Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-07

son was then president of the United States,
and when that state raised the flag of rebel.
lion against this government Andrew Jack
son said that if an attempt was made to re.
sist the laws of the United States, Shy the
Eternal" he would hang John G. Calhoun,
the father of that doctrine. [Applause.
And all the people knew that he would do
it, including Mr.. John G. Calhoun.
[Laughter.] And from that day forward it
nation. We remained under the conviction
that We were q nation until after the repeal
of the Missouri compromise, when MULTI.
cation again raised its head. took my
seat in the senate of the United States for
the first time on the 4th of March,
MED that we were nation. At that time
the daily and hourly threat on the
floor of the senate, on the floor Of the
house-everywhere throughout the capital
of the nation it was said, if you do this, or
They proclaimed that state sovereignty
overrided national sovereignty, and tb at
any one state in the Union had the right to
overthrow the government That culmi-
mated in 1861 in a revolt against the govern
ment, Whatcareful preparations had been
made for that revolt! During the fOuryears
preceding 1861 our arms were scattered
mostly among the southern states, your
navies were scattered wherever the winds
blew and waters were found, your national
credit, which stood high in 1857, was SO alb.
solutely destroyed that in February, 1861,
your bonds bearing six per cent. interest,
payable in coin, were sold at SO cents on the
dollar, and no takers, for the whole amount
of your credit was destroyed, and you were
in no condition to 60 to war. But Eyou
went to war notwithstanding these dis.
advantages. You fought the wary
through to successful issue. When
the rebels surrendered at Appotomax
they admitted that the United States was a
government. Laughter &!d applause.]
They said, we have submitted this question
to the arbitration of arms, and we admit
that you have conquered, and we surrender
to this nation. At that time these rebels
made no claims upon this government.
They had pledged, and in the very ordi
nances of secession which they had signed,
they had pledged<heir lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor to the overthrow of
this government; and having failed, they
had lost their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor. Laughter.] They made no
they had no rights against this government
They asked, and humbly asked, the boon of
their miserable lives, and that was all that
they did ask. [Laughter.]
Mr.. Chairman, SUCH magnanimity as was
exhibited by this nation on that occasion,
the world has never seen. We gave them
their lives, restored to them their property,
and, finding them naked, we clothed them,
and restored them to citizenship. They
were bound by the laws of nations and
by the laws of war for q thousand years to
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that rebellion. [Arplause.] Every single
dollar. They had fought and lost, and
every dollar they were bound to pay-all
the expenses of that war. We, in our mag.
nanimity forgavc them the debt, and took
them back and took them to our arms as
brethren, and now, in 1879, what do we
find? The same identical issues
that were presented to us in 1857
are presented to us now. After twenty-five
years from the time first took my seat
in the senate, 80 back, and what do
identical measures, l find oeing pressed
that were pressed then. ihe men have
changed, the measures hav not changed at
all [applause], and to-day what do they do ?
They tried war, they und ;rtook to shoot this
government to death Laughter and they
failed. They undertook to capture Wash
ington with arms in their hands; but they
didn't capture it. But to-day they have
captured Washington laughter snd to-day,
while they do not threaten again to shoot
the government to death, they say, unless
you allow us to rule this nation we will
starve the government to death. Laughter
The national life and the national honor
are in greater peril to-day than they were in
1861. Greater peril, l say, today, both the
national life and the national honor. They
said then, unless we can rule this nation, we
will ruin it, and they say the self-same
thing to- day-unless we can rule this nation
we will ruin it. The issues are the same to-
day. Now. to-day eight millions of men,
who were so recently in arms against this
government, absolutely rule and control
the whole legislation of your government.
of white men Of the south control the whole
legislation Of this government. One man
in Wisconsin, whom I will not name. the
whole nation was proud of, for he seemed
to exhibit manhood, although Democrat,
daughter and cries of " Bragg he didn't
stand out, though, but by caucus dictation
he humbly surrende red, and even his name
is forgotten. [Laughter.l
Az said moment ago, we took care Of
this nation When its credit was so low that
it found no purchases for it's bonds. We
we have carried it success fully since the
war. While there was no purchaser for
your bonds in 1861 at any price, to day your
per cent. bonds are selline at $l02% in the
markets of the world, and the credit of these
United States bonds stands higher than the
credit of any other nation on the earth save
one. [Applause]
And, yet, fellow citizens, you say that
the party, having fulfilled its conditions it
ought to die. The mission of the Republic
can party is ended, and it ought to die.
political party that was prepared to die, it
is the Republican party. Long continued
applause and laughter But, fellow citi.
zens, we have made other arrangements.
Renewed laughter.] The great Republican
party, whose twenty fifth anniversary we
celebrate, has accomplished more in
the twenty-five years of its existence than
any other political party that ever
lived on earth has accomplished in thou.
sand years. [App)ause.] 1t is the only
party that ever existed on earth for twenty.
five years that at the end of that period
could not point to one single, solitary unful'
the Republican party to name one singe
pledge that was ever made by the Repub'
lican party it has not to-day fulfilled to the
letter. [Applause
One single word, my fellow-citizens, with
regard to the prospects of our country. Il
has been the custom with our opponents
and particularly those Of the Greenback
persuasion, to say that the people were
Starving to death. Do you know Of any
body in the state If Wisconsin, who is able
to do good days work, that cannot ge
employment to-day? There is not one in
the state of Michigan who is willing t.
work who cannot oct a uOod davis nov fnr {
good days work. As compared with tn,
price of commodities, there hes never beer
\ time when days labor would buy a
many of the nect ssaries and luxuries o
life as days labor will buy to-day. ZAP
plaase.
Tho 2labfarno Mann a ~xon..o.