The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-09-09

/ Buchanan SAID. - can 90 anything.
He fell back on State rights. Now, claim
nobody ever urged that doctrine who didn't
want to steal something from somebody.
Laughter. 1t was called up when the
South wanted to secede. Buckle up your
coat when they talk State rights-your
pocket book is in danger. They believe
the United States is simple partnership,
and that when any member of the firm
wants to set up business on his own account
he may go out. Now, what has the Demo
cratic party been doing all these years?
The Republican party has its book open
The Democratic party says: For Gods
sake let our pedigree alone" Laughter
l say let's examine the pedigree. The
Democratic party was opposed to the war;
that ought to damn them eternally Il would
be willing to let them end little short, but
politically mean eternally.) Laughter
The Democratic party opposed the means
to put the war down; they swore the debt
never ought to be paid. They tried to
impair the national credit. The Demo-
cratic patty said, "Don't buy bond; the
South will succeed" If the Democratic
party had had its way, the soldiers in the
field would not have been paid. They
ought to politically eternally be damned
| for that. Laughter How many Demo-
Gratis were delighted every time the Union
army was defeated. Voice, "That's so."1
/ That's a fact. | don't tell it as news,
[laughterl but simply to refresh your
memories.
What more? The Democratic party tried
| to get up a fire in the rear in Canada
Jake Thompson had 100000 from the
/ Confederacy to operate in Canada in con
junction with the Northern Democrats
| The Knights of the Golden Circle in Ind.
ana and Illinois received money from Jake
! Thompson. He hired men to fire New
| York and Cincinnati He furnished pistols
! to those men in boxes marked "Sunday
school books" l have right here a copy
of Jake Thompson's letter, in which he
speaks of the danger of his letters falling
into loyal hands; for, says he, they will
| implicate leading men in the North. What
kind of leading men? Northern Demo-
crats-friends of honesty and reform, gen.
| tlemen. Laughter and tremendous cheer
ing.
AN EXTRACT FROM DEMOCRATIC PEDIGREE.
was at Peoria, H., when the Democrats
held their convention. Brothers," they
said, "let us put down that tyrant Lin
coln.' They were for peace, they said,
and all the time they had Jake Thompson's
pistols in their pockets. Laughter. l.
That was the first meeting held in the
interest of an uprising in the South. But
Vallandingham told them, we'll elect
Mcclellan and that'll accomplish at the
ballot what it is proposed to do by force.
Jake Thompson laments the failure of his
attempt to burn New York with Greek fire.
| That's what the Democrats were doing in
| 1864. Recollect when | speak of the Dem
ocrat party | mean the men who did these
| things. | am sorry to see men, good and
true and loyal, who are with the Democrats
still, and who are trying to make them re-
spectacle. My voice has no word for those
men, do however they do, who faced shot
and shell for the Union. do not stigma
tie them. | do not allude to true and
loyal Democrats, but to those Democrats
who are Democrats from mere cussedness
Laughter How came it to this? Is a
man to be ashamed for having fought the
Democratic party with shot and shell >
| Will the time ever come when these scars
worn by Gov. Common shall be disgrace to
him? Shall the time come when we shall
not mention the struggles of our boys and
defend their scars? 1t never can come!
But l say if the Democratic party gets the
power, the Union soldier will have to hide
his scars. If Samuel j. Tildeu is elected
President, he will be the tool and inStru-
ment of the Southern Democracy. Did the
Southern Democracy ever allow the North
ern Democracy to manage? They never
did, and they never will After the war
was over the Republicans told the negro
he was free, and that he must be a citizen
and have the ballot. The Democratic party
voted against all these measures. Mr.
Hendricks spoke in the United States Sem
ate and said there was no power in the
people to change the Constitution and make
the slave free. He to-day believes these
persons were unlawfully deprived of their
property.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE HARD TIMES.
1t is some trouble to get up Republican,
You've got to build school houses. If you
want to make Democrats, tear them down.
If you want to make Democrat, appeal
to prejudices, or appeal to hard times. A
Democrat in Illinois thinks the chinch bug
comes of the Republican Administration.
Who made the times hard? Who made it
necessary for the United States to borrow
money? The Democratic party, North and
South. And now they say we ought to
have whipped them for less. Hard times.
You will see what hard times mean. if you
get the Democratic party into power
We've got down to hard pan. And we are
already in the light of the dawn of a
revived business. Why9 Because the Re-
publican party is bent on seeing a gold dol
lar and in resuming specie payment at the
appointed time. The Republican party, |
say, will pay the debt and protect all men
The Democratic party can find no flaw in
the record of Mr. Hayes. He will carry
out the doctrines of the Republican party.
If Tilden is elected he will be controlled
by the Democratic party. Which party
will you trust? | tell you, gentlemen, you
must stand by the Republican party
What was Mr.. Tilden doing when Mr..
Hayes was fighting for his country? Mr..
Tilden was resolving the war was failure.
What is Mr. Tilden to-day? An attor-
ney-at-law, an old bachelor. There is no
more flesh on him than on ali old umbrella.
Great merriment.l He is one of those
oily attorneys you see depicted on the stage.
He is a demurrer. [Great laughter.l He
, never courted a woman because women
can't vote. [Merriment. Lately he has
adopted a rag baby that really belongs to
Hendricks. prolonged laughter. He is
now spending his time in explaining how
he adopted it. Laughter
PLAIN TRUTHS FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
, |
like this can collect can never elect Dem.
ocrat for Governor. | know you will re.
elect Gov. Conner by rousing majority.
[Applause. There is not State prison
in this country but votes for Tilden and
Hendricks. In the State prison in Maine,
last year, there was but one convict who
ever voted anything but the Democratic
ticket, and FL bet thousand dollars he
was wrongfully sent up. Loud laughter
; and applause The weeds will grow even
in the street, but the corn needs care. The
, weeds are hard to kill. And it's hard to
kill the Democrats They can only be
exterminated by education and thought
When a man begins to grow continental in
thought, and have sympathy, then he says
he will give every other man the Same
+ chance i'll the world that he asks for him.
self Nature has made inequalities enough
, Some people are born with few brains
, some of them you can find in the Demo.
! cratic party by close inspection. Laugh
ter. Why should men add artificial i'll
, CAPABILITIES? All men are of the same race