Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-12
SECRETARY THOMPSON.
BIS RECEPTION AND SPEECH YEsTER.
FAY AT TIE CAPITOL.

Hon. R ". Thompson, Secretary of the Navy o
the United States, arrived this city yesterday b.
the 11:30 A. N. train from an Francisco, accompa
MED by his two daughters aud other members of hi
party. He was met by committee consisting o.
| Senator Booth, 7. B. Mcfarland AID N L. Drew
who escorted him to the State Capitol The Assem-
bly, Chamber was filed by large audience embrac
ing all the delegates to the Republican State Con
vention and many citizens Of Sacramento. AT l2:lt
P. N. Senator Booth called to order, and with
cordial word introduced Secretary Thompson, who
was received with long and loud applause.
The meeting of the most representative
ever held in the State, as it was also one of the
most enthusiastic. Secretary Thompson is q
speaker of profound interest He is eloquent
clear, concise, forcible, and his voice and manners
are possessed Of magnetism which draws the
auditor to him and enlists the warnest sympathy
and the closest attention of hearers His speech
was, the finest campaign Grafton heard in sacra-
mento for years.
On being introduced, Mr.. Thompson addressed
the Convention:
just long enough to form admiration for its peo-
pie, and he should carry the news back home that
the Republican party of California is wide awake
tApplausel The Republican party has managed
but during the revolt of the maddened elements.
The present prosperity of the country is due to the
efforts OF the Republican party, and that being So
there IS no need OF calling in the aid of those who
are opposed to its policy. There is no nation on
earth SO prosperous this, none which
exercises much influence as this American
nation, and that is due to the efforts Of the Repub
lcan party. The Democratic party is utterly uu-
able to manage the affairs of fifty millions OF peo
pie. They have had to seek for success through
course of negative measures pulling down what has
been built up. Whatever measure has been pro-
posed in relation to the currency has been opposed
by them Every effort to build up commerce :;
every effort TO protect the American laborer from
the pauper elements OF Europe, they say the Con-
stitution does not authorize it. According to the
Democratic ldea, the only power the Government
has is to collect money and pay il out to the people,
and they have not been in Office for twenty Years
1t IS time for change Laughter He believed
that the Government has the over to do what
ever Is best for the welfare OF the land Whenever
the Government has departed from the objects for
which the fathers founded it, then comes misfor-
tune.
lie then took up- the doctrine Of State rights as
opposed TO the great principle OF self-government
Every principle adopted by fathers for the man.
agement of the country is an democratic, and has
en- set aside by them for that miserable pretense
OF craftsmanship, the doctrine of Srate rights He
held that the General Government is supreme and
that the States have certain rights under the au-
thority of the Government. THIS ia not a confed
eracy, IL is nation lApplause.l
This same doctrine crops out in this contest The
contest naugurated by the Democratic party in 1871
involved this same principle in regard to the resolu
tons of l1oS. This was the right Of the State to
de ide for itself whe her law OF Congress was con-
stitutional. These resolutions had been forgotten
and would have slept in ettrna oblivion had it not
been for the Democratic party, who the great
growth VI the North, and in ordes to secure power
it became necessary 10 hold out that bait
The sie ker said he Virginian, ilnbued with
the State pride which imbues the sons Of v,rgnan
SOIL but his fathers came from the Old stock OF the
Revolution, ant he was taught to believe that this
Government not made for "a plaything for the
States, but that it was nation, grand al d noble
J. immense applause That doctrine Of the Virginia
resolutions eliminated i'll secession. The people of
the North were not inclined to modest slavery But
the South assumed that by the election of
Abraham Lincoln slavery TO be meddled
with, ard they appealed from the YER
Get not to Court, but 10 arms.
It was father against N, and brother against
brother. He had kindred i'll that war, but his pa
triotism triumphed over i. Who pnt down that re-
belionf The people, not the politicians. The Boys
in Blue put it down. Republicans and Democrats
for, thank Ged, there is patriotism in the Demo- |
cratic heart, If you can only get at t-put it down.
Applause.l 1t was put down amid a fierce and |
fiery opposition, with an enemy in front fighting |
ike men, and an enemy in the fighting by mid
night, doing all they could to aid the enemy OF |
that insidious force that enemy in tie rear, he |
didn't know OF one o. them who was not a Demo |
crat. [Applausel The Democrats declared that |
the war was a failure. Why Simply because cur |
ediitht ilau been beaten BACK III some battle.
They were not stimulated by patriotism. But tie
people didn't heed tEem, and when under the lead |
ership OF the silent man horseback Applause and
cheersl who breads no foe on earth lappiausel who
makes the welfare Of the country The polar sar Of
his conduct Igreat cheering, who cooly declared
hat be would fight it cut IN that |
line ii it takes la Summer applause, !
eY declared the war was not failure.
hat rebellion cost six Thousand millions Of money,
and that debt would never have been inherited but
Tor the Democratic party. President Buchanan left
the treasury bankrupt, and the bonds to carry on
the war were worth Is per cent But the people
stood it. They didn't STOP to inquire what the
srcenback was worth. 1t had the stamp Of the in
dissoluhe Union uron it, and they took It. ZAP
pause.l Now, under ReIul iean management
one hundred dollar bond at four per cent sid for
Sll0 IN Wall tt eet Ispplause. Why is this SO /
tecause the world believes that the Government is
ln firm foundation and intends to pay its debts
Applause 1t became NECESSARY to strike the H.
lces from the slaves, and for their own protection
they were given the ~ballot IL had nothing to do
with social equality. He had known white men
with whom he woud not associate In the recon-
'tIucLion of the South it was necessary to have a
loyal element TO reconstruct them Loyalty. They
we're whipped but they have not rerented We OF
5he North have forgiven them, God knows but the
trouble Is they have not forgiven u.s. and they are
training their children to believe that the rebellion
vas put down by unholy means. fApplause.I They
say today, as they did in 49, that this Government
IS too strong. 1t is just strong enough to defend
itself, its own life. Who woul have it less strong
Aopaus
III speaker then referred to some of the speeches
oisSoutnern statesmen, Ginning the right of the
states to govern themselves, and commenting upon
It. loyal element had to be employed to recon
struct these States, and it 80 happened that in
Louisiana there was great deal Of trouble because
the people there said they had lost none of their
rights. Congress thought differently, and said
that the State should be governed by loyal men. and
the silent man on horseback was sent down to carry
out the laws. He sent Phil Sheridan. You have
heard of Sheridan. iLaughter.l lie was man not
10 be tempered tn by traitors either in war or in
peace. ILaugflterI He went there and proceeded
him and undertook to set himself up in opposition
to the laws Of Congress He accused Grant of
ialsehood. Grant could not enter into a contro-
yersy and he wrote back, " did not say any such |
thing" [Aprlause.l He would not cast any re-
Elections On johnson. but he would say that when |
Johnson shall have been forgotten, the name of u
5 Grant will BE- llsped ~ our children. IGreat ap.
palse
He only found one, OF all the line of Union officers |
whom he sent there who would carry out his policy
Winfield S. Hancock. [Applause.l He discoy- |
cred, as soon as he got there, that everything was
serene AZ May morning Hancock, who proposes /
t. put the civil above the military power removed
two Republican civil officers and two Democrats |
were elected by the people there to take their |
places But Grant was terribly in the way OF those
fellows, aud always will be. He lnterfered and |
stopped it, and Hancock got disgisted and asked to
be retired, and he was retired and that ALL The
speaker subscribed to Hancocks doctrine in relation
to habeas corpus and the right Of trial BY jury but
when the nation is in peril, aud an enemy is about
to strike, tbs power TO suspend these laws must be
acknowledge. Andrew jackson, the old pattern |
was the first 10 suspend the writ, |
and there is not Democrat who has not |
etretched his thrat vide as horse |
collar in advocacy of the conduct of the old chief
tain ruese things must exist. The nation must |
have tie power to protect its hte No man
must wait to DE struck down before he can strike |
in self-defense GApplause.
The speaker cid he honored General Hancock for !
his services In the field. But the General could not
help it, He the child Of the oy | Government, |
raised and educated by the Government for a sol. |
der, and he was oeig-d t, fight or be dishoEored.
Now contrast. him with CARTEL. lApplau.el He