The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-11-02

the next page '.Slavery has been extirpatod
from the American SOIL" [Applause.l On the
next page: 1.-The freedmen shall not be va
grants they shall be citizens" On the next
page: 'sThey are citizens" lApplause.l On
{ the next page: 'tThe ballot shall be put in
] their hands ]" and now we will write on the
/ next page: ssTbat every citizen that has a
ballot i'll his hand by the gods shall have a
right to cast that ballot" loud applause
That. in short, that IN brief, is the history OF
! the Republican party. The Republican party
] saws aud it means what it says, this shall be a
| free country forever every man IN 1t II years
of age shall have the right to vote for the Gov
deavors to interfere WITH that right, the Gov
eminent of the United States will see to it that
the right of every American citizen is protected
at the polls. Applause.
! Now, my friends, there is enc thing that
troubles the average Democrat, and that is
/ the idea that somehow, in some way, the negro
will get to be the better man. 1t is the trouble
| in the South day. And / say to nay South
| ern friends and admit there are good many
!! good men in the South. but the bad men are
in an overwhelming majority the great mass
of the population is vicious violent, vlrulent
and malignant the great mass OF the popula-
ton are cruel, reyengeful, idle, hateful, and
tell that population IF you don't go towork,
the negro, by his patient industry will pass
YOU" In the long run the nation that is hon.
est, the people who are industrious. will pass
the people who are dishonest and the people
! that are idle, no matter how grand an ancestry
they NAV have had, and 80 say, hIr. Northern
Democrat, look out! [Laughter.] The SUI
perior man Is the man that loves his fellow
man: the superior man is the man that
loves his fellow-inan; the superior man
is the useful man; the superior man
is the kind man, the man who lifts up his
down-trodden brothers; and the greater the
-
can geG III your arms. the easier you can climb
the great hill Of fame. Applause.] The su-
perior man is the man who loves his fellow
man. And let me say right here, the good
men. the superior men, the grand men are
brothers the world over, no matter what their
complexion may be; continents may divide
them, yet they are hand in hand and all the
good and all the grand and all the superior
men, shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, are
fighting the great battle for the progress of
mankind. .[Applausel
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 srpe-
rior of the man he steals from. had rather
be slave than a slave-master. 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 1t Tor
ever upon every man that hears me, you will
| always be the inferior of the men you wrong ;,
tramples upon and robs. [Ap3lause.] There
never was man that could trample upon hui
man rights and be superior to the man upon
whom he tramples. And let me say another
thing, no Government can stand founded upon
the crushed rights OF simply one human being;
and any compromise that we make with the
South if we make it at the expense Of our
friends, will carry in it's own bosom the seeds
OF its own death and destruction, and cannot
stand. Applause A Government founded
upon anything except liberty and justice can
not and ought not to stand. al the wrecks on
either side of the stream or time, all
the wrecks Of the great cities and of
the nations that have passed away, all
are a warming that no nation founded
upon injustice can stand From sand-shrOud-
ed Egypt; from the marble wilderness OF
Athens from every fallen, crumbllng stone OF
the once mighty Rome, comes as it were wall,
comes as it we're the cry. s. No nation founded
upon injustice can permanently stand" We
must found this nation, as it were anew +; we
must fight our fight; we must cling to our old
party until there is freedom of speech in every
part of the United States. Loud applause.]
We must cling to the old party until can
speak in every State of the South, and every
Southerner can speak in every State Of the
North. [Applause. and cries Of 6 Good good j
We must vote the grand old Republican
| ticket until there is the same liberty in every
Southern State that there is in every Northern,
Eastern, and Western State. We must stand
| by the party until every Southern man viii
admit that that country belongs to every citizen
| of the Uni ed States as much as to the man
| that is born in that country. have right to
stand here to-day because live in Illinois
No. Why Because the flag Of the United
States waves over me [Applause.] owe no
allegiance t0 the State of Illinois except that
which is subordinate to the allegiance owe to
| the great, grand Union-to the United States
of America TIoud aDplause1 ..s.