Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-11-02
State, and in this City, remember that the

used with deadly certainty at loyal breasts, IL
to DAY the regular Democratic candidate fol
Congress in one of the districts of this City
We at least do not forget that the Democrat
lie Governor of this State in 1868, who came
down to this City in the darkest hour OF the
war, and in my judgment who famed to the
utmost the furies of the passion of the mob
then stood upon the steps Of the City Hall In
the park, calling the red. handed rioters his
friends, and promising them that he would
ask of Abraham Lincoln to grant what they
with fire and blood, demanded. Nor do we
forget that one Of the most eminent Demo
| cratic leaders in this State at that time, bt
ing asked, after Sumter fell, to take meas
ures with all loyal men simply to maintain
the Union, and once more to run up the nag
that had been pulled down, refused to take
that step, and that Democratic leader is to.
day the Democratic candidate for Governor
of New York, against the man who three
months before Sumter fell issued his famous
order, "Whoever pulls down the American
flag shoot him on the spot" Prolonged ap-
plause.
Fellow citizens, it is with this party we
have to deal, and with no other. Two years
ago there were some good and honest men
who thought that there might be another par
ty. They were captured at Cincinnati by
clever politicians Of one party, who we're soon
after Cal tured at Baltimore by clever politi-
clans of the other. The Cincinnati fly walked
into the parlor of the Baltimore spider, but
| he never walked out. When the Liberal Re-
publican insect buzzed his little desire to the
great monster with whom "he would make an
alliance, he received q short and peremptory
snswer, "Shoo, fly, don't bother me-
| Laughter. The alliance 10 completed. The
spider has consumed the fly, and tonight my
friend Mr.. Dorsheimer is the regular Tam
many Democratic candidate for Lieutenan,
Governor OF New York. We are, then, to
choose between these two parties. Now, you
will remember what party necessarily 10. 1t
is not only an association Of men who agree
in a special purpose and move toward given
end. All history shows that q party, being a
compact organization, bound together upon
certain principles and acquiring certain ira.
ditions, becomes also and necessarily an or.
ganic body with an organic life. 1t was well
said-and recall 1t to your minds, because
the Democratic Party stands before you beg
ging you to forget the past, and declaring
that to- day it 10 the advocate of reform-I re.
mind you of the wise saying of Mr.. Wind
ham, the British statesman, that "the heads
of parties are like the heads of serpents they
are moved and governed by the tall" If,
therefore, when you are to choose, and choose
only between two parties, you will know whs,
the policy of either of the parties will probab-
ly be, look and see where that party has its
chiefest strength. If, therefore, you find q
party strongest in the Northwest, in New
England, in the rural districts of New York,
in the great centres Of industry, of intelli-
gence, OF morality, then you know very we'll
that the policy of that party will be policy
of justice and humanity. If, ON the other
h0n nd GnH -: - =
States where the feeling of caste is most pro-
found, where the laws are most inhuman and
unjust, you expect to find a corresponding
policy. Just as in q city, if q party is strong
among the educated and the intelligent and
the well-conducted and the cultured, you
will find its municipal policy of the same
kind. If, however, a party is stronges,
among the ignorant and the vicious and the
degraded, then you will expect a policy OF
the grog-shop and the gambling house. APP
plause.
One word more, fellow citizens, in regard
to another Of these great questions which are
now prominent in the country, and with which
any party mastering this State, and thereby
taking the first step toward ascendency in the
nation will necessarily be called upon to deal
l am speaking to you with perfect frankness
upon question with which every man il
more or less familiar. mean the question
of the Southern States, which is one upor
which the Democratic Party hopes to come
into power. The situation in the Southern
States is one which calls for the considera
ton Of thoughtful men. There is no short
cut to pass in this dispute. There is for that
disturbance two-fold cause involved, and a
two-fold cause only. The great cause of all
the disorder in the Southern States is the sys.
TEN of slavery which necessarily barbarizes
the master class, and in the second place it is
the refusal of that master class to take any
part in the reconstruction in these States.
Now, have no hard word, as have no hard
thought, for the men in those States who
have been bitterly ground by the war which
they provoked. l, at least, do them the credit
Of believing that when they put their own
lives and the whole social structure OF their
States; when they put the lives of our friends,
of our best and dearest friends, to the test of
the sword. have no doubt they were pre-
pared for the darkest time that might follow.
When Andrew johnson gave that party priv
ileges, expecting that they might recover
their mastery, they instantly showed their
spirit by the passage Of laws which placed the
newly liberated colored race in as bad a con
dition as before, by bending upon their souls
the shackles that had just been stricken of
| ~ A~AuSOAo' hAc Woo tuC purity VI tuODe
men, and that policy has been continued to the
present day. The Republican Party was
in power, the country was everywhere
impatient to the slightest delay
in reconstruction, and it was solemn
ly bound before God to defend the liberty of
the helpless and not to deliver them again to
everything but the name of slavery, aud they
trusted the American people, the American
principle. and trusted the future of the Repub-
lican Party to give civil and political equality
to all the people of those states. (Applause. !
From that daring but imperative policy, as we
all know, some lsmentable consequences have
ensued, but bad as the state of things may be,
l, for my part, hold that it is not half so dis
astrous in those States, as it would have been
had the Republican Party forgotten its faith
to God and to man and .rampled upon the race
that just before they had lifted up toward
heaven. [Applause.] And when the Demo.
cratic Party presents itself to deal with this
question allow me to tell what 10 its remedy,
1t calls it "home rule" What is home rule
Mr.. Eaton, the newly elected Democratic
Senator from Connecticut told US. Home
rule is new form of State sovereignty.
Home rule means in Congress the repeal of
every enforcement law and the practical par
alysis of the amendments themselvs. Home
rule means in every Southern State where
the whites are q majority. and can count uDon