Year: 1879




Democratic effort is focused on this point. An at
Tempt is afoot 10 turn out the republican Senator
/ from Louisiana. Yet Mr.. Kellogg is the only man
I in the Senate whose claims to his seat have been
| finally passed upon Every form of sitting his right
and challenging his title known to the Constitution
was resorted to aud exhausted. and his right was
conclusively established. Notwithstanding all this.
q committee has been set to work tn devise some
way to get rid of him. Tile Importance and OBJ
iect of this unlawful movement is not for the
present. but tor the future. For the present
the democrats have seats enough in the SEN
ate but after next year the probabilities in
dictate that vote will turn the scale. The demo-
cratic majority now Is ten There are forty-two
democratic Senators, thirty three republican and one
independent. Pennsylvania. New York. Ohio. Con
necticut and New Jersey will be likely next year
choose republicans. This will exactly neutralize
the democratic majority. Then Keogg's seat would
be the pivot on which all might turn To be sure
place OF Bruce, the present Senator; but the
other hand. Indiana may send republican In place
OF the outgoing democrat


CONCLUSION.


Indeed cannot peer into the future in any di-
rection without seeing some of the many sided con-
sequences to the country OF this coming election
Before 1860 the Northern people sceptical and
Needless Of danger. The politicians of one KIND
secuted the idea ~ they do now Those who gave
danger signals were jeered as they now. But
secession and rebellion came, and
wares. Unready and i'll prepared. the Northern
republican party saved the government then and it
can and will save it again. Once more serious and
subtle peril turks in the future: Shall take heed
IN time? IL Is not wise for any section that the
Presidency and both houses of Congress shall pass
under the sway OF a power whose governing force
as it was before. in the hands of Southern leaders,
the same leaders who plunged the land into
OF bloody revolution. The danger. with all its Incl
dents. is tho one chief public concern, of which
patriotic. discerning men should think Finances.
prosperity. economy safety. right and justice are
all compassed by its folds. Everything OF heresy
and assumption. which the war fought
to make an end OF forever. is again on
tine march to primacy and dominion. Let
us not by indifference suffer the Foundation
stones Of the rebellion to be laid deeper than before
Let to it that the very stone which armies
mats fla han1n nf
Let New York call q halt this year, and her voice
will resound and re-echo far beyond her limits and
long after the strife of this canvass has died away


The address listened to with profound atten-
ton. interrupted occasionally with outbursts Of
applause. At ono passage. when the Senator was
laying great stress the attitude of the
Southern members in Congress. ho used
the expression National Congress- when
some one in the gallery cried out.
national forum" The Senator paused, looked in
the direction whence the interruption proceeded.
ana then. misunderstanding tho last word, said-
Yes my friend. it is reform. and it is the
form tt It spoken of by great man 500 years
before Mary's walked beneath the palms of
Palestine. 1t has in our times, then. cheated and
deluded." This retort was met with rapture us ap
plause.


MR.. BxEcHERs SPEECH.


When he resumed his seat he was again warmly
cheered and loud calls went forth for Mr.. Beecher.
The preacher sat passive and immovable
ble but the calls for him did not subside. At this
point very pleasant incident occurred which added
feature to the scene Mr.. Conkling turned around
to catch glance of the object of much enthusiasm
and caught Mr. Beecher's eye. Both gentlemen arose
and advanced. when they grasped each others hand
cordially. The assenblage then became vocfcrous,
and the orchestra caught the infection and out
y lively air. At last MIR. Beecher yielded and camc
forward to the front of the stage. when, after the
cheering had subsided. he said


"Gentlemcn, think you ought to be satisfied
after the able and eloquent discourse to which you
have just listened with so much pleasure and
have doubt with much profit, and that treasuring
up those words OF wisdom you retire to act After
all perhaps is we'll that should not refrain
saying few words. First OF all do not wish
it to be understood by this meeting or any other
scmblage i'll the Northern States that VIC desire to
deprive the South OF any local rights which she
Possesses but simply that in the administration Of
the lead. She has not been raised in the
school that would qualify her tor such
work. When the South has raised another genera
tion then it will be safe to trust young Southern
this nation. In the second ace, the republican
party, from it's foundation well during the
and since the war, has evinced q spirit
in conformity with the principles tor which the
State with economy, and should continue to do so.
(Applausc) l admit that the present incumbent
Governor Robinson) has filled hts lap full OF choice
fruit, but it fruit shaken from republican
branches. tAppiausc.) You cannot have an admin
istration i'll free government without par
tics. Whenever you will find locomo-
tive that will by itself by the
passengers. then you can run parties without an
ganiZation. 1t Is not wise for any to bolt
party because he does not like every ything that is
desire but 1t Is human.


Mr.. Hicks. of Florida. followed in speech the
condition Of the South. atter which tho meeting sep
arated.