Year: 1876

pie have no right to drive the Southern
people from their States. Suppose mar
comes here to practice law, does anybody
deny him the right to do so2 Voices
no, no. Nobody says mob him, nobody
says shoot him, nobody buys him a coat
of tar and feathers. Everybody lets him
alone, if he behaves himself like a gen
tleman.


SHALL WE HAND OVER THE FRUITS OF VICToRY'
! | want every man to settle the ques
tion for himself, whether he is willing 10
hand over all that we established so glo
riously by the WARP Are we willing to
| give up the fruit of every bloody victory
gained in the South Are we willing Ia
give this Government, the hope OF the
world, to the men that epdeavOrch to
/ destroy it, and to the men that hate it
YETI Voices, mo, no.


We have friends in the Sonthcrn
| States-white men, who were friends dur
ing the entire war. They were driven
/ from their homes, and when, after the
war was over, they went back, and raked
/ up the ashes of their homesteads, and
sought to live again in the land of their
/ birth-glad that the starry old banner
/ still waved over them They went back,
believing the old flag would protect
them in the homes of their choice. Then
came the Ku Klux, white men of the
South, and drove them from their homes,
because they had been the friends of the
Government, the friends Of liberty, and
the haters OF slavery-loving the flag of
their fathers better than they did the
dirty rag of treason. Applause
In addition to the whites. there were
blacks in the South, and, though black,
their blood was as red as any shed for the
L faf.


Two hundred thousand went into the
army of the United States. They saved
ma1v Democrats from being drafted.
[Applause.]


They fought upon our side. We
clothed them in the uniform of the Uni
ted States We promised them the pro-
lection Of the Government As honest
people we must protect them in all their
rights When the Southern people are
willing that they should vote, that they
should exercise all the rights of Ameri-
can citizens, then we will be al perfect
peace with our Southern brethren.
Whenever our Southern brethren will
do justice to the people of this country
we will do justice to them. Whenever
they say they are in favor of equal hu-
man rights, then we will have no objec-
tion to trusting them with human rights,
but until then, we propose to run this
thing ourselves.


UNITED SOUTH.


We are told by this Democratic party
and it is thrown in our teeth every day.
that they are going to succeed by a uni
ted South. How do they propose TO
unite the South? By assassination, by
murder, by the shotgun, by masked riot
ers entering the hut of the freedman and
shooting him down, notwithstanding the
supplication OF wife and children. This
is the way. The massacre OF Hamburg
was one of the steps taken to produce a
solid South.


Everybody knows that the majority Of
the Southern States are largely Republi-
can, from twenty to one hundred thou
sand majority, and still the Democrats
say that they are going to carry every
Southern State. They know they can
only do it by inaugurating a terrorism;
by assassination and murder, and yet
they re willing to succeed by these infa-
nous means, and Tilden is willing to be
made President or the United States by
assassination and murder.


That is another objection | have to
that gentleman. Now, what else do they
expect beside united South? They ex-



iignity and slander. They are going to
divide the North by telling about hard
times-that the Republican party is the
most terribly terrific party that ever ex-
isted; by keeping their own record Sc
cret. They are going to divide the Re
publican party by saying let by cones be
by-gones; by hiding the record they
made during the war; they are going to
divide the North by pretending that they
were in favor Of putting down the rebel
lion as m lch as any party; by these in
famous means; and because they believe
the Northern people have so little sense
as to believe such statements.


They can't divide the North. ICheers
They msy unite the South, but they new
er will in the history of this world divide
the North again.


What claim has this Democratic party
on your what has it done in the last
twenty years for the good government of
our country2. / deny that it has done a
solitary thing that 1t ought not to be
ashamed Of CApplause


l deny that it has advocated a solitary
measure that has been carried out for
the last twenty years.


/ deny that any human being is now
under the slightest Obligation to the





into the rebellion the Democrats said
they ought to do so. 1t is true thou
sands Of Democrats came out in favor of
liberty, and they went into the war aud
have come back and voted the Republi-
can ticket ever since; against ell these /
have not one word TO say. Any man
who ever barred his breast to shot and
shell | will not say one word against
him, no matter what party he works
with. | will not spare the man who
staid at home and denounced the soldier
as a Lincoln hireling, and laughed when
the soldier was defeated and wept when
the soldier came victoriously home.


THE ENEMIES OF THE FLAG.


The Democratic party that sowed the
seed of secession; and if the doctrines of
Buchanan and Tilden had been carried
out, we would have had no Nation to-
night; we would have had no country
this blessed moment. And is anybody
under any obligations 10 it? for they
would have destroyed the country if il
had been in their power


tell you, my friends, this is a great
country, a noble country, a noble coun-
try 1t is the only free country beneath
the stars, and any man who attempted
to destroy it committed the greatest
crime the world knows. 1t Is a crime
against humanity to destroy the Govern
ment it is a crime against the liberty OF
the world to attempt to destroy this Gov
ernment; and any party that was willing
that the country should be destroyed
never should be put into power again.
Loud applause.


The Democratic party opposed the
prosecution OF the war. as a party, and
nobody knows it better than Ohio Demo
Gratis. [Applause The Democrats in
Ohio, / think, were about as mean as the
| Democrats in any State in this Union.
Now, / don't wish to hatter them.
| Laughter. They were about as bad as
they we're in any State in this Union,