Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-24

administrator, as whole, is conducted with
great ability and patriotism, is a fact that will
be conceded by historians who will write the
history OF this administration and the times.
1t might not be improper to refer tonight TO
some of the leading features of the administra-
ton of President Grant and the conduct of the
government within the last two years or twenty
five months.
Referring to the future policy Of the party, he
said the republican party could notatford to run
off upon any one issue, to the abandonment OF
others. 1t was material, and its policy must
embrace the good of the whole country; it could
not afford to make a distinct issue on tariff or
on other individual issues. The policy of the
democratic party was to dcnounce all the repub-
can party did, and the better the act the more
bitterly 1t was denounced. Congress has just
passed bill for the prot ction of life. liberty
and property, known as the kukluX bill; bGtit
is denounced by the democrats as unconsttu-
tional. He believed the kukux bill to be, not
only constitutional, bur necessary.
In referring to the condition of the country
and the parties, he said: This government must
always be one of parties. Conventions cannot
make or unmake issues; they grow out of the
state Of the country and public opinion. Parties
cannot define iastcsj their province is TO take
sides; and he said the question would be settled
| by the campaign of 1872 that those issues or
questions which had grown out of the war are
not dead, and will not be dead until the demo-
CiutlC ID NlllllH 10 dCCepI as
facts, the settlement of thequestlons that caused
or sprung out Of the war.
The democratic party is anxious to ignore
them, but this cannot be DONE They must ac-
knowledge the reconstruction acts and the con-
sttutiOnal amendments as Il final settlement of
issues before they can be laid aside. The demo-
cratic party dare not declare its acceptance of
the situation. The southern wing of the party
controls that organization, and has always
done so.
Mr.. Stephens, in a recent letter, declared that
the south could not, and would not, accept the
republican adjustment Of these issues as final,
and, as soon as the party in the north signifies
its willingness to do so, it would cause dis
rupton between the north and SOUTH As their
only hope of success in u was in carrying the
whole OF the southern states, they dare not risk
n rupture. Democratic senators and representa-
tives in congress had prepared an address,
which was drafted with view to meet the ext
geney, yet they totally failed to meet the real
issue.
They dared not accept the real situation, and
barely alluded 10 it, in acceptance of the con-
stitutiOnal amendments and reconstruction
laws, as a final settlement of issues was the
cause of split in the party, and there would be
Two democratic national conventions as in 1860.
The fact that they will contest the reconstruction
settlement has been repeatedly charged upon
the democrats in congress and elsewhere, and in
such a manner as to demand reply.
Ana YET, luis auureSSj prepared WlGn view 10
meeting these charges, had utterly failed of its
object. To be successful in the next campaign,
the democratic party must carry n united
south, and then the south would control the adj
ministraton, Being in power, what would the
party thus constituted dO2 They would refuse
to pay the pensions of our disabled soldiers or
the widows and orphans of dead soldiers, unless
the wounded soldiers and widows and orphans
of the cOnfcderacy were put upon the same
footing
They would not tax themselves to pay the
principal and interest of the public debt, unless
they were allowed pay for their late slaves. The
democratic party do not anywhere accept the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. Every
democratic member of the last senate in In
diana voted for a resolution declaring the
adoption of the fifteenth amendment illegal.
The action is TO be taken as a reflection of the
sentiment Of the party in Indiana. Give the
party power, and they will overthrow that
amendment and disfranchise the colored men,
and their success would unsettle everything
The democratic party has no policy to offer
The address affirmed nothing; it proposed nc
new policy or measure; it is poverty stricken as
| TO principles; they oppose everything, but offel
| nothing better. They oppose national banks,
| but offer nothing to take their places. They
| talk of free trade, but dare not avow themselves
| in favor of direct taxation.
In the recent election in this state, local issues
| have given the democracy power; but next yeal
| it will go republican by largely increased ma
| jority. We have heard much about the disnte
| grafton of the republican party, but it is not
dead, nor sleeping. 1t is girding itself for a
more vigorous struggle than ever. The party
will noe close its career until liberty is assured
to all, from the highest to the lowest. 1t is in
the hands of an all wise Providence and is be-
ing used Tor glorious purpose.
In concluding his remarks, he declared his be-
lief that, if the democratic party come into
power the southern states would quietly secede,
with the sanction Of the party. The people OF
the south did not believe the cause they had
fought for was lost cause, and still cherished
dream of conlederacy. Jefferson Davis had
SO declared, in a recent speech, and such was
the hope INDUCED in by all.
They did not believe there ever would be
another war there TO p .eserve the Union.
Senator Morton was followed by Hon. John
Coburn