The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-10-11
Hon. John p. Stockton on the
Political Issues Of the Day.
Significance OF the Liberal Movement
lr Patriotic Duty VI Democrats. %
Acceptance Of the Resalts OF the War
-Bayenst Rule In the South
Dsprscstsd-Ci Civil Liberty
In Danger. U


The Liberal Republicans and Democrats Of |
Red Bank, n. j.. recently raised Greeley |
and Brown banner, ON which occasion Senator |
Stockton spoke As follows:
FKLIOw-crTlzESs THIS h the first time in |
New jersey and the second time that I ever |
raised my voice in political meeting wnen
did not say :. acknowledgements, but the time
has come when all men Who love their conn |
try are bretbren. The Democracy Of New |
JerSey, BY An almost UNANIMOUS vote in their I
committee assembled at Trenton, sent me to |
Baltimore to pomiDate Democrat for the |
high Office Of President OF the United States. |
went TO Baltimore. aid when the vote WAS |
taken in that body did not vote for Horace !
Greeley. | voted for an old-fashioned Demo- |
crat, Mr.. Bayard, and ons-balf of the New |
Jersey delegation stood by me, and we voted /
to the end for Mr.. Bayafd. There must have |
been some wise reason and patriotic motive
why fhat great, Democrsrc assembly. COM
posed Of representatives from every State Of
this Union, cried out, Horace Greeley lap |
plausel, the bitterest enemy the Democracy |
ever had in this country. Why did they vote |
for him7 Because DemocrAte, thank God,
in the future - IN the past, are ready 70
sacrifice their prejudices and passions on the |
altar Of their country. tApplause.l I ask
every Liberal Republican and every man who |
looks at this thing fairly II We have not made
q great sacrlfce!
That convention had hardly closed before l
was called upon by Senator Ransom, Of North
Carolina, to help in that election and the
only other time when ever raised my voice
in political meeting and said. :" feiiov-citi-
zens,- instead Of I" felIow-Democrsts,' Was ct
Weldon, n. c.; and there on the platform was
Senator Upton, an out-and-out Republican all
his life, who opened the ball, and after he had
told how the Republican party had been
cheated, how the National Government had
become nothing but . personal government.
he turned to Senator Ransom. who had been
a rebel General and said. We viii shake
hands across the bloody chasm-" Icame from
the old Democratic party. and am imbuod WITH
nothing but Democratic proclivities: and
told the people Of North Carolina, 20 / am not
surprised at Senator Upton, who has been .
Republican all his life. and Gen. Ransom. who
has been . rebel General. shaking hands over
this bloody chasm-" ! then told them that
every Democrat and every Republican who
loved his State must unite to save it from
usurpation and tyranny TO prevent the de-
struction Of free institutions and personal
liberty. How many years" asked, "are
you to bear this 2" Although it is eight years
since the war closed, the Administration party
IN Congress declare that it still exists. The
bayonet laws and Ku-Klux bills were founded
upon speeches declaring that the war still
exists. When first went to Washington,
| eight or nine yeare ago. the first words heard
uttered there were In favor Of forming what
they called Committee on Reconstruction"
Well, the committee was formed, with Mr..
Fessenden as Chairman. and then the Liberal
| Republicans spoke out. Doolittle, an old
| fashioned Republican all through the war.
raised his manly voice against IL. Senator
Cowan, Of Pennsylvania, spoke out and said
.. This is . committee to prevent reconstruc-
ton. to prevent harmony and reconciliation
They pointed out that by the Constitution OF
the United States. the Senate and House Of
Representatives had the absolute right to
decide as to the qualifications OF their own
members: that By forming this committee
| they had bulwark erected to prevent recon-
citation. And why? Because 1t was rscee-
sary for the purpose OF keeping, not me he
publican party in power, but the carpet-bag-
| gers who are robblng the South.
| PERSONAL LIBERTY THE OBJECT OF THE WAR.
Then came amendment after amendment.
and although we opposed them, vet, ~ they
have been made part OF the Constitution, We
will stand by them to the end The blacks
have been made voters. and We must educate
them. and labor to so control their vote that
thew NAV not ruin the Southern States. The
war was fought to secure those great personal
and political rights which our ancestors came
| to these shores to maintain. One Of these
rights was personal hberty-not being robbed
by carpet-baggers, not being arrested without
4 warrant by an officer with the signet of Gen.
Grant in his hand, but the right to go to the
poll. and VOTE the night to be the governors
| Of this land You are the only people on earth
\ who govern themselves; your vote. fauly de-
posted. makes you one Of the governors Of the
country.
1t is : privilege to enable yon 30 to govern
the country ss to carry out the design OF
those who formed the government, to make Il
. free, pure, and honest government. And
that is what we ask you to do now. In South
Carolina the satraps of Gen. Grant have
robbed the people Of s40, 0Oo. 900 on the pre-
tense Of building railroads. and not eight
not wish to detract from the well-earned fame
Of any man, but during the eight years since
the war ceased the South has been governed
by the bayonet and plundered until there IL
nothing left to plumber. That 10 fact, and
no mau can deny it. Now, il You went to the
English people and told them that story
about Ireland. how long do you suppose the
English Ministry wonld remain in pJwer7 II
/ should charge Gen. Grant directly and poei-
tiyely with having done all this, the indict-
mept would be no stronger than the fact that
his maladministration has permitted 1t. II
matters not who did it, need not mention
! names. There are only two ways Of govern
voluntary acquiesccncc Of the people In the
. laws they make themselves.
BAroxEr observation-disclosures.
For eight years you have governed one
half of YOUR country by the bayonet. When
. the southern people, at the close Of the war,
) | admitted that they we've conquered, accepted
the constitutional amendments. aud asked &c
|, be admitted again as sovereign States Of this
! Union, the Administration party refused; bul
Q we now propose to readmit them as such. and
+ that is what we mean by clasring hands
q across the bloody chasm. Mr.. Boutwell, weu
. down 10 North Carolina. leaving the business
! Of his Office. and s;umped the State for hi.
! chieftain; and be said to the people . w
y do NOT want to clasp hands ACROSS the blood.
chasm: that is what the Democrats wanted &
40 before the war broke out; but We want 4
iii up the chasm.- FIJI il up-how7 Re
store the lives that have been lost, the heart
+ that have been bereavedi ! tell you. m
n friends, this chasm will grow WIDER and vide