The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-10-11

j making some speeches in Massacht
sets upon the campaign, in which b
! has ably discussed the qualification
of the two parties and the two cand
| dates for President. We make a fey
extracts from his speeches:
TIE PARTY TO BE BURsTED.
Now, which of these two parties, i
your judgment, is more likely to kee
its word? You see, my fellow-citi
zens, ] am going to rake in the ashe;
believe l cannot cast my vote wisel
in 1872 without remembering hoy
and why cast my vote in 1868, il
1860. When / speak of the Demo
cratic party, you will understand
am not speaking of inviduals. Ever,
! Democratic friends in whom he trusts
When l say the French people are
volatile people, 1 do not say Guizot
a harlequin. When l speak of tn,
democratic party l speak historica
facts, not impeaching the motives O
action Of individuals. The DemocrstI,
party for the last generation had beel
the mere slave of slavery. To serv,
slavery the Democratic party robbed
the mails, trampled upon the right o
right of free speech and upon tht
right OF petition and when the Dem
ocratic party in the South began Il
hint at secession and mutter rebellion
the great body of the Democratic
party espoused the doctrine of Stat,
sovereignty. l am raking il
the ashes; l do not forget it. l re
sisted every measure that was brought
forward TO save the Government, lib
erty and civilization upon this cont
nent. It had no part in the glory o.
emancipation. Then came the strug
gle of reconstruction. Struggle
why? Because of the position Of the
Democracy. Every measure that wa:
proposed in the interest of reconstruc
tion, that was essential to carry out
the principles of liberty and Justice
was sturdily resisted by that party
and while the question was pending
the party hurried to its convention
and declared that everything that had
been done was unconditional, and
sought to overturn all that had been
accomplished. l am still raking in the
ashes of the past.
But the people OF the United States
the loyal majority, organized as the
Republican party, have not only sue.
ceeded in putting into the reconstruc.
tion acts the principles which have
conquered in the war, but have so ad-
ministered the Government that the
United States was never SO respected
and honOred, the world over, as it is
now. This being so, the Democratic
party sees it is so, and hurries to its
Convention at Baltimore with most
suspicious haste, folding its arms,
smooths its brow, mufiles its tongue,
and whispers as blandly as it can,
"Well see that you have got the bet
ter OF US +; we cannot exactly help our
selves; hurrah for the darkey now
give US the Government" 1t be.
comes every man in the United States
to rake in the ashes to see if he can
find any spark of a live coal that may
be blown up again into a new conha-
grafton. ask you if you can trust
the party. All these things are the
history of twelve years. All these
things have been accomplished within
the lifetime of every boy that hears
me. The leaders OF the party to day
are the same men who did all these
things. l have shown you what the
party has done; do you believe it
wholly repentant ? Are these men
to whom the guardianship OF equal
rights and the government of the new
Union can be trusted?
You will ask, are parties eternal /?
Are we to always go on fighting /?
How are we to ever make any polit-
ical progress if We refuse to take the
hand of those we have sometimes op-
posed? Saint Paul rel entei, and
not the Democratic party? If the
whole Jewish people had received a
great light, and had all avowed their
conversation and set up to be the
original primitive Christians, l think
had waited for some signs of CONVEX
sion before giving them the hand of
fellowship. Will any man tell me
what are the signs of conversion in
Democratic party? The last oppor
portunIty that was offered was in
Washington, at the last session OF
Congress. The Supplementary Civil
Rights bill was introduced, and, in
the debate upon that subject, the par
-ty spoke as one man. They took the
same old Democratic ground, the
same old spirit of hatred to the colored
man. All the same old slavery virus
came frothing out out in the speeches
of the best men Of that party seven
teen times. Monday after Monday
they STAYED off and voted against the
bill, which was simply the completion
OF equal rights. They voted on it two
or three times after the Cincinnati
Convention, and, with their lips still
red with say ing "No,' hurried of to
Baltimore and cried "equal rights to
all men,
PRESIDENT GRANI'S ADMINISTRATION
What is the record OF this aGminis
tration ? Taking the first great point
which any government is bound to
observe, has the Republican party
guarded the equal rights of the citi-
zens? Il is the very glory of the
administration that il hiss done so.
II found four million slaves. 1t has
made them men and women: it hes
united them in holy marriage; and
they sit with US in our Legislative halls.
Doolittle and others talk of negro
supremacy upheld by the bayonet.
The negro has Lis vote ; that is all
supremacy. How is it upheld by the
bsyonet? When it was found there
was en- organized terrorism at the
South 20 trample the black man IN
der foot, the government simply kept
its word. Frederick Douglass, who
has known whist slsvery was and
what il has been to his race, hesrd
those words CT Doolittle, and cried
with trumpet tongue to his fellows
"To the negro the Republican party
is the deck; &ll else is the sea.
Stand loyal to Grant" Amen, amen,
cried North Carolina, in.the first furi.
GUS onset OF the campaign, standing
steadfastly Republican.
After referring to the financial
record, Mr.. Curtis, In reply to the
remark often made that Gen. Grant
did not pay the debt, said that in the
same sense he did not put down the
rebellion. 1t was the Union army
that put down the rebellion, but Gen
eral Grant was at Its head. The
prosperity of the country is owing t.
the confidence and trust of the people
in the solidity OF the Government.
Treat the Indians SIS q man is th'
policy of the United States. Nearly
three hundred thousand Indians ar
cared for by the Government. TIL
Indian expenses have increased t
seven millions. Gen. Walker tell
why. II is because the Indians hav,
been driven more and more from
their hunting grounds. Therefor
they raise their hand against the whit