The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-05


government for doing against Prussia? Did
he forget then, or has he forgotten now
that he is an American citizen and owes al,
legiance to this Government, and that it is
no duty of his to try to make case against
his own Government when no complaint has
been made by the Prussian Government
itself Does he forget that he is Senator
of the United States, and out of Prussia!
Or is he acting as the Attorney of Prussia
against his own country? Or does he desire
his Government to be mulcted in damages
and costs merely to crafty vindictive feel
ing against the President? Would it not
have been well for him to have allowed
Prussia to have made her complaints, as we
have made against England on account of
the Alabama and other vessels? Does he in
tend to attempt to carry the Germans of
this country against the Government that
they have adopted? Does he attempt to
consolidate them into an organization so
that he may control them through their
prejudices? Do they come here to make
war upon the country they adopt, or to give
1t the support it deserves? 1t seems to me
that we are all American citizens of the
United States, and not citizens of Germany,
and that the love of country we owe to
the Government of the United States. Loud
applause and cries of eve are."1 / have
no quarrel with Senator Schurz. He is a
man of ability, and one of whom the Ger
mans OF this country are proud; but his con-
duct in this matter has been of such a char
acter as to lead many honest men to believe
that he is acting in bad faith, not only to the
United States, but to his own countrymen;
that he is leaving the impression that, by his
false charges, he can play upon the preju-
dlces OF the Germans in this country, and in
that way carry their votes in his pocket, or
hold them beneath the hollow of his hand
Laughter and applause.] The Germans
ought to be too independent and noble peo-
pie to allow even such an impression to be
made on the minds of the citizens of the
country of their adoption. Does he intend
TO tho
body, so that when German is candidate
no matter of what party, that they shall vote
for him, merely because he is German? If
so, that is upon the principle that the Know
Nothing organization was organized, to
vote for none but native Americans for office
The only difference would be that this was
German Know-No thingism, while heretofore
1t was American Know Nothingism. We
ought all to feel, in this country, that we are
Americans. No matter from where we came
or what langu~~ we speak, we become
Americans as soon as we become citizens,
and should all be denominated and called
American citizens. And then every Ameri-
can should be on a perfect equality, no mat
ter where born, when he becomes a citizen
OF the United States, and on this theory
alone can we live in harmony together.
[''Hear, hear" and applause.]
And the man who would attempt to draw
line or make distinction between Ameri-
can citizens and German American citizens,
or lrish-American citizens, is only working
an injury to those he claims to be friend to ;
because the native element will always be
larger than the foreign element; and an Or
ganizatioL upon this basis would only work
to the injury of the foreign element "Let
us all be citizens. Let all be Americans.
lApplause.l Let us all be friends. APP
plause. Let us know no distinction'' is the
theory upon which the Republican party has
heretofore stood, and stands now, in refer
ence to all people, of all nativities, of all
colors. Rapturous applause.
My fellow citizens, l will not follow the
ISLANDERS OF these conspirators further. When
they have been dead and forgotten for CEN
turtles, the name of q. S. Grant will live in
history and be read by future generations
with wonder and admiration at his great sue
cess as a military hero, his great patriotism
as well as his success at the head of the civil
administration, and the older the history be-
comes the brighter will be its pages that de-
tail the achievements of the little tanner Of
Galena. Vociferous cheering and hurrahs
for Grant. Now, my fellow citizens, let me
ask you what there is to be complained
eral Grants Administration. ["Noth-
ing! nothing?'] In a speech made at
Chicago few days ago by Judge Trumbull,
he said he desired to hear this bowling
about Andersonville stopped. How will he
stop it? He, not being there, nobody ex-
poets him to prattle unless he desires to do
so. Ii he has no sympathy for the poor boys
who starved to death and froze to death in
that cold prison, why, we cannot help it. If
he has no sympathy for the poor mother or
widow whose husband or son died of starva-
ton or of cold, it is his misfortune that he is
so constituted. [ know boy in Washing
ton County, in this State, who had both feet
frozen off in that prison. VIII Judge Trum-
bull tell this country that that poor boy
must stop talking about his sufferings at
Andersonville, when he passes through
this world, without feet on the stubs that are
left? Must he never think of his great
wrongs? Shall he never mention them :?
Shall he 'stop bowling" about them, for the
purpose of quoting the sensitive nerves of
Judge Trumbull on the subject of our rebels
and their outrages? [ tell you, if the SOL
diers had been told that all sympathy for
their distress and sorrows was to be hushed
in silence so soon after the close of their i'm
portant struggle, fear we would have had
fewer soldiers, with a great deal less valor
than they always showed on the battle
field. THAT'S So" and applause We
must cease all mention of our wrongs
during the late war. No word of SYM
pathy can come from them for the poor
soldier no justification of our course. We
can be denounced and abused, and told to
cease bowling about Andersonville and it's
horrors, but yet the Ku-KluX can howl all
over the South, can murder, can burn, and
commit all the horrible crimes known in the
catalogue of crimes, and yet these gentle
men who want the bowling of Anderson
vile stopped have no charges to make or
tears to shed over the innocent victims of
Ku-Kluxism in many of our sister States.
General Grant is denounced by these gentle
men for having suspended the writ
of babeds corpus in order that Ku-KluXism
might be stopped and the offenders punished.
They call it usurpation of pOwer-centraliZa-
ton of the power of the Government at
Washington. While General Grant suspended
the writ of hG6eas corpus, by authority of
Congress, in order to punish great criminals,
General Jackson suspended the writ of
habeas corpus in New Orleans, for the pro-
lection of the citizens, without the authority
of Congress. What in jackson you sustained
without authority of law, you denounce in
Grant with authority of law. By the suspen-
sion of the writ of ha6eds corpus by General
Grant, by authority of law, Ku-Klux were
that none had ever been arrested
punished for any of their foul crimes or
base deeds two years ago. Applause. In
North Carolina, when the ku-kluX had
sway, by murder, riot and arson, and all
crimes resorted to by them to drive away and
prevent the Union men, both white and color
ed, from casting their ballots, North Carolina
voted over 1000 jority for the Democrats
gave large majority in the Legislature
gave US but two members of Congress.
Now, under peaceful rule, brought about by
Furnishing Ku-KluX, at a peaceful election,
North Carolina goes 1900 Republican, re
duces the majority III the Legislature accord
bers of Congress. And this accounts
for the great cry of suspension of the writ
of hGbeds corpus and the punishment of Ku-
Kluxism in the South. 1t is because that
with Ku-Klux the rebels and Demo
Gratis succeed in elections, and, without
them, Republicans succeed. Loud and
vociferous applause.l
Never Tempt Man.