The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-09-11

men, at the integrity, the honesty ana
the rectitude which will guarantee to
\ us something like faithful agency at
Washington city. Applause.
That is all there is about it, and that
is the problem of the future. Can
there be a publication of this vital
elective principle from the impurities
that now contaminate il? Can it be
sufficiently guarded in the future
against like contamination If it can
be, all will be safe and our future will
be frightened with hope. The friends
of freedom. whoever they be and
wherever they be, will take courage
from our example. But if, with the
power to check and the power to save
our organization, we wink at roguery
all around us, turn our backs upon the
sacred truth that | have inculcated
here to might. and say, "Let them go
on; let them steal L will go home
and make what / can out of my corn
field: let them steal 1 belong to the
Republican payty, and l do not want
to cast any slur upon the Republican
men who have been stealing to my
knowledge"-say that if you will, but
you will say it at the cost.of your gov
ernment. You are undermining the
very foundation of civil government.
Remember that you are endangering
the sovereignty of the people of
America when that sovereignty cam
not be EXPRESSED truly and wisely
through the representative principle.
Now, my sriends, a few words more
and l have done. Some time ago,
President Grant had an office to be-
stow. 1t was a great office, an honor
able one, and lucrative one; and he
looked around to see who was the
man who was worthy to bestow the
office upon. He probably cast his eye
over the great state of Ohio, and for
aught I know his eye might have
lighted upon my friend Barney Burns,
who served some time in the army in
vindicating the Government of his
country. For aught know he might
have seen hundreds of worthy men
who have given their time, their cour-
age and their blood in defense of the
Union. There was no want of such
men. either in this State or any other,
and after looking around on all sides
to find some worthy. meritorious man
upon whom to bestow this commits
sion, seeing none as meritorious as
General Longstreet, the rebel general,
he handed him the commission. APP
plause. Longstreet reached out his
hand to receive it, and on that hand,
and streaming from it, was the blood
of slaughtered children of the North
against whom he had pointed his can
non and his bayonets. Applause. +
Senator Morton, the friend of Coltax
Il must not separate the two-com-
planned that certain men had not been
quite loyal enough. What, in the
name of God, could have been his
idea of loyalty, when, as a sovereign
Senator and advisor of the President,
he voted to confirm this rebel general
to a great office in the city of New
Orleans, appointed by the head of his
party? Is that the kind of patriotism
that is in vogue nowadays? 1t is
shown beyond all question that men
are more ready to give rebel generals
offices to enable them to eat up the
taxes paid by Northern men, and by
the labor of a parcel of crippled
Northern soldiers too, than to give
them to some of our poor needy men
in this country.
Why did Morton vote for that con-
firmation ? He knew that the State of
Indiana contains probably ten or fif-
teen thousand wounded mon, and
that many of them received their i'm
iuries at the hands of this very Long
street, who commanded the rebel ar
mics up, to the last hour of the war,
and he could have found men, doubt
less, in that State who would have
asked him, sfHoW, in the name, of
God could you vote to confer great
Federal Office on General Longstreetf
It was by General Longstreet'S COM
mand that that line of infantry fired
who knocked off this arm of mine
1t was by General Longstreet's order
that that battery opened, shell from
which laid my brother dead at my
feet +; and yet it is such a man as that
you Wou1d vote to reward ]" /
would like to see Morton and Gov
ernor Noyes when they get up to talk
about the war, and the soldiers they
suppose to be standing around them.
I would like to see what answer they
would have if one of those soldiers
would just pop up in the crowd and
inquire whether ''that is the General
Longstreet by whose order my neigh
Dor there, my friend was shot dead
before meS Is this the reward which
the President OF the United States is
to extend to us for responding to the
call of the country, and losing, some
of us our limbs, many of us our
conflict? What have you to lsay to
Us 2" $50 home, man. You have
fought, GO home and root hog or
die'" At the same time, the tsx-gath-
srers go around, and their daily bread
is taxed to raise something to enrich
in New Orleans. Let them
.alk as much as they please about the
war. There is no Democrat in the
United States who would have been
10 shameless as to insult the common
sentiments of the American people by
he appointment of such a man as
to great Office immedi-
Itely after the war, when his hands
we're still reeking in the blood of the
,hildren of the North. He has taken
great deal better care of the rebels
han of the Northern soldiers. know
ull we'll that the people are prepared
o make an excuse for General Grant.
Be il so; but it will be no excuse, if,
fter saving the Union, he should be
he means, by rewarding corruption
SITS, of destroying the whole system
# government in the United States.
10 far as giving the moral force of his
'reat voice to arrest this corruption,
Ie regularly, systematically endorses
nen stepped in it up to the very ears.
Ie picks out citizen from our own
tate, doubly damned by the two
.reat crimes, the Credit Mobilier aud
he treasury grab roguery; he picks
i'm out and dignifies him by sending
i'm to Japan TO represent the honesty,
be glory, the majesty and the purity
f the American people. He ought
0 have sent little biography along,
o that the Japanese could read for,
themselves. Now there is no wink
ny at this. General Grant may rem
er all the services he pleases. but he
nost assuredly has not earned the
light to destroy his government and
be question for you. tonight is, Shall
be DESTROYED or not? TCries of
no! nop'1 The representative prin-
iple, as / told you, looms up now for