Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-06-05


hospitality of McGrcgor, to say
that in my opinion he would have
been the last man in all Scotland,
rievcr and cattle-lifter as he was,
to invite aman into his house and
up to his board and then denounce
him for being there.
Mr.. President, would there be
any real danger to the best interests
of this country if it were again un-
der the complete control of the
Democratic party? Surely not
1t is history that this country owes
IFS chief glory and development
in the past to that grand historic
party. But for its sagacity and
patriotism it is safe to say that we
would still be feeble and incon-
} siderable people. The Democratic
party have extended the boundaries
of this Republic from the MISSISSIPPI
pi to the Pacific Ocean. Its policy
acquired the territory of Louisiana,
which extended from the Gulf of
Mexico up the Father of Waters to
the British Dominion, embracing
Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, Kansas,
and all that vast region west to the
Rocky Mountains. 1t acquired
Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Cali
fornia, including their grand cxteEt
of country, plains, rivers, ana
mountains, with all their wealth Of
gold and silver and precious metals,
embracing more than million of
square miles. As now remember,
not single foot of land has been
added to the empire by the Repub-
lican party except A!asba-a broad
stretch of icy waste, land where
frozen earth contends with frozen
water, inhabited by seals and saw
ages, in climate which | have
| heard described as nine months of
winter and three months of damna-
ton colo weather. Laughtcr.]
In addition to this territorial
wealth aud power which Democra-
cy has given to the Republic, its
great lawyers and magnificent
statesmen have it, all gel crations
of our existence been the special
champions and expoundcrs of the
constitution-thc bond of our
Union and the very ark of the GOV,
enant of our liberties They have
striven to have its principles undcr-
stood, its provisions maintained in
their purity, and its blessings ex-
tended to all and great as their
services had been in enlarging our
boundaries, spreading our COM
merce, anG. elcvat;ng Cur diploma
cy abroad, their services to our
people and to mankind i'll ;he OK
altation of constitutional principles
more entitle them to the confidence
of American citizens than all things
else put together. In addition to
their services in maintaining the
constitution they have in the main
been the chief promoters of public
economy and the enemies of cor
ruption. Under Democratic rule
there has been in this country no
Credit Mobilier, there has been no
Black Friday, no Sanhorn contracts,
no robbery OF freedmen savings
banks, no Belknap, no returning
boal ds and no electoral commits
sion nc military interference at the
polls, no test oath for jurors in the
United States courts, no Federal
spies and overseers when the peo-
pie were choosing their rulers
;, And now that we arc seeking to
, restore this state of things and to
, bring back the government to tho
paths in which our fathers trod the
attempt is denounced as rcvolu-
: tionary and the trumpet is blown
. to warn the country that the end OF
all things is about to come, when
4 we trust, nothing is about to come
4 to an end except the domination o
' the Republican party.
c Coming briefly TO the real ques-
), tions, ask why should the law
b authorizing the military to be usco
o at the polls not be repealed and
/, why should the law authorizing
: Federal supervision also be not re-
: pealed take it to be iuLisputa
bly, established without further ar
] gument, that the whole subjec
relating to the elective franchise il
y placed by the constitution unde
> the control of the States, and al
. that the Federal government cal
~ - do is to see that the States, as such
I do not discriminate against any OF
! account of race, color, or previou
: condition Of servitude. This is th
u u whole duty and pawer Of Congress
u as declared by the Supreme Court
. :, When any Republican Senator ha
~ ycntured for one moment to aban-
~ don the line Of iniamatory appea
- to the sectional feeling of the coun
as try, the excuses given for the reten
> ton of this law npon the statute