The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-07-17

| each Others modes of thought or grasp all
the facts which lar una the minds of
Others yet our sion mast be hfief, and
we sre forced TO act 1ithout.delay upon
4uestions Of an pxciting character and OF
deep ioterest to aour country TO maintain
crdes, to restrain al exhibitions Of passion,
| to dive o1t of Or minds all u9kind sus-
FpicionA a at this time great duty.
lChoere.I l rely upon your sense of this
duty, and not upon my own ability, to sus-
! tain me in the station in which am placed
By your kind rariality.
Men rever met under greater RESPONSE
bilities than those which now weigh upon
us. Cheers. It is not mere party tri-
f,umph we seek. We are trying to save our
country from the dangers which overhane
it; We wish to lift up the shackles which,
in the shape Of bad laws and crushing tax
alton, now paralyze the business and labor
Of our land. Loud cheers We hope,
too, that we can give order, prosperity and
happiness to those sections of our country
which suffer SO deeply to-day in their
homes and in all the fields of their indus
try, from the unhappy events of the last
eight years. trust that our action will
show that we are governed by an earnest
purpose to help all classes of our citizens.
Avoiding harsh invectives against men, we
should keep the public mind fixed upon
the questions which must now be met and
solved. lCheers.i Let US leave the past
to the calm judgment of the future, and
confront the perib of the day.
We are forced to meet the assertions in
the resolutions put forth by the late Re
publican Convention. / aver that there is
not in this body one man who has it in his
heart to excite so much OF angry feeling
against the Republican party as must be
stirred up in the minds Of those who read
their declarations in the light Of recent
events and in view of the condition Ct our
country. La the FIRST place they oongtatu-
late the people, the man of business, the
burthened tax payer, and the laborer whose
hours Of toll are heightened out by the
growing cost of the necessaries of life, upon
the success of that reconstruction policy
which has brought all those evils upon
them by tie cost of its military despotism
and the corruption of its bureau agencies.
In one resolution they denounce all forms
of reputation as a national crime. Then
why did they put upon the statute books
of the nation the laws which invite the cit
liens who borrow coin to force their credit
oIs to take debased paper, and thus wrong
him out OF large share of his claim, in
VII latlOn of the most solemn compacts
Louo cheering 1t reputation is IA
tlonal crime, it is crime to invite the citi
Gems OF this country thus to repudiate their
individual debts. Applause Was it
not crime to force the creditors Of this
and other States to take currency at times
worth no more than forty cents on the dol
lar, in repayment of the sterling coin they
gave to build roads and canals which yield
such ample returns of wealth and prospect
y? Applause. Again, they say it is
due to the laborers of the nation that taxa
ton should be equaIized. Then why did
they make taxation unequal? Beyond tie
injustice of making one class of citizens
pay for anc:hssT; :ae1iii sharvs Of the cost OF
schools, of roads, and the local laws which
protected their lives and property, it was
an unwise and hurttul thing. CHEERS. 1t
sunk the credit of the country, as usurious
t, rms are hurtful to the credit Of the bor-
rover. They also declare that the best pol
icy to diminish our burden of debt is SO to
improve our credit that capitalists will
seek to loan US money at lower rates of in
terest than We now pay and must continue
to pay SO long as. reputation is threatened
or suspected. Then why bave they used
full five hundred millions of the taxes
drawn from the people of this country to
uphold despotic military authority and to
crush out the hfe Of States when, if this
more had been used to pay our debt, cap
ltaists would now seek to loan us money at
lower rates of interest? But for this COW
crt reputation our national credit would
not be tainted in the markets OF the world.
Applause. Again, they declare that of
all who were faithful in the trials of the
late war, there were none entitled to more
especial honor than the brave soldiers and
sailors who endured the hardships of cam
paign and cruise and imperiled their lives
IN the service of their country. The boun-
ties and pensions provided by the laws for
the b ave defend .rs o! the nation ale obi
cations never to be forgotten. The widows
and orphans of the gallant dead are the
wards of the people, sacred trust be-
queathed to the Lation's care" Have
these sacred trusts been performed? They
pay to the MANNED man, to the widow and
to the orphan, a currency which they have
sunk one quarter below its rightful value
by their policy of hate, of waste and of mil
itsry despotism The pittance paid to the
wounded soldier is pinched down twenty
i've per cent. below the value of that coin
which he had a right to expect. Loud
cheering. Is there no covert reputation
in this? lApplause.
Again, they say, Foreign immigration,
which in the past has added SO much to
the wealth, developments, resources and in
crease of power, and made the republic the
asylum OF the oppressed of all nations.
should be fostered and encouraged by Lbs
eral and just policy" Is this foreign i'm
migration fostered by q policy which, in
the making Of laws just passed, declare
eight hours t. be legal day laSor, which
the cost of government aud of swarms Ct
officials SO swells the cost Of living that men
must toll on to meet those exactions I?
Cheers. The time was when we could
not only. invite the. Europeans to share
with us the material blessings Of our great
country; but, more than this, we could tell
those who fed from oppression that we
lived under government OF laws admins
tered by the Judiciary, which kept the
bayonet and the sword in due subordina-
ton. Cheers. We could poiot to a writ
ten constitution, which not OILY marked
out the powers of the government, but with
anxious care secured 20 the humolest man
the rights of property OF person and of con-
science: ls immigration encouraged by
trampling that constitution in the dust,