The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-25
GOV. HAWLEY.
A Summary of His Magnificent
Speech at Chicago.
One OF the Finest Efforts of the Cam.
paign.


livered lately at Chicago one of tho
most stirring speeches OF the campaign
and we regret that we have room ioI
only few extracts from il. He COM
men ced his speech with brief reel
taton of political history, and dealt
with Republican institutions in this
country as viewed from the European
standpoint. Referring to the great re.
bellon, he said
"This was great danger-a very great
danger, as someof our best men proph-
esied from time to time and Andrew
jackson gave you good warning of it.
He said the nullifiers made the tariff
their first pretext and, said he, they
will make the slavery question their
next one. All Of n sudden, before any
man expected it, we were plunged into
the most terrible civil war of modern
times he could not dream that we
| could raise up our great armies by the
| hundred thousand-marshal our hosts
by the million. Wasn't it great day 2
Wasn't it great crisis? Wasn't it a
time that called for patriotism, for states
manship, for high resolve-the time to
test the American people-to see wheth-
er there was enough central coherent
power in their government-to see
whether they had in their hearts the
spirit of self.sacrifice to load themselves
with those millions of debt, and raise
armies by the hundred thousand-lay
everything on the altar rather than
abandon the great principles they advo-
Gated and believed in? Indeed ii was
great time and the Old World halted
to see what we would do with it And
then was the time TO test parties. What
then became of this great, this boosted
Democratic party in that crisis -? You
compelled US, my Democratic friends
you compelled us to save this country.
We would rather not have done it. You
did nothing; you left the credit of saw
ing this country 10 the Republican party
alone. We would rather have had it
otherwise. We begged you all of the
North 10 act as one man, as one body
of men, not as political party, but you
remained still. If you had needed our
entreaty, if you had acted as we begged
you to do, there would have been no
longer war it would not have lasted
three months it would not have begun
at all. But you stayed back, you OPP
posed and prpohesied against us, at
every opportunity; you prophesed dis.
aster and defeat in answer to our de.
mands 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 End power,
and found it. You said when we were
raising troops that we could not raise
seventy.fve thousand and we got them
before they could be counted, you said we
could not got 100000, and they came TO.
gether before they could be clothed and
armed; you said it would ruin our credit,
but we went abroad, and our bonds stood
at par in all the great markets of the
world: yeu said that our legal tenders
that we were obliged 10 issue would be
SO much waste paper they are to-day
the best currency we ever had APP
plause you said we could not raise
men; we raised men, and raised men,
until our rolls went up to over 2,0O0,0O0,
and still they were coming and ready to
come. You said the people would not
tax themselves. 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
live" Applause.
The Governor then dealt with the
matter of the colored people, referred
to universal freedom established in the
Constitution, and spoke eloquently on
the blessings of equal citizenship. TT en-
he struck the issues that have arisen
since the war thus:
THE ISSUES or THE WAR.
"We dare you (the Democratic party
to oppose the National Bank question
you say it was wrong; it was O grand
monopoly. There may be features IN it
wrong; but if upon the whole it be not
good, why don't you say so in your plat.
form Twelve years ago we had as
many systems as there were States, and
you could not 60 East, and have two or
three hundred dollars, without sorting
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 Hi.
nois, money here and there. Now
there is not man in the audience who
has got twenty bills in his pocket but
can tell me the.State they came from.
Very likely they did not come from any
State they may be legal tender from
Washington you have not examined
them whereas, in olden times, you
could not buy a paper of tobacco from
grocer but he would look over his coun.
terfeit 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 a single bill, for
every ninety dollars of bills it wants to
issue it has got to take
hundred dollars to Washington, leave
1t there locked up as securi.
ty, and the directors of banks may
be utterly and totally bankrupted with
out dime of sets; but it doesn't
make farthing of difference TO you.
though you have got bag full Of their
bills-not one farthing. They have
wasted their stockholders money
they may have defiauded the mercan-
tile community who may have deposit.
ed with them, but TO the billholder, the
laboring masses, it is nothing, and every
workingman in the country has this
solid, enduring stable CURRENCY not do