The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-30

UO0-not one Iatthing Of tribute DID We
demand. Not an estate was contiscated
Your fathers and our fathers did not hesf'
tate to confscate the estates OF the Tories
in the Revolution. But at the end OF the
Rebellion there was no contiscation mo
estate contiscated-no one punished for
treason. beg my Democratic friends to
remember that not one man, by order oil
the National authority, has ever been de-
MED The right to vote. The Oldest citizen
Of Ohio was never more free to vote than
Jefferson Davis has been every hour since
the Government in Mississippi was REIN
stated. l read to the contrary often in
the Democratic papers. But 1t Is not true
not one man has been denied the right 10
vote.
THE SOUTH AND PRE- TRADE.
What then is the trouble,in the South?
Why, some say there are carpet-baggers
there. Yes most Of them went there with
knapsacks on their backs. What OF it2 Is
it crime to go South? Can the govern
ment arrest you or me because we choose
10 remove into another State? What are
we to do about 1t, even II the carpet.bag.
gers were guilty OF all that has been falsely
charged against them? What else? One
standing complaint is, that the Democratic
party was against every measure for the
suppression Of the rebellion, aud has been
against the Republican party ever since.
What Is the Democratic party for to-day?
What does that party profess to be for
to-day? "a voice-"Free trade."] Ia that
It? No. On the same principle that it
would not cut lis own throat, 1t would
never dare go through the valleys OF Ohio
and say 1t Is not for protection. The trip.
hammers oil Pennsylvania and the hum OF
machinery everywhere would stitle such a
cry. They say they are for "a tariff for
revenue only" In Gods name what is
the sense OF such position? Here is a
great debt entailed upon US by the war,
and an annual interest account which we
must pay; here is an endless procession OF
crippled men-men with empty sleeves or
who have left legs upon the battle-felds;
here are the widows and children OF those
who marched for the Republic and never
came back again-,o all OF these pensions
are due; and the interest and current ex-
penses render 1t necessary to levy annually
vast total OF national revenue.
A tariff for revenue only-a tariff TO be
laid on tea and cotfee-and then iron and
wool and agricultural Implements. and
things We can and do make, aud nndersell
England in all the markets of the world,
are to come in free. Tax tea and coffee,
which cannot be produced In this coun.
try, and not tax all these things that can
be made In Pennsylvania and Ohio, that
the workingman may be brought to the
level Of tho debssed pauper labor OF
Europe. [Applause.] No, never. My
friend, Judge Thurman, for whom l enter.
tain great respect, would never go into
any city in Pennsylvania or Ohio, and dare
ayow that the Democratic party was OPP
posed to incidental protection and in favor
OF that Utopian doctrine Of free trade.
DEMOCRACY AND STATE RIGHTS.
What one principle or measure has the
Democratic party been for for twenty
years past2 There is one infallible wit.
ness behind me turning round towards
General Cameron. He testiaes that it has
favored State rights. I thank him for
teaching me that word. When rebellion
raised its bloody hand the Democratic
party was for state rights. Mr.. Tousey,
then Secretary Of the Navy, scattered your
fleets in distant seas. Mr.. Floyd, Of Vir.
glnia, Secretary OF War, stripped your
Northern arsenals Of arms and sent them
to- South Carolina and other Southern
States, for what? In order that when the
time game for raising the curtain on the
bloody drama the. nstion might DO naked
Of defense-bound hand and loot that It
might be murdered in its bed, Mr.. Cobb,
OF Georgia, Secretary OF the Treasury, pros:
trated the public credit till he borro Sed
money at IL per cent interest and sold the
bonds at SO cents on the dollar. Mr..
Thompson, Secretary Of the Interior, what
did he do9 ! speak OF Jake Thompson
with the same respect which o polored
brother exhibited for his friend when he
said, ~ consider Jake strictly honest
niger, but II were chicken and Jake
WAS around, / would roost high" Laugh.
Ter and applause.1 The Interior Depart.
ment then had large sum OF money,
trust funds or bonds belonging to the In.
dams, and Thompson allowed It TO be
sloleh. He did ME the iaygr 10 come to
my room and tell me With his OWL lips
hat he had telegraphed to Charleston that
the Star Of tho West was on, her way to
provision Fort Sumter, and thua 10 notify
Bis friends that they might sink her In the
offing. I said TO him, "Have you, a mem
Der OF the cabinet, telegraphed cabinet
secrets TO South Carolina?" He replied
with su oath cannot here repeat, that he
lad. These men Yefe all for state.rights,
James Buchanan was President OF that
time. What did Jeremiah Black sayY He
gave utterance 10 the declaration that
there was no power In the Federal gov
eminent to coerCe State. II they did 90
out what could we do about II?
There was only one way to proceed. Il
the Marshal mad 9 writ for the arrest OF
person, and that person resisted, the Mar
shall could call out pose and arrest tbs
man. But, said Mr.. Buchanan, the trouble
ia In South Carolina, and the Marshal hal
resigned, and therefore you cannot arres
the man. FA voice -"Wbat did he'resigr
iorP"1 Laughter He was getting ,
bayonet TO punch through us. [Renewet
laughter,
What did the Democratic party do Il
New York on the eve Of the rebellion? A
Tie election before Il had polled Sl2 %
votes. Seven States had seeded. LineoIl
had been advised to disguise himself In OIL
der TO carry bis life through the city 9
Baltimore-that city Of which a wicke
man said there ought to be new avenu
cnt through Massachusetts, avenue
10 you'd have opened 1t 50 wide that
ride shot could not reSgh the center irof
either sldel [Applause.1 have said seve
States had gone out, and the qatstio
Twas what were we TO do2 The New Yor