The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-09-12

enough. 1 think some who voted fol
the civil rights bill four years age
] would hardly do it now. Somehow
J OF other we have got some men in
in the Republican party who are be-
! ginning TO feel like some men in the
E Democratic party; they want to turn
their backs on the past. [Cheers and
laughter. All l have to say TO these
: men is this: The country appears to
remember gratefully their past, but il
is very likely to condemn and curse
their future. Applause.
A bill was introduced by Midsummer
to extend the civil rights bill. 1t was
: put on the amnesty bill, and moved
? as an amendment. / voted for it,and
for this reason l wanted, while we
gave the rebel pardon for his crimes,
that we should secure the fullest rights
TO the poor emancipated bOndman
who had been his slave.
A slip of paper was here passed up
to the speaker.
am asked state who is the author
of the civil rights bill. 1t is Mr..
Trumbull, of Illinois; and l am
under great obligations 10 him
for it. But he was equally Op-
posed to Mr.. Summers civil rights
bill.
Now, gentlemen, it has been said
that Gen. Grant has no sympathy
with the proposed amendment or ad-
ditiOn to the civil rights bill. 1 say
to you to-day that know he was in
favor of it.
A public meeting was held in the
city Of Washington while it was pend
ing. Frederick Douglass, perhaps
the ablest cOlOred man in America,
and one of the nOblest specimens of
manhood in the country, presided.
Gen. Grant had been invited to pre-
side. He could not attend, but he
sent letter expressing his hope that
the eOlOred race would receive their
rights, and when the letter was read,
the colored citizens received it with
transports of joy, and with acclaim.
Douglass said iC was, perhaps, the
most important Communication to
their race, lthat had ever come from
White House. And yet there are
men in this country so hostile to the
President, that they question his
I earnestness and his fidelity to enact
any and all measures within the linn
| its of the Constitution for the prOtec-
I LAoAA eNAAA oNlAAAlg Vi lAAetl AdCG. tell
/ you, gentlemen, that from the sum-
mer of 1868, when Gen. Grant, away
down on the banks of the Mississippi,
wrote letter to Mr.. Washburne, OF
| Illinois, which was sent to me, in
which it was said that he was in ia
vOr of emancipation before the close
of the war, and believed that it would
be mistake to make peace without
securing emancipation, down to this
hour, no man in America has been |
more steadily, uniformly, persistent
" active to secure to the cOlOred race /
all their rights, than Gen. Grant.
Speaking now Unpopular rights, the
rights of citizens, l want to say this /
to you: A man who is in favor of the 4
liberties of the black man is in favor .
of the liberties of a white man. Ap- !
plause. Again a man who is, or /
has been during many years, opposed /
to giving liberty to the black man,
does not care a farthing for the lib
erty of any white man but himself.
lCheers. A man who is for the lib
erty of the poorest and humblest, the
most oppressed of the children of
men, is logically bound to be in favor
of the liberty of all men. [Applause.]
PROTECTION TO IMMIGRANTS AND
THE LABORER.
The government of the United
States to-day is, perhaps for the first
time in our history, in the hands of
men who believe in complete liberty,
and the perfect equality of all men.
In proof of this ! would refer to the
thousands, of workingmen especially,
who come to our shores annually
from the Old World. Englishmen
come here; Irishmen flock here; the
Germans have darkened the oceans
by the swarms of them that have
come to our land, and in spite of any
attempted legislation to prevent
them, they will continue to come here
for long years to come. It has been
the custom of those old governments
to hold the doctrine, "Once q subject,
always a subject" Our government
holds the doctrine that governments
were made for men, and not men for
governments; that the object of gov
ernmeuts Is the protection and secur-
ity of human rights. These govern
ments have undertaken to enforce
their doctrines. When American cit
izens, men who have come here and
been naturalized, have returned to
their homes, they have been held by
those governments to the observance
and execution of some of their laws,
and especially to the doing of militia
Ty duty. President Grants adminis-
tratiOn, guided by the grand central
idea of human equality, of the rights
of citizens to the protection of the
everywhere, has negoti-
ated treaties with all the Western
powers of Europe, so that their claims
on American citizens are abandoned
for evermOre. [Cheerr.
Grant has not only gone that far
farther than anybody else ever went
but he has opened negotiations with
all the commercial nations of Wes-
tern Europe, for the purpose of agree
ing on some general rules and regula-
tiOns, so that emigranJs from the Old
World to the New shall not be abus-
ed, ill.treated, robbed, outraged, and
cheated as they have been in years
gone by. We want the skilled labor
er, the honest industry, the manly
vigOr of the wOrkingmen of Western
Europe in the United States. We
have a mighty territory consecrated
forever to free labor, and free labor
ing men, their children, and their
children's children We want mills
and shops placed on all our streams.
We want industries diversified. We
want markets carried to the farmers
of the United States; we want rail-
roads; we want all sorts of improve
ments and industries, schools and
churches, and means of intellectual
and moral development, and we well
come to our shores the men of other
lands who will aid in the great work.
GOOD MONEY AND PLENTY OF IT.
Gentlemen, pass now to another
topic. You and remember wsll that
when we adopted the greenbacks they
were opposed by the Democracy, and
denounced as worthless by the Demo-
cratic leaders. Voices: "That's So"
and cheers. When we established
the national banks they told US
they would not be so good as
our State banks. Ten years have
passed, and our currency to-day,
though it IS not equal to gold and sill
yer, as paper money it is equal all
over the United States, and is the best
currency that this people ever saw.
Applause.
IneSe men VINO denounced green
backs at the start, afterward wanted .
to pay the national debt with them,
and then repudiate the greeDbacks.
["That's sO."l That was the Demo-
cratic policy four years ago. Had |
their plan been adopted, had the doc
trines laid down by the New York /
convention of 1865 been accepted by |
this nation, our greenbacks to-day |
would probably be worth about as
much as the rebel shinplasJers. Bank
ruptcy and ruin would have swept |
over this land.
NO REPUTATION UNDER GRANT.
This nation does not know every
thing. 1t is not sUpremely wise, but |
after all the common sense of the !
people proved to be wiser than |
any one man among the people. |
Laughter. The instincts of this
people saw clearly through the
greenback proposition of the Demo
cratic party; the labOring man saw,
it, the men and the wives of their
bOsOms saw where lay honor and |
prosperity. The Democratic scheme