The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-04
FlRST EDITIO N
SHELLS IN THE ENEMYs CAMP.
pcech of the Hon. GalusbR A. Grow at
PDuxhkeepsts, N. Y.

speech of the Hon. GaIusba A. Grow at
POugbkcepsts, NJ Y.
Pine Hall, POughkeepsie, was nlIed OF, on @ SatuI-
day evening to listen to the HON. Gaiusna 1ooa a.
Grow OF Pennsy vania, who deh7eTeu CheIaC- ~
teristic speech of rare poWet ana elOq ,tnce'
that met with frequent and hear'y applause
AA Fsinlo8-citizens:-I MAY, 1854, the Democratic
Marty repealed the Missouri COmpro Mise and
enacted the Kansas Nebraska bill. The devotee
OF slavery thought he had secured by that act
the peIpetuality of human bondage, and he
went forth with FIRE aud sword 70 plant II IN
the territories OF the Union. Thirteen years
have passed away; and the sun, in its course
from ocean TO ocean, no longer rises on master
or sets on slave. (Applause) Thirteen event
tul ears, in which changes have been wrought
in habits Of thou9 ut and in the organization OF
society which IN the ordinary course OF events
would have required perhaps centuries to ac-
cOmplIsh. We stand to-day on the line that
divides the Old from the New-the dispensatlon
of oppression and wrong from that OF liberty aud
rilh.. New duties and respOns bllitles are upon
American citizens Four years OF war have
wasted $4,000, 600 600 OF treasure and
half million of martyrs, and covered
the land with mourning and filled 1t
with tears, in a struggle 10 determine whether
the Will OF the majority should be The Law OF the
land. The Democrats, Initiating the example OF
Mexico and the South American Republics, ap-
ppaled from the balotbox 10 the car,rldge-OOy.
The OILY men who voluntarily took mp arms 10
destroy the Republic called themselves Demo-
Gratis. Their cry during the war was "Imme-
.dlate cessation of hostIlities"-now the same
cry in ar other form, "Immedate restoration of
the Rebels to power.D After referring to the
general course OF the Democratic party during
the war, the incitement of rios, encouragement
OF drafts, opposition to emancipation aud It's
ratification by Constitutional amendment, AMI
their cooperation with the President to thwart
the plans OF Congress, he said:-Andrew John
son Will yet learn that of all the poor invest
ments made by ambition in The affairs Of men,
intidelity to liberty Is the poorest aud the worst
"Far desreT tue grave or me prison
II umd by o, pa!ri nt name, -,
han 1 fhpf frOn ~ a all
on Liberty 5 ruins to fame"
He will go to coming time covered with all
the intamy that backens tue Iscariot names OF
history. (Applause.) After discussing the re-
construction measures passed by Congress, the
speaker said ou required no punishment, no
cor iscaton, no disqualiicat on at the ballot
box, no indemnity Tor the past, batyo demanded
as q bond of security for the iuu that every
person born on American soil or naturalized
thereon is an American citizen, entitled to the
rights and immunitles OF citizenship. 1t is but
anew Years since by the Supreme Court of the
United States declared, as the spirit and genius
OF your institutions, that every seventh man.
citizen. and could not sue or be
sued in its courts. You slammed the
door of justice in the face of men be.
cause they were poor, despised, and friend
lese Two hundred thousand of this prescribed
race wore the uniform and kept step 10 the
music of the Union. Thirty thousand of them
the battles of country from which they never
received aught but stripes aud bonds When
the Rebel at Port Hudson shouted over his
Tamparts, "No quarter to the nigger," he
hurled back the cold defiance, 'No quarter it
is" and, butting his musket, laid low every
Rebel within his reach. loud applausel
When at the hour of midnipht he scaled the
eaIthworks of Wagner, leaving his Colonel dead
in the ditch, he stood there amidst its IRON hail,
side by side with his white companion in arms,
till ordered to retreat. (keneTetdl ana gTeat ap-
plause.) When Payne, at the battle OF Chapm's
Farm, on the James, ordered his 9lack brigade
to carry the enemy's works without hrin5 a
gun, they marched over the held plougheo with WIN
shot aud shell. and carried the works; the DAY
was ours but the field was streWn
with black heroes. Such are the
men against whom the Iepubhc closed It's doors
of Justice and whom it outlawed as American
citizens nation that allows its defenders in
the hour OF peril ever after to wear the chain,
or, bruised and MANNED IN its defense, ever alter
to submit to outrage and wrong without redress
in its courts OF justice, deserves to die and viii
as sure as there is justice in heaven or retribu-
tiOn on earth. applause, and cries OF GOOD"
Justice to yourselves, gratitude 10 the nations
defenders, require that you make this provision
so plain that no judicial blindness hencetorth
shall tail TO read and understand it. (Great ap'
plause.) Your offers of reconciliation, so
magpanimous in their terms were spurned
by the Rebels. Then Congress passed
the bill allowing the black man to vote
Now If it be an evil to allow the black man tC
vote, who is responsible for it bat Johnson and
his Democratic allies in advising the Rebels
to reject your profers? The fruits OF the
policy of Congress are seen in the restoration o
are the massacres OF Memphis and New Orleans
aud the blood OF Union men all over the South,
In reference 10 finances, the National debt,-hC
said that the faith of the nation was pledged to
payment of its debt, dollar tor dollar; but ans
discussion whether 1t is to be paid in gold oI
paper seemed to him of little consequence at tho
present time. Before paying any OF the funded
debt the country must of course resume specie
payment. That would settle how it is to be paid
The scheme TO pay our debts by taking up oul
bonds and giving our notes he thought was ONLY
changing the name without changing the sub
stance. The Republican party IS the only party
that has Vlgilantly investigated tha conduct o.
its own officials, and openly Iepudiated them i
unworthy OF trust. The Republican party
was not responsible for Andrew JohnsOnt
appointments. most of whom were Democrats,
and they could not expect fidelity in men who
sold their princpl for "bread and butter.
daughter and cheers.l The speaker made an
earnest appeal for every voter to at end the
polls on Tuesday next; for unless the Democrats
guns and claim victory. They fred guns over
Maine, when Republican Governor was
elected by about IA 900. They fred guns over
Ohio, where the Republican majority was about
5000, and over Iowa, where II Was 30 000 They
were the most thankful for small favors OF any
party he ever Enew. daughter and cheers.) I'm
concluding, be urged every man to be faith 'ul
IN attending the election, so that whatever dis
4sters might beiall tie country. each could feel
mat he had done his duty. (Applause.)
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The Weston Walking Match.
a. weston reached Sterling Hill Conn, at 6 A.
M, oh saturday, but was Obliged to lie by toI
pSetal hours On account of injuries received al