Year: 1877

Crdt can De seQuceu from his devotion


and allegiance in any way, not by the


allLrements OF Office, or even by strong


appeals to abandonment by the admins


tration of vicious principles and dam


gerous policies, and the adoption of bet


ter doctrines and just measures. The


Democrats will not intrust their most


cherished principles to .. the keeping


of the power which is attained


by vicious and corrupt means.


They will rather continue their


faith in the right of a majority to rule in


accordance with the constitutional pro-


visions All the Democrats rejoice with


unbounded joy that free republican gov


ernments are once more allowed 10 the


States o. South Carolina and Louisiana.


They rejoice in the good fruits that must


follow, as they know that peace snd good


order will prevail; that capital will be


made secure and labor safe, contented


and happy; that enterprise will revive


and the cruel burdens Of the government


and public corruption will be lifted from


the shoulders of labor and that production


will increase and land advance in value


But they know that, in the language of


Governor Morton, it had become newt


able. Good COVE nment in the stat


was rot tree will oderinS on the altars


of the country. For years the Democrats


had tontended in Congress and befors
the people tor free republican states
throughout the South, and finally 1t be-
came inevitable because right and truth


were too strong to be longer suppressed,


In this the Democrats find reason TO
stand more firmly. With their party cut
ofpower, with no patronage to dispense
and DO money to distribute, but animated
by the spirit of our institutions and


inspired by the sentiment OF the right OF
local selfgovernment, inherent in the
people, the Democratic party during
the past ten yevrs has restored one State
after another till now the tread OF the
soldier is heard in no legislative hall, but
in every State the people are governed by
laws of their own enactlng and by Off
GERS of their own choosing.


My tellow-cltizens, my home ia in the
West and my associations have been with
the people of that section. Among YOU
| am personally almost q stranger, yet !
am received oy you with open arms
and with , cordial greetings. Need
| say thai | am gratlfed because
of this fact. 1t has more than personal
Significance. Does 1t not proclaim that
we entertain no scctor a. political sentI-
ment or sectional policies. Some may
think we should have An eastern policy,
and others that il should be western, but
it seems TO me that u New Yorker and
an Indianian should understand il better
and that our legislative and admnistra'
tive polity should be rs broad and com.
prehensive as the industries and trade
and commerce which il may effect. Does
the trade of the great cities OF
the Atlantic stop with the noun
tains? Does it not reach beyond
Mississippi and across the Missouri.
Every new home that is built upon that
recedlng border, every new farm that is
made far out, even within the shadow of
the Rocky mountains, and every addl-
tioDsl bale of cotton thai is pl oduCed in
louisiana and Texas add something TO
the greatness and wealth OF New York,
Boston, PnllaieiphIa and Baltimore. Is
there New Yorker who, as he walks
up and down this great Broadway,
hears and feels only the throbbing of
local commerce, let such man
break over The narrow bondsi land
habits of his life and visit the great cot
ton and grain growing regions, nor let
him stop till he hears the waves OF the
Pacific dashing against the golden shores
of California, and lie will be able better
to understand and appreciate the magn!-
tude of the regions and interests which
are affected by the financial aud COM
mercisl policy OF the country. Success
ful enterprise and development
in remote parts of the coun-
try are as certainly and almost
as directly conr ected with the prosperity
of this city as are the permanent and
valuable improvements on your more
distant streets. | have said this under
the influence of the sentiment that IN re-
spect to production and trade, Esst and
West and South are one, and that wise
and just policy will alike and almost
equally promote the prosperity of each,
il your judgment should be as compre-
hepsive as the influence OF your COM
merce, and ss far reaching as the distant
lines OF your trade.


The proceedings terminated with brief
speeches by Governor Robinson, Lieu
tenant Governor DorsheImer and Sens-
tor McDons!d, of Indiana.