The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-09-17
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Speech Of Hon. John SIler.
man.
AT the ratification meeting in Co
lumbus, September %, Senator Sher
man delivered the following able ad-
dress:
Senator Sherman commenced his
speech by saying that since the defeat
of the new Constitution, all questions
of State policy have been postponed
for time. The officers to be chosen
this fall are purely ministerial or ju-
dicial. But the people are to choose
their Immediate representatives in
Congress. 1t is, therefore, a Nation
al election. He claimed that in no
period of our history have the people
been more free from embarrassment
/ in the selection of parties than now.
| All the great, overriding fundament-
al questions that have given rise to
political parties are practically settled
by the progress of events-by popular
aequiescence and judicial decisions.
The supreme authority of the Nation
al Government over National ques-
tions, and the exclusive authority of
State governments over local ques-
tions, are now admitted by all, and
the boundary between the two has
been carefully defined.
The questions that gave rise to the
formation of the Wing and Demo-
cratic parties of Clay and Jackson
were economical neutrality-suspicious.
about a National bank, the public
lands and tariffs. These again have
been settled. No one thinks of
National bank. The public lands are
no longer regarded as a source of rev.
enue, but by common consent are
now held for settlement under the
homestead and preemption laws
and the tariff question is purely a
matter of detail, in which revenue is
regarded as the primary object, and
the encouragement of domestic indus
try the necessary and proper incident.
The Senator claimed that the poll
cy OF the Republican party had been
vindicated by the results achieved
since 1851, and quoted at length from
the address of the National Republi-
can Committee summary of these
ton remains, shall we abandon the
Republican party and seek either in
the Democratic party or in the new
parties, a representative of our views,
hopes and aspirations for the future OF
our country? It is to this inquiry /
now invite your cOnsiderate atten-
tion.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
| said that ali the fundamental
questions that gave rise to the Re-
publican party are settled. And SO
they are, so far as the guarantee OF
the Constitution can settle them and
unless they are enforced, much of our
success will be but wasted energy.
One is the guarantee made by the
Fourteenth Amendment, which Sc
cures to all our citizens equal rights
and privileges, and the protection of
the laws. The same amendment
gives to Congress the power to en-
force it by appropriate legislation. |
This has been uone 10 some extent ny |
securing TO all citiZens-white and |
black-native and naturaliZed, the
equal enjoyment of the right to sue
and be sued, to testify, and to acquire
and hold property; but in some OF
the States the right 10 travel on rail-
ways, to stop at inns, and fairly to
share the benefits of common schools
has been denied. These rights are
common incidents of citizenship,
which all can enjoy without IMPAIR
ing their enjoyment by others. Aud
especially the right to enjoy equal ia
cilities in the education of children is
a right of primary Importance, not
only to the Individual, but to the
whole community. The education of
youth is by far the most costly object
of local taxation freely borne, because
it is essential to the maintenance of
republican form of government.
In popUlous communities where the
number of colored children is suf1i-
cient for a separate school, it is often
preferable to form separate school
by local authority, but where there
are few such children, they go to the
same school with white children and
take part in the same class. L am
assured by some of the best teachers
in the State that practically no diff
Guilty occurs when white and black |
are in the same class and school, and |
that very often the colored children |
are, from their general good humOr,
favorites with the children. Tue diff |
fieulty is not in the school or with |
the scholars, but the parents in the |
blinn, unreasoning spirit of caste, the |
debris of slavery, and is strongest |
with the most Ignorant and vicious.
At all events, the blacks are citi- |
zens of the United States, armed with |
the ballot and with equal rights and |
privileges, entitled to equal immuni- |
ties and advantages, and it is not for |
US as Republicans to deny them of |
any of their rights essential to their |
manhood from a feeling of caste or
prejudice arising from color or race or
condition. They have borne their |
part in the contests through which |
We have passed, and we must not |
shrink from fairly enforcing the guar |
antees we have given them, The |
Republican party is the only one so
constituted that has the courage and |
disposition to enforce this guarantee, |
and we owe it to our honor as well as |
to the logic of the lofty principle that |
has guided us, equal rights TO all to |
do So. | voted for the Civil Rights |
Bill now pending in the House OF
Representatives, not only because l
felt bound in homer to stand by and |
enforce the great amendments TO the
Constitution, the pride and boast of
the Republican party, and the COLI
Meeting link by which the immortal |
Declaration of Independence was |
made part of our Constitution of
government. L have seen, one by
one, the narrow prejudiees of caste,
which denied to the black race the
rights of human nature, melt away
without evil results, and wish to see
this work complete and perfect by Sc
curing to all men who are citizens of
the United States, precise equality in
all civil and political rights, whether
they tend 10 protect his person and
property, or lift him above degrada-
ton by local or State authority.
THE PUBLIC CREDIT.
Fellow citizens, there is another
guarantee which we, as Republicans,
are bound to see fulfilled. After quot
ing Section 4, of the Fourteenth
to the Constitution, Sem
ator Sherman continued f:
No one can doubt but that the Re-
publican party will faithfully ami hon.
estly observe this guarantee, and it is
equally certain that there are large
portions of the Democratic party that
openly seek to impair the validity of
the public debt of the United States. |
Direct and open reputation woald
probably be sanctioned by majority
of the Democratic party in the rebel
States. But this form of attacking the
validity of the public debt is not the
most dangerous. The Indiana State
Convention adopted series of resolu-
tions, of which these are the first
three:
First-"That We are in favor of the
redemption of the five-twentv bonds
in greenbseks, according to the laws
under which they are issued"
Second-"We are in favor of the re-
peal of the law of March, 1869, which
assumed to construe the law so as TO