The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-09-04
A SHORT SPEECH THAT RINGS.
Extract from Ew!ng,a speech at Cincinnati.


Extract from Ewlng's speech at Cincinnati.
The Republican party conducted this
government through the war, when two
millions of the Democratic and Repub.
lican youth Of the north fought for and
saved the Union. Cloud applause.) But
since then it has so used the gra titude
of the people for its services, and has 80
stirred up and perpetuated the passions
of the war as to continue itself in power,
while all its energies and = Il it's measures
were directed in fortifying itself against
the very people who put it in power, Zap
plause) Its course of legislation has re-
suited in changing very largely that con-
dition of comparative equality that
characterize ID our people before the war.
1t has resulted in massiug business of
all kinds-merchandise, manufacturers.
transportation, banking-in the hands
of the very few and the very rich, break
ing down the fortunes of men of small
industries, destroying their business and
making them instead of independent
business men, the mere serfs of the very
rich, who have gathered to themselves
the business of the country. applause J
And with the business thus conCentrateC
with the money in the hands of the very
few, represented by over two thousand
national banks, each one the autocrat of
the community in which it furnishes;
and with one hundred thousand veteran
janizaries in Office they feel as il they
we're about ready to hold power against
the will of the people. applause But
the States stand untouched, or com.
Daratively so-the states to whom our
fOrefal hers in framing the constitution
reserved the vast mass of the powers
of the goVernment-and those States are
the nurseries, the training ground, the
abodes of men devoted to popular lib
erty. (Appause,) We hear now the doc.
trine preached unknown and unheard
of heretofore in America, there is no
such thing as state.rights. The Rrpub.
lican candidate for Lieut. Governor
characterized the cheers that went up
at a Democratic meeting, composed very
largely of soldiers, in Z4nesvllle, where
| Was pleading for the reserved rights of
the States, as the rebel yell. A man dare
no longer, in the face of these double
extra patriots, stand up for that very
form of government for which the best
blood of the north was she'd Applause
Gentlemen, trepudiate and spurn this
newfangled loyalty-[4ppIans and cries
of "goou good!'] AS a Uniou soldier,
proud of my service and unwilling to
surrender one jot or title of the results
of the war, denounCe this effort to i'm
pair the reserved rights and liberties of
the States as moral treason to the re.
public. Loud applause, The war WAS
fought on the solemn pledge Of the Crit
tenden resolutions, which passed Con.
gress with scarce dissenting vote, i'm
mediately before the first battle of Bull
Run. What did those resolutions say
the purpose of the war wasP They said
that it was a war not for the purpose of
conquest or subj lgation, but solely to
preserve the uulon, with all the liberty,
equality and rights of the several States
unlmpaired Applause | o. the faith
of that pledge was poured out every drop
of patriotic blood shed from Bull Run
to Appomattax. The inspiration If that
pledge raised all our armie-; it was the
soul of all. 1t growled in every camp.
fire; and hundred from every gun. 1t
Was our cloud by day, our pillar of fire
by night. 1t was, under God, the power
of the war, and bore aloft our fl g af er
every defeat aud won us all our victo-
ries. Applause