The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-06-29

brethren Of one family, with the same herit- |
age at liberty under equal laws, and heirs /
of one destiny. Shall We preserve and !
transmit that great heritage? Shall We
Lake that destiny the most glorious in the :
history of free people? Ii .onr tslitera-
tions, fellowDemocrats, to-day; ii your
perceDtion of the necessities OF our time,
oui country, our politics, shall he Just and
sagacious, il your sympathy shall be quick,
with the hearts OF q great people, thea,
beyond all peradventure, We will transmit
to our children and to our children's child
ren, unimpaired, this priceless heritage, and
yours will be better renown than the re-
nown most prizsd by Roman eandidahIs
imperioritm far greater than the founders
Of empires are the preservers of republics.
There are no enemies OF the Union to-day
on this continent, except that adminlstra-
tial centralism, which is congesting at the
capital the vital currents which ought to
How out through every part, giving life to
the farthest extremities OF the body polite,
and energy to all its members; except that
corruption, which is the curse that central
ism has never failed in any age or any land
to entail upon any government.
Centraism and corruption have imposed
upon ten States, the rapacious tyranny of
carpet-bag rule, and since the peace have
added S200,O00,00 to their debts; they
have infected the government OF our North
ern States and cities with the same disease
OF extravaganza and fraud; they have de-
bauched the Federal Government itself. and
made the names Of scores of its high officers
and public men, our public scandal, our
open shame. The record Is horrible in Gu
pidity, venality, waste and fraud, and he
party which has been powerless to tread
down ard trample under foot its corruption
lists, with stupendous effrontery, ia pledgiDg
itself to reform of which it has become
incapable, SO that the party, which pledged
itself TO restore specie payments, Is every
year taking us father from specie pay
ments; so it pledged itself to civil service
reform, and then dropped and mocsed It's
reformers; SO il pledged itself TO protect
American labor, and Yilh Its monstrous
custom house taxation on over 5000
articles, it has impoverished American
labor. a few score monopolists, lew
Thousand corruptionists, have be-n en-
riched, but capital in the hands of those
that earned it by industry and saved it by
frugality, ia every where distrustful and
rests unused, while honest labor goes about
the streets begging bread. Is this, then, the
final outcome OF a country OF Republican
seif-governmen.? Forbid it gracious God /,
But we have wandered far from the right
paths, we must return to the constitu-
tional principles, the frugal expenditures
and the administrative purity of the found
ers of the Republic. This is the
first, the most imperious necessity OF our
day and nation. This is the appeal We have
to make to our feilow-citizens of every form
er political affiliations this is the one su-
preme, commanding issue, to which all 9TH
ers are inferior, all others trivial. Reform !.
reform reform, if you shall recognize this
imperious necessity, if you shall guarantee
in YOUR platform the successful achievement
of this arduous work OF national regenera-
ton, If YOU shall select standard, bearers
true to your pledge, victory in the Novem-
Der election, victory in the October contest,
is already yours, lncarnate the vital issue
of reform in your candidates and platform,
ard the States that have hoDored Douglass
and Lincoln, the States that to-day have
Hendricks and Thurman, Hancock and
Parker, Bayard and Tilden, these States,
with all their vast populations, will rise
like the woods ard the winds that followed
the feeting Orpheus-will rise and follow
you TO victory.
Mr.. Belmont, OF New York. rose to read
a paper to the convention, which he pro-
ceeded to do, with some remarks, being in
distinctly heard in the confusion of the
hall, but which is understood TO have been
sharp criticism OF the Republican party
and the Administration, followed by some
suggestions as to the duty OF the Demo-
cratic ieaoeis, "no.l ne ohaia''eii|eu as
having 'een 'oo 'n,u l,Ia ~ my p' .Jo muen
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nave, oy their speecies IN oohsless, oy ,he
lhhanilnatory teachings vi az uhPiihoiPi.u
partisan prs anu S..n!' !' W Sne
platforms oi thel I'A.e anu "a
tiohal oon'eh'iois, uieu " uNe' 'ne
attention Si 'he eiee'oiS rom 'ner mis-
deeds, anu from the rear ISSUES Vi 'he coni-
ing campaign, In order 10 escape 'he JUST
Indignation oi an outraseu people whose
confidence they nave 80 shameiuiiy De'ray-
ed. ihey appeal 10 sec'arian
and sectionai Pfeluu,ces IN or
order 10 SOW the SEEDS OIL uisco,u between
North and South, ro'eStahts ana Ca'noiics.
In this centennial wear oi nations re.
joicings, when the haliowed memories oil
the past, admonlsh US to draw clJser and
stronger the bands oi fraternity and union,
when We have seen the soldiers OF South
Carolina linked arm in arm at the foot OF
Bunker Hill, with their brethren Of Massa-
chusetts, when the veterans of New England
adorn, with flowers, the graves OF Confeder-
ate soldies-a tribute from the brave to the
brave-the politicians of the administration
party, bent only upon their own selfish
ends, attempt to stir up the worst passions
of human nature, and, not satisfied with the
miseries OF the day, are willing to leave TO
our children an inheritance OF suspicion,
prejudice and hatred. They have played
this same nefariouS game before, and, en-
couraged by the timorous policy of our
leaders in former conventions, they hope to