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

lcleS! O0me may Gnlnk we SnOulu nave
an Eastern policy, and others that it
should be Western but it seems that
New Yorker and an Indianian should
understand it better than that, and that
our Legislative and administrative polity
should be as broad and comprehensive as
the industries and trade and commerce
which it may affect. Does the trade of
the great cities of the Atlantic stop with
the mountains? Does it not reach be-
yond the Mississippi and across the Mis-
souri,? Every new home that is built
upon that receding border; every new
farm that is made far out even within the
shadow of the Rocky Mountains, and
every additional bale of cotton that is
produced in Louisiana and Texas add
something to the greatness and wealth of
New York and Boston and Philadelphia
and Baltimore. Is there a New Yorker
who, as he walks up and down this great
Broadway, hears and feels only the throb
bing of a local commerce? Let such man
break over the narrow bounds and habits
of his life, and visit the great cotton and
grain-growing regions, nor let him stop
until he hears the waves of the Pacific
dashing against the golden shores of Cal
ifornia, and lie will be able better to un-
derstand and appreciate the magnitude
and complicated relations of the interests
which are affected by the financial and
commercial policy of the country. Sue
cessful enterprise and development in
remote parts of the country are as GER
tainly and almost as directly connected
with the prosperity of this city as are per-
manent and valuable improvements upon
your more distant streets. I have said
this under the influence of the sentiment
that, in respect to production and trade,
the East and the West and the South are
one; and that wise and just policy will
alike, and almost equally, promote the
prosperity Of each, if your Judgment
should be as comprehensive as the in
huence of your commerce, and as far
reaching as the distant lines of your
trade.
I have but one word more to say. The
outrage that has been perpetrated is an
outrage upon the rights of the people,
and not upon me, not upon Governor Til
den, except as we are citizens of the
country. The people have been outraged
by the denial to them Of the right to Sc
lect their own public officers according
to the laws and the Constitution. That
act will work out, as has been suggested,
its own redress. l have no fear of the
future. Even if the Administration shall
adopt Democratic principles, and follow
a policy based upon those principles, it
can never gain the confidence and heart
of the American people. 1t will never
do, when man has taken land which
belongs to another man by a title not
good, and holds tit will never do to
say that the man who holds the land
wrongfully should have it, because he
would cultivate it better than the true
owner would have done. Before we reach
that question, we will decide who owns
the land.
I say this, not because Governor Tilden
has been wronged, but because the voice
of the American people has been denied,
when that voice was spoken according to
the Constitution of the United States.
But I fear not the result. AS have al
ready said, great and sincere people
will pass their final verdict upon the out.
rageous act. Democratic principles will
be carried out by Democrats, and by such
fair-minded Republicans as will not make
themselves party to the wrong done
last winter. This will be accomplished
in 1880, as said in 1876, that Indiana
will again do her duty.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON
was expected to make d speech, but, hav-
ing been busily engaged all day in visit
ing the institutions on the Islands, and
being fatigued, he confined himself to a
few pleasant words. He thanked the
club for the reception given, and said it
delighted him to hear the allusion made
by the people to the victory last fall, and
added:
"From the time that Chief Magistrate
of the United States had been inaugurated
who was not elected, have lost no op-
portunity on every occasion of saying
that the life of the nation depended upon
that act being branded as crime, and
that if not so branded, there would be no
hope of our surviving as nation. re-
peat tnaG now.
Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer was
the last speaker. He said:
LIEUT. .-Gov. DoRsHEIMER's SPEECH.
mfr. Chairman and Gentlemen. Of the
Manhattan Club: I have been wanting
to see Democrats together ever since last
November; and I have wondered that
Democrats have not been together sooner.
You stand to-day under an obligation OF
duty such as never before rested upon a
party in this country. A wrong has been
inflicted upon the Liberties of the people,
and it is your duty to redress that wrong;
for, if you do not, then it will stand un.
redressed and grow into precedent OF
fearful omen for the future. That duty
deyolves upon you, for it is you who have
been wronged, and in all affairs it is for
the party wronged to seek redress and work
out the punishment to the wrongdoer. 4
say that if the Democracy shall fail
in the performance of this great duty
they will be even more culpable than
those who perpetrated the wrong. Now,
what shall we do about it? Well, in the
first place, upon every occasion, in public
and in private we will talk about it; we
will bear witness againstit; we will make
the sense of this wrong to lay heavy upon
every conscientious Republican in the
country. But I hope we will not content
ourselves with that. A distinguished
member of the House of Representatives,
whom I saw few moments ago here,
told me last evening that the House of
Representatives had the power to inquire
and to make plain; and l may say to
you, further, that the House of Repre-
sentatives is by the Constitution endowed
with those great powers which in every
generation the British House of Com
mons has used boldly and with perfect
freedom to work out the liberties of the
English people. Those powers were given
to the House of Representatives as dis
tinguished from the Congress at large by
reason of the knowledge of how eftcacious
they had been for the preservation Of
popular liberty in the past history of
England; and 1 am sure that the De-
mocracy of this country will not shrink