The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-08-11

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parties, the democracy, with little
over forty members In the lower House
of the fortieth Congress, increased her
representation In the forty.second Con.
gress to one hundred and three, with
other States certain to give Democratic
majorities yet to vote. The same ratio
of gain would have given us the forty.
third Congress as well as the electoral
college, by an overwhelming majority.
DEPARTING ON A COW. CATCHER.
In view of these facts, after we have
carried line after line, and entrench-
ment after entrenchment, of the enemy's
works, when we were on the fiood-tide
of success, and moving with increasing
triumph, why we should abandon the
field, why we should change front and
sound an ignominious retreat, confess
is utterly beyond my powers of COM
prehension. 1t is species of party
strategy entirely too deep for my con-
ception, unless 1t is for the purpose of
constructing q platform upon which
some favorite candidate for the Presi-
dency may stand with safety and com.
fort to himself, or unless 1t be as an old
farmer said to me the other day, when
l asked his opinion of the "new de-
paiture," that some impatient Demo.
Gratis, seeing the Radical party going to
the devil on "a down grade with the
hraly nfr hax ~ 30
them by jumping on the "cow catcher"
| lGreat laughter. l repeat, am not q
party leader, nor do aspire to be. l
am, and expect to be, private in the
ranks, fighting for the principles which
have been the cynosure of my political
career through life. but if 1 were 1
should consider myself unworthy either
of your confidence or respect If 1 failed
to speak to you, as have on this occas.
ion, frankly, candidly, sincerely, and
earnestly upon this question. APP
plause.
/ may be mistake, but my opinion is
that the proud old party have loved
so long will never depart from the
landmarks Of her ancient faith. APP
plause. Whatever others may do /
have an abiding faith that Kentucky,
true to her ancient prestige, the first to
the charge and the last to the retreat,
in every contest for the supremacy of
the Constitution and the rights of the
several States under it, will never de-
sert the standard she so gallantly flung
to the breeze in 179s.-[Great applause
Descending from an ancestory who
made their homes in the proud old
Commonwealth, when it was indeed
, the dark and bloody ground" with
the scalping knife and tomahawk
cleaning around them, and taught by
them from my earliest youth to rever-
ence, with more than filial piety, ell
{ the traditions of her chivalry and her
, glory, 1 can ask for her no prouder eu-
4 logy from the pen of history than that,
as she was the first to clearly and dis
tinctly define the rights of herself and
) her sister sovereignties, she went down
I in the vortex of Capitalization with her
glorious colors proudly flying. [Great
applause.l
p Without recapitulating the long cata-
! ! logue of usurpations, outrages and
=, crimes, against citizens and States alike,
: which has marked the career ofthe Rad.
5 ical party since its accession to power,
i the grand results of its ten years of adj
!, ministration may be summed up as fol-
i lows: The utter and absolute overthrow
of our system of Federal Government,
y through pretended amendments TO the
! Constitution, procured by force and
I fraud; and the introduction into the
representative body of the people of a
t large and populous element, with just
3 about as many qualifications for an in.
! telligent exercise of the elective fran
: chise as a gorilla from the junglos of AT
j rica has to give instructions in the In
tegral Calculus or Newton's Principal
Great laughter and applause.
@ In conclusion, my fellow citizens, per
u init me to remark that, in my judg
ment, we are upon the eve of the las
contest for civil liberty.
Perhaps for centuries to come, should
" the Democracy prove triumphant il
!. that conflict, the principles of free gov
q ernment will be so firmly fixed that al
the storms of faction that may how
:. around them for generations will no
.. be able to shake them from their base
/. Applause But if on the other han'
7 the Radicals should succeed in electin
" Gen. Grant-who will be their candi
,r date beyond peradventure-the su
= will perhaps set for the last time o
" representative republican government
q on this continent on the Sd of Marcl
q. 1878. On the fourth his mornin
"a beams may dawn upon the infant eIr
~ pire. In that contest the Democracy
I. Kentucky constitutes the vanguard, ,tf
n. advanced skirmish line. If that tru
as and gallant band do their duty faithful
lie. ly and nobly, as l know they will a
in may be well. Applause. Remen
If ber that this is not mere contest b
he tween individuals, but contest #
,ce principle, a contest for State existenc
m. and personal liberty protected by law
ry ---
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