Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-24
CONKLING OM THE STUMP.

MENsE AssEMBLAoE AT THE NEW YORK
ACADEMY OF MUsIo-A soATHNd EXPOSURE
OF DEMOCRATIC PLANS AND PRETENsIoNs.
Hon. Roscoe Conklin g's first speech in the
present campaign was delivered on Friday
evening of last week, in the New York Acad-
emy Of Music. The audience which gathered
to hear this speech is pronounced the most
notable, both in numbers and character,
which ever convened on similar occasion in
New York city. Thousands went away unable
to gain admittance. The leading points in
the senator's address are given in the follow
ing extracts
The Address,
The general issue confronting us is in itself
and in its bearings sectional. l would, and
you would it were not so but it is 30. II in
one portion Of the country one party outnum-
bers the other, even by overwhelming odds,
the fact need not be blamable nor proof of
sectional aggression but if in any section a
party gains and keeps control, not by num-
bers, not by honesty and law, and then, sitting
free discussion and action, attempts TO grasp
the government Of the whole country, the
proceeding is sectional, guilty and monstrous.
In twelve States of the Union the approach
ing election is TO be no more than farce un-
less, as has sometimes happened, it be turned
into tragedy. There is to be no free debate,
no equal rights no true expression, in these
States and in several States the clear major
ity is TO have no deciding power-not even a
chance in a rattle such as that in which lots
were cast and the booty divided the other day
between Tammany hall and the upper air and
solar walk reform Democracy. Senator
Hampton largely promises 40, 600 Democratic
majority in South Carolina, where the actual
majority is 10000 the other way. In several
Southern States there is large, we'll known,
often-ascertained Republican majority but
all Southern States alike, without exception or
doubt, are relied upon to count on the Demo-
cratic side and to score 1888 electoral votes
lacking but AZ of majority of all. The
causes of such n condition, and the conse-
quences If it succeeds, are matters which no
sane, intelligent man can put out of view and
yet he who discusses them must be told in the
coarse parlance of the day that he "waves
the bloody shirt" 1t is a relief to know that
this phrase and the thing it means is no inven-
tion Of our politics 1t dates back to Scot
land three centuries ago. After a massacre
in Glenfruin, not so savage AZ has stained our
annals, 220 widows rode on white palfreys to
Sterling towers, bearing each on a spear her
husbands bloody shirt. The appeal walked
Scotlands slumberng sword, and outlawry
and the block made the name of Glenfruin
terrible to victorious Clan Alpine even to the
third and fourth generation. am not going
to recte horrors, nor allude to them, nor 10
the chapter Of cruelty they fill nor TO retry
the issues of the war. My purpose is quite
different. 1t is to show, if l can, what is ac-
tually at stake now, who and what the CON
tending forces are, how much the result may
mean, aud which way prudence and wisdom
point
GEN. GRANTS LETTER HIS TEXT.
You have listened to letter from one to
whom at least rs much MS to my other man
the nation owes its preservation, prosperity
and primacy. This letter, instinct with com
mon sense, hits the nail on the head. Its
writer generally does hit nails, rebellions and
pretenders on the head He says
This meeting should awaken the people to
the Importance of keeping control of the gov
ernnent in the hands of the Republican party
until we can have two national parties every
member of which can cast his ballot as judg-
ment dictates, without fear Of molestation or
ostracism, and have it honestly counted par
ties not differing in opinion to whether we
are nation, but Rs to the policy to secure the
greatest good to the greatest number Of its
citizens. Sincerely believing that the Demo
cratic party, as now constituted and controll-
ed, is not tit party TO trust with the control
of the general government, believe it to the
best interest of all sections, South as well as
ceed in November. Yours very truly,
U, s. GRANT.
Lord Chesterfield said that letter shows
the man it is written TO as well as the man it
is written by. This letter bears Lord Ches-
terfeld out. II is written to Gen. Arthur,
and it reveals the confidence and esteem in
which the writer holds him. Informed by
many years of intimate acquaintance, Gen.
Grant know and felt, as We know and feel,
that he was writing not only to a friend but
to one OF the most genuine, patriotic and
honorable Of men.
THE SOUTH CONTROLS THE DEMOCRACY.
As the Democratic party is constituted, not
the men of the North, not the men who were
for the Union and the constitution, but the
men of the South, who were against the I'm
ion and the constitution, men whose policy
and purposes are still hurtful to the country,
are bound and predestined to control Dem
ocratic administration and a Democratic Con-
gress. In the Senate and in the House, the
South has an overwhelming majority of the
Democratic members, and most of them are
men who led in the rebellion. Every party
measure in Congress is settled in party caucus
by party majority thus the southern mem
bers hold absolute sway. In possession of
the law-making power, of the purse, and Of
the power to confirm or reject treaties and ap-
pointments the South is also to furnish all
the votes to elect the Democratic candidate,
save only the AZ votes which must be rafled,
or counted, or certified, or produced from the
Northern States, particularly not excepting
Oregon. Should the election be Close there
is no knowing but the two Democratic houses
may find ground on which to throw out a
part or all of any States electors With
much unemployed leisure on their hands,
with the danger which the electoral commits
sion of 1877 alone overpassed, for that time,
staring the country in the face, these Demo-
cratic houses have adopted no measure to in
sure order and right in ascertaining the result
of the presidential election. Should contro-
versy arise and the election be thrown into
the House, there, the vote being taken by
States, the South would cast nearly all the
Democratic votes, aud in the Senate the vote
for vice president would come from the same
source. In every event of Democratic sue
cess the southern end of the Democratic
party must be TO the northern end as the loco
motive is to the tender, as the horse is to the
cart This is as plain as any truth in grayita-
tion or arithmetic. Perhaps this point will
seem to you to challenge some attention. For
the population of southern States, We must
go back to the census of 1870. That count
of the people was made by enumerators not
selected by southern senators and members of
the House MS mon -partisans" and profession
al reformers 1t was made by the regular
mArshals and their deputies, and the compen-
sation was so adjusted as TO induce thorough
visitation, and at the same time to guard
against exaggeration of numbers. No impu-
tation of fraud was ever cast upon the work.
The suggestion now is that the census takers
of 1870 under-counted their neighbors. Paid
by the head and by the mile, not by the day,
it is now alleged they robbed themselves;
they neither travelled nor counted nor oharg-
ed for doingit. They were ''carpet-baggers,
too many of them, in the south their States
were Republican, they had their ambitions
and motives for increased political numbers
and power, there was not the remotest danger
of any direct tax and yet, with nothing to
gain and everything TO lose, they wronged and
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