The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-26


find that all the good or EVIL that you have earned
il thai While elected to the arisocracy OF wealth
yIl have been elected into slavery; elected to be
lord and monarch over You AL. lCheersl enjoy
the privilege OF investing my money in bonds and
insisting that you pay the interest thereon in hard
gold. You VINO fought and bled that the country
but ' for myse RP'' and the other sondhOids!s
We will not have the common stun that you handle.
We want gold and we are determined to have II.
wnat VIII 10 | shshms ml tna put WHY
give employment to those who are lighting the battle
OF life struggling with the destnes that must win
who need lts no II did that would pay taxes
with these evidences of thrift and prosperity will
which pay no taxes. To be sure it is against the
constitution Of the United States, which
says that taxes must the Dc saua But or Vino
rights OF the poor people so long as an arstocrat,
not in sympathy with them can prosper upon my
and lock 1t up in the vaults and banks, and hen
go for my interest In gold l ride in my carriage
to the Third National Bank and with pair OF shears
cut or my coupons and demand my interest there
on in gold That is the kind Of stamps that want.
(Cheers.) You, when you wish for money, must go
and earn 1t. You take up the hoe, the axe, chisel
saw and hammer, or whatever instrument your In
dustry may demand, but MI my pockets while you
work. 1t is different with me. 1 ride in
my interest in gold: That is radlcalism
for Tas Is no yoa F
is wrong and say it is favortism to the rich man
against the poor, what Is the result We call you
p prison. osS AND 4 there was not too many many
would all be sent there in less than month.
CHEERS and laughter.) That republican party has
brought nothing but curses and want upon the
Jersey over there who told stories too exaggerated
for beef-drew the long bow a little too long so
much SO that 1t became necessary for him
TO TO oorreSt him 'iS when he A'et ove ~ the
was telling oo wsGS for be
too big for any one to swallow-tO nudge him on
the shoulder, upon which the narrator would en-
deavor to rectify his story and bring 1t within some
bounds Of belief to put 1t in some fair proportion.
One day at dinner with this story telling oyalist,
gentleman was telling OF a church that had been
lately built in his neghbOrhood, eighty feet square.
one OF the finest houses Of worship in the
country. fair in proportion, commOdious In
side. beautiful without, and an ornament to all
the churches in the State of New Jersey.
Now our friend the loyast-thc long storytelling
fellow-who had q clerk in order to make a check
on his memory, said that this church of his was
nothing to the church building IN his neighbOrhood;
that it the largest church in the world; there
never was snch a church; 1t was seventy thousand
feet long. The clerk logged his shoulder and the
story teller says, and two feet wide. Great laugh
teri He drew out OF II in tins way, but he did not
bring the church into fair proportions. That is the
retrepchng. reforming government that promised
to build you church 10000 feet long, but they
only made II Two feet VIDE Tor the prOtectlOn
of themselves and their exemption from taxation.
These men care nothing for your interest They
grow rich at the expense Of the country. But the
democrats OF the South will be the clerk that will
Jog their memory and expose their lies. The ques-
ton before us this fall affects us all. And ask you,
as working men, as young men of this country, to
look well to the history of the republican parry.
| ask you calmly candidy and fairly to weigh 1t in
the scales to give them credit for all the good things
they did, If any; look to the acts or these men who
talk Of reform, who promise you blessings who told
you ofan economical government, government that
that would make the taxes lighter. Have they full
filed their PROMISES Have they given you good Sc
curity for your lives and property Have they ben
6 YOU as OF or s bs renn
licans az party kept faith with your (Cres of "No,
no'o Have they kept faith with you in any one par
ticuar? ("NO, nO.'D Then say TO you, in Gods
name cast your votes with the democratic party,
and drive from power those men who have bartered
away the best interests of the country. (Cheers.)
You have a great duty TO perform at the polls
next November. Look to your own interests there
and to the interests OF your children who are to
intact the blessings and liberties that your fore
fathers gave to you. Secure again those blessings
enjoyment in the future, for those who are to come
after you and who are near and dear TO you.
(Cheers.) The West is sick Of radical rule. We have
bled and suffered as people never before bled and
suffered. We have too long followed the beckon-
ing OF New England parit ANS No.. we nave SUI
good We gave our blood and treasure To put down
a rebellion, thinking the Union would be preserved
to us; but instead OF reaping benefits we have
reaped curses instead of reducing the taxes and
securing economy In the government taxes have
been piled on and the government machinery Is
cal bigottod New England misrule. The West
is now. going into the light for the re-
turn OF the good Old ways and principles
of our forefahers The West is determined to secure
again the blessings OF good and fra.ernal govern
ment, begueathed TO us by our fathers and Is fight
ing confident OF success. Grant essayed 10 can
vass Louisiana ana Kentucky; but one visit to the
latter State was quite enough for him. You heard
the late news from Kentucky. tCheersl You heard
| think, from that State OF white men. And tell
port Of the elections throughout the West
In November next you will find that
every State in the West has followed
the example Of Kentucky, and every State
from the radical misrue, corruption and misgovern
ment that have so long marked the administration OF
our Affairs (Cheers., We OF the West want white
men TO rule In the land, to be supreme In country
set apart by white men for a white mans govern
ment. (Cheers) We want equal taxation, and we
want to establish once again the fundamental prin-
ciple, the right OF States TO regulate their own do
nestle affairs. We OF Ohio Wisconsin and Indiana
yours so long a. you live by the constitution
and honor your own place in the constitu-
ton. We go for the greatest good for the
greatest number We don't care whether you give
the suffrage to the black or not-that IL your own
affair, not ours: but we claim that We and the
people of the South shall exercise our own judg-
ment In the matter.
Brick closed thanking hts audience for the atten-
ton they had paid 10 his remarks.
RICHARD O'GORMAN then made rambling speech,
mostly on his favorite theme OF the cause Of Ire
land,n and with him the meeting closed there being
other red hot orators present to keep the heat
OF eloquence that had flowed from the specimen
Brick
The meeting thereupon broke up.
The Mcclellan Legion.