The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-12-03


shall be taken by legislation and given to
another, and yet you were swept along with
your party in its monstrous position upon the
tariff during the last month of the campaign
even without a protest, although popularity
supposed to be the most courageous man lv-
ing. You know very we'll that the Demo
cratic party is not a free trade party, and
that in the six years of its supremacy in the
Lower House it hasn't touched so much as a
hem of the tariff garment. You know that
it is perfectly to be depended on to meet the
federal debt and its interest and to pay to the
last dollar, and literally, the Federal pension
roll. You know all Of these things, for You
are a student and an observer, and yet you
saw the Democratic party battered almost
beyond recognition in such tariff States as
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Hamp-
Shire on a false cry of stop thief You know
that a prohibitOry tariff can be made TO be as
cruel an inqUisitiOn as any Of those of the
dark ages which you describe with such
wealth of language and denounce with so
much feryoI You know that every work
inCman, who has ten mouths TO fees, suffers
under an unjust tariff as much more 0Bn
Vanderbilt or Gould, as ten mouths and ten
a tariff which will permit Philadelphia firm
to amass a fortune of ten millions Of dollars
on the manufacture Of quininc-aI the eX-
peuse of suffering humanity too Infamous
to be enacted by Patagoniaus. And yet be-
cause the Democratic party bunglingIy an
nouuced that it was committed to modif-
cation of the excuses of this legislative ny
dra, YOU permitted it to be slaudered without
stint. do not say that you contributed to
the deluge, but 1 have no doubt you are can
did enough to admit that You consented to it.
So far as your anathema upon the doctrine
Of State rights-your boast that this is a Ma
tion and must remain One-is concerned, I
am sure, even with all the respect have for
your intellectual vigOr, that can safely trust
to time and events to cure You of that great
delusion. You, it seems to me of all men,
who demand so much individual liberty,
should be the stoutest to defend the liberties
and rights Of the States. When you once
concede that every citizen Is entitled to the
Federal protection. that Nj Gardeld-or the
mass of bonny-clab5er You now recognize as
the Chief Executive-can stretch his arm
across States to redress an assumed wrong
tothe citizens Of q distinct political autonomy,
YOU have made the door wide enough and
high enough for q dCspoJ to walk through.
It will not DO to say that the people of glis
Nation will never tolerate a despOt-that they
will throttle him in his cradle, and all such
patriotic gush as that. The men who begged
NIr. Tilden not to take his seat because il
would disturb business and might dcrEcciate
the value of their bonds, the men who, while
believing in the principles of the Democratic
party, sent money ont to Indiana IN October
with which 10 corrupt Democratic votes in
order shat stocks might not drop two or
three points, the men who to-day would
sign petition to Congress to count the vote
of New York for Garfield, even though the
proof of twenty thousand Illegal or bought
votes lacked no jot oI tittla of confirmation.
are the men who contributed to fund to cz
terminate the rash zeaIots who were so nm
mindful Of 'the demands of trade" as to
want to tumble an usurper ont Of the White
House.
There have been men-I 10 not know nvt
that they have all been gathered to their faith
ers-in this land of ours who would rather be
right than President. There have been par
ties whose leaders would rather see them
right than successful. l do not think so
meanly of old Robert Morris or GaIlatin as
TO believe that they would have hesitateG 20
demand that the alleged fraudulent casting
Of twenty thousand votes in the city Of New
TorI, be honestly inquired into, and honestly
determined. even though their bank stocks
were deprecated as a result For my part,
if MI Garfield is to be my President I want
to respect him as such. ! should dislike to
be obliged to nurse the contempt for him
four yesIs that I have found so much plea
sure IN maintaining for the present occupant
of the White House.
IT, Colonel IngersoN, YOU are so thoroughly
the friend 20 liberty, so persistentIy the Zoe
to oppression and injustice, why DO you not
sweep with your glass the entire horizon.
. You certainly would not care to be consider
/ cd the mere advocate and apologist OF tn,
Republican party? 1t was not because you
thought it was advantageous to the Republi
can party that you denounced slavery?
DO you not know, or do YOU care ia know
that if MI, Garfield enters the Presidential
office on the 4th of next March, he does so as
the representative, the perfect flower and
creation of system of slavery much more
odious than thats destroyed by tile war-ot
white sIayery-the slavery whose claims are
forged out of fear?
can say to You in perfect sincerity, and
what is better, 1 can prove it-that however
rapid has been the growth of intellectual lib
erty in this couutry-there never has been a.
election within my knowledge in which ths
votes of SO many men were cast by their mas
ters as at the one just past There IS not g
New England or a manufacturing village in
the North where a majority Of the working
men were not forced to vote as their employ
ers dictated. There was not a village or &
city in the North where money was not used
to purchase the votes of men whose necessi
ties were pressing, or whose estimate Of tn,
value of their franchise was low. So far a
the electoral votes Of Connecticut or New
Hampshire are c0ncerned-both OF VhiCl
viii be given to Mr.. Garfeld-they simpl,
represent white instead of African slave pens
SO far as the vote of New York is concerned
if given to Mr.. Garfield, it represents merel.
q morality as low as any that ever attached e
the auction block.
Our party made no mistake ia the nomina
tion of General Hancock. While suggesting
the ticket of Seymour and Mcdonald, / an
frank enough to admit that that of HancocI
and English was stronger in an respects
General Uancock's record was impeccablg
He had beer a brave and successful soldier
a wise and tolerant civil administrator, and
gentleman always. Nothing that he had eve
done called for apology or defense. Ehoeye
voted against him would have voted agains
Elijah or either Of the prophets il nominate