The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-21

the measure which shall render repeti-
ton of the wrong forever impossible.
If nv voice could reach throughout
our country and be heard in its remotest
hamlet, I would say: "Be of good cheer.
The republic will live. The institutions
of our fathers are not to expire in shame.
The sovereignty of-the people shall be
rescued from this peril and re-estab-
lished."
Successful wrong never appears so tri-
umphant as on the very eve of its fall.
Seven years ago corrupt dynasty cul-
minated in its power over the million OF
people who live in the city of New York:
It had conquered, or bribed, or aattered
and won almost everybody into acqules-
cence. It appeared to be invincible. A
year or two later its members were in the
penitentiaries or in exile. History
abounds in similar examples. We must
believe in the right and in the future. A
great and noble nation will not sever Its
political from its moral life.
At the conclusion of Gov. Tilden's re-
marks prolonged cheers were given him,
and the next Speaker for the occasion
was introduced.
GOV. HENDRICKS SPEECH.
Gentlemen: thank you for the honor
you do me. appreciate it in part as an
expression of personal respect and conf
dence, but more as declaration and as
surance of your support of the principles
and politics of which, in honorable asso-
ciation with your distinguished citizen, I.
was made representative in the politi-.
cal contest of last year. I beg to assure
you that appreciate the honor you show
me the more highly because of your de-
votion to the political principles which
experience has shown to be essential to
the preservation of good and pure govern
ment and the prosperity Of the people.
Very earnestly the Democrats of this
great city and State, and of Indiana, as
also of the other States, contended for
and demanded restoration of local self
government in all the States where it had
been denied. They insisted upon re-
duction throughout the entire public
service and expenditures, not by hun
dreds, nor yet by thousands, but by many
millions annually. Therein was involved
also great reduction of the vast army OF
office.holders, and the substitution Of
honest for dishonest administration.
Contending for results so notably right
and honorable, their cause was grand
and their victory glorious. l will not
disturb the pleasure of this occasion by
undertaking to recount the means where
bv the will and judgment Of the people
were defeated. The result, as declared
in Louisiana, and in Florida, and at
Washington, is not and cannot be made
satisfactory to the country, for the OBJ
vious reason that it was not true. a
great and sincere people will rest their
final Judgment only upon truth, and
never upon fraud successful through
technicality. Even should the President
and Cabinet adopt part or the whole of,
the policies and purposes for which the
Democratic party has been contendiDg
for many years and which became so dis
tinctly defined last year-even that can
not remove or quiet the public discomfort.
The Democrats will make no factious
opposition, nor.will they seek to en-
barrass the de facto administration, but
will sustain it in what is right, because
it is right and for the welfare of the coun-
try. and not at all because of any fealty
to the party that stands defeated and
condemned by the people. The people
cannot allow the selection of their Chief
Magistrate to become thing of chance
or Of sharp practice. The "fraud first
triumphant in American history" must
be assigned to its proper place among
the crimes against popular government,
and made so odious that no party will
dare to attempt its repetition. He who
is elected President must be inaugurated.
Until that is settled and made sure no
Democrat can be seduced from his devo-
ton and allegiance in any way, not by
the allurements of office, nor even by the
strong appeal in the abandonment by the
Administration of vicious principles and
dangerous policies, and the adoption Of
better doctrines and just measures.
Democrats will not intrust their most
cherished principles to the keeping of
power which is attained by vicious and
corrupt means. They will the rather
continue their faith in the right of the
majority to rule in accordance with con-
constitutional provisions. All Demo
Gratis rejoice with unbounded joy that free
republican governments are once more
allowed to the States of South Carolina
and Louisiana. They rejoice in the good
fruits that must follow. They know that
peace and good order will prevail; that
capital will be made secure, and labor
safe, contented, and happy; that enter
prise will revive, and the cruel burdens
of the Government and public corruption
will be lifted from the shoulders of labor;
and that production will increase and
lands advance in price. But they know
that in the language of Governor Morton,
it had become "inevitable." Good gov
ernment in the States was not frce-will
Offering upon the altars of the country.
For years the Democrats had contended
in Congress and before the people for
free republican States throughout the
South, and finally it became inevitable"
because the right and truth were too
strong to be longer suppressed. In this
Democrats find reason to stand more
firmly with their party. Out of power,
with no patronage to dispense and no
money to distribute, but animated by the
spirit of our institutions, and inspired by
the sentiment of the right of local self
government, as inherent in the people,
the Democratic party during the past ten
years has restored one State after an
other, until now the tread of the soldier
is heard in no legislative hall, but in
every State the people are governed by
laws of their own enacting and by officers
of their own choosing.
My citizens, my home is in the
West, and my associations have been
with the people of that section. Among