The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1872-10-05


South. Why? Not because he con.
tRsred them in war, but because he
Impoverished them in peace. In battle
he smote them with an iron hand.
They expected it. But in peace he
has trodden upon them with irou heels.
and that they did not expect. For the
last two years the history of the Fed
eral policy towards the Southern States
has beea one continuous tale Of high
way robbery, parslleled only by the
stupendous frauds of the Tamany
Ring" | know that accusation is
grave, but the proof is grayer still. /
will take testimony from their own side
Colonel Forney went to tho South, came
back, and speaks thus: "But South
Carolina" says he, "has beeu at the
mercy Of a more rapacious gang Of
thieves than the Tamany or Tweed
gang. The extent Of their stealiDg~
reaches millions Of dollars. Ii has made
the name of Repubicsnism 10 South
Carolina syuonomous with plunder" "
[ Applause Don't applaud it. II
would be equally true Of Pennsylvania.
More applause come US stranger
into your State, and shall not attempt
to set forth the virtues of Mr.. Bucka.
lew, or the vices of Mr.. Hariranit, but
| only say that this ,ppliuse upou
is synonymous OF pluoder, and
is a double ulterauce OF shame 10 Penn
sylyauia, This is another important
uccusatlou agaiust the Republican par
~. 1t is another confession against
itself.
The South are under the rule Of the
strauger-genilemen who have gone
down from their States carrying their
carpet bugs Respectable travellers Civ /.
their name to their baggage, but here
the baggage gives its name to the man,
Laughter
MIR. TiltOu then made a statement
respecting the debt OF the various
Southern States, giving that debt at the
beginning Of Grants administration aud
also its present amount, Thus at the
beginning OF his term Of oihee, in 1868,
Mississippi had no debt; now it is two
millions oil dollars
Florida in 1868 had debt of half u
million; now it is fifteen millions.
Texas in 1868 had debt of one third
of a million; now it is seventeen millions.
Arkansas in 1868 had debt of four
millions; now it is nineteen millions,
Georgia in 1868 had debt of two
aud Il half millions; now it is twenty
millions.
South Carolina 10 1868 had a debt Of
four aud a half millions; now it is
twenty-nine millions.
Alabama in 1868 had debt Of seven
millions; nov it is thirty eight millions
Iu other words, taking them all, less
than fifty millions at the commence
ment, but closing with total indebt
edness of two hundred millions, nn
increase Of one hundred aud fifty mil
lions of dollars.
Now where is it? Is it in public
works, 10 railroads, in canals, in school
houses, in hospitals, in libraries I
Where is it? | will tell You what kind
Of public works They have type aud
symbol of that kind of work Ia New
York. Perhaps you have heard of the
house that Jack built" Laughter.
And, perhaps you have heard Of the
house that Tweed built II is our
Courthouse in the City Park, which
among other things, had emo Ugh purple
carpet laid to have added flush to the
mountain of Kearsage.
There was all this in it; there was
purple carpet here too, and arm chairs,
aud boxes OF cigars, and fine wines. aud
two dozen Dents, and probably if the
lnquisltIon went further, in it they
would ind the one hundred and fifty
millions of dollars.
There are two bags famous in history
One is sacred aud the other is secular.
One in which Judas held The money
when he sold his Master, and the other
is the carpet bag that contains the
plunder OF those ho rob their country
[Applause
Now, then, carpet bag governments
are aided d abetted by the Presiden,
ol the Uuilcd States. He is the cor
ner stone on which they stand; the
power by which they tyranze; the
shelter ander which they pluuder. II
is only necessary for me, as II Republi
can, to remind those among you of the
intimate connection between his gov
erument aud theirs; how his govern
meut is part aud parcel with theirs
is Is only necessary Tor you to look this
squarely IN the face; that if the Presi
dent be reelected, the carpet-bag gov,
ernments staud; it he be defeated, they
fall. [Cheers.
A Republican said; President Grant
has brought the South to her knees
Not, however, in joyful allegiance tC
the Federal government, but in devoted
supplication to Almighty God for the
overthrow of the present adminlstra
lion, [Cheers,
Thus, then, has the President paid
the National debt, reduced the taxes
collected the revenue, pacifed the 10
dians, settled the Alabama claims and
harmopised the South; during which
time the people have suffered, and his
officers have grown rich, until there has
gone up a cry which, in the words Of
Whittier, rang out
"Hoarse, horrible and strong,
How long, o Lord, how long"
Open the Bible of the reiguing fam
lily, the big book which lies shut at the
family White House-not at the Old
Testament, nor even the New, nor vel
again ut the Apocrypha, but at thai