Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-12


ton that the workers and the builders,
that are the true nobility OF the human
race, should have their rights. This provision
was not intended to be a glittering generality,
and was useless unless its provisions were en-
forced; and our first congress legiSated to
build up agriculture and manufactures, and
they did it, That policy has been since advo-
Gated, and no president has been elected who
did not believe in this policy. We see, in ap-
preaching these shores, children of every ma
ton, who here strike hands with with the sons
of the pilgrims, and they are to day keeping
watch of the golden gates of the Pacific. In
eighty-three years we have founded nation
forty three millions strong, second to none on
the earth. To-day we are asked by this mongrel
party to forego this form of government.
No man who honors me with his attention
can hope to support any such party; here is a
party with no principles, and we are asked to
support it, No amount of rhetoric can make an
intelligent citizen doubt what is meant by free
trade; it means to pauperize labor in the United
States; it means to bring about dependency of
the laboring class upon those men who rule by
the grace of God. 1t was part of the Ameri-
can policy to divide the land among the people
Ohio with less than one-lOurth of the popua-
ton of Great Britain, has two free-holders to
one across the sea. Free trade means the re-
duction of the prices of labor to the standard of
wages in Europe. In this contest l trust that
every American citizen, irrespective of party,
will give the people to understand that they are
for American interests against the world; with
me it is a conviction that the people will not
ialter. New Hampshire has spoken for
America, and for the administration that
supports the American policy. Then Oregon
which two years ago gave its vote to the demo-
cratic party, sends her voice across the noun
tain, saying, We stand for America and the
American policy. Then the old North state
spoke, and men released by the pre- clamaton
issued by Lincoln, and established by Grant,
struck hands with the patriot white men of the
state, and carried it for American principles
Next came Vermont, where the coalition party
are trying to find out how many votes they can
cast; and but yesterday Maine spoke against
this European policy. The honor of the nation
is before us. These conspirators have
put into their platform words to deceive
the people. These men have employed words
only to deceive the people. In the act providing
for the issue of 5 Dos it was provided that import
duties should be paid in coin. Free trade means
the abolition of this collection, which has fur
nshed gold to pay the interest of the bonds.
Abolish it, and there is no way by which we are
to get funds to pay the bonds of the nation Is
not aboliShng this repudiatiou2 These men say
that we had no right to pledge the govern
ment to pay these bonds in gold. They
undertake TO make good their sayings by
claiming that bond holders should be paid
in the same funds which they bought
the bonds with. This | resent as an
utterance not fit to be made, and one that in
suits the human understanding. 1 ask these
demago9ues what was lent to the government
by those widows who are watching the vacant
chair, waiting for the absent ones to come home
from the war These men would answer you,
if they could, that they lent the government
their hearts sympathy. When this conflict of
arms was being carried on, and when we were
rewarded with peace, it became the duty of the
American people to reconstruct the government
Of the United States. They completed the
constitution so as to secure absolute
equality of every state and every citizen
they succeeded as well as it was possible for hu.
man beings TO succeed; they thought that they
had secured the rights of citizens. One would
suppose that it was sufficient and would COM
mand the respect Of every man in the country,
but in 1866 every democrat voted against its
adoption, and every republican recorded his vote
in favor of it. Every state by its popular vote
endorsed that just and righteous amendment.
Ii was carried by the largest vote ever cast in
the United States. In 1868, employing doubtful
combination, they declared it was illegal, but in
1860 they claimed that it was illegal to defend
the constitution, yet there standard bearer was
lost in the uprising of the people and U. S.
Grant triumphantly elected. Now we come to
1872, and they claim that it is illegal to enforce
the constitution by law. We wish it understood
that no state in the Union has the right to
trampe upon its most lowly citizen; we wish it
understood that there is no right to put a fetter
upon free speech or free thought, or make HUI
man beings articles of merchandise; we wish it
understood that it is not in the power
Of South Carolina TO drive by mob VIC
lence citizen of Massachusetts out of her
borders when he goes under her sanction to as
Sert the rights of citizens before Der tribunal.
Webster never said q truer word than when he
said the constitution of the United States does
not execute itself, and laws must be made for
its execution. The so-called kuklux law is an
act TO enforce the first part of the fourteenth
amendment, and not to take away the rights of
any state or citizen. 1t was brought out by the
investigation Of a joint committee from the
mouse Of representatives and senate, that %, 600
men had been outraged and not a single case
had been brought before a tribunal. The cues
ton was how long this was TO be allowed !?
Ii was for the prevention of this that
these laws were made. The guarantee of THE
constitution is to give ample protection to peo-
pie in every state, when the state government
fails to protect them. The law has never been
enforced in states where it was not absolutely
required. Crime in the states where the law
has been executed is on the decrease, and, in
fact, is seldom heard of. We want a Centraliza-
ton of power when it is for the protection of
the people of every state in the Union. An
other act is what our opponents call the bayonet
law, which provides punishment for the pr
vention ofman exercising his right to vote. 1t
is law to secure just election for
officers of the United States, and as it provides
Iammany demagogues are opr osed TO it, for it
prevents their voting as many times as there are
wards in New York city. | know the truth of
which speak-the democrats are assaing the
rights OF citizens, as they are the amendments
themselves jeremiah S. Black, the attorney
general of Buchanan, wrote his letter, appended
his name TO it., declaring that the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments were frauds and by
the election of Horace Greeley he hopes that the
people of the south will regain the blood which
their fathers have lost. Horace Greeley has
this letter paraded as an exposition of the is
sues. II day we see one of the founders of the
republican party with his hand on his mouth
and his mouth in the dust crying unclean I'M
clean. This man announced less than twelve
months ago that he would not say that all dem
ocrats were horse thieves, but that all horse
thieves were democrats. When he made his
tour through the south, he was received with an
ovation by the people Of those states b. cause he
had declared before the war that if a state Sc
cedcd that it was their legal right to leave the
Union. He received that ovation because
he did what he could for the defeat of
the Union armies. When Lincoln re-
fused to have anything to do with peace ar
bitration, Horace Greeley appointed himself a
peace commissioner and went to Niagara, to
negotiate with those high skilled arbitrators. Is
II to be wondered at that the people OF the south
found in him a man TO represent them, and
with him, Brown, who occupies no larger place
upon the ticket than that assigned him by
past a shot on Greeleys coat-tail. With him
for president you can easily see the fate of the
country. Greeley either believes in secession
or he is liar. An effort is being made to make
the people support man of this character and
it Is for you to decide in relation
to his acceptance. Greeley has broken
loose Ifrom his keepers, and tries
to explain how it is that he is the candidate OF
the democratic party, and so he goes into New
Hampshire, among his old friends and associ-
ates, and attempts TO explain II by saving that
two men Of opposing convictions may make a
journey together and they VII soon be of the
same opinion. He thinks there is no difference
between truth and honesty, because he has
taken journey with these meal Now his sup
porters do not say anything about these mat