The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-10-21

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wing Of thought, and If you will not allow free
VII what part of this country has the sacred right
the North? II you want free speech preserved
In this country the North must. do 1T We
people who do not believe in that sacred right
The south never favored free speech, never
Why1 They had there an Institution called
knew that slavery could not endure. and the
consequence was they closed the lips of rea
son., son: In In other words, for every chain they put
spending manacle Upon the brain OF the white
man. In order to 'enslave others they en-
another without tramplins upon his own man
hood. -cfHs z4Gl7
We not only wish to preserve FREQ speech
free speech. After you have Thought, after
eyeryb body has said his say, and tn ereupon thu
OF to
honest, we want to feel certain that every vote
legal vote. That is what we want. OF what
use is free speech ff Fraud Is to hold in its
TheTe Is sin in this % count9y one spreme eS p"Wer
and that is the legally-expressed will Of n ma
5ority of our people; and any man who will
the great principle upon which this Govern
mcnt is founded Every American scitizeu
shSod ns by sne
then we will have a Republic that will endure
for countless years. Tho people are begin
ming to lose confidence in ELECTIONS; the peo
picion is well lodged m the minds of the peo
msde by % ss who ss srs eecsed Ice sy fraud TSsy
viii hare no respect for the decision of Judges
fraud; and then comes the dissolution of oui
form OF government; and then comes the de
struction Of human liberty for a hundred
The Reput,,icsn marty has thrown every safe-
guard around the ballot-box in every State in
this Union where any safeguard has been
OF registration; the Democratic party has al
ways opposed it. That party-thc Republican
cure an scnsse e OF the % great via OF oi
honest baliot-bof ought to vote the Republican
ticket; every man in favor of free speech
ought to yotc the Republican ticket. Free
speech is tho brain of this Republic, and an
honoet vote is it's hfc-biood. There are two
Efrst-1 believe In freespeech.
SecOnd-I want an honest vote. t-.t5 4
the SaosSoss ase psSSis so% willing nj % to let Ala
that cast Ia 1876 about 100000 votes for Tiidcn,
majority of 9e,oOOP Alabama to-day is a Re
publican state u every man was allowed free
Mississippi Is a Republican state; North Car.
olina is a Republican State; Florida Is a Re
publican state. How are they kept in the
tho sSotsaD. they are feps tnere P sy the % tissue
Is the way the southern states are kept solidiy
You .ilns that the eu black eI people S should con-
troll the South?'' II the biack people are in
20
II the black people believe that this Is q Ma
ton, and the white people there say 1t is a sim
oush II the black people ars
In favor Of freedom of speech, IL the black
people are in favor of guarding the ballot-bos
other sido on G these anassioSs, then say % lei lei
thS solsck Poo PEOPLE rule that country; thinl thin.
enemy. / think more of a black man who
loves liberty than do of white man who
hates e. Think more of a black man who
who has tried to tear it down. I think more oi
the man tralnpled down than do of the tram
pier. think more Of the man stolen from
We have not only got to have FREQ speech,
not only got to have an honest ballot, but we
have got to raise reyenue in this country
lars-a Democratic debt Democracy IS the
ereatest luxury We ever AFFORDED. We have
win be eternaiIy disgrsced in the eyes Of ths
civilized world. When our money Is only
worth eighty cents on the dollar every Amer
our money is al par, we are. When we cannot
pay our bonds we feel that we are a dishonored
people. but when cur bonds nd bearing M only fouI
try and SEQ one of those bonds, that bond Ger.
going srss to ss:
Of the Tnited statosf The men who defended
tried to tear her nag down win tramplc Amer.
ica's honor beneath their feet. Who Is going to
payf The Democrats solcmnly swore that we
Standing stand IN tie Center OFT Of ruth & and knoWiedsS %
the Democratic party In every solitary State,
England States, in which it held n Convcn.
tion, solemnly resolved that the United
States could not resume spec le-paymenfs.
was q failure, and Immediately thereafter
glory over every inch OF the United States.
fuiSlled. Their propheeiss and tSeir prom
iscs are.exnctly alike. A greenback to-day is
Gratis or % in their conventions soiemniy resolved
that Il would never be good. weiL they help
ed little, have no doubt. because every.
bc true; An you have 20 do is to copper {
Democratic resolution. Now, IN order TO pay
tni. debt It = has 60, to 6e SSsSted 3S who Ti
Republican or the Democratic partyr The
Democratic party has been fasting for twenty
yssJ:: II has suffered all the y the asmies Of
is vast aggregate Official appesite. In four
years, with the InternalR Revenue Department,
at q cost Of about three per cent. During
fonI year: We have osp.nred. destroyed, and
defraudins the revenue of the county. The
e.P in the last fo1r we Sses shot
have wounded nfty -fve: and now in the South
Revenue collector is provided BY the Internal
Revenue Department with q. breech- loading
sns sf sSG Ms
:as ssa as ss
a. : story @ Of " couple Of Methodist ministers % Who
they had preached . week one said to the
Good" said he. So he passed his hat, gave
It 20 q brother, and he passed II around. and
and Se tuned Il over on the pnipis nSd sheps
Sutsons. ~ and not not one solitary Cent; and the
sr q Z
am snd sns
this country We won't get our hat back.
Then there is another thing We want: We
Tsns ssSa Ssy want noSest
not no 9 dollar himself who had not ,t. q scheme to
s'e
stances we went through-the War. We had,
to :sY dPen orss Il
ises, but no money; plenty Of notes, but no
cash; and while We were sailing on credit we
sailed well, and as long as I can buy all I want
on credit my family shah not suffer. We
were going into debt, and as rulc It Is an
excecdingly prosperous time in q mans life
when he is getting into debt As a rule 1t is an
exoeedingly hard time when he N paying this
debt. Millions and millions of promises were
issued. The result was that prices went up
just in proportion - the value of the prom
ises went down. Expansion b always at the
expense of creditors, aud: whom the wheel of
fortune takes q turn, and contraction comes,
thAf ID always at the expense Of the debtor.
No man can imagine, ali the languages Of
the world cannot express, what the people of
the United States suffered from 1873 to 1873.
Men who considered themselves millionaires
found that they were beggars- The chimneys
grew cold, the dres in furnaces went out, the
poor were turned adrift, and the highways of
the United States were crowded with tramps.
Into the home of the poor crept the serpent of
and whispered I'm. the ear Of pow
erty the terrible word "repudiation-" want
to tell you that you cannot conceive OF what
the American people suffered rs they stag
gered over the desert Of bankruptcy from
1873 to 1879. We. arc too. near now to know
how grand We are. The poor mechanics said