Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-10-07

pied territory, but it is the country of
ten or fifteen years hence, and its pop
- ulatiOn 30or 40 per cent. greater than
now, with its pOpulous States restored
to order, with its commerce revived,
and its flag again on all the seas, ire
newed applause; ] with its Pacific
Railroad completed, [great applause, I
fertilizing and spreading wealth over
the territory that they traverse be-
tween the ports of New York and
san Francisco, the center of the
worlds commerce and its exchanges.
That Is the country Which will have
to pay the debt. SO much now, and
so insignificant then in view of the
immense resources that will be able
TO meet it. Applause We are told
that the West wishes to repudiate this
debt; but we know that TO carry on
the war the West gave good blood, and
we believe that they J. are willing to
to pay the cost of it in good mon
ey. [Thunders of applause. We
cannot enter upon this career of COM
- mercial prosperity in the character of
hankrupts. LCheers. You have
earned a splendid reputation for mill
tary wisdom, you have given a noble
example of organized charities and
clemency in the very midst of war.
1t now remains for you to establish an
equally high reputation for financial
honor. GApplause.l The true De
mOcracy of the country everywhere
took their part in the war. Why is
il that reputation is adopted as DEM
ocratic measure? l count it as a great
advantage that I lived a considerable
| r,f E
chiefs of the old Democratic party, and
L remember something of their ways
of thinking, How would this repu-
diation have sounded in their ears &?
How would a proposition t,pay a sa-
cred debt of national honor in paper
money have been received by the
| Democratic Benton? Applause and
cheers for "Old bulliOn.n1 The true
place for every Democrat in this con-
test, for every true Democrat, is under
the banner of the Republican party
I1Applause. But if it be objected to
me that party drilling cuts off any
such argument, would reply in say
ling of Colonel Benton's, and no man
Iexacted stricter party obedience, or
gave it more implicitly than himself.
He used to say, and L have heard it
lquoted as one of his wOrthiest utter
Iances, "that there were some things
too small, and some things too great
for party that it was too powerful an
intelligence to be directed against a
poor clerk with his family dependent
| upon his salary for bread, and that the
questions involving the cOuntry's
honor. were too great to be submitted
to party contest" Applause.l This
question of National honor is among
us more distinctly an individual con-
Germ than in other countries. We
| have no law of entail. We cannot
draw together great estates or build up
families, or pile up magnificent build
| ings for our descendants. But we
have an excellent estate to theaggran-
diZement of which all can add-an es-
tate which is not to be parcelled out,
diminished, broken, or divided-and
that is this American continent, from
the waters of the Atlantic TO the Pa
cific, entailed upon this American
people as their inalienable, indivisible
estate. Applause. This then is the
programme of the Republican party |
as / understand il. We are resolved |
to stand by the measures which Con- |
gress has adopted for the security and |
quiet of the country. We believe that |
power enough has been centered in |
the hands of the Government to ac-
cOmplish this purpose, and we ask |
nothing more from the State. We
shall stand where we are in this re-
spect. As to the debt we shall have
nothing to do with it, only in the
preparations to build up the prosperity
of the country, and to provide means
to pay il when the time comes. APP
plause.1 In this domestic policy we
shall be glad to see the Government
working with wise economy, develop
ing the resources that we have and
not engaging in costly acquisitions of
territory which in a few years would
come to us. by the force of gravitation.
GApplause1 As Il member of the
family of nations we shall be pleased
to see the Government maintain our
policy "nO interference in our dOmes-
tic concerns.n Friendly relations
with all, but no exaggerated intima-
cies with nations that should require
us to show partialitytO one at the risk
of sacrificing the good will of the
others. Russia [Applause] is our only
natural rival for the trade of China
and Japan, to which we are looking,
and building up such great prospects
in the future. We must keep in view
the contingencies which may happen
in the future. / was reading lately
the first numbers of a monthly Just
started in California. 1t is called the
OUerIdnd, and it bears the stamp of
fresh minds and fresh country. The
editor is one whom Starkling used to
call the Washington Irving of the Pa
cific, a charming writer and a poet
besides, with the foresight of a poet
and the intelligence of Young Amer
lea and its assurance, he has put upon
the cover the track of the Pacific Rail-
road, and across the track a bear,
and growing, and looking
i'm the direction of the coming train.
Laughter. If it should happen
that in the course of events Though ;
we trust that it never viii, if it should
happen that the bear, or the Russian {
bear should place himself upon this
track of our Eastern commerce, or any
lion laughter should geti its path,
let US hope that we shall be in a con-
ditiOn to say what the great engineer I
said tOa member of Par
Committee, before whom
he was arguing the introduction into
England of the steam-engine on rail- 1
ways. But" objected one of the
TO Mr.. Stephenson, suppose
hat while you are going at this pro-
ligiOus speed" (sOme ten or twelve !
miles an hour, think it was them i
laughter suppose that some obstacle !
should get upon the track-suppOse {
hat perhaps COW should get in front !
If the train" "Then," said Mr.. Ste |
lhensOn, ''itwill be worse for the COW,
Ny Lords" [Great laughter and APP I
llause, during which General Ere Il
mont retired, q
SPEECH OF YOUNG DOUGLAS. d
AT Republican mass meeting held
Ii Raleigh, North Carolina, on the II
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