money during the war that all of them who had a chancf, did it. By the by, has it ourred to you that it was because Morton and Hudson being engaged in this speculation that causes your valiant Colonel to be such a champion of Morton's on every occasion? A fellow feeling makes us wonderful kind."

We have seen an insinuation similar to the above, at different times in the Democratic press of this State. Generally the insinuation was so vague and indefinite, that we could hardly understand its meaning, but now it comes in such a shape that we comprehend what the writer is driving at, and propose to make a final and conclusive reply to the

it was, that in 1867, about four

years after we were Agent, of State, we paid an income of over $20,000° Would not this correspondent of the Journal, if he had possessed sense enough, have done ™OUld

uot the

Editor of the

held in bonds, as a witness, but failing to «lve hail, war also sent to jail- it

pears that there was nocause for the at tack on Bryant, and Meyers not been /ou|7ia^ave .done so, likewise and is there a Democrat any where so marvelop^ conscientious, that he would not

Tpno^ty when it is low, and sell it at ani^creased price, if he could thus to explain

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this matter, because, by insinuation and innuendo, it was continually being connected with our acts as Agent of State. .We court the most rigid scrutiny into all our official acts as Agent of State in New York or elsewhere, and await the result with the same confidence that prompts us to defy an examination into every act affecting our personal honor and integrity.

Lieut, (xov. Cumback.

We take pleasure in giving below the short, pointed, incisive speech of Lieu tenant Governor Cumback, recently made at the Academy of Music, at Indianapolis. It is a dashing, spirited speech, and will be read with much interest. He arraigns the Democratic party, and tells home on them with many sharp thrusts,

Lieut. Governor Cumback is one of the ablest speakers in the State, and one of her most popular public men. We com mend this effort of his to the attention of the readers of the GAZKTTE, and hope they will give it a careful reading.

SPEECH

GOT. CUMBACK.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Fellow-Citizens I came here to-night for the same purpose that has brought together this large and intelligent audience to hear the speeches of our eminent Senators and your able and distinguished Representative.

Although invited, and placed on the bills as one of the Speakers of the evening I had no intention, as there seined to be no necessity of occupying that position to-night. I have no intention now of making any extended remarks.

I will take this occasion to say that I am a firm, earnest believer in the Republican party.

I found it true to the country in time of war and no Jess steadfast in the defense of right in time of peace. Every man, woman and child belonging to our party has ever been true to the country. It has never furnished a single recruit to the rebel army in the South, or to the no less traitorous Sons of Liberty in the North.

It had the courage to attack and destroy the institution of slavery, an institution that had corrupted and controlled every branch of the Government under Democratic rule and when it could rule no longer it lifted its wicked hand to strike at the life ot the nation.

This glorious party that you and I claim as ours, when the enemies of the country were in front and foes in the rear, and all was darkness and gloom on every hand, never despaired of the Republic, but prayed and fought and hoped on mid defeat and disaster until it had freed every slave and conquered every rebel. I am, therefore, proud that I am here tonight to say to you that in my opinion no nation can furnish a political party which has so proud a history as ours, and in all coming time the organization of the Republican party will be hailed, not only by the people of the nation, but all the nations of the earth, as the brightest feature in the world's history.

The foul blot of slavery destroyed the moral power of this nation among the nations of the earth.

Our claim that our country was the land of the free and the home for the oppressed, excited scorn and derision while we upheld a despotism in our midst that for cruelty and oppression was without any parallel, except in the darker ages of the world and among the barbarous nations of the earth. Our party wiped out the foul blot. We claim that glorious achievement as ours, and there is none who dare dispute our claim. The Democrats stood by the monster evil until the last. Even when for years it had caused the best blood of the nation to flow in defense of our national existence, after it had divided the nation and set up another gov ernment in our midst, yet still the Demo crats clung to it, and resisted the attempt to amend the Constitution to prohibit slavery in the country. We killed it. The Republicans did it, and when it was known that it was dead the whole rejoiced—oppressed and oppressor in all parts of the earth shouted glory, and nobody wept around the grave of the departed sinner, except the leaders of the Democratic party. They wept like Rachel mourning for her children, because they were not.

What a glorious work was done when the great obstacle in the way of peacelul government, the enemy of free speech, free schools, a free gospel, the corrupter of the public morals, was driven from the earth.

Talk about your reform parties and reformers. Here was a reformation wrought out by the Republican party that has no parallel in the world's history, and here was a blessing conferred on this nation that is beyond the power of tongue to tell.

A party that has courage enough to drive from the earth such a monster, a party that will take the chains from tne enslaved, and then declare them to be citizens of this free government, and then to make that citizedship secure to them for all time, place in their hands the ballot, that party must have in itself a high sen?e of justice and moral honesty, and cannot and will not pursue a policy not in accord with the best interests of tile people.

At all events I am content with it as a reformatory agency in politics. It is the best we can have, and if wrongs creep into the party let us cast them out, and right them inside the organization. We can never right them by joining hands with the enemy of all reforms.

I have been faithful to the organization in times past, and I propose to continue so in the time to come.

I had the honor to cast the first Republican Electoral vote that this, my native State, ever gave, and I regard it as the greatest honor that has ever been conferred on me. In 1860, being the first on the Electoral ticket, my name was first called when the Electoral College met, and I gave that vote for Abraham Lincoln, as the people of the State had instructed me to uo by their vote. It was he who led in this great reformation, and under his administration this great work was brought out.

We have had control of this government a little more than nine years, and the most or that time it has been a conflict with the enemies of free government. During all the first four years we had a gigantic war'with the rebels, and during the second four years we had a conflict with a corruptand treacherous

Executive,

who undertook to rule the country and unwarranted by the Constitution. He tried to thwart the will of the people by vetoing the laws passed by their representatives. He turned honest men out of office and put thieves in their places, and would have carried the country to destruction had not a Republican Congress passed such laws as to hinder and cripple his base ambition.

There was no peace under his administration. He was endeavoring to fan to a flame the dying embers of a unsuccessful rebellion. His treachery incited riots and blood-slied at the South, rendering person and property alike insecure, ana the financial policy of his administration was constantly changing, made a frequent and rapid fluctuation of values in the North, paralyzing trade and industry and prostrating business of all kinds. The revenues were collected and were wasted and stoleu, and the public mind was filled with unrest and foreboding.

Under these circumstances the Republican party nominated General Grant for Residency, and the people endorsed nomination at the election, ve™ and it came. His

SonTffJe

dent, stood ready at a moment's wanning, to aid him to punish the peace breakers, and they are ready to-day to do the same thing. "Now we have peace, perfect peace, and what is the result?

In the South both person and property are becoming more secure. Under the impetus of free labor they have better and more abundant crops^ and the country that war had made'a desolation and a wilderness, is now giving evidence of thrift and prosperity that has no parallel in any former period of her history.

With the blessings of peace will come to the South a constant and increasing influx of Northern immigration and capital, and mighty enterprises wrought out by the joint labor skill, and capital of the South and the North, will bind the two together with the bands of common interest and as slavery is wiped out, and the malignant spirits who led in the rebellion repenting of their sins, we will soon become a homogeneous people. We may then well sing with the poet: "A union of lakes and union of lands,

A union of States none shall sever A union of hearts and a union of hands, And the flag ot our Union forever."

All this is the result of the organization and perpetuity of the Republican party. Before 1860, for years the Democrats had the control, yet under their dispensa tion of affairs sectional hate constantly increased, so that long before the nation was turned over to us we had become two peoples, hating each other and filled with bitterness. With the overthrow of De mocracy, and the destruction of slavery, all these feelings of sectional hate and jealousy are rapidly passing away.

The policy of the Democracy was to nationalize slavery or dismember the Union. As both these purposes were at war with the best interests of humanity, they were not permitted to do either and the best judgment of the country is against them, and they are, and I trust, ever will be in a hopeless minority for the great wrongs they have inflicted on the country. For their adherence .to slavery they ought to be kept out of power for half a century at least.

I can see nothing in the past history or present position of the Democracy to commend them to the favorable consid eration of the country. They find fault with our financiering, but still I think we are doing very well. We are paying the national debt at the average rate of one quarter of a million per day, and con stantly reducing the taxes.

The Republican party intend to see that the last dollar is paid, and if they retain the power it will be paid at no distant day.

The State of Indiana when we took charge of it, had of course, under Demo cratic management, a debt of several millions. We have paid that debt. We have a currency that is sound and satisfactory—good alike all over the country. You do not have to be shaved by the brokers as we did in old Democratic times. In fact, the whole race of moneyshavers have all disappeared with the departure of the swindling Democratic banking system. You do not fail to remember what splendid financiers these Democrats have been in our State. You remember the free bank system, when they flooded the country with their bills, gathering gold dollars for their dollar bills of the people, and when the people called on them to redeem they paid them back from 25 cents to 60 cents for each in many of these banks. Ruin and bankruptcy was the result.

You may go to any Democratic county in the State, where they have the management of even county matters, and you will find the expense greater, and the taxes higher, than in the Republican counties. Yet in these

Democeatic coun

ties I do not hear that they propose to dismember their party and organize a Reform party. That policy is for Republican counties alone, that by that sort of hue and cry they may slip some hungry Democrat into office.

If there was any sincerity in the cry of reform they would begin it where it was most needed, and where they had the control. 1 would recommend to them this scripture: 'And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine eye?" Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: "Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye and behold a beam is in thine own eye?" "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the beam out of thy brother's eye."

All these pretended reform movements by the Democrats are mere delusion and fraud. Standby the Republican party, and by so doing the best interests of the country will be promoted. If we make a mistake as a party, let us not shut our eyes to it and blindly swear that it is right, as the Democrats do, but let us acknowledge our error and eo back to the right.

We may have made mistakes, and who does not? But whether we have or not, we have saved the country from dismemberment we have destroyed the only enemy to the nation's peace and perpetuity and we have as we ought to have, the confidence of the people. I feel very much like the German I met in Southern Indiana in the campaign of 1868. He said to me that he used to be a Democrat, and that his wife was a Democrat yet, and that when he started to the Repub lican meeting his wife said to him: "John, you promised me that when slavery was abolished, that you would come back and go mit me mit the Democratic party

What you tinks I said to her? I said "Betsy, I know I tid, but I tell you dem Republican fellers have done so well. I dinks now I shall stay mit them all the time.'1'1

I said that there is nothing in the present position of the Democracy to challenge the confidence of the people There is an improvement in the platform in this: that there is not so much of it.

What is left of it, however, is the same sort of declarations that have character ized that party for many years.

We miss some familiar resolves that used to stand out plump and full and give the platform a finished appearance. One was the declaration that the fugitive slave law was to be enforced, and an other was that there was to be no further agitation of the slavery question.

Without these the platform, like the party itself, has a lean and hungry look But they can not be used any longer there are no slaves to be fugitives, and there is no slavery question to agitate. The last agitation, gotten up by the Democracy themselves, was too much for it, and it died in the operation.

They used to resolve in favor of the rights of the States, as defined in the celebrated Kentucky resolutions of 1798. The sort of States Rights was the right of the State to nullify and set aside any law of Congress that the State concluded to hold unconstitutional. This extra ordinary doctrine was brought into existence in the interest of slavery, and its baleful and poisonous doc trines prepared the public mind for the fatal step of secession. But that doctrine is dead it died with slavery, and in one common tomb they are buried. Yet, we find in the resolutions of the last Convention of the Democracy of this State, a lingering fondness for this exploded heresy. They denounce the reconstruction measures as an invasion of State Rights, and have much to say about the rights and dignity of the several States. Tne only excuse for the use of the dead

Ine only excuse tor the use Of the dead

language of the defunct slave oligarchy

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The Republican party have been sound

o.. this question from the first, and they hold the same Views yet. Their organi-

zation was the resurrection and the life

of the old doctrine

the framers of the

Govern ment—that the bond of union for the States was the Constitution, and that that immortal instrument is, what it claims to be, the supreme'law of the [CONCLUDED ON THIRD PAGE.]

NO NO

Goods are lower within ten years.

WISE.

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Manufacturer of

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All kinds of goods made to order for mechanical and manufactured purposes. All goods sold at manufacturing prices.

F0STEB BBOTHEKS.

WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED

BETWEEN FRANCE AUD PRUSSIA!

LOOK OUT FOR A RISE IN tiOLD!

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Agents lor all tha Principal Manufacturers, ld3m 49 West Fourth st.f Cincinnati

WATCHES.

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BRONZE

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Heavy Double Cases, equal to 8100 to

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tablisuea habit. time to a Gold Watch costing 9250.

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AND A—-

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Froiii France and Germany we draw immense supplies of almost all kinds of Manufactured Goods. THIS WAR WILL STOP A MILLION OF SPINDLES.

DRY GOODS MUST BE HIGHER

Ever on the alert, and believing from the first that War was inevitable, we have been quietly purchasing very largely of such goods as would advance |tlie most. This enables us to announce

TO OUR CUSTOMERS

THAT, FOR THE PRESENT, THERE WILL BE

ADVANCE IN OUR ADYANC IN OUR

We Stand by Those Who Have Stood by Us!

True to their interests, we do not propose to advance our prices a single cent until all our stock is exhausted.

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY!

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CARPETS of all kinds away down. Thirty cts. up.

Splendid 12-1 Honey-Comb Quilts only §1.45. Handsome Fringed Towels, all linen, 9c each. Elegant lines of Black and Colored Silks. Popiins, Grenadines, Dagmar Cloths, Shawls, Lace Points, Hosiery and Underwear, Cloths, Jeans and Cassimeres, White Marseilles, Hickory, Denims and Cheeks, Table Linens and Napkins, Parasolsand Sun Umbrellas, &c., &s., all new and bought with CASH since the great decline.

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