Year: 1872

are flgnt, why do you not Join the


Whigs?" This, l believe, would have


been Gen. Washington's response.


But If am wrong, ii, instead, he had


accepted the nOminatiOn'Oft those men,


Gerge Washington though he was,


the sons of liberty would have defeat


ed him, as the descendants of the sons


of liberty will defeat Horace Greeley y


in November.


THE DEMOCRACY UNCHANGED.


You will ask me another question


Are parties eternal? Are we to always


go on fighting? How are we ever to


make any political progress if we re-


fuse to take the hand of those we have
some times opposed? Saint Paul re-
pented, and Why not the Democratic


party? If II whole Jewish people


had suddenlSsdeciared that they also


had received a great light, and had all
avowed their conversion, and set up
to be the original primitive Christians
l think had we lived in that day we
would have waited for some signs of
conversion before giving them the
hand of fellowship. Will any man
tell me what are the signs Of CONVEX
sion in the Democratic party? The
last opportunity that was offered was
in Washington at the last session of
Congress. The supplementary civil
rights bill was introduced, and in
the debate upon that subject, the par
ty spoke as one man. They took the
same old Democratic ground, the
same old spit of hatred to the colored
man. All the same old slavery virus
came frothing out in speeches of the
best men in that party seventeen
times. Monday after Monday they
STAYED off and voted against the bill,
which was simply the completion of
equal rights. They voted against it
two or three times after the Cincinnati
convention and with their lips still
red with saying mo" hurried offto
Baltimore and cried "equal rights to
all men," Mr.. Curtis here quoted
from the speeches of a number of
Democrats, and from several South
ern newspapers, to show that the
spirit of the Democratic party YVES
the same it eyer had been. He then
continued 1 can conceive of no
reason why a man having the true
interests ofhis country at heart should
vote for that party except this-shat
bad as the Democratic party may be.
the Republican is worse. Is thGt
true p Is the Republican party,
which has done more to maintain
free government than any other par
ty in the world, so bad as that? You
will agree with me that those who
attack the administration have al
ways the advantage of position. 1t
is easy to sketch a model administIa-
tion without a blunder or a weakness.
Tried by such astandard. any merely
human administration would fail.
But every honest man will try to be
just. In the details of our govern
ment, administered by 20, 600 or so, 900
officers, scattered over a territory from
the lakes to the gulf, there will be
constantly facts occurring which are
interpreted to the disadvantage of the
can be committed by q Postmaster or
Collector but we shall instantly be
told that the entire administration is
a huge fraud. On the other hand,
they will tell us what they will do.
Had they been in power this or that
would not have taken place, and in
stead we should have purity, honesty,
and reform. They will be as lavish
of their promises as the maple of red
leaves in October. What are the
probabilities that they will be kept?
They wish to cast the sponge over
what they have done, and only wish
us to listen to what they say.


PRESIDENT GRANTS ADMINIsTRA-


TION.


What is the record of this admins
tratiOn? Taking the first great point
which any government is bound to
observe, has the Republican party
guarded the equal rights of the eiti-
zens? 1t is the very glory of the adj
ministration that it has done so. 1t
found four million slaves. II has
made them men and women; and
they sit with us in our legislative
halls. Doolittle and others talk of
negro supremacy upheld by the bay
onet. The negro has his vote; that
is all his supremacy. How Is it up
held by the bayonet? When iG was
found there was an organized terror
ism at the South to trample the black
man under foot, the government
simply kept its word. Frederick
Douglass, who has known what it has
been to his race, heard those words of
DoOlittle, and cried with trumpet
tongue to his fellows: ITO the negro
the Republican party is the deck /; all
else is the sea. Stand loyal to Grant"
Amen, amen, cried North Carolina,
in the first furious onset of the CAM
paign, standing steadfastly Republi
can. After referring to the financial
record, Mr.. Curtis, in reply to the re-
mark often made that General Grant
did not pay the debt, said that in the
same sense he did not put down the
rebellion. 1t was the Union army
that put down the rebellion, but Gen.
Grant was its head. The prosperity
of the country is owing to the conn.,
deuce and tIust of the people in the
sOlidity Cf the government. MIR.
Curtis continued: 1t is not a great
many years ago since a Lieutenant of
the United States Army was stationed
on the extreme frontier Of Oregon
He had an observing min Ld-he had
thoughtful mind, and this he OBJ
served: Among "King Georges
men" the Indian was treated in n
different way from the treatment he
received from the Boston men," If
one of King Georges men went away
for day among the Indians, he went
and safely returned. If one
of the Boston men" went among
the Indians he never returned, or, if
he did. it was with no ''hair on the
place where the hair ought to grow"
The diffarence was King Georges
men treated the Indian honestly; the |
Boston men cheated him. The Lieu |
tenant is now the President Of the |
United States, and his Indian policy |
is the result of his personal Observa-
tions upon the frontier. Treat the |
Indian as q man, is the policy of the |
United States. Nearly 800, 900 IDdi- |
ans are cared for by the government. |
The Indian expenses have increased |
to seven millions. General Walker |
tells why. 1t is because the Indians |
have been driven more and more |
from their hunting grounds. There
fore they raise their hands against |
the white race. But steadily the /
policy of the government is having |
It's effect.


THE CIVIL SERVICE.


Another cry is directed at what
hey call the abuses in the civil ser
vice of the country. But is it the
Democratic party to which We are to
ook for improvement in this partic
llar? 1 am free to confess, after a
great deal of study and Investigation,
IF all persons in this country who are