The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-26

flag was never seen, where American
ships never sailed, that got no feess "A
formed no duties, and we're paid by eht
Government or by the people OF tlle
United States rather, for doing nothing
whatever Eoty-tWo of these sinecureE
were abolished by the Democratic vote
ia Congress, and that Is what MrI Blaine
calls tearing down the American flag
Laughter. lNiN bR kA 49,
: Another charge is that the Democratic
influence in Congress provided that ap
preparation bills might be amended by
engrafting on them clauses tending TO re-
trenchment The effect is that the
House shall have power to cut down ap'
preparations to any extent. Mr.. Blaine
into fit of indignation against this. He
says it is violation of the rules Of ths
House. { Laughter Is that any evi-
dence on the part Of this great leader oI
the Republican party OF. a tendency tor
ward retrenchment and lreformH Mr.
Blaine takes the ground distinctly that
the Republican parity 90 called, because
it successfully Conducted the civil war to
a close has thereforea right to govern the
country in all time to. come, Mr.. Blaine
takes the ground that there is now pre-
sented lolthel people this simple issue
Will it accept; will it sanction all the
acts of the Republican party, reconstruc-
ton acts, extravaganza, and all that the
whole people complain ofTwill the peo-
pie now accept and sanction all these
things? II not, let II support the Reform
party. That is the question he puts
squarely before the people, 1Are there
any Republicans, if such honor me by
being here tonight, Who can honestly
say that they will accept his side of the
issue, and sanction all that the Republi7
can party has done for the last ten years.
Citizens, I Say It isnOt now the Rerdbli
can party. There was a time when that
party, full of young life and vigor came
into being fired with the grand idea of
freeing eyeryysave all throngh this land.
The Abolition party had a living idea be.
fore it. 1t was a revolutionary party. 1t
laughed at the Constitution, it trampled
on fhe law. it set the idea of abolition
above social order, even almost above re-
ligion. But it was q grand idea, and,
fred with that idea, it strobe on reso-
lutely, reporselessly to its appointed
end. Civil war came. The abolition
party won in the civil war. Slavery was
abolished, The Southern armies yielded.
They threw down their arms, and as gen
erous enemies defeated, but not dis
graced, they said to u.s. "We have been
beaten. We have lost. Spare US we
were brothers and friends once" That
cry came up from all the South. Do l
exaggerate ? Gen. Grant, then the sol.
dier, the victor, went through the South
a few days after the war closed, and he
reported that the surrender of theSouth-
ern people was complete and sincere,
and that they were anxious to fall back
again under the protection of the Consti-
tuion, and obey ali the laws. Grant
then said that there was danger that the
colored people then enfranchised might.
be debauched by false hopes held out to-
them by the officers of the Freedmen'sl
Bureau, who were telling these poor col
ored men that they would have the dis
of their masters lands, and he
warned the Government of the danger
Of such falsehoods. He said that it was
an insult to humanity to put over the
white men of the South colored troops
He said that it would debauch the col
1red men, and be standing insultto the
whites. Every one ofthese things against
lis protest, every single one of these Of
ences has been committed, as if the in
ention of the party now in power waste
ear up society in the South by its very
'oots, and cast the fragments to the
Winds. ["That's 3d." Applause.l .oc
DEspoILING THE SOUTH. t
When the South surrendered, the
Abolition party had fulfilled its mission
ts time of dissolution had arrived. Since
hen it has been dead party. 1t has
lad no object or purpose. 1t has walked
lbout corpse with no speculation in it.
lnless the speculation that led bad men
o plnnder the defeated Southern land,
Oh citizens, what man with
heart, on looking back into the past,
will not grieve to think of the opportuni
les wasted in those evil days? How
,asy it would have been to pacify the
'outh! The cancer had been cut from
Ter. All that was wanting was to give
Ter repose and time to recuperate and
egather her wasted forces. But instead
'fthat, adventurers from the North, the
nen that had failed in every effort here,
he neer do weels of the East, of the
North and of the West, poured in upon
hat Southern land, an army as it were,
lot to govern it, but to conquer and des.
'oil it, (Applause.) / am reminded of
sentence Of great orator, speaking Of
uch things in his own land. Curran,
peaking of Ireland, subjected to just
uch torture and agony, referred to the
anne class of adYenturers. "The found
ings of fortune," he called them, "that,
Ike drowned bodies, lay at the bottom
ghile soundness and sanity remained,
i'll at length, becoming buoyant by
they rose as they ratted and
.oated down the surface of the polluted
tream,an object Of terror, contagion, and
domination" (Applause.) Aye, sir, it
Gems as If the iniquities committed in
reland in old times were the chosen
1Ou6l anu 0Xdlupl6 lOI bH0 IoSlbfdtiOll
dopted by this ministerial party toward
he Southern States, You know the
tory told ofa countryman of mine, an
immigrant who arrived at Castle Garden
uring contested eleetiun. Somebody
vent to him and said, "Pat, what do you
hink of the election2 How would you
ote, ifyou had vote?" II don't know,
ir, but Im again the Governmint any
lowp (Laughter.) Why is that feeling
ommon among IrishmenP Because the
ron entered centuries ago so deep into
he soul of Ireland, because its agony has
tamped so indelible mark upon his
leart that generation after gensration
ave continued in the same thought.
rishman have drunk rebellion with
heir mothers milk. Every promise
made by England, perhaps well intended,
8 laughed at. The crime was too great;
he suffring was too poignant, Its memo
les too full ofagony. So that the English
Government, perhaps, never will have
he confidence of the Irish people. Was
t Just, was it wise was 1t humane was it
tatesmanlike for this ministerial party
N WASHINGTON 10 have tried the same