Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-10

back; you opposed and propnesled against
us, at every opportunity; you prophesied
for aid You said we had no power to
coerce States; you said this Government had
no power to interfere with the Southern
people. We said if there was no power we
would find power, and We found II. You
said when We were raising troops that we
could not raise Is, 900; and we got them be-
fore they could be counted; you said we
could not get 800, 600, and they came to.
gether before they could be clothed and
armed; ysu said it would ruin our credit,
but we went abroad, and our honds stood
at par in all the great markets of the world;
YOU said that our legal tenders that we were
Obliged to issue would be SO much waste
paper; they are to-day the best currency we
ever had Gapplanse]; you said we could not
raise men; we raised men, and raised men,
until our rolls went up to over 2,OOO.OOO, and
still they were coming and ready TO come.
selves. They loaded the tax on until their
very knees bent under the burdens, and they
said "Do you want more-more money and
more men :? If you do, call for them and
they will come, and the country shall liye."
[Applause.l
The Governor then dealt with the matter
of the colored people, referred to universal
spoke eloquently on the blessings of equal
citizenship. Then he struck the issues that
have arisen since the war thus:
"We dare you the Democratic party) to
oppose the National Bank question you
gay it was wrong; it was grand monopoly.
There may he features in it wrong, but if
upon the whole it be not good. why don't
ago we had as many systems as there were
States, and we could not go East, and have
two or three hundred dollars, without sort
ing it out, dollar by dollar, before you came
back West to see what you must leave ON
the way. A Connecticut man, to get as far
as Wisconsin, would empty his pocket and
get rid of that money through Wisconsin,
money here in Illinois, money here and
there. Now there is not a man in the audi
ence who has got twenty bills in his pocket
but can tell me the State they come from.
Very likely they didn't come from any State;
they may be legal tender from Washington
you have not examined them whereas, in
olden times you could not buy paper of
tobacco from a grocer but he would look
over his counterfeit detector to see if it was
all right. [Applause.] What is the reason
of all this? One reason is that before we al
low a bank to issue single bill, for
every ninety dollars of bills it wants to
issue it has got to take a hundred
dollars to Washington, leave it there
locked up as security, and the direc-
tors of banks my waste every dollar of
their deposits. and every dollar of the stock
bankrupted without a dime of assets; but
it doesn't make farthing of difference to
you, though you have got bag full of their
bllls-not one farthing. They have wasted
their stoe hhoiders' money; they may shave
defrauded the mercantile community who
may have deposited with them, but to the
billholder, the laboring masses, it is moth
ing, and every Workingman in the country
has this solid, enduring, stable currency, not
depending upon the wisdom of bank direct
ors at all, but national currency as it ought
to be. Now, if this is bad system, my
Democratic friends, why don't you say SO in
your platform. We dare you to make issue
upon it. You have not one word to say
against it. don't say it is perfect, but on
the whole say it is infinitely the best thing
1or us, and II it needs perfecting we will
perfect it. You didn't point out where il
needed perfecting. So far as you say, it is
perfect; you find no fault with it. I find
one fault with it myself, and therein perhaps
differ from others. I say we should hurry
on to specie resumption, crowd on toward il
it without disaster. There is no need Of
that, nor will there be. The first act thai
the Republican party passed when Grant be
came President the first act signed, was one
pledging the nation to pay the bonds in gold
or it's equivalent, and as speedy as possible
20 bring legal-tenders to their par value.'
[Applause.]
The speaker then dealt with the taxing o1
bonds, and said that the Democratic party
never attempted to tax bonds, although
there were plenty of them in the country
There was only one way to issue bonds
that was to issue them as untaxable and ther
turn round and tax them That was Wha1
the Democrats proposed to do, but they gayf
it up.
The Governor then dealt with the Interna
Revenue matter and the Tariff question, afte
which he came to our foreign relations. 81.
said:
"We are at peace with all the world. Ar,
we not rightly SO? Ought we to be at war
Have we submitted to any indignity :?
Know after General Grant came in there wer,
some very high-toned men in the South ant
North who said that Grant did not 'maintair
the dignity of the country, and allowed it t.
be imposed upon. We have grave and JUS
claim against Great Britain, and if Gran
were maintaining the dignity of the countr,
gentlemen, beg your attention for shor
time. They charge General Grant with sub
mitting to indignities at the hands of Grea
Britain, and not maintaining the dignity ant
honor of the country. I said that no maj
can so well afford to be peaceable and goet
tempe tempered a as the mar man who all tn
knows Grant can fight [Cheers.l Tn,
Senate rejected the johnson treaty; W,
waited in good time, and the Commissioner
OF Great Britain came all the way across
the water to the city of Washington to cal
on us there. They made the treaty by whicl
we both submitted the questions concernins
the Alabama, and referred our great claim
for damages to friendly arbitration, calling
in boards from friendly nations; and now w,
hear that over fifteen millions are to b
awarded to us for payment of those dam
ages, and we and Great Britain have set Al
example to the world. Was General Gran
right in this? The Democratic party canno
make an issue with us on that. Great Bri,
ain, proud as she is, began with an expre
sion of regret for her course. l don't kno
that there may be the like of it in histor,
| don't recollect it if there be. Is there an,
thing wrong in this? II the honor and dis
nifty of the country has not been upheld, Ii
us know it. There is no word about it
your platform. We might have had qua
rel with Spain-we might have picked qua
rel. We consider her inferior to us; "
might have seized Cuba; we might have e.
pended millions and have lost great man
ships, and buried a great many men; br
whenever the subjects of Spain committe
any wrong, before we sent to them, the
sent back the next day, we don't desire
have any dispute with you.' Our flag is r
spected the world over. Now, 1 have su
stantially gone over every point. l have r
ferred to the banks, the currency, the mann
of the payment of the debt, the taxatio
the internal revenue, the tariff systems, al
to our foreign policy, and on no one of the
points will they make an issue with u.s."
The speaker then made mastery revie
of the Government Of the country, REFER,
to the Pacific Railroad enterprise, instanc,
the liberality and good faith of the Repub
can party toward foreign-born citizens. I
futed the contemplate charges of extrav
gance brought against the Administrator
dealt ably with the somewhat vexed que
tion of the French Arms sale, and logically d
Tended the economy of the Governmel
in the collection of revenue. Speaking
civil service reform, Governor Hawley I
marked:
"The country has not yet agreed upon .,
system in that matter. Is it not true Co
gress put the responsibility upon Gener
Grant. who promptly met it . He has aga