New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-07
spEECu on CONGRESSMAN WILLIAMS.

SPEECH OF CONGRESSMAN WILLIAMS.
CONGRESSMAN Charles q. Williams Of Wisconsin
said:
SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS OF NEW YORK : 1 have been
invited by your committee to say word here tonight.
but am sure | shall make announcement that you
will all be glad hear While have been casting
IN my mind what might say to You. have come TO
the conclusion that when the soldier speaks TO The
soldier. the citizen aud the civilian Should be silent
have been lost in wonder and admiration at this
meeting that FOR the uoment had forgotten that my
name was list Of speakers From the time
your borders it given out that there might he
dissatisfaction some col0ues the state OF NewYork
Using the old familiar ana threadbaTe simile let
say that If NewYork is dead TO Republicans this year,
il is the lveliest corpse have tins ten years.
[Laughterl Waen crossed the Western border we
were greeted with the OF cannon. the waving OF
banners ami he huzzas OF the muttudes that the
very heavens. [Loua cheersl had thought Of speak
ing here OF my feelings IN realizing that stand
the commercial centre OF the Nation, the future
trOpOs OF the world for as the ships come up from the
sea, trains GENE mp from the land depositing ana
gathering The wealth OF q century. Aud if there Is
any skilled and trained in the laws OF business and
of trade he is the man best qualified to manage the
al tirs Of Manhattan Island Such know the safe
Of stability they know the danger Of uncertainty and
doubt And believe that the citizens OF New
York want to again the time when Black Friday
swept through this magnificent metropolis, when the
lights I'm your manufactures went out, when
your laDoIers were turned starving into the
street when the storm centre OF panic was over
this city and over all the and-for your city is the
cisl heart or the Nation. There Is rot furrow nrret
not an enterprise started in ali America but what adds
TO the strength and grandeur and the prosperity of the
CITY OF Eew-Iork. know you will help MS
see II in these Intelligent faces
see that tie feeling that thrills your
present prosperity your doors must he supported and
maintained: have no mfgiVings bnt as General Hair
spoken of bear story let me also refer oa well
known bear story, and say at II Ne@-1 orGers ere
not going to heip us. | say with~the man who was
oOruered the voice Lord help us n Won can; but II
you cannon, stand aside ana YOU viii see the best ngat
you ever saw in your me" tiaughter.I
dnrlng the past foIty-ciglt hours The leaders
OF TIE Republican party. ans, therefore, the
cnss this propositions with all your liberty with all
your eOni la ion the dividing line again
ae colossal idea u the South again eoarou Is u.s. ed
We nave met fV4eHnly to discuss whether 1t is
best % break tae line or abandon tho South
ton III the South since te close OF the war 1900
men have sOt death for daring to
rights of American eiuzens. wtht you to swear
citizens By The G. crna principles OF justice; appeal to
YOU soldiers, by lie memory OF your dead comrades by
the every soldier that hobbies on cane or cluch
by every mothers broken heart bY every vacant chr
Dy all that can swear BY 10 re Give
mere. thar, unacr tle Constitution, and by
legal met l0ds; tbis Solid South shall be biOXcT IN
pieces lLoud 8Pplause swear that by every effort OF
yours bT speech alone bat by private conference
and by private exbortstion. pot only that Gar
but that Congress stall go INFO power which shall ~
members Of Congress, but by The rule and right of
Justice when they present iers CREDENTIALS sre 70 IL
particle OF franz Load apllause And swear Ggain
nat this year snail end t6o farce 81 the rf,derates
gross. men they would not conqaer IT IN the bloody
fields VI war.