Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-26

ago we organised ourselves into national family.
 Wages and value, like water, will find their And to be true to ourselves as 8 nation means to be true to other nations.
 Of course you know all that say, but l am very glad 10 let you know that know 1t, too"
 He recalled time when it took day and 6 half's work to buy penknife, but now we can buy just as good knife fer sevsnty-dve cents as we used. to pay $260 for In oldsn times. v
 The nation is out of sight in the free trad- ers' calculations. z It does seem hard some. times to pay $16 for 8 coat when one could be bought in EHgland for $10, but you must take in account what you have to buy it with. This nation owes protection not only to your industries, but also to men and women and esp. cially black men and women who were friends to you in time of war. We were legs to your lame, eyes to your blind and your guides when you ran from AndersonvilIe and Belle Isle We loved you because we saw in the bars of your national flag the stars of freedom for us. (Applause.)
 Mir. Douglass closed with glowing review of the part of the colored man in the recent strife. am here to ask you to stand by your pledge that all men shall be free and equal and see the law executed, and the first step in that direction is to place in the presi- dvntial chair Benjamin Harrison of Indiana Gmmense spplause).
 At the close three cheers were given with a will, the speaker leading.
 After piece was rendered by the cornet band MT. Miller introduced the Hon. c. 8. Moore of Kentucky. The young man spoke in highly adorned strain of oratory and en- deavored more to give broad. comprehen- sive and attractive view of the standing of the two great parties than to relate any series of minor facts. During his address he traced the development of the country under the conflicting and expressing influences of Great Britain and to its full maturity and present prosperity. Be vividly pictured the tyran- nical spirit by which the British endeavored to crush our national unity in the Revolu- tionary era; how, burning with defeat, she has since endeavored to break our country ssunder by civil strife and discord, and how she now seeks to undermine our commercial greatness by forcing the principles of free trade into American homes 4hd minds.
 Referring to Hon. Henry Watterson of Kentucky he said: ffGreat Britain hear with joy the brilliant but misguided congressman from my State say the Democratic party is nothing if not free trade party"
 'tShe knows the knife," continued he, .'that was whetted in the Fiftieth Congress to cut the root of protection will finally strike deep in the Fifty-6rst Congress if we permit it to-"
 "And the Mills bill," said he, ''has free trade as it's real object. The men that drafted it are not fools. They are danger howssto twist and turn their plans to schemes.o
 Speaking of the laborer, he said: ''The arm of the werkingman is the drive-wheel of our civilization. The bolt that strikes the cottage of the laborer destroys alike the man sion of the millionaire. Behind the spreading bulwark of protection we have grown from nation that didn't manufacture horseshoe nail to the greatest producing nation under the sun. Millions of Ireland's sons are driven to find protection in free America and I can't comprehend how an Irishman that has drop of patriot blood 'fiogling in his veins can vote for Cleveland and the red banner of St. George"
 ftWhen in 1860 old Buchanan sat in the White House and like haxseed plaster drew the rebellion to head, the country called upon someone to save her from destruction and the Republican party answered with that grand old rail splitter from the western prairies. Now we have man in the White House who is drawing like a slippery elm plaster the boil of free trade to head, and the grand old Republican party again an swers the nations call with another son of the West, that Napoleon of protection, Ben iamin Harrison, whom Almighty God and onr ballots will place in the White House in November"
 Much applause greeted MT. Moore's elo- quent address and the meeting closed with a benedition by the Rev. Mir. Van Horn, of Rhode Island.
 An especially noticeable feature of the au- dience was the large number of colored peo- pie present, especially of young ladies.
 The Young Mems Co1ored Republican club of the city, with the Colored Republi- can phalanz of Hartford, occupied seats on the stage. They psraded in a body before the speaker, and the colored band eerenaded MT. Douglass at the Hyperion.
 The Reception To Mr. Douglass AS
 Lincoln Rink.
 The coming of Hon. Fred Douglass to our city yesterday meant a good deal to our col ored population. It was the greatest event they have had in 8 long time. MT. Douglass made an address hare to the Twenty-Ninth colored regiment before it went to the war. He urged the necessity of the colored man of the North fighting for the emancipation of his southern brethren. His visit here at that time will long be remembered.
 Since his last visit to New Haven his hair has turned gray, but for all that he is yet a we'll preserved man. He came to be inti- mately acquainted with ex Judge Joseph Sheldon through his having been a close friend of the judges father-in-law.
 MT. Douglass arrived here late yesterday afternoon and was at once driven to Judge Sheldon's office. There was 50 much interest manifested in his coming that quite @ num- Der were at the depot to catch a glimpse of the noble old man, although it was not known by what train he would come.
 After the meeting at the Hyperion last night Mir. Douglsss was rendered Q reception at the Polo rink. There were four long ta- bles in the center of the rink. All the com panies and clubs that were present at the Hyperion marched to the rink and took seats at the tables. When Mir. Douglass entered leaning on the arm of Judge Sheldon the Ap- plause was tremendous. As he was somewhat fatigued he did not stay long. He walked around the tables, shaking hand with all. He was afterward driven to Judge Sheldon's residences.