Year: 1870

pay off one hundred and forty mil
| lions of debt, and we have been able
to reduce the taxation eighty mil
lions.


Is not this a grand success ? Why
my friends, in the presence ofa great
success of this kind all these COM
plants about Grant fall to the
ground. Now. whether Grant likes
to be at Long Branch too much or
not. or whether be is to fond of fine
horses, or whether he goes visiting
too much, or whether he appoints
Mr. Motley to England, or sends
Mr.. Frelinghuysen in his place, are
not very important to the people,
when the Government is so well, so
ably and so faithfully administered.
Isn't that the point that you are in
terested in? Several voices, yes,
yes 1t is not so important to you
who may happen TO have this place
or that, but it is very important to
YOU that this Government shall be
honestly and ably administered.
TIE FIFTEENTH AMEN DAENE.


/ can not close tonight without
saying something about the 18th
Amendment. Laughter and cheers
| want it distinctly understood that
I am in favor of it, and they say I
had something to do with its ratiff-
cation and adoption. / am glad 1
did. That question has been settled
and settled forever. Mr.. Voorhees,
and Mr. Hendricks, and Democratic
politicians in Indiana, may resolve
that it was done fraudulently and is
not binding, but they might as well
attempt to dam up the Missinpi riv-
er with a straw; it is the law of the
land, and not all the Democratic
politicians in Indiana can pluck it
from the Constitution.


That question is settled, and now
we have equal rights. The Repub-
lican party abolished slavery. 1t
found this land with four millions Of
slaves. and now, thank God, not a
slave treds upon our soil. A voice
responded with a fervert amen.
Every man is free. The Declaration
of Independence has been realized.
That blemish of slavery has been
abolished. First we came in with
the 18th Amendment, and resolved
that slavery should never exist in
this country again, and we put that
into the Constitution. And then we
came with the 18th Amendment, by
which we declared that every man
who was born in this country was
citizen of the United States and
citizen of each State; and that it
should not be in the power of any
State to deprive him of equal rights.
We thus established equal justice
and equal rights for all. And then
the cap sheaf and the climax of the
whole business was the ratification
of the 18th Amendment by which
no State is permitted to deprive any
man of the right of suffrage on ac-
count of his color. Has it done any
harm anywhere? ? No. a great many
people were afraid that they would
be injured if the few thousand col
ored people in their midst had the
right of suffrage conferred upon
them. People that could ride in the
same close carriage with a colored
servant man or woman, could re-
ceive from them all the offices of life,
and live with them as slaves sudden
iy found that it was very offensive
to be in the presence of these peo-
pie if they were freed, and it was
intolerable if they had the right to
vote. Don't they behave well +?
Have you heard of riots among the
colored people? You have heard
of riots in New York and Boston,
but you have not heard of difficult
ties arising anywhere because the
colored people have been allowed
to vote, except where some white
vagabonds or rowdies would atteEnpt
to deprive them of that privilege. 1t
has done nobody any harm lit gives
peace, and what is more, it gives
| justice. We have done justice to
these colored men. Many of them
went into the army, and they fought
well and fought bravely for our
country. They have received po-
litical rights, equal privileges, and
1 have no fear that they will abuse
them.


But the Democratic party lived off
the negro for great many years.
He was their daily bread; they car
ried election after election by the
prejudice they were able to excite
on the subject of color and now We
find prominent politicians In Indi-
ana going about appealing to the
lowest passions of the white man on
the subject Of color, talking about
.'niggers" in the most offensive way
and asking them if they were salts
fed with the party, or would vote
with the party, that would let "nig-
gers vote. And thus these polltic-
ians degrade themselves by appeal
ing to these low passions and preju-
dices.


Mr.. Hendricks-you have heard
of Mr.. Hendricks, most of you
Tlaughterl-Mr. Hendricks was in
New Orleans last winter, where the
Democratic party, if they can get
any portion of the colored vote,will
have a majority. Mr.. Hendricks
made a speech to the white Deme-
erals in the city of New Orleans, and
that speech was reported; and what
do you think he said in that speech ?
Well, I will sell you what he didn't
say. He never said "niggers"once;
he never spoke contemporary Of