Year: 1876

| geons into the stream, and il appeared


as if il had been the final home Of the


Democratic party for thirty years. The


dam was gone. Nobody had built 8


new dam; the mill WAS not worth a
dam. And | said to myself, THAT


is exactly the condition of the Demo-
cratic party of the United States. The


Democratic party, l say, is incapable
of advancement. The only stock
| they have in trade to-day is the old
| infamous doctrine of Democratic State
| rights. There never was more in
| famous doctrine advocated on this
earth than the Democratic idea OF
State rights. What is it? 1t has it's
| foundation in that idea that this is
not a nation. 1t has its foundation
in the idea that this is simply confed-
eracy-that this great Government is
simply a bargain; that this great,
splendid people are simply traders;
and that the people in one of the
States are sovereign To the extent
that they have the right to tramble on
the rights of their fellow citizens; and
that the General Government cannot
interfere. The great Democratic heart
is fired to-day; the great Democratic
bosom is bloated with indignation
because of an order made by Gen.
Grant sending troops into the Southern
States to defend the rights of Ameri-
can citizens.


Who objects to a soldier going there?
Nobody except man who wants to
carry an election by fraud, by violence,
by intimidation, by assassination, and
by murder. The Democratic party il
willing to-day that Tildcn and Hen
bricks should be elected by violence.
They are willing to-day TO go into
partnership with assassination and
murder. They are willing to-day that
the rights of every man in the South
crn States who is = friend Of this
Union, who fought for the flag, that
the rights of every one of those men
shall be trampled into the dust, pro-
vided Tilden and Hendricks can he
elected President and Vice-President
of this country. They tell us that a
State line is sacred, that you never
can cross it, unless you want To catch
Il fugitive slave. Then you have n
right to cross it. If you wish to de-
fend the rights of men, then it is a sa
cred line, and you cannot cross it.
Such is the infamous doctrine of the
Democratic party. Who, I say, will
be injured by sending soldiers into the
Southern States? Noone i'm the world
except the man that wants TO prevent
vote for the Government of his choice.
For my part, | think more of the col
cred man of the South than | do of the
white disunion man of the South.
For my part, think more of Il black
friend than | do of a white enemy.
For my part, i think more Of r. man
black outside and white in, than l do
of IL man white outside and black in.
For my part, | think more of black
justice, of black charity, of black patri-
otism, than | do of white cruelty, than
| do of white treachery and treason.
As matter of fact, all there is done in
the South to-day of use is done by the
a.
everything that is done i'm the South
except devilmcnt The colored man
raises everything that is raised in the
South except hell. And | say here
tonight that think II hundred times
more of the good, honest black, indus
trious man of the South, than do Of
love this Government. And | think
more of black man in the South than
| do of any white man in the North
that sympathized with the white
wretch that wishes to trample upon
the rights of the black man. / believe
that the Government has not only the
power, but that it is the right of this
Government to march all the soldiers
necessary into any sovereign State of
this Union to defend the rights of
every American citizen i'm that State.
If it takes the last man and the last
dollar am in favor of killing enough
Democrats to protect the rights of
Union men. A government that will
not protect its protectors; a govern
ment that will not stand by its friends;
a government that will not defend its
defenders, is disgrace 10 the nations
of the earth, and the flag that will not
protect the men that hold it, is dirty
rag that contaminates the air in which


The next question is, who shall have
possession of this country? The men
who saved it or the men who endeav-
ored to destroy it? The Southern peo-
pie lit the fires of civil war. They who
set the conflagration must be satisfied
with the ashes left by the confiagra-
ton. The men who saved this coun-
try must rule it. The men who saved
the Ship of State must sail it. The
men who saved the flag must carry it.
This Government is not far from de-
struction when it crowns with its
highest honors in time of peace the
man who was false to it i'm time of
war. This nation is not far from the
precipice of annihilat.oh and destruc-
ton when it gives its highest honor to
a man false, false to the country, when
everything we hold dear trembled in
the balance of war; when everything
sacred was left to the abitrament of
the sword.


The next question prominently be-
fore the people, think the great
question is whether citizens shall be
protected at home-is the financial
question. With that there is no
trouble. We had to borrow money,
and we have got to pay it, and that is
all there is of that, and we are going
to pay it just as soon as we make the
money to pay it with. And we are
going to make the money out of pros
perity. We have got to dig it out of
the earth. You cannot make dollar
by law. You cannot redeem cent by
statute. You cannot pay one solitary
farthing by all the resolutions and by
all the speeches ever made beneath