The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-31

in foreign lands, carry your property on our ca
nails and railroads, and it diffases wealth oil
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found that It was my duty, in studying the in.
terests Of the State Of New Yoek. to take care
you were not injured protested, therefore,
against decentralization Of the country and laying
me founeanon OF evils which nov affect you Of
| Ohio and all the agricultural States. saw this
was full OF evil to my own constituents. When
| produce Is put up by SPECTATORS, as have ex.
| planned, the laborng man Of the East suffers. 1t
is q wrong to the producer in the West and to the
consumer In the East. A voice, "That is so,''
and cheers.)
Men Of Ohio. you may be willing to bear these
things TOT yourselves, but, as citizen Of New
YORK, mplore you to have pity upon our labor.
ing poor In our own State. (Cheers.) You must
Judge how far you care for your own interest, but
| have right to stand before you and plead for
the interests of the poor in the great commercial
cities OF the East. will not attempt to follow
this argument out. Your own Judgments tell you
that every word have uttered is true.
The record tells you how the division was made.
How do these things come abouti Our Republi.
the North to declare that they have done right,
| and when you have done that will say you en-
| couraged them to 60 in the same course. In fu-
ture you cannot get rid of that. You will say so.
II you put their ticket IN ONCE. Will you do it,
But have not come to the bottom of this evil
yet. How does 1t happen that during the last
eight years we find the burdens and privileges of
been policy at Washington the last six or seven
years to sectionalize power. Let me show you
how this is done. You know when we formed our
Constitution We said we would keep alive State
rights To do this we let the smallest State have
as many senators as the largest. That was meant
for their protection and the protection of ALTO
show more clearly that this was limited partner.
ship, eternal as the hills, enduring as time, but
limited none the less.
Now, how has that feature of our government
been 80 perverted as to produce these great evisg
Look at the Senate. majority of the people of
the United States live in nine States: New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,
Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan. They have
eighteen senator's one third. The people of Ohio
agree to that, SO long as the fair working of our
institutions according to the original compact con-
tinues, but when it is made to invade your rights
you ought not to approve of it. When this govern.
ment puts power into the hands of the State, then
fills the Senate with sham States, without pop
ulations, and gives il control over your affairs
which does not rightfuly belong to it, that is an
injustice ito the majority Of the people of this
country. The senators Of the Western States not
seeing the bearing of it voted for it. because it is
said they wanted to vote down President johnson;
and by these measures the people of 0ho-nearly
three millions--have been practically DISTINGUISHED.
Two men sitting in the Senate of the United
States from the State of Florida-one who went
from the State Of New York, and an unknown
man, the other from some other quarter-who do
not represent the white people of that State,
they do not know there is Senate,) and yet they
cast the same vote with senators from the great
central States. 1t is not merely wrong done the
people Of Florida, it is a wrong done to you when
two such men become your rulers. Add up these
States there are ten or twelve senators put there
TO fortliy party in political power who have no
constituents. Where are the 100000 of Ohio:
the 1000, 900 of New York, Where are the ma.
Jority OF American people in this body?
What next has been done? They have gone on
and increased the power of that body until you
have no voice there. The executive power was
transferred to the Senate. In q larger measure
electng a president They crippled the presi
dent; they took from him all power of'removal;
they have taken executive power as far as they
could, and have given it to a body that does not
represent you in any suck degree.
My Republican friends, you may be pleased
with this little while; you may think it secures
in Office yourself and friends. But is this wise
craftsmanship is this far-sighted, is this looking
down the future to the time that will surely come
when you will have interests conflicting with |
States thus made? / could detain you here long |
while to show how, step by step, the executive |
power has been absorbed. In another way the |
Senate has absorbed power.
There are sixty thousand Office holders. The 1
Senate controls all that the President can not get
rid OF. 1t has become the central power to a |
greater degree than II ever was before. The |
deresdent on the Senate. The terms of Senators |
are longer; they are fewer, and are so fortified |
that popular changes can not remove them. They |
have taken power from the president, whom you |
elect once in four years, and have made him to- |
day what be ought never have been for the honor |
and dignity Of the American people.
You saw him who sat in the chair of Washing /
ton, the chief magistrate Of the country, who,
heretofore you boosted was q man who held more |
honorable power than any monarch in the world,
dragged like criminal before q trib unal that de-
creed bis sentence before they had heard a word |
OF testimony. (VOice-"That's sou and loud
rhn all r.
yourselves See the changes that have been
wrought In the structure Of the government to
convey power in every instance to that body |
which does not represent the people of the
country.
My Republican friends, is it wise for you. by
your ballot, when about to exercise one of the
most sacred duties of American citizenship to say
you approve of this (Cries of "No, no.'') The
resolution which placed my opponent in nomina
ton did not declare his sentiments; they declared
their own-declared the policy of their party
right. When you vote their ticket you declare the
same thing.
From time to time some of the ablest men of
the Republican party have come forward with |
protest against their excuses, but have been
trampled down as maddened herds of buffalo on
the Western plains trample down their leaders, if
they stop for moment in their hesdong course.
One after another they have gone down. until no
man dares protest longer. Are you ready, nv
Republican friends, to give new impulse to this?
Think of the result.
stand before you, perhaps, as an individual
more concerned than any other man, except my
opponent. What is it to me whether shall stay
IN private life or 60 to the performance of duties
rom which every thoughtful man must shrink.
Let me say that no man ever stood before the
country as a candidate for that office, no matter
how strong the convictions Of duty that forced
him into this position, who was not filed with the
most serious convictions with regard to the
,acredness of the trust.
i would not believe, and repel with scorn any
attack on my opponent that should assume he did
not mean what was right. As God looks into my
heart, cannot think of Q man, care not how
wanting In virtue in other respects, who could
COX at the vast interests of this country, who |
,oud its greatness and think of its future and
lot tremble, and offer fervent prayers that he
night have wisdom above mans wisdom TO guide
Inn in place like this. Immense cheering.)
This large crowd which see before me-where
will it be in few rolling years? How much does
matter to you, Republican or Democratic friend,
shether you shall or shall not have thrill of tri-
lmph, or psng of defeat, in few days, But how |
important it is that your decision should be right
How important that neither our passions, or even |
ur honest mistakes, should bring evil upon this
,lorious land?
Has legislation been equal! What is UNEQUAL is
enerally unfair Trace IL down. NOT alone ihe |