The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21

Union, and James Buchanan said they had q
right to go out of the Union and when he
said that away over IN the 'amen" corner was
heard another little fellow whe squeaked out,
| II say so, too; his name was Samuel j.
/ Tilden. Tremendous laughter aud applause
The Democratic party then and now saws that
the Union is simply confederacy but want
this county to be nation. Think of the growth
| of ambition in little State like Rhode Island
| [Applause.] / want to live in great and
| splendid country. They talk about the de-
pressed condition of the country. Who made
| it SO? Let every one of you workingmen,
when yon have blistered your hands to pay the
debt take off the blister and under it you will
| find Democratic lie. Applause The Demo
cratic party has not proposed a thing that
would not have destroyed the Government for
sixteen years Not one. All their ideas are in
political cemetery to-day. [Applause.l
The history of the Democratic party is an
epitaph The Democrats to-day ara searching
around in the old political cemeteries of by
gone ages for standard bearers. They raked
up in Massachusetts that old cemetery reminis-
| cence, Charles Francis Adams, who had his
henchmen at Cincinnati, hoping that he might
get nomination from the Republican party
there; who was equally willing to take
the nomination at st. Louis and take
the Republican nomination in Massachu-
sets. But finally the Democratic par
ty, wishing for some evidence of re-
spectstbility, knowing that no live man would
lend his name to them for moment, CROPPED
in the old cemetery of responsibility and fshed
out Charles Francis Adams. [Applause.l The
law against violating the sacredness of the
grave ought to be enforced. laughter
I will tell you few things that the Demo-
cratic party have done within the last sixteen
years. In the first place, they were not willing
that this country should be saved unless slavery
could be saved with it. There never was
Democrat, North or Southland by Democrats
I mean the fellows that stuck to the party all
during the war the ones that stuck to the
party after it was q disgrace the ones that
stuck to the party from simple, pure cussed-
ness-there never was one who did not think
more of the institution of slavery than he did
of the Government of the United States not
one that I ever saw or read OF. And SO they
said to us for all those years: 6 If you can save
the Union with slavery, and without any help
from us, we are willing you should do it but
we do not propose that this shall be an abolition
war; So the Democratic party from the first
said: 8" An effort to preserve this Union is un-
constitutional" and they made breastwork of
the constitution for rebels to get behind and
shoot down loyal men; so that the first charge
lay at the feet of the Democratic
party, the first charge / make
in the Indictment is, that they
thought more of slavery than of liberty
and OF this Union, and in my judgment they
are in the same condition this moment. The
next thing they did was to discourage enlist
ments in the North. They did all in their power
to prevent any mans going into the army to
assist in putting down the rebellion. And that
grand reformer and statesman, Samuel j. Til
den, gave it as his opinion that the South could
sue, and that every soldier who put his foot on
sacred Southern soil would be a trespasser, and
could be sued before Justice Of the Peace.
The Democratic party met in their conventions
in every State North and denounced the war as
an abolition war and Abraham Lincoln as O.
tyrant. And let me say that of all the men on
earth that have been clothed with absolute
power Lincoln is the only man who used that
power without abusing it except on the side of
mercy [Cheees.l
What more did they do? They went into
partnership with the rebels-they did. laugh
ter. They said TO the rebels just as plainly as
though they had spoken it, "Hold On, hold
out, hold hard, fight hard, until we get the PC
litical possession of the North, and then you
can go in peace"
DEMOCRATS DURING THE WAR.
What more? A man by the name of Jacob
Thompson-a nice man, and good Democrat,
W,,o thinks that of ali the men to reform the
G 1vernment Samuel J. Tilden is tie best man
Jacob Thompson had the misfortune to be
very vigorous Demo Graf, and I will show you
what mean by that. A Democl at during the
war who had a musket-you understand,
musket-he was rebel, and during the war
rebel that old not have musket was DEM
ocrat. Laughter and applause.] [ call Mr..
Thompson vigorous Democrat, because he
had musket. Afterward he was sent by the
Confederate Government as the rebel agent to
Canada, and when he went there he took be-
tween $780, coo and $780, 900 for the purpose of
cooperating with the Northern Democracy.
He got himself acquainted with and In connec-
ton with the Democratic party in Ohio, in In
diana, and in Illinois. The vigorous Dem
ocrats, the real Democrats, in those States,
had organized themselves under the
head of Sons Of Liberty, Knights of
the Golden Circle, Order Of the Star,
and various other beautiful Names and their
object was to release rebel prisoners from
Camp Chase, Camp Douglass in Chicago, and
from one camp in indianapolis and another
camp at Rock Island Their object was to raise
a fire in the rear, as they called tin other
words, to burn down the homes of Union sol
diers while they were in the front fighting for
the honor OF their country. That was their OBJ
iect and they put themselves in connection
with Jacob Thompson. They were to have an
uprising on the 10Th Of August, 1864. 1t was
thought best to hold few public meetings for
the purpose of arousing the public mind. They
held the first meeting in the City of Peoria,
where I live. That was Aug. 3, 1864. Here
they came from every part OF the State, and
were addressed by the principal Democratic
politicians in Illinois. 10 that meeting Fer
nando Wood addressed a letter. in which he
said that although absent in body he should
be present in spirit George PeDdleton, of
Ohio George Pugh, of the same State; Sey-
mour, of Connecticut, and various other
Democratic gentlemen, sent acknowledgements
and expressions of regret to this Democratic
meeting, that met at this time for the purpose
of organizing all uprising among the Demo
cratic party. I saw that meeting and heard
some of their speeches. They denounced the
war "a an abolition niger war they de-
nounced Abraham Lincoln as tyrant3 they
carried transparencies that said, is there
money enough in tho land to pay this niger
debt? Arouse, brothers. and hurl the tyrant
Lincoln from the throne?' And the men that
promulgated that very thing are running for
the most important political offices in the
country, on the ground of honesty and reform!
And Jacob Thompson says that he furnished
the money to pay the expenses of that Demo
cratic meeting. They we're all paid by rebel geld,
by Jacob. Thompson. He has got on file the
voucher from these Democratic gentlemen in