Year: 1870




/ know. as you know.there has been
a diversity of opinion expressed up
on this subject but l say that the
Union party of Ohio is practically a
unit upon this subject of the reven-
ne tariff. Applause We do not
foster the privileged class. We
struck down the monopoly of aris-
tocracy and all caste in striking
down slavery. Applause. And we
are prepared to strike down every
monopoly. Applause. We cannot
fix burden upon class of people
not shared by others. The doctrine
of the Republican party is that the
burdens # the Government ought
to be distributed equally over the
country. anu that all the blessings of
God, like the rain and the sunshine
o hea,el, ought to fall on every
man alike. Applause.


1 know that our opponents of the
Democratic party expect to profit
by the difference of sentiment exist
ing in the Republican party. But
there is no difference o. effort. What
we ask for the West is equal protec-
ton with the East. What we want
is a revenue from those articles
which are termed luxuries and en-
joyed by the rich, and that the labor
of the country and the laborers of
the country are to be protected by
the government. Applause. So
that say, my fellow citizens, prac-
tically there is no difference amongst
us. But may say while upon this
subject, that important notifications
have been made by the last Con-
gress.


You have heard, perhaps, of pig
iron. Laughter. That has been
magnitied into gigantic scheme
for the purpose of expressing the
people of the country. But the Con-
gress has reduced the tariff upon
pig iron and they propose to reduce
the pig until there can be seen neith-
er tail or any other part of it. Re-
newed laughter.


What we desire, and what every
honest man desires, is, to obtain q
rev. nuc sufficient to meet the expen-
ses of the government, and to obtain
it from those sources by which the
labor and the laboring men of the
country may be protected from
the capital and capitalists of the
country.


NY fellow citizens, there is another
proud distinction OF the Republican
party of Congress, and that consists
in this: That during the last year
it elected from Congress, and turned
out the money changers and sellers
of cadetships who were defiling the
temple by making dollars and cents
out of the government of the coun-
try. The Whittemores and Coli
days had to be elected by the Re
publican party in Congress. No
other instance of that kind has oc-
Cured within my memory except at
the time when l belonged to Con
gress, and then we spotted and
branded the scoundrels who under
t,ok to Q vert p in Iples to their
own selfish and private purposes 4.
That is new thing in the Republi-
can party and it Will be a new thing
entirely for the Democratic party
when they will turn any man out of
power because he speculates and
plumbers the public treasury.


But, my fellow citizens, with all
this, the Congress of the United
States has not done what l desired.
and what l believed the people of
this country desired to be done. 1
regard that land grant to the North
ern Pacific railroad as unwarranted,
unreasonable, and anti-Republican
Those lands belong to the people
Thev are intended as homesteads
for the people of this country. All
the time l was in Congress, ,and from
that hour to this, L have been uni
formly opposed to granting large
bodies of the public lands to large
corporations, and allow them to en-
rich themselves at the expense of the
poor man.


But my fellow citizens let it be said
t, the honor of the last Congress,
that it has elected all such schemes
in the way OF appropriations to
steamboat lines and otLer corpora
tions, and in that respect the Con
gress Of the United States demands
our commentator and confidence
and we must stand by them. They
stood by US in the hour of our disas-
ter. To them we owe our currency;
to them we owe the supplies by
which tho brave men were enabled
to fight our battles to them we owe
the 18th Amendment, by which we
havefully inscribed upon our BAN
ners universal freedom for all. Ap-
plause.


Now, my fellow citizens,all 1 have
to say in conclusion is this: Stand
by the principles of the Union party;
forget all differences of opinion
which may have caused controversy;
cease all wrangling and ali jealousy,
and keep your eye upon the Star
Spangled Banner, and rally around
the men who rallied around the Flag.
Applause.


Then let us, as party, discounte-
nance all corrupt schemes of monop
oily and plunder; let us cleanse our
National Capitol of all men who have
gone there for the purpose of opera
ting their own private and selfish
ends regardless of the great interests
of the party; and five remain faith
full, when you and l come down to
the grave it will be one of the most
thoughts in our diving