Year: 1873

Opera House last Friday evening drew
thither large and attentive audience.
Tne mozart band was on hand and dis
coursed good music in the best style. On
motion of W. A. Lynch, Esq, Doctor
Slusser was called 10 the chair. The Doc
tor remarked that the object of the meet
ing was to hear a speech from General S.
F. Cary upon the political issues OF the
day, whom he now had the pleasure OF
introducing. General Cary then stepped
forward, and for near two hours held his
large audience deeply engaged by has elo-
quence and startling array of facts. The
General, though not in his usual health,
did full duty and was frequently inter-
ruptrd by hearty applause. We give a
brief report of his speech as follows:


eEy. cARY's SPEECH.


Governor Morton, the Beanerges of the
Republican party, at the solicitation Of
the Republican State Central Committee,
has made his usual annual pilgrimage to
our State to define the issues of this can
vass, and give the reasons for perpetuatng
the power of his party in State and Ma
tional affairs.


- l am one of those who accord to Sena-
tor Morton great ability and unusual
shrewdness and cunning. He, if any one,
is capable of successfully advocating a
bad cause, and making the worse appear
the better reason.


He congratulates the country on the
successful working of the machinery of the
National Government. There is little or
no friction in this vast and complicated
machinery, and the Administration of
President Grant is from year to year be-
coming a greater success. There is, l con-
fess, some senblance of truth in this
statement, especially as to President
Grant. Heretofore the Chief Magistrate,
the principal engineer in tnis wonderful
piece of mechanism called the Federal
Government, has found it necessary to be
at his post of duty and see that every
subordinate performed the work assigned
him, and that every wheel and cog and
screw and bolt IN the structure were IN
their place.


So marvellous has been the improve
ment in the functions of government that
the great machine runs itself 1t matters
not whether Grant is feasting in Maine,
hunting In the Far West, or luxuriating
at Long 6ranch-every thing moves on
withoutIfriction. His Cabinet Ministers
may follow their chief or 90 to distant
localities to look after the interests of
their party; their presence or absence Is
alike a matter of no public importance.


The running expenses of government
have increased, but who cares for little
extra pay, as We are all growing rich so
fast? We can afford to give Grant An
extra 100000 for his second term of SER
vice, for he has saved the whole country,
and caused the wilderness and solitary
place to blossom as the lose. He is rap
idly paying off the war debt, and
before the end of his third term every OBJ
legation Of the Government will be fully
cancelled.


We are assured that the present is a
period of unexampled prosperity. Labor
is fully and proftably employed farmers,
mechanics, manufacturers, merchants and
professional men are growing rapidly rich,
and they can pay the increased salaries of
Grant q Co., and the little extra demands
of Congressmen and others upon the
Treasury, without feeling the burden
Intellectually, morally and socially, we
are as a people making rapid advance
ment. The standard of political ethics is
more and more elevated.



ted IN deliberate and extensive swindles
upon the public treasure they were loyal
to the Government during the trying
scenes of civil war. When Copperheads
and rebels were doing their Utmost to de-
stroy the Union these patriotic thieves
were standing by the soldiers in the Union
army, and looking after their widows and
orphans.


The only defense Morton and Noyes
pretend to set up by way of extenuatIng
the crimes of the Republican party is that
it was for maintaining the Union. They
expect that denuncIation Of rebels and
copperheads, and shout for liberty and
human rights will arouse the masses and
bring them to the support of a party that
is reeking with venanty and corruption,
a party held together by the cohesive
power of Plunder.


am not here to apologize for or defend
the war record Of the Democratic party,
nor pronounce a eulogy upon the patriot
ism and fidelity of my old party during
the hour of fraternal strife. That chapter
of history has been made up; no part of
it can be obliterated or amended. And l
will only say that bad as may have been
the record of the Democratic party during
the war, it was not as bad as the Republi-
can party has made since the termination
of hostilities.


If this illustrious and pure leader,
whose sublime motto was Charity for all,
and malice toward none" had lived, be
might have saved the country from the
disgrace and humiliation which the Re-
publican party has brought upon 1t. The
Republican party has lived too long for
its posthumous reputation. I wish we
could take the hopeful view of the condi-
ton of public affairs which the friends oi
the Administration present.


One of the most refreshing and com
| forting assurances of Governor Morton in
his great Athens speech Is that the stan
dard of official morals has been greatly
elevated, and Is daily more and more ad'
vanced. Peculations and Official dishon.
esty are growing less and less year by year
| but the Increased sensitiveness when ar
act of villainy is exposed, the quickenine
of the public eonscienee, and the hot kastC
with which offenders are brought to JUS
tice make the false impression that venal
| ity and dishonesty are on the increase
This is a glowing tribute to the superior
morals of the age in which we live. 1
the old Democratic party, weighed dowI
with its sins and covered all over Will
/ lCSICEluR ulCC4SS Ouly DC Ou
of sight we might look hopefully for tn,
millennium, and begin to hear the SOM
which fell from angel lips on the plains o
Bethlehem, going up fran the farms anC
| workshops Of the north, and the cotton
fields and cabins of the South, "GloTy t,
God in the highest on Garth peace ant
good will to men" If there was no res
direction for the Democratic party, Nor.
ton, like Simeon of old, would exclaim
"Now, let thy servaut depart in peace, 70
mine eyes have seen thy salvation"


We commiserate the condition of Nor


ton & Co. that they should be compelled
so much against their will, and with sue


poignancy of grief, to reinvoke the ami
mosities Of the war and rehearse for tn


hundredLh time the foilies, blunders an


crimes of the Democratic party. Tn


nomination of the old patriot and sage


VIM. Allen, for Governor of Ohio, mean


the readeption of the Resolutions of '9S


lis election would repeal the Thirteenth


Fourteenth and fifteenth Amendment


re establish slavery and re-enact the fugi


tive slave law


How many more political campaigns Al


to be successfully prosecuted by such ar


peals to passion and prejudice2 How lon


will a betrayed, abused and robbed peopl
/. | he deceived hv nrofesSiOn6 of devotion (