The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-09-03
Republican Meeting at SOut
... Windham.
a Large Crowd Out.
Speeches by Frederick Douglass
and Hon, III. L. Dawes.

Speeches by Frederick Douglass
and Hon. III. l.. Dawes.
The Baptist church was crowded to overflow
ing last evening to listen to the speeches of
Fred Douglass and Hon. H.,L. Dawes Two
or three hundred people were unable to gain
admission and went away The meeting was
presided over by j. o. Winship, Esq. Mr..
Douglass spoke first in his able manner. As
we have already given an outline of one of his
addresses, we win pass on to that of Mr..
Dawes.
On being introduced Mr.. Dawes was greeted
with applause. He said that / hear Mr.
Douglass tonight for the first time in his life,
and am ashamed of my race for the long
series of indignities that has been heaped upon
so noble manhood and so eloquent an orator.
| am here to add what little assistance can to
the welfare of the Republican party. The Re-
publican party have given every assurance to
the American people that they are safe guard
ians of the peoples interests, and the expon-
ents of the peoples will. Look back over the
world looks upon its marvellous achievements
with amazement The speaker here happily
sketched the history of the party, from the
first steps of opposition to the further progress
of slavery, from 1856 to 1860 and has since
then made every slave in the land citizen and
every citizen voter. In this the Democratic
party has no part or lot. Now that this tri-
umph has been achieved, the Democratic party
upon an insincere platform, wish to wrest from
US the reward of these triumphs. The Demo-
cratic party has fulfilled its mission and by
claiming to accept Republican principles ought,
if it be true to its principles, now to disband
But they claim to be converted. Converted
from what? to what? Can they be trusted?
They say they agree to all that has been done
and now say they, turn over the ground to u.s.
for a little while. They have the assumption
to ask this of the soldiers who fought and bled
to put down the rebellion; they ask it of the
people who poured out their treasures and gave
freely their sons they, the Democratic party,
who opposed the war, who did all they could to
hinder our work, and who gave aid and COM
to the rebels will you trust them? Have they
a record for ten years past that will gain your
trust? They went out to Cincinnati to accom-
plsh reform. They declared they only want
ed civil service reform and free trade. They
thougbt.thus to gain Repubcans-they hoped
to thus split the Republican party. New York
strategists and Horace Greeley went down there
to see whot they could do-and all at once Hor-
ace was proclaimed the nominee. How quick
ly the Baltimore Convention took up the free
trader Greeley, who didn't know how he stood
on free trade until Carl Schurz asked him in
his famous letter Sumner says that by this
mongrel party the rights of the black man will
be better protected than by the Republican par
ty.
Horace Greeley says you are just as much
Republican and just as much Democrat as
eyer Raphael Semmes down South says, 81
go for Greeley, because Greeley comes to me,
and | go to him." Isn't it plain that some
body is being cheated? The Republican party
rests on its past. 1t has nothing to forget. 1t
is grounded in the fundamental principles in
which it has built up this mighty nation into a
accomplished in spite of the Democratic par
ty and yet they say the Republican party has
done its work. The terrors of war are over,
but the results of war are left as legacy to us.
The burdens OF taxation; to pay the enormous
public debt, to pay pensions, interest on the
penses entailed by the war The Democratic
party are responsible for this burden, equally
with the South.
The speaker here read extracts from the 1ri-
barne showing what Greeley wrote only a few
months since against the Democratic party
Greeley has singularly changed since then.
Now he breaches reconciliation with the Dem
oeratic party and the South. Reconciliation
means concession. Have we anything to con-
cede to the rebels beyond what they have? Can
tI,oh nv. Tho nI,
the country to the boy in gray? Who is to
take off his coat, the man in blue or the man
in gray? No rebel has been punished, or held
under restraint, if we except the few prescribed
perjurers. Every man sleeps tonight in all
this broad land, sheltered and protected by the
flag of our country. The unrepentant rebel
alone is crying for Cancellation, and Mr.. Gree
ley says cOnciiate him. Can you point out any
man in the South who asks for this excepting
those who are still, in heart at least, violating
law. Does this law affect you? Does it dis
turb you here in Maine? Yet it applies to you
equally with the man South. There is moth
ing in it which can cause the least anxiety on
the part of those who are loyal to their coun-
try and engaged in the honest pursuits of
peace. In 1860 and 1864 the action of the Dem
ocratic party gave comfort and hope to the reb
els. The same spirit of hate to the Northener,
encouraged by the sympathy of the Democrats
North-committed atrocities upon white men
and women loyal colored men and women, too
horrible to mention before respectable audi
| ence. This made necessary the passage of the
| law known as Ku-Klux, which was designed to
| protect the lives and property of our citizens.
| The speaker read the law, explaining its mean
| ing, showing it to be simply va law of protec-
| ton. Only those who nightly prowl after hui
man prey need fear it.
Mr.. Dawes next turned his attention to pub
lie expenditures. Take, said he, from the gen.
eral expenditures of 1871 that grew out of the
| war, and you will find it less for every man,
| woman and child than for any year since 1910.
| These figures are made out at my request, from
| the department records.
In 1860, reduced to a gold basis, the expendi-
lures were $63, 025 1889; this was in the time
| of profound peace, with no war burdens. In
1871 the whole expenses of the government
| were 1892, III, 1929 Take from and the ex-
| penses caused by the war, $21S,623, 077.47 and
you have $73,554, 1l07S as the actual expenses
| of the government on peace basis, this on 9
gold basis This gives in 1860 the sum of 81 o;
per capita, against s1,1d in 1871, The reason
the country is more thickly settled, the popula
ton in 1860 being 81 100000, against $4,000, 00(
in 1871.
In the three years of Johnson's rule the ex
penditures we've S357 100000, $371, 100000 and
s322, 100000, while in three years of Grant!
administration the sums were S349, 0pG, 900
1922, 100000 and &277 100000, showing large
reduction. johnson collected during the tire,
years of his administration, 500, 100000 on III
| Whislkey tax alone, while during the three year
of Grant S157 100000 have been collected on tn
article. with this difference, that the tax pc
gallon during Johpson's time was 80 and onl,
| 30 cents under Grant. The expense of collect
ing the revenue under Grant has been one hal
less than under Johns N.
These facts speak loudly for the economy 0
Grants ADMINISTRATION During Grants ad
ministratnn all the revenue" has become col
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