The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-10-08
SPEECH OF SENATOR WALLACE.


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SPEECH OF SENATOR WALLACE.
We find i'm the Lancaster Hfe1igencer Of
Thursday last the following report Of an able
and exhaustive speech well worthy of peru
sal. delivered 10y Senator Wm. y. Wallace ut
Fulton Hall in thai city, the night previous
Mr. Wallace began by recounting the eyi-
dences of returning prosperity that are visible
on every hand and pointing out the revival Of
the material interests OF the country from
the desOlating blight that fell upon them in
1873. Business Is constantly improving. and
times are infinitely better than they were five
years ago. The Republican party claims
this to be the result Of its policy OF govern
ment, but this pretcnsiOn is without fOumda-
tiOn. OF course wise government i q neces-
Sary agent Of national prosperity, but the re
distribution of the forces Of the country con-
stitutcd the real cause OF this renewed life
and energy throughout the broad domain Of
the republic The labOring man, for whom
was only idlencsS in the great cities, Went to
the country and turned his hand to the tillng
Of the soil, and from the ample stores Of
mother earth drew the nourishment that was
necessary to sustain life and supply strength
and happiness. All classes Of the people
knew that to better their condition thrift
economy, prudence were requisite, and il
was by the exercise of these that the republic
was restored to the position OF progress and
growth. Not by the fiat OF legislative and
executive viii, but by their own neTved right
aTms did the American people again yiHdicate
their title to be regarded as a free and indie
pendent nation. lApplause.
Ask our advcrSaTicS where we would stand
to-day if the people of this country had been
generation OF SpcndUhriftS instead OF peO-
pie of fTugality and enterprise. Their claim
to have Deen the agency will not bear the
test of criticism and scrutiny. For it was no
governmental policy that wrought this change
for the better in the condition of the country.
The people are themselves the governing
power and the man or organization or agency
that stands in the way will go down before
the resistlcSs march of progress IN the cank
OF the loom. the rattle of the spindle. the busy
hum Of machinery the country resumed and
cursed bc the hand that would rekindle the
. embcrS of sectional strife among a reunited
and prosperous people.
The stability Of confidence cannot he forced
upon the people 10y legislative enactment.
Comfort and happiness at home, by the FIRE
side. produces educational advancement. and
following in logical sequence comes intellec-
tual progress and by these the country Is
/ led up to the position to which the God Of ma
tiouS destined Il.
Can this condition Of business prosperity
intellectual advancement and stability OF
government bC tUOst effectuallV maintained
by nourishing the feeling Of party passion
and sectional prejudice, 10y reyiving bitter
memories, or by endeayoring to restore that
D unity Of sentiment for which so many thCuS-
andS of lives were sacrificed on many bloody
fields The question Is lis own answer.
You cannot have stability of government.
unity of sentiment, by arTaying the great
sections Of our broad land in enmity against
each other. Coming out as | do from among
the people, | can lay MY finger on the public
pulse aud there detect the throbbinCs that 50
clearly Indicate the desire of all clasSeS-Incr-
chants, mechanics, laboring men-fur a res
toTatiun of the era of good feeling between all
parts of our common country. We ali want
this. here i'm our great state, the keystone of
the federal arch and throughout the sister
hood of commOnwealths, shc sentiment pre-
walls The men Of Pennsylvania, recognizing
the fact that we are designed To he one peu-
pie, that we have identity OF interest viii
that portion of our land once unhappilv ar
Tayed IN hostility against the general govern
ment, can not afford to stop now and quarre
with the South, where a new race of uen has
sprung up making the wilderness there q
blossom as the rose, alid who are asking u-
to take their tobacco and cotton, and rice and
sugar and who want 10 take in exchange
our iron and dothermanufactures GPro!ongeJ
applause.
The Republican party is a sectional party
ii has ceased to he national III il ever was na
tiOnal. There Is no Republican party SOutl
of Mason and dDNon's line they don't wan
. any electoral votes from that portion of th
country. they don't make any effort to secuu
them. The Republican leaders seek to arra-
the North against what they choose to tern
a diSloyal solid South, and If they secured an,
OF these ''dislOyal states for their party thei
p potent argument would he lost
The Southern negro has awakened TO tn
fact that he has been put in position of self
government; he begins TO realize the resp0n
p SibilitieS that have been put uDoD him D.
has arisen from the degraded position int
which INSCRIPTIONS and designing Republi
can politicians and adventWTers had force
him his eyes are opened 10 his real interests
, and as 2 consequence this cnl0red individual
- IN
lie i growing in mental stature and wealth
and the Republican party has discovered tina
the great experiment Of placing the ballot i
the hands Of the unlettered negro has prove
a failure So far as it had been designed rs q
; element of party strength. And party lcaj
ers will always discover their mistake whc
! they attempt to govern from the top in<tea
of from the bottom, and thereby ignore tn
great cardinal truth that man IS the unit q
free government. tApplause.
{ Southern OutraCes TO fire the Northern hcaI
nave become useless as Republican stock i
trade. just after the war, indeed, when the
1 party in the South refused to admit the sui
: ordination of tlic military to the civil authol
- ity. and rode rOugh-shod over the natur5
2 rights of the people, that portion oi tire ceul
try may have been conyuiscd with disorders
: but a comparison Of 1855 with 1880 shows III;
all these have passed away; that under Oh
baneficeut influence of Democratic govern
ment and constitutional riile the region ls
I been restored To tranquility. happiness an
= prosperity and as ilnal veto TINS hePuh.
- can outrage cry j. Silcueed by the Democrat
party'S nomination of | Mon general for ti
T. ofs3ce Of president Of the United States
e Wild cheering. The bloody shirt has bee
n "a failure, as even our friend Blaine admit
Maine has sounded the muster, the day ui q
" general resurrection will come in Novenpe
d [Great applause
II Pennsvlvauia has been wont to he cab,
~ the keystone of the national arch, and s.
:. must continue t. occupy tl5t proud posiJio
- ; s 'he great workshop cf the Ration, Wiil
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