The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-03-28
STANLEY MATTHEW'S SPEECH.

Tho CINCINNATI Commercial Of the 25rh gives full
report OF Senator Stanley Matthews Speech delivered
at Glendale hts home, the occasion OF his reception
there last Saturday IN regard to the southern ques-
ton he spoke AS iolows:-
One thing, however. our Southern brcthren-ior
such feel them TO be-ought not TO forget IL rs not
out OF place here to remind them of Whatever else
may happen whether anything suggested here or from
any other source may or may mol DO a9op.ea anu
adequate not, government the United states. III
the true sense or the word, VIII not DO allowed 10 ai'.
II the Southern people are not able OF themselves 10
MAINTAIN social order and pence, II the citizens OF tno
United states cannot there by local ihst ut'ons anu
laws be protected In the right to NE hoe.v
and the pursuit OF happiness; If tho State
governments helpless TO administer justice
and preserve peace anarchy, otherwise newt
able, Will not be permitted to work dssoiu-
ton OF society. Intervention In any emergency, ab
EXTRA, is not TO be deprecated but under such ono
not 10 DO avoided. II would DO simply necessity.
Any governments better than none, and the govern
ment that with mpuniy toerates the habit OF murder
does not deserve the name But Is also consttu-
tona duty. Tho bond OF national unity contains the
special pledge OF protection TO the entranchscd slave.
the right OF suffrage and oil equal participation In Nil
strictly civil and political rights we accorded TO him rs
part OF tnc national policy and tor the better security
oil his rights OF person and property.
My friends, contemplate the future, so far rs II IN.
wolves tho public interests and tho public good with
the greatest cheeriuncss and hope. believe that the
dawn OF better time has already come upon u.s. be-
Hove that the new ana bright day OF prosperity
Is already rising over the hill tops and ecrng tho
whole horizon. The msts OF prejudice still ngcr IN
tho Valleys but We look away and when we look again
they gone. We shall be astonshcd, In my Judg-
ment at the rapidly, well at the complete
cess, with which q better order OF things Is
restored There reason as has already been said,
why We should any longer be divided IN tbs country
by sectional lines. All the which once created
sections have disappeared. The men OF the North aud
the South come togeher-l believe they will come
together. (Applausc.) The ranks will open, new lines
OF DIVISION will appear, and parties, instead OF being
arrayed against each other face TO face ~ battle array
upon the two sides OF the line which separates tho
North from the SOUTH will divide by lines perpen-
dcuar to them. running into every State, pene-
trating every ncighborhood and both sides will be
found white and black, dividing, not on questions
which arc vital TO tho existence OF society ana the de-
cison Of which, way the other, involves neccs.
sariy violence aud war; but on qustions Of administra
ton and oil policy, about which We may difcr and
still DO friends (Applause) believe that that is the
policy Of the President believe will be the result
OF tho application OF that maxim which he expressed
IN his inaugural address, that he his party best
who serves his country best" believe that If no
deliberately to sot himself to work to how he
could most certainly and effectively strengthen and
extend the republican party as SUCH 1t would be by
the adaptation OF The very policy which socks to ob-
crate party distinctions such they have BEEN But
whether that be not, am satisfied, Invested
he is OF all personal ambition his part other
than that OF making name Tor himself which will be
his country, that the administration OF Rutherford b.
Hayes will be hereafter marked In the history OF the
land as tho beginning OF new order OF things which
distinguished the second century OF our existence
allcl with that which marked us birth.