Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-22
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

The campaign in New Hampshire goes on
vigorously. A great meeting was held at
Manchester on Monday evening, which was
addressed by Senator Wilson. As Mr.. Will
son devoted himself to national topics, his
rem arks are interesting to republicans every
where. We copy from the report in the Bos-
ton Journal:
He said he came to speak of the great prin-
ciples and measures of the Republican party
OF the country. He was not here to apologize
for the Republican party; he would as soon
think of apologizing for the spots upon the sun
which to-day had bathed the world ia light.
He was at all times ready to meet any man in
defence of the policy and conduct of the great
Republican party of the country. He charged
that on all the great questions which had
divided the country for the past twenty years
the Democratic party had been wrong. For
| the past thirty years he had been somewhat
familiar with political affairs, and referred to
the state of the country in 1882. A great
slave power had grown up which ruled the
South and the nation with imperial sway i; that
power held to the doctrine that capital should
own labor; it held that free society was
failure, and that there should be an exclusive
class of gentlemen, who should have the
right to govern the people. AT that time the
laboring men throughout the United States
even passed over the mountains and valleys
of New Hampshire, and the laborers were
dishonored class. The speaker then referred
to the inauguration Of the auti-slavery cause
in Boston in 1882, and then traced the pro-
gress of the struggle with the slave power,
the election of the Republican candidate for
President in 1860. He referred to the eman-
cipation proclamation of Lincoln, and read
extracts from the New Hampshire Patriot
wherein that measure was denounced as a
crime. A New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention at that time denounced that great
patriotic measure as barbarous. Mr.. Wilson
for the republican party-least OF all the
Democratic party. He had heard of Satan re-
buking sin, but this was moderation itself
when compared with the presumption of the
Democratic party, who now undertake to ar
raign the Republicans for their acts. The
speaker referred to the Democratic talk about
the rights of labor, and said that the Demo-
cratic party had always been hostile to the
interests Of labor. while the Republican party
had always commended for the interests OF the
laboring men of the country. lie charged
that for forty. five years the Democratic party
of New Hampshire had been false to the in
terest Of the laboring man. Forty years ago
a laboring man could not go South without
being degraded to the rank of slaves. The
Republican party struck off the letters of the
slaves and gave them political rights. In
making labor honorable at the South the Re-
publican party had done an immense service
for the laboring men of the North. The
Democratic party had opposed the farm
policy, and had favored the plantation. The
Republican party had been in favor of giving
homesteads to the laboring men, while the
Democratic party had opposed that great
measure. He referred in this connection to
the grants which had been made to the Pacific
Railroads, and said that the policy had great.
ly increased the value of the lands through
which these roads passed. He then referred
to the complaints in regard to the tariff, and
said it was the policy of the Republican
party to lay heavy duty ON Injuries,
but very light duty on the neeessi
ties imported into the country. He referred