Buchanan County bulletin and guardian., 1868-10-02
For the Bulletin.
MIR. FOUKE'& SPEECH.
Patriotism, and DIS.
Crimjnuting Justice.v

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| EDITOR BULLETIN On last evening
had the exalted privilegeof hearing the Hon
Mr.. Fouke, Of dubuque, address IN audience
il the Court House in this city The cour,
room was pretty well filled, there being a
yoodly number Of Republicans present The
| speaker, in order to convince the audience
Of his disintercs,ed patriotism, informed
them that he was not an Office seeker, that
he was entirely content with his humble po'
sition IL the nation. and that under no cir
cum stances whatever would be consent to
suck the public ,cat; hence he came to en-
Ii /.s-n them only. for the good Of his coun-
Try.
lie claimed that the Democratic party
possessed the three requisite qualifications
to preserve and perpetuate the liberty and
prosperity Of this Government, viz: Intel"
ligence, Patriotism and Discriminating Jus
ticc, and should therefore, having these emf
nent qualifications, be again placed in con,
troll of the government.
Intelligence! Patriotism Discrimina>
ting Justicc! /!
Intelligence. view Of the speakers &C.
knowlcdged intelligence, l was surprised to
to hear him claim this qualification for the
Democratic party Of the present day, in a
large degree as compared with their oppo>
nents, the great party Of progress and moral
reform. -
Patriotism.--In view Of the history Of this
country for the last eight years, four years
Of which is written in the blood Of Northern
patriots, spilled mainly by Democratic hands,
is it not bold presumption for stump
orator to appear before an audience compo-
sed mainly Of the party claiming all the in
telligcnce Of the country, and claim patriots
ism to be one of the saving qualifications
that should recommend the Democratic par
ty as worthy and safe TO be entrusted with
the control OF this Government again
Discriminating Justice. On this subject
the speaker dwelt long and laboriously, and
to sum it all up he only endeavored to show
that the Democratic party have the "Intel>
ligence, Patriotism and Discriminating JUS
,ice" that would enable them in the admins
istration of Justice TO discriminate between
white man and black one, or between a
white rebel and black patriot and in ia
vor Of the former. The speaker totally dis
carded social equality, and political equality
is, according to his own theory, only equals
ity before the law, that is in q court Of jus>
tice Justice is administered TO all alike !;
not TO white men and black alike, but to a
poor white man and rich white man equal
", the black man or man of any other color
than white being unknown before the law in
the administration of justice, because this is,
or should be, white mans Government.
He endeayored in his remarks on the f.
nancial question 10 show that the people Of
this country are at present more heavily tax
ed than any other people on the face Of the
earth, and he had Just one argument by
which to prove it, aud that was that he wore
n coat for which he informed his hearers he
paid $40, aud some ten years since he had
another coat for which lie paid SIS, conse>
quenily he paid els Government tax on the
Goa. that he now wears. That settled the
tax question beyond al dispute.
He Informed his hearers that one item Of
the expense of the Freedmen's Bureau had
been something like $l,s0o,000 for trans-
portation. This he positively informed us
was for transporting worthless niggers from
one election precinct to another TO vote the
Radical ticket. Oh, what whopper! And
the speaker knew il and so did the majority
Of his audience, If it was well told and we'll
emphasized.
In conclusion he compared the Govern>
ment to watch in which some ofthe wheels
had got to running badly, or had underta'
ken to run on their own account indepeu>
dently of the balance Of the wheels in the
watch, and that it had been q very difficult
matter 10 stop their 30 running.
He admitted that Gen. Grant had proved
himself competent to detect the bad moves
ment of those wheels, ana had shown to the
entire satisfaction of the people that be was
eminently qualified to stop them in their mad
career, but Of course denied that he had any
qualification for making the necessary re-
pairs and setting the watch to running again,
but claimed that Horstio Seymour and "his
friends" were eminently qualified TO repair
and ses the machine 10 running harmonis
ouslv,
Now ia il NOT reasonable 70 suppose that
the man who could detect the false moves
men. Of the wheels, and possessed the In.
telligence, Patriotism and Discriminating
Justice' that proved him competent 20 stop
them, is better qualified to make the neces>
sary repairs and set them to running prop
srly than one Who on looking atthe watch did
perhaps discover that there was something
wrong but possessed " Intelligence, Patriot.
lam and Discriminating Justice" in such
small degree that he was scarcely able to de-
sermine which OF the wheels we're running
wrong and which should bestopped? Would
,here not be great danger that he would make
q mistake and undertake TO tinker that part
of the watch that WAS all the time right and
make it rua in harmony with the part that
had been wrong?
lie said that this watch was very fine
one, that it was an heir loom, handed down
to us BY our fathers. This we admit, and
that il has cost us great deal to preserve
from the hands Of Democratic quack watch
doctors, and We cannot now afford to put
our national watch into any such hands for
repairs. We want it repaired 90 that It will
keep good time for ages after the Democrats
ic auack watch doctors are all dead and for
gotten. And therefore We propose 20 entruss
it 10 the hands Of those who saved il from
being entirely destroyed by Wrestling it from
the hands of the quacks.