The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-09-26
Hen Geo. = Pendleton's Speech at
Hartford, Connecticut.


of the land, and especially his most beauti-
ful and eloquent euIogy upon the Constitu-
ton, viii touch the heart of every lover of
his country viii yibrate through every fibre
of our better nature and make us love more
ardently and strive more earnestly to per
petuate Its immortal exeeIIencies.
AN ELOQUENT PERORATION.
THE CLOSING SENTENCES OF \ SUBLIME AND
BEAUTIFUL ADDRESS
Now, I say that the true policy of the
United States Is to pay the hondholders ex-
actly what we promised This Is the only
way to relieve the laborer of his burdens;
this Is the only way TO relieve the burdens of
the country to make it easier for the people
TO pay their taxes; to make it easier for
them to gain living DO this and pros
perity will again return, your fields will
again be fertile, your industry will flourish.
The Republican party Is opposed to this
whole system. They are in favor of not
paying off but of funding the bonds Ac-
cording to their plan the funded debt would
have forty years TO run at A per cent. inter
est-payable, both principal and interest, in
gold and the bonds shall not be subjee5 to
taxation, neither by the State nor the Fed
eral Government Well, gentlemen, | OBJ
iect with the gold Standing at 14)-perhaps
las If you convert these bonds into gold
bonds now, you will add S700,000,000 to the
amount of the debt; you make 1t impossible
to pay the debt in FIVE years If it amounts
TO 8, 100000, GOO, and you pay t per cent
gply, it viii amount to Sl00,OO0,000 a year
in gold for interest. If you pay this sum
for forty years, you will, at the end of forty
years, have paid S4,001000,000, and at the
end will still have the debt Of s., 800, 000, 900
h .,f
you will live that time ? How many even of
your children will be alive at the end Of
forty years 2 Year by year you will have
to 60 on paying this enormous amount.
y ear by year it Will come out of the blood
and bones, and toll, and sweat of your
children. Do you know what a national
debt means 1t means that the rich shall
be richer, and the poor poorer. 1t means
that capital shall be exempted from taxation
and the laborer bear all the burden 1t
means for those wha labor for their daily
bread, scant clothing, brown bread, and no
meat 1t means that capital shall pamper
/ idleness IN luxury that squalOr shall pre-
side over the cabins Of the poor; and that
his daily struggles for daily bread shall make
his life a constant death / see before me
to night many young man, and [ can see in
his beaming eye and intelligent face the
| hope that lies at the bottom Of his heart
and TO hope that he viii be able then to trade
on the capital which his industry and fru-
| gality have saved. He has his day dream
! and his night dream. He sees a snug home
/ lighted up with the smile of love, and noisy
/ with the prattle of infant tOngues-made
! sacred by the presence of a wife and a
! mother-surrounded within and without by
| those rays of cOntentment which plenty and
/ prosperity shed. Young men, are you viii
] Srirr oh cd of
I future, and to consent for all your lives that
| taxation shall take from you all except what
| is necessary for your food and clOthingf
! Voices" No, nognever. No, gentlemen,
! do not yield to this syren voice, that which
/ persuades you to extend the debt and reduce
! the interest. Pay the debt and save the in
! terest That will answer your purpose. That
will insure your future. Immense ap-
! plause
| But, gentlemen, passing away from this
subject Of the material interests Of this
| country, on which l have dwelt longer than
! l intended, let me again call your attention
| to this fact, that the great pole star of the
! Democratic party is the Constitution of the
/ United States Applause DO not, my
! fellow-citizens, in the heat OF this arduOus
| contest do not forget that great lesson. The
| Republican party believes they can amend
! it; that they can change it and make it
! it in the days Of old. T'NeYer, never" and
shouts of applause. 1 charge it upon you.
! Democrats, that are here tonight, never to
! consent 20 an amendment or its degreda-
| tiOn. Do not seek to amend it; do not seek
! to change it; do not seek to evade It, Obey
| it Immense applause 1t was good
| enough for your Fathers. 1t is good enough
for you. II you obey it, it will be good
enough for your children for one hundred
] fo { hon mil
! a living presence in all the walks Of your
daily life. Take it to your homei read it to
| your WIFE teach 1t to your children; put It
| upon your family altar, that when you bow
your head in supplicating prayer it may be
there next to the image of God himself
! Immense applause do this and in His
own good time you viii be able to raise 1t
up to that place and power to which the
brazen serpent in the wilderness was raised
in order that the plague might be stayed.
Do this and you will be able to raise it up
to that high place of honor to which the
Ark of the Covenant was raised, round
which the unseen legions of the Almighty
kept ward and guard, that ne VINO touched
it with unciean hands should die. Ap-
plause Remember, fellow citizens, that
the Constitution contains within itself all
that was good in the experiences Of the
past, and all that is hopeful In the prospects
midst Of the food which IS upon as. 1t may
be tossed in the blackness of darkness upon
the weary waters for many days, but It viii
rest upon the mountain top at last; the sun
f will shine, the dove will leave it never to
return, and now as then, emblem Of purity,
and liberty, and peace che will seek to re-
build her habitations amidst the scenes Of
her former life. Cheers l do not de-
! spair. ] have hope in the aspirations OF
men l have hope in the providence Of God
know that the pathway Of history Is strewn
with the wrecks Of empires, and peoples,
? and constitutions, and liberty; and It may
: be in the providence Of God that this coun-
try Of ours will follow in the wake of all
nations that have gone before If 1t shall
be 50, let It not be owing 70 the faults or
misfortunes Of the Democratic party. Great
cheering. If it must be so, let It be known
! that it was the party Of our love that stood
? to the last with heroic virtue, to the prInc'
, pies of civil liberty. If it must be so, let as,
my fellow citizens, take consolation IN the
thought that in the eternal circles of God