The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-11-24
AFTER THE VICTORY.
THE D~EMnCR-TIn III


Atthed democratic celebration at Nashville
on Thursday last speeches were made bv
several distinguished Gentlemen, including
the Hon. NJ. c. Kerr, the Hon. James p
Beck and the Hon. Proctor Knott. From a
report of the meeting in the louisville
Courler-Journa the following extracts ara
mace from the speeches of the two latter
gentlemen. During the remarks of the
Hon. James b. Beck be said: All ref1ec,ino
men see that our successes were hrou0hf
ABOUT by a determination on the mart of fba
people-not OF the democrats alone-hnt ~
large numbers of men who have heretofore
acted with the republican party, to stamp
with the seal of their condemnation the
arbitrary, corrupt, consolidating and
despotlc acts of the radical rulers. The
protest entered at Cincinnati in Nav, 1872.
by disguised republicans. under the lead Of
such men as Greeley, Trumbull and Schurz.
has at last found practical and effective ex-
preston in the cordial union of the hest eIe-
ments Of the republican with the demo-
cratic party, in an effort to save the country
from radical misrule. The victories in Mas
~sachusetts, Michigan and elsewhere can
only be accounted for on this hypothesis.
1t is equally clear hat if the people bad felt
That the defeat of the radicals had been pos
s1Ole, their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as il is
would have been still more overwhelming.
Inc revolution in public sentiment, deyel-
oped by the recent elections NAV have been
aided here and there by local causes-hard
times In some manufacturing districts: pro-
hibition; the third term: the civil riebts
bill; abuse of power in Louisiana, imitation
or contraction of the currency-each and all
NAV, and likely did in particular localities,
influence the votes of men; but beyond ali
and underlying all, as the widespread pro-
test operating equally and with equal sig
nifcance in Massachusetts and Texas. in
MlGnlOHn and Alabama Chnu~n fn 4B1 -
fact that the country. the whole chuntry.
has become alarmed at the reckless disre-
gard OF constitutional limitation and the
absolute, almost admitted, corruption and
extravaganza of every branch of tine federal
government, from the chief executive down
TO the loves subordinate. An investjga-
ton into all the facts. and an exhibit of The
books and accounts is demanded.
THE LESSON 7 VICTORIES.
1t was all the more glorious because it was
so won. The lesson it teaches is plain and
emphatic. An oppressed and Justly alarmed
people have almost by instinct risen in their
might and declared that Capitalization and
consolidation o fpower, personal government.
oppression and robbery of state and people,
will be tolerated no longer. They have
spurned the dishonest officials who fostered
discord and strife while proclaiming
loyalty and peace. They refuse longer
to throw their .sweaty caps in the
air and sing peans to those who seek
at once to rob and enslave them. They de-
mand the restoration of equality of rights,
and fraternal relations to and among the
states and the people, regardless of whether
they wore the blue or the gray. They pro-
test against subsidies, m~onopolies, class
legislation and exclusive privileges, and
demand equal right and exact Justice to all.
They emphatically require the subordinstion
OF the military TO the civil authorities, and
trial by jury under the state laws, the equal
ity and integrity of the states, with fair,
free elections, conducted under state author
ity, and an honest count of their votes by
Congress in presidential elections. They
will have. hereafter, honesty, capacity and
fidelity in public officials, economy and
strict integrity in the management of the
money taken from them by the tax-gsth-
erer. 1t is because all these things nave
been ignored and disregsrded by the party
in power, and because they hope and trust
that they will all be enforced and upheld by
the democratic party that the people nave
risen, as it were by magic, from the Allan
tic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to the
gull, in a great, grand effortto restore a pure
and honest administration of the govern
ment under and in obedience to the con-
stitution. All we have to do, fell
low : citizens, to obtain and retain
power, is TO do justice - that JUS
tice which has been so long denied to a suf-
fering and down trodden people. Expose
the guilty, punish crime, protect the help
less, remembering that rulers are with us
only servants; that government is .
pauper: that labor furnished sll the means
TO the trustees employed to disburse the
funds; that the constitution is the supreme
law, and is as binding on the president as on
the humblest citizen. 1 trust democrats
will have patriotism enough to
LET BY-GoEBs BE BY-GoNEs,
to treat all who unite with us in this supreme
effort of the people TO preserve and perpetu-
ate what yet remains of constitutional lib
erty and law, as brothers and equals, re-
CARELESS of their antecedents. That done
the bloody chasm will indeed be closed, and
federal and confederate, democrat and re-
publican, VIII alike ave cause to rejoice
over the prosperity of a united country and
a free, happy and mighty people.
The Hon. Proctor Knott, in speaking of
the results of the great victory and what
they signify, he said they tell us: That there
shall be an absolute subordination at all
times, and nnder all circumstances, of the
military to the civil authority. The sane
tity of no homestead is to be violated by
the midnight tramp of an armed soldiery
compelled to execute the mandates of an
irresponsible despot, but that every mans
house shall be his castle, in which he can lie
down to the refreshing slumbers of a con-
science, void of Offence, secure under the pro-
tecting segis of his country's laws That there
shall be no more contempt of the judicial
power on the part of the petty sub-altern,
but that the habeas corpus shall be in fact,
as in theory, the taIisman of the citizen
safety. That there shall be an impartial
distribution of the burdens as well as the
blessings of the government over all sec-
tons of the Union and all classes Of the
community alike. No more protected mon
opolists; no more tariffs, designed to build
up one portion of the country at
the expense of all others. and TO
swell the Golfers of the capitalist
while grinding the face of the laborer.
That we shall have the s~trictest economy in
the public expenditures, and 10 more presi-
dents who have so many relations that they
can't live on a salary Of $3.50 o a year. A
rigid s~rraignment OF all abuses of power and