Year: 1870

Republican party, who had been true
and Kind and partial to him, in or
der to emphasize his devotion to
johnson.


But let US go back. What were
the leading questions Of the last ses-
sion of our congress What were the
objects you wished accomplished ?
One was the reduction of the inter
est of the public dept 80 as to lessen
its burden. Another was to give to
the west it's fair share of the paper
money of the country; another was
the reduction of taxation: another
was rigid economy IN public expend-
itures. Did Gen. Morgan enlight-
en- you on any of those questions !?
Did he tell you how the Democratic
party resisted the Finding Bill, in
order that the very weight of the
debt might lead you to justify meas
ures tending to impair the public
creditl Did he ever discuss the
question as to how or when the pub
lie debt should be paid F? i see moth
ing of this in his speech, though it
was one of which there was much de-
bate anu anxious consideration. So
with the Currency bill. When un-
der the existing law, the East got a
great advantage over the West and
South in the organization of Nation
al Banks, the Democratic party made
the greatest clamor over it. 1t was
the chief point of Governor Sey-
mour's speeches in 1868, when he
took the stump for himself as Presi
ident. Though all this arose out of
an error of construction by Sec V
McCulloch and Comptroller Clark,
yet when all opportunity was offered
to correct it. Gen. Morgan and all
his political associates were found
voting against the bill. So with the
reduction of taxes. We were ready
to, and did, as have shown, throw
off eighty one millions of dollars of
taxes. There was much debate and
controversy as to what taxes should
be repealed--as to how the tariff was
to he altered. Here was a place
where Gen. Morgan could have told
you whether he was for Free Trade
or Revenue Tariff: or whether there
is any difference on this question be-
tween Beatty and Hubbell. But upon
this point he was silent as an oyster.
And so 1 am bound to say, on all
these questions of practical politics
now in issue, upon which the people
engaged in every day pursuits nat
urally want and are seeking informa
ton, Gen. Morgan did not present
the questions involved in this cleo
ton, but only gave you dry husks, or
scattered and immaterial statements
easily collected and put together as
to any administration by one far less
able to engage in political debate
than he is.


Let us see. He tells yon, but not
for the first time, how good and vir
tuous you, the people, are or ought
TO be-and that you alone, of ali the
world have free institutions land that
the good of your country is of more
Importance than the success of any
party. Admitted. He tells you the
people demand reform, and the high
est evidence of it is, that the Demo
cratic party had nominated James
Hubbell-a lifelong Wing and Re
publican. Ii to secure reform they
must take a Republican, why not
take good one? Well, suppose
they nominated Hubbell in the hope
that he would get few Republican
votes here in Delaware.


The next great truth ne tells US is
that the Republican party lives only
in name. If so, where does the Dem
ocratic party live 4? 1t is in the graves
of Pierce and Buchanan, and dis
honored record.


Differences exist among Republi
cans, he says. True. and l trust in
dependent opinion will alwaps exist
in our party. We cannot be voted
from tally list like N. Y. city, And
when he tells us what the Democrats
will do when restored to power. His
promises are not very definite, but
they are enough. Political promises
are very cheap by minorities. We
judge tree by its fruits-a party by
it's acts.


When the Devil was sick,


The Devil a monk would be.


When the Devil got we'll.


The Devil monk was he.


He then undertakes to tell US what
becomes of the money of the people
and the highest and only evidence
of the awful atrocity OF the Republi
can party was the fact quoted with
much detail from the report of the
Auditor ofO., that in 1869 our State
taxes amounted to The enormous sum
of S22, ,232,S77, while in 1860 they
only amounted to S10,S17, ,676, an
increase of 11,4l5,2Ol. 1t is not
strange, fellow-citizens that he for
got to tell you that in 1860 We had
a Republican Legislature, and that
every dollar of the S22,232,S77 col
lected in 1869 was voted by Dem
ocratic Legislature in both houses
the same legislature that elected my
colleague, Judge Thurman, to tue
Senate of the U. S? This, certainly |
is a striking illustration of what will |
become of the taxes paid by the peo-
pie, if you are ever so unwise as to
elect Democratic Legislature again.


And then Gen Morgan arraigns
Gen. Grant personally as being indu-