The Princeton union., 1880-10-14

Marshal should be sent out to bring him
in. But about that time the Marshal
sSss1Sd ssa wh1 %S fsnd thas sa Marshal
WAS so busy getting bayonet ready to punch
into you that he hadn't time to serve writ.
The New York Democratic party, represented
by that eminent statesman who was not nomi-
mated the other daytn Cincinnati, met at Albany
and resolved upon the sanctity Of State rights
that no sovereign State could be coerced
and one of the leaders, more emphatic than the
rest, said that, if the attempt was made by Lin
coin and his followers TO use force to put down
the rebellion, the guillOine 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
to overcome 10000, ,oo66 # they bad not relied
upon the division and distraction at the North
caused by the Northern wing of the Democratic
party2 In 1854, when the Rebellion was gasp
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 tor 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 q success, and as
political success it was complete failure.
But, having said that, they nominated,
General, though the trick, 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
(Hpnora1 n 1o1 kt,o .
habeas corpus, proclaimed martial law, and put
in armed troops as supervisors at the polls. A
man insured his house because it might burn.
without making any charges of q want Of
patriotism against the Democrats now, the
speaker advised his hearers in case they were in
doubt:as to what might happen to take out a
policy of insurance and let well enough alone.
1t had been said-he was glad to remember 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 tho 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 q faded remembrance of tho
thing it was. Senator Conkling directed the at
tention 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
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 denouncine the
national-banking system. They had simply Il
pledged themselves anew to the traditions of
the party-traditions under which was warmed
into hfe that painted lizard called secession, the
reptile which a million men went out to bruise and
crush under their heels forever The Indiana
Democracy, however, we're professedly in ia
yor, not Of volume of currency gauged BY
supply and demand, but of one to be arbitra-
rily fixed by Congressional caucus. Since
Adams fall the wit Of man never invented .
more pestlent heresy than that the yard-
Stuck 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
field and kept the flag flying? Whose
President was it that said, 'sNowhere in all
our borders shall the sun ever again rise upon
master or set upon slaveY Who rebuilded the
Governments in the South and lifted up the
1at,op.s nate n , credit in the face OF repudiaton2
VINO mad made the paper dollar as good as
gold? BE had read q statement Of Speaker
Randall that the Democratic party had
economized, actually denied themselves and
larry gone without the bare necessi-
nes 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
tho Government unless the Election laws we're
repealed. That year they saved money. It
lust so happened. however, that Congress
son4 election was coming on. But, as pre-
acted py the Republicans, the saving was over.
come BY the subsequent Deficiency bin, until
the total was Larger than the year before, as
the tota! 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.
It SO happened, however, that the country had
good crops before the resumption Of specie
payments: Without such law as 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 this2 What party had opposed it2 He
| challenged any one TO name single instance in
which tho Democratic party had not carped At
and hindered any and all Of these great meas
! uCes. H was the sad misfort1na AZ fhia fina