New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-02

and others will echo it, that every Southern
man, who will act 90 as to build mp TINS ns-
ti0h, tO make it free from oppression,
place where property and life are secure, |
and where contracts are enforced from the |
highest down to the lowest, say they are |
welcome juet as though they were born
on the surface of Plymouth Rock; but
let them cherish one thought Of hos
tility, anything of their old luminosity, and
the storm will rise over their heads tentold
as fierce as it did before.
Gentlemen, am speaking now for the
army scattered over the continent, not Tor
the regular army, for that is small body
of men, but for the army of men, the null
tltude. the bone and brain which now
people America. We see ourselves to dsy,
in q sort of apathetic condition. l hear
more complaints in New York than ever
heard in my life, although | have lived
not see it, but 1 have not had the
means of looking behind your count:
ers or inside Of your ledgers, and
the times may be hard for you,
but the country outside is not unprosperOus.
There is more land cultivated, more mines
developed than ever before. l vii! guaran-
tee honest employment for 10000, 600 more
people, if they will come over from Europe
to-day, not if they hang around your cities,
but if thew will 20 to work on the soil there
is, out West, land enough to give employ
ment to half Europe.
Now, the trouble with this country is. the
people flock too much into the cities. Come
ont West. We have no trouble at St. Louis.
There are no hard times there. There is
plenty to eat and there is plenty to drink.
Come out there; we will give you hearty
welcome and hearty meal. l don't sup.
pose any of you merchants will go there,
but you can tell your friends that in Colo
RADIO, in Nebraska, in Wyoming, there is
infest your cities.
more than ought to have said; but, being
somewhat of rover, wandering about the
earth looking at things as they occur to me
with nv own eyes and my own ears-when
l hear YOU people talking about hard times,
and see so many of you riding about in
splendid equipages and dressing like princes.
1 can not understand it at all. If the
Pilgrim Fathers had had one-tenth of what
each and every one Of the citizens Of
called themselves rich, and if you would
only study the lessons of your Pilgrim
Fathers and practice now their economy.
the national debt could be extinguished in
ten years; yes, in five years; and as for
specie payments, why, it would come as q
matter of course. If. however, this great
nation of 4O,OOO.OOO in their wisdom, and
| in the wisdom of their Congress, deem it
hard and expensive to maintain $4,000
soldiers to keep the peace among
the Indians-if thy deem it SO, then so
be it. Let it be done. Let us 60 back to
| our civil employments; let US turn our
swords into pruning hooks, and will set
the example of going back and earning my
own living, as did before the war. But l
hope this great nation will not forget the
lessons of Washington, who babe them al
ways to be prepared, be the danger ever so
little; to be prepared for danger when it
comes; to maintain not only the nucleus of
an army, but knowledge Of the art Of war:
| to preserve it as something dear and above
price, so that it will not have to submit
again to the modification Of sending to Ger
many for some one to drill our soldiers in
| the art of war.