The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-10-12
JACKSON @. H.. OHIO THURSDAY, OCTOBER II, 1876

to bring home a starving American sailor
shipwrecked on the bottomless ocean.
you shall not have pint of oil to light
the beacon on the coast or the lake to
warn the mariner of the dangers that
beset him; not one single dollar until
you repeal that Supervisors law, and by
which law it is necessary in the State OF
New York to give the electoral vote to
Samuel j. Tilden But the members
of the Senate Of the United
States-each one IN a comfortable chair.
sat back and said, You may amuse your
selves as much as you please in putting
on such amendments, but we shall sit
here until the second Centennial of
American Independence before you do
it, and it was defeated. The defeat Of
that bill sealed the fate of Tilden in New
York.
WORD ABOUT ARMY RETRENCHNENT.
Now, then, the same rule come to the
army, and you hear a great deal about
the enormous standing army that the
Republicans are keeping up, threatening
the liberties of the citizens, and overturn-
ing republican institutions. Now. we
have got a nation Of 4j,000.OO0 and an
army of $4,000 A fearful army
Laughter In the Democratic city Of
New York it takes 5000 policemen to
keep your pocket and mine from being
picked, going from the depot TO the hotel
ones ghth of the entire army Of the
United States-the police force of the
Democratic city of New York. And
here, with all our vast frontier Of 5000
miles Of coast, and the disturbances in
South, $4,000 soldiers Never had a civ
ilized nation, since civilization came
among men, that supported so small an
army with so large a number OF people.
Applause. We now come to the Army
Bill. To 60 back, when the war closed in
1906, an immense number of men-many
probably do me the honor to hear me
this moment-went back to the ayoca-
tions OF private life, returning stronger
men Tor the great experience they had
gone through. The question then came,
how shall we compose the army for the
time of peace2 / happened myself to be
a member of the committee that framed
the bill, and we found a condition OF
things that did not exist before the war
We found that 100000 men that had
been slaves were now freed men, and out
of that 100000, 200, 900 had been in the
ranks of the Union army, who had done
what they could, had been faithful and
true, had fought, aud gloried in their
scars, and thousands had died. Not on
ly was their aid Of vast consequence to
the Union army, but their presence was
great help to the North. The draft was
less in the town of Warren because Of
these 100000 men, If the draft was ever
enforced here. When we came to make
peace establishment, il would have
been an act as mean as a Southern rebel
Democrat can get their Northern allies
n 90 -
son-to have excluded the negro from
the army of the United States, and.
therefore, we ordained in the law that
certain number of infantry and cavalry
should be composed of colOred men, and
they have been, and are, to-day. COM
posed OF the colored men, and do good
service. The negro is clothed with the
uniform of the United States, which he
helped to save. And any other act,
say, would have been ineffably and ire
deemably mean. Now would you believe
1T? You certainly would lot, if il was
stated on the unsupported assertion of
any man, that on this army bill they |
moved TO put provision to leave these /
negroes out. Under the dominion OF |
the Rebel Congress, they were for exclu- |
ding the colored regiments from the ar
my, and at the same time reported a bill /
by Gen. Randall Tucker, Of Virginia, re- /
pealing another clause in the army bill /
Of 1860, which said that any ma serving /
in the Confederate army should never be |
an army officer of the /
United States. So then this Congress,
so far as they could do it by their own 4
motions defeated, as they were. in both |
cases by the Senate), attempted to drive \
the negro out Of the United States ser
Taea g. Iuss. ii
der, who had always been disloyal /
These men are not only bad, but they are
crazy. They were rushing at political de-
'truction, but so wild and crazy were
they with the sense of power. that they
proceeded to these extr, mites.
THE CONSULAR SERVICE.
Nor was there a single appropriation
bill out of the whole list that they did
not disfgrre and injure and make infa-
nous by some absurd independent legis-
Iation of this kind. They even went to
this extreme The foreign diplomatic
service Of the United States-your Min
sters and Consuls-cost abort 81 100000
4 year. OF that amount, about SSO0OOO,
Dr. nearly two-thirds of it, goes to pay
your Consuls; and your Consuls fees,
collected at the various ports are in ex-
,ess of the $4,000 by nearly $500 600
The Consuls are selfsupporting, with
lbout 100000 excess, and yet, when
hey came to consider the Diplomatic
md Consular approp. p.iation, they struck
)ut forty-two Consuls away in Asia,
south America, and other places where
he American flag has hitherto been fly
ng, and ordained that at those points
he American flag should be hauled
iown, and to-day you may visit iorty-two
places on this globe. where you will find
. British, German, French, Russian, Ital-
an flag, and even the flags Of little Bel
,ium and Holland, and find no United
States flag They said they didn't get
ees enough to pay for the United States
lag. As il our flag was to be put up at
auction. Applause. Never was a Re
publican Congress assembled that would
axe down an American flag anywhere
IN the face Of the earth, where il had
,ver been hoisted. Never! [TTemen-
ious applause.
PAYMENT or REBEL CLAIMS
Now ! have something to say OF Mr..
rilden, rega. ding his position on specie
payments. After seeking to place Dem.
)cratic character in your own view, he
begins to call you a liar and
)ther complimentary names. The Dem
,crats say that the Constitution forbids
he payment OF rebel claims. Now the
does forbid the payment of
.wo classes Of claims. You shall not
make any appropriation to pay the rebel
lcbt nor for the slaves that were eman-
,ipated. The Constitution in one clause
0t the 18th Amendment, undoubtedly
says that / will not stop to argue that,
though | think even this may be got
round, but will acknowledge that those
gateways are closed. ! will admit there
IS no danger of any money being paid for
the rebel debt, or for the slaves that were
But, inside of that, gen
tlemen there Is nothing in the Consfitn.