The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-29
THE ISSUES.
THO sneech of Hon. John T. HOnT
Last Evening. -

and SAUL
Citizens of Philadelr' -. :. ,oo,.,n ovo-
this vast assembage, SsFs;gotn looking Oyer ta
know that my volc' an % nilee WIN will IeS Bars oS
It. look upon s O1u9Us ssae aeTHn SemoSstTatIon in
my eSI as herr constitutional liberty, OF union,
s,t1 Ioor @cNy. Coming from nelghe oring
what Ss upon your battle m rom ging a,S[ aSSnsf
J" >ccal power in the country and in Pennsyl-
<ania, l feel an irresistible desire to take part
IN the contest in order that | might share with
you the victory which / feel you are going to
win, i come, as you know very we'll from
city which shares with you the glories OF the
country and the Uniou, and which FEELS as you
do, every stab which is made at it. The people
whom i represent at home join with you, the
people of Philadelphia, in wishing that those
things for which you and they fought during
four years Of bloody war may be realized, aud
that the great objects for which the patriotic
people suffered during SO many anxious years
may not be defeated by the fanatclsln OF any
party or class OF men.
The radical party came into power in this
country by minority vote. They have been IN
power nearly eight years, and the people OF the
United Stales OF America are now about to call
them to account. Eight years OF absolute DO Wer
with the control of both houses OF Congress,
the control of nearly every Northern State, un-
limited amounts OF money at their command,
and the support of the people every where to
sustain them They carried this people through
the war upon professions of loyalty and patriot
ism, They declared that the object OF the war
was to pre- serve the Union of the States, and at
the same time to maintain the rights OF the
States. They declared that the war was not
waged in any spirit of subjugaton, bat for the
sole purpose of maintaining the authority of the
Union and the supremacy OF the flag.
President Lincoln himself declared that the
eole object OF the Northern people in maintain
ing the war against rebellion and secession
was to preserve the Union and the Government
That il IN order TO do that ii was necessary to
make slaves Tree, he was in favor OF freeing the
slaves; but If in order 10 save the Government
aud the Union 1t was necessary TO maintain
slavery, he believed in so dong. The people of
this country, for the sake OF preserving the
Union and the authority of the flag over this
whole broad domain, gave forth their hundreds
of thousands OF brave men to 60 upon the
battlefield, aud offered their thousands Of
sustain the Government. (Appause) Tue
victories which were won are no party victories.
The patriotism of the whole people sustained
households which were made desolate by the
loss OF husbands fathers, ald sons, just as there
were Republican households which we're
placed in mourning for lost husbands, fathers,
and sons. The people, without regard to party,
sent forth their men and gave their money, and
the people, without regard TO party, now
demand that the things for which they fought
and for which they suffered shall be realized
and enjoyed. (Great spplause.)
The war cost many thousands OF lives and
many thousand and millions of dollars. The
country did and does not begrudge it, if as the
result OF that expenditure, we are to have pre-
served Union, happy, prosperous people and
united Government. But if the result of that
expenditure OF lie ana money Is 10 De ten STATES
controlled either by military power, or else by
the domination OF the black man in those
Southern States, and we are in fact to have no
real union and no real peace-then the people
feel and know that the lives which we're sacri-
feed and the money which was spent were lives
sacrificed aud money spent in vain. Voices
"That's soy And it is because these men, to
whom you have entrusted so much DO ger, and
in whom you have con6ded SO much, who have
promised so much, have been false to every
pledge made before the wax and during it; have
been false to every oath taken whom oho eon to
their Offices and have trampled upon the Con-
stitution: have overthrown the laws, have as
sailed the President, have Put shackles upon the
Supreme Court, and in ten Southern States have
forced negro suffrage upon the people and white
disirancbsement: and now the people of Penn
sylyanla, and the people OF every other State,
except probably in New England, have aroused
themselves TO the determination that they will
have change OF administration and change
of circumstances. (Applause, and three ronsing
chetrs)
What has the radical party done? 1t promised
you peace and union. 1t has given you un-
eeasing strte. What has it done? 1t promised
you when the Rebellion was ended, and
those in rebellion had submitted 10 the authority
OF the Government, that the men OF the South
should again be represented in the Congress of
the country, and that they and we should put
our shoulders to the wheel and push on the
great coach of constitutional government
through the land Bat now, instead of that,
having secured the abolition Of slavery by the
act of the Southern States themselves; having
procured abs solute and unconditional surrender
through the patriotism and gallantry and bravery
OF the Northern people, they have created mill
tary districts in the Southern States, and they
have there disIranchised all, or nearly all, the
white intelligence of thoie States, and have
placed the negro, just freed from slavery, above
the white man.
They have forced negro suffrage upon the
Southern states, where it was important, and at
the Chicago Convention declared that in the
Northern States, where 1t was unimportant, the
question belonged TO the people, and tney nave
Alright TO settle it. Why did they do iR Way
did they say that the people in the Northern
States had right to settle this question? 1t was
because in every Northern State (eYceptIng in
some of the States OF New England) where the
question had been submitted 10 the people, II
was defeated by ten, twenty, thirty, and forty
thousand majority, aud thus determined that the
government Of the States belonged to the white
men of those States and to them only. Gap
plause.) And they dare not in one OF these
States-they dare not in Pennsylvania, or 10
Ohio, or in Indiana, or Illlneis, make the subject
of negro suffrage the test as they go before the
people. They think that you men OF Pennsyl-
Vania, looEing at it from way down in the dis
tant Southern States, do not realize and cannot
realize its vast Importance. They keep il away
from your own doors, and suppose they ran
blind you to the importance of the question in
the States which lie at a distance. | will show
you directly that the question comes as neal
home 10 you as ii you lived there, because il
places under the control OF the negroes there
the government OF those States, and az they car
choose their Senators in the Congress of the
United States and their members in the House
of Representatives they are to have vote with
the people OF New York and Pennsylvania, and
with the people of Ohio and Indiana, in admin.
istering the Government.
Now my friends, they have down South i'm
posed upon the eople there as test of theil
which requires every man, before he can b
registered and can vote, to swear that ht