Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-01


reputation Of man about whom he is not
fit to speak even in terms OF praise.
Cheers.
In myjudgment the black people have suf-
fered enough "A voice: "That's so"]
They have been slaves for 200 years. They
have been owned for 200 years; and, more
than than all, they have been compelled to
keep the company Of the man that owned
them. [Laughter.] Think Of that! Think
of being compelled to keep the society Of q
man who is stealing from you. INK of be-
ing compelled to live with man that sold
your wife. Think of being compelled TO live
with man that stole your child from the
cradle before your very eyes. Think Of being
compelled 10 live with a thief all your life,
to spend your days with white loafer, and
to be under his control The black people
have suffered enough! [Applause.l For
~ years they were owned, and bought and
sold, and branded like cattle. For 200 years
every human tie was rent and torn ssunder
by the brutal, bloody hands of avarice and
might. And for that reason | am in favor Of
this Government protecting them in every
right they have got In every Southern State,
If it takes another war to do it. [Cheers.] We
never can compromise with the South at the
expense of our friends. Applause Neverl
never! We never can be friends with the
men that starved and shot our brothers A
with the men that waged the most cruel war
In the history of the word, not for liberty,
but fl the right to deprive other men Of
liberty. Applause Until they treat The
black maG Justly, until they treat the white
Union man re pectfully, until Republican, m
ceases to be crime, until to vote the Repub-
lean II ket ceases to make you political
and social outcast, we want no friends with
theenemies of this country. Applause, and
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All my friends, the Democratic party--if
you may call it party--brings forward as
its candidate Samuel j. Tilden, of New
York. am opposed to him. | am opposed
to him, trst, because he is an old bachelor.
Laughter. In country Ike ours, depend
ing for its prosperity and glory upon the in
crease Of the population, to elect an old
bachelor is suicidal policy lCbeers and
laughter.l Any man that will live in this
country for sixty years, surrounded by
beautiful women with rosy cheeks and
dimplcd chins--in every dimple lurking a
Cupd-wth coral lips and pcarly teeth and
sparkling eyes; any man that will push
that all aside, to be satisfied with the en-
braces of the Democratic parts, don't even
know the value of time. aughter and
applause. | am opposed to Samuel j. Til
den ecause he is Democrat; because he
belongs 10 the Democratic party of the city
in any civilized country. | wish YOU could
see ii. Laughter The pugilists, the
prize-iigh ers, the plug uglies, the fellows
that run with The machine. lGreat laugh
ter. Nearly every nose Is mashed. About
halt OF the ears have been shot of, and Of
whatever complexion they are, their eyes are
always black. lLaughtcr.l They have
faces like tea-kettle, aud heads like bullets.
wish you could sec them. | have been in
F,.
and whenever 20 there | see the old banner
of Tammany Hall, Tammany Hall aud Re-
form, John Morrssey and Reform, Connolly
and Reform, John Kelly and Reform, Will
lam NJ. Tweed and Reform llaughierl, and
the other day ] saw the same old tlag-Sam-
uel j. Tlden and Reform. Laughter] No
man ought to be President of this
Nation who denies that it is Ma
ton. Samuel j. TilGen denounced the
war as an outrage. No man ever
should be President Of this country that de-
nounccd war waged in its defense as an
OUTRAGE. To elect such man would be an
outrage indeed. Samuel j Tilden said the
old flag carried by our fathers over the fields
o. the revolutions; the old flag carried by our
fathers over the fields Of 1872; the glorious
old flag carried by our brothers over the
plains of Mexico; the same banner carried
by our brothers over the cruel fields of the
South--Samucl +. Tilden said that flag stands
for a contract, that 1t stands for a confeder'
alton, that that hag stands Tor bargain.
But the great, splendid Republican party
says No: that flag stands for great, hop
ing, aspiring, sublime Nation, not for Con.
fcderacy.' Applause. / am opposed,
say, 20 the election of Samuel ]. Tilden, for
another reason. If he is elected he will be
controlled by his party, and hi. party will
be controlled by the Southern stockholders
in that party. They own nineteen twenti-
eth, OF the stock, and they will dictate the
policy Of the Democratic corporation. No
Northern Democrat has that manhood to
stand up before Southern Democrat. Ev-
cry Northern Democ. at, nearly, has face
Of dough, and the Southern Democrat will
swap his ears, change his nose, cut his
month the other way of the leather, so that
| hisown mother wouldn't know him in If
| tCcb minutes. Great laughter II Samuel
| J. lilden is elected Presid mt OF the United
/ Stdcs, he will be controlled by the Demo
/ cr1ic party and the Democratic rarity will I've
/ controlled 10y the southern Democracy, that
/ is y say, the late rebels that is to say. the
/ mdl that tried TO destroy the GOV rumeut;
| thtt is TO say, the men who are sorry they
! didn't destroy the Government; that is to
say, the euemi Of every friend Of this
t Uuon; that Is to say, the murderers and the
aSsssins of Union men living In the South
/ erf country. IApplause.l
aud, on the Other hand the Republican
/ patty have put forward Rutherford b HAYES
| APPLAUSE. He is an honest man. The
| Democrats will say, THAT is nothing
Win let them try it. Applause aud laugh
tel K therfnrd +. HAYES has a good charac
tel a good character is not built upon
/ prospectus, hut upon good record. A goot
character is made up not Of what YOU agree
! TODD, but of the good things YOU really hav,
/ done, Ii yoa could make good character
or promises the Democratic party would
haze one tomorrow. Laughter. But
| god character rests upon good action, upon
! something already accomplished. Ruther.
fvd + Hayes, when this " commenced
dill not say with Tilden, 1T is an outrage.
II did not say with Tildcn, % never vii
| Contribute to the prosecution Of this war
Bat he did say this :" would so into thi.
VIZ if knew | would be killed in tSe cours,
oft, rather than to live through it and TAX,
NJ part in it." Cheers.
Vow, my friends, there IS enc thing that