The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-13
The Tidal Wave,

At a jolifeation meeting in Washing
ton City, Senator Thurman, Of Ohio,
made an able speech, of which the follow
ing is an extract:
Well, now, if anybody were to ask me
in dead earnest, What are the causes of
our triumph If the opportunity were
good; if it was not time of jollfcation,
! but time of serious thought and refec-
ton, might reply. But let me say, you
must not Think hope you will not-that,
because speak in this vein, am in
frivolous mood. Why, my friends, year
after year the Radical party have carried
the elections at the North by the cry of
Southern outrages and intimidation at
the South. Member after member of
Congress, duly selected by triumphant
mai critics, have been turned out of their
seats in that Capitol, or refused their
seats under this false pretense Of South
ern outrages. And this very year, when
the foundations were slipping away from
under them-when their house rocked to
its fall, and they felt that an earthquake
Was about to destroy them-they set up
again this mill for the manufacture of
Southern outrages, with the Attorney
General of the United States as chief mil
Ter. [Cheers. Now, referred to Gen.
Butler, and if had not intended to do 80
your calls would have made it proper
that should do so. But there is pro
priety in my referring to that man. When
he accepted his last nomination to Con-
Cress, he gave as his chief reasen for do
ing so. that he had the will and ability, if
he occupied q seat in Congress, to still
further repress and subdue the Southern
people. He raised the black flag of per
secution; and fighting under that flag, he
sought to maintain his power. But the
people raised the white flag, not of defeat,
but of peace, and said to him, "Persecu-
tor, stay thou at thy home" And now
nv friends, what are the causes of our
great victory2 can tell you, in q single
sentence the cause: Discomfort With
Radical rule; and that cause is universal.
II is felt on the shores of the Atlantic and
the shores of the Pacific. 1t is felt In
New England. 1t is felt on the borders
of the Rio Grande. [Cheers, and cries Of
ain this district" 1t is felt in this dis
trict and everywhere, where there is a
heart, native or naturalized, that beats
with American sentiments, there is a
feeling of discomfort with Ranical rule.
Cries of good goodp And now if you
ask me whether there are any good rea- |
W,
Whence comes this SUGGEST / answer |
you, it is because, within the last nine |
years, our Radical rulers have set at |
naught every instinct, every feeling |
every habit, every teaching of the Ameri |
can people and of our foFefathers. |
I Cheers The American people are a
constitution-loving people. Show me
one valuable provision ofthe Constitution
of the United States that has not been
violated by our Radical rulers in the last
nine years. The American people are
a liberty-loving people, but liberty has
been trampled under foot from one end
of the republic to the other, by this rad-i |
cal party. The Americans are a home
people; home-rule has been
treated with scorn and contempt by our
radical rulers, and the doctrine is now
acted upon persistently by the American
Congress, that it may exercise as omnipo-
tent power as the Parliament of GIelt
Britain. The American people are a.
loving people; but our expenses
are such that q man looks around In
despair when he sees the face of the tax
yatherer The American people are an
honest-loving people; but Credit Mobiler,
SanbOrn contracts, custom-house frauds,
he secret service division cheers II
nave made corruption q synonym for =
in the United States. No
wonder there is discomfort. But, rays
ome one, the great cause of discomfort 6
$ that we are in financial trouble; many !
Mills and factories are stopped, or only b
unning on half time; many laboring men
re out of work, or working only on half
inc. That is very true, and no one