Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-15

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what use Is II to allow the attorney for the de-
tendant TO argue before the jury, II, upon the
Jury bringing averdiot Of Mot guilty. the
defendant Is 70 he hanged by the mob2 We
believe, then, in free speech. Speech IL the
wing of thought, and II you will not allow free
speech YOU ure not n civilized people, IN
what part of this country has the sacrcd right
OF free speech bocn preserved; IN the south OF
the North2 IL you want free speech preserved
I'm this country the North must doit We
must do II, and we must not put I'm power the
people who do not believe In that sacred right
The South never favored free speech, never.
Why2 They had there nm institution called
slavery. If they allowed free speech they
know that slavery could not endure, and the
consequence was they closed the lips OF roa.
son. In other words, for every chain they put
upon tho limbs Of slaves they put CORE
~ oudinR maracle upon tho brain OF the white
man. In order to cnslave others they en-
snvcd themselves. Man cannot enslave
another without trampling upon his own man
hood. .,.,.. .. .,.,...... ,.,o .nooo,
but we wish also to preserve the product of
free speech After you have thought, after
everybody has said his say, and thereupon the
people Of tho United states deposit their will
in the balut-box, we want TO feel absolutely
certain that every vote that goes In there rs
honest, we want to feel certain that every vote
that comes out from there ard Is counted is q
legal vote. That Is what we want. or what
use is free speech II tiaud Is to hold IN ,s its
There Is I'm this country one supreme power
and that Is tho lcRaly-cXprcsscd Will OF ma
jorty of our people; and any man who will
poison the source of authority is traitor to
the great principle upon which this Govern
ment is founded Every American citizen
should say. ~ am willing TO abide by the de-
cision of the majority" and when we say that
then we will have n Republic that will endure
for countless years. The people are begin
ming to lose confidence in elections; the pc0-
pie are beginning 20 say, Fraud controls,
rascality elects, and the moment that sus-
| pcion Is well lodged I'm the minds of the pco-
Die then they will have no respect for the laws
made by men who are elected by fraud. They
will have no respect for the decision of Judges
when they believe the Judges were elected by
fraud; and then comes the dissolutionof our
form of government; and then comes the de-
structon of human liberty for hundred
years.
The Republican party has thrown every safe
guard around the bailOt-box in every state in
this Union where any safeguard nus been
thrown. That party has always been in favor
of registration; the Dcnocnlttc party mas al
ways opposed it. That party the Republican
cure AN honest expression of the great viii of
| the people. Every man who Is In favor OF an
honest ballot-boN ought to vote the Republican
ticket; every man in favor of free speech
ought to. vote the Republican ticket. FREQ
speech is the brain of this Republic, and an
honest vote is its fc-blood. There are two
First-I believe in free speech.
SecOnd-I want an honest vote.
Can you trust tho people Of, the South with
| bama keep that sacred Recommendations,
that cast In 1876 about 100000 votes for Tildcn,
but only q little while ago cast Democratic
majority of SCOOP Alabama to-day isa Re-
publican state IL every man was allowed free
ly TO vote his sentiments.
| Mississippi is Republican State; North Car
olina is Il Republican State Florida is n Re
publican state. How are they kept in the
Democratic ranks? They are kept there by
the shotgun, they are kept there by the tissue
ballot, they are kept by fOrcc and fraud. That
is the way the Southern states are kept solidly
Democratic. All, but they say to me-, - Are
you willing that the black people should con-
troll the Solthp' If the black people are in
favor Of liberty, and the white people are OPP
posed, then want the black people to control.
If the black people believe that this is Ma
tion, and the white people there say it is sim
pie Confederacy, thon want the black people
TO control the south If the black people are
in favor of freedom of speech, IL the black
people are in favor of guarding the ballOt-boX
from fraud, and if the white people are on the
other side on these questions then | say let
the black people rule that country. think
| more Of n black friend than | do Of white
enemy. think more of black man who
loves liberty than do of white man who
hates it, think more of IA black man who
upheld our flag in war than of any whito man
who has tried to tear it down. think more Of
the man trampled down than do of the tram.
pier. ! think more of the man stolen from
than do of the thief.
We have not only got to have free speech
not only got to have an honest ballot, but we
have got to raise revenue in this country.
We owe to-day one billion nine million dol
| lars--a Democratic debt. Democracy Is the
greatest luxury we ever afforded We have
got to pay that debt. Whyp If we don't we
will be eternally disgraoed in the eyes of the
worth eighty cents on the dollar every Amer
lean falls twenty per cent below par. When
our our money Il at PR, fr we are we cannot
people, but when our bonds bearing only four
per cent. and are worth 40 in the market, we
| feel proud; and when we go to another coun-
try and sec one of those bonds that bond GER
titles that an American is an honest man.
Who are you going to trust to pay this debt?
Whom are you willing to trust with the honor
| of the United States? The men who defended
her flag will defend her honor The men who
tried to tear her flag down will trample Amer
tCa's honor beneath their feet. Who is going to
pay? The Democrats sOemnly swore that we
| never would pay. In the year of grace 1875
| standing in tho center oftruth and knowledge,
| the Democratic party in every solitary State,
| with the exception OF two or three of the New
| England states, in which 1t held a Convcn-
tion, solemnly resolved that the United
| states could not resume specie-pnyments.
| Well we did. They resolved that the war
was failure, and Immediately thereafter
we succeeded, and the old flag was carried in
glory over every inch of the United states
| They have never made a prophecy that was
| fulfilled. Their prophecies and their prom
as good AZ gold. Who made it 50? The Demo-
| Gratis in their conventions solemnly resolved
that It would never be good. Well, they help
ed little, have no doubt, because every
body knew that what they resolved would not
| be true. All you have to do is to copper q
| Democratic resolution. Now in order to pay
| this debt, il has got to be collected. Who will
| you trust to collect, the North or South, the
Republican or the Democratic party2 The
| DcmOCratlc party has been fasting for twenty
| years. 1t has suffered all the the agonies of
| official famine. The Democratic party to-day
is a vast aggregate official appetite. In four
| years, with the lnternaERevenue Department,
we have collected of internal tax, $3.50, 600. 900
at cost of about three per cent. During
| four years we have captured, destroyed, and
| nbeled 1874 Illicit diStilleries in Southern
| States. We have captured and indicted 7084
| Democrats in Southern States, charged with
defrauding the revenue of the country. The
southern people, resisting the Collectors of
| Federal tax in the last four years, have shot
| and killed twenty-five revenue officials, and
have wounded tifty-fve; and now in the South
| ern States-that is in many of them-every
| Revenue Collector is provided by the Internal
| Revenue Department with a breech-loading
rifle and a pair of rovolvers. Are they the
gentlemen to collect our revenues? win you
| depend upon them 10 pay the interest ON
Sl,4O,O0O.OOO and the current expenses
of this Government 1t won't do. I heard
a story OF II couple Of Methodist ministers who
had been holding camp-meeting and after
they had preached week one said to the
| Good" said he. SO he passed his hat, gave
| Il TO brother, and he passed it around, and
hnally came back and handed it TO the preacher,
and he turned II over on the pulpit, and there
was lot OF old nails, matches, toothpic1s,
| buttons, and not one solitary cent; and the
| other preacher said, looking at 1t: "Let us
thank 'God;" and the owner of the hat said,
what fori' and the other replied, "Becauso
| you got your hat back" II we depend upon
| the Southern States to collect the revenues of
! this country we won't get our hat back.
Then there is another thing we want we
want good money, we want honest money.
l know there have been great many theories
on money, and never knew man that had
not dollar himself who had not scheme to
make somebody else rich These theories
were produced, of course, by the oircum-
stances we went through-the War. We had,
as they say, plenty of money: that
! is to say we had no money; plenty of prom
ises, but no money; plenty of notes, but no
! cash. and while we were sailing on II credit we
sailed well, and rs long as / can buy all want
| on credit my family shall not suffer. We
| were going into debt, and as rule it Is an
| exceedingly prosperous time in a mans life
when he Is getting into debt. AS a rule il il an
| exceedingly hard time when he is paying this
| debt. Millions and millions of promises were
! issued. The result was that prices went up
! Just in proportion as the value of the prom
ises went down. Expansion is always at the
| expense OF creditors, and when the wheel of
| fortune takes turn, and contraction comes,
that is always at the expense Of the debtor.
NO man can imagine, all the languages of
| the world cannot express what the people of
tho United states suffered from 1873 10 1879.
| Men who considered themselves millionaires
| found that they were beggars. The chimneys
| grew cold, the fires in furnaces went out the