The Hickman courier., 1876-11-03
THE PEOPLE CONGRA IT,
LATED.

address Of the National Democratic Conn
l,,5ftee TO the Voters Ofhte L. $.
FELLOW CITIZENS: We congratulate
you as patriots, as partakers with us in
the common destiny of American free
men, upon the results of the October
state elections We rejoice in the victo-
~ which the peoples ballots have be-
slowed upon the friends of reform, in
the valley of the Ohio, where the re-
publican hosts had an overwhelming as
tendency in every presidential election
since 1856. We rejoice in the assurance
these elections convey that your ballots
will bestow decisire majorities to the
allied forces OF democracy and reform
in the November elections throughout
the union But we rejoice not as parti-
zans; we rejoice with you as iellow-citi-
zens.
And when the decision OF this week
of one million voters along the valley
of the Ohio shall be ratified next month,
by the fiat OF eight million voters
throughout the whole republic, we shall
still rejoice, chiefly for the reason that
not one of its citizens can miss an equal
share with US who are democrats, in the
political peace and good viii which will
then and there be established among all
sections, races, classes, and conditions of
men, in the prosperity of which political
peace, based on equal rights and fra
ternal good will, Is the first condition.
Upon the three states of West Vir-
sinia, Ohio and Indiana were c0ncen-
trated all the influence of the admins
tration, all their efforts, and all the vast
sums of money forced from the one hun
dred thousand ofEce-holders of the party
in power.
These were fearful odds, not again to
he contended against so concentrated,
for in the November elections the con
test will be in every one of the thirty
eight states upon the same day.
Nevertheless, against these odds the
democrats and reformers of West Vir-
ginia and Indiana have been victorious
and in Ohio they have all but rescued q
state hitherto deemed hopeless, and have
created an assurance of victory in No
vember.
fit falls to cur lot Is a national dem
ocratic committee to congratulate the
people of the union upon this victory
in the first battle OF the reform cam
paign, it is only because democrats have
been honored to be the leaders of the
people in the work Of national regenera
tion.
The victory won, the victory still TO be
won, will be deliverance as much tc
republicans rs to democrats
The patriotic masses of the republican
party may be thankful that the misdeeds
of their unworthy leaders have been re-
buked and are TO be arrested. The suf
fering whites of the south may lift up
their heads to greet the dawn of better
day for them, rs well as the nation at
large. The colored citizen may share
the general joy that he viii soon cease
10 be the stock in trade of corrupt poll
ticians, but shall enjoy his rightful liber-
ties and his equality before the law amid
universal good will.
As for the reform democracy, to whose
standard victory has been tied, with al
her garlands on, it only remains fol
them 70 welcome every ally, every
friend, close up the ranks and pres:
81, 90 L.,
banner and with the one watchword, re
form.
Fellow citizens, peace between all sec
tions; prosperity in all our homes; o
these you have been for years deprived
by the mistaken solicitudes OF patriotic
republicans, played upon by selfish anc
corrupt leaders, who have kept tanning
the dying embers of civil strife in order
TO escape inspection of the trust which
they have betrayed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. At no time have you
had the substance o; peace. In lieu
thereofyeu have had the grinding taxa
ton and wasteful expenditure of war
Just before every election every year
you have had the preaching of new
crusade against a section utterly defeated
in war. and anxious only to be completely
reconeiled in peace.
For eleven years the power o. the mel
who have seized away the control of theil
party from the hand of its statesmen anC
founders has been supreme in almost
every department of the federal govern
ment.
Discarding the hope of prolongine
their domination by benefcent publ,
measures, they have created and traf
fcked upon public calamities. The pol
icy they adopted has been worked out
Its failure has been absolute.
In place of past performances thes,
same corrupt and selfish leaders nov
profer promises already broken as thei
titles to further trust.
Having prsstrated our manifold il:
dustries by the vast aggregates and til,
worst methods OF federal taxation. the,
now again solicit your confidence as til,
instruments of retrenchment and reform
Having debauched the public service
and having just now, in the face of oper
day, assessed their army of hundred
thousand officeholders-the peoples ser
vants--paid by the peoples taxes-ir
order to create immense corruption fund.
TO Illustrate the peoples will, they now
profess to be the champions of eivi
service reform. Having imposed npor
the southern states the rapacity, fraud
and plumber of the carpet bag govern
ments, having almost ruined the pros
perity of the south, having created
terror, uncertainty, and confusion in all
the productive industries of tue south
which ftlrni-h most Of the exports OF our
whole country, keep in motion the com.
merce and manufactures o. the north
and east, and furnish market for the
agricultural products Of the west. they
ROW propo-e, by renewal Of the sane fatal
policy, to rrolong their OWN power in
the hope Of conccslng their mi deeds.
and for this purpose they do hot hesitate
to- renew the cry OF intolerance; 10 re-
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