The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-06-25
speech Of =. n. Cor.


speech, from which we give ample ex-
tracts:
/ You will perceive In the daily press re-
markable tendency 10 prognosticate. One
editor, sitting on his tower of observation,
sees third term. lie makes II redhot.--in
fact heated term. lie compels the chief.
tain Of fifty battles TO explain. Another
sees the freedom Of thought exposed. With
II, freedom Of intercourse, through ocean
telegraphs, steamships aud missionaries.
Then free trade rises on the prophetic vision,
aud lifts city and county, like Paris aud
| France, out Of the sloughs Of dcspond into
/ the activities Of the commercial world
/ Nearly all these poets Of the future--vatici-
nators-have theirpride, their selflove, that
is gratited not only when they say In ad-
| vance, hut when their sayings are realized.
| II was no mere matter Of guess which led me
to say In Congress; "Touch one hair Of Gen
inderson's head in Fort sumter, gentlemen
Of the South, and you will have the North
as one man in his defense" All that was
said by statesmen did not countervail to
change this written and spoken word. 1t
was not predicted on the lack Of courage
South, or its abundance North, but on the
intrinsic and inalienable love of Union,
North and South and the everlasting
/ economic and mechanic laws. To the North,
]
easy. To the North, even the raising Of
money by steam printing were easy. To the
North, the forging Of cannon aud the biving
/ Of values, even amid the devastations Of
war, was easy. To the South, the improvi-
/ dences and glories Of martial gallantry were
easy but in the long and chronic conflict
run-the mechanical and economical results
told their unvarying story. uNntlenen,
/ these are lessons to be taught in this connec-
. Ia Il Hs .h.... s.
/ politics alone. The South was not beaten.
Il was almost exterminated. No more resist.
ance was possible. When Lee surrendered
| there were only sixteen thousand soldiers at
| Richmond. Wien European armies, as at
| Metz or Sedan surrendered hundreds Of thou
sands were made prisoners. In our war,
whole regiments fell, and in some battles as
/ in the wilderness, as many fell to make
whole armies in other times and lands.
| There was the supernatural bravery of our
race--call IL Anglo Norman, Scotch, Irish,
Anglo-Saxon or Celtie-honorable TO the
conqueror and the conquered. Nothing but
I the superior mechanic power and long ex.
| chequer of the North ended the conflict and
| what a lesson to the exchequer was and is
left! What a lesson for the benignity Of
honesty--the need of mutual trust aud the
! patriotism Of complete restoration Oh, il
is said by Senator Morton, that he is ready
! the Centennial. Indeed lie is now ready
| to begin his gracious pardon next year, ith
Of July! Indeed. Why, his very affection
/ is ill.timed. -ltcomes when the orange bios
/ SONS are upon the brow of another and q
/ better bride, II is Democracy which weds
/ the heavenly, prolonged and grateful sweet
ness Of concliation. The Senator's grudg.
ing grace-wby, II is the very antipode Of
union between gentleness and strength. lie
D = a.
ness, Ii requires no prophecy to mark the
! i'll consequences of this policy of force aud
distrust and hate. We have it posttriori.
We have il in the results of ten years OF
misrule South. We have it in the broad
farce of "civil rights" and the bad butchery
of force bills and in military pashalics and
their Federal janizaries. io to rsined,
charred South Carolina-the mere busk of
/ what she was Go to Mississippi and Ala
bams; ready to be victimized when extreme
partisan emergencies arise. Go to Louisiana.
| In vain her Sky is beautiful, her climate
bslmy, aud her waters grand! Yes, Twill go
/ to her, so long as the hollow truce between
] force aud fraud exists in her midst for a
! lesson of warning 10 all. Her debts are now
/ $50, ,J97 ,3OI, while her once proud city owes
nearly hall a. much beside This for pop
ulatiOn less than million-nearly hall me-
groes, with property still depreciating,
| with an annual tax greater than the in-
/ come aud with half the taxes squandered-
| never applied to any good purpose-with u
Legislature made by the sword and en-
forced at Washington, 49, we need no
! Solon to advise us that such a citadel OF
| force menaces ruin aud decay. Now turn to
l Arkansas She was rapidly treading the
wasted path. The canker and pain was at her
heart This callous usurper hand of the
| Radical and railroad rascals y---he was about
| to bounce on her, too, before convening
| Congress. At last something was done. The
/ Poland resolution passed. The hand OF iron
was unloosed and under the ministration Of
| her accomplished, able and lear.,d Cover
nor Garland, an in independent public sen
timent she reyives. Her certificates recently
selling at twenty-seven, leaped at once to
! thirty-twO, and are forty-three now. Her
| ten-per-cent. selling at thirty-eight, rose al
| ter the action Of Congress TO fifty, and are
now seyenty-seven, gain of one hundred
per cent. under Democratic rule. Time aud
again had shown the losses to the South,
aud consequently 10 the North-for We are
all interdependent for markets and manu-
iactures-by the policies Of hate pursued to-
ward one section by the Republicans in and
out of Congress. Look at the percentage oi
our southern increase from 1850 TO lS6D, and
then the decrease from 1860 TO 1870 in
cereals, cotton, tobacco, acreage and all.
There was--csmparing 1860 with ls70--a loss
Of foriy-hye per cent. Comparing the year
] with what the other ought 10 have been, the
/ loss is $iOOOOO,OOO. These are not conse-
/ quenees of the war, for take the year 1870
| and $50 Perfdious, bad bankrupt agencies
| have been at work and upheld by the bay
onet
/ II one could guess that the war would have
] resulted as il did aud could warn OF eNcesses
] A. Ia ba shn al hai
/ by the order oi nature and the logic OF
| events, n silly specimen Of rule called Caesar
l ism would append 10 its puerlity the attempt
/ of civil corruption aud the general losses
! have stated. Yet all these things come
/ aud hy the same Law of prescience we may
antedate the absolute fall of irresponsible
power aud the third term! For does not
C,esarism mean irresponsible PowefF aud
the third term continued prohigacys How
can our people be alienated from the memo.
ries of Washington How can Centennial
be celebrated neat year without eliminating
Grant? How can Cabinet company, who
may mean we'll, like your BTistONs, Jewels
n diias get ON in reforms? How can party
which sought TO give In such a time power
10 annul the hdbeds corpus TO soldier, with
out particle ct civic skill and virtue, win
in 1862
Do We not know that the AK is al the root
that the tree is girdled, aud that Il IS bending
toward the earth, and that the influences Oi
the era lead toward its fallg
Guessing the future, am bold 10 say that
the infrnties of recent administration
make the decadence of the Republican party
sure II Caesar fell, can Grant stand, Cw'
sar was an orator, full of Wit, full Of all amen
tiles and graces Of rule even in the train
ing Of the Senate. II Caesar feli, II requires
no diyination TO tell what the human heart
honest and free, will beat for. The coarse
unpromising man" said Falkland, pointing
to the spoiler Of Ireland, will be the first
person in this kingdom, in ease of blows p
But when blows we're over, where Was yon
coarse man. No sou OF his succeeded. Rev
olutions which menace largely, like oil reyo
lutons, deyour their own offspring.
Is this hateful rule 10 be continued Il
so, let us have il in its entirety aud prod
igality Give us none of your subordl
nate actOrs-machines which go up and dow
the public departments, like dumb orators
doing the bidding OF the master mind. NJ
halt way, pseudo TefoTmers, on eompulsioE