Ottumwa weekly courier., 1876-11-01
. N. HEDRICK & CO., PROPRIETORs.

cause he hates something every maj
that is republican is republican
because hc* loves something. Zap
plause.l And IL is not whisky, either
/ Laughter. s..
The other day I was going along
the road, and came to a place where
it had been changed, and the guide
board did not know it. 1t had stood
there for twenty years pointing in
dustriously, pointing diligently ovel
to deserted field nobody ever wen
that way, but the guide-board thought
the next man would. Thousandi
passed, and Notwithstanding the fac,
that no one went in the direction ol
the guide-board, through calm and
shine and storm it pointed diligently
into the old field, and swore to 1t thai
the road. went that way; and ] said
to myself, such is the democratic par
ty of the United States. Laughter.
1 saw little while ago place on the
road where there had been hotel
The hotel had gone down over thirty
years ago, and there was nothing left
standing but two desolate chimneys
up the fiues of which the fires of hos.
pitality had not roared for thirty years
The fence was gone, and even the
post-holes were obliterated, but there
was sign in the road, and on the
sign were the words: Entertainment
for man and beast" The old sign
swung and creaked in the winter
wind, and the snow fell upon it, and
the sleet clung to it, and in the sum.
mer the birds sung and twittered and
made love upon it nobody ever stop.
ped there, but the sign swore to it
the sign certified to it: entertain.
ment for man and beast" And
said to myself, "Such is the demo-
cratic party Of the United States, and
one chimney ought to be called Til
den. and the other chimney ought to
be called Hendricks. Laughter. /
saw also by q stream building that
had once been mill; all the clap
boards nearly were gone, and the
roof leaked like the average demo-
cratic wool-hat with the top burst
out; though there was q sign hang
ing by one nail: "Cash for wheat"
Not q kernel had been ground there
for thirty years; the old mill-wheel
had fallen off its gudgeons into the
street, and it was as dry as though it
had been in the final home of the
democratic party for forty years.
Laughter and applause.] The dam
was gone; nobody had built q new
dam the mill was not worth o dam
Laughter And / said to myself
;That Is exactly the condition Of the
democratic party to-day
THE estate RIGHTS" DOCTRINE.
The democratic party, say, is In
capable of advancement; the only
stock that they have in trade is the
old infamous doctrine of democratic
States Rights. There never was a
more infamous doctrine advanced on
this earth than the democratic idea of
State Rights. What is it? It has its
foundation in the idea that this is not
a nation; it has its foundation i'm the
idea that this is simply confedcracy,
that this great government is simply
a bargain, that this great, splendid
people have simply made a bargain,
and that the people of any one Of
the States arc sovereign to the extent
that they have the right to tramplc
upon the rights Of their fellow-citl-
zens, and that the General Govern
ment cannot interfere. The great
democratic heart is fired to-day, the
democratic bosom Is blOated with in
dignation because of an order by
General Grant sending troops into
the Southern States to defend the
rights of American citizens! Who
objects to soldier going2 Nobody
except the man who wants to carry
an election by fraud, by violence, by
intimidation, by assassination and by
murder. The democratic party is to-
day willing that Tilden and Hem
dricks should be elected by violence !;
they are willing to-day to go into
partnership with assassination and
murder; they are willing to-day that
every man in the Southern States
who is friend to this Union, and
who fought for our fiag-that the
rights of every one of these men
should be trampled in the dust, pro-
vided Tilden and Hendricks be elected
President and Vice President of this
country. They tell us that a State
line is sacred; that you never can
cross it unless you want to do mean
thing; that if you want to catch a
fugitive slave you have q right to
cross it; but if you wish to cross it to
defend the rights of men, then it is a
sacred line, and you cannot cross it.
Such is the infamous doctrine of the
democratic rarty. Who, 1 say, will
be injured by sending troops into the
Southern States No one in the world
except the man who wants to prevent
an honest man from casting legal
vote for the Government of his choice.
For my part, think more of the col
ored Union men of the South than /
do of the white disunion men of the
South. [ Applause. For my part /
think more of black friend than
do of white enemy. Applause. |
For my part think more of black
man outside, and white in, than I do
of a man who is white outside and
black inside. [Applause.] For my
part I think more of black justice, OF
black charity, and of black patriotism
than / do of white cruelty, than do
of white treachery and treason. Zap
plause.l As matter of fact, all that
is done in the South to-day of use, il
done by the colored man. The color.
ed man raises everything there il
raised in the South, except hell.
Laughter and cheers.] And I say
here tonight that / think one hun
dred times more of the good, honest
black industrious man of the South
than I do of all the white men to-
gcther that do not love the Govern
ment-[applause] land l think more
of the black man in the South than |
do of the white man in the North
that sympathizes with the white
wretch that wishes to trample upon
the rights of the black man. Ap.
plause.] l believe that this is a gov.
ernment, first, not only of power, but
that it is the right of this gov
mcnt to march all the soldiers Of the
United States into any sovereign
State of this Union to defend the
rights of every American citizen in
that State. [Applausc. Voice-"That's
so !" "That's the doctrine. tit takes
the last man and the last dollar, / ar
in favor of killing enough democrats
to protect the rights Of the Unior
men. ["Good," Good" checrs.] A
government that does not protect it.
protectors; o government that does
not stand by its friends; q govern.
mcnt that won't defend its defenders
is O disgrace to the nations of thu
earth, and the flag that will not pro.
tect them in their own country is {
dirty rag that cOntaminates the air In
which it floats. 1t is conceded b,
all-bOth democrats and republican,
that in time of war this government
can come to your house, come to yo,
when You are sitting with your fami
ly at your fircside, sitting there will
your children, everything happy ant
delightfnl-this government has
right to take you and march yol
down into. the valley of the shadow
of hell, and standing you by the re.
roaring guns make you fight for tn
u flag Of your country.
1 Now, suppose the government doe
it, and you go. and fight and you
government is victorious and you g,
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