Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-09-25

HiHCtCCh J ooio oSob o 80
years this country should have b. en-
administered upon principles that go
on in times of peace. Why should
We have extraordinary taxation
twenty years after We have passed
away from the connec'icns Of the
war ? Why shall it be? When we
reduce taxation upon these principles,
until there shall be no more collected
than the Government needs, what
will be the effect? That money
which is now locked up in the treas
ury will commence to flow outward.
It will come back once more into the
pockets of the people and into the
channels of trade, where CON
merce and trade row stagnate and
languish. There will be prosperity
aud activity again. Where there is
now no employment for labor it will
be found everywhere.
The Republican party, under The
leadership of the chieftains who are
at It's head, have now abandoned sub
stantially their old friends, the Ger.
mans, and they are laying hold OF
my Irish friends with zeal that is
absolutely beautiful. [Cheers. What
has the German done that he should
be abandoned by the Republican
party thus? How is it that no ad
dress to him and his patriotic devo'
ton is made, and it is only made to
my Irish friends? Why is this? The
only fault I know of the German is
that he says when be lived in Germany
beside the Rhine he thought he bad
right to decide for himself what be
would eat and drink and wherewithal
be should be clothed. The Republl-
cans say that will not do, and it is
only day before yesterday in the State
Of Maine that they would not trust
this question any longer to legislation,
but placed it in the irrevocable pro.
vis;ons of their Constitution that
henceforth aud forever no man should
drink his beer in the State o Maine,
and their candidate for the Pfesi-
dency Of the United States did think
that it was a proper thing for him to
say that he did not vote on that ques'
ton at all. What aay you, my Ger
maa friends, is Prohibition right or
wrong? Voice: Wfong.".] Wrong,
wrong of course. 1t is wrong, as the
Democracy in every platform has
declared. In the State from which
have come to day our Democracy
have fought this battle we'll out upon
the idea that whether man shall
faka arana aElak u kwhisEssyyso =; Dr1ongs Eg
self; and if you choose to take
drink could not advise you to drinI
anything TO disturb the composure Q
d your judgment at any time, but
:. you choose to take drink, shall yo'
: come to me to ask my permission, o
e IN other words shall / sevii to in e:
v pose to prevent you from indulginl
t in habit that you think is not hur:
9 inl to you?
Governor Hendricks then recitei
at length'the Koszta case in the ad
= ministration Of President Pierce il
| 1854 and the McSweeney case in 1881
5 when James G. Blaine was sec
: retary Of State, as tending to chow
which party. was the true friend o
foreign born citizens. Concerning
the latter, he said : IL the month O;
, June, 1881, shortly before Garfield
: received his deadly wound, Nc.
Sweeney, an Irishman by birth, hav.
ing six or seven American born chill
drep, however, and having lived in
, San Franciscoin the pursuit oflegiti
J mste trade for twenty one years,
having been completely naturalizsd
and bearing all the honors upon bis
person of American citizenship,
thought he would return for his
health to Ireland. He did go and in
the month Of June he was arrested in
Ireland by British constables and
landed in British Jail. No charge
was preferred against him; no viola
tion of law was assigned. A free
man until then, without tault, with
out crime, without any violation CT
English law whatever, he was seized
and thrown into hideous dungeon.
His wife wrote letter to the State
department at Washington informing
the secretary OF State that her hus.
band was then unier arrest and i'm
prisonment without fault, without
crime, without charge. The letter
was received at the State department
in Washington on the l6,h day Of
August. James G. Blaine, who was
then secretary Of State was also act.
ing as President Of the United States.
Garfield was then languishlng upon
his bed of pain. That letter was un-
opened so far as We know, at least it
was unanswered. 1t never was an
swered SO long as Blaine continued in
the State department. and he re,
mained in that department until the
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