The Princeton union., 1880-10-14

md FREQ labor. Ohio, the child Of Virginia, =
the precepts ana examples Of the mother state.
The people who came here Of I'll nationalities
were bound BY ono common tie they wursbtped
one God under different forms, and they be-
ieved In the batherhood Of God and the broth
erhood Of man. Here, on this soil, parent and
child have illustrated two opposing systems
Of civilization Ohio, respecting the.dignity Of
labor, believing honest labor the true founda-
ton and passport to; an real progress
and greatness. has risen like meteor
into the very zenith Of the great republic
Virginia, believing that labor is degrading, that
drudgery is menial and base, that capital Should
smothered IN the pool Of servile labor. One OF
these systems has prospered exceedingly Tia
other system has been enervated. has remained
PROSTATE, has cursed and Febelled, and al laat
drowned itself and slavery In It's own blood.
Hand in band with respect for labor has gone
lean system. That is system of LAYING duties
on imports so % to tax those which come in
competition with our domestic indnstries
What has been the result of this? Diyersiaed
enterprise. The farmer has found at his own
door market for bis productions, and the
manuiacturer has sold to the farmer, and
American labor has found reward, not in the
starving wages Of the Old World, but in wages
which could buy the comforts and the luxuries
Of life. 80
In the inexorable logic of events twenty
years ago one OF the systems Hiumphed in the
choice OF national rulers. By q clear. plain
majority the people chose for President Abra-
ham Lincoln. You may well cheer him, for
Lincoln was one OF those who darken nations
wher they die. The Virginia system refused to
abide by the result and uplifted the bloody
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red sea Of revolution, drenched the land with
blood, buried it with taxes, and draped il in
mourning. Ohio sent 100000 of her brayest
and her best to tread path over burning plow-
shares-for what? In order that the great re-
public le Of human IN rights might not perish from
put out the bright torch Of liberty, Of freedom,
and of equal rights for man. And Ohio has
continued to prosper, until she stands to-day
one OF the grandest, one Of the freest, ono OF
the most glorious commonwealhts in human
history. Her sister State Of Pennsylyania. and
every other State which has piled the ploy. the
loom, and the hammers every other State
which before God and man has believed in hu-
man equality and in the dignity and the rights
OF free labor which has clung to the system
OF protection Of home industries. along with
her has prospered also. But in the midst Of
oil this prosperity harsh voice rings through
Whence comes this cry for change? VINO
body" and "Jeff Davis wants it."1 Well. now.
which do you mean? One says Hancock, and
another says nobody. That makes me think of
q neighbor OF my friend here [pointing to Gen.
one looked so much like both that he could not
toll the other from each. I ask
you who wants change, and what
change? Is not the debt melting
away? m p. . Has not the interest charge grind
falling, falling, falling? Has not taxation
rapidly disappeared2 Is not the currency
solvent stable and honest? What is the
trouble? The South wants change. I7hy2
Is the South unfortunate2 Why? Mr. Presi-
oent, Jonah's gourd, according to the good
po0k, grew as the South has grown, if we are to
peheve ,: the wonders of the census. South Caro-
una IN ton years has increased 43 per cent. in
population. saey arc wonderful growing
out one way under God in which that census
can be true, and that is by foreign immi-
slauon' No, sir, it has been a good State
20 60 from. AS to immigration in South
ta,, tUa,rollna, let me say in passing that, having
taken some pains to ask, I am able to say that
IN ten years the foreign immigration to South
Carohna amounts to exactly 1877 perssns I
have read from distinguished sources that this
census In South Carolina is not impossible.
say IT ls, for great many reasons. one Of which
ON ohiy am going to give you. Whenever in
otate you ind three men where before there
were only two, ninety men where before there
were only sixty, you may be sure that the pro-
dtlctlon and consumption and the hundred
other tetale tests will testify to the fact [Here
Ihe speaker gave the production of South
carolina for the past twenty years, showing,
as in bis New York speech, her sad and lament
abie retrograde during that time.] Clement
Va!landigham had once said in Congress that
polltlcs was King. Politics had been too much
King IN South Carolina. Had there been more
OF disposition after the war to go to work and
pay less attention to politics there would be an
Increase. and no such attempt as this to over
count the people for political effects. Well, now
lot me say here, see gentlemen close around
me busy with their pens, and expect to hear
that, even in the few words have uttered, I
have been stirring up the smoldering embers of
again the issues of the war that have been
making an attack upon South Carolina and the
South.
AS was said in recent retter by the illustri-
GUS citizen who presides here to-day, not more
for the sake of the North than for the sake of
the South do come to-day to Lift up my feeble
voice to you in opposition to that wrong-head-
Why, the speaker asked, did the South cry out
against the General Government and the ad-
ministration of national affairs2 Had the
South been unkindly treated2 No. Let me
say to you that no purpose is further from my
heart. No patriotic American. I care not
where he lives, can wish i'll or poverty to the
South, or to the East, or to the North, or the
West of our country. Gould sit down and
rejoice over the poverty, the distractions, the
agitation Of the South, T should despise myself
as false son, false to the interests Of that
great State which has 80 honored me- and whose
interests and honor are so dear to me. But
truth is torch, and the more you shake it the
brighter it burns.
Nowhere in earthly annals was there an in
stance IN which the victors were SO generous, 80
magnanimous to vanquished foe. If anybody
did not believe it, let him read the terms which
Grant prescribed to Robert K. Lee at Appomat-
tox. Robert E. Lee, who educated at the ma
TONS cost, and presented with the nations
sword, drew that sword against the nations
life. When in the hour of humiliation and
prostitution he came to surrender, and present
ed the hilt of that sword to the great Captain
at whose feet he had been compelled to lay it,
the victorious General of the Union said
"No; put up thy sword go and sin no
more" Uncowed in their defeat, they were
told to go home to their fair fields, and make
them blossom as the rose When Napoleon
made his raid on Germany and failed, what did
Germany, with the Emperor and Bismarck to
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