Year: 1868

feeling and influence of state. especially ret


ence on our cause and on our leaders Grant and Cofax
| IApplause.l Sympathzlng with all this came 10 join
! you here tonight though more as listener than as
speaker and in the little that have to say refer only
few OF the thoughts that suppose uppermost in
minds tonight The points are few and very clear
In fact it singular that there are any grave issues TO
divide the North to-day There is nothing unforeseen ia
| is matter OF continued surprise that party
has arisen mere among 4S M TO demand Una. nd a ne
only that they shall undo It, uttha they shall repndiae


it, and do other things which would atix stigma TO all
concerned But the situation Of to-day the direct
suit OF the war; aud the fixed purpose with which the
people entered into It, We do not undertake TO say that
all that done right but we do say that ss whole
il is and being the act and will of the people, that
ton This work from the beginning the work of the
people The leading ideas of the theirs, and
| appause They grew up with the ideas Of the war,
aud they were thoroughly informed on all
| which grew ont Of them. The newspapers were
constantly falling thcky snow fakes all over the
press And during the it met most faithfully their


Intense anxiety for the information which they needed to
war no Cabinet council barred them. Wherever the
storm of battle broke there they we're on tho very
and foam Of the SO the people were always guided
hy the clearest knowledge How it possible then that
they go back upon what they nave done ana under


faithful Representatives. But the people were night ana
and they intend TO meet It, When hosttes ceased the
older nations were amazed at the cenency winch the
people showed to the South. They found 1t difficult to
realize that such should be closed without
the usual penalties and without the qualification
OF tthe usual Areyenges But the North always
remembered that one people and they kept al
ways in the harmonious aud peaceful nation which
they had resolved TO reestabsh The opponents OF the
North chose 10 misrepresent this feeling aud TO accept


an admission ON the part OF the North tat II had Deen
always in the wrong and TO argue that they could be
brought TO repudae both their acts and their obga
tOns-ther growing out OF the and their Obl
cations incurred in It, What the people really think
about 1t Vermont cheers and Maine oheersl have just
told with wonderful dlsnctness. Applausel As 10
the debt its payment is not question OF to-day but the
good faith in which we incurred 1t is. Applause Be
yODd the simple declaration that We intend honoraby 10
meet engagements, both IN the spirit and letter Of
contracts appause II has no place III the questions
upon and discussion only tends 10 diminish securities
and npre Their value in the hands f Of the the people AR
around its payment has advanced gold 25 per cent and
taken away onequaTter from the value OF the currency
Of the country. If it can be let alone. and an Admins
taton placed in power pledged TO meet our engagements
honora6Iy gold in year or two will be par and all
lAppause But the debt is not our immediate concern
II is not this country which will have 60 pay 1t is not
the country OF to-day with ITS dsoganzed and turbulent
States, with its broken commerce and It's great waste OF
unoccupied terory but 1t is the country OF 10 or IS
years hence and its population 80 or 40 cent greater
than with its pOpulous states restored TO order
with It's commerce revived ana s nag again on an inc
renewed applausel; with its Pacific Railroad
completed great APPLAUSE Iertlnzng ana spread
ing wealth over the territory that they traverse
between the terminal ports OF NeW,fork ana
commerce and exchanges That the country which
will have to pay the debt 80 much now, and 80 insg
Ne, We Ue bo ie m repndafd M this debt hut we Know that
10 carry the the West gave good blood and we
believe that they are willing TO pay the cost of IN good
this career Of commercs prosperity the character OF
bankrupts. Cheersl You have earned splendid repu-
tation for military wisdom, you have gwen noble ek
ample OF organized charities and cemency in the very
midst of 1t remains for you TO establish an
equally high reputation for financial honor Applause
The true Democracy OF the country everywhere TOOK
their part IL the war "ny is IT ha' cd9 m rea
advantage that | lived considerable part o1 my
party and remember something OF their ways Of think
lug How would this reputation have sounded IN their
delft in paper money have received by the Demo
cratic Benon Applause and cheers for Old BullOnJ
every Democrat under the banner Of the Repub
can party. Applause But If II be objected to me M,
reply in a saying OF Col Bentons and no man eractod
stricer party obedience or gave II more implicitly than
one OF his wovthest utterances, that there were some
things too ta @a &as S@s oS sSe GS %n %
gence 10 be directed against a poor clerk with
hs family dependent upon his salary for bread, and that
the questions involving the cOuntrys honor were too
great be submitted 10 party contest Applause This
question Of national honor Is among us more distinctly
an individual than other countries We have
no law Of entail We cannot draw together great Estates
our descehdants But we have an entaed 10 the
aggandzement OF which al can addan state not 20 be
this continent from the waters OF the Atlantic
TO the Pacific, entaed upon tins American people az
then inallenabe nd visible estate Applause Ims then
is the programme Of the Rapubcan party as understand
IT, We resolved 10 stand by the measures when Con-
gress has adopted TOT the security anu Puc ol te ~
Try We believe that power enough has been centered IN





and we ask nothing from the state We shall stand
where In this respect. As TO the debt we EhaH
build up the prosperity OF the country and provide
the means 10 pay it when the time comes lApplanseI
la this domestic policy shall he glad 10 SEE the 6oN
working with wise economy, developing the re-
that we have and not engaging III costly acqus
tons of territory which years would come To us
by force of gravitaton Applause AS member ofthe
Eenf maintain our Old policy OF mo interference in
our domestic concerns" Friendly relations with all
exaggerated intimaces with nations that should
require show partiay TO one at the rsk OF sac


hcDg the goodwill of the others Russia appanseJ Is
only natural rival for the trade OF CHINA ana Japan


TO which looking, and building up such great
prospects in the future We must keen III view the con
tnGencies which may happen IN the IutnIe' %hs aeau
ing lately the first numbers OF monthly Iust started
in California It s@n SSed Of me fresh o'erd%G mmGs
and fpesh country. The editor is
one whom Starr King used to call the Washington Irving
the foresight OF poet and the Intelligence Oi Young
track Of the Pacific Railroad, and across the track BEAR


scowng and growing and looking in the direction OF
IN the course OF Though trust that u never
wD, If it should happen that the bear or the Eussnan
Bear should place himself upon this track OF our Eastern
commerce, any lion laughter should get
in it's path let as hop1 st tns great Te ia Se
Stephenson said to member OF a Parliamentary
ton into England of the steam engine on railways
But" objected one of the members to MT Stephenson


suppose while you are going al this prodglous
gpeed (some ten or twelve miles hour think was
them aughter suppose that obstacle should get
m front OF the train r. Then. said Mr. stephenson lit
will be worse; the Lords" iGreat laughter
and applauss. during which Cen. Fremont retiTed.J


The gIee club then sang humorous campaign song
which elected much applause after which the Chairman
Introduced the Hon. John A. GrsWOld, the Kepublcah
candidate for Governor, whose welcome was most cor
dial After the enthusiasm had temporarily suDtlded
Mr. GriswOld spoke as follows:


SPEECH op THE HoS. JOHN A. GRIswoLD


Mr. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen; For the first
time my life find myself within The walls OF an nsti
tuition that has already historic In our country;
an institution projected and completed by Of the
foremost citizens OF this metropolis, whose name Is