Year: 1874

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les or turn them over to that other party,


who will not treasure up their achieve


ments, for il makes no difference by


what name we should advocate those


principles, we should answer never,


never, never, for we cannot forget that


their good works can he secured to us


unless it is so answered. 1t is impossi-


BILE to have good government unless


each citizen keep sacred every duty that


his life imposes upon him, and if every


man, waving party name, ask himself


what TO do, he will reply that must en-


courage everything advocated by good


government; that the laws he SO admin


istered that all shall have justice; and


shall not only be name upon the stat


ute books, but name in every part of


the land. He then spoke of the three


amendments to the constitution against


which the democratic party are striving.


That slavery should exist no more, that


every man should have given to him


life, liberty and the equalization of prop


erty, and no man should be denied the


right of voting on account of color or


previous servitude, yet this last is reciv


ing the strong opposition Of the demo-


cratic party, who declare it uncons'itu-


tional, that they may again gain their


ascendency. What would you say in


Vermont if we should declare that no
German or Irishman should be allowed


to vote Why, public indignation


would cry out against such injustice, yet


we find the democratic party crying out


that no colored persons shall be allowed


to vote, and the solid vote of the demo-


cratic senators and representatives were


cast against these amendments, and in
all debates they claim that they are
null and void, and if they were given


the ascendency, as in 1868. they would


have repudiated them, and if you give


them the power so to do, they will blot
out the civil rights voting and anti.
slavery bills, and if they come into


power no act of Congress in aid of these
amendments can remain upon the stat


ute books. They will be sent TO the diff
: ferent states for reputation, and they
t now stand where the election of Lincolr


left them, while if they again gain as
tendency, everything that we call homes
labor will be carried back 100 years.
defy any one to refute these statements


and they now say that the wealthy lane
;, owners of the south should remain in the
situation that they were before the war


and the aristocraey should again com


into power. They have established il
: the south their patrons of husbandry


not the same as you farmers of the mort
, and west have, but this is composed o
the land owners of the south, for tn
T. purpose of getting control of the labor


as they call it; and their debates shoy


that it is not to promote the cultivation
of the soil, bat to reduce the coloret
men and poor whites to the same posi-
" tion they were before the war. But thi


is not all There are large class 0
= white me who have no education o
o knowledge of books, but to whom iabo
is degrading aud it is improper for hin
TO hoe his own corn and in recen
70 trip of his of over a thousand mile
: through the south he did not see a whit
: man doing a particle of labor at whic
= he was surprised, and he only menti me
= this fact to show that in that part of tn
? country there still exists a preludie
= against labor, and ON the action of on
government depends the fact whethe
= their people will outgrow the aversion
= labor they now have But there al
- other things to be considered. AS 500
~ as the democratic party comes into poy
Oh er several things are to be done whic
O. affect taxes. Taxes are to be voted
~ pay for property destroyed during Il
's' war, and the effort has been constal
~ that no difference shall be made betwee
= those who lost their property while u
40 holding the government or in helping
~ destroy it, and every democrat will vo
- every time to help pay for claims OF tn
2 kind. Then keep up your accustom'
" republican majority in this state, +
~ when it is let down and that other par
uV comes into power, you will be called u
10 on to pay for articles taken from tho


who we're laboring to destroy the COVER
'Ss ment. That only source of governme
~ revenue from the south during the W
'io was the cotton tax, which they decla
CT unconstitutional, and the treasury "
ne be called upon to pay back sSO,OOO,0
ia' collected from that source during I
cat war. Another thing, at Washington,
:" an institution established for the suppC
gu of widows and orphans of soldiers a
oil sailors of the late war, and when, /
nu days ago, an appropriation of $3.50
'a was asked for to maintain it, southe