Year: 1868




what he believes to be the duty of the
Executive, as l know from his own
declarations, Great applause


These ku klux outrages must
cease. Y GU remember in 1850. eight
years ago, there were threatening in
the South. They said they were 90.
ing to rebel ; you did not believe it
then but it was stern reality. Do
you know that they are better pre-
pared today than they were then p
They didn't then have this organized
ku klux Klan, the existence Of which
has been denied bat no man can de-
ny 1t now. No man now raises up to
deny what Forrest has acknowledged.
that this Is powerful and armed or
genization, ready to do Its work. In
1860, you know, men dared to stand
up IN the South and denounce seces-
sion and declare their devotion to the
l mon now no man can do so without
being In danger of his life.


Speakers IN the South teach people
to ostracise those who speak in de
fence Of the Union. This YOU know





years ago, before the rebellion was or
ganized. These outrages are encour-
aged bv men who then controlled these
States, and thereby organized the
Contederacy and raised the armies of
the rebellion to crush the Union
There Is only one party to-day that
stands up against this wicked pro-
scrlptlve and murderous sentiment in
the South, and that is the glorious
Republican party of the country. We
have SAID the power shall not be put
back into the hands of these men. the
executive, Legislative and judicial pow
er OF the states to use az they used
that same power eight years ago. in
raising armies to destroy the nation.


The Republican party IS the only
bulwark against this state of things
being repeated. When you see, in the
South, the newspa pers, which express
public opinion. speak Of Union men
who have lived there all their lives as
scalawags, and when they speak of the
brave soldiers and others from the
North who have gone down there and
settled, as they had a right to do, and
call them carpet -baggers and when
you have seen their threats in the form
OF wood-cut representing a gallows
on which to hang. after next March.
those they call carpet-baggcr and ma
tive scaIawags when you see the at
tempt TO put these states back under
the power and control Of the rebels.
it you consent to 1t. then | say YOU
are not worthy Of the brave soldiers
that died to destroy that power and to
enthrone loyalty in its stead. IA
voice, They viii never get it" No :;
never while God reins in heaven. He
sustained us and our country in the
darkest hours He never saved our
flag that it might be surrendered back
IN the hands of those who sought.
though Intellectually, to destroy it
He has prospered Us as nation as no
other land was prosPered. He has
saved Us from perils such as encom-
passed no Other nation beneath the
circuit Of the sun. He gave victory
to loyalty on the battlefield. and he
viii give victory al the ballot box. If
we deserve 1t, we shall have peace -
We shall have protection to every
American citizen South and North
at home and abroad and with this we
shall have stability, progress and pow
cr. and the grandest march of in an
cient and modern history. We shall
recognize Of lndependence-the bap-
tismal vow Of our fathers-when this
Republic was born into the family Of
nations. guaranteeing equality in life
liberty, property, and protection to
all whom God created To do this
we have only to plant ourselves on the
eternal rock of right, as we did when
we arrayed ourselves against the
wrong of slavery. lie converted what
was intended as a CRUSADE of slavery.
into an onward march for liberty. aud
you heard ringing ali over the Repub-
lie, - Proclaim liberty thoughout the
land, to all the inhabitant. thereof.
We shall triumph because We are
striking for the right. We shall tri-
umph because : arc inspired by the
noblest principles that ever animated
a party. w shall triumph. because
we are faithful to the honored dead,
over whose graves unrepentant trait
ors have dared to repeat their treason.
They did not give their hearts blood
to relInquisE these states into the
hands OF those who murdered them
for their fidelity and loyalty They
Went forth from loving wives and
happy homcs to extinguish the embers
OF rebellion. never, as they hoped, to
be rekindled. 1t seems to me- that
they must turn IN their bloody shrouds
today as they hear over their graves
these threats Of the men whose power
they struck down


By all the memories Of the sainted
dead BY all the blood shed so freely
by all the sacrifices of the nation. |
appeal to the thousands who stad be-
fore me to so speak that the world
shall hear that the 4 erican people
Will not welcome unrepentant traitors
to their Cabinet 10 rule this country
nor to their Congress TO make laws
to govern the widows and children of
those whom th9v slew upon hundreds
Of battlehelds and every friend of
freedom throughout the world viii re-
ioice as they hear the mighty volce of
the people proclaim that loyalty shall