Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-26
COL. DICKEY,S SPEECH.

On tuesday last Col. DlcKey OF ot.
Johnsbury, addressed the Democratic
convention in this county and for the
benefit of members of both parties we
make condensed report of the same.
The Col. began by eulogizing the Dem
ocrats of Vermont, and showed that they
were about the most immaculate beings
this side of paradise. He traced their
history down through the ages from the
immortal Washington to Pierce. Buchan-
an and Tilden, and showed how peace,
prosperity, and wonderful increase of
population had always resulted from
democratic opportunities. He extolled
the heroes of the democratic party and
pointed out the misfortunes that had
befel the nation under. Federal. Wing
and Republican rule. He stigmatized
the Republicans as the money party. and
blamed the poor fellows for having
little money in these hard times. The
speaker then went through the catalogue
of disasters that had befallen the coun-
try for the last twenty years and made
the wicked Repubs. guilty of all. They
had caused rebellion, and the war for
the preservation of the Union they had
created the great national debt, had
driven commerce from the high seas by
means of the rebel cruisers: they had
been guilty of building the great rail-
roads to California and other western
sections, by which the produce of that
vast region can be sent to the sea, and
were also guilty because they would not
build steamships and other vessels to
carry our products to China, where wheat
sells at about IS cents a bushel this
same party has been guilty of insuring
large amount of greenbacks, and is
now to blame for not issuing more; the
party is to be anathemized for the ma
tional debt which was occasioned in
putting down rebellion, and is to be
condemned for not repudiating the bonds
which it issued in raising the money to
pay its soldiers and sailors; this awful
party is the cause of the depression and
hard times; the sin and wickedness of
every public rascal in the country since
Benedict Arnold, except it may be,
Tweed, is to be laid to the terrible Re-
publicans. The speaker proceeded to
show that the Republicans were guilty Of
all the evils of bankrupt law, and did
not remember that it was made and re-
pealed by both parties he then proceed.
ed to condemn the ELECTORAL commission
which confirmed President Hayes cleo
ton, not stopping to state that the com
mission was the work of his democratic
party. The grandiloquent colonel paid
his compliments to his democratic friends
in other States, and showed how they
were engaged in communism riots, pill
lage and murder during last year-fol
which the lawless Republicans should
bear all the blame. In short, he proved
to the satisfaction of the 'sunterrifed'
that the same execrable Republican par
ty of which there are three times a,
many as Democrats in this county, il
guilty of, and responsible for, all th,
evils of the land from Ben. Butler t.
the tramp and potato bug. During tn
Coloners haste he did not stop to hav
a word of condemnation for the rebel
of the South, who made us little troubl
} during Lincoln's administration, an,
gave no praise to the loyal soldier
who saved the nation from ruin, excep
to refer to the fact that many of tn
war Democrats of this State went t
the war, and that himself, in suprem
devotion to his country s'went all abou
through Orange county urging others
! go to war" Mr.. Dickey was almost a
} patriotic as ARENAS Ward, when
I decided to sacrifice all his wife's relation
) if need be, to suppress the rebellion.