The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-13
SPEECH OF HON. SAMUEL o. COX
OF NEW YORK.
In Hartford Conn. April 1. 1875.

(Continued.)
CONNECTICUT PRODUCT AND PROSPERITY
UNDER HOME RULE.
But in Connecticut, without these nat
ural advantages, what have you not done,
under free auspices and honest admins
tration2 You have over half million
people, packed closely. You have little
rable soil but what have you not done
with your Long river" and the 100 miles
of coast. You have an area juicy with
streams and with your enginery and
steam you employ over $4,000 horse power
pulling day and night, under manifold and
multiplied conditions. How wonderfully
have you harnessed the mesgre forces
which nature furnishes, by your inVen'
tons. The state of Whitney, Goodyear
and Colt has not merely sent out her In
genious mechanism to the world; but ten
or fifteen thousand human machines annu-
ally to other states-hlling them with thrift
and comfort. Not specially adapted for
agriculture, you employ ninety thousand
hands, besides your million handed ma
chinery in manufactures; you pay $780,
100000 in wages, and have $95, 5000 in
capital Your product in manufactures
alone, not counting your pinety eight
thousand cows 80 precious to the Glaston-
bury female mind, along with the liberty
to milk-amounts to $l6l ,OOO,00O Your
people love to traffic. You believe in close
savings and quick returns. .
When Noah Webster was working in
federal politics and philology, and had just
brought his pretty wife to Hartford-it
was said that he lived on essays for break
fast, dissertations for dinner, and went
supperles to bed. Yet what did he not
achieve for human language and for the
honor of his state.
You desire to reach out to all the states
and TO all the world, with your myriad
products. You cannot do it under Radi
cal federal policy, l will soon show you
that.
Your people have facile ways of work.
III one way don't pay they find out another
If one administration is not good, they are
bound to any number of terms to crafty
They have many notions; but no notion of
which ruin, interchange and disturb en-
ployment. You are ready, as here in
Hartford, to insure anything from broken
leg to an epizootic horse-but you are not
fools enough. for any premium, to insure
the success of an administration which
expects harvests without seed sown, and
the protection of good laws for their
;ngathering. You do not insure property
in Louisiana and Mississippi-where Kel-
logg registers votes, Casey uses Gatling
guns, Durrell issues DEGREES, or DeTrobri-
and makes legislatures; and Grant and the
senate endorse that usurpation which sti-
fles trade, throttles suffrage, and makes and
unmakes legislatures with the iron hand
You have drawn into your state, by its lit
era-y and aesthetic allurements, men OF
wealth and leisure-while by your fruga
and steady habit of good home rule, yor
have attracted $4,000 foreign population
to promote and share your blessings You
school fund amounts TO 81, 900, 900 for 1873
600 children, which you shrewdly acquired
and carefully invested from the sale O
your title to all the land from the Atlantic
to the Pacific coast Your schools ar,
models; your colleges boas. in their alumni
line of statesmen, ministers, priest
and scientists unequaled; and IN all thes
pre-eminent conditions and results of con
tent and comfort, what do you not do an
make for others that you are not ready t
dispose of for fair equivalent? Out fyou
quarries of marble and stone New
York builds her hospitals and penitentia
ries, her palaces and her warehouses. Tn
great metropolis at your doors treads un
der foot, daily, miles of your tagging. Tn
world keeps tine to the click of your clocks
and regulates its conscience by your Indi
rubber. Did you ever read the census t
see the quality OF your production? don
mean your cotton and wooden fabrics, No
your iron and steel ware these form
great part OF your industrial result; but i
endless profuslon you export, or once eX
ported, to other states and lands, straw
berries. cream. cheese and school marms
ice, stone and onions; tobacco, carpet bag
and carpet baggers; plated ware, liquo
and fire arms; hoop skirts, corsets am
g0spellers, bleaching and dying, and toni
stones; screws, lexicons and hippodromes
tair women, smart men, brass ware an
brains Some of the last 20 to congress
and some do not. Cheers IN.
But for all this variety of production
you desire and deserve a market: and tn
largest one. You fear no competition. a
home or abroad You ask no protection
no restriction against the raw material
whether it be an immigrant or cotton
pod. You grew immensely under lowe
tariffs from 1850 to 1860 trebling you
production in that decade. Had you grown
in the same ratio from go to 20 under
high tariffs, you would have had five hun
dred millions more of true wealth to- day
than you have
1t is your interest then to foster the sys
tenn which has given you this prosperity
Where is the magic which evoked it p
where but in the ring of your governor O
the Elder Day,-more powerful than the
ring of Aladdin which made the eartl
reveal the jewels of whole Satrapies Of tn,
Orient,-the ring which Charles I. CAV,
to Winthrop and with which Winthrop
evoked the charter, out of which grew
your local liberty,-security against I'm
just seizures, open and honest courts,
frugal government, the right ofthe peopl,
to bear arms in their defense, and the sub
lection Of the military to the civil power
These are the genii which have bestowe,
on you the diverse and marvellous pros
perity and production which made you
state splendid with memories, puissant il
arms, elegant in art and exalted in posi-
ton
RECENT POLITICS. 3
Connecticut has had many and nigh
say disastrous changes in her politica
views. When the war closed her peopl
meant to follow no proscriptive policy to
ward the south. She meant to give he
the home blessings which she herself had
lu 1865 the Republicans succeeded il
state and federal tickets. Your Republi
can assembly that year adopted resolution