Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-24
GOV. HAWLEY.
A Summary Of His Magnificent
Speech at Chicago.
One Of the Finest Efforts of the Cam.
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Gen. Hewley, of Connecticut, de
livered lately at Chicago one of the
most stirring speeches of the campaign
and we regret that we have room fol
only a few extracts from it. He com
men ced his speech with brief reel
tation of political history, and dealt
with Republican institutions in this
country as viewed from the European
standpoint. Referring to the great re-
bellion, he said
This was great dan ger-a very great
danger, as someof our best men proph-
esied from time to time and Andrew
jackson gave you good warning of it.
He said the nullifers made the tariff
their first pretext; and, said he, they
Will make. the slavery question their
next one. All of sudden, before any
man expected it, we were plunged into
the most terrible civil war of modern
times he could not dream that we
could raise up our great armies by the
hundred thousand-marshal our hosts
by the million. Wasn't 1t great day /?
Wasn't it great crisis? Wasn't it a
time that called for patriotism, for states.
manship, for high resolve-the time to
test the American people-to see wheth-
er there was enough central coherent
power in their governmental see
whether they had in their hearts the
spirit of self-sacrifce to load themselves
with those millions of debt, and raise
armies by the hundred thousand-lay
everything on the altar rather than
abandon the great principles they advo-
Gated and believed in? Indeed it was
great time and the Old World halted
to see what we would do with it. And
then was the time to test parties. What
then became Of this great, this boosted
Democratic party in that crisis You
compelled US, my Democratic friends
you compelled US to save this country.
We would rather not have done it. You
did nothing; you left the credit of saw.
ing this country to the Republican party
alone. We would rather have had it
otherwise. We begged you all of the
North to act as one man, as one body
OF men, not as political party, but you
remained still. If you had needed our
entreaEy, if you had acted as we begged
you to do, there would have been no
longer war; it would not have lasted
three months it would not have begun
at all. But you stayed back, you OPP
posed and prpohesied against US, at
every opportunity; you prophesied dis
aster and defeat in answer to our de-
mands for aid. You said we had no
power to coerce States; YOU said this
Government had no power to interfere
with the Southern people. We said if
there was 20 power we would End power,
and found it.. You said when we were
raising troops that we could not raise
seventy.hve thousand and we got them
before they could be counted, you said we
could not got 100000, and they came to.
gether before they could be clothed and
armed you said it would ruin our credit.
but we went abroad, and our bonds stood
at par in all the great markets of the
world: ycu said that our legal tenders
that we were obliged to issue would be
so much waste paper they are to-day
the best currency we ever had Ian.
plausel !; you said we could not raise
men; we raised men, and raised men.
until our rolls went up to over ., DOC. 900.
and still they were coming and ready to
come. You said the people would not
tax themselves. They loaded the tax
On until their very knees bent under
the burdens, and they said, DO YOU
want more-more money and more
men? If you do, call for them and
hey Will come, and the country shall |
i've" Applause
The Governor then dealt with the |
matter of the colored people, referred |
to universal freedom established in the |
Constitution, and spoke eloquently on |
the blessings of equal citizenship. II en-
ne struck the issues that have arisen |
since the war thus:
THE ISSUES OF TIE WAR.
We dare you (the Democratic party) |
to oppose the National Bank question |
you say it was wrong; it was a grand |
There may be features IN it
wrong butt upon the whole it be not
good, why don't you say so in your plat
orrn ? Twelve years ago we had as
many systems as there were States, and |
you could not, go East, and have two or
three hundred dollars, without sorting
t out, dollar by dollar, before you came
back West to see what you must leave
on the way. A Connecticut man, to
get as far as Wisconsin, would empty
ais pocket and get rid Of that money
through Wisconsin, money here in Hi
1ois, money here and there. Now
here is not a man in the audience who
has got twenty bills in his pocket but
AN tell me the.State they came from.
Very likely they did not come from any
state they may be legal tender from
Washington you have not examined
hem whereas, in olden times, you
'ould not buy paper Of tobacco from a
grocer but he would look ever his coun-
erfeit detector to see if it was all right.
Applause. What is the reason Of all
his One reason is that before we al
oW bank to issue. a single bill, for
very ninety dollars of bills it wants to
ssue it has got to take a
iundred dollars to Washing ton, leave
there locked up as securi-
y, and the directors of banks may
'e utterly and totally bankrupted with
'uts dime of assets; but it doesn't
make farthing of difference to you.
hough you have got bag full of their
'ills-not one farthing. They have
Tasted their stockholders money;
hey may have deflauded the mercan-
lie community who may have deposit
d with them, butte the biilholder, the
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