The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-10-12
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Delivered Oy s. Pdri'er BOSLey, Esq.
Presidential Elector ior I'd Congress
sional District of Md,
AT WAVERLY OCTORER 3D.. 1872.

ITcSlucuudl LlCCIOl lOl "a OOhSiNS
sional Districi of Md,
AT WAVERLY, OCTOBER Sd, 1872.
Fellow CITIZENS: In the name of the Repub-
lican party of our common country greetyo
this evening. | am proud of my connection
with it-proud of its glorious record--its brill
| liant achievements-its great soldiers-its able
and patriotic statesmen, and the magnificent
! future that looms up before it. Its record is
illuminated with the grandest achievements
known in our nations annals. From it's burn
ing pages shine forth the most transcendant
deeds of heroism and the broadcast and most
courageous craftsmanship that adorn the
worlds history. Upon that record she stands
to-day. To that she points and asks you, Re-
publicans and Democrats, to trust her in the
future because she has been faithful in the past.
Tot.hat she appeals Upon that she is willing
to stand or fall. She points to her victories in
the past and illuminates the future with the
promise of grander accomplishments. BY what
lights her pathway behind she invites you to
nobler efforts and higher purposein the flu
ture
Founded upon the immutable principles of
right, it grappled bravely with the wrong and
II ado no compromise with sin in any form.
Immediately il iocked horns with the great
and powerful Democratic party, arrogant with
thirty years of power, flushed with the prestige
s-s<>alAOst uninterrupted success, debating the
law of the land with an unquestioned sway.
Its brave men rose at once to the demand of
the occasion and uttered their emphatic pro-
test against the WrongS-the great sins-com-
mitted by the nation under Democratic dicta-
tion, 1t planted its banner upon the right 1t
flung grandly to the breeze the flag of equal
rights" From the day fits organization to the
present it has never abandoned its principles
or deserted its colors. One by one old worn
out forms and systems have felt the weight of
its sturdy blows and crumbled before its resist
less power. One by one, in quick succession,
it has iuaugurated and established new modes
of life
"Noblrr manners, purer laws"
Human freedom in its most comprehensive
sensr has been tn handspring of its action.
Thr highest development of the powers of the
government to secure the greatest welfare to
the greatest number has ever been its purpose.
|: found the greatest nation on the globe chain
ed to lmperious and naughty master, its
growth impeded, It's development choked and
its existence endangered. Thatmaster was the
Democratic party. In 1860 that master was de-
throued by the Republican party, electing that
great man and !amented patriot and statesman
Abraham lincoln, President Immediately
the Democratic party seized the throat of the
nation it could no longer govern. The Repub-
lican party with stout heart and firm hand
thrust it aside crushed the most gigantic re-
bellion known in the history of the world ,eman-
eipated four millions of slaves, and in the name
of national existence and universal liberty,
lifted the heel of the destroyer from the neck
of the nation and babe her stand forth Gre
deemed, disenthralled, regenerated." 1t has
elevated four millions of American citizens
from the condition of chattels to that OF men,
placing them in the courts, the witness
stand in the school house and the church, Civ
ing them the primer, the Bible and the ballot.
In the light of these benefcences with bouyant
heart, renewed vigor and elastic step she starts
on her march to new victories to win brighter
laurels and more endearng trophies. Such is
the Republican party and its history.
The Democratic party, on the contrary, stung
by the pangs of defeat weak, decrepit, void of
vitality, unable to recuperate its departed
strength in the decline of its days, has turned
its back upon itself. 1t has surrendered its
principles-whatever they may have been
abandoned its cherished idols-deserted its
colors--thrown away its bucker and shield,
ignored its record, belied its life, "handed in
its checks" and is about ready to give up the
ghost. 1t stands before you to-day thing of
humiliation and shame. 1t confesses it has
always been wrong, and with the breath ofthat
confesso it asks you to put it in power and
trust it in the future. It's attitude confesses
that the Republican party has always been
right and yet it demands that this party shall
now be removed from the control of our national
aCsirs, and that it shall be placed in the bands
of themselves, who, according to their own con-
fession, have been wrong for twelve years. This
is an anomalous state OF affairs. But this is
the true situation. By the refusal of the Demo-
cratic party to nominate candidate for Presi-
dent from among its own ranks, it makes the
humiliating confession that it cannot elect a
Democrat. By the adoption of Republican
platform and the nomination of a lifelong Re-
publican for President, it vindicates the coura-
geous conduct and the progressive principles
of the Republican party. That party to-day
has the satisfaction of having its entire record
completely endorsed by its most relentless foe.
By this complete surrender the Democratic
party endorses every principle advocated by
the Republicans. 1t confesses itself too weak
to stand alone 1t admits its inability to dis
pute the progressive movements of Republi-
canism any longer. 1t has nothing in the past
to which it can appeal and ask your endorse
ment. 1t condemns itself by deserting and
condemning its record The Republican party
has a record of which it is proud, because it
contains the brightest spots in our history. The
Democratic party is so ashamed of its record
that it ignores it and asks you to forget.
These two parties with two records have pre- |
sented YOU with candidates for the highest |
offices in the gift of the American people, and |
they ask you to elect them. Are you willing
to place the control of our national affairs in |
the hands of that party that confesses by its
qualification that for twelve years it has been |
unfit, incompetent to hold so high trust? Or |
will you continue that control in the hands Of
that party whose every measure and act has
been squarely endorsed by the other in national |
convention assembled
Let us look at the situation as it is. For your |
suffrages are presented the names of Ulysses S. |
Grant and Horace Greeley. The former has |
been three and a. half years in the Presidential |
hot tinoa tho dactiniac of the |
nation have been guided by his hand. 1t is
worth our while to examine
GRANTS RECORD
during that time and see for ourselves what |
sort of work he has been doing and how far
record has been conducive to our national |
welfare.
Since his inauguration President Grant has
paid off $685., ,46S.582.55 of the public debt. This
is an average of nearly ten millions per month.
More than 900 millions OF taxes have been
abolished since President Grant took his seat |
in the White House. The people have been re-
lieved of this burden that rested heavily upon
them. His administration has been so rigidly
economical in its management that the losses
to the nation from all sources average less than
those of private bank. During his admins
tration the Treasury Department has handled
more than $2,200 100000 of revenue or more
than 500, 100000 per annum. utofthis large
amount the loss to the government from all
sources has been ST, $50 900 or less than one f-
teenth of one per cent. This is less than one
cent out of fifteen dollars ! No banking in
stitution in the land is better or more honestly
or economically conducted. For the paying of
Pensions 500, ,OOO, 900 of dollars have been used
with but five defalcations and without the loss
of dollar to the treasury. There are 5000
postmasters in the employ of the government.
They are in the habit of handling thousands of
dollars and yet out of all the moneys that have
been handled by the Department less than one
tenth of one per cent has been lost. Fidelity and
like this have characterized no prior
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
What humiliating contrast does the arith-
metic of the Democracy of Now York city pre-
sent beside this In that great metropolis
where thievery has reached its millennium, the
work of Democratic finances shows how expert
the Tammanyites are in transferring the peo-
Piles money from the city treasury to their own
pockets. In 1868 the control of this great city
was taken from the Republicans and the Dem
ocrats placed in the management of its affairs.
In 1868 Mayor Hall was elected and took charge
of its government The Democratic party has
had unlimited control from that day to this
At that time the city debt was little more
than thirty-four and a-half millions, and the
funded debt of the county little over fifteen