Year: 1879




protect the humblest and lowest and


blackest of our citizens Applause. !


No one man should enjoy any right


denied to another. But the party


labeled Democratic" while it allows


that this flag may protect an Ameri-


can citizen in a foreign country, it


can not protect citizen in a State.


We have at last, after many years,


Democratic Congress, and what do


you see? You see the men who left


the halls of Congress in 1860, taking


up their speeches just where they left


them off then, and the old scenes Of


bullying and challenging are being


repeated. In fact, history is being


repeated.


The Democracy is controlled by


King Caucus, and that caucus is COM


posed of the eleven States are small


part Of the country, but by the aid of


the Democracy endeavor to interpret


the results of the war and rule coun-


try they sought to destroy.


| have been a candidate in my dis
trict so many times cannot get over
the desire to make Democratic votes.


[ am free to say | want Democratic
votes now, though | expect to be
elected by large majority. Laugh
ter and applause.


Now, if it could be understood in
the South that the North was to be
united, then we would have different
state of things. | would to Cod there
could be peace and brotherhood, but
there never can be unless the people
accept the results of the war in good
faith. Until then there never can be
peace. | believe there is an element
in the South friendly and disposed to
reconciliation, but they are in the
minority. But for the present the
highest duty of the North is to re-
main united. 1t is the only safety
for the country.


Mr. Foster then took up the finance
question, prefacing his remarks by the
statement that the finance situation
is all right now, and needs no discus
sion, but it is thrust upon us, and we
are obliged to discuss it. He briefly
sketched the history of the greenbacks,
and the terrible necessity that gave
birth to them. He said the greenbacks
affected us just as deprecated paper
currency always affects Nation, in
culcating reckless speculation and ex-
travagance. He described the great
paper cities that grew out of the green
backs, and the great financial balloons
that were inflated, and said the Demo-
ocrats scoffed at them, and are now
Greenbackers.


He said Il had some experience my
self" He then described how General
Ewing got him into coal speculations,
and he said ten of them went into that
coal speculation and three paid the
whole sum. He said Ewing and he
bought their coal fields, supposing
that another lot of fools would come
along and pay more for them, but
they didn't come, and | have the coal
lands now. | would be glad to sell
them for half what gave for them:
The fact is General Ewing and myself
tried to speculate in coal that God
Almighty had laid down for use a
thousand years from now.


All our pledges we made seventeen
years ago, we, through an Ohio man,
gloriously fulfilled on the 1st of jan
uary, thank God Great cheering.l


That greenback currency is the best
currency in the world, and we have to
thank the Republican party for it.
Four years ago Ewing said to his au-
dience that resumption was impossible,
and no man would live to see a silver
half-dollar circulated as money.
Ewing lays resumption to a kind
Providence, and if this is so it shows
that Providence is in favor OF the
Republican party, and | invite all
Democrats to come with the party
upon which Providence smiles.


What we want is stability and con-
fidence. 1t is not the quantity of
i'll country that determines
its prosperity. 1t is the confidence of
the people that insures prosperity.
Most of the business is in credits.
The panic of 1873 was not through
lack of money, but a lack of conf
dence in the credits. The wheels OF
industry are starting all over the
country, and commercial prosperity is
assured. Do you want to turn back
and travel over the old road of extrav-
agance and recklessness? No, we
have had enough of it. Let the pros
perity alone and the finances alone.
If it is let alone for ten years, the
country will witness ten years of
greater prosperity than was ever wit
messed. Applause.


Now | want to ask my Democratic
friends, what has your party done i'll
the last sixteen or seventeen years
that you are not ashamed of to-day?
| Laughter Mr.. Foster made a graphic
history of the acts of the Democrats
in connection with the greenback, the
war, putting the colored man in the
ranks during the war, of the Copper
heads at the North, &c. He said that
once in the North he saw procession
OF thirty-siX young ladies seated in a
wagon; on one side was the motto,
white husbands or none :" on the
other, Brothers, protect us from
negro husbands" And the procession
was closed by picture of Horace
Greeley hugging a niger wench.
When the negro votes for the Demo-
Gratis he is as sweet as a rose. They
can't smell them, but once they OBJ
iected to letting them into the army
on the score that they smelled too
strong.


Il have belonged to the grand Re-
publican party and kept step to its
music ever since it was born," is the
grandest thing man can say. 1t has
done more for human progress and
freedom than any other organization
since Christ came to bless the earth,
and it has grand things yet to perform