The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-26


loyal citizens and the very next moment after
the question had gone forth with patriotic
gIsh of enthusiasm, the first thought of every
| thoughtful man in the country was, How does
the city of New York stand2 New York was
the financial CENTER and still Is, of the CONT
nent Its press was more widely disseminated ;
as u radiating center of influence it far trans
cended any other one or five cities in the coun-
try More than that, New York was the point
from which public opinion was formed of the
/ affairs of the Union. Those of you who have
Travelled in Europe know that you never saw
/ any other paper than New York paper there,
and European public opinion is formed as
/ much upon New York as we derive
our opinion of England from London,
or of France from Paris, or of Germany from
Berlis And, therefore, it became of the last
1 importance that New York, in this supreme
crisis, should speak with no uncertain voice.
| That great meeting of 1861 has become his
toric and will remain so, as the most important
meeting ever held on this continent, except
that indeed, held 100 years ago in Philadelphia
to ratify the Declaration OF independence.
[Great applause.1 That meeting as | under
Standard the array of testimony seems un-
denia ole-Mr. Tilden refused to give the weight
even of his name to; and am of the opinion
that Tlden is busy now getting certificates that
he attended the meeting. l understand that
Mr.. Manton Marble and Mr.. John Bigelow are
out with certificates that he attended it. I
not tell what mans motive may be IN attend
ing 81 meeting. / have known men to attend
meeting for the express purpose OF breaking it
up All of you church goers in looking over
the societies you worship with can point out
bald-headed sinners over whose pstes the proof
has been dancing forty years without effect.
[Laughter.] don't know but what some tough
Tsmmany Democrat may be in this crowd now;
but that will never be accounted to him for
righteousness [laughterl nor will it be any
consolation to him on his death-bed if after
all he blindly persists in voting for Tilden and
Hendricks in November. Attending meeting
is the very least possible merit you can possibly
claim for man.
RESULTS OF DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Men associate for virtue and confederate for
villainy. Now, gentlemen have not been in
dulging in what is popularity known as sshak- |
dwell upon the Democratic party as it now is,
presenting as nearly as l am able, the spirit |
shown by them, the purposes intended by |
them the measures inflated by them in their
present power in the House of Representa-
tives. And I have desired, on that presenta- !
tion to ask you as thoughtful men and re-
sponsible voters, this question: If, with the
small modicum of power with which they have
been infrusted in the House of Represen tatlves,
and intrusted al time when they had every |
temptation and every powerful impulse to be |
prudent and wary and cautious-if, say, with |
dence, they have acted as l have shown you |
they have acted, what is the use of specializing |
as to what they will do with the President |
Democratic President, and the Senate Demo-
cratic Senate? If 1t be thus in the greer tree,
what in Gods name will it be in full maturity? |
But as to 1.-THE bloody shirt this shaking of
the bloody shirt" as has been well said-that |
is not the crime the crime is the reason why
we shake 1.-THE bloody Shirt" and it will be
shaken just as long as crime prevails.
Now they tell you that they had peaceful
election in Mississippi last year, and that they
recovered that State from the Republicans
Mississippi, upon any registry of voting, is Re-
publican by an overwhelming majority. 1t is
nearly as strongly Republican as Vermont. But
they last year carrie III for Democratic Gov
ernor, and they seizs1 the Legislature. They
have all the power, an3 they tell you very def
antly, and with q great flourish of pride in their
manner, that it was peaceful election. Well,
I wish TO put it on record here, and to be held
responsible for what say, that on what they
call q peaceful election there were more men
murdered-in the campaign leading to that
election and connected with that Democratic
triumph in Mississippi there were more men
murdered than were ever murdered or who
ever lost their lives at all the elections-munic-
ipal, State and nationaEthat have ever been
held in all the free States from Maine to Cali
fornia in all the time of the Federal Govern
ment from George Washington down to Grant.
scrimmages and disturbances in times Of high
excitement and you are always liable to have
them. especially in large Cities where
there are many bad elements-and put
them sill together at all the elections in
all the free States from the foundation of the
Federal Government to this hour, and they
will not aggregate one-half, nay, not one
quarter of the men that lost their lives in a
"peaceful election last year. want to put
on record another fact, too; that since the
surrender of Gen. Leland state this from
official papers; / am not making loose, ram
bling statement but am taking it from evil
dence that would be taken as evidence in any
court of lava little stricter evidence than
that on which they propose to assall the treas
ury of the United States testimony that could
be cumulated hundred-fold if the mon who
could give it dared to speak out-since the war
closed in 1865 there have been more men muir
dered in the South for political opinion-that
is, murdered for being Republicans-th fell
on the Union side in the three bloodlest bat
ties of the war. make that statement, gem
tlemen And yet nothing is moro common
than to sneer at ''the bloody shirt, and man
who pretends to discuss the validity and the
integrity of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments, and who insists that
they form the groundwork OF this contest In
which we are engaged Is rather laughed
down in Democratic audiences and in
Democratic newspapers. They say that Is
Qu0SLlOQ WHICH we are 1OICADS upOH Du0 p0O-
pie, and which does not belong to this cam
paign that the South wants peace, and that
people who talk about outrages upon poor
negroes are ''shaking the bloody shirt. and
are trying to get up all excitement to hide some
other issue which they wish to avoid. All I
have to say about that is this That the Gov
eminent of the United States, if it intends to
be honest, is bound either to repeal and annul
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments or
to enforce them. [Applause.l For there is
one thing you cannot stand, and that is to al
low these amendments to remain in your con-
stitution, and quietly permit them to be tram
pied under foot and made of no effect. Zap
plause.] That is just what you cannot do.
Let me tell you, gentlemen, that can never be
endured in this country; and the man who
thinks he can do it with safety in New York
has either never read history, or has read it in
vain. The man who thinks that any constitu-
tional franchise which he enjoys in the city of
Nav York Ia safe whila the constitutional