Ottumwa weekly courier., 1876-11-01
ESTABLISHED t848---VOL. 28. NO. 20.

lifts up his down-trodden brothers
the superior man is the useful man
J and the greater the load of human
sorrow and human want you can ge
| in your arms, the easier you cal
/ climb the great hill of fame. Ap
plansc. The superior man is the MAJ
who loves his fellow-man. And le
| me say right here, the good man, tn,
superior man, the grand men ar,
, brothers the world over, no matter
! what their complexion may be cen
turics may separate them, yet they
are hand in hand and all the good
J and all the grand and all the superior
men, shoulder to shoulder, heart tc
, heart, arc fighting the great battle fol
the progress of mankind. APP
! piause. pity the man, l execratt
and hate the man who has only te
: brag that he is white. Laughter.
! Whenever l am reduced to that ne.
i. cessity, l believe shame will make me
red instead of white. I believe an.
: other thing. I'll can't hoe my row
won't steal corn from the fellow
who hoes his row. Laughter and ap
plause.l If belong to the superior
race, | will be so superior that car
make my living without stealing from
the inferior. Applause. Ibelieve al
the intellectual domain is open tt
presumption. Every man that finds 6
fact first, that is his fact; every mar
that thinks the thought first, that il
his thought. / believe that every
round in the ladder of fame, from tht
one that rests upon the ground to the
last that leans against the shining
summit, ambition, belongs to the foo
that gets on it first. Applause. Mr.
Democrat (pointing to his feeD Ipoinr
down because they are nearly all or
the first round Mr.. Democrat, if you
can't climb. stand out Of the way and
let some deserving negro pass. Ap.
plause.l / am perfectly willing that
any democrat in the world that can
shall pass me. / have never seen one
yet, except when 1 looked over my
shoulder. Laughter. Buff they can
pass | shall be delighted. Whenever
we stand in the presence of genius,
we take our hats off. Whenever we
stand in the presence of the great we
do involuntary homage, as it were, in
spite of ourselves. Any one who can
go by, is welcome, any one in the
world but until somebody does GO
by of the democratic persuasion, ]
shall not trouble myself about the
fact that may be, in some future time,
they may get by. The democrats are
afraid of being passed because they
are being passed.
l must tell You about my horse
race. | like to tell it.. 1 enjoy it a
thousand times better, probably, than
you do. Laughter 1t will illus
trate who is afraid of being passed in
the great race of life. Suppose we
were going to have horse-race here
to day, free. to all the horses in the
world, to all the blooded stock in the
world; to scrubs, to mules, even TO
donkeys. 1t is splendid day, aud
we all go out to the track; and they
tap the drum, and the horses, the
scrubs, the mules, and the dOnkeys
start off together under the wire, so
that their noses look like a row OF
marbles; the judges say go, and away
they fly; honor bright, do you believe
that the head horse, the blooded
horse, his eyes flashing fire, his dis
tended nostrils drinking in the breath
of their own swiftness, his thin neck,
his high withers, his tremulous flanks,
the. veins standing out all over his
body, as though a net of life had been
cast upon him, his mane flying like q
banner of victory-do you believe
that horse would care how many
scrubs, how many mules, how many
donkeys run on that track? Laugh
teri Honor bright. Laughter. The
old democratic chuckle-hcaded, lop-
cared, long-bodied, short-leggcd nag,
with neck like a log, tail and name
full of cocklc-burrs, jump high and
dig in deep and short-you have seen
them run; when he would feel the
breath of the coming mule on his
cocklc-bur tail, he is the fellow that
would fly the track and say: "I am
down on equality" [Laughter.l Fell
low-citizens, allow me to say that the
republican party is the blooded horse
in the race. Applause.J
No man ever was and no man ever
will be the superior of the man whom
he robs; no man ever was and no
man ever will be, the superior of the
man he steals from. had rather be
a slave than a slave-master. l had
rather be stolen from than be thief.
| had rather be the wronged than the
wrong-doer. And allow me to say
again, and to impress it forever upon
every man that hears me, you will al.
ways be the inferior Of the men you
wrong: every race is inferior to the
race it tramples upon and robs. Ap.
plause.l There never was a man tina,
could trample upon human rights and
be superior to the man upon whom
he tramples. And let me say another
thing, no government can stand upoI
the crushed rights of one single hu
man being and any compromise thai
we make with the Sonth, if we make
it at the expense of our friends, it will
carry in its own bosom the seeds Of
its own death and destruction, and
cannot stand. Applause. A gov.
ernment founded upon anything cx.
cept liberty and justice, cannot and
ought not TO stand. All the wreck:
on either side of the stream of time
all the wrecks of the great cities and
: nations that have passed away, all are
q warning that no nation founded up
on injustice can stand. From sand
shrouded Egypt; from the marble
wilderness of Athens; from every
fallen, crumbling stone of the one,
: mighty Rome, comes as it were wall
comes as it were the cry, "No natiol
founded upon injustice can perma
nently stand
: WHAT MUST BE DONE.
, We must found this nation. as i
T were. anew; we must fight our fight
we must cling to our old party unit
there is freedom of speech in ever!
; part of the United States. Loud ap
plause.l We must cling to the ole
party until can speak in every Stat,
3 of the South, as every Sontherner cal
speak in every Stfte of the North
/ Applause We must vote the CRANE
/ old republican ticket until there i
+ the same liberty in every Southcri
. State that there is in every Northern
: Eastern and Western State. w,
' must stand by the party until ever,
, Southern man will admit that tina
: country belongs TO every citizen o
i the United States as much as to tn
man that is born in that country
| Have a right to sand here to-day be
r cause I live in Illinois? No! BE
cause this State flag of Illinois wave
4 over me? No! Why? Because tn
flag of the United States waves ovel
! me! [Applausc. owe no allegi
! ancc to the State of Illinois excep
/ that which is subordinate to the allie
! glance l owe to the great, gran,
, Union--to the United States of Amer
e lea. loud applausc.l
! One more thing. do not wan
: any man that ever fought for thi
e country 10 vote the democratic ticke
5 Cries of Mo-" and applausc.l 70,
e will swap your respectability for dis
I grace. There are thousands of yo
s great, grand, splendid mcn-tha
I have fought grandly for this Union
n and now l bcseech of you, beg q
( you, don't give your responsibility t
: the enemies and hatcrs Of your com
L try. Do not do it. DO not vote wit
Al n 4.