The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-09


their documents ready; for what? Simply TO hle
them in Congress some day-and that near, they
tbink-and claim compensation toT them. The
moment New England sent lts returns, AMI
Pennsylyania appeared above ground with its
action, their expectations arose. and they await
an opportunity to get into Congress. But you
say, Don't fear, they VIII never do It," Oonsl-
should send back D delegate to Congress- what
would be IFS 6tst efort-its first practical effort
There would be bill brought on the national
debt--a financial measure suggested TO the
Secretary Of the Treasury-or a bill calling
upon the country to pay the Federal debt. The
South would say, 'Gentlemen, acknowledge
ours and we will guarantee yours" But some
Of you say, Congress would never allow that
us members would not permit that Friends,
Congress is not made up exclusively OF saints.
(Appause) Now and ther some black sheep
some wavering, easily won men, by some myste-
rious accident, truly unaccountable, wrggle
into Congress. IL we could have the Steyenses,
the Shermans, the Summers, and the Fe sendens,
men who have been giving bonds for the love
they felt for their children, and will leave
honored names for their heirs to bear, we
should have no such fear. But men wrgge up,
nobody knows how, and can be easily led,
having no declsiveness of character. Such were
the men, when in 1S46 Texas stood ut the door,
and It's scrip holder said, Here is million of
dollars worth of Texas bonds, you may have
them for five dollars a hundred to-day.
You can easily pass measures to have them
mature and make great profits" THIS was
something. Some of the members say, "Ah,
to let Texas in; those bonds will mature, and
we will make riches.n Suppose South Carolina or
Georgia should produce million dollars worth
Of paper stuff, and ask simply twenty-five cents
currency or five dollars in gold-they would
vote right off to have the paper mature, and the
million of dollars bought for five dollars-a nice
financial scheme, in which lots otmoney would
be made, and the greatness of the South vndi-
Gated. They speak to these wriggling parties in
Congress- and tell them of the scheme. They
say in reference to the introduction of a bill for
paying the Confederate debt, its flavor is bad
it savors too much of the South; but the South
ern men say, "Well, suppose you compensate us
for our slaves set frees give us sometbing-let
us trade-let us trade ~
wEARE A GREAT PEOPLE.
Let South Carolina be compensated for her
slaves-the national credit would be depre.
ciated, the bonds would sink, and a voice would
come up from the sea-board, from hundreds of
thousands Of families, saying, grant anything,
but only save the credit And when the great
emergency would seem so near, the people
would say, grant anything; and the object of the
Southern people would be accomplished. But
there never was such a people as ours. They
are as true to-day in 1862; and the warriors Of
this nation have made up their minds that this
eroch is the epoch of justice, and with their
trusted leaders they are determined to show it
to the world. (Aoplause.J
The intellect of this great nation is like the
| intellect of 1862, the molten lava which cries
| out, "Stamp me with any name but let it be
| the name of liberty" They want the world to
| know that they as a people will make this ma
tion just nation for all time; and they will do
| it. This is the condition OF the nation. From
| the action of the Democratic party the response
| from Ohio, the Seymours Pendletons, Vallan-
dighams, Woods, and others, the nation has
| learned lesson What gave us the defeat in
| Ohio, Connecticut, and the other States? what
| did this bnt the action of the Republican party
| itself, which tore up the programme into frag-
| ments, instead of keeping 1t whole. When, in
| 1867, it was declared by Congress in the Consti-
| tutional Amendment that the necessity of the
| hour demanded negro suffrage as a national
| measure, it was sent out as policy which the
| nation in its hour of peril demanded-enunci-
ated by the Republican party as method to
save the integrity and honor of the nation.
| And if now this great easure is TO be stricken
| away in an hour by men coming from the South,
| feeling themselves endorsed in their rebellious
| pOlcy-and will delay its workings say that
we are in the trough of the sea, instead of riding
| on its waves. And until we set forth by a
| grand declaration that the measures which
| the nation adopted in its drest hours shall be
| upheld, the bonds of this nation-made to sus
tain the country and to aid in vindicating Its
| honor and power-are in constant peril.
WHITE OR BLACK PUPILS?
| l have had a conversation with fit represen.
| tatiVe of portion of the Southern people: 8
| man with whom spent day, born in North
| Carolina, a Presbyterian clergyman, and pro
fessor in college in Southern State, protes'
sor of moral philosophy, and man who was
forced into the late Rebellion because every
| body went into it, survived and went back to
| his professorship when the war ceased. Having
| QDlsnSu tue GRASSES III tue udy lllue, ue WbuJ Ou
and taught the negroes in the night time. Nc
| sooner aid his white students hear of this than
they said to him:-"Professor, if you teach
| negroes in the evening you can't teach us in the
| day time. Chooselh He replied:-"l do choose
| the negroes in the eVening!' (Applause.) An6
| in speaking of the reputation of the Southern
debt he said-"You made us repudiate the debt
we submitted. You have put it upon record
we have done ii, too but if ever we get inside
| OF the walls of Congress, and don't pay every
dollar Of that debt, or exhaust all our efforts II
| trying TO pay 1t, we are the verest sooundre
God ever createdn If this is the purpose of {
Presbyterian clergyman, professor of mora
philosophy, a retired scholar, what do yol
expect and think of the thousands of people
who live in that section of country and tn
Democratic wire-pullers in that vicinity!
OUR DEBT A MORAL ELEMENT
And what effect will all this have on tn
finances of the country? Don't think max
too much of finance; don't think | dwell to-
much upon it; don't say / make too much OF tn
debt. Debt is simply word of dollars and cent
in France. Debt Is only question OF coin ant
paper in England. But debt in America IS
moral element. What makes the difference be
tween the American mechanic and laborer an
the Dutch French, and Italian! This is II
When Saturday night comes to that American
laborer, he has a dollar left after buying al
| necessary for the subsistence OF his tamlly-thl
| to have for Christmas which, when it comes
will find him better of, with something TO buy
book, paper, 60 to lecture, or in sending hl
son to gain an education at some academy
This is the great method in which American
hive, every succeeding generation CONSTANT
stepping higher.
With the German peasant it is a recurring
wish that tomorrow may be as good as wa
yesterday. A Yankee never made that prayer