Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-06

law, hunts out tie hdbedS corpus clause, and
contends that the liberties of the people are
ut!erly destroyed Llaughterl; and then he will
sit down and write a message as long as an
old cows tail [laughterl, and send il to the
Legislature, or to Congress, or some other
deliberative body, avowing that the whole
thing Is going to destruction, and that unless
the people take him up and put him in some
big office, the whole country will be absolute
ly ruined. lApplause.l
Why, you miserable men now trying to find
fault with the past steps of our party; try
ing to build up some new concern, and hang
as an excresence on the golden prosperity Of
this old party-don't you know we know in
finitely better than you will ever know that
we got through with our trouble the best we
could? laughter and cheers, and now every
body says Its all right" Everything was
not done according to the Pentateuch, or the
Ten Commandments, or according to the
Chinese, or according to the moral code of
any other system of antiquated existing
ethics, but according to the peculiar
American system that gratifies a hungry
stomach by gobbling up the first hunk OF
corn-bread which he can lay his hands upon.
[Cheers and laughter.
THE REFoRNERs HANDLED WITHOUT GLOVES.
How silly it looks for some grave, dissatis
fled Senator, or some disappointed Governor,
or some gentleman whose prospects politi-
cally have never been above the horizon, to
rise up and attempt to make these grey old
men or those rising young men dissatisfied
with the past-with the great past of this
pure, good party. Does a man stop to
measure distance by steps? Everybody
knows that three feet is q yard but man
who has to travel one hundred feet don't
stop to take three feet at a step. He goes at
a gallop until he gets to the end of his jour
ney. How inexcusable is this fault-finding
in any Republican / might excuse it in
Democrat but for Republican to rise up
and gravely say this little thing was wrong,
and II 10 Ea rinbt M sir .
you shall not make it right. The history of
the past is written in the hearts of the great
people of this land, and the past shall re-
main. [Applause and laughter.l 1t touched
your hearts tonight when these young men
came here and sang about the old flag of the
country. How We went back to the days
that have gone by. They say we have to
forget those days. Am to be twitted now
by this new party that is rising up, saying
Abolitionism, rebellion, suppression of the
civil war of the country, were catchwords of
the party in days gone by, and now no party
can allude to them any more, for we must
conciliate our Southern brethren? We must
bring these rebels back to the Union. The
mouth of everyi old man and every young
man must be closed. Am no more to say
it was right to crush out the rebellion-to
break the rusty manacles from the sore limbs
of four millions of poor, weary black men
[Applause.l The grand history of the past
is to be interdicted. My mouth is TO be
it was noble thing to put down the war he
is to be laughed to scorn by this new party
tell you, gentlemen of Baltimore, gentle
men of Cincinnati, 1 tell you all, too, before
God and the broken limbs of the poor SOL
diers today, will never, while live, close
my mouth [great applause] as long as / shall
live [applausel in the presence of repentant
or unrepentant rebels. / claim the right, in
the presence of any private soldier, to say !:
"Thank you, for putting that accursed re-
bellion down and saving your country"
TCheers.1 They talk about dead Issues
about the war that was ended seven years
ago. All, gentlemen, you mistake this
American peoples heart. You mistake the
liberty-loving people. You shall be taunted,
ieered, jibed and derided. You shall be
rebellion down and save the Union. You
want to conciliate our Southern brethren +?
So do Just as other decent men are concili-
ated. The Republican party will extend to
them every admissible right when they will
accept that old flag and this good old Union
[applausel; but before that time will not
get down on my knees and go to them offer
me "agitator'' and radical" but l hold
the liberty and purity of this people above
everything else. l am willing to grant am
nesty-the Republican party teaches it to me
but when we go to them with message of
amnesty it shall be with the express under
standing that they accept our country, its
laws and its institutions. Applause.
So we went on regulating as best we could.
Pretty high up it was especially the tariff, and
we Western Republicans, not forgetting our
bond of Union with the Eastern, Northern
and Southern Republicans, after while said
Now is the time to bring that down and re-
lieve the people" and so we began the work
of removing taxes from the people. shall not
stop to discuss the subject now, but before
the campaign ends l shall take occasion to
fully discuss the questions of tariff and taxa
tion. We have nothing to dodge. No people
can succeed with honor that dodge anything.
/ propose to go before the people OF Illinois
and discuss these matters fully. / have no
concealments-none whatever, for we are
right. Let anybody show us where we are
wrong. l want somebody to show us where
we are wrong. Who knows what is wrong
better than we do? Outside of this round
little world that goes buzzing at the rate of
eighteen miles a second through microcosmic
ether, don't know anybody that knows as
much about it as we do. We admit here and
there pretty rough thing was done. Oc-
casionally we had to take Democrat and
put him in prison without allowing him the
right of hd6eds corpus. We did not want to
do it; the Democrats did not want us to do
it; but the exigencies of the case required
that both should submit to it. Laughter
and applause. This is all gone by, and we
never shall do it again in this world-never,
unless we want to, or unless it becomes ne
eessary to preserve this Government
THE CRY OF CRNTRALIzATIoN.
You are taught that it is a centralized
Government-the same old catch-word and
phrase johnson used. What do you mean
by centralized Government? Make yourself
intelligible. What do you mean? Our Gov
ernment has three departments-the eXecu-
tive, the legislative, and the judicial, which
comes into power with appointment from
the President and confirmation by the SEN
ate. The. President is elected by
the American people. The national
The Senate of the United States is
elected by the Legislatures of the different
States, and these are elected by the people.
Where is your central Government? Whose
power is centralized? How is it possible for
any combination of men to centralize the
Government. What do you mean? Do you
expect to blind the heart of youth, and teach
it to despise the Government OF the United
States. What do you mean? / demand Of
you to make this Ineligible. lApplause.
1t is easy to take these phrases of Andy
johnson, but you shall not cram this down
the throats of the people without me max
ing you explain. Applause. If you can ex-
plain what you mean, charge 1t upon you
that in the interests of State rights and
local self-government you want to conciliate
the old rebels and get their votes; you are
ready to plant the seed of treason in the
hearts of the young men of the Republic
[Applause.l l appeal to every Republican
man and woman If they have not as much
interest in this Government as you have;
have not as much right to be protected in
my personal liberties as you have? Has not
every gentleman as much interest in per-
sonal liberty as you fellows can have outside
the boundaries of our own party? What do
you mean in talking about Grants Govern
ment and the Capitalization of the powers Of
the people in the hands of the Government (?
| saw this is all low-hung dirty balderdash
Laughter and cheers. Here is great peo
pie watching our members OF Congress, and
In they don't vote right they will be taught a
lesson, and il our Senators do not vote
right we will teach them lesson occasion
ally.
PRESIDENT GRANT.
know our National
Congress means to do right. Our simple
hearted President means to do right; he Is
not gaudy President such as Andy John
son was; he is not a digniied President, in
the sense generally used in speaking Of per-
sons of dignity. He is plain, simple man,
with an honest heart; he has been tried on
many field amidst the darkest clouds, and
led on our hosts to victory; he conquered
what was assumed to be the unconquerable
bet q .b. anauv TAnnlauSa I He hrouUht