The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-07

ner the fruitage OF victory, your war was 8
miserable, horrible mockery. Unless the bat
tie of history is fought successfully for us, T
don't care how the battle Of arms went.
Now what were the things we fought for !?
we fought for universal freedom we fought
for an ndiyisible Union we fought for equal
rights before the law Tor all men, without re-
gard to race or color. [Applause.1 Have these
things been secured? How are Gov Tilden
and his party to secure them Let me read to
you single sentence from a very labored let
ter that Mr.. Tilden himself wrote just few
days before the election of Mr.. Lincoln, and
ask YOU if that is the kind of doctrine that
ought to be put into the Presidential chair.
He says: "They, the fathers, who formed
cur Government recognized no right Of con-
stitutional secession, but they left revolution,
organized whenever it should be demanded by
to snap the tie of confederation as a nation
might break treaty and repel coercion as
nation might repel INVASION" Now there was
the doctrine Of State sovereignty, the right Of
revolution. To break the Union in pieces
whenever State saw fit to do it. That Mr.
Tilden announced over his own signature
in the month of October, 1860 and I know
of no reason to suppose that he has
changed his opinion on that subject. In 1854
he with Vallandigham of our State was on
the Committee on Resolutions in the Chicago
Convention that brought in that famous reso-
luton that called our war failure, and de-
manded the calling back of our troops and
truce between the two armies. He has pre-
tended to deny it by saying that he was not in
favor of that resolution in committee, but the
resolution was reported as being unanimous,
and he was the leading member of the COM
mittee. Did he raise his voice against it in
that committee or elsewhere Why. the New
York World tries to tell us now that he sent
Mr. Marble to Mcclellan and asked him to dis
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den Vallandigham, or any of them, openly, be-
fore the people, denounce that resolution or
vote against it? There it was, and since, my
fellow citizens Mr.. 1ilden has been standing
by the very worst elements of the Democracy,
until Tweed got so bad that everybody was
likely to be swamped, and MIR Iilden turned
then, following the lead of the Now York
Times, denouncing the rascal Tweed. We
have, then, two candidates before us, neither
of whom can be said TO have done a. thing in
all their career that was at all distasteful to
the rebels of the South. Both stood as blocks
in the way of our progress in putting down the
rebellion.
Both have so commended themselves to the
South as to unite the rebel element of that
country in their favor. Over against that,
fellow-citizens we ask that the American
people stand up to what they have done in the
past, and determine that the results OF the
war shall be saved. Some one says to me that
they have admitted in their platform that they
will save the results Of the war. Let me give
you single example of how they can save the
results of the war, or destroy them III the
county Of Chatham, in the State of Georgia,
the capital or county seat of which lis Savannah,
they have Al, 900 people by the census Of 1870
and the Democrats coming into power in 1873.
passed law abolishing all the polling places
in that county, except one in the city of Sa-
vannah, and for the last three years II, 600
4 Io-,A
single place to vote /; just as though, here, in
the county Of Trumbull, which has not SO
great a population, every man who wanted to
vote next October must come here to Warren,
and in one room, after walking ten, twenty or
twenty-five miles, deposit his vote. How do
they manage in Georgia.? There are thou
sands more Of negro voters than white
men the negroes live out in the rural
districts or elsewhere the white men
go to the polls early in the morning
and block the polls. challenge each others
votes to occnpy the time, and when the polls
have closed the white men have all voted, and
the negroes have been standing back waiting
TO get q chance so that q great county with an
overwhelming Republican majority has been
last four years and it is precisely by means of
this sort that they propose to keep the
Fifteenth amendment from being carried out
in its spirit or letter. In that way they can
freeze to death these amendments by simply
not making way for carrying them out and
that is what they mean to do. Three at least
of the Southern States have clear majority of
voters who are colored, and they are driven
from the polls or blocked out by regulations of
this sort, and whenever Congress attempts by
law to enforce q full and free election through
out the South, the cry OF bayonet rule is
shouted throughout the country, and we are
told to keep away and allow the South to be
fran RTpa n what ? m Iyaay SoyU1 freo
voting. That is the freedom they mean. I'm
less the Federal army shall protect the Federal
elections there can be no carrying out of the
Fifteenth amendment. Applause.
Now, gentlemen, two years ago there was
much dissatisfaction with the Republican party,
and the people said there was SO much that was
going badly in the Republican party that it de-
served punishment, and by silence and by vot-
ing against them the Republicans throughout
the United States were chastised as party,
and the Democrats goC into power. Some be-
gan to think, perhaps, that the Republican
party ought to be abandoned, and at any rate
they would try the Democratic party. Let
them take the House of Representatives for
two years and see whether they can do better.
Now, there never was in the world a party that
had so splendid an opportunity to vndicate the
wisdom of the reaction two wears ago as the
Democrats had two years ago in Congress.
They went there with almost hundred ma
Jorlty. Ihey went there proclaiming civil serv-
ice reform, proclaiming that they were going
to reform measures everywhere. Now, all
theorizing aside. there is no test SO perfect as
the test of actual practice. Tell me,
citizens of the Nineteenth District, have
you ever read the history Of Congress 80
worthy of condemnation as che actions of the
House of Representatives in the last nine
months ? IA voice MORT. On almost every
point of their Legislative action, it has been the
reaction of violence. They come Into the
House OF Representatives with ffty-two rebel
officers as members Of the House and nine
more in the Senate. We were told that they
we're meek and lowly and had come back into
their place in the Union to be good, faithful.
and loyal people What did the Democratic
party do? OF the thirty three standing COM
mittees that did the bulk of the work, that
framed the legislation that shaped the policy,
that determined the career OF Congress,
twenty one OF the chairlnen OF those commit
tees were given to the late slave States and
only twelve to all the great Democratic States
Of the North. The State of Kentucky had five
chairmansbips. The whole of New England,
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