Year: 1870

lar, which is the standard of valu


throughout the world. That is wha


we desire, and is what we are going t
/ do; and we are going to do it mucl


faster than any of us eXpected-mucl
faster than | expected; and we are 60
ing to do it i'm defiance of theory ant


speculation upon the part of states


men of all parties. 1t is coming upol


Us without jar. 1t is coming upol


Us without depression; without unset


Ting the condition of business; and W,


are improving and progressing faste


than any of us had right 10 expect.


We have escaped from n war; some
five years ago the terrible civil wa


that desolated the land and ended, ant


now the marks of war are almos


gone from the land. Not from ou


memories; those of you who lost son.


and brothers and fathers and husband.


can never forget that, ard you never


can forget the men that made that war


you can never forget the politician.


WHO forced it upon this country.


But am speaking now of the nate.


rial ravages of war. They are fast


disappearing, and with the destruction


of human slavery and with the estab-


lishment of human rights upon an


equal basis of justice and liberty to


all, we are now advancing in wealth
and material prosperity as we never
did before.


said these war memories will not
pass away. We may forgive, but we
can not forget, and in great many
instances we have no right to forgive
politically. 1t is not sound policy
that we should do so, for that man that
has deceived and betrayed his country
in the hour of its peril, when it was
threatened with destruction-that
man can not be safely trusted in time
of peace. Am l right about that?
Loud applause.)


am here, tonight, to speak to you
plainly. / come to you, not full of
passion, but in some respects come to
you full of joy, when l look around
and contemplate the blessed condition
of our country now. / well remember
the last time / made political speech
in Terre Haute; it was in the winter of
19645 l was here on recruiting busi-
ness at that time. / thank God my
occupation is changed now. / come
not now to ask men to enlist in the
army-to fight the battles Of our coun-
try upon the field. The victory has
been won and the armies have been
If / come now for recruits,
they are for the grand Republican
army. (Applause.) cat this point an
alarm of fire occurred, producing a
confusion. Very few left
the wigwam, however, and the speak
er resumed


Politicians are complaining to you
much about the war debt and about
he manner in which this debt shall
De paid. The Republican party is
leld responsible by Democratic poll
icians as if this debt had been made
or the benefit of the Republican party.
This debt was made to preserve this
TO raise armies, to pay them,
md keep them in the field to put down
ebellion, and the men who made the
ebellion and who continued it are the
nen who are responsible for the debt.
Who made this rebellion? Who was
t that caused US to incur this debt?
Md who are to-day justly responsible
Or it in the opinion of the world? My
riends. / can tell you, and my words
an not be gainsaid that the Demo-
rattle politicians of the North are
argely and chiefly responsible for
OH this war. | speak that
fhich is matter of history; and who
uON IL bttttl tiidH tilc lutclllScul
itizens of Vigo county that but for
he course of the Democratic party i'm
indiana and other States we would
ave had no rebellion, and but for the I
curse of the Democratic party after /.
he rebellion had begun it would have |
cen abandoned at the end of the first /
wo years, and but for their conduct |
-e would to-day have no national |
ebt.


Perhaps no man in Indiana-it may I
e no man in any other Northern
tate-is more largely responsible for
ringing on this war than your own
istinguisheG rspre entative, Mr.. Voor-
ees. Why SO? Because before the
"a. he advocated the right of seces-
on; because he made the people of
ne South believe that the Democratic
arty Of the North would never sub
lit to have them coerced to remain in
ne Union. On the Fourth of July,
360, Mr.. Voorhees, made a speech at
barlottsville, in the State of Virginia,
here he addressed many hundreds of
lie young men of Virginia, and he
lere argued straight out the right of
scession; the right of a State to with
raw from the Union if she saw prop
: to do SO; and when Northern men
ent down to the South and argued
, Southern men the right o. secession,
e should not so much blame South
IN men for embracing that doctrine.
: between the Southern young man
no embraced the doctrine of the
ght of secession, and the man from
le North who went down South TO
rgue ii to him, where is the greater
egree of guilt?


r mention Mr.. VOORHEES, as promi-