The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1875-06-18
Hon. Jas. n. Beck IN STAFFORD.

Hon. Jas. n. Beck IN sldn}crd.
Without previous announcement
Mr. Beck spoke to large and enthu'
f,astic audience at the G urt-house
here on Monday last, county court
day. This able and gallant Scotch
man entertained our citizens in a
speech nearly two hours long, on Fed
eral pchtics. mainly. but took occasion
80 inteflard his speech with frequent
reference 10 State affairs. We have
not space to give even a synopsis Of
his logical effort, even if it were bet
Ter to do so. He said that Kentucky
leads the Democratic hosts in the
coming State elections, and that if she
should swell our usual majority from
10000 to $4,000 votes, it would result
IN the swelling Of cur national majority
two-dcld. He said and truly that other
States look with anxiety to cur own,
and to them Kentucky is an example.
That II our majority should decrease.
there would be a corresponding de-
crease in other States, and rice versa.
He reviewed our tariff and revenue
laws rapidly but clearly. and made il
manifest to all who heard him that We
are laboring under a most wretched
system Of taxation, and that many are
being made poorer every year in or
der to enrich few, and these few
mainly citizens of the New England
States. He gave the Changers some
wholesome advice, which. il acted
upon, will redown to their most vital
interests. He said that at the close of
the war We had 600 ships. but now
only $50 Of that number could be
touIsl, and asked what had become OF
them. Echo answers -uhere! He
spoke logically and with marked effect
upon his audience, with reference to
the effort of the Radical party to cen
tralize the Government, break down
State lines, and supersede the State
courts with Federal tribunals. He
said that despotism could exist un.
der Republican Government as sure
ly as under a Monarchy, and that to
avoid that despotism in our own coun-
try, the people are rising in their maj
esty and power with u firm resolve TO
crush its hideoas fount. That the
Democratic party has rung out salvo
to the Nation, and around her banner,
upon which is inscribed the MOTTO
Equal rights to all, and exclusive
privileges to none,' people of all the
old parties of the last decade are flock
ing, determined to rescue the govern
ment from the despot's rule. He said
furthermore, thai the Republican par
ty had laid the foundations of all the
ruin which has come upon the isnd.-
and that in doing SO they had not only
Seen untrue to the Democracy, but
alike untrue TO themselves. That
among other acts 1t despotism they
had DISTINGUISHED the white people of
the South and enfranchised the blacks,
aud that, too, after the people of the
South had in good faith laid down their
arms; and that history fails to record
an instance Of wrong aud outrage par
allel to TO this. That such was the
bitter hatred of the leaders of that
party - every State where slavery ex.
isted, that Kentucky even was not
excepted from their unjust and out
ragcous legislation, although she ha
sent 10000 of her brave sons to bear
the Federal banner and blyonet
against their own people, thus aiding
them in the preparation of these
wrongs. Mr.. Beck gave Gen'l Harlan
a few heavy digs for his political in
consistency, and said that he was at
the head Of the movement to keep the
Republican party in power, but hoped
that none he had the pleasure of thus
addressing would aid the General in
such work Of destruction. His re-
marks uDon the public debt. and our