The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-10-08

red sea of revolution, drenched the land with
blood, buried it with taxes, and draped it in
mourning. Ohio sent 100000 of her bravest
and her best to tread path over burning plow-
shares-for what? In order that the great re-
| public of human rights might not perish from
the earth. The dark eclipse of war could not
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, one of
| the most glorious commonwealth III human
| history Her sister State of Pennsylvania and
every other State which has piled the plow, the
loom, and the hammer every other State
| which before God and man has believed in hui
man equality and in the dignity and the rights
of free labor which has chung to the system
/ of protection of home industries, along with
her has prospered also. But in the midst of
ali this prosperity harsh voice rings through
| the land demanding change. What change
Whence comes this cry for change? VINO
wants a change? Voices, Hancock" "No-
! body" and JEFF Davis wants it. j Well. now.
which do you mean? One says Hancock, and
another says nobody. That makes me think of
neighbor of my friend here pointing to Gen.
Grant,, who told about his horses, and he said
one looked 80 much like both that he could not
tell the other from each. | ask
| change? Is not the debt melting
away? Has not the interest charge-the grind
ing feature, never forget, of all debts0been
falling, falling, falling? Has not taxation
rapidly disappeared Is not The currency
solvent, stable and honest? What is the
trouble? The South wants change. Why?
Is the South unfortunate? Why? Mr.. Presi-
dent, Jonah's gourd, according to the good
book, grew as the South has grown, if we are to
| believe the wonders of the census. South Caro-
lima in ten years has increased 43 per cent. in
population. They are wonderful growing
| people. You know and L know that there is
but one way under God in which that census
can be true, and that is by foreign immi-
| grafton. No. sir, it has been good State
to go from. AS to immigration in South
Carolina let me say in passing that, having
taken some pains to ask, am able to say that
IN ten years the foreign immigration to South
| Carolina amounts to exactly 1877 persons. l
| have read from distinguished sources that this
| census In South Carolina is not impossible. l
say 1t is, for great many reasons, one of which
only am going to give you. Whenever In
| State you find three men where before there
were only two, ninety men where before there
we're only sixty, you may be sure that the pro-
duction and consumption and the hundred
other teltale tests will testify to the fact Here
the speaker gave the production of South
| Carolina for the past twenty years. showing,
as in his New York speech her sad and lament
able retrograde during that time Clement
| Yallandigham had once said in Congress that
politics 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 WE'LL now
| let me say here, see gentlemen close around
me busy with their pens, and / expect to hear
that, even in the few words l have uttered |
have been stirring up the smoldcring embers Of
sectional hate +; that have been fighting over
again the issues of the war ; that have been
making an attack upon South Carolina and the
South.
AS was said in recent letter 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 1 come to-day to lift up my feeble
| voice to you in opposition to that wrong-head-
cd organization known as the Democratic party.
Why, the speaker asked, did the South cry out
against the General Government and the adj
minlstration of national affairs? Had the
| South been unkindly treated? No. Let me
say to you that no purpose is further from my
| heart. No patriotic American, | care not
| where he lives, can wish III or poverty to the
South OF to the East, or to the North, or the
West of our country. Could / sit down and
| rejoice over the poverty, the distractions, the
agitation of the South, should despise myself
Us false son, false to the interests of that
| great State which has SO honored me, and whose
| interests and honor are SO dear to me- But
| truth is q 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 so
| magnanlmOus to vanquished foe. If anybody
did not believe it, let HIM read the terms which
Grant prescribed to Robert Il. Lee at Appomat-
! tox. Robert Z. Lee, who, educated at the ma
| toms cost, and presented with the nations
| sword, drew that sword against the nations
life. When in the hour of humiliation and
prostration he came to surrender, and present.
| ed the hilt of that sword to the great Captain
at whose feet he had been compelled to Law 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
dictate terms, require? When a Democratic
administration falsely declared that war existed
by the act of Mexico, IN order to take IN Texas
and spread the cause of slavery, what tribute
| did America take of that feeble and vanqushed
people, an empire rich beyond all the dreams of
avarice? But when the South was overcome
and 81. $40 paid for every Southern slave, not
a farthing of tribute was laid, no contribu-
ton was levied, not one estate of
rebel was confscated though the fathers
| had not hesitated after the Revolution to con-
fiscate the estates of Tories Not one man was
ever by national authority, after the Southern
| States resumed their relations with the Union
denied the right to vote. The oldest citizen in
| Ohio had been no more free to cast his vote
than JEFF Davis in Mississippi. What, then,
was the trouble in the South? Carpet-baggers
had gone there yes, and most of them with
| knapsacks on their backs prepared to STOP
What of it? Was the Government a jailer to
arrest men for removing from one State to
another? Ever since peace was established
there had always been an ever-begnning,
never-ending cutlery of complaint.
The Democratic party was against every
measure by which the rebellion was crushed
against every measure since the war closed
down to the present time. He would thank
any Democrat ii the audience to tell him what
the Democratic Party was for to-day. Laugh
ter, and voice, "Free trade."l els the Dem
ocratc party in favor of free trade?' asked
Senator Conkling. No, gentlemen on the
same principle that the Democratic party will
not take knife and draw it across its own
throat from ear to ear, il will never dare to go
through the valleys and on the hillsides of Ohio
and say it is for free trade. No, sir, the
sound of the triphammer in Pennsyl-
vania, the hum of machinery, of all
the enginery of industry all over Ohio
from Lake Erie to the South, will stile such cry.
They say they are for revenue tariff mall fair
ness and common sense, what does that mean?
|
what is the sense of such position? Here is
great debt, inflicted by the Rebellion, with its
annual interest to be paid here is an endless
procession of cripples and mourners here are
the widows and children of those who marched
in defense OF the flag and never came back again.
The interest, pension, and expense account
make it necessary annually to levy duties upon
imports. Shall we have tariff for revenue
only to be laid ON tea and coffee, while iron.
wool and agricultural implements, on which we
can undersell England, are to come in free in
order that every man in the United States may
be put down on a Level with the pauperized la
Dor of Europe? No. Senator Thurman of
whom speak with great respect as a man CT
large ability, will never go into Ohio or Penn
sylvama, unless he wants to defeat his ticket,
and declare that he is against incidental pro-
lection to American industry and in favor of
the Utopian doctrine of free trade.
And now will some one say what the Demo-
cratic party has favored in the last twenty
years? IA voice, estate rights."l That's true.
1t was in favor of State rights twenty years ago,
when it scattered your navies broadcast over the
sea, and shipped the Federal arms to South
| Carolina and other States, in order that the ma
ton might be found naked of defense, bound
| hand and foot, so that it might be murdered in
its bed. They Frustrated the Government credit
and hawked it in the street until it tralled in
| the mire. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi,
| was Secretary of the Interior under Buchanan.