The Shasta courier., 1872-10-19
SHASTA COURIER SUPPLEMENT.

lish, on the frmest basis, the homestead law.
not only in the National domain, but in every
State where it has power. The home and the
fireside is the sacred refuge of every citizen.
The Republican party has, by its policy in pro-
tecting and encouraging industry, largely in
creased the wages of labor, and yet has added
to the domestic production of every kind of
article for the use of man. Loud applause
and waving of hats. Under the Republican
policy the railroad system has been increased to
an extent unexampled in the world We have
now 10000 miles of railroad, worth in cash
50, 0OO, ,000, 900, and they are increasing with
amazing rapidity, thus promoting the exchange
of commodities, so that distant States are now
more akin to each other than were counties in
the same State twenty years ago. Your own
State and Pacific Coast is indebted to the Re
publican party for the great line of railroad that
now enables you in seven days to cross the con-
tinent In few short years more you will have
four such lines, all founded by the Republican
party, and all largely aided by the GeneralGov-
ernment. [Deafening applause.
The Republican party has been instinctively
honorable in the preservation of the public
faith and the public credit. Under great pres
sure of necessity, we never failed to meet our
obligations No promise has been violated; no
faith has been broken During the war we
coined the public credit into money; we made
that money the basis of domestic transactions;
but wherever and whenever we agreed to pay in
coin we have done SO, and we are sure, for the
first time in the history of mankind, to make
every dollar of our paper money as good as
gold and silver coin. Tremendous applause,
which was renewed and continued for some
time. In what respect has the Republican
party been wanting in fidelity to the trust COM
mitted to it by the American people.
GREELEY AND HIS ANTAGONIST TO
DEMOCRACY.
Our old adversaries admit the strength of our
position. They know they dare not appear be-
fore the American people upon their old princi-
ples-their old record-with any hope of sue
cess. In this respect they stand precisely like
the Federal party, after its defeat under John
Adams by the Republican party under Thomas
Jefferson. They must, to use prairie phrase,
g take cover" and they do it under the tail of
the philosopher and sage, Horace Greeley.
| What a conjunction of distinctions. Let us
examine little more in detail the incongruity of
Democrats supporting Greeley. Is there sim
| gle communion OF opinion between them? Is
there a single position of the Democratic party,
for the last forty years. that Greeley has not as
sailed? Is there single tradition of the DEM
ocratic party that Greeley has not ridiculedR Is
there now, at this moment, single question of
public policy, for the future, upon which they
agree? Is 1t upon State Rights? The Demo-
cratic party, even in the North, has gone to the
extreme verge of Secession ON the rights of the
States as against the Nation. Their doctrines
would hamstring the National Government in
any time of National danger. Under them this
| Government would have been a rope of sand,
which would have melted away at the very out
set of the throes through which the Repubi-
can party carried your flag and your nation in
honor and safety. Does the Democratic party
surrender its ideas on this subject? The plat
form says yes, but Democrats tell us no.
ABANDONING THE PRINCIPLES OF A
LIFETIME.
| Every Democratic speech will be full of the
old doctrine of State Rights, somewhat mode
rated by the intense nationality developed by
the war. But Horace Greeley has pressed the
assertion of national authority, as against State
Rights, further than any living American, and
will be bound, if elected if he is an honest man,
| to maintain his opinions. So on the question of
protection to American industry, and on all the
questions growing out of our Tariff and Rev.
! enue laws. The instincts of the Democratic
party are for Free Trade-for British free
trade-for free trade that is utterly inconsistent
with the maintenance of manufacturing indus
\ try and reasonable wages to the laboring men of
this country [Applause.] We may, no doubt,
\ under free trade, maintain the coarser prices of
| industry, but it can only be done by reducing
| the wages of our labor to the European stand
ard. On the vital question, which affects the
| bread of hundreds of thousands of our fellow
citizens, Mr.. Greeley has been compelled, by
4 this unnatural coalition, to abandon or to hold
in reserve the cherished principles of his life
| the ideas which, more than all else, have given
him his name and his fame. On this vital
point to the laboring people, he has been COM
| PEELED by political bargain to surrender and
renounce the power of the President to check
I Al IL
! ject. Suppose Washington had been asked, as
condition of nomination for President, to sur
render his conviction on the neutrality laws.
Suppose Jefferson had been called upon to sur
render his opposition to the Alien and Sedition
laws. Suppose jackson had been asked to sur
render his opposition to Nullihcation. Sup
pose Lincoln had been asked to surrender his
opposition to Slavery. Suppose Grant had
been asked to surrender his power to protect the
people of the South from lawless violence.
What would have been the answer of each one
of them? And yet Mr.. Greeley penned with
his own hand, political trick to crush an
honest, bold expression of his opinion, the
shabby desire OF surrendering in advance his
power, if elected, on all the financial questions
that affect the business interests of TINS great
country of ours. Prolonged applause.
Felow-citzens, we have had in our political
history two examples of the nomination of men
who did not represent the convictions of the
party that nominated them. | refer to John
Tyler and Andrew johnson. These were mis-
taken men-inviting nominations that were
made with good purpose, but with bad results.
But in neither case was there any bargain, trade,
dickering. surrender or remuneration of vital
powers. What was the result to the country of
these mistakes? Disorganization, corruption,
damage to business, public and private. And
so now, if it be possible that Greeley and Brown
should be elected, what confusion and disor-
ganization would evidently ensue. What kind