Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-08-13

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We lost many noble lives and expended
vast sums of money To- settle this question
and to-day we believe that We are a nation. |
| heard a Senator say some time since that he
was an ambaSsado from a sovereign State
| Let him raise tine flag Of Georgia and see how
| much protection it will afford him. You
might sail around the world with all the flags of
| tine South. and YOU would not get a salute from
| pop-gun, but hoisting the flag OF the Union
| instead, YOU at once command the respect of
| all nations. They can talk about state
| Rights, but we will show them that We are a
Nation. The Republican party has made
some mistakes, and one OF the greatest was
when it failed to cXecut" enough Of those frl-
| lows to make treason serious matter in their
eyes. To-day they are Dragging. and some of
the Northern men are craving their pardon
| for being loval.
The speaker then arraigncd the Democrat
| ic party for attempting to pass the Warner
! Silver bill, by which the Spectator could get
one dollar for eighty-siX cents worth of silver
bullion. and the laborcr. no earned dollar
would only receive eighty-six cents for his
days work. We now have IN honest dollar:
| don't tampcr with it, but let well enough
alone. 1t is said that the miss Of the re-
publican party is ended and it ought to die
II ever political party was ready to die. as
party; but we won't do it for we have made
other arrangements. 1t is the only party on
the face Of the earth that has not single I'M
redeemed pledge. our last pledge was re-
deemed on the first day OF JANUARY ls7a: we
resumed specie payment What would You
say of a corporation, which, after man had
bought them a mill, increased the value of it
every year and paid them dividend annual
lv should say; your mission is ended, we
don't want you any longer One of our men
was sent to prison some time ago. is now out
and we propose to put him in your place, al
though you have done your duty in the most
praiscworthv manner" You would say that
the members of such corporation were good
subjects for an insane asylum. When the
republican party took charge Of the Govern
nent we had no power or money, but il has
continued to elevate it; until to-day we are on
the pinnacle of fame and have made record
that ~ i'll 20 down IN history Bur iht mrs
sion Of lhi, party j. not ended until wc can
90 from Maine to Texas, advocating Repub-
licanism, without fear of molestation. You
are now called upon to show the world on the
sth of September where Won stand. and be-
lieve that the people OF Maine will show that
they think this is a Nation, and that they arc
in favor of an honest dollar.
Gen. Sheridan, on being presented Ia the
audience, wa, received by them with rounds
of applause. He said that lie presumed it
was not expected that he should discuss State.
issues, for he was almost II total stranger in
Maine. He had heard something Of Scion
Chase and of Thing, something of the steers
and of the COW hide boots but he had con-
cluded he thought more of the steers than of
Solon. After speaking briefly in similar
happy vein, he proceeded to consider in an
able way the record and present had cond-
ton of the democratic party. The great
question was whether the national govern
ment should be given over to the democratic
party, or restored wholly to the republican
party. All other questions revOlvcd about
this.
He next entered upon the financial qucs-
ton, setting forth some of it, phases in
striking and popular manner. In order To
finish the war some debt was necessary. but
the single object OF the republican party had
been to save the country with rs little money
as possible. To show that the nation would
be able to pay its debts he portrayed in most
eloquent manner the resources of the coun-
try. lie showed how the interest on the debt
of the nation had been reduced bv the repub-
lican party. He compared the different views
of the greenbackers in the different States to
show how inconsistent they were, and con-
cludcd the subject by saying that the green
back belief seemed to be that the chief end of
man was to find fault with someone. They
were in an awful fix, and everything would
go bad till they got all the offices. To Illus
trate how lightly the public debt hears on the
people he showed that the annual amount of
interest per capita. was less than that of any
other European nation, except Germany and
Russia. II was the same as to the running
expenses of the government. He demolished
in most forcible way the fiat theory. show
ing that no nation in history was ever able to
sustain such delusion Being resident OF
the South, he was amply fitted to discuss the
questions pertaining to that section in the
candid and feeling manner he did The
whites and blacks should stand or fall togeth-
er. If arguments weuld not work. then they
! could again resort to the bayonct. He por.
traved in an elovuent manner the virtues and
the sutierings OF the negroes