The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1868-09-19
3)0litirai.
Pen dleton's Speech at Hartford. Conn.
AN ELOQUENT PERORATION.
THE CLOSING SENTENCES OF sUBLIMR AND
BEAUTIFUL. ADDRESS

Now, say that the true policy of the United
States is to paw the bond-holder exactly what we
promised. This is tie 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
prosperity will again return, your fields will
again be fertile, Your industrv win flourish.
The republican party opposed to this whole
system. They are III i-vor of not p; ying OH, but
of funding the bonds, According to their plan
the funded debt would have 40 years to run at
AZ per cent iaterest payable both principal and
interest in gold and the bonds shall not be sub
ject to taxation, neither by the state nor the fed
eral government. Well, gentlemen, l object,
with gold standing at 140--perhaps 145. If you
convert tnese bonds into gold bonds now, you
will add $1JU,000,000 to the amount of the debt /:
you make il impossible to pay the debt in five
pay per cent. only, it will amount to 500, 000-
600 year in gold FOR interest. If you pay this
sum for 10 years. you will. vt the end of 40 years.
have paid $4,000, 900, 900 besides Forty years
Why how many OF you will live that time How
MAJ even of your children will be alive at the
end u 40 years Year by year you will have to
go on paving this enormous amount. Year by
year it Will come out of the blood and bones. and
toll, and sweat of your children. Do you know
rich shall be rich and the poor ,Ie.. Itmeans
that capital shall be exempted from tax .,ion, and
the laborer bear all the burden. 1t lp ans Tor
those who labor for their daily bred. mt clo-
thing, brown bread. and no meat y ~ ms that
capital shall pamrer idleness in luxury; that
squalor shall preside over the cabins OF the poor
and that his daily struggles Tor daily bread shall
make his life constant death. can see before
me tonight many young man, and can see in
his heaminu eva and intellipent face the hoDe
that lies at the / .em of his heart. He Is will
ling TO labor on i.r few years, and to hope that
ne will be able then to trade the capital which
his industry and frugality have saved. He has
his day dream and his night dream. He sees
snug home lighted up with the smile of love, and
noisy with the prattle Of infant te,yues-made
sacred by the presence OF wife and mother
surrounded within and without by those rays of
contentment which plenty and prosperity shed.
Young men, are you willing to give up those
cherished hopes of the future, and to consent for
all your lives that taxation shall take from you
all except what is necessary for your food and
clothing? lNoicos-"No, no, never" No, gen.
ternen. do not yield to this syren voice, that
which persuados you TO extend the debt and re-
duce the interest Pay the debt and save the in
terest. That will answer your purpose. That
will insure your future Immense applause.)
But, gentlemen, passing sway from this sub
jsct of the material interests of the country, on
which have dwelt longer than l intended, let
me again call your attention to this fact-that
the great pole stsr of the democratic party is the
constitution 81 the United States. Applause.
Do nes my all0w-cioizen., in the hea of this
arduous cont ,t DO not forget that great lesson
The republican parry believe they can amend it ;
that they can change it and make it a better con-
stitution than our fathers made it in the days of
old. Never, never and shouts of applause.
l charge it TO you, democrats that are here to-
Rlglt, never TO consent 10 amendment or its
degradation. Do not seek to amend it do not
seek to change it; do not seek to avade it. Obey
1t. Immense applause. 1t was good enough
for your fathers. 1t ia good enough for you. ii
you obey it, it will be good enough Tor your
children for one hundred years to come Study
it, understand it. Garry it about with you az a
living presence in all the walks Of your daily
life. Take it to your home read it to your wife,
teach 1t to your children; put it upon your fam
aly altar, that when you bow your head in sup
plicatng prayer it may be there next to the i'm
age Of God himself Immense applause Do
this, and then in His own good time you will be
able to rai.e it ap to that place and power to
which the brazcn serpent in she wilderness was
raised In order that the plague might be stayed
40 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
leglons of the Almighty kept ward and guard
that he who touched it with impious hands
should die. Applause. Remember, fellow
citizens, that the constitution contains within it.
sell all that was good in the experiences of the
past, and all that is hopeful in the prospects of
the future, 1t is the ark of safety in the midst
OF the flood which is upon us. It may be tossed
an the blackness of darkness upon the weary
waters OF many days, but it will rest upon the
mountain top at last; the sun will shine, the dove
Will leave it never 20 return, and now AZ then,
emblem OF purity, and liberty and peace, she will
seek to rebuild her habitations amidst the scenes
OF her former life Cheers. l do not despair
have hope in the aspirations of men, | 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 lib.
erty; and it may be in the providence of God
that this country OF ours will follow in the wake
OF all nations that have gone before. If it shall
oe so, let it not be owing to the faults or isfor.
Sunes OF the democratic party. [Great cheering |
Al II must DO so, let it be known that it was the
party OF our love that stood to the last, with her
one virtue to tho principles Of civil liberty If
IL must be 50, let us, nay fellow-citzens, take
consolation in the thought that it is the precursor
OF resurrection; and that the same principles
which hasten nations to decay, contain within
themselves the spark OF living fire. which secure
undying youth to our immortal race [Grsat
applause.
Time writes no wrinkles on It's fair Young brow
Such as creations dawn beheld it seems there nov
Amidst the wrecks Of time its progress is still
onward and upward, higher and still higher.
AM, And. from m, n; sky serene and far.
Excelsior"
Higher; ~ tho eagle when no takes his fight
In the face OF the sun. Higher as the stars. when
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