The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1874-10-20

Vic DtlMttu Tie eAtltkhSSy
recording the progress ct time.
How significant is this Of the action OF +
the public opinion of great people;
travelling from one extreme to the other |
and then adopting the happy mean. 1t |
showthat there is Il point inthe expression |
of opinion where it must stop; retr0grade !
motion is then made and it goes to the |
other extreme and at last the happy mean |
between the two extremes is adopted.
In 1860 the public opinion of large
number of people in the United States,
was set in motion by a class Of politicians
who utterly misunderstanding the mean
| ing of n government undertook to place
| themselves in power by means hitherto
unknown; class or party who never can
| be made to understand what the consti-
| tutional representation by the people is
| They knew it was utterly impossible to
address themselves to the reason of the
people and SO they addressed themselves
to the emotional feelings OF the people.
They began their crusaaes upon consti-
tutional liberty by working upon the
passions Of the people.
They took up the slavery questions at
the Chicago Convention, which nomna-
ted President Lincoln and in the plat
form OF that convention you will find
that war was declared against the peo-
pie Of the United States, and inaugural
ed an irrepressible conflict not to end un.
til Constitutional Government was over
thrown. | charge upon the Radical par
p, ty which is the same ~ the old abolition
| party, the setting at defiance of law, con
stitution and the rights of the people,
From 1860 until the present time it ha:
never addressed itself to the calm and in
telligent reasoning faculties of the Amer
:" lean people but has appealed to the emo
tions and the passions. All through tn
war it trampled under foot the rights o
X the people and disregarded the constitu
= ton of the United States. When tn
II war was over how did they act ? Did the
: allow what they said had accomplishe
!, to become u fact No sooner was tn
4 wHr over and peace acknov lodged, tina
E they went into secret conclave to obtai
power in peace as they had it in war.
They took all the power they could reacl
te They went to sovereign states on who's
Is brows were the diadems Of liberty, an
he took from them the myrtle and the laur
v, wreath. oh if they had only left the
y that way willingly would they hay
s. been poor, impoverished and conquore
We They would have willingly said, take q
he our lands, money and everything of va
i'd ue but leave us that inherit right, OF
IN liberty and sovereignty, SO We can con
ty | into the banquet hall of the Union, al
meet all the sovereign states there a
de sembled.
he Look Mt the condition Of any Southel
vs. state south of Virginia. That is too ne
De- the reasoning faculties of the majority
zee the people. The history of the outrag
To- III South Carolina seem as improbable
of a myth of the Middle ages. We hay
: IA now had ten years of peace and he Ra
zeal party have had Congress, they ha
for had the Supreme court, they had t
M government of the states and they Ii
'as their negro provinces III the South, a
ing what have they done. They have L
dertaken to give the people money
medium by which industry and lai
shall he remunerated. but to-day tn
don't know the difference between NOR
and currency. When | see factorie 81
mp, ship yards closed, men walking in
streets idle, forge5 closed and farms
sale, 500 that this party has attemp
to deceive the people and has not civ
us money.
$1,000 men idle in four counties in i
state of the New York; $4,000 men idle
Philadelphia; go farther North, 20 far
er West and the universal cry is, Their
nothing to do. This was not so WI
Democrats ruled for they regarded
sound, financial basis as of more imp,
ard ance than the political rights of the
gro.
Afteralluding to the mismanagem
OF financial affairs by the Radical |
ley ty, the Honorable speaker closed by
Tor earnest appeal to those present to h
'ro- make this government a Const
tional Government such was left
k Jefferson and Madison, by placing
In in the hands it IN the hands of I
gan great national, historic party, VII
, In will give us peace prosperity, indu.
'rth and traternal regard
MA, Three hearty cheers greeted
ne NauX when he closed After must,
day the band,
HON. THOs. F, EAYARD
acn
nile was loudly called for, and respon
can briefly, though in his usual etfec
erlv manner. In the course of his rem;
Al he alluded to the present depressio
4 of business affairs he said that it
roes something more than II panic wi
i'm, had caused this 1t was caused by
ces half of the country being plunged
lean paupcrism and kept there, in orde