The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-24
ROSCOE COXKLING.
His Great Speech in tho Academy
of Music, New York,
Sept. II.
Issues Of the Day Presented in the
Strongest Light Yet Thrown
Upon Them.
The Perils of a Solid South, Which
Hancoclzs Election Makes
Permanent.
Arguments That Cannot be Answered
and Facts That Cannot be
Denied.

Denied.
FELLow-CITIzENs Whoever is given greet
ing and audience in such presence ought, in
deed, to have something worthy, something fit,
and something wise to say. Inadequate in all
save only grateful and respectful appreciation
must be my return. We are citizens of re-
public. We govern ourselves here. No pomp
Of eager array in the chambers Of royalty awaits
the birth Of the boy or girl to WELD an hered-
itary scepter. Whenever death or revolution
pours on the oil of coronation we know no scep-
ter except a maioritys constituted WILL To
WELD that scepter in equal share is the duty and
right, nay he birthright, Of every citizen. The
supreme, the final, the only successful arbiter
here is the baIlot-box, and in that return should
be gathered from it, should be sacredly record
ed, the conscience, the judgment, the intelli-
gence of all. The right of free self-government
has been in all ages the bright dream Of OPP
pressed humanity, the sighed-for privilege to
which thrones, dynasties, and powers have
80 long blocked the way. France seeks it by
Forster, Secretary for Ireland tells the
peerage of England it must take heed
lest it fall, and Westminster and
England ring with dread echoes of applause
but in the fullness of freedom the republic Of
America is alone on the earth, alone in its grand
eur, alone in its blessings, alone i'll its promises
and possibilities, and, therefore, alone in the
devotion due from its citizens. The time has
come when law, duty and interest require the
nation to determine, for at least four years. its
policy in many things. Two parties exist
parties should always In o government of the
majorties, and to support and strengthen the
party which most nearly holds his views is
among the most laudable, meritorious acts of
an American citizen and this whether he be in
official or in private station. Two parties con-
tend for the management of national affairs
One or the other of these two contestants is sure
to manage the nations concerns for some time
to come. The question is, Which of these two ia
it the wisest to trust2 1t is not question of
candidate. The candidate if he be an honest,
genuine man, will not seek and accept party
nomination to the Presidency Vice Presidency.
or Congress-, and after he is elected become a
law unto himself. Few things are more despic-
able than first to secure elevation at the hands
of party, and then, in hopes of winning pre-
tentious non-partisan applause, to affect stlpe-
rior sanotity and meanly to imply that those
whose support and confidence were eagerly and
deferentially sought are wanting in purity pa
trotism, and other titles of respect The higher
writing and signed and sealed. They reside in
honor and good faith. The fidelity of a nomi-
nee belongs to the exalted class, and therefore.
candidate OF party is but the exponent of a
party. The object of political discussion and
action Is to settle principles, policies and issues.
1t is paltry incident of election affecting So
100000 of people that decides for an occasion
the aspirations of individual men.
The Democratic party is the Democratic can
didate, and ! am against the ticket and all its
works. The general issue confronting us is in
itself, and in its bearings, sectional. would,
and you would it were not so, but it is so. If
in one portion OF the country one party out
numbers the other, even by overwhelming odds,
the fact need not be blamable nor proof of sec
tional aggression; but if, in any section, any
party gains and keeps control, not by numbers
not by honesty and law, and then, sitting free
discussion and action, attempt to grasp the
Government of the whole country, the proceed
ing is sectional, guilty and monstrous. In
twelve States Of the Union the approaching
election is to DO no more than farce unless. as
has sometimes happened to be, turned into
tragedy Thereis to be no free debate, no
equal rights, no true expression in these
States, and i'll several States the clear majority
is to have no deciding power not even a
chance in rattle such as that in which lots
We're cast and the booty divided the other Gay
between Tammany Hall and the .upper-a;r and
solar-walk reform Democracy Senator Hamp-
ton largely promises 10000 Democratic majority
in South Carolina, where the actual majority is
10000 the other way, In several Southern
States there Is q large, well-known and often
Nscer,alned Republican majority, but all South
ern States alike, without exception or doubt.
are relied on to count ON the Democratic side
and to score. 1873 electoral votes lacking but
forty7seven OF amajority of all. The causes of
such a condition. and the consequences if it
succeeds, are matters which no sane, intelligent
man can put out of view, and vet he
the coarse parlance of the day, that he
"waves the bloody shirt 1t is relief to re-
member that this phrase and the thing it
means is no invention of or politics. 1t dates
back to Scotland, three centuries ago. After
massacre at Glonfllin, not so savage as has
stained our annals, go widows rode on white
palfreys to Sterling tower bearing each on a
spear her husbands bloody shirt. The appeal
walked Scotland's slumbering sword. and out
lawry and the blockmade the name of Glen
fruin teIible,to the victorious Clan Alpine even
to the third and fourth generation. l am not
going to recite horrors nor to allude to them
nor to the chapter of cruelty they fill, nor to re-
try the issues of the war. My purpose is quite
different. 1t is to show if can, what is actu
ally at stake now ;-who and what the contend
ing forces are !; how much the result may mean.
and which way prudence and wisdom point,
You have listened to letter from one to
whom, at lea { as much as to any other man,
the nation owes its preservation, prosperity, and
supremacy. This letter, full of common sense
hit the nail onthe head. Its writer generally
does hit nais--robellion and pretenders
the head. He says e This meeting should
awaken the people to the Importance of keeping
control OF the Government in. the hands of the
hepublican party until we can have two ma
uonat parties, everylnember of whichcan cast his
Dagot as his Judgment dictates, without fear Of
moIestauon on ostracism, and have it honestly
e9unted--parhes not differing in opinion as TO
Whether we are nation, but as TO the policy to
secure the greatest good to the greatest number
OF It's citlzens. Sincerely believing that the
democratic party, as now constituted il not 4
fit prty to trust with the control Of the Cen
eral Goyernment, believe it to the best inter-
osls OF all sections, South as well as North. that
Ine hePuohcan party should succeed in Novem-
Der. Yours very trnly, U. s. Grant, rT FY Z.
Lord Chesterfield said that a letter shows the
man 1t Is written to- as wel as theman il is writ
ten by. his letter bears Lord Chesterfield out
1t Is written to Gen. Arthur. and il reveals the
confidence and esteem inwhich the writer holds
him, Informed by many wears of intimate no.
qualntanee. Gen. Grant knew and felt as we
know ana ieel; that ne was writing not only to
a friend, but also to one of the most genuine
patriotic, and honorable of men. This letter
furnished a text for many sermons. The Demo-
cratic party, as now constituted and controlled
howitis constituted and controlled! There ia a
vast mimi or of NJ right, patriotic men in it, vast
number of men who gave all and did ali thew
should have given and done to uphold their
Government and their flag in the supreme and
dire hours of trial vast number who i'm
perilled their lives as other Democrats laid
down their lives for their country. MANY
Northern Democrats who cast ali their
weight and sympathy on the nations side after
the war was over returned to their former
party associations. Many others never aid a.
return. Were such Democrats to guide and
influence Democratic Congress ana a Demo-
cratic administration, their party would not be
constituted and controlled" as it is Because
such men and their views and interests will not
and cannot control in the event of Democratic
SUCCESS much grave peril arises. As the Demo-