The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-22

watcr their horses In the Hudson river and feed
their troops on the money taken from the Bos'
t.pn banks. When they had fought for three
yeSrs, and defeat stared them in the face, they
met in National Convection and de-
clar,d the war failure. That rosolI.
ton. ~ failure, was u success, and ~
A poliS cal SUCCESS it was complete failure
But, having said that, they nominated
lust AZ they had done now, Uniol
General, though tho trick, even then, proyet
No. 40, putting manned and helpless
people ut tfss meicy Of tho mob lilo arrested
tho whols Maryland Legislature, however
something raticn vigorous for Democratic
Major General to do; suspended tho writ d
habeas corpus, ppoclaiHied martial law, and pu
in armed troops M supervisors at the polls. 4
man insured his hOuae because 1t might burn
without making any dhargos Of want o.
patriotism against tho Democrats now, tn
speaker advised his hearers In case they We're II
ho,ibt az 10 what might happen to take out
policy of insurance and vt well enough alone
Il had been said---he wax glad to remember it
that Democrats fought for the Union in tn
war. so a great ma ority OF them did, and wer
deserving OF all honor. John A. Logan, o
Illinois, wax o Democrat before the war; bu
when the Southern wiag Of that party drew tn
sword against the Government ii took HIM moi
| the twinkling Of an cyt to decide which side n
| was on, and when tho war WAS over Democrat.
| had become TO him faded remembrance of tn
| thing it was. senator Conklhng directed the nj
tention of his hearers, and particularly those VIII
will vote for the first time this fall, To the fac
that il was tho Republican party which ha'
| carried on the Government during the war AM
maintained the public credit and the nation
or both then and now. II WIS OHIO tina
bo- he country Secretary Of the Treasury Il
eaysA nof Salmon J.. Chase. Tho Democ
The frfs., this year, somehow or other, ha
.aar, ~ IN, r,HDluIlpiis lcnDuncinu I'm
failed % psss system. They had smpl
natioratbhiiKfW rew to tho traditions o
pledged Themselves a. der which wan warme,
tho psrty-traditorts M. called secession, Tn
into life that painted hlrto. ont to br'iiSe AM
reptile which milionmen ron, The Indiana
crush under their l,ceis fort1efs diy IN IN
Democracy however, wefo irtfAs> 'gcd b.
yor. not Of n yomme of curreitCt n, Ultra
supply and demand, but Of one to h. ~. -
MY fixed by Congressional caucus. hl.
Adams fall the wit Of man never invented 4
more pestilent heresy than that the yard
stick was 20 be longer Or shorter, moro or
less, depending upon the changing schemes OF
partisan politics. Who invented the banking
system which swept away the wildcat and red-
dog banks Of the country, Who passed tho
laws in Congress which set tho squadron in the
field and kept the flag flying? Whose
President WAS il that said, "Nowhcro in all
our borders shall the sun ever again rise upon
master or set upon slayoi" Who rcbnildled the
Governments in the South and lifted up the
nations credit In the face OF repudintion?
Who had made the paper dollar as good IN
gold? lie had read II statement of Speaker
Randall that the Democratic party Ind
economical, actually denied themselves and
fairly gone without tho bare ncccssi-
ties Of life till they had saved up
enough and squeezed ont enough to enable
them to resume specie payments. Their econ
omy was of the sort which threatened to starVe
the Government unless the Election laws were
just no happened, however, that Congress
slonal election was coming on. But, AZ pre-
dicted by the Republicans, the saving was over
come by the subsequent Deficiency bill, until
the total was larger than the year before, a.
the total thiG year was larger than th6 total
appropriations OF the last Repitbheah year.
He also understood Chairman EaInial to say
that good crops had insured "pecie paymenta;;
II 50 Unopened, however, that the country had
good crops before the resum ton OF spec,s
payments. Without such law AZ the Iaslimp-
ton act, first outlined by Gen. Grant, hos conid
paper be made equal to gold, whatever the
Of the crops! What party had done
all this? What party had opposed it? He
challenged any one to name siug!c instance in
which the Democratic party had not CAPPED ut
aud hindered any aud all of these great raeas-
ures. 1t was the sad misfortune Of this time
that the South was the Democratic party, and
this seemed odd when It was remembered Ia.
the population of all the latoly-seceded States
only ID per cent of the people 81
tho United States. He had been at
tackled for making this statement
by q Democratic paper, which chose to
-eca;tl IL ~ an outrage. But this was matter
Of business, and the question being to what
party tho country should be turned over. lie
claimed the right to inquire into the position,
aims and hopes of tho party which now sought
the control Of the nation. While the South
but Is per cent. Of the total pop
ulaton it represented per cont Of the as.
controlled both houses Of Congress, and was
now endcavorinS to make its control complete.
IA voice-"Thcy can't do u.''l They would do
it, too, unless on the "a Of November Il consti-
tutional majority say 10. "a soice-"We are
going tot 81 hope you will, " SAIL Senator
done until it is finished"
Az was said IN recent letter by the iIlustri-
GUS citizen who presidcs here to-day, not mOA'
for the sake of the North than for tbs sake VI
the South do como to-day to lift mp mr. feeble
voice to You In opposition TO that wrong adj
ed organization known IN the Democratic party.
Why, the speaker asked, did the South cry Oat
against the General Government and the ad-
OF national affairs? Had the
say to you that no purpose is further from my
heart. No patriotic American, j care not
where he lives, can wish i'll or poverty to the
South, or To the East, or to the North, or the
West OF onr country. Could l sit down and
rejoice over the poverty, the distractions. A,e
agitation of the South, should despse myself
as false son, false to the interests nf that
great State which has 80 honored me, and whose
interests and honor are 30 dear 10 me. But
truth IL torch, and the more you shake II the
brighter it burns.
And now will some one say what the Demo
cratic party has favored in the last twenty
wears? IA voice, estate rights Thatis irne.
II was in favor of State rights twenty years ago,
when ii scattered your navies broadcast over tho
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 1t might be murdered In
its bed. They Frustrated the Government credit
and hawked it in the street until II tralled in
the mre. Jacob Thompson, Of mississippi,
was Secretary OF the Interior under Buchanan.
will not say he was dishonest; wish TO speak
Of him with the same respect that one colored
man spoke of another. /" l consider Jake
strictly honest Niger, said he, "but II l
were u chicken and Jake was around I'd roost
high" In the Department Of the Interior were
trust funds belonging To the Indians. and
Thompson signaliZed his administration by al
lowing that money to be plundered for the
South. He came into my room one night and
told me with his own lips that he had tele-
graphed to man whom he named III South
Carolina that the Star of the West was on her
way loaded with food for the starving garrison
ut Fort Moultrie. and he said his object was
that they might know 1t and train their guns
upon her and sink her forever. When ] asked
him il he, a Cabinet officer, conld telegraph
Cabinet secret to rebel authority IN South
lao. ulth nnt IA NIL
IL swear have" The Democratic party were
for State rights.
james Buchanan, then President, declared
that tho Government couldn't cOercc SOW
ereign state. According TO Mr.. Buchanan, liza
State went ont OF the Union, why, It oughtnt
to do II, but il 1t did, what wan TO be done
about it? Jere Black, his Attorney General:
advised him that il q man rebelled he must not
DO molcsted by the troops, bat that Federal
Marshal should be sent out to bring him
in. But about that time the Marshal
resigned. IA voice: "Why did he no.
signY1 Why, my friend, that Marshal
was no busy getting bayonet ready to punch
into you that he hadn't time to serve writ
The New York Democratic party, represented
by that eminent statesman who was not nomi-
mated tho other daym Cincinnati, met ut Albany
and received upon the sanctity OF State rights
that no sovereign State could la cocrced
aud one OF the leaders, more emphatic than tho
rest. said that, If the attempt was made by LIN
coin and his followers 10 Use force to put down
the rebellion, the guillotine would he erected on
the soil of New York and blood would stain the
ground of that Commonwealth.
sThe Senator substantially repeated that por-
ton Of his New York speech bearing on the dis
appearance Of the Republican vote in the South,
tho control Of the Democracy in both houses
and the use they had made and would be liable
to make OF the power. "And let me tell Gen.
Hancock" he added, "and those who support
him, that, should he he chosen, whenhe becomes
President, he will be az clay in the hands of the