New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-24

only. INIT a Democrat. RecOllect that and
| saw to yourselves. why should We ever
trnst man and elect him President Of the
United States who prefers tho embraces o.
. the country p Now, in view of this fact,
want every man to swear that he never will
| vote for an old bachelor for Preside n.
: again. The Democrats claimed that this
D | was not a nation, it was Simply q confed
: eracy, and that the old banner Of the stars
. represented contract commencing Win
"Know all men by these presents that this
, sublime people, but it simply represents q
confederacy." That was the doctrine Of
the Democratic party South. Ii was
the doctrine OF the Democratic party
; North. 1t ia still the doctrine OF the
} Democratic party North and South. The
Democratic party in the south COLLECTED
themselves together for the purpose OF
, breaking up this Union. The Republican
, party said to them, You try and break up
} this Union and we will break your necke, y
| and they did it, The Republican party came
into power upon the heels OF the Buchanan
} administration. The treasury was as empty
of coin as the Democratic party was OF pa
} money CT whom We could. We had to issue
bonds and greenbacks. What for! Why,
to buy shot and smell and musket and can
| non to save the Union. There was division
then forced upon the people of the country,
not into Democrats and Republicans, but
into patriots and traitors; and thousands
and thousands went out of the Democratic
party to aid the government to put down
the rebellion. But every one who thus
went into the service of the country
were known as Republicans, and those who
were against the government were known
as Democrats. These Democrats went into
the markets of the world, and they ma
ligned and they slandered these forts to
raise money to sustain the government IN
it's time of trial. They said, Your bonds
can never be paid, and your greenbacks are
| unconstitutional, and to such an extent did
they so SANDER and malign and calumnate
| the government that at one time gold was
200, which meant that greenback was
worth thirty-four cents on the dollar.
Where were the other sixty.six centsl They
were slandered and illuminated out by the
| Democratic party of the North. Two
thirds of the causes which have brought
about the prostratiOu OF American industry
to-day are to be traced to the Democratic
| party of the North, and every time you
| working men blister your hands to pay
| debt take off the blister, and under ie you
will find Democratic lie. The Republican
| party has done nothing for sixteen years
chat it has not been proud Of The Demo
cratic party has done nothing for sixteen
years that it is not ashamed OF. The Re-
publican party has not done one thing
that was not for the public interests of
the government for sixteen years. The his
tory of the Democratic party is an epitapb.
The Democratic party is searching around
in the old political cemetery of the bygone
ages for standard bearer. They have
raised up in Massachusetts that old GENE
terry "reminiscences, Charles Francis Adams,
who had his henchmen at Cincinnati, hopiog |
that he would get the nomination from the |
rfv nd In
willing to take it at st. Louis, and who was |
alec willing to be the nominee Of the Repub- |
lican party in Massachusetts, but finally |
the Democratic party, wishing for some |
evidence of responsibility, ana knowing |
that no live man would lend his name to |
cemetery for respectability, and have fshed |
out Mr.. Adams. The law against violating |
the eacredness of the tomb ought to be en-
forced. The Democrats party was not |
willing that this country should be saved
unless slavery could be saved with it.
There was never Democrat, North or
Southland by that mean those who were
opposed to the Union-who did not think
more of the existence of slavery than of the
government of the United States. They
made a breastwork of the constitution for |
rebels to get behind and shoot down loyal
men. The next thing they did was to dis
courage enlistments in the North. They
did all IN their power to prevent men from
going into the army, and that great states
man, Samuel J. Tilden, gave it as his opin.
ion that the South could sue and that every
soldier that put bis foot on the sacred soil
of the Sou h would be q trespasser and
could be sued before justice of the peace
They denounced the war as an abolition
war in their conventions, and they de-
nounced Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant. Of
all the men on earth who have been clothed
with nearly absolute power, Abraham Lin
coin was one, and | know of no man living |
or in history who used that power without
abusing it, except on the side of mercy.
They said to the rebels, Hold on, hold
hard; tight on until we get political posses I
sion OF the North, and then you can 90 in |
peace
Now, my friends, have said few things !
to you about the Republican party, and q {
few things about the Democratic party.
With few more words l will quit this
branch of the subject. Allow me to say !
hat the platform of the Republican party i
8 as broad az this continent. In other '
words, it is as broad as humanity itself. 1t i
SKIS al to come and help and to join who .
ire in favor of human advancement 1t is I
road enough for Catholics, for Old School 9
'resoy terians. for Methodists, and for inf I
ltia, provided they are in favor of the
ternal equality of human rights, and the g
republican party in its magnanimity goes
ven further; it is willing that the Demo
rat should vote its ticket Beyond that q
AS gnanimity can not 60.
The Republicans believe in giving to s.
very man the result OF the labor OF his y
ands, will allow every man to do his own $;
7hatever they may be. In the Republican ~ ..
ray there is room for every one. Now, then, 4
~ friends, the first question which is upon :,
$ is about paying that debt which we con- =,
racted for powder with which to shoot :,
lese Dem ocrats, and the next is about pro- :, :.
9ctiog the citizens OF this country, both y
hite and black. We owe large debt, y
ctio1 and measures of the Democratic &c
arty. RecOlect that always. There are pl
,me people who have an idea that we can ID
efer the fulillment of a promise SO long 81
lat it will amount to q fulfllment. There Ia
re- some people who have an idea that the 10
Dvernment can make money by stamping IN
8 sovereignty ON ece of paper. The M
.rpetnal pauper. 1t passes the hat I ht
! the tirle, and it has musket IN
shind the hat. But at the same time it Je
'0duces nothing itself-recollect that-it ca
'oduces nothing itself. The government Pc
mt pillow the land, the government don't III III
AXE the bricks, the government don't tn
Top down the trees and saw them into ne
mber. The government is a perpetual all
'nper, and the government can not sup DC
'rt the people, but the people have to a
pport the government. The idea that go
. government can issue money for the co
Ople to live upon is the same as the idea T u
at my hired man can issue certificates Of ID.
= Indebtedness to him for me to live on. a.
le United States got broke. 1t had no rlt
oney. have been, l think, fixed that pc
ay a hundred times. Then it did as
d. 1t had to go and borrow money, and WI
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