The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-07-23


could be recognized. Take for instance
this fight and mark its laughable defects.
While he was attempting to enforce upon
his hearers the idea Of the equality Of Amer
lean citizens before the law and in political
rights and privileges, he said:
Fin the onward march of the times, some
march forward and gather wealth and pros
perity about him; II he shall shoot out from
the common phaanx, and be like comet in
the dizzy future, like meteor bursting with
flame about him, and 1, more forbearing,
shall lag away behind In the onward march
OF time with my knapsack on my back, wan
dering along with old brogans and straw
hat, Will not envy the man that Is ahead of
me.
In this sentence Mr.. Oglesby shoots a
man out Of phalanx, makes him become
comet in the dizzy future and burst with
flame about himself like meteor. This
will never do; It Is terrible.
After asserting that the people hold the
reins Of government in this country, Mr..
o. shouts:
If any man supposes that he can make
any impression upon the public mind of this
country, by assaillng the rights of the people,
let him try II In Chicago, or Cairo, or any
where else, and you will soon see him flip
ped up.
"Flipped up" Is good, but 1t is excelled
by the ex-Govcrnor's description of the
manner in which the Republican party
has and will "run this government" He
says:
We know that all the conflicting interests
that affect forty millions of people, stretch
ing out over three millions of square miles,
over ~ states and IL Territories, over noun
tain, hill, and dale, and vale, and plain. and
ocean, and river, and lake, and sea, and
gull, and stream,-we know how to take
hold of and grapple with the complicated
interests that concern this vast people, to
reconcile them, and to shove on the old ma.
tion IKE car upon creased pine board.
[Lrughter.l
That this is elegant no ono will main
tain; that it is racy no ono will deny
The old nation being pushed along by the
motley crowd Of Radicals-white and
black, honest men and thieves, patriots
and traitors" like a car upon a CREASED
pine board" is picture at onco re.
markable and amusing.
That the Ex-Governor is a Radical,
dyed in the wood and imbued with the
virus Of the most obnoxious principles Of
that party, appears in the fact that he en-.
dorses the outrages of the Radical thieves
At the South, the military occupation OF
| Chicago, all the robberies Of the Radical
ring that surrounds the President, the pro.
tective tariff, the ku.klux laws, the sus.
pension Of the babeas corpus, the oblter.
alton Of all the rights Of the States and
the establishment Of the doctrine that
when the President and Congress believe
that the laws of Congress or a State are
not properly enforced within any State,
Congress and the President should have
the right to send the army into such State,
North or South, to enforce the laws in
accordance with the views and
interests Of Congress and the Presi-
dent; but the devotion Of Mr.. 0. to
Radicalism Is particularly declared in
the following peculiar, not to say unique
paragraph, which should be read with all
becoming elaboration.
| Go back to the day that Abraham Lincoln
was inaugurated read his record, read hi.
proclamations, read his messages, read hi,
addresses, read his speeches, and then 90 to
| Congress and begin on the very day of hi.
| Inauguration, or on the 4th of July when the
| extra session met. Read every act passed
| at that session, every military act passed and
| signed by Abraham Lincoln; read every act
of every Congress afterwards; everyone of
the Congresses of the four years whilst he
was there, either at the regular or special
term. Go all through with the acts of the
Republican Congress as Republican Con.
| gress, while johnson was President and
| against us. Go read the acts, the statute
books Of every one of the actions of the Re.
publican Congress. Then 20 down to Gen.
eral Grant read his inaugural address, read
his messages, read what he has done as Presi.
dent, read the corresponding legislation OF
Congress, read the acts of Congress passed
in consonance with the action of the Presi
dent, read all the legislation, and then com,
back and take all our platforms, take them II
every State in the Union, in every city, II
every county, in every precinct, in every
township, down to every garden, and village
and house, and man. Take them all. III,
acts of our President and our Congress, an,
our people, and tell you tonight that, as
Republican candidate for Governor of Iii
nois, ratify and indOrse the whole thing
In all this long speech from which w
have above quoted there is not one SOUND
reason given in support of the policy o
the Republican party, unless one may b,
found in the elegant expression, that ait
1.-THE Republican parity went and tool
twelve cents pound right slap off of to
bacco p II is all stuff--the weakest kind
Of mean demag oguish twaddle.
D6cThe valuation Of property in Bos