Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-10-02


name of Heaven, were the Republican par
ty thousand times worse,w we would uphold
it now."
Gentlemen, God knows have nothing
against the South. God knows. no man
ever pitied people more than l pity the
Southern people to-day; because they are
down, and that man must indeed be poor,
wretched, degraded being who will not pity
a man when he is down; Applause. but
say tonight, if the South ever regains con-
troll of the government as solid South, God
pity the North.i
AT THE LAST SESSION
of Congress, Mr.. Riddle of Tennessee, a
Democratic member of congress, introduced
resolution demanding that the United
States government should pay for the
losses sustained by the Southern States at
the hands of the Union soldiers. Do you
think the men, in the North, after having
read that resolution will ever vote the
Southern States back into control of this
nation again Never, gentlemen The
only way the Democratic party can ever go
back into power will be, with divided
South
What else did that Democratic Congress
do? Two things; they talked about reform
and investigated Mr.. Blaine of Maine, for
which the State of Maine sent him to the
Senate. They cut down the navy appro-
the United States navy to-day can scarcely
live They did something else. They in
vestigated. [Leughter. Did they find
that the government had stolen any
thing ? 1t is matter of fact that the ex-
penses of running this government are
now only $1.68 per capita, while under
James Buchanans administration they We're
81 So per capita. Come to any locality
where the Democratic party has been in the
ruption as where the Republicans have
been in the majority. Gigantic frauds may
have been perpetrated / know-the men
who perpetrated them have been prosecu-
ted regardless of party; and, now, the Re-
publican party, after sixteen years of
power, comes before the nation asking the
votes of the people and receiving their sup
port; as she did in Maine and Vermont as
she will do in Ohio-as she will do in Della.
ware on Tuesday next [Great applause.l
Now, gentlemen, come to another point.
These are haid times, panic is in our
| midst, and panic is always had thing to
deal with because it ia q question of bread
and butter ! 1t ia a stern reality that looks
every man right in the face; but is there
any man who reflects upon this matter at
all, who can, in this heart, sincerely attribute
this panic to any party
WAS THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY
responsible for the panic of 1857? Is it
| responsible for any one ,of the panics that
We have passed through nearly every twen-
| ty years Gentlemen, parties have nothing
to do with panics. Panics have come, and
| panics will come, but you cannot charge
parties with causing them. / think this
panic is easily accounted for; we have had a
| a war which not only cost treas
ures of blood, but millions of
money and, like all wars in the history
| of the world, left its tale of sorrow and of
misery behind it. 1t was a war which de-
pleted one section of this country, so that
| scarcely one stone was left upon another.
| After that was closed, you found yourselves,
with section of country comprising fifteen
states that were almost penniless-e
railroad destroyed - and every article OF
| commerce gone = your people unshod
| and unclothed. Just as soon as the South
ern States had raised a crop of cotton, to-
bacco, or rice, this man wanted a carriage,
that one wanted farm implements-th
company wanted railroad you found cot
ton worth $3.50 per bale-the result that in
day.. all through the yeaY, the cry was
work-work- work-doing what ? Supply
ing the South. This could not last forever,
finally cotton fell from $450 to $40 or $50 q
bale. Cotton down-everything down. A
panic comes-every branch of industry that
| supplied Gne naGlOn WlGl WehlDu cub OH hnO
you who work at the forge, the loom, OF
anvil, left without work. Did the Republi-
can party cause this ?
The nation lives in her power-in the
power and pride of her strength-in the
spirit of improvement-in free thought, in
all those things which make a nation grand
and free. She lives in the march Of i'm
provement,
With smoking axle hot with speed,
With steeds of fire and steam,
Vide walked to-day leaves yesterday
Behind it like dream"
Now, gentleman, the opposition tall
about the taxes. Do the Democracy evel
tell you anything about United States
taxes Is there man in this house to
night who feels the tax the Government
imposes upon him-direotly / mean-yor
may feel them indirectly; you do that if yol
, buy box of matches; but the tax that fall
on the poor man to-day, is that collected b.
the city and county tax, collectors. 1 sa
to-day, place your finger upon one penn!
you pay as direct tax to the National Gov
l ernmenU.
Mr.. Bird dwelt for some time upon ques
, tions of taxation and finance and spoke il
, eulogistic terms of the State and nations
, candidates of the Republican party.
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