Year: 1867

your promises-then you will come up


to the moral standard Of the Democratic


party. [Cheers. They don't call il


reputation now, They have found out


that the naked monster of reputation


would not go down with the honest


American people. They therefore re-


solved to give the child another name


Ito hang light veil over its naked


ness, for the purpose of hiding its mon


trous deformity. They have invented


another name for reputation. 1t is,


PAY International debt-in- the-same-


curency-in-wh which-it-was- s-con tracted. +"


And that reminds me of a good story


that saw the other day in Harper's


Weekly. A physician calls to see his


patient, and asks the mans wife: elias


your husband taken the leeches?" ''Y Yes,


sir" answers the woman, "he could


take but two of them raw, and so had


to fry the others for him. The people


would not take reputation raw, so the


Democratic party has fried it to make it


more palatable. Laughter.


They say the national debt was con-


tracted at time when dollar in cur


rency was worth 66 cents, and they pro-
pose to take up the fve-twenty bonds


by putting the Government presses in


motion, and printing and issuing twelve


hundred millions of greenbacks. If
that should be done, what would the
greenbacks in your pockets be worth
Gold would go up to four or five hun
dred per cent, and the value of your
greenbacks would go down in the same
proportion. Every man who should
have five cent piece would find him
self swindled out of four cents by that
great moral and financial policy of the
Democratic party. [Cheers. I 1t would
bring untold calamity upon all. In
stead of being worth sixty-six cents, as
it was at the time the debt was con-
tracted, your dollar in the greenback
currency would be worth perhaps less
than twenty-five cents. To enable you
to give the man to whom you owe 66
cents, only twenty-five cents is called
by the Democratic party "paying the
National debt in the same currency in
which it was contracted"


On the other hand, they endeavor to
inspire their people with horror of the
Niger He is the scare crow of the
party, that haunts them in their sleep
the nightmare on which they ride to-
wards their ultimate destruction on the
wrong side of purgatory. Cheers.
Prejudice against the negro is the chief
cornerstone of the party, while forget
fulness of old Democratic principles
constitute the others. There was
time when the Democratic party was
the hard money party, and would not
have thought of flooding the country
with two thousand millions of paper
money, as they now propose!


TIE THREE POINTS AT ISSUE.


What has the negro done to merit
the hostility of that party? Simply he
was faithful to the Union, while the
Democracy was against it; he was OPP
posed to the rebellion, while the Dem
ocratic party was for it. Cheers
That is his crime. But our Bourbon
friends of that party don't seem to un-
derstand, and they will never realize
that the people of the United States
have made up their minds on three
points. First, that those men who stood
by the flag of our country need ,wheth-
er their skins are white or black, shall
be protected, from one end of the coun-
try TO the other; and that as we cannot
afford to protect them in any other way
AS we cannot afford to keep an agent
Of the Freedman's Bureau by the side
Of every negro in the land-we will
give them the means of self protection,
we will extend to them the great Amer
can system, the ballot. Second, that
what the American people have prom
sed in the face of the civilized world,
It will fulfill, the Democratic party to
he contrary notwithstanding. TAnd,
hat we are a nation, and not merely
partnership Of Independent and sover-
ign States. The Democratic party, on
he other hand, are continually going
,ack to the resolutions of l708 At
Columbus they succeeded in keeping
Sill Cory ont; but at the Milcreek
House Convention he got in and con-
rolled it. They have thus made a sep !
rate issue in this county, and we pro- !
,ose to accept it, They have thrown
Iown the gauntlet of notification, and
We propose to fight it out on that line.
Cheers and adjournment.