The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-10-26


ocratic House will put on 'any reputable cit
Zen, you have very wide margin. Now Tia
fact which wish to impress on your mind i
that this removes sll the distinctions whicl
have heretofore prevailed. The Democrat
. turn round and say, you have been pawn.
war claims your Congress has been pawn;
war claims" have had it said to me, "Yol
have yourself had referred war claim" Ger
tainly have done it, but it was always fo
loyal men, sud 80 entirely do we recognize tn,
right of loyal men to be paid for the losses the1
sustained in the war that in 1871 we established
| what is known as the Southern Claims Com
| mission to hear and determine every case Of
loss that was sustained by loyal men in and fol
and by and on behalf of the armies of the
United States. II loyal man in New Ycrl
contributed mules or forage or fiou1
or bacon for the support of the army OF
the United States, he reads that clause of the
constitution which says that private property
shall not be taken for public use without just
compensation, and he has claim, and it must
be recognized. Well, go loyal man in Vir-
GINA or Louisiana has just az strong claim,
nay, stronger claim than the man in the
North, for he was loyal under difficulties, and
therefore we have established this Claims Com
mission, and up to this time they have paid
So, 10000 We intend that the Government
/ of the United States, strong in it's financial ca
pacity powerful in it's credit abundant in it's
resources, shall reward and pay to the utter
most farthing every loyal man that did and
| dared for the Union. But when you come to
| pay the public enemy, when you come to pay
| the men who were at that very moment using
| all their resources to destroy your Government
| you enter upon an entirely different question,
and some gentlemen may very naturally ask,
'sWhy, when you were passing the Fourteenth
amendment; why, when you were prohibiting
the payment for slaves in the Thirteenth
amendment why. when you were prohibiting
the payment of the rebel debt, did you not also
prohibit the payment of this class OF claims
that is now vexing Congress ?" My answer is
simply this: The Fourteenth amendment was
passed in 1866 and at that time it had never
entered into the brain of man to conceive the
height and the length and the breadth and the
depth of the Democratic and rebel impudence
and violence or that they could think OF ask
ing the United States to pay their side of the
expenses of the war. It is the result of ten
years OF Democratic development that has
brought them up to that. That had however,
never been dreamed of at the time-neyer
once!
Now, there are gentlemen who say to you,
This is all nonsense; this is mere nonsense
for campaign effect-a device to brighten the
peoples mere campaign ruse." My answer
to that is-or rather my question is, for, being
a Yankee, / am always eady to ask one ques-
ton in answer to another-s'Why do the
Southern men put these bids in ?" for if this is
use the phrase of the dav, this does not 8 mean
business" why put the bills in? just answer
me that. now, my Democratic friends. They
know just as well as you know to-day, or as
well as any man knows that the putting for
ward claims of this character would be a
stumbling block and a rock of offense to the
loyal minds of the men in the North. They
knew it would be loss. that they would have
to meet Ii on every stump, and that it would
be the hardest campaign nut they would have
to encounter. And yet with all this such is
the unanimous opinion of the South In favor
of the claims that there is not Southern rep
resentative, elected by Democratic conftitu-
ency that dares to refuse to put in these bills.
There is not one. say the sentiment in the
SOnth on this question amounts to positive
unanimity, and you give power to Dem
ocratic administration elected by solid South,
deriving it's entire political strength and pres
tige from it's Southern vote controlled as it
would be by that Southern vote, controlled IL
it's measures as the present House of Repre-
sentatives is controlled by an inferior number
of Southern men, and ask you what power is
there in an administration of which Mr.. Tilden
is head to resist such an attempt? Why. it
is absolutely absurd. Give them the
entire treasury of the United States and see
if they would not help themselves to it Zap
plause] Why, gentlemen, am only accusing
them when | say this, of having human ma
tture. You may take any class of men and beat
them in war as we beat the rebels, and then
let them be foisted into power, and they will
help themselves to your resources. Northern
men would do it under like circumstances :
anybody would do it that had an opportunity.
Under those circumstances human nature is
human nature. The passion of that rebellion
lies smoldering and smoking and ready to be
ignited. Revenge burns deep and strong and
powerful. Give them power, and they will put
their foot on you Of the North, as certainly as
gravitation is law of the universe. APP
plause Any Northern man who votes with
the idea that they are to be governed by some
Mandy pamby sentimentalism about civil
rights reform, or some loud talk of the various
heads of reform that were preached in that re-
| markable postscript and letter that were put
out at the st. Louis Convention anybody who
| believes that that kind of sentlmentalism is to
| be the warp and wool of Mr.. Tilden's admins
tration il he should have one, does not under
stand human nature They will seize the
| Treasury of the United States, and they will
| do it completely. have this to say in behalf
of these Southern fellows-they are bold.
They put their feet right square down Oh the
necks of these Northern Democrats that were
there in Congress. They have command of
the ship at both ends. They have the anchor
at the front and the rudder at the rear, and the
| Democrats of the North are the passengers.
| TApplause.] They do not set The compass or
| square the sails or hold the helm, The other
men do 1t, and if the North take them on trust
they will wake up FROM terrible delusion-
when too late. [Applause.]
THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION ON THE FINANCES.
And then, gentlemen, this question treads
upon another it connects itself most palpa-
| bly, with another question. You know very well
| that Mr.. Tilden as soon as we had passed the
Specie Resumption act of 1875, proposing to
resume payment on behalf of the Government
on the LIST of January. 1879 made haste to in
duce the Democratic Legislature of New York
to conform the legislation of your great State
| to that of the nation and they did it. and the
act on your statute books to-day provides for
the payment and collection of your taxes in
| gold aud silver, and for the enforcement of
| your contracts in gold and silver. And it was
done with some ostentation and with loud
proclamation about 'sno step backward" by
that eminent platform writer, Manton Marble.
| After this had been done, Mr.. Tilden discov
cred, and those who wer3 associated with him,
that they could not have the Southern support
Aao 10 lk hat ~ &c