Year: 1872

mands for aid. You ssid vs. bad no
power to coerce States you said this
had no power TO interfere
with the Southern people. We said il
there was no power we would end power,
and found il. You said when we were
raising troops that we could not raise
seventy.five thousand and we got them
before they could be counted, you said we
could not got 300, 900, and they came TO-
gether before they could be clothed and
armed; you said it would ruin our credit,
but we went abroad, and our bonds stood
at par in all the great markets of the
world: y:u said that our legal tenders
that we were obliged to issue would be
30 much waste paper they are to-day
the best currency we ever had ap-
plause you said we could not Iaise
men; we raised men, and raised men,
until our rolls went up TO over ., ,000, 600,
and still they were coming and ready TO
come. You SAID the people would not
tax themselves. They loaded the tax
on until their very knees bent under
the burdens, end they said, DO you
want more-more money and more
men? If you do, call for them and
they will come, and the country shall
live" Applause.


The Governor then dealt with the
matter Of the colored people, referred
to universal freedom established in the
Constitution, and spoke eloquently on
the blessings of equal citizenship. III en-
he struck The issues that have hen
since the war thus:


THE ISSUES OF THE WAR.


"We dare you (the Democratic party)
to oppose the National Bank question I;
you say it was wrong; it was grand
monopoly. There may be features IN it
wrong; but il upon the whole it be not
good, why don't you say so in your plat.
form Twelve years ago we had as.
many systems as there were States, and
you could not 90 East, and have two or
three hundred dollars, without sorting
it out, dollar by dollar, before you came
back West to see what you must leave
on the way. a Connecticut man, to
get as far as Wisconsin, would empty
his pocket and get rid of that money
through Wisconsin, money here in Ill.
nois, money here and there. Now
there is not man in the audience who
has got twenty bill, in his pocket but
can tell me the State they came from.
Very likely they did not come from any
State; they may be legal tender from
Washington; you have not examined
them: whereas, in olden times, YOU
could not buy a paper of tobacco from a
grocer but he would look over his coun.
terfeit detector to see if it was all right.
[Applause. What is the reason OF all
this? One reason is that before we al.
low bank to issue single b.ll, for
every ninety dollars of bills it wants to
issue it has got To take a.
hundred dollars to Washington, leave
1T there locked up rs securi.
ty, and the directors of banks NAV
be utterly and totally bankrupted with.
out a dime of sets; but It doesn't
make farthing of difference to YOU.
though you have got bag full of their
bills-not one farthing. They have
wasted their stockholders' money Il
they may have defiauded the mercan.
tile community who may have deposit
ed with them, but 10 the billholder, the |
laboring masses, it is nothing, and every
workingman in the country has this !
solid, enduring stable currency, not de-
pending upon the wisdom Of bank direc
tors at all, but a national currency as it
ought to he. Now, if this is bad sys.
tenn, my Democratic friends, why don't
you gay so in your platform We dare.
you 10 make issue upon it. You have