New-York tribune., 1880-09-30
THE SPEECH OF Mr.. EVARTS.

| Mr.. CHAIRMAN, FELLOW CITIZENS, LADIES AND
| GENTLEMEN The kind reception which you have
accorded in advance to whatever may be able to
contribute, in the canvass pending to the proper
judgment of the American people on the great issues
before them, inclines me TO think that was wrong
| in an opinion which | have tended to espouse
that it was the press that was the only
| potent orator in these popular discussions.
BY their magnificent enterprise and apparatus ia ey
speak to millions wi!ere we speak to thousands
BY their perpetual possession of the public ear they
lay down line upon line ana precept upon precept.
i'll season and out OF season, whether men will bear
or whether they will forbear and the orator has no
such hold upon the attention the respect of the
people.
But know that If one speak, even in whisper. in
the Of his country and for love Of It, the people
of the United States will catch uo the sound, and
wherever patriotism has net died cut. and wherever
liberty is not suppressed. and wherever the suffrage
is honored ana respec;e they will carry on the
voice. until lost IN the inal decision, it has
trumphed or has faded away. IApplause.l
Tie question before the country. the quest ion tc-
fore this vast representative assembly. is as TO
which o. the two parties that divide the Nation,
the conduct OF its affairs for the ng our years
may be safely, may be wisely. may Je hopefully
trusted by people loving its honor,
respecting ll5 uuty, anu 'diulnf lsn lnSttu
tions which we have inheri ted from oir noble an
cestry.
Twenty-four years ago the people of this country
intrused the management of its affairs TO the Dem
ccratic party OF the United States; twenty-four
years ago they trusted TO Pennsylvaaia Dcmocr
hsscsl the management OF IS affairs To-day
proposed 10 you that you So restore it &C. the SAT
Democratic party. in the bau IS of another cnnsyl-
vana Democrat laughter and hissss for their
agement Twenty years ago the people of this cOuu-
try ntrusted the management of their affirs
TO the Republican party, born of patri-
otism and devoted to liberty. Applause
rweaty years ago they thus intrusted their affairs
to the hands Of an Illinois Republican Iapplausel.
and substantially the people OF this country are to
answer to-day the inquiry to their own con-
science, the test of history, the judgment
of the world. whether they repent of
taking power from Buchanan aud repent. |
OF giving power to Lincoln. Appause.l
Active fault-fiuders may in these twenty years
have had private or public grievances: there may
have been failures of equality always the great
ness of the occasion; but history reads H. as
foreign nations read It, as the great God fearing
people of the United States read 1T. If next
November the Pennsylvania Democrat is restored |
to power, it Is verdict that the people have tired
of patriotism and are wcared with liberty. [Cnes !
of good' and applausel.
Now, III these twenty years the Democratic party |
made up as 1t was when it was trusted under |
Buchanan, has five times asked of this peo- |
pie to be restored 10 power, and five |
times the people have answered in the |
same way" Never! no, neverV lApplausel They |
tried II during the war, when the Nation in the
throes of DESPERATION when every coward had !
joined the Democratic party when every potroon |
in the whole North ever ready IN the /
army of non-ightng traitors, and the people |
said: " 1t is sad to that our youth |
have pershed. and that our youth must |
perlsh II is sad to us that mourners 90 about
our streets for whole generation t Is sad 10 us
that the substance of this people-thrifty. indus
triOus, fond OF the pursuits of gain-should be !
poured out like water, and that, far as we can |
see the last dollar may be called for: bat |
we know what made our population what |
it was we know what made our wealth; and we |
ble though the last man should fall III his place.
aud the last dollar should be spent In the conilctn
lAppause.l
DEMOCRATIC APPEALS AFTER THE WAR;
They asked again, after the wax was over and
after the resistance to the loyal Government had
taken the form of controversies about recon-
and the appeal TO the people was
that-the Republican party having fallen into a
quarrel. and having in their own hands great i'm
peachment and great struggle in their own rank,
they would trust power 10 the Democratic party.
united-no longer then divided between com.
batants III arms aud non-comoatants in
the treasury-tne united Democratic marry
nd the people said No. the party that carried
ls through the war; when you said that it was n
falGre. shall conduct the Government now aud
YOU shall submit to 1t iapplausel; and that Won
may understand what We mean, we will nut ihe