The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-08-03
Immense Ratification Meeting in New
ycctr

On the 18th, there was Il great assem-
| blage Of the Democracy OF New York to
ratify the st. Louis nominations Tam
many Hall was elegantly decorated with
| flags and streamcrs. Besides the meeting
| in the Hail. outside stands were prepared
from which speakers addressed the throngs
| that crowded the streets. Mir. John Kelly
called the meeting in the great hall to
order at $ O'Clock. and after a briet speech
introduced Hon Charles A. Dana as Chair
man OF tie meeting. Mi Dana spoke As
follows =
MR.. DANAS SPEECH.
FGLLoW-C ITIZENS-I have come to Tamma-
ny Hall with great pleasure 10 aid in ratIyinG
the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas
A. Hendricks as the candidates Of the Demo-
cratic party. Applause. In my judgment it
Is OF the greatest importance TO the people OF
this country that these candidates should be
| elected; and ] will join hands with any man
who desires and IaborS TO assure their success
| know both the candidates, and | am sure that
by their election the administration of the Gov
eminent will be reformed; that the corruption
Which now threatens to destroy free institute
tons will be stopped; that the enormous taxes
winch eil up me tTult OF llDOG Will De reduced
that the sta@natl0n OF industry and the depres-
sion of business which depriYe> many men
OF ALT employment, and turns skilled aborcrs
and their families ont to starvation, will be
ended. and IN era OF new activity and prospcri-
ty 6e begun for the country. The Republican
| party has been in power fer fifteen years; and
see where it has brought Us and where it has
| brought itself. one member of the Cabinet j.
now under Impeachment for blibe-ti,hing: an
other, more guilty but more cunning than he.
deserves impeachment, and | hope TO God he
viii get his deserts; another lately Secretary Of
the Interior, having committed grand larceny
in his Office, resigned to avoid impeachment :;
and another. lately Attorney-teneral,h having
| committed petty larceny, was finally removed
from his place through Il contemplate social
intrigue. Such are the representatives of the
Republican party iii the eilhls of power; and
going down from that elevation we find every
where corruption, VcnalltY, contempt OF law
and pHnder Of the tax payers. one would sup
pose that the decent men OF such party, see
my its condition. would be overcome by a sense
| Of shame and would require il 10 step down and
ont, to hide it. face and To die from The memo
~ Of men but instead Of his, ii come~ forward
with candidates and II platform to ask for the
votes OF the people and to make fight ii the
election. The impudcncc, the etirOntery of
this proceeding exceeds everything ever heard
Of before; and yet we have here the same man-
ayers who have brought the Republican party
into this condition, with Zach. Chandler kisses
at their head, talking about reforming the civil
>erN ice and restoring the earlier purity of our
politics: DO they expect anybody to believe
them: is there any considerable number of
foo in the country who can again be deceived
by such fraud? These are questions which the
election will answer, and answer, is ! hope and
trust. hy putting Sam Tiidcn in power lap
plausel and establishing the 81. Louis platform
aS the charter of real. radical and lasting re-
| form. Prolonged applause.
The Chairman was followed by Con-
gresham John Hancock of Texas, who
made a niost torchie and effective speech,
which was greatly applanded. lie was
followed by EX-Goy. Walker OF Virginia,
Congressman Hooker Of Mississippi, and
Congressman IarhoX Of Massachusetts.
Coy. Walkers remarks are Of peculiar in
terest, as giving Il Southern mans opinion
of the recent disturbance in South Caro-
lima. We copy below a synopsis of his
speech
| EXTRACT FROM GOV. WALKERS SPEECH
| Already in my city of Richmond there are
two tlourishing Tilden and Hendricks Clubs
| composed entirely of colored men; and the col
| ored people throughout the entire South, the
intelligent and better portion Of them, are grad
| ually discovering that their true interests lie
| not in antagOniZlng the white people but in co.
! alescing and acting with them. Yes, gentle
| men, the more intelligent they become the more
| tnCY realize the duties and responsibilities Of
| the citizenship that WAS thrust upon them, the
| more sure they are To unite with the really in
tereSted parties Of the Government. In every
| section of the South, the more intelligent they
| become the more apt they are to unite with tie
| white people. Just As fast as the scales of IL
| norance fall from the eyes of the Southern peo-
pie. lust so fast rs they get their eyes open to
! the situation of the country, the wrongs and
| OutrageS perpetrated upon them and the entire
people by the Radical party. just so surely do
| they become Democratic cOlored men. Why,
| the Democratic coored men of the South would
| never have been arrayed against the white peo-
| ole but for these denagogues and earpet-b bag
| gers and malicious scoundrelS who went down
| there directly after the war and sought to an
| tagonize them against the white people. And
| why did they do that: They sought to radical
ize the South by first enfranchiSng the negro
and then disentranchising the white men, IN
| order to give the negro control, and they, con-
trolling the negro, would control the entire
| South. But, telow-citiZels. wherever (and
| this Is matter desire to cal your particular
| attention to)-wherever in the South Demo-
cratic or Conservative rule has obtained, there
| YOU find the colored man fully protected in all
his rights in every respect equal to the white
man. Applause. Did you ever hear Of any
bloody rows in the State Of Virginia since she
| was reconstructed! Have YOU ever heard of
| the murder of negroes within the limits of the
Old Gominion since she has been restored to
| the Union? oh, no; and the reason Is because
! her taxpayers are white citizens, who have
gone down there and identified their fortunes
with those people; not carrying a carpet bag to
| run away as soon as they got it full They OBJ
| taneG the control of the Government aud adj
mnstered its affairs honestly and truly for the
best interests of all concerned, be their color
what it might be. Cheers The other day
there occurred down in the poor State of South
| Carolina (and patriot can hardly mention the
name of South Carolina without dropping Il
tear, for no one who is familiar with the terri
bic wrongs that have ground that people into
the dust can fail to have his sympathies intense
" aroused in their behaD-the other day there
occurred an affair within the limits of South
Carolina that every respectable and honest mar
must deprecate, which never could have occur
red in Virginia. 1t never could have occurred
even in the State of Texas it could have oc
Cured nowhere except where the negroes anG
that affair is not yet known, but stand here
to make a prediction, that when the facts O.
that matter are known, when daylight is let in
to illuminate the darkness that covers this tran
saction, it will be found that it was nothing il
the world but Radical conspiracy a renal
guration of the Outrages of former times. | dc
not stand here in the slightest degree to palliatt
it. Had been the Governor of South Carolin;
and boast not of greater courage than othe
men-some would have felt hemp in mighty
short time. Applause What | desire to i'm
press upon your mind Is this-they cannot in