The union. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1877-18??, 1877-07-19


istrate to become thing of chance
or OF 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 in
augurated. Until that is settled
and made sure no Democrat can
be seducea from his devotion and
allegiance in any way not by the
alluremeuts Of Office, nor even, by
the strong appeal in the Admin
istration of vicious principles and
dangerous policies and the adop>
ton of better doctrines and Just
measures. Democrats will not in.
trnst their most cherished prin>
ciples to the keeping ofpowerwhcih
isattained by vicious and corrupt
means. They will the rather con.
tinue their faith in the right of the
majority to rule in accordance with
the constitutional provisions. All
Democrats rejoice with unbounded
joythat republican governmentsare
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 enterprise will revive
and the cruel burdens of Govern
ment and public corruption be lift
ed from the shoulders of labor;
and that production will inccase
and lands advance in price. But
they know that, in the language
Of Gov Morton. it had become
"inevitable." Good government
in the States @ao not a freewilI Of
fsring upon the affairs of the coun-
try. For years the Democrats had
contended in. Congress and before
the people for free republican
States throughout the South and
finally it became Inevitable" be-
cause the right ard truth were too
str H. to be longer suppressed. In
this Democrats find a reason to
stand more firmly with their party.
Out of power with no patronage
to dispense and no money to dis
tribute, but animated by the spirit
Of our institutions and inspired by
the sent ment of the right of local
self government Is Inherent in the
people the Democratic party dur,
ing the past ten years has restor-
ed one State after another, until
now the tread of soldier is heard
in no Legislative hall but in every
State the people governed by laws
of their own ehacting and by Of
fcers of their own choosing.
My fellaw citizens my home is
in the West, and my associations
have been with people in that sec
ton. Among you | am personally
almost stranger yet l am receiv'
ed by you with open arms and cor
dialgreetiugs. Need Isaythat l an
gratified because of this fact? Il
has more than personal signif'
canoe. Does it not proclaim tina,
we entertain no sectional politica
sentiment or sectional policies
Some may think We should have
an Eastern policy, and others tha
it should be Western; but i
seems to me that a New Yorker
and an Indianian should understan
it better than that, and that our leg
islative and administrative polity
should be as broad and comprehen
sive as the industries and trade
and commerce which it may affect
Does the trade Of the great cities
of the Atlantic stop with thu
mountains? Does it rot reach be-
You'd the Mississippi and acros,
the Missouri? Every new hom,
that is built upon that recedins
border; every new farm that i
made far oft even within tn,
shadow of the Rocky Mountains
and every additional bale of cottol
that is produced in Louisiana anC
Texas add som,thing to the great
ness and wealth of New York anC
Boston and Philadelphia and Bal
tinore. Is there New Yorke
who, as he walks up Broadway
hears and feels only the throbbinl
of local commerce? Let such
man break over the marrow
bounds and habits Of his life, anC
visit the great cotton ant
i n roin Crow;oo, ,or;na ~~ Ia 4;