Year: 1870

sboW have n dferont picture The sentiment Of tho
West shows that In new az viii % ene"
nvertbrowp This commercial metropolis. IN Its vast
terplise its boundess resi- rna a b pim ar
other locality Aud 1t is gratifying to us to bear these
TesPO7ef 20 tho Vest telling US that the restriction OF
trade is to come to an end. tAppiause.J


MIR. BRINKERHoFF's SPEECH.


Tam we'll aware Mr.. Chairman that the people OF this
generation are neither prophets the of prophets
hp vet there are times when coming cast their
shadows BEFORE and then 1t does require special in
spiration TO determine what those shadows portend
This ia especially the tonight when the shadows
are OF such substantial character to ceebra
tion of their coming. A shadow well defined as the
election OF Gratz Brown In Missouri does not leave us In
doubt the body which marches behind IT, gain OF
half hundred FreeIraders TO the next Congress does
indicate merely passing cloud On the contrary we
know and every wise politician knows, that ii is the
party of the future which darkens the sun. say tho
party OF the future instead OF the issues OF the future
because the one PTeSrpposes the other what 1 It's name
its designation, whether Regenerated Democracy
advanced Repubhcsnsm" or Revenue Reform. one
will bear upon its banner the principles we celebrate To-
night What those principles are IT does not take US long
OF idea, but that idea mind you Is one when is
during as the stars 1t is summed up in twottle words
and those words are Equal Rights.


In thai sign we conquer"


MIR. ATKINsoN's SPEECH.


1t may be difficult for many Of you who have been
brought up the Free Trade gospel to believe that many
Of your opponents especially the textile manufacturers
OF New gland not utterly selfish and do not will
fully ard knowingly seek their OWE gain at the cost OF
their neighbors but who, like myself has come to he
advocate Of Free Trade after having had full faith In
the donas OF Protection, can rightly give youssuiance
the entire honesty Of the convictions OF most OF your
calling them hard Names whatever we may call their
system. But very many OF these men are beginning 70
them that TO lean upon high tariff is to lean upon
broken reed; matter Of expedency, therefore, we


But while thus defend the motives of the great body
Of opponents knows better than do by what
unworthy ana by what mistaken, II not false re-
presentations many of the obstructive prohibitory
duties carried therefore one OF tho very rst meas


res upon which should insist should be that all evil
denCe taken upon tax or tarin measures should De re-
ported printed, and distributed. .This one measure
jobs which put through the Committee and the House
because they are , 6oTs ateV pointed
out the true cause OF the injury done by hgn dulles
being in the relation which duties bear t. profits and not
10 the gross cost of production. Our imports are but
seven per cent upon annual consumption our duties are
safely ar that some element enters into the cost
of all domestic product and where that foreign elenenG
tor obliged to pay, thereby placed at the
disadvantage which such duty bears to ms expected
profit. woolen mill produces in each year product of
goods about three times the value OF the plant III zeal
estate and machinery Of the cost OF that product pe
cent If estimated free OF duty, consists OF OIL SALT chen
cais ana dye stus The OF these articles is by the
duty nearly quite doubled as assured by Edward
Harris therefore the tax Is equal to per cent upon cap
tal Now without taking any notice Of tie heavy duy
on WOOL have in these apparently insignificant duties
SALT oil, and chemicals, sufficient prOtecuOn To the
mills of Canada and need seek no iurtAer Tor
the of their rapid construction or for the very
large importation of Australian and Cape Wool which Is
now carried both direct and i'll bond through Boston,
An advantage Of per cent upon capital IN the cost Of
along the whole Canadian line.


And also all agreed that he only the true Re
publican who makes it his duty TO that the Republic
receives detrment from selfish ambition from class
legislation, from the prostitution OF oce 70 private gam
party purposes. Shall not who are Republicans, dis
we have given them, and who deprive OF the very re-
form for which we elected them, dschargng from office
not We who are Republicans, dsown all association with
men like one in Massachusetts, that man OF sinister mind
been General rests only the naIne whose claim TO
honor rests on the title held represented in Congress
long after his claim by the record OF having returned
loyal soldier, almost white, 10 rebel Iaaster, as
his waning influence is but an insidious attempt
to str up the very as WAR nG TIn to ne eoeeai 5y
selfish and INSCRIPTIONS ambition by holding out the
stale pretense that the stimulus to American
by a war would quite equal all the expenditures
of the war. Gentlemen, think we have u common
our country and whether IT be Democrats rs Re
pubcans We will unite for Revenue Reform. As believe
iard0ned if ATTEMPT TO define t in answer to call Of
our opponent The editor of The TRIBUNE has gwen a
definition which very near the mark We do mean
that the shall be constructed for only with
the least sio!e with the pursuits ot tnS
which sh put the most money in the Treasury InI Is
but Ii the nearest
the present condition OF the country VIII allow.


MR.. GRosvENOR's SPEECH.


Your compliment, gentlemen is TO The people Of Mis-
souri, For it the people, regardless Of party dis
tnctions achieved this victory. And 1t great
triumph for the cause OF revenue reform. True Mr.
Greeley says the tariff question not an Issue,
and the reforers have nothing to boast Of But when
the contest began he declared that the only real issue
contTadctory statements could succeed in being wrong
Stl ia
involved and each contributed to make the victory over
whelming. The contest began on the question OF suf-


And one such crushing defeat as that in Missouri Is
powerful educator Of parties 1t VIII teach men to under
stand that tho object Of prolonged prescription in
Southern States, the object Of Federal interference In
Sainst The viii Of the neonle The resnt will weld to-
geher those great reforms each having It's own region
Of peculiar power At the South the removal OF physl,
OF the civil service which shall put out Of the power
OF our hired servants at washington to dictate 70 the
the producing States are robbed when
ont the land wherever men begin to distinguish between
lust taxation and that form OF punder called protection
the reform Of the tariff will stand above an 0ners d tfs
the difference Of principle between that slavery which
another and that slavery which takes part of its
earnings for the beneht OF another We are al anu
south and West united and go forth to crush tho
mics OF the freedom OF the people


NOTES AT THE FREE-TRADE DINNER.


Mr.. Mnturn seemed sure of the approval of
the audience, however absurd he might be- In telling
them that the Tariff law to rob for the benefit OF
few rich men, while he informed them OF the great
efforts the League had made and will have to make only
TO overcome these few rich men. The matter was so
grave that II would according to him. oberate party
lines; which sounded like apology for the renegade
Republican, whose supposed triumph they were cele-
brang. Mr. NJ made liberal use OF epithes, at which
was disappointed.


MI Bryant repeated the usual comforting assurances
of Free Trade triumph but gave no stronger argument
in favor OF his views than that generation had arisen
which knows not Henry Clay. and will not adopt Pro-
lection because it advocated by him This seemed
shallow to the knowing ones, who recalled that Protec
tiOn found supporters far back as Washington