The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-15
TaE REPUBLICAN RECORD.
Speech Delivered By Vice President
COlfaX, I'm south Bend, Sep
TENDER 10Th, 1876.

both deserve the confidence Of the
American people. Your own long
continued friendship and partlalIty,
for the past twenty years. renders IL
an unusual duty for me to address
you in q canvass like this, without be-
log at the same time, candidate Tor
voar SURFACES, and as 1t is well known
to many of you that 1 intend that the
present term shall close my connee-
tion with public life and public du-
ties. might perhaps have felt az lib
erty 60 avoid this labor. But it is to
me a duty both of pleasure and of
gratitude--a labor of love and of JUS
tice--to give you the reasons for the
faith / have so confidently expressed
In my opening sentence, and to prove
to you that the confidence reposed BY
the majority Of the people in 1868, in
the elsction OF q Republican Presl-
dent and a Republican Congress has
not been misplaced.
The pledges to the Nation made By
the Republicans in that contest, en-
bodied il the platform, and the let
ters of acceptance Of their nominees,
can be summed up as follows: ~ M
1. Equal civil and political rights
to all under our National authority,
whether native born or naturalized,
and the protection Of the humblest and
weakest as faithfully as the richest
and most powerful. ABA
2. The condemnation of all forms
and plans Of direct or indirect repu-
diation as a national crime; and the
maintenance untarnished, IN the ut
ternlost good faith, of national honor,
and national credit. as regards our
debt, the cost of our national exist
ence.
3. Taxation to be equalized and re-
duced as rapidly as the national faith
will permit. ts1 assssz g ca
4. The Debt, having been. contTact-
ed for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come. should be ex-
tended over fair period for redsmp-
ton, reducing the rate of interest
thereon as soon as 1t can be honestly
done.
5. The Government to be admins
teFedj with the sirictest economy,
and $ the corruptions so shamefuliy
nursed aud fostered BY Andrew John
SON. TO be radically reformed. s.
8. The European doctrine of once
a subject always a subject TO be re-
sisted at every hazard By the United
States, az at war with our rational
honor and independence.
z. The Bounties and Pensions pro-
vided By law for the soldiers aud sail
ors who imperiled their lives for their
country, and for the widows and Or
phans of the gallant dead, to be ever
considered as sacred obligations.
8. Foreign emigration. adding so
largely to the wealth, development.
and increase of power of this Repub-
lie, to be fostered by a policy which
shall be just ay we'll as liberal.
8. Sympathy with all oppressed pco
pies throughout the world, struggling
for their rights. @
10. Amnesty to all, however hostile
in the past, who frankly and honest
ly Co operate in restoring concord to
the South on the basis OF impartial
justice and equal rights
IL. The great principles of the
Declaration of Independence, as the
foundation Of truly democratic gov
eminent, to be made a living reality
on every inch of American soil.
IL. Let us have peace;" because
"
peace and universal prosperity, its
sequence, with economy of admins
tration, will tighten the burden Of
taxation, while It constantly reduces
the national debt
These were the pledges on which
the support and confidence of the
Nation were asked. They were writ
ten on all our banners. They were
proclaimed BY all our speakers. They
were elaborated by all our presses. 1t
is joyous duty for me to show you
that they have been redeemed, more
faithfully and literally than any
pledges ever before made By any party
in any canvass.
L shall group together. In one para
graph, few brief illusions to several
Of the above points, as desire to
speak with more fullness on others.
And need, therefore. only say that
the naturalization treaties with foreign
nations, by the cordial vote of every
Senator of a largely Re
publican Senate, Gas we'll as their op-
has settled forever aud for
the first time in our history absolutely
settled It, that every foreigner natural
lied In our Courts is to be regard
ed as an. American citizen, abroad
as well as at home, and to be pro-
tected By that citizenship while law
even In the land OF his birth,
in war or in peace-that cur Pension
obligations have been more than full
filled, the mode of paying them TO the
pensioner improved by more frequent
payments than ever previously known
In the history of our Pension laws, by
payments 70 them direct, aud at their
homes, as never before, the Treasury
bearing all che expense; aud by hu-
name provisions for artificial limbs
for crippled soldiers and sailors every
i've years. or the money Communication
therefor, unknown as this has been j
in all previous Administrations |
that the thousands of all parties, |
who have been, By a two thirds vote |
Of a two-thirds Republican Congress,
relieved from political disability on
The basis above stated, Is q sufficient \
voucher of Congressional willingness
70 abolish these disabilities as rapidly
as the spirit of disloyalty dies out"
We are told by our political oppo
nents that the Democratic party must |
&c restored 10 power in order to have !
hetrenchment and Reform in every /
branch of the Government. aad To |
have justice and protection for All /
citizens. We have two Illustrations
1ftha results Of Democratic rule. and /
is effect in achieving these desirable,
ends. Mr.. Buchanan's administra-
ion, the last Democratic administra-
ion In our history, is one, and New
Tork City with its immense Demo-
'ratle majority, its undisguised cor
options, its fragrant expenditures,
Is oppressive and increasing taxation, i
Is numberless aud UNPUBLISHED muir
lers and outrages, is the other illus
ration. In these two, behold the en-
to which our opponents
nyite u.s.