Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-10-05
ADDRESS OF THE NON. 7. :. BATARD
At INSTITUTE HALL.

last evening, to a crowded house. His Address |
occupied 2s1 hours in its delivery Mayor |
simms presided. We give below his leading
ideas on the principal topics discussed:
The issues In this campaign, he said are not
new ones. They we're as old as the histsry OF
our Government and Of all human government
| In any age or country. They are simply wheth-
| er human power can submit to human limit,
when personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT underes IL. The
distribution of power has been an issue since the
| foundation OF the Government. No arbitrary
powers, however, are granted under the Consti-
| tuition. Limitations are placed upon them
| wherever deposited, by distributing them among
| the co ordinkte branches OF the Government,
i He proceeded to show the ability OF one branch
/ Of the Government to make laws, aud the re-
| straining checks thrown around it by the Preei-
dents veto. and the Judiciary, and declared that
| II all were combined they would not then be
| omnipotent. The National Government had
none but delegated powers, and there is perfect
| harmony throughout the system. Destroy the
distribution and You destroy the limitation and
power becomes absolute. This, he said the
Democratic larty had ever maintained = it had
been its great fundamental principle - by 1t the
party had its existence, and it would endure 30
long as the forms OF freedom exist.
Local eelf-government he defined an opportu-
nifty to learn. Take away the right and the
mind will wither, the same as the muscles. I'm
less the people are practiced IN local sef-gov-
| eminent, thay are not III to govern themselves
tive as those OF the General Government, and
they cannot be impaired without injury to the
| latter. Harmony must prevail between them.
The next leading idea which claimed the
speakers attention was the suspension Of the
writ Of habeds corpus, granted by Congress to
the President, he said to enable him to overcome
by military power any power hostile to him Not
one Of the 100000 people in tho South were free
from arrest, or were aware OF the moment when
the hand OF the soldier would be laid upon their
| shoulder The bullet and the bayonet we're the
only power in the South from October 1871, TO
March. 1872 He then spoke OF the roposition
to continue this power in the hands OF the Pres
| ident, and declared that out Of the opposition
to 1t grew the Liberal Republican movement,
He SAID that under the "bayonet bill" interfer-
ence WAS contemplated in this State. He had
addressed letter to the President protesting
| against the interference but forgetting the dig
nily due his position the President did not com
descend to answer IL, but he believed, II had its
effect, as the soldiers did not come. He then
traced the history OF the attempt to re-enact the
bill granting to tue President the suspension OF
the writ OF hdbedS corpus, how 1t passed the
Senate, but defeated IN the House
The Democratic objection to the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments is, he said mainly
to their tendency towards Capitalization, and
j because they are dangerous to the distribution
y OF power. He then attempted to enforce the
: idea that mon should not refuse to vote because
some lesser obnoxious measure initiated against
them-in other words that they should sink
u tuolI bppohllOu 10 hIeeie9 III u uAlNoI7dl henAo
d to restore local self-government
= The rise, cause and course OF the Liberal Re-
publican movement was dwelt upon at length.
He reviewed the situation at the time Of the in
3 auguration of President Grant-the extent OF
the power Of the Republican party and the nature
OF its legislation the associations OF the Presi-
8 ident-hls Ignorance Of civil government-how
e he was surrounded by military men-the com
Q mencement Of the centralizing tendency. Muir
murs then began to be heard. Trumbull aud
Schurz lifted their voice OF opposition in the
Senate but still the course went on-this
kind OF legislation continued until the patriotic
: fears were aroused. The men who filled Lin
= coins cabinet had already gOne-ChAse, Wells,
= David DAVE, and Others whose instincts were
not carried away by passion. Intimidation aud
T cajolery were then applied and dissatisfaction
grew into opposition. The Cincinnati movement
was not political, or the movement OF party.
He admitted that there were selfish men in 1t,
but the same spirit filled the Convention which
3 saved the nation He declared tie gulf between
the Republican aud the Liberal Republican par
ties as great as between the Republican aud
) Democratic. The fiood-gates OF calumny had
been opened, and good and honest men held
u up to public view in derisive carlcaturez.
Il He recognized in the movement local sef-goy-
ernmeht
= An explanation OF his vote in the National
I. Nominating Convention was then given. lie
went there, he said opposed to the nomination
3 OF Horace Greeley, because he believed he would
ie IN this way Letter represent the views OF th(
Ia peOplo OF MS own bldtb. ne lOulu nlLnh6lI one
Of the smallest minurities IN any convention
r that ever assembled. The convention was not
packed any more than any previous Democrat
ID ic convention, but the nomination fairly
=. made. He failed to perceive, therfore, why any
ID Democrat could not conscientlously vote FOL
the nominee it presented. But, as II fearful tina
a. he might wound the sensiblnties OF some Straight
y Out, and there were some of them present, III
Z modified his explanation by saying 1t was per
sonai question OF COM, lonsnesa with them, which
n | which he did not nj to find faulI with.
D.. The Levy Court cases came III tOI shaTe n
~ his attention. lie laid down the proposition tina
tue action Of the court WAS discretionary uude
r. the laws OF the State-that il the public trus
es was violated, public sentiment would retus
to return them to tGe same position
g. This, he thought, was the only punishment Wal
4, rantahle. The members, lie said, had execute
2 State laws, but were indicted under act Of tn
Radical Congress. Jures had been called froI
e. the lower couIties who had no interest in GU
In affairs. II this state Of things continues tn
be voice Of the people will soon he stiled, and ocI
sef-government destroyed. There will be II
Use Of voting for Levy Courtmen, when tn
&. court cannot act In its own discretion The re
suit will 30 that will not accept office il tn
10, discretion ID taken away. He raid that undG
(, the Enforcement act white men were compelle
o. to give colored men the right to vote, but ther
was no provision compelling the reverse order {
n. things.
L. He had much respect for the President in hi
private capacity aud had not aught to say again
/ III THIS IeldtlOn he COulQ hot speak OF Ill
IT. disrespectfully, without casting reproach upon I'll
VI. high position which he held. He did propose
Ii. however, to have something to ray uf hi
NJ, public acts, and proceeded to repeat a
~ the malicious falsehoods which have emanAte
he from the New York Sun, relative to PrezideI
-, Grants connection with what is termed - Blac
Friday in New York gold gambling the Custol
rs House corruption, &c He assaied the purit
NJ OF the Presidents motives in his relation to Ho
den and others, who have been the object
to- Democratic venom for years. While he had ne
ry even reprimanded Leet, and Murphy, and Brow
of and Bullock and others, for their rascality
,ol had turned Jacob ID. Cox out OF the cabinet b
IT. cause he had refused to allow an assessment I
be made upon the salaries OF the clerks unde
le him. In Pennsylvania he said the prisons ha
NJ. been opened TO criminals the price of who's
A. pardon was paid in speech for Hartrauft. II
either forgot or failed to state that the peti,io
ts for the pardon OF Marcer Yerkes was siRr
It g, ed by Aleck Mcclure and other Liberals
opposition to this man he presented Horac
Ter Greeley, who never violated public trust, WI
NJ, never had cent Of money he did not honor
in bly, obtain. and who never saw a thiet's hes
or that he didn't try to hit it.
lis Brief allusiOn was made to the "OTedit N
bier," in which he yielded forced coufeseiC
rd to the integrity OF Hon Schuyler Colfa1, b.
ay brought out nothing new in relation to 1t. /
he then assumed q pacific spirit "shoOk ham
ID, across the bloody chasm" with Greeley, ,eulogizt
sV. his course during the war, and entreated his a
dience to yield him their support, to the end th
ice local self-government might be perpetuated.
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