The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-08

1 rest said that, If the attempt was made BY Lin
/ coin and his followers TO use force to put down
the rebellion, the guillotine would be erected on
! the soil of New York and blood would stain the
/ ground of that Commonwealth
Senator Conkling asked his hearers if they
| had ever thought how such talk had stimulated
| the Rebellion The North was powerful IN re-
sources and all the means to conquer with.
\ The reverse was the case with the South.
| Could 100000 Of people, without mechanic
/ arts or the means of supply, IN themselves hope
to overcome 2O,0O0,000if they had not relied
| upon the division and distraction at the North
/ caused BY the Northern wing of the Democratic
! party? In 1864, when the Rebellion was gasp
4 ing for life, it was Wigfall who said they would
/ water their horses in the Hudson river and feed
| their troops on the money taken from the Bos-
! ton banks. When they had fought for three
/ years. and defeat stared them in the face, they
/ met in National Convention and de-
/ clared the war a failure. That resolu-
] ton, as a failure, was a success, and as
/ a political success it was a complete failure.
/ But, having said that, they nominated,
! just as they had done now, Union
! General, though the trek, even then, proved
/ too thin. The General issued no order
! No. 40, putting manned and helpless
people at the mercy of the mob. He arrested
/ the whole Maryland Legislature; however
something rather vigorous for Democratic
/ Major General to do: suspended the writ of
! babeas corpus, proclaimed martial law, and put
/ in armed troops as supervisors at the polls. A
4 man insured his house because it might burn.
| Without making any charges of a want of
patriotism against the Democrats now, the
/ speaker advised his hearers in case they were in
doubts.as to what might happen to take out
! policy of insurance and let well enough alone.
! 1t had been said-he was glad toremember it
! that Democrats fought for the Union in the
/ war. So great majority of them did, and were
! deserving of all honor John A. Logan, of
/ Illinois. was Democrat before the war, but
| when the Southern wing of that party drew the
! sword against the Government it took him not
! the twinkling of an eye to decide which side he
| was on, and when the war was over Democracy
! had become to him faded remembrance of the
! thing it was Senator ConklIng directed the at
| tenion of his hearers and particularly those who
will vote for the first time this fall, to the fact
that it was the Republican party which had
carried ON the Government during the war and
! maintained the public credit and the nations
| honor both then and now. It was Ohio that
gave the country Secretary of the Treasury in
the person of Salmon P. Chase. The Democ-
| racy of Ohio this year, somehow or other, had
! failed to pass any resolutions denouncing the
| misunderstanding system. They had simply
| pledged themselves anew to the traditions of
| the party-traditions under which was warmed
into life that painted lizard called secession the
reptile which amiilion men went out to brUse and
crush under their heels forever. The Indiana
Democracy, however, were proressedly in fa-
vCF. not of a volume of currency gagged by
supply and demand, but of one to be arbitra-
rly fixed by a Congressional caucus. Since
! Adams fall the wit OF man never invented a
more pestilent heresy than that the yard
stick was to be longer or shorter more or
less, depending upon the changing schemes of
partisan politics. Who invented the banking
system which swept away the wildcat and red
dog banks of the country? Who passed the
laws in Congress which set the squadron in the
President was it that said, "Nowhere in all
our torders shall the sun ever again rise upon
master or set upon slave?" Who rebuded the
Governments in the South and lifted up the
nations credit in the face of reputation?
Who had made the paper dollar as good as
| gold? He had read a statement of Speaker
Randall that the Democratic party had
economized actually denied themselves and
fairly gone without the bare neccssi-
ties of life till they had saved up
enough and squeezed out enough to enable
them to resume specie payments. Their econ
omy was of the sort which threatened to starve
the Government unless the Election laws were
repealed. That year they saved money. 1t
just so happened, however, that Congress
slonal election was coming on. But, as pre-
dlcted by the Republicans, the saving was over
come by the subsequent Deficiency bill, until
the total was larger than the year BEFORE as
the total this year was larger than the total
appropriations of the last Republican year.
He also understood Chairman Randall to say
| that good crops had insured specie payments.
1t so happened, however, that the country had
| good crops before the resum ton of specie
| payments. Without such law a. the Resump-
ton act, first outlined by Gen. Grant, how could
paper be made equal to gold, whatever the
character Of the crops? What party had done
all this? What party had opposed it? He
| challenged any one to name single instance in
! which the Democratic party had not carped at
and hindered any and all of these great meas
ures. 1t was the sad misfortune of this time
that the South was the Democratic party, and
this seemed odd when it was remembered that
the population of all the lately-seceded States
the United States He had been at
tackled for making this statement
by Democratic paper, which chose to
regard ii as an outrage. But this was matter
of business, and the question being to what
party the country should be turned over. He
claimed the right to inquire into the position,
aims and hopes of the party which now sought
the control of the nation. While the South
represented but Is per cent of the total pop
ulation, it represented per cent of the as
sessed valuation of the American people, It
| controlled both houses of Congress- and was
now endeavoring to make its control complete
La voice" They can't do it'll Trey would do
it, too unless ON the I'd of November a consti-
tutional majority say no. IA yoice-"We are
gong tot hope you will" said Senator
! ConEling. "But I never consider anything
done until it is finished"
The Senator substantially repeated that por-
ton of his New York speech bearing on the dis
appearance of the Republican vote in the South,
the control of the Democracy in both houses
and the use they had made and would be liable
to make of the power. "And let me tell Gen.
Hancock" he added, "and those who support
him, that, should he be chosen, whenLe becomes
President, he will be as clay in the hands of the
! potter as the sheep before his shearers. He
was dumb and opened not his mouth"
In closing Senator Conkling said "You
have nominated as candidates men who have
proved their intelligence and fitness in con-
! splcuous spheres of public action. You have
behind these candidates party which has been
all the time for twenty years in the public view.
| The tiercest light that ever beat upon throne
is not brighter than the light in which the Re
! publican party has continually been seen. You
have arrayed against it a party which has been
over and over again weighed in the balance and
is wanted below. Now, fellow-citizens, am GO
ing to leave you. | am going to give this easy,
restful and comfortable place to one better
able than | to occupy it. Before go, howev-
er, REMIND you LnaC Napoleon SAID TO his SOL
diers in Egypt "From these pyramids forty
centuries look down upon you" / tell you that
all the centuries look down upon this great re-
public. From the sepulcher of buried epochs,
from the tombs of nationalities that have gone
down in darkness and in blood, from every
cline where human rights are trodden under
foot from the Old World from distant China
and japan, from underneath every sun beneath
whose beams humanity struggles, there comes
prayer and hope for u.s. 1t is not that we
may fight. The world has seen us fight. No
nation in Christendom will ever seek a quar-
| rel with you, the men who carried the starry
banner from the st. Lawrence to the Gulf
The battles which were fought, the display
which was made of the terrible enginery of war
satisfied every people from the rising of the sun
even unto the going down of the same that
when they would seek quarrel the republic of
America was not the nation with whom to seek
it. The centuries which have gone. the hui
mainly which struggles and prays for the right
of free self-governnlent which we enjoy does
not pray that We may exhibit more military
prowess, but prays that we may have peace
! and order; that we may pursue as a band of
! brothers, with common ties and q common
nationality, with civilization broad enough
to embrace all ages and all races, the care of
which stretches out before us, and which, pur-
sued, will give to America career of prosper
/ ity, of grandeur, of primacy of glory, never
| approached by any of the empires of the earth.