The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-07-31
SH Z: r MAN.
/. of the Secretary Of the
easury at Portland, Me.
cent Revival by the Democratic
of the Doctrine OF State Rights.

of the Doctrine Of State Rights.
y-CITIzENs: I accepted the invita-
our distinguished Senator to speak in
of Maine during my brief vacation
,ial duties, mainly that I might pre-
u the mode by which, in spite of much
a, United States notes have been ad-
par in coin, and some reasons why
IS ought hereafter to be redeemed in
demand of the holder, instead of
formerly, irredeemable, deprecated
0nored. You will naturally expect
public officer, to speak mainly on this
ed financial topics connected with my
tiles.
fore doing 80, permit me to say that
questions involved in our political
q fall more important than those OF
~ or soft money, greenbacks or bank
REVIVAL OF OLD ISSUES. ,,y
at liberty to choose the theme most
to you and to the whole people of
States, would present the recent
the Democratic party of the South
10 of States rights. This doctrine
ne evil genius of American politics.
4 Of hostility to the Union. 1t was
k of American slavery. 1t poisoned
ged a large section of the country.
name of secession it led to the late
md aimed to destroy the Union by
med conflict with the National Gov
Every life that was sacrificed and
that was wasted in that war were
ruits of this doctrine.
tkes the form of nullifcation-not
n by State officers, as when Gen.
rottled it, but notification by mem
1gress, the sworn agents and officers
neral Government. These officers
ender essential powers of the Ma
,rnment, nullity it's laws, cripple it
g its conceded powers, and make it
ate instead of a National Govern
che arrogance of their power one of
rs declared that it was their fixed
wipe out every vestige of war legis-
ief effort in the last two sessions of
as been to nullify a law of Congress
or an honest election of members of
a law passed in pursuance of a plain
If the constitution, declared by Mr..
be essential to the preservation of
lment; a law which has been sane
eight years of practical execution,
been appealed to by both parties,
'titutionality has never been disputed
'ts, and which is the only guard pro-
Congress to protect citizens of the
ties in the elective franchise. The
for multiplying this law was made pos
! united South united by terror,
I'd fraud, and by crimes that disgrace
i. Over the white men at the South
willing to acqulesce in the results of
united South practiced social os-
I'd violence. Over the poor blacks,
ITS were granted, and, as we foolishly
efficiently secured, by the constitu-
ampled with midnight murder and
lie, and last year it capped the climax
l frauds more shameful than the bal
fling and repeating of Tweed and his
ring in 1868.
members of Congress who were con-
lected by tissue ballot-box stufing =
st form of crime against the elective
participated in refusing the neces-
)priations for the support of the Gov
Unless the President would approve
of the election laws. When, by the
If the President, they failed in their
ct, they sought by conditions in appro-
ills to compel him to agree to nullify
olation of his oath of office.
5he President again defeated this
: his veto they refused to appropriate
enforce the judicial mandates of the
ont, and the United States courts are
erless to enforce their DEGREES, or to
cess, or to keep the peace unless the
serve without the pay fixed by law.
y majority of either house may null
w and destroy the Government. We
Il such dogmas were overthrown by
iments to the constitution. Such a
sanctioned, will nullify the amend
d is more dangerous than secession
utilization. 1t is revolution and an
dent purpose of those now dominat-
Democratic party is to belittle and
jhe National Government, to elevate
ism above natiOnalism, to weaken
vt binds this vast. country into a ma
lat the winds and the waves of faction
, upon it and shatter it. Gen. Wade
is reported to have said that he does
neither the candidates are hard money
)ney, so they are Democrats. A few
s from the North, elected upon any
or artifice whatever, give them, with
south, the control of the Electoral Col
If the Senate and House Through
8, conducted in secret, and controlled
the most violent men, in which the
h has the majority, they hope to rule
country, and sap and mine all the
ndations Of the power and authority
III the National Government rests.
the issue before which questions of
Dor or property sink into COMPARE
ificance. While l intend in the re-
f my remarks to confine myself to
questions, l beg you to remember
attic for national authority, for the
e United States to enforce its laws
ct it's citizens on every foot of land
within it's limits, though once won is
of being lost. Remember that the
ebt, two-thirds of the national taxes,
ction of our commerce on the high
10 sacrifices which accompanied and
the war, were caused by the very
the very men who now seek to di-
questions OF political economy, SO
gh our divisions they may, with I'M
rinciple, seize upon the Government
offended against their Ems by mill
r countrymen. l trust to the we'll
Tiotism of the people of Maine that
iot be diverted by divisions in our
1t money matters while our old enc
wing the lost cause and is sapping
g the National Government
..NANC1AL CONDITION IN 1878. H.
Ill of 1878 there happened financial
of which most of the economic ques-
i which we are now divided naturally
We must understand the natural con-
Kings when this occurred in order to
it'll intelligence the measures thai
a proposed and executed, and the
that still remain open Tor decision.
" then was paper money, irredeema-
\ and worth about 81 cents on the dol.
amount outstanding was larger thar
sc. Sometimes this has been disputed
ng as money at the close of the wal