Year: 1876

PEELED by one of those impulses tina


seems to be indigenous to the Demo


cratic mind by the influence Of sub


seryiency to the Southern dictation


will vote for just such bills as have
been laid before you by Republican
speakers. So 1 believe that Demo
cratic Administration will, by the
very necessities of the case be one ol
the most extravagant Administers


tions this country ever had. There
is still another reason why this will
be so. The Southern people, being
the preponderating power in the
councils of the Democratic party,
will also dictate its financial policy.
The Southern people stand now com.
pared with US in the position of poor
relations. In other words, they be-
ing comparatively poor, and the
North comparatively rich, the North
will pay the great mass of taxes and
the South will pay comparative
ly little. The necessary consequence
is that those who pay very little
don't feel the burden of an extrava-
giant Government, and will therefore
always be in favor of spending as
much money as possible. You have
an illustration of this in the city OF
New York. A very large number OF
your voters are non-tax-payers, q mi
nority of your voters are wealthy tax
payers; the non tax payers do not
care a snap of their finger how much
money is spent by the City Govern
ment, and, therefore, you have always
a lavish administration. Is not that
so? Then the same relation will be
borne by the South to the North as to
our national councils, and, therefore,
l repeat il is by the very necessity OF
the case that Democratic admins
tration, governed as it must be by
Southern influence, will be most ex-
travagant one. Applause.


raE QUESTION OF NATIONAL PEACE.


There is still one other thing /
would call your attention to, and that
is the question of National peace. !
do not mean to repeat what I said of
my action with regard to the South
ern people, and the impulse of gene
rosity which / have always followed.
OF course 1 did that with the ex-
pectation that satisfactory response
would be elected from the other side.
We gave them back their rights with
a lavish hand; we gave them back
their rights so shortly after the rebel
lion that 1 can only repeat what I
have said before, that the generosity
of the American people has never
been equalled by any other Nation in
the world in that respect. We did it
with the just expectation, or, at least,
the reasonable expectation, that the
Southern people, receiving their
rights at our hand, might be counted
upon to respect, also, the rights of
others. am sorry 10 say that that
expectation has been, in a great mea


sure, disappointed. When you look
at the State of South Carolina, you
will not deny that the situation of
things is exceedingly serious. l am
the very last man in the country who
would approve of the presence of
troops in the neighborhood Of the
ballot box, and l would stand by to
the last in the endeavor to secure to
every man the right to vote unin-
auenced by force of any kind. But
as things now stand, if tue United
States troops are withdrawn we are
pretty sure to have another armed
force in its place, and that is the rifle
clubs of the South Carolina Reform
Democracy. l believe in reform, gen
tIemen, but l do not believe in the
reform of the rife and the revolver
in the hands of the terrorist. Now,
then, they may succeed possibly in
subjugating Republican majorities,
but, one thing 1 Jock upon as per-
fectly sure-we have come to the set
tlement of the questions growing out
Of the war by debating certain Con
stitutional provisions. These Con
stitutional provisions may for the
time being be overriden in this OF
that State, but if the attempt is
made-which / look for almost as in
evitable in the event of Democratic
victory--if the attempt is made to
nullify them in the whole extent Of
the Southern country, l am sure
that the loyal people of the United
States of America will not submit to
it. Applause. If the attempt is
made upon such an issue between the
North and the South, the solid South
on one side will find solid North on
the other side; and liberal and gen


erous as I may be when the question
is between a solid North and solid
South, l am on the side of the North
all the time. Applause. l am or
the side of the North not because
uaDiJcl W live HCiO, Oub OCCduoS DC


lieve that the North contains the in


tellectual as we'll as the moral vitali


ty of the American Republic as it is


now constituted. Now, gentlemen


looking at the attempts that are be
ing made in the South, can anybody


doubt that they would be greatly en-


couraged by victory of the Demo


cratic party? Il am sorry I am obliged


to say it, but still that party stands il


the politics of the country, as a con


tinual threat of reaction against ths


results of the war; and it is my con


viction at the present moment tina


the candidates of the Republican


party are not only the best, but they


are the only instruments by which


the true interests of the American


people can be promoted. Applause.
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