The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-04-22

our bonds bearing four and half per- cent. in
casy cali iS your aesenion now to the
expressed in my speech here on the 5sth. OF
tnaSn IN 70 pSsy tss
printed copy of the speech referred TOT Every
literally literally fuialied f and the conditions then ex-
istinR are now happily changed Thetroops OF
now busily employed in ali the various
Sf tS R Of Il
% credit thropshout the % civilized world and is
iised capitals of EF9pe. Sapissi M longer
starting new railroads, teieeraphs. workshops,
mines, factories, rolling-mills and furnaces.
Al are now in fun and SUCCESSFUL operation.
crease Of taxation, our debt fs now being rap
idly reduced, and this very. month the reduc-
tns ' C. creasios ef fA she debt. beng sixoooooc
lGrest sPplaase. Hundreds s. OF I'm millions tH OF
Is 'a sy
SsnSss Il
perhaps be suceessfIhy nsgotisted- .,,v .;j, j,n,
1Rs our ss
Purs e. s1ery saRas sne SoS %
II there had been any electiohs in those States
is believed also that at any fair election aye
from M doing 50 By the iawiess vioienes and ter
ity i; Of the voters Such Is the changed cohdi-
tion of affairs in which weiare about to enter
'nf DO nos ssassss e All
pssss sone but '1s de ssas s
policy they would have been impossibie.- Prov
idence, by giving us bounteous crops. and the
Ereatiy aided the @ pSics. We admit this. and
Democratic De, ideas OF the issr or me present
snsHid and our %ds5Taes Sodid % stiii b
laboring under the evil enectss Of . ideprect
1T Il is sd the policy Of the Republiosu party.
| firmly maintained and enforced in the midst
is the chief human cause Of the great change
\ IN our affairs, and now the question for the
people ofthe United States to; detnrmine Is,
changed and the Democratic party TO be placed
in control Of the.-executiye and 3udiciall
/ branch will follow the fate of the executive
branch. The supreme Court Of the United
Sta tes, which has BEEN me. bulwafk Of equal
rights and fair elections, win in the natural
/ course Of events, be changed in single Pres
| idential term 30 as to place the ideas OF the
Y Of ss z Is
| the first great issue OF the Campaign, and the
second Is like unto tt. How can the equal
and maintained? 1t is manifest that this will
| not be done by the. Democratic party. 4 The
Southern State, where alone It is secure in iti
| political power. The triumph Of this element
| is the disgrace, Of tAmericans civilization II
! very men who waeed an unsuccessfui was
\ against the Union, who were the cause OF thu
loss Of five hundred thousand men and fiye
4 nearly in possession of nearly AL the power:
of the Government, and only. want success Il
the the Gevernment % they sought to destroy, ans
l to Disregard and revise all the guarantees wor
the Ssse sns fs'
/ success II they fan now the dominaht classes
IN see o Do
the courts and laws Of the United States vii
\ maintain and enforce these rights. Upon thi
among % the Repubiicans Every citizen Of In
United States In the South as in the North
ss
4 donnl Government must be exercised 10 tht
end, Loud and long continued aPplausel !,
/ This issue is broadly defined, and the onl
question is whether it shall be now settled
once for ALL or whether it shall by eau seles
ssntb neSer can and m newer ought to pfospe
while the great body of her laboring popula
tion is held in subieetion and deprived, as ;,
the Constitution. The North Is growing an
the South will be decaying until this issue !
+ every person in the enjoym ent of liberty an
Justice. Next to the firm and judicious, er
, forcement of the law by the courts the bes
remedy in the South would be the encourage
ment Of common schools, such as are almos
! universal in the North. This should be done a
a matter Of public policy, both by the Stat
and the National Governments. II the colOre
y people of the South were redeemed from tn
Ignorance caused by slavery, 1t would be n
more possible to overawe and overcome theT
!, by Ku-Klux Klans and tissue ballots than
| would be possible here in the North.
i / say then in conclusion that the Republica
party is about to appeal to the American pei
pie to stand by the policy that has secured yo
pronounced prosperity, and will secure to a
81 | our people euual civil and political rights. Le
the, National ConveAtfoH az Chicago, after IA
consideration and without bias or prejudice
say who best can secure success, and the X.
: publican party, like a well drilled army, wi
\, | wheel into line and overcome the last vestige
of the great rebellion Of 1851. Loud and pr
Inn oed aDnianae 80 Il. :