The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-25
CRITICAL PERIODS.
Senator Daly'S interesting
Historical Address in
Asbury Parks Big
Auditorium.
TROUBLES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
State Disputes Which eliminated
in the Great Civil War
Capital and Labor.
TROUBLES OF THE NEW REPUBLIC

| week age. III liz AuQilO AAiAi -
Park. gave an address ON the Crl.cai
Periods of America which subject ne
presented in a very able and interesting
manner. He began with the perloe
when "the sun of revolutionary strife
had SET in a blaze of glory for the
American arms but which epoch, he
declared. was but the rising of the cur
tain on another drama more fateful thah
any acted on the stage of history.
.sThe good Washington had watched
with solicitude the f~eebleness of the CEN
| tral authority. and said that the people
must he willing to sacrifice if need be,
some of their local interests to the COM
mon veal. thew must discard their local
nreiudices and regard n another as
fellow citizens of a common country.
with interests in the deepest and truest
sense identical" Had the States been
as ready to follow the advice OF Wash
ineton then as they had on the field of
battle it would have been vastly easier
ito form a more perfect union"
9Th people had to learn after five
wears of financial helplessness, CONNER
c,al stagnation, domestic rebellion and
! foreign insult, that lin union there IS
, strength" and that a wholesome respect
| OF dulllOIllN 10 ShAN+S
litical perpetuity.
s.Tbe position of the American people
after the acknowledgment of their in
ldenendence was an anomalous one; no
nation was ever so situated; an army
| clamoring for promised pay and ready
| almost to establish a dictatorship under
tbe control of the military or make Wash
;ngton king required the conciliating at
~tention of the most patriotic and sa-
| gacious men.
CHAOS EVERYWHERE.
estates claimed territory lying with
in the boundary of sister States; dis
eliminating tariff duties were levied by
wav of retaliation. Instead of a sister
hood of peaceful States. rejoicing IN
newly acquired freedom and eager for
common unity. behold States 'discordant
| belligerent and blindly tossed farther
and farther from a close union, which
would have brought peace and content
| ment.
acritical periods in our history have
| been marked by astute craftsmanship.
The hour of doubt has always produced
| the man of the moment. With an insight
that was foresight Hamilton. Madison
| and law saw the necessity of adopting
| the Federal constitution and they per-
suaded the people to accept. jackson
was the man to stamp under the heal OF
| the law the notification acts of South
| Carolina. and a civil war called forth a
| Lincoln from among the people, to es-
| tablish the second Declaration OF lnde-
pendence that all men are created
free The Federal Government had two
great problems, to preserve peace at
home and compel respect abroad To do
this without infringing upon the cher
ished popular idea of local self govern
ment was the aim of the Federalists, as
much as to prove hat the new const1tu-
| ton was not "a thing of shreds and
| patches and a fruitful source of abuses.
HOW SLAVERY WAS ESTABLlSHBD.
It is hard to understand why. a people
erty were willing to look upon their
| dark brothers in shackles more gaining
than had been the chains OF despotic
Britain about their W limbs. 1t was
so with this country. Two great events
contributed in an immense degree to
bring about the secure establishment OF
f fbe Cotton nhe gin by BYE Eli whitney in 1895,
and the acquisition, without constitution
al warrant, of the Louisiana territory
.eThe year 1908 was to witness the de-
cadence of slavery. 1t was a vain hope,
for the idea of emancipation vas dis
eardded and a. the acon suppf fer fhee of inr eious
-conseqnence of the system before which
heathenism and barbarism would pale;
the in Of inbiiee Was Was Postponed until 1868,
when it would only be, through tne
mouths of cannon that liberty should pc
proclaimed and the enemy OF our lie
aPerilous were. those times in which
Madison as Chief Executive directed the
ship of state, England and France qp-
foreign difficulties smothered for a time
| the question of slavery. The high hano-
ed outrages of England upon our seamen
secure s9ni redress. But National pride arose
at length to repel the. opprsessor ana wal
" emerged from the conflict with
rtronger National spirit, with the free,
dem of our and the honor OF
our flag INDICATED with effective recog-
nitian by Europe. but also with a deplor-
able. financial and industrial condition
conf TfTE nssTRuGGLE IMPENDING.
During the period in which the country
was ait war with England the question
Of slavery was slumbering cnly TO breaf
out in bitter strife when me o oe n z q.
as a slave State showed to the North ina
a STERN contest was ait hand. The .strug-
gle which was allayed FOR a t 1d5o py shs
struggle between the North ana SoueY
for political powers. -,
THE doctrine of State sovereignty .WhIcf
had been so forcibly proclaimed in tn
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions II
1893 In opposition to the alien and Sc
dition laws. now became an express tene,
of the South. and continued to be untl
fhe Civil Wal settled how far the theory
If eState Rights could be applied.
But the ordinance OF secessS1 passee
in south Carolina accomplished the pur
nose for which it was intended and 'hret
fhta Southern heart" When in December
1870 the cry went forth on the street,
IF Charlestown, 1.-THE Union is dissoay
IA - fine fiery leaders of the South weT'
deceived ais was Thomas Paine Wnen ~
mems souls were over" The Souti
Sought. in their blind devotion to thefi
Drinciples, to tear down the old Union
Whose corner stone was the Declaration
Of Independence and build up a new EN-
rfre whose corner stone Should be sfave
~. The tide of disunio surged thro,lgi
Georgia, mississippi, North Garoana
T,orisiana, Alabama, FIorfda, n Texas
but a stronger tide Of loyalty c9ms dow
more the authority of free popular gov
rnmen in America.
saThe issues of the critical period Of tn
war and the logical results are no qonge
IN controversy. THE Emancipation Pro
cIamafion and the 18th. 14th and 15tl
amendments ave Settled them for al
fine. The faith of the people in the re
serve power of our free insu't rtions !,
stronger than ever. Our Republic stand
nerinent. but a reality. The past is
Guarantee for the present and for tn
fltl1re. but there are wedghty question
VET to be decided.