American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-11
HON. LYMAN TRUMBULL.

His Great Speech Mt lselIcviIle, In.-Th
} Issues of the Campaign Clearly Presente
| An UnsnswerabIe Argument for
Change in the Administration of Nation
nj Affairs.
The largest political meeting held In st
Clair County, ILL.,, for twenty years, took pIac
at the Bellevile Fair Grounds on the 3Oth ult
En- GOV. Koerncr presided. Among tn
speakers were Hon. Lyman TrumbulI candi
date for Governor; Gen. Lewis H. Parsons
candidate for Lieutenant Governor; Hon
| Lawrence Hartman, candidate for Attorney
! General: Hon. Thomas Buttcrworth, Gen
John C. Black, Col. William r. Morrison an,
mastery address dciivercd by senator Trun
bull After thanking tie audience for tn,
In grateful terms to the many manifestation.
OF confidence he had rec eived from the peo
pie of st. Clair County during his long resi-
dence among them, Mr. Trumbull said:
| <A POLITICAL RETROSPECT
| iieiore proceeding to discuss the questions
inquire Whether there is any thing in the
| present attitude of parties which requires a
RepubSftn OF 1896 or is9o to support that party
| iuqufring what the distinctive characteristics
| of the Republican party of that period were
| and comparing them with its present attitude.
| The Republicans of 1856 declared in their Ma
| tional Platform that they were opposed to
-. to the extension of slavery into free Ter
| ritories; in favor of admitting Kansas a
L o
| eral Government to the principles of Wash
| 1ngton and Jefferson. and that n railroad to
| practicable route, is imperatively demanded
| by the interests of the whole country" The
| nominated Mr.. Lincoln for the Presidency,
adopted substantially the platform of 1856, to-
gether with these two resolutions:
" Fourth-That the maintenance inviOlate of
the rights OF the States, and especially the
| right of each State TO order and control its
own domestic institutions according to its
own Judgment exclusively, is essential to that
balance of power which the perfection and
and we denounce the iawless invasion by
armed force of the soil of any State Ter
rhttory, no matter under what pretext, as among
:" Sirfh-That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravaganza which per-
vades every department OF the Federal Gov
ernment; that a return to rigid economy and
accountability is Indispensable to arrest the
systematic plumber of the public Treasury by
favored partisans, while the recent startling
developments of fraud and corruption at the
Federal metropolis show that an entire
change Of administration is imperatively de-
So Important did Mr. Lincoln regard the
fourth resolution. asserting the rights of the
States. that he Incorporated it in his Inaugural
Address. These resolutions of the Republican
party of 1855 and 1860 distinctly announce the
principles upon which it attained power For
the ascendancy of those principles struggled,
and for all that remain unsettled am strila-
CLING to day. But
HOW MANY OF THEM ARE now LIVING ISSUES,
And of those which remain, how many does
the Republican party of to day represent?
The effect of the Missouri Compromise, which
prohibited slavery north of Sc degrees and 80
minutes north latitude and the question of
extending slavery into free Territories set
tied forever by the Thirteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United states which
declares that neither slavery nor involuntary
whereof the party shall hive beer, duly CON.
victed, sha! exist within the United States or
sas was admitted into tile Union nineteen
years ago as a free state; and the Pacific
Radlroad was completed and has been In
IN hfeh mud oil
tposc questions. The only things left to be
accomplished by the Republican party, as
restoring of the action Of the Federal Govern: |
ment to the principles of Washington and JEFF !!
state to orde.ed control it's own domestic |
instltu5onS1 ding to to ri Gown tH1Knent
i1i!a1 Tss .np To Bic 10 mrrrst me- se
9 ,.nder of the public Treasury by r
trntion to correct the recent startling devel-
npments of frauds and corruptions ut the
measures is the Republican party of
to-day the advocateF Not one. Its
restore the Federal Government to the prln-
ciples of Washington and Jefferson and to
n. the right of each state to order and
its own Judgment exclusively. as little less
the Federal Government, while controlled by
the Republican party of late years. greatly ex- |
celled that of lsbJ. which it denounced, and i'll
IFS frauds and corruptions, notably before the
party restrained by a Democratic House
of Representatives, 1t far exceeded any thing
ever before known i'll the history of the Gov,
ernment. ! need not go into particulafs to
make good these assertions. The average
ordinary annual expenses under Mr. BuchnIl- |
ans Administration denounced by the Re |
publicans of 1850 as reckless extravngance;"
were Sol. s9l .453.40. The average ordinary an
nual expenses under the first six years of
Grants Administration, while the Republic
cans had control of all branches of the Gov
were $40 30, 525 Is, or nearly three
times what they were under Buchanan. In
the meantime the population of the United
the ratio of increase in the ordinary EXPENSES
Of the Government ought not to exceed the
per cent. added to the reckless extrava-
yancc " of Buchanan's Administration would
make but ISL 6l4 3l550 or SIS 6ss 90 Is less than
was annually expended by the Republicans
when in full control from 1859 to ISIS. The
party of the last ten years has
HOSTILE TO THE MEN WHO FOUNDED
han to the principles on which it achieved
success. Seward. Chase. weles. Blair Gree
ey, Sumner, Adams. Palmer, and Il host of
others, among whom might claim to have
,cted an humble part the men under whose
luspices the Republican party chiefly won its | i
anne, ceased to act with it when the war was
,vcr, slavery abolished and the party depart
hose on which it came into power. At no
,erod OF our history have reckless extrava-
ic Treasury by favored partisans been SO :
lagrsnt as during the last term of Gen /,
period that Robson, Williams. Cresweii, De :
ano and Belknap were me mbers of the Cabi- /
let, that tne W nlsky Kings, the INDIAN Kings =
md the Custom house Rings most did flour !,
sh TINT Indian Agencies were sold; that the
fraudulent claims of Secor and Chorpenning q
we're allowed; and such wns the waste and /
hat Admiral Porter testified on oath before Il =
G of the House of Representatives in !
&c., that "our Navy, taken as whole, is :
rorth nothing and the sooner the country :
that fact the better" This was af- !
err Robson had been Secretary of the Navy +,
Or nearly eight years and had used more r
han 100000 600 of the public money. But l.
7hy dwell upon this sickening record? The :,
sorld knows it by heart, and every honest q
nan not blinded by party zeal must blush at h
ts recital. The departure of modern Repub- =
leans in their reckless extravaganza and y
in the lawless invasion by arm T.
d force of the soil of the States of Louisiana =,
ures upon them, and in the l;twless invasion
v armed force of other States, under the pre-
ext of preserving the peace at the polls, are, u
4 the language of the Republican platform OF p
s6O, among the "a gravest of crmes.' Having n
hown that the Republican party has repEdi-
ted its founders and proved recreant to every
mere is no reason of consistency or otherwise n
ny Republican of fifteen or twenty years q
go should longer support it; Its . CLAIMS N 10, to
ebellon and the abolition of slavery, in n
hich the party in its cartier history took SO 4
DuspicuouS q part is likewise false, because :,
5 have already shown, the Republican par
Y under whose auspices those great deeds /,
ere accomplished was controlled by differ Il
mt men and governed by different principles ii
ON what it is Mt present. !,
Nor is it true that to the Republican party !,
even of that period, is due either n
THE SUPPRESSION OF TIE REBELLION fl
r the destruction of slavery. The statement Il
few mathematical facts Will demonstrate /.
lis to every candid mind The popular vote Il
Mr.. Lincoln for President in 1860 was $50, e.
,me election was a,sIO,5OI. While MIR. Lincoln e
as duly elected President by the Electors II
hich each State appointed, he lacked 944 ,l49 h