The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-21

the plane of laval that usurpation, uncon-
stitational, revolutionary, and void' [Applause.]
What did we say when we were struggling to
pay this debt? for think it must be admitted
that the north was to pay, and is to pay, more of
that debt than the south. We did not try to
we do9 We speak our mind pretty we'll. Our
platform denounced all forms Of reputation as
uncertain sound in that, IS theres We did not
stop to sec whether we could commit crime and
escape punishment in this world or at the hands
that it was crime. Reading): "And the ma
tlonai honor requires the paying off the public
debt in the uttermost good faith to all creditors ut
home and abroad" not only, according to the
letter, but the spirit Of the law under which it
the letter kieth, but the spirit maketh lie"
AND II there was any doubt in the minds Of our
creditors, whether they were the poor widows
and orphans in our land, or the Rothschilds
and rich bankers of London, that We would
pay debt that was so sacredly contracted to
save all that is worth having in this world, &C
cordng to the spirit us well us the letter, such
a declaration would set them at rest. Zap
plause.
~, Now, let us see the wisdom Of the other side.
They said pay your debt in greenbacks; tax
your government securities" We said that the
best policy to diminish our burden Of debt is to 50
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loan us money at lower rates Of interest than we
now pay, and must continue to pay so long as
reputation, partial or total, open or covert. is
Threatened or suspected. [Applause:] Now, there
are are two why's OF getting rid Of debt. Which is
the true mother OF this child of the nation-the
public credt-that bold-faced jade, the democrat
ic party, that would have cut it in half and left
IL 10 PERISH or that nursing mother the republi-
can party, that sought to cherish and shelter it's
weakness until it should outgrow it. and become.
/ NJ fn-dn fIn H.
american people. [Appause.] am happy to
say, Mr.. Chairman, that those sentiments Of
the republican party were uttered when YOU
were ut the head of the finances of the nation
Applause.
l am not going to read the later platforms, for
that the resumption Of specie payments was inn
possible, and would ruin us. Wen, as the client
said to the lawyer, when he asked him if the
magistrate could put him in prison for such and
such cause, No." said the lawyer, she can not"
But, ,, said the client, she has; L am in prison."
[Laughter.] We did resume specie payments
Did 1t ruin us9 Well, gentlemen. Napoleon used
to say that in the affairs Of war he had
noticed that providence favored the heaviest
battalion, and 1 think that in the affairs Of
peace providence favors courage, fidelity, and
faith in the moral government Of the world.
Applause.
THE DEvOUT DEMOCRATS.
but these gentlemen are very devout. Senator
HILL notice, without ha wing the fear of the ex-
immense crowd Of his fellowcitizens, publicly gave
thanks to the God of his fathers" that slavery
had been destroyed. Well, the solid south did not
destroy slavery, did they! The dessicated demo-
CRITIC party Of the north did not destroy slavery
did they! 1t was the republican party that des-
troyed slavery. And thus far all that Senator
Hill has found occasion publicly to thank God for,
is something that the republican party did.
Laughter and applause.] Senator Bayard SAYS,
in 1880, in speech in Brooklyn, that the war to
save the union has been success, and, for one he
thanked God for it.. Well, it was not the solid
south that made the war a success, nor the dcssi-
Gated democratic party Of the north. It is the re-
publican party that made the war success Zap
| planse.] And Senator Bayard thanks God this
| was done: Well, these great statesmen are right
in being devout, are right in assuming the huml-
ity Of David in one Of his most celebrated psalms
Non nob;s domino. "Not unto us, Lord but
unto Thee be all the praise Laughter and ap-
plause.
Well, gentlemen. we do abhor sectionalisn The
union men OF this country, the great body of the
people Of this country, have always abhorred Sec
| tionalism. They abhorred it before the war, they
abhorred it in the war; they abhorred it during
reconstruction, they abhor it now. Applause
And, thank God, they have got all the sectional
ism now in ront, and in the solid south. Applause
The sectionalism Of the sonth has always been ca;
Sci, JUJouS aggressive. tNe pflue ana staple OF
their politics; with the north, slow, sad: reluctant
| defensive, never with Il sword to attack; nothing
but shield to defend. We have defended the
union against sectionalism in arms. We have pre-
tecteti the constitution against scctionalism in
peace; and we will save the government. Great
| applause. We will save the government from
passing into the hands of sectiOnalism next No
vember, and four years hence, and eight years
| hence, add twelve years hence, and 50 on during
! the long roll Of the history Of the American peo-
pie. [Applause.]
! KEEPING FAITH WITH THE BLACKS.
Let us, then, understand that the freedom of
| suffrage to the black means the freedom of the
suffrage to the white. / have not yet found any,
| where Ill any system Of ethics or of morality, in
| any doctrine Of religion, Of any distinction be-
| tween colors or rlce us to human rights. I have
known them violated, have known them tram
| pied on: and have known them reasserted. do
not believe that a great party and u noble party,
that has kept its faith that it would preserve the
union that it would preserve the constitution that
| it would pay its debts, that it would redeem its
! greenbacks. do not believe that it will break
the faith it has pledged to the poor and defense
less. [Appiause.] The democratic party may
pass on the other side these poor sufferers of the
south; but the republican party means to cheer
with the wine Of its protection and to sooth with
the oil of its consolation these poor neighbors Of
ours that lie wounded and pilluged at our feet.
[Applause.]
| THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.
| There is another great interest Of free govern
| ment in American society," mean the dignity of
| labor. We have undertaken on this continent of
ours to build up fabric Of politics in which every
laboring man had the same share, every ignorant
man had the same share, every feeble man had
the same share, in political power with the rich
and strong and the learned. And that system we
mean to maintain, and in order to maintain
system and dignity Of labor which is known no.
| where else in the world, and has never been
| known anywhere in the world till here and now,
we mean to protect the wages Of our workmen
from competition with the pauper systems of
Europe. fApplause.] Upon what Il narrow and
| stupid basis do they discuss this American system
of industry! They speak Of it as if it were pro-
lection of the mill-owners, of the mnc-owners, of
the proprietors and managers of furnaces and Of
railroads and Of ships. Why, IF course, they