, 1880-10-10
SENATOR CONKLING.
IT'S SPEECH AT LAFAYETTE.


LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. e-Senator Conk.
| ling delivered his last Indiana speech here
to-day in the: Tabernacle, a large wooden
| structure erected on the spot where Tccum:
| sch fell. The PLACE is more commonly known
as the Tlppecanoe battle-ground, and is sit.
uated on a slight elevation about seven miles
! north: Of the city. The day was as beautiful
| as was the spot selected for the gathering,
| Under the great oak trees, where the voice
| Of the camp-meeting exlorter is wont to be
heard, were assembled fully, 5000 people,
who. sat under the fervid eloquence of
New York's greatest Senator. In order to get
here in time to fill his appointment and take
he.eyen1ug train on the Wabash for Toledo,
and thence to Buffalo, where he speaks Mon
day night, Mr. Gonkling left indianapolis
at half-pnst. 10 this morning in a special car,
provided by tbs Lake Erie s. Western Rail
road. The train was under the charge OF
General Manager Waldrora, and, after a rapid
and pleasant ride, the Senator and the La
fayette Committee, who accompanied him
from Indianapolis, reached here at about
half-past IA arriving at the battle-ground
about half. an hour later. The Taber-
nacle, handsomely decorated with flags and
pictures Of Lincoln, Garfield, and Arthur,
"&Ao A0etA1 AA4EA ~ ACIkCl1DA4s WALTZ HILL
dreds stood on the outside, under the caves
OF the sanctuary, as 1t were. ~
Senator Conkling was greeted with another
OF those ,ovations which have marked his
reception wherever he has spoken in the
West: The assemb1age was called to order
by the Hon.. Godloye S. Ortlt, and the dis
tfnguished speaker was introduced in a
sta1wart, ringing speech by Col. William c.
: Wilson,: Mr., ConklIng ' .
bet WITH ANoTER OVATION
as he stepped to the fore, and, after acknoWI-
edgng his thanks, began as follows:
MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLoW-C CITIZENS: Sixty
strife. The Constitution Of your State requires
an iron ruling to be perpctunlly maintained to
and
baroarous foe sixty-four years ago 1ndfana
became a State A small population Of plo-
b1tn,auy nattona1itios came here and laid deop
and broad the foundations of that woudrous
@ civilization which you now enjoy. In 1874 Nathan
the Ohio River: And three years afterwards, In
Ns7. Thomas Jefferson insisted upon an ordi-
fnir fields OF these i've Northwestern States
which sprung from the lons ofold Virginia. Ian
ordinance which A. shielded Intana from that
with less thun three yictims,-tho man, the
sss aqS tae s9d ef e1r sgnf bee sas 9a9F n9
nt: last it was drowned in its own
blood and now from the south windows Of TINT
have served with your distinguished and faith
ful Representative for many year [appIausel
looking across the Potomac hiver, your eyes
improved, and oecupied by structures which
costn large sum of money,-fertiie land, king at
il1;. tho very mouth Of the markets Of the world,
other products to the seaboard; and Vet
that land fenced w,th houses With barns with
be bought for less money than you can huy
land IN the heart OF Iowa, whore 1t took until
S Sesy recently two bushels Of corn to send ono
send two bushels to the market. Did you, the
farmers and businessmen OF Tippecanoe, ever |
value Of pr0perty does not consist in what It Is,
but in 10y
WHERE IT IS,
field which willRrow forty acrea OF corn, and |
Wh!cn ncs on the seaboard, WHARF, without cx- |
Will caEry il across the sea, is worth for the |
purposes Of production the whole cost of trans |
portat1on moro than the same field which will
produce the same crop lying in that Krcht basin |
which we call the Valley Of .lhe Mississippi. Que
q our citizens has q a. farm 9 Of 500 acres, on
nent ;, which I nuke, that, it virginia
lad been wise enough to cherish that
WHICH has made Indiana great, an acre OF land
q Virginia, lying close to the sea, producing u
z9qd quantity Of corn or other Product, would
9e largely more yaluable thnn the sameland in
Eay across a continent the surplus products
1ou sell. But such In Virginia has been the
tagnntlon; the retroE1ade, and maj, say tho
abor; you have had equality in human
iehrs before God aud the law; you have
atr DAY 5 pay for = e days worE, eospei % Which
reached the dignity and responsibility OF labor,
nd therefore you have grown to be great, as
GU would have retrograded and withered il
our doctrine had been that labor is mental and
egradtng. and the Almighty had created two
la8ses OF men,-one that Is to bend and wear
addle on their back, and the other that Is born |