Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-18

ANA THESE rtpreSSlN6 anu OppIeSSlNel
laws were the prime causes that led to
the Revolution of 1776. And it was the
of them that led our faith
ers as soon as they formed our govern
ment to proceed at once to the enactment
of protective policy. The ninth bill
into the first American Con-
gress-a bill framed by James Madison
of Virginia-waS bill to encourage and
protect American industry against the
of Europe. Our fathers
wanted country with a diversified in
dustry-one that would develope brain
as well as muscle-one that would make
a market at home for what they raised
out of the grOund-one that would be
able to fashion by its skill all the imple-
mentS of husbandry and the aramaments
of war-one that could make its name |
and its flag respected on all the seas and
in all the ports of the civilized world. |
And this policy has been carried forward
first by the Wing party and next by the
Republican party, and it is thel policy |
that has made us the great and respected |
nation that we are to-day. Now, fellow
citizens, do you want to reverse this |
policy? Do you want to break down
this wholesome and necessary diversity |
of industry, and turn the whole nation
into mere raisers of cheap breadstuffs
for England? For myself, l glory in
American skilled labor. | feel proud
when go into the Patent Office at Wash
ington and there view the myriad evil
dences of the inventive genius of my
Icountrymen. l feel a desire to do all l
can to encourage them, and not to break
them down and am glad that this is the
sentiment that actuates the party toI
which | belong.
UNROLL THE SCROLL.
Fellow-citiZens, l said that l was glad
to belong to a party that really believed
in something durable; that had princi-
pies that would at least last all summer;
that would not disappear with frost,
or that would not thaw away in the
spring Tell me what it is to-day that
the Democratic party believe in that is
two years Old? If they have got any
thing in their pasture field walking on
four legs that is two years old, would
like to see it. They have been everything
by turns. They have opposed nearly
even ything that the country endorses.
They were once the hard money party,
now they are for soft money. When
we needed soft mOney-when we could
get no other kind of money in the dread
full crisis of the war, then they were Op-
posed to it. They denounced it as un-
constitutional; said it would be worth
less (and they did their best to make it
wOrthleSs) and now after the war, when
the time comes for US to redeem our
promises and make it convertible into
the money of the world, they say that it
| is the best money in the world, and that
we ought to issue it without limit. l
wish could let down great scroll in
the dark background of this great audi
ence, and let the light of these lamps
shine on it, and induce some good Demo-
crat to write thereon, in the sight of this
gathering, the record of the Democratic
party. 1t would be a record on which
the American people might well gaze
with wonder and humiliation. There
you would see in great letters the words,
Opposed to human liberty; opposed to
the protection of American industry !;
Opposed to the supremacy of the Nation
al Government; in favor of the Dred
Scott decision, that carried slavery over
every foot OF American territory; in
favor of a State cOercing the National
GJvrenment; in favor of secession and
rebellion opposed to the greenback when
| it was needed, and in favor of more of
them when they are not needed opposed
to the constitutional amendments it 1868
when they denounced them as 'revOlu-
tiOnary and void and in favor of them
in 1882 when they nominated Horace
Greedy for President; opposed to negro
suffrage when they expected the negro to
vote the Republican ticket, and in favor
of it whenever they can cOerce his vote
and count him in as the basis of increas-
ed representation i'll Congress.
This part of the unSaVory record of
the Democratic party. How does it
read to your eyes? Who is here Dem
ocrat tonight that will stand up and
say that he believes now in what the
party has professed to believe from time
to time in the past?
| Now, in contrast to this, unrOll the
Republican scroll. 1t blazes all over in
letters of living light, with glorious SEN
timents and still more glorious deeds.
Opposed to the extension of human Sla-
very into any Territory of the United
States. Who will go back to that prin-
ciple of 1860? No one. Opposed to the
wicked Dred Scott decision, that negro
has no rights that white man is bound
to respect Who would now deny his
opposition to that decree? No one.
Opposed to nullificatiOn, secession and
rebellion. Who goes back on this grand
feature of the Republican record? No
one. In favor of fee speech and free
ballot wherever the flag of the Union
floats. Who denies the faith in this re-
spect? No one.
No, fellow citizens, the Republican
party has record that will live on the
brightest pages of our history. 1t is the
record not only of principles but of
principle. 1t is the party of American
honor, American unity, American ma
tionality, and American industry.
EXPLOITATION TO YOUNG MEN.
There are no doubt many young men in
this great audience who on the second
Tuesday of October will cast their first
ballot. Let ME say a word to them.
Don't, my young friends, make a mis-
take as to wheoe you pitch your tents.
1t is serious thing to make great
mistake in your political principles.
Don't pitch your tents in a graveyard
of repudiated, dishOnOred and buried
ideas. Don't go among the tOmbS of the
Democratic party for congenial stand
point. Read the inscription on those
tombs before you make your decision.
See that black monument there-black
marble-sable in all its outlines-and
read these words: SACRED to human
slavery, loved and cherished by the
Democratic party in its life and mourn
ed and lamented in its death" See the
shackles of four milliyns of human be-
ings lying around the base of that mon
ument, struck off their limbs by the Re-
publican party and placed around that
monument to warn all young men
against pitching their tents on such I'M
hallowed ground. See that other monu-
ment close by-and on it read these aw-
full words: SACRED to secession and re-
bellion, inaugurated by the Demscratic