Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-01

Charles R. spiegeI Benjamin J. Stone George H. Palmer.
 After reading the list of officers, Mir. Fow-
 Ter announced that number of business
 men had agreed to be at the polls during the day of election and to work for the success
 of the Republican ticket. He said more of
 this class were needed, and he hoped that others would volunteer so that fair play | might be secured on election day.
 Another song by the Glee club followed,
 after which Mir. Fowler introduced James D. Dewell, Esq, the president of the meeting.
 MT. Dewen made few appropriate remarks, | and in closing introduced Hon. John Sher-
 man, Secretary of the Treasury, .'who, as a
 friend of the business men, had brought or der out of chaos.''
 MT. Sherman, on rising, was greeted with
 loud cheers, long continued. When they
 had subsided he proceeded with his address,
 and spoke in substance as follows:
 MT. Sherman's Speech.
 Ladies and Gentlemen-I regret that I
 should be called upon to speak on this occa-
 sion to an audience of my fellow citizens
 with my voice so weak and broken by con-
 tinued use in this campaign. Isayto you to-
 plight, fellow citizens, that I believe Connec-
 ticut is to follow in the wake of Ohio and
 Indiana on Tuesday next. (Applause.) If
 Connecticut goes Republican on Tuesday
 next the country is safe Ohio at her State
 election gave largely increased majorities, and Indiana, one of the border States, elect
 ed the gallant Porter by large majority. I believe, fellow citizens, that the election of General Garfield is already assured Gap plause), and although my voice is broken, can come here, the home of my ancestors, and say to you the country is safe. Loud cheers.) The resolutions of '9S and '99 have brought upon us all our troubles. We be- ieve this is a government for the people. The national government provides for a Congress, for courts and an executive branch of the government and we believe the tions laws are ample to protect the people in all their rights. The party dogma of '98 declared that this government was made by States, but we don't believe in that doctrine, as it seeks to weaken and cripple the govern ment. This marked division enters into and controls every phase of American politics. John c. Calhoun in 1880 built up the doctrine of State rights He went to South Carolina where there was strong opposition to the tariff, and they attempted to nullify the laws of the national government But Andrew Jackson said to Calhoun t'You do what you propose to do and will hang you, by the eternal !' Then nearly all 1.-the States were Democratic. But this doctrine of State rights had entered the southern mind, and gradu- ally the northern States left the Democratic party Down to the time of James Buchanan this doctrine of State rights had increased until it culminated in the rebellion. It cost us 800, 900 lives to put down that rebellion. We have no bitterness growing out of that result, but am not sure but that history will say that we were too magnanimous and that we ought, in the language of the John Brown song, to have hung Jeff Davis to sour apple tree. But what do we see to-day? We see. fellow-citizens, this same doctrine of State rights cropping out again. Without wishing to dwell long on this question I de- sire to say that our work will not be com | pleted until every obligation in the constitu- | tional amendments are carried out to the | very letter. CGreat cheers.
 Now let us take up the money question. | Why was it that during the many years the | Democratic party was in power we had no | national paper money? Because they said it | was contrary to the resolutions of '9S. | When the war broke out we had the worst form of paper money ever issued in any country. If this money came from Indiana you would not give anything for it. If man started to visit his ancestors, he would not by the time he got here have anything left. It was easily counterfeited, much more easily than the Democrats have done in try ing to counterfeit the name of General Gar field eGreat cheering). say to you my before high heaven, that had intended to vote the Democratic ticket I