Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-17
SPEAKER BLAINE.
An Ingenious Radical Speech,
everything is Lovely"

SARATOGA, Aug. 16-Mr. Blaine,
Speaker of the House OF Representatives,
was this evening serenaded at Union Ho.
tel, by ole thousand people, when
MIR. Blaine appeared, and was
greeted with an enthusiastic ap-
plause. He was introduced by VIM.
a. Sackett. After returning thanks for
the personal compliment, Blaine went on
to say that it seemed to him that there was
never time when there was less need for
speeches, or when facts and public re-
cord carried with them their own argu-
ment. The two great parties must be
Judged not by proft ssions but by acts.
The Republicans are in full power in
Washington, and the Democrats in New
York. There was no need to draw the
picture which this brace of facts present
TO every intelligent mind. In Washiog-
ton every dollar Of surplus funds was
applied to paying the national debt, while
in New York every dollar that can be
wrung from the tax payers was applied
to the benefit of private ring.
Since Grants Inauguration two hundred
and fifty millions of dollars have been
paid, and this payment has been made
while taxes were repealed including
eighty millions per annum. Without the
aid and leadership of Tammany it will
be impossible for the Democrats to carry
New York, and without the State of New
York, their chance in 1872 is not worth
reckoning. The power of Tammany,
with its money in the North, and its
power of terrorism in the South, are the
weapons relied on by the Democrats to
carry the national contest next year.
Were it not for this we should have
peace throughout the length and breadth
of the land. The united appeals of ten
aspirants for the Presidential nomination
of the Democracy would produce peace
in the South.
This brings to the test the sincerity of
the new departure. What is the new de-
parture2 Why, certain constitutional
amendments, having been regularly
adopted and ratified, the Democracy re-
fused to abide by them in several instau-
ces. Every Democratic member of Con-
gress voted against the resolutions in the
House, declaring these amendments to be
of binding force. But the lac Vallan-
digham discovering this was incipient Ie''
bellion called halt, and the party in the
North generally obeyed, resolving upon
the whole that would agree to submit to
the Constitution Of the United States, and
this law>abidiug spirit being so unusual
with that party and the sensation of con-
stitutional obedience being so novel, they,
with one consent, called it q new depsr-
ture. But we must be pardoned for a
little incre lulity as to the siocerlty OF the
new departure until we see it bear fruit.
We will pray and hope for the best, yet
all the while be tortured with distru5'.
When every man in the United States en-
lows full rights under the Constitution, by
the cooperation of the Democratic par
ty. then we shall have faith in the sin
cerity of this sudden conversion.
He pointed to the Democratic rule in
New York as false TO the first principles
of religious freedom, and aiming dead y
blow at American liberty in attempting
to interfere with the Orange procession,
and demanded for PrOtestants and Caiho-
lies slike the right to celebrate their ami.
versaries in their own wsy. With the
course of the Democrats he cOntrasted
the policy of the Republican party, which
showed no favoritism 10 any religious
sect aud was true 10 the spirit of the
Declaration of Independence and the law
and Constitution.
He also eQlogized its foreign policy
which was one of peace, and its history
contained no mole brilliant chapter thar
that which recorded the treaty of Wash
ing. Our differences with England wert
graver than those which existed between
France and Germany, but we had settled
in wise and christian spirit, question;
which might have led to a greater wa
than that jus. ended in Europe.
The speaker concluded with a CLOWN:
description of the progress of the country
under the republican administration. HI
pointed to a continent without a slave,
constitution perfected, civil rights AM
personal liberty, the increasing fnancia
confidence, and nation of forty million
the freest, happiest and most prosperou
on the globe,