The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-07-18

aud Swes thexrt, sutlers. commissarics,
privates, aud officers in the Confeder-
ate service from the beginning 70 the
end, knowing that their VICTORY had
finally been achieved, rushed TO Wash
ington by countless hundreds and
made night hi,leous by their howls (, r
place, demanding the reward of their
services. They got it. They got IL
Fitzhugh was appointed doorkeeper.
He in IA bigger man than old Grant. Z"
Laughter Bounced because his
shameless incapacity beanie 30 G. 'nsp,c-
uDus that no one could overlook ID,
what became OF his subordinate who
knocked down his grocer because he
presented chivalric Confederate OF
the South little bill of which he had
so long neglected payment? Take the
entire machinery OF this Confederate
House OF Representatives and see how
they have reformed il; aud to-day, as /
am assured, the nation is filed with
iramps Confederate applicants for of
lice hoohng il for home after they have
been disappointed.
Now, then. gentlemen, suppose that
instead OF this accession to power be-
ing confined to one branch, il had tax.
EN- root in all. DO you believe for one
moment that the personnel of our civil
service would have been improvedp 1
am told that Tilden has improved the
civil service, or proposed TO. Wheny
Where? Where. during the most try
ing period through which this nation
or any other nation ever passed, WAS
the great reforiner of 1870? Filed mp
in safe, secured be hind barr:cades OF
law books and railroad bonds. He
peeped out from the corner of his safe
retreat, saying that the result Of the
war was n failure. and hnmbly bcseech-
ing a treaty OF peace Manton Marble
says that Mr.. Tilden is not responsible
for that peace resolution. Manton
Marble is wrong. In 1864 Mr.. Tilden
quietly slid out OF his office, aud joined
the congregation of Confederates that
met here in Chicago. He came here,
proceeded 10y Isaiah Rynders and his
band Of New York Short-boy Reform
eis, marching mp and down the streets
OF Chicago with their ears bit of and
their noses broken, carrying the olive
branch, without clothes enough on
them to wad a gun, and believing
against oppression. Laughter. Sam
uel slid himself into the convention,
and was placed upon the Committee on
Resolutions. While the convention
became restive under the long period
of time that they were waiting, Mr..
TildeD, as the records of that conven-
convention. shd' as u me melnbef lses ui III rnas nas
committee. assured the convention that
the committee had all agreed on their
resolutions, and that they had simply
be5n passed over TO snb-committse
for reyision-the peace resolution and
all, the most Infamous resolution ever
filrted IN the faces Of free people.
That resolution, Mr.. Tilden said in this
city, In 1854, the entire committe had
unanimously agreed upon, aud that
language stands in the record against
him, Manton Marble to the contrary
Notwithstanding. Cheers. That is
the history. They ask us: "will you
shake the bloody shirt?" Who is re-
sponsible for the blood on the shirt?
Laughter. Whose blood is il? I
would not, as Republican, and, as I
think, as a patriotic citizen. needlessly
engender the bitterness which the war
brought about, but il am TO choose,
and, my thousands of fellow-citizens
who surround me tonight. il you are
to choose-if the choice is to be laid
between the man wha shad hi. blood
that your nationality might be preserv-
ed, and the man, who shed his that il
might be destroyed. no guohins. s~lh
about shaking hands over the bloody
chasm will msko you hesitate long
about the decision; lCheers.] You
can call it the bloody shirt or not, as
you please. First, last. and all the
while, IA long as have the capacity to
distinguish the difference in men. when
public benefactions are to be bestowed
l am, thank God, in favor Of giving
the nation might live, rather than to
him who fought that the nation might
be destroyed. fCheers.