The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-09-21

tIuNtTSlug tItt touIlltN p'H
threatenings and slaughter against the
very men as confedcrates whom they
formerly denounced for adhering to the
union. In 1850 Mr.. Lincoln received II
majority oi less than G,OOO of the votes
polled in Illinois for president. How
prcposterous the claims that Republicans
only fought for the union Does not
every citizen of the United States know
that the Illinois regiments which went to
the field were made up Unfortunately
of Republicans and Democrats--that it
would have been impossible Tor Illinois
to have sent 20O. 900 and more men to the
field from the Republican ranks alone.
10 say that the Republican party alone
put down the rebellion is untrue. That
party had control Of the government ut
the time. and | would not detract one
iota from its fame; but In suppression OF
the rebellion it had the assistance OF
hundreds of thousands Of Democrats.
lie claimed that both the Republican
and Democratic parties had changed.
That the purposes and aims of the Re
publican party to-day have nothing in
common with those which actuated 1t in
its formation and during the war; and
that the Democratic party Of to-day is
not the organization OF 1856. the main
issues of that time having been forever
settled.
Referring to Mr.. Tilden, he said:
In intellectual capacity and form of
character, | suppose II VIII hardly be
| questioned that Mr.. Tilden Is the supe-
rior of the presidential candidates. and
he has given some evidence of his ability
apI dot n IN a. immunity
and reform abuses by his exposure of the
New York city and canal frauds, and by
his course as governor of New York,
where. through his instrumentaity
chiefly, the state taxes were reduced
IS, 0O0, 600, or more than one-half in a
single year. But / do not purpose to
dwell upon the personal character OF either
of the candidates. Ono, ii elected, will
have it in his power TO reform abuses,
purify the public service, restore specie
payments, and give peace and prosperity
to the country. The other, however
pure his motives. will have no power to
control the party organization which
elects him. and will be unable to carry
out any OF the promised reforms, and we
shall simply have a perpetuation Of
Grantism TOR another four years with all
its attendant evils.
In regard to the southern people, and
the foolish fear among northern people,
that in the event of Democratic success,
the government would be placed in the
hands of the cOnfedcrates, he uses an
argument which we have never failed to
produce in refutaton of that charge:
a few facts to be gathered from the
census tables ought to dispel all appre-
tensions on that score. According TO the
census of 1870, 25.970 ,G20 OF the inhab-
tants of the United States, or more than
81 per cent. CT the entire population,
were under 80 years OF age. 1t is now
1875. more than 10 years since the civil
war broke out, and more than ii years
since it closed. Every person therefore,
now under 80 years OF age, was unborn
or under Is in 1861, and minor at the
close OF the war. Less than one-third of
the population of the insurrectionary
states are now over 80 years of age, or
could. by possibility, have taken part in
the rebeliOn-of this one-third nearly
half are colored person., none of whom
took part in the war against the Union,
so that now, assuming that every white
person, man, woman and child, over u
years OF age in the rebel states when the
war broke out, took part against the
Union, they to-day constitute only about
| One-siXth of the population OF the states
in which they belong. What
folly to talk about the conied-
the government getting control
through the ballot-bOX. when all who
could by any possibility have taken part
in the rebellion constitute but about one
sixth of the people of the late insurrcc-
tIonary states, and less than fifteenth
of the population of the Union. 1t is by
no means true that every white person
in the rebel states. over fifteen years of
ago was rebel. Nor is it true that those
who engaged in the war against the gOy-
ernment now seek 10 destroy it. We
have the testimony Of Gen. Grant given
ten years ago. that 1.-THE thinking men of
the South at that day accepted the then
situation OF affairs in good faith" and re-
garded slavery and state rights, or the
| right of IA state to secede from the union,
| as having been settled forever by the
| highest tribunal-arms-that man can re-
sort to. But il this fraction OF the people
of the South, the survivors OF the war of
the rebellion, were still rebels, as the po-
| litical demagOgues going about the coun-
try Haunting the bloody shirt would
make you believe, their numbers are too
Insignificant to occasion alarm. How
manifest 1t Is when you come to look at
facts and figures, that this cry OF danger
| lest the government fall into the hands
of the Confederates is a false alarm raised
tor the purpose of frightening timid
voters from the support OF men and
measures which will drive thieves and
| plunderers from power and restore con-
stitutional government.
Lack of space precludes the possibility
of publishing Lyman Trumbulls speech
in full. 1t was one of the most effec-
tive of the whole campaign, and will be
felt all over the land, being accepted as
the utterances of high-toned gentleman
and true patriot.
He concluded as follows
have endeavored to show YOU, fellow
citizens, that the Republican party of to-
| day is not composed of the same mate
rial, nor are its purposes aud aims the
same as the Republican party of ten to
| twenty years ago; that it is not the in
| heritor OF the grand old principles which
| gave the party its fame, nor of ANYTHING
belonging to 1t save its name that il has
degenerated and become venal and cor
rupt, and that there is no reason why
any independent man should now sup
port or oppose it simply because it is
called Republican.
l have endeayorcd to show you that
the Democratic party of to-day is not
composed OF the same material and does
not nave the same purposes and aims as
the Democratic party Of fifteen or twenty
| years ago that il has inherited the name