Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-20


homes ofsoldicrs while they were bat
Ting for the equality OF human lives.
This rebel agent hired another rebel
agent named Churchill. lie tried to
burn Cincinnati, and is now good
democrat. At indianapolis man bv
the name of Dodge was made a lead
or OF their party, and he became SO
sound that they had to put him in 1T.
Lafayette.
The democrats then met in Chica-
go, and among other things declared
the war q failure. There never was,
my friends, more infamous lie told
on tho face of this earth. 1t was on,
ly a few days afterward that the guns
of Farragnt and the achievement of
the men in the field said they led
Soldiers who fell in support Of this
country, raise from your graves and
lift your skeleton hands on high and
swear that when the democratic par
party uttered those words they lied,
We then grew magnanimons and
let Dodge out of Ft Layfayette.-
Where do you suppose Dodge is now !?
he il in Wisconsin. What do you
suppose no is doIngf Making speoel.-
es. Who for and what fors l'ilden,
Hendricks, honesty and reform. This
same Jacob Thompson who the DEM
ocratic party shicldcd-this same man
hired men 10 burn the city Of New
York. Right in this great and splcn-
did city of New York, that sits SO like
queen on the Atlantic, mon rose up
In mobs to burn down asylnms,
simply because they shcltcrcd the off,
spring of another race. Every one
| who raised his hands against these in
situations should havo had his brains
crushed 10 atoms. It was disgrace
to humanity itself. Every man that
was in that mob is tonight for Tildcn,
honesty aud reform. tai ,tEm
Rccollect, my friends, that It was the
democratic party that did these dcy-
ilish things when the great heart OF
the north was filed with agony and
grief, Recollept that thpy did these
things when the future of your coun-
try and mine was trembling in tho
balance of war; reeollect that they
did these things when tho question
was liberty or slavery aud porish
recollcct that they did these things
when your brothers, husbands and
dear ones were bleeding or dying on
the battle fields of the south, lying
there alone at night, the blood slowly
oozing through the wounds of death
when your husbands, brothers, and
sons were lying In the hospitals
dreaming of home-picturcs they low
ed. Recollect that the democracy did
these things when those dear to you
were in the prison-pcns, with no COW
ering by night except the sky, with
no food but what the worms refused,
with no friends except insanity OF
death.
! Now, my friends, have said a few
things TO you about the republican
party, and few things about. the
democratic party. With few more
words l will quit this branch of the
subject. Allow me to say that the
platform Of the republican party
is as broad as this continent. In 9th.
er words it is as broad rs humanity
itself. 1t asks all to come and help
and to join who are in favor of hu-
man advancement. 1t ia broad
enough for catholic, for Old-school
presbytcrians, formethodists, and for
infidcls, provided they are in favor OF
the eternal equality of human rights
and the republican party in its mag.
nanimity goes even further: it Is vii.
ling that the democrat should vote its
ticket. Beyond that, magnanhmity
cannot 60. ta
The republicans believe in giving
to every man the result of the labor
of his hands, will allow every man I'd
do his own thinking and express his
thoughts, whatever they may be-
In the republican way there is room
for every one.
Now, then, my friends, the first
question which is upon us is about
paving that debt which we contract
ed for powder with which to shoot
these democrats, and the next is
about protecting the citizens of this
country, both white and black. We
owe large debt, two-thirds of it, as
tell You, caused by the action and
measures of the democratic party
Recollcct that always. There are
some people who have an idea that
we can defer the fulfillment Of a
promise so long that ii will amount
to a fuliillmcnt. There arc some poo
pie who have an idea that the gov
eminent can make money by stamp
ing its sovereignty upon a piece of
pUpcr. The government of the Unit
cd States is a perpetual pauper. II
passes the hat all the time, and il has
a musket behind the hat. But Mt the
same time il produces nothing itself.
The government don't plow the land,
the government don't. make the
bricks, the government don't chop
down tho trees and saw them into
Humber. The government Is a per-
petual paupcr, and the government
cannot support the people, but the
people have to support the govern
/ ment. The idea that the government
can issue money for the people to live
upon is the same rs the idea that my
hired man can issue certificates of my
Indebtedness to him for me 10 live up
on. The United States got broke. Ii
had no money. Lhavc been, | think,
| fixed that way a hundred tines
Then it did as did. 1t had TO 70
and lorrow money, and every green
back was forced loan. The only
difference between that of the United
States and mine, is that..minc is not a
legal tender. If l had the power
would have mndc them so. We bor-
rowcd the money. and VIC have
got to pay il, and the people have
got to pay it. And the debt repre-
sents the loss inflicted upon the couh-
try by the war. That is abby the
war. All the powder burned, all the
shots thrown, all the horses, guns and
everything in tho aggregate is repre-