The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-15
The Anti-NHonopoliSt.
Republican rule shall prevail. The evil is too
deep-seated to be reached by anything short OF an
entire change Of administration.

as Republican rule shall prevail. Inc eVu IS 100
deep-seated to be reached by anything snort OF an
entire change Of administration.
4. But, felow-citzens, there is great drama OF
fraud, one huge black spot upon the national es-
cutcheon that cannot be passed by with q mere al
lusOn. The seat of the chief magistrate-tnat seat
that in times past has been, and i'll all times should
be an emblem of purity and honor-is occupied by
who elected to it, and whose elevation
est us,rpatons that ever dsgraced the history OF
free people. Ihave no time to-day to go into de-
tailed statement of these frauds and usurpatons:
have no time to show you how the returning board OF
Florida, in plain violation of the law Of the State in
equally plain violation of the solemn decision OF the
highest court Of the State, threw out sufficient mum.
the State to the Hayes electors
instead of to the Tilden electors, who had been
chosen by the people. Nor how, in like manner, the
returning board Of Louisiana threw out from six to
eight thousand votes given to the Tlden electors,
thereby DISTINGUISHING the people of whole precincts
and counties, and completely reversing the vote OF
the State. Nor how, by vote of eight to seven i'll
the electoral commission. all inquiry into these
frauds and usurpations was precuded, and the doc
trine solenlnly announced and acted upon that no
matter by what frauds matter by what llegahtles,
matter by what usurpations a returning or can
wasting board may defeat the will of the people, the
wrong is remediless, the constitution is poweress,
the people are helpless, and usurpalon mus; triumph
and prevail.
tory; but although the erroneous decision by which
Congress counted in Hayes and Wheeler may not be
reversible that fact only makes it the more inculn
bent upon the people to condemn the decision and
the means by which it was brought about. If such
usurpation can pass without rebuke, it will soon
be vain to talk of constitutional modes and honest
elections. If the will of the people can, with i'm
punity, be oyerthrown by obscure and corrupt re-
turning boards, and there is no remedy for the
wrong, it viii soon be tn. the voice OF OF
the people, that win make your
presidents. AID how long, 1 pray you, could your
government stand under such a system, or what
han
people. My friends, if the people ever condone this
great sin, il they pardon the guilty men who
per. etrated it-and nearly every one OF whom has
boen rewarded by Office under the administration
the most sanguine advocate of popular government
will have reason to hang his head in shame, and
doubt the possibility of its success. Yes, my fell
ment, the question whether is possible to maintan
it, and to maintain it in pu ity is now on trial before
you. As You love the institutions bequeathed to
you by the fathers. you reverence your Consttu-
ton and value your freedom you esteem virtue
and detest all wickedness, you are bound, i'll no un-
certain tones to manifest your adherence Of the
great usurpatiOn.
). Another great topic remains to be considered,
and When shall have offered some brief observa-
tons upon it, rny task will be done. Fellow citizens,
nothing in politics seem more certain to me than that
the Republican leaders rest their hopes of prolonga-
ton OF their power upon the that may attend
studied and energetic effort Their part 10 excite
and perpeuate sectional feeling. And nothing seems
to me more Unwarran5ed, unpatrotic and detestabe
than this scheme. 1t is not enough that the Sonth
has frankly and manfuy accepted the results of the
war; that, waving all questions to the mode of
their adoption, voice is raised against the
binding force of the Cons itutional
amendments; that every law passed by radical
Congress- however doubtful its consttutonality, or
manifest its Justice aud nlpolicy, is nevertheless
obeyed that des re for harmony and peace and a
determination t. aid in the preservation of the Union
are Enthusiastically and plainly the dominant sentiments
of the Southern paope-a this Is not enough to
deter the Republican managers from resorting to all
the weapons in the arsenal Of the demagogue, by
which sectional hatred be aroused nd perpetu-
aed, and solid North thereby created to rule with
rod OF iron PROSTATE South. 1t is thirteen years
since the close of the war, thirteen years since hand
was raised word VAS spoken against the preser-
yation of the Union, and yet articles written
and srieac..es made by men, prominent il
the Republican PARTY, the bitterness Of which IL
scarcely paraiie,ed by anything that written
said when war fragrant aud the Union in
danger.
Fellow citizens, nothing unjust, NO thing
more unpatriotc, nothing more injurious to the
peace, welfare and prosperity of Republic nothing
more clearly demonstrative of the necessity for a
change of rulers and the inauguration of an Of
justice and fraternity than is afforded by these facts,
can be imagined. Do You wish the Union preserved
together by the ties of fraternal
feeling and common interest, a.
well AS by constitutions and laws. Do you revere
justice and advocate equality of rights? Then sup
port the party whose banner Justice and Equali-
y are indelibly inscribed. Do you wish to the
country strong and prosperous? Then support the
pelcy that shedding it's benign influence upon every
part, gives irresistible strength and universal well
being to the whole.