The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-10-18

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Mount Aisy. N. j. 1876.
On last Thursday evening the Hon. j. P.
Stockton, of N. j., addressed a Tilden Re-
form - meeting at Holcombe Hall, Lambert
vile. His speech struck us as the most re-
markable one We ever heard. He commenced
by informing us that ''he knew something
That he was Minister to India under James
Buchanan, sixteen years ago, when all was
peace and purity in these great United States.
And he yet remembered well how he slew the
dignitaries, priests, and potentates of foreign
countries, on board the Blue Jay, at the cara
tain's feast, on the last day out, by a neat lit
tie speech on-America, American Industry,
Enterprise and Progress under good old Dem
ocratic rule. But OH his return home he found
the country all in confusion, the Abolitionists
had made war ON our Southern brethren had
forced them out of the Union, and were try
ing to whip them back. Just at that moment
parties filled its ranks, and after four years or
hard fighting the South was conquered, the
Union restored and the Republican party's
mission ended and it should at that time have
went out of existence. But the Bulls took
hold of the new party and instituted series
Of reconstruction, tore open the wounds of
the late Unpeasantness, and engulfed us in a
sea of distress out of which we have been I'M
able to extricate ourselves for the last eleven
long, long years (here the speaker turned a
bout face and spit i'll a manner indicating
great drought Turning his eye skyward he
whispered, look upon Belknap and Babcock,
those men were brought to the front by the
Republican party to disgrace the nation
Think of man high in position, paving up
the earth like beast of prey, stealing tomb
stones from the graves of the dead, and liter
ally bamboozling the whole army. Babcock,
though not proven guilty of being connected
with crooked whiskey,e was in daily cipher
communication with the heads of the Whis-
key Ring, which ring now rests behind the
bars put there by Bfistow, to work oat Re-
form. Sixteen years this party has been in
power land he gazed earnestly into glass Of
water which sat before HIM Has it been snc-
cess? The people Of Ohio and Indiana have
spoken in thunder-toncs, and the great sign
which Napoleon saw now hangs in the heav-
ems before us. [Applause. The people have
been heavily taxed, and have borne it patient
ly. You have twice paid the national debt,
and yet have not paid dollar. The money
has all been squandered to fit-up the ladies Of
Washington.
HThe Democratic House last Winter inst-
tuted an investigators which cost the country
but few hundred thousand dollars which
killed Blaine, as candidate for the Presiden-
Gy, and saved millions to the country. The
reports of political murders in the South are
all humbugs. l know things which do not
trust myself to speak to Christian commu-
nifty Ohio and Indiana have opened their
great Western mouths, and belched forth
tidal wave which will engu1f both North and
South, and make them solid for Tiiden. APP
plause.1
"The handwriting is now upon the wall, Me-
Ne-Me-Ne Tilden and Reform. (The rotten
egg story, Of which the Honorable claims the
fathership, was told in the best manner pos
sibe, but owing to its thread-bareness failed
to create cnthusiasm.) Elect Tilden and Re-
form ana tneY Will take tnOSe afcn-tnleVcS by
the threats-as they did the prince of thieves,
VIM. NJ. Tweed, of Now York.
We have never been a M. c., or Minister
to foreign countries, except Is time or two
when we were sent on business to Sourland
Mountain. and that is the reason why we can't
understand and realize the enormity OF Bel
knap's offense. The Republicans charged him
with selling sutlerships in the army and when
about to bring him to trial the Democratic
House hurried all the evidence off to Canada,
as they did able-bod men during the Tn
pleasantness. Now the little pettifoggers
howl like wolves that he stole millions of the
public funds, and ran away to Canada. Meth
err car we understand by what rule they fig
tlrc-up tiieit victories. They claim all tire
States which have held elections this Fall
Also that they win make a clean sweep Of all
the States, Canada, the Fee Jee Islands, and
South America, on the 18th Of November, if
Hayes don't Wheel them up Salt River.
CAPT. JACK.