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SPEECH OF HON. G. G. VEST. |
At Mercantile Library Hail. st.
| Louis, Wednesday. sept. 26th.
| Hon. George A. Madill, on opening
the meeting, said: "My fellow-citi-
| 7eus Il am authorized on behalf of
, the democratic association of this
| city to announce the fact that the
Hon. Thomas Allen, of this city, has
consented to address that association
on Saturday night next at Jones HAL
i'm this CITY, commencing at O'Clock,
and to extend cordial invitation to
the public to be present to hear Mr.
Alien on that occasion. | am also au-
thorized on behalf of the association
to announce the fact that Governor
Hendricks has consented to address
the association during the coming
month of October. ICheers.l
Now, .entlemun, have the pleas
lure and honor of Introducing as the
orator of the evening our distinguish
ed w-citiZen, whom we all Know
by reputation, whom many OF us
know personally, and whom every
body desires to hear upon the p0lltl-
cal questions of the day, the Hon.
George G. Vest"
Colonel Vest, on rising was greeted
with loud cheers. lie spoke as foi-
lows:
Mr.. Chairman, gentlemen of the
Democratic Association and my TEL
Iow-cItizeus OF st. Louis: Permit
me in the first place to tender my
sincere thanks to the Democratic As
,ociatiou of st. Louis, for the courte-
sy extended to me in their invitation
TO address them, and | trust that il
will, not be considered inappropriate
or out of taste, if before | commence
discussion of the great questions
now before the American people fol
their decision, allude briefly to GER
lAlll mat tCl W ii' SviA A'A S-''
canvass.
IT. was said bv that et.>":yi" S''
talented kentuckian, Ben Hardin
. that whenever you entered an orchar'
if YOU desired to find the tree tina
!. bore the best fruit and the most OF II
= look for that tree around which yo
could tiud 1.-The most sticks aud til
most rocks" IApplause. For Sal
c he. "nobOdv ever throws u stuck or
1 rock at q tree that bears no fruit.
g Under that rule am Tonight tn
II most fruitful politician i'll Missouri
G. Laughter and applause.
HIS DEMOCRATIC RECORD.
p 1t has been mathematically esta
h. lIshed by correspondence of the
.. Louis Republican that am no long
s. democrat, and never have been ol
= [lauehtcrl, and II have ever mss!
q n single canvass in the state OF MI
q souri, in which | have not been
~ the front for the democratic party
N do not. tonight, rccoiiect that Ca
Il yass. 1t has also been charged tn
III | am a social and political agi'atc
and a Mr. Westbrook, or Westco
of this city, am not accurate aho
his name, charged at Troy, in l.
coin county, that | was ali agent
the boudholders! | never saw
United States boud i'll my life, a
never knew man that owned o
TApplausc and cheers My rersol
nabits are so atroCious that no defe
whatever is admissible; and lat
the Hon. j. Milton Turner Taught
rx-minister to Liberia, eX-candid
tor congress, and prospective oni
States marshal under the coming
miuistration of Ulysses 5. Grant,
ith done ME the honor to declare l
,nSs. either fool or liar, ana has C.
ikKs ,enued me to joint discussion VI
. the subject cf negro suffrage! lau
- ter.
nave been prosecuted by all
- tionalities, without regard to CO
sex or previous condition OF Sc
tude TIauuhterl, and the Hon.
James o. Br0adhead aud the
senator Francis NJ. Cockrell
taken charge of the white brigad
this warefare on
THE SUBJECT OF NEGRO sUFFR.
and have felt themselves called ,
to declare that the negro qucs
should not be re-opcned in the
of Missouri. And the New
papers, instigated by the St.
., R.publicau and these dislingui
democrats, have taken up the
cry, and if we are to believe
teuth of what we hear now, C
solitary negro patriot III the sta
-, Missouri will be disfranchlse'
fore the setting of tomorrow
ate Laughter.
My feilowcitizcns, haV
sort of objection to Colonel Is
head aud Senator C"ckreii ere
and creating as many ideal wind
on the subject of negro sufira
they may please to create, and
ing at them 10 their hearts col
!, But most persistently, mos
act spcc,fullv and earnestly p
against being made responsible
Ouixotic chivalry Of either of
gentlemen. have made no at
to reopen the negro question
state of Missouri, and the mai
asserts it asserts falsehood,
charge it here Tonight dellbe
no aud openly.
4 to In my speech at EastOn,
ul seems to be the salient point
tack by these gentlemen, | said
what say here and now, that
;. original proposition, | would
and have given the righto suffrage
negro. Applause And ha
it on the hustings in every por
Jus, Missouri, that. as All original
is. sition, | would never have IL
100000 unprepnred voters IN
suffrage of this country; never
l spoke of the negro question
ton mot as the gentlemen have
in their partisan press, and i
:, BOOTS ueciara'iohe-no. .n" 49,,
STONE suffrage away from Tue heSf
ght as low day hecause it cannot be done
Row. '' 80 .,T,,,, ou,o,, frr
PILES and cannot TAKE suhtaSe a"o A.,
=: man, white or black, III this