Year: 1872

| IN Ireland IN his uay. Sill pears us
bitter fruit. 1t is in vain that Eng.
lish statesmen strive to eradicate this
nuisance TO their Government In
vain do they use every means of con-
oiliation; they may disestablsh their
church and trench upon what they
have considered sacred in their rights
of property, but the Irishman, still
mindful OF former wrongs, stands up
in bitter resistance, and vain are the
efforts now made To satisfy him, al.
though tithe Of them would have
won his love before these hostile feel
ings were engendcrcd. This same
Southern people, whom this party so
much villities aud reproaches, is bound
TO play an important part in the Gov
ernment of this Union. No man
doubts, the Radicals themselves
would not dispute it. Is the temper
in which he may assume these func-
tions, or the temper in which he is
met, of no Importance to the country?
Surely there are none SO blind rs to
affirm that.


To couuteract this fatal policy is an
cbject of far greater Importance than
all the questions growing out of iinan-
cial or commercial policy. He who
can and will introduce the policy of
Cancellation and the feeling of recon
ciliation among this great people will
meet aud satisfy the greatest public
cxlgency of the present time. II was
Il German imagination, | believe.
which in order TO present n moving
picture of the horrors of war, con
cciycd the idea Of u midnight review
of all the victories of Napolcon's con.
test, and those shadowy hosts came
trooping forth from the SHOWS Of Rus
sia aud sands of Syria, representatives,
oil almost every cline sud race OF the
Old World; and as the sad process
Sion passed before him in yoicelcss
woes, even his stern heart must have
been stirred with rcmorsc 10 behold
1t. Would such n show oil the vic
tins OF another war have no restrain
| ing effect upon the insiigator of sec,
tioual hate and strife? VIII no con.
sideratiou of the nature of the fruit
which is TO spring from the seed that
is sowing restrain his wanton hand :?
Does he view with no solemnity the
character OF the awful trust of govern
mcnt rcposcd in him To those who
clothed his hand with power! Does
he not feel that he must use this pow
or for the peace aud prosperity OF all
who are coniidcd To his care? But
unfortunately rs this course may
seem 10 me upon any principle "f true
craftsmanship or wisdom. there is yet
one theory upon which it may a!i be
explained.


| LIMITATIONS or rrpEnAf. CONVENIENT.
Fellow-citjzens. you have already
passed Law which lays tie founda-
| ton of Federal interference in State
elections. You have adopted au
| amendment TO the Constitution which
under pretense of doing justice be-
tween the races, will enable the cen
! tral Government TO control the State
| legislation to m extent not yet de-
| fined, but great enough to be peril
Gus TO the sovereignty and the degree
OF independence contemplated for
the States by the Constitution as orig
inally formed; and now. more than
seven years after the War has closed
you have Ku-klux laws, and n ma
jority could have been found at the
very last session of Congress who
would have vested in the President
the power to declare martial law in
the South, and rule it according to
his unlimited discretion. Add TO this
such concentration of power and
extension of jurisdiction in the Con-
gress as to render discharge of its
proper duties impossible, and a
change in your form of government
becomes inevitable. l am not 30
bigoted an advocate of Democratic
government as to deny that much
may be said on both sides. Mon
archy and Repubiicanism have each
its relative advantages and disadvan-
tages; although l very decidedly pre-
fer the latter form of government, ]
pronounce no man either knave or
fool because he favors tho other.
But / was brought up in the belief
that q Republican form of govern
ment, with proper limitations, was
better suited than any other to an in
telligent people like ours. For one
am not willing to exchange the
government established by our Con-
stitution for monarchy in any of its
forms.


There is an energy in Democratic
government, and q manhood in its
people, which, in my opinion, is
nowhere else to be found. Where
all the prizes of ambition are open to
those capable of seeing them, there
is progress and elasticity in the peo-
pie vainly to be sought under any
other Government. Where has the
same degree of energy been display
ed by people of the same number
and resources, as was exhibited on
both sides in the late war? I well
remember hearing the French Minis
ter, Baron Mercier, say, during its
progress, when he came to Richmond,
that nothing astonished foreigners SC
much as the facility and energy with
which those immense expeditions
were organized, equipped, and sent
forth to the scene OF action from
Washington. 1t did not seem tc
strike him, as it did me, that this en-
ergy and dispatch were due to the
form of government, and its Demo
cratic spirit. Every citizen felt him.
self to be part of the moving pow.
er of the Government, and in some
degree responsible for it's success,