Year: 1868

10 claim thai they are tecnnlcal. Will
are the laws which are thus to be tram
pied uponi You have heard it charged
against me and against General Blair,
that if we could obtain power we would
trample upon the Reconstruction laws
and yet, at the very moment they make
these charges, one of their own parti-
sans, acting under their own influences,
is trampling these very laws under foot
by a direction that his subordinates
shall not feel themselves bound i'll their
action, if they see fit to regard any OF
the provisions of these laws as tech
nical. [Cheers.l


Let us look a little further at this
charge, and repel with indignation the
suggestion that any member of the
Democratic party-of that party as an
organizatiOn-or that myself as an in
dividual of that party, will ever do
violence to law or order. Cheers. ]
Let us inquire into the reasonableness
of this charge. Suppose the people of
the United States see fit to elect Dem
ocratic President voices, "they WILL"
and cheers and u Democratic Vice
Presidenti What then Is your gov
ernment chansedi Do we hold unqual-
flied powerP Could we make war 7
Could we control the legislation of the
countryY What then would our pow
ers bei To render the laws as they
now stand. You have seen Chief Ex-
ecutive of the United States shackled
by legislation; you have seen him ar
raigned as a criminal before the Court;
you have heard the majority of that
tribunal pronounce him guilty man,
aud he would have been dispensed from
power had they not lacked one vote to
make two-thirds of the Senate to sane
tion that action.


These laws which to-day shackle and
hinder the action of Andrew johnson
would equally shackle q Democratic
Executive, if he succeeded in this elec-
tion. Our Republican friends will con-
troll the Senate; they will control the
House of Representatives and they
will control the army, for their candi-
date is the general who commands that
army. How absurd, then, is the cry
that there is danger from an Executive
thus shackled and powerless, even if he
desired to do wrong. [Cheers.


1t may be asked, "Then what do we
gain if we change the Executive and
place one of a different party in the
Executive Chair, when his powers will
be as limited 7" Just this, my friends,
while he can aflirmatively do but little,
he can do much to check the unwise ac
tion of the party now in power. He
can do much to protect the labor of this
country from unwise legislation. He
can do much to check, in the future,
the dangerous policy which threatens
the dearest and most vital interests Gf
the country. [Cheers.


But more than that, il is necessary
for the welfare of the American people
that there shall be given a popular YER
dict which will say that the policy of
the men in power is not such as meet
the approval of what we hope and aim
to do. In this unsurpatiOn and unwise
legislation the men in power have
neither established a successful system
of reconstruction nor done anything to
tighten the burdens which oppress
the people of the North. [Cheers.


My strength, my time, and THE ""st
audience prevents my attempting TO
address you at length, or in any de-
tail upon this great subject. We ask
you now, that by your votes you shall
put some check upon the unqualified
power exercised by the Congressional
party. IT we do well in the place you
put us, and our conduct shall be such
that we gain your confidence, then we
shall ask you ut another time and at n
future election to go on with the work
of reform, and reinstate in full power
that great and glorious Democratic
party, which is identified with all that
is glorious in the history of our cOun-
try.


have bnt one more word to say, and
then l will give place to my friend, Mr..
Herman. | implorc every man within
the sound of my voice, whatever his
political views may be, before he casts
his ballot at this election, to seriously
ask himself whether it is not better for
this whole country that political power
shall in some degree be divided be-
tween political organizations. | ask
those who in their hearts seek the wei
fare of our land and the permanency of
our institutions, if it is well and safe
for another four years to give uure-
strained, unchanged and unqualified
power to those who have failed, during
the past four years, to bring our affairs
into a satisfactory condition I


We do not ask you to give us unre-
stric:ed power. You cOald not, if you
woHld. All yon can do at this election
is to place some one in the Executive
char who cln check the cxcesse, Of the
Congressional party, and to advance 4
rebuke to those who, in giving way to
passion and acting upon policy OF hate
and dlscord, nave prolonged the diff
culties of our country; have continue
its burdens of taxation; have oppressed
its labor, and have made its people un-
certain as to its future. trust that 1t
shall be the judgment of the people OF
the United States that the intention OF
the trainers of our Constitution shall be
carried out, that power shall in such a
degree be divided between the great po-
litical organizations that they can hold
eack other in check, and that it shall
neither be in the power of the Repub-
lican or of the Democratic party TO
plunge our country into the evils OF civil
war, even if they could find it in their
heart to do thing so unwlse, so
wicked and so unpatrlotlc. lCheers.J


thank you, my friends, for this great
exhibition of your kind partiality to
myself. From my heart | thank you
all this time, when / have been the OBJ
ject of so much obloquy, for this demon
station of kindness and consideration.
1t strengthens my arm and makes me
feel confidence that he who with sin
cerity and humbleness tries to serve
his country and benefit his fellow-citl-
zens will ever meet with warm well
come from those whose interests be
deeply cherishes. Tremendous cheers. ]


A narrow escape from frightful death
occurred in Commercial street, Boston,
a few days ago. A slater on a roof lost
his hold aud slid down. As he shot the
edge he succeeded in grasping the gut
-. -,j Ia1d ~, NTH hath hands hig