Year: 1877

NEW YORK, Juue 13-Mr. Hendricks
having returned thanks for the honor done
him, alluded to the Presidential! election and
said the result as declared in Louisiana and
Florida aud at Washington, is not and can
not be made satisfactory to the country for
obvious reasons; that it was not the truth.
A great and sincere people will rest their
final Judgment only upon thruth, never
upon frauds successful through technicality


Even should the President and his Cabinet
adopt part or the whole of the policies aud
purposes for which the Democratic party
has been contending for many years, and
which became so distinctly defined last year
even that cannot remove or quiet the
public discomfort. Democrats will make no
| factious opposition nor seek to embarrass q
fde efaoto administration, but will snstain 1t in
| what is right, because it is right and for
fear Of the country, and not ut ull because
| of any fealty to the party that stands deiea-
ted aud condemned by the people. The
people cannot allow the selection Of their
| Chief Magistrate to become thing Of chance
or sharp practice. The fraud first triumph
ant in American history must be assigned to
| its proper place among the crimes against
popular government, aud made so odious
that no party will dare attempt its repeti-
ton. He who is elected President must not
be iuaugurated until that is settled and
made positive No Democrat can be sedu-
ced from his devotion and allegiance in any
way-not by the alurements of office, nor
even by the strong appeal in the abandon
ment by the Administration of vicious prin-
ciples aud dangerous policies and the adop-
ton of better doctrines and just measures.
Democrats will not entrust their most cher
ished principles to the keeping of power
which is attained by vicious and corrupt
measures. They will rather continue their
faith in the right of the majority to rule, in
accordance with the constitutional provi-
sious. All Democrats rejoice with unboun-
ded joy that free Republican governments
are once more allowed to the States of South
Carolina and Louisiana. They rejoice in
the good fruits that must follow. They
know that peace and good order will pre-
vail that capital will be made secure and
labor contented and happy that enterprise
will revive, and the cruel burdens Of the
government and public corruption vii! be
lifted from the shoulders of labor and that
production will increase anu land advance
| IL price but they know that, in the Ian
guage Of Gov. Merton, it had become inevi-
table. Good government in the States WAS
not free will offering upon the affairs OF
the country. For years the Democrats
had conteuded in Congress and before the
people, for free Republican States through
out the South, and finally it became ''inevi-
table" because the right and truth were
too strong to be longer suppressed. In this,
the Democrats find reason to stand more
firmly; with their party out of power, with
no patronage to dispense and no money to
distribute; but animated by the spirit of
our institutions and inspired by the senti-
ment of the right of local selfgovernmeut
as inherent in the people. The Democratic
party, during the past ten years. has restor-
ed one State after another, until now the
tread of the soldiers is heard iu no Legis-
lature; but in every State the people are
governed by laws of their own enactment, and
by lawmakers Of their own choosing. Mr..
Hendricks concluded with the declaration
that this occasion had more than personal
siguifcance-it proclaimed that we had no
sectional sentiment, no Eastern or Western
policies the East and the West, the North
and the South were one. A wise and Just
policy would alike promote the prosperity
of each


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