The New York herald., 1876-09-12

debt can be delayed SO long thai IT will amount 10
| actual iulument There other people who think
| that you pay debt with a piece of paper,
| 10 be renewed with another piece when u
out Recollect. said The speaker that the gov
erDment OF the United States is perpetual paupcr
II passes the hat for aims all the time, and II hoos
musket behind the hat to make people throw IN the
cash. II produces nothing IL IL aperpetual consumer,
and consequently the government cannot support the
people but the latter have TO support the government
The idea that government should issue money Tor the
people to live the same as though you should
my hired issue certificates OF my Indebtedness
TO HIM for me- 10 live on. (Laughtcrl The Un,ted
| States '.got broke" and had any money. have
besa that fix hundred times myself; and tho gov
ernmcnt had 10 do just as did, and had 10 give its
notes just as did. only It's notes legal tender
| while minc were not NOW tho debt represents tho
loss inflicted upon by the war; and wo have got to
| pay IL We will never be "A solvent people until our
profits a nation since tho war amounts to as
much our losses during the war There is IN
talking upon any subject 10 man who cannot under
| stand that" Upon the question Of currency the
speaker SAID that gold was the best medium OF mark
ing values yet discovered He had gold piece OF
the age OF Caesar IL had stamped upon il the sove-
| regnty" OF the Emperor, just as the greenback
| people talk OF stamping tho sovereignty" OF The
| State When no the coin the power OF Cesar
had been almost forgotten but tho piece OF gold has
abou. the value still II the Romans had stamped
the Sovereignty OF Cesar upon paper and II had been
preserved II would DO worthless The debt gong
to be paid. Tho democrats should be made to pay IL
for they lost tho OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES all tho repub-
lcans asked OF them was that they should pay
share For its payment there was mortgage upon
continent Of land and another upon the honor OF the
republican party
At this point a messenger entered with n toegraphic
dcspa,ch which Mr. Ingcrsol stopped in his address
to read II was as ioows:-
We have triumphed by immense majority, carrying
something We have not achieved since 1868.
The telegram received with loud applause, which
increased when the namo OF James q Blaine was
Pven its author, and three cheers given for
him. Resuming bis speech Mr. lngersoll proceeded to
ridiculc ian finance written by gentleman
named Tden and called by some people letter OF ac-
as s M@uS o1 nS wS the
| loss OF his brother, but would consider him
exclusively as politician. Tho essay referred TO
stated that the great obstacle 10 paying the national
| debt was having time fixed upon which to pay 1t.
The speaker had never taken note which did not con-
| tain some auson to time when It was to be paid,
and he considered it very necessary point Mr.. Til
den had said that tho approach the payment OF the
debt must be made by a very slow and gradual pro-
not DO made gradual enough. applause. Tho speaker
proceeded TO laugh at many passages quoted from
the letter OF acceptance, AMI ended by asking the
publican party thought that specie payment could be
resumed on the lst of January, 1879, how did the
Democratic Convention know It could notS ZAP
| plause)
| PROTECTION CITIZENS
| The next question discussed tho protection of
citizens We had to pay the debt or We had no honor
aud had to protect citizens have honor
which could not protect its citizens at
| home and abroad ought to he swept away The flag
that would not protect It's protectors dirty
(Appause Tho flag that would not protect tc citizens
contaminated the air which 1t waved Tho govern
! ment must to 1t that every citizen In
.he United States must havo his rights ''pcaceably
wc can forcibly II we must" The speaker accused
the South OF harborng principles contrary 10 these.
| Some In tho South who had laid down their
were honest loyal ctizcns but as general thing the
population OF the South were turbulent and tho best
| men there could not control the mass prevent
them from bounding and shooting negroes ''It is a
shame" he said, that in the United States
has the right to and his for the Of
his choice without being intortered WITH Describing
length the massacre OF negroes ut the
South, the speaker declared that the dom
ocratic press oi tho North laughed at tho
outrages, ind, no added, 'if Tden is elected Pres
dent Of the United STATES it will DO by assassination
| and murder" The payment OF the debt was impor-
tant but the protection Of citizens is still more impor-
tant The democratic party had nominated for the
| Office OF Chief Magistrate Samuel j. Tlden. ut is
enough said the speaker. ITO say OF him that ho
democrat, member Of tho democratic party OF the
State OF New York. and that party hear OF It at
the West ncvor had but two obiects-grand and petit
n ho ams %
| pentcntiary that q school house bears to a
church. tApplause.l As ! understand, when tho
but has stoen stocn until now 1t owes $3.50 O00 0O0
understand that every election held hers is fraud
that every contract they made was larceny in dis
guise They had their hands IN tho treasury contin-
uaily-and oh Lord what handsi-to grasp and clutch
pay interest upon, and then cappng their hands
their bursting pockots yolled Tor honesty. Laugh
teri ! understand that Tiden was pupil in that
the war commenced ho said he never would aid
the prosecution Of that outrage understand that
hc said In ls6061 that fathers left revolution or
one VI them demanded Il thcy would iANriagp tho
Uuion and that they would repci cocrcion as 6dton
undcrytand that he that. and thai 10 enough
| for me- understand that during the sntise war he
was opposed to is prcsecution that he wasSopposed
TO the Declaration OF Emancipation and that ho de-
mAndcd that stirring document to be taken back
understand that he repeated when war over that tho
auction block and the slave driver had departed aud
that school teachers aud missionaries had taken their
places" Continuing 10 that strain for few minutes
longer tho speaker dismissed the subject with tho
exclamation, THAT'S enough for mo to say about him.
You needn't waste your time talking about him ;"
Hayes and Wheeler wero then cuogized as honest and
patriotic meu President Grant s wa. S ,s evidently no
hearing republicans abuse the President but hc hated
TO hear democrats doing IT, ~ want you to remem-
Union with very few exceptions is a republican.
Taxe the few ont and there Is no responsibility left IN
the democratic party. With that exception the demo-
cratic purity made up OF the worst elements In human
society Tho ward 10 the city Of New York,
| whcro there is most ignorance, most vico and most
CRIME, Will give the largest democratic ma lorsy There
and Hendricks cannot carry-ayc, two to one In that
party you will nd the vcious the violcn., tho rioous.
! tho murderous, tho mobocratA All the men that
sympathized with the South in It's efforts to destroy
this government with tho democratic party" If
you want republicans, he continued, build free schools
n you want democrats tear them down. Republicans
| are wheat democrats Canada thistle voice in
| the audience asking. ''What about Tree sch0olsy
the speaker said, al am In favor OF shem. but
| want them entirely divorced from sectarianism.
! loud appause.) want the school house TO
bc purely a. temple Of science. IN
which children shall DO simply taught the laws OF na
tsrs. and do want the school house touched or
that pure science Of nature touched BY any superst
tIon whatever (Applause.l Leave religion with the
mors than all, I say, leave religion with each
Individual soul (Appause Let every man be
hts own ,,Iss,S preacher; l., lot every man m. do
brain Of HIS own let every have heart and
conscience Of hts own then do not cars what church
you belong Do your own thiukinG
At close OF The address OF the evening Mr. Elliott
=. Shepard made brief address asd offered series OF
resolutions, which the audience too bosterous to
adopt -.