The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-21
WA. N. EvARTS.
His Great Speech at Cooper
Institute, New York.
The Most Eloquent and Dispas-
sionate Grafton Delivered
This Campaign.
A Full and Fair Review of All the
Campaign Issues.
The Record Of Both Parties Impair
tally Contrasted.

speech Of Hon. VIM. M. Evarts, Del1v-
cred i'm the City Of New York, sep
tOmi,er -. 1880.
Mn. CHAIRMAN. Fellow C1r1zESs, LADIES AND
GENTLEMEN: The kind reception which you have
contribute in the canvass pending, to the pro-
per judgment Of the American people on the great
issues before them nclines me to think that was
wrong in an opinion which l have tended to es-
pouse that it was the press that was the only DO
tent orator in these popular discussions. BY their
magnificent enterprise and apparatus they speak
to millions where speak to thousands. By their
perpetual possession Of the public ear they lay
down line upon line and precept upon precept in
season and out Of season, whether men will bear
or whether they will forbear, and tho orator has
no such hold uDon the attention or the respect of
the people.
But know that if one speak. even in whis-
per, in the cause Of his country and for love oft
the people Of the United States will catch up the
sound, and wherever patriotism has not died out,
and wherever liberty is not suppressed. and where
ever the suffrage is honored and respected. they
will carry tho voice until, lost in the final de-
cision, it has triumphcd or has faded away. Zap
plause. The question before the country, the
question before this vast representative assembly,
Is US to which Of the two parties that divide the
nation tho conduct of its affairs for the next few
years may be safely, may be wisely, may be hope
1ully trusted by people loving its honor respect
ing its duty and valuing the institutions which we
have inherited from our noble ancestry.
Twenty-tour years ago the people Of this coun-
try intrllstcd the management Of its affairs to the
democratic party Of the United States; twenty
four years ago they trusted to Pennsyva nia
democrat hisses] the management of its affairs.
To-day it Is proposed to you that you shall restore
it to the same democratic party, in the hands Of
another Pennsylvania democrat laughter and
hisses], for their management. Twenty years ago
tho people Of this country intrusted the manage
ment OF their affairs to the republican party born
Of patriotism and devoted to liberty. Applause
Twenty years ago they thus intrusted their af-
fairs to the hands Of an Illinois republican lap
plausc] and substantially the people of this
country are to answer to-day the inquiry to their
ment OF the world, whether they repent of taking
power from Buchanan and repent OF giving power
to Lincoln. Applnuse.]
Active fault finders may in these twenty years
have had private or public grievances; there
may have been failures ofequality, always to
it, as foreign nations read it, us the great God
fearing people Of tho United States read it, if
next November the Pennsylvania democrat il
restore to power: it is verdict that the people
have tired Of patriotism and are wesricd with
liberty. [Cries Of Good and applause.]
AVN, AZ SHCoC G"cHlJ ScdES Tic uelliOCfaLlC
party, made up us it was when it was trusted
under Buchanan, has five times asked of this
people to be restored to power, and five times
the people have answered in the same way
"Ncver! no, never!' [Applause..] They tried it
during the war, when the nation was in the
throes OF desperation, when every coward had
joined the democratic party when every pol
troon in the whole North was ever ready in the
army Of non-6ghting traitors, and the people
said: 1T is said to us that our youth have per-
ished and that our youth must perish it is said
to us that mourners are to go about our streets
substance Of this people-thrifty, industrious,
fond OF pursuits Of gain-should be poured out
like water, and that so far rs We can see, the
last dollar may be called for; but we KIN ow what
made our population " hat it was: We knew what
made our wealth; and we will maintain liberty
man should fall in his place, and tho last dollar
should be spent in the conflict. II Applause.]
DEMOCRATIC APPEALS AFTER THE WAR.
They asked again: after the war was over and
after the resistance to the loyal government had
taken the form OF controversies about RECONSTRUCT
ton, and the appeal to the people was that--the
republican party having fallen into 4 quarrel and
having in their own hands great Impeachment
and great struggle in their own r;lnks-they
would trust power to the democratic party, united
no longer then divided between combatants in
arms and non-combatants in the treasury-the
the party that carried us through the war. when
you said that it was failure, shall conduct the
government now; and you shall submit to it Tap
plause); and that you may understand what VIC
mean, we will put the great captain who received
your surrender IN charge Of the government. "
[Applause.]
Well, four years went on, and they said: 'Now
our people are fond Of change. YOU know" The
answer was: SO You thought when YOU took I'm
arms in IN 1861: and we then showed you that we
were not fond of change. We loved our country
as was' We adored our country us it was; but
you then proposed to us 4 change, and enforced it
BY tho most telling argument that a democratic
party ever lssued-powder and shot and shell.
No: we will keep the government 50 long as tho
democratic party holds the front and presents the
array and ayows the principles that we have re-
sisted up to this time, Therefore. we will Keen it
in the hands of the same captain Of our armies
that we have trusted before" (Applause.] Well,
they said: "We have had IA long peace and nros,
perity-a long peace and prosperity Think Of
the emphasis that the democratic party put on
that-that in the year 1876 we had had long
peace and prosperity! Why, do they suppose thait
Of peace seem irksome and tiresome, and change
is desired! And US for prosperity. did they SIM
pose that when the laborers Of the country. under
the desperate tangle of our finances that the re-
bellion had brought upon us, were working half
the time and were living upon half wages-did
eey 1ni"n '.A'C e'AI WIS Ine compete prosperity
which the laboring people of the United States
should enjoy? We answered.: mo; but we viii
elect volunteer soldier [applause] who never hid
behind his charming family; but went to the war
and served to the end; and we will trust him. !"
Well, now, they said: eve do not like this
What can be done to please these people? We
have offered them change four times since they
trusted Lincoln, and they have said that they
would not change at all. Why, they must be y
people Of fixed principles! They must be people
who understand their own minds And
they must be a people who think
that they can take care of their own
interests! What an extraordinary thing! A peo-
pie welded to such a continuance in well-doing.
and to such ;ious and persistent selection Of
the means of carrying out their purposes, is on
the very brink Of despotism! What can save
them? A people that chooses republicans for
twenty years: Why, what can save them from
the abyss of military despotism?