Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-09-04
WHOLE NUMBER 282.

States are the only feasible organism BY
which this people, or their children, can
eventually resist organized tariff sWind-
ling. All individual opposition is feeble
against this kind Of tyranny. Itis like
that of a single man to a mob.
Don't let us mistake ourselves. Our
elections are only drag-nets for the dom
lnant party. Persuasion is first used to
catch the gudgeons, next fraud to beatthe
obstinate, and force is always prepared to
put down any resistance, which cannot be
reached by the other two ways.
All the niger questions are provender
for electioneering purposes. They are
means to an end. That end is money
money for New England capital.
There is therefore but one. I again
say bit one fact worthy of our serious at
tention, and from it radiate all the other
grievances. It is, First: That we have
among US several States the people where
Of are not satisfied to get rich under equal
laws, and who want tariffs and bounties
through which to levy tribute upon other
peoples industry. Second That this
craving for the abuses of the Federal
authority has spread over the country
like contagious pestilence, and now has
its ramifeatiOns in our national banks, in
insurance Ompanies-oWnedE East, or part
East,-in whisky smuggling, in vast rail
road schemes, and in all kinds of enter
prises. All the public immortality, all
our political corruption arises from this
now prevailing vice in a part of our peo-
pie, whose virus is to want to live through
some abuse Of Federal power without reg
ular work.
This vice IS represented and incorpo-
rated in the Union Leagues and all the
workings of the Republican party. That
organization is not, as was charged in
1924, . union of the Puritan and the
blackleg;;" is the union of the civil and
military ambitious men, the small office
seeker, the banker, the manufacturer and
the Puritan. Verify, it is a strong COM
binatiOn. 1t is the conjunction of the
social fanatic with the political knave.
Negro suffrage J More degradation of
the ballot-box Well, and what Of itY
We have not had a fair ballot-box for
some time. Our party conventions and
the Union Leagues have stolen it long
ago. Now the negroes are to try their
hand at it. Much good may it do them.
For thirty years have I, with the help
Of good friends, tried the ballot box to
keep out bad men and to put in good
men, and when you ask me, 'Watchman,
what of the nightP I have to admit the
bad men are ahead.
What difference will black votes make?
Elections will only cost more, for the
more votes the more ambition has to paw
to get in, and the more itcheats after is
gets in. The people are under an infat-
nation. They see in every Democrat q
fearful ghost. They have beaten US
again and again, and still they are afraid
Of US. This can't last always. Even
Vallandigham has ceased to frighten
crowds. The rest Of Us rebels, traitors
and COpperheads, will yet, if we will but
bear untiring testimony against evil, be
as fellOw-citizens, good for
something else besides being knocked
over at elections. There is too much
wrong in the Republican party to last
very long. Let US then bide our time,
caring only to be right in our princip-
es, and to testify on all proper occasions
n their behalf For this have I spoken
O-day, and I feel thankful for the op-
you have afforded me.