Year: 1875

anu LuclT WRECKS llue Cue EnOre Ou elLner
side. The cause of the depression we wit
ness are not to be remembered In day
nor year nor perhaps until another
generation has risen to I'LL our places. The
great fact exists and should at once be re-
cognized, that this country is fully poor. I
have seen lately, from an able and expert


enced source, the statement that the waste
Of war, the destruction of property, the loss
of industry, the mere productive value Of
human lives expended, have subtracted for
the people of the United States. the terrible


sum of twelve thousand millions of dollars,


all or perhaps more than the accumulation OF
three quarters Of century of care and labor


This great sum was the, fruit of genera


tions of laboring men by hard work., 1t


came and by the same process alone can it


be restored: Let ,ts like true men as were


our ancestors brace ourselves for this long


task ofrestoration, and in order to pursue


our path hopefully let us gather all lessons


Of experience, and practice q wise economy.


We need s. all that wisdom and honesty in


legislation and administration can do to aid


otlr people in their task. This is the con
dition Of affairs now presented, and from


these results may we not justly hold. the


party III power responsible. = ,dood wJl p
L. ~ 10 nv WohuCI tudb W I'LL CACll ul0uOACoUy


and want of scruples our political opponents


have so long deceived the people and Kept


the truth concealed, and iby shifting their
ground now, seek to escape from the just


consequences of q their q abuse of


popular confidence, and in the present


canvass we find them as usual re-


sorting to the lower and baser passions of
| hr1r n n nof hnrinrr fn nantrQ :ko


ment and confusion amid which thev


may escape themselves. We behold
the disgraceful resort of all
which appeals to sectional bitterness,


and the wretched spectre of long buried


Nnownothingism raising it's ghostly front in
4 this canvass. Whpt honest American citi-
zen can be found who will declare, that in
| this country religious intolerance cat't be
justified as a political issue? What man
living under charter of government, where
fundamental law openly proclaims that no
religious test shall ever be required as a
qualification to any Office or public trust
under its authoritys What Amer
ican reverencing the name and
character of George Washington sign
ed Immediately under these words of
prohibition can feel himself gratifedi in join
ing party that disregards them as man.


He sins against right and justice as citi-
zens he is false to government and country.
| OF all places on Gods earth that the State
of Maryland should bt chosen for such an
attempt here on the soil of the
province of which George Calvert
was the first proprietor, where nearly four
hundred and fifty years he proclaimed and
insisted upon the right of all men to be eli
gible for Office without question as
to their religion fails of men who
were sought to be 70 assailed
and prescribed that the great grandson of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, son of man
who has added honor to an honored name,


should now be excluded from office because


he is guilty of the offense of worshipping
Almighty God at some christian altar as did


his patriot ancestor. There is too much


honesty and feeling in the American people
to permit such infamous ottempts to be sue
cessful, and sure am that hundreds, nay
thousands of Marylanders, who love
civil and religious liberty, will join
our party in administering hearty
rebuke to such proposition whose origina-
tors will be buried so deep, by popular
verdict that they will know no political re.
surrection, in this generation at least. II
have referred to this issue with mortifica-
tion that it should have place in American
politics. have only met the issue because
our opponents have chosen to make it. I
propose now, and at all times, whether
backed by the few or many to shield the
principal Of religious liberty as our fathers
established them in our written constitu- |
tion. ......


THE CURRENCY QUEsTINs.


have spoken of the prostration of all !
business interests in the country. l have
stated that the road to recover is that which |
has been lost and squandered under the rule |
of the party in power, and would be rugged |
and hard to travel, and want in this con-
nection to say one word to you in regard to |
the present currency Of our country. The
currency of the people, for there is not use
in constant industry if it is to be cheated of
its just reward, is not a standard
staple measure of value for days labor
or for any business transaction,
however large or small9 A moments con-
sideration will show the absolute necessity
in all honest and steady dealing to have
standard of value just as much as standard
of weights and measures for commodities
bought and sold. Let us see what power
was given to our rules to deal with this
subject for we Democrats have an easy test


for the rightfulness of any measure by see


ing whether 1t is warranted by the Constitu-
lion of the United States. |,


All the power given to Congress on this I
subject, is to coin money and to regulate the I
value thereof and Of foreign coin, and It to t
TX standard Of weights and measures.
The meaning Of the word to coin, whether 1
hat of photographers or the common deal 8
ngs of mankind is to stamp
metal into money and coin G
.oin is stamped metal to be used as money 7
md such money by the constitution must '
,e valuable in itself for Congress is directed /
o regulate the value thereof, now the value h
,ou see must exist in the money itself or It | /
ould not be regulated paper money which 4
annot be coined, is simply a money Of i
redit, and who shall regulate money of \
redit7 Who can regulate their hopes and 8
ears that elevate and depress credit A e
,ower In Congress- to recollect the weather. .