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destroyed. That was purely a political
and religious difference. No sensible
man ever thought of holding the city or
State of New York responsible for the
conduct of the Irish Catholics who
menaced the Orangemen with violence
and blood shed; nor has any sensible
man proposed to held the better class
of Irish Catholics 'responsible .for the
conduct of their ignorant and more
supersticiouB brethren. Yet it could
be done with just as much propriety
and just as much decency and truth os
to hold South Carolina responsible for
the murder of negro prisoners by reck
less, irresponsible men.
I am a supporter of Gov. Tilden,
not because I expect any peculiar fav
ors at his hands for the people of the
South, but because I believe he will
hold the scales evenly, and give an ex
confederate soldier the same protection
under the Constitution that he accords
to the soldiers of the Union. So far as
I am concerned I ask no more; I be
lieve the Southern people expect no
more.
I was as you know a delegate from
the State at large to the St. Louis Con
vention. I went there a Tilden man
because I believed him the most faith
ful exponent of an idea that ought to
prevail in this country, and that is the
idea of Reform in the administration
of the government. The Western dele
gates to the St. Louis Convention com
plained to the Southern delegates that
they had entered into a combination
with the people of the East—an alliance
they Baid wholly unnatural and unpre
cedented. They said,a natural affinity
exists between the Western and North-
Western people and the Southern peo
ple. Those to whom I talked, I told we
had but one purpose in our course and
that was to secure the nomination of
the best men who could be elected, and
the best man was the man most accept
able to the Northern Democrats. That
Mr. Tilden seemed the best and most
praotitable representative of the most
popular idea. That we recognized in
Mr. Tilden the fact that he was an un
compromising Union Democrat during
the war; that his opposition to us had
ceased only when our hostility to the
government ceased. That we felt the
hand of power heavily upon us; and
heavier than it bears upon the people in
other seotions. That small affairs with
us, are magnified for political purposes
into huge mountains of sin; that what
we ask is no favor, but simply an equal
right to stand before the law with the
negroes who live among us.
And more than that, the Republican
party is shown to hove served its pur
pose. There is no longer any national
demand for its existence. Abuses have
grown up with its long lease of power,'
and it’s impossible for it to reform itself.
Experience proves no political party
has ever done so, and there is nothing
in the conduct of the Republican party
to prove it an exception to that well es
tablished rule.
If the Democratic party was in power
just as long, it would no doubt become
just as corrupt. The country will profit
by a change.
The platform as adopted by both
parties, makes reform the watch-cry and
slogan of their Bongs.
Can the Republican party make good
its promises with Gov. Hayes as Presi
dent of the United States ? I say not,
aacl will attempt to show you why.
I have never believed General Grant
personally corrupt. I have never be
lieved that he directly or indirectly
shared in the plunder with which many
of his officers have enriched themselves.
Nor is Gen. Grant a weak man. To the
contrary he is a strong man. He is not
a statesman, as we ordinarily under
stand that word, but he is a man of
ability and great personal courage.
Now that I concede his personal in
tegrity and courage, it is equally fair to
say that his administration of the af
fairs of this government has not been a
success. For while his own hands are
clean, it is universally known that cor
ruption, fraud and peculation have
crept into high places; his ministers
have been detected in crime; villiany
has been traced to his personal staff.
In a word, Gen. Grant’s administration
is without a precedent in the matter of
defaults, frauds upon the government
and peculation on the port of high offi-
cials. It is to be doubted if more cor
ruption was ever shown in any country
among those entrusted with power.
Then I say, if all of this has grown
up under the very nose of Gen. Grant,
and he unable to detect and stop it,
how is it possible for a man like Gov,
Hayes to do it? Governor Hayes is
personally honest; so is Gen. Grant;
but Gov. Hayes is one of those routine
commonplace, genteel, quiet gentlemen
who will do his individual duty as he
understands it, but who lacks the ele
ments necessary for a re former to a much
greater degree than Gen. Grant. Is it
not folly then to expect of a man like
Gov. Hayes what a man like Gen. Grant
has been unable to accomplish ? Gov.
Hayes is now serving his third term as
Governor of Ohio; has served several
sessions in Congress; but he has failed
to leave his impress on the country in
anything and discharges faithfully the
duties of his position according to his
ability. Is it not a sad commentary
upon American Statesmanship, that it
has come to the point where a candi
dates chief recommendation is, that he
has never stolen anything ?
Governor Tilden possesses, in an em
inent degree, the elements of a reformer.
First, he is possessed of a high order of
ability; he has an iron will, tireless en
ergy ; and last, but not least, he has a
deathless hatred of rogues.
The Democratic party has given an
earnest of its intentions to reform and
economize in the expenditure of public
money.
The present House of Representatives
of Congress has a Democratic majority.
The Republicans call it the Confederate
House of Representatives. All I wish
for is that the people of the United
States may never have a House which
legislates less in the interests of the
people than the present one. If all
that are to follow do as well, the coun
try will prosper.
We will look now at a few items of
savings to the country. But, before we
do that, I will ask you to note if the
machinery of the Goverdment does not
run just as well for the next year as it
has for the last.
Take the fortifications first: The
Government asked for an appropriation
of 83,406,000. House committee, where
all appropriations must originate, lec-
ommonded 8315,000. It was so passed
in both Houses; over 83,000,000 saved
there. Congress, lait year—it was
Republican Congress — appropriated
817,001,006.40 to the Navy. Govern
ment this year asked for 820,871,666.40;
House passed bill giving 812,432,856.40;
Senate recommended an increase on
House bill so as to make it 816,167,855-
.40. On conference between the Senate
and the House, the bill was passed for
812,740,355.40. Little over 88,000,000
was saved there.
The last Congress appropriated for
postoffice department 88376,205. Gov
ernment asked this year for 88,431,602.-
99; Senate recommended 87,288,647;
bill, as finally passed on conference be
tween the Senate and House, 85,997,-
498. Nearly 83,000,000 saved there.
If House bill had passed the Senate,
over 84,0C 3,000 would have been
saved.
For the army, last Congress appro
priated 827,933,830. Government asked
this year for 833,348,748.50; House ap
propriated 823,179,819.52; Senate rec
ommended 827,717.877.20 ; the bill, as
finally passed on conference between
the Senate and House, 825,987,167.
saved there, nearly 88,000,000.
To sundry civil service bill last Con
gress appropriated 826,644,350. Gov
ernment asked this year for 832,560,475;
House appropriated 814,857,326.54;
Senate recommended 818,501,601.24;
bill, os finally passed on conference be
tween the Senate and House, 816,357,-
905.47. Amount saved there, about
816,000,000.
Savings made in appropriations to
Navy yard, public buildings, etc., by
the House, is over half a million oi
dollars. Appropriations to the Military
academy lastyear,8364,740. Government
asked, for this year, 8437,470; House
appropriated 8231,241; bill, as finally
passed on conference between the Sen
ate and the House, 8290,035. Amount
saved, about 8150,000.
Last Congress appropriated an Indian
bill, -5,360,554.55. Government asked
for this year, 85,787,995.60; House ap
propriated 83,979,602; Senate recom
mended 8495,361.27; bill, as finally
passed on conference between Senate
and House, 84,670,117.02. About 81,-
000,000 saved there.
If the Senate had passed the House
bill for appropriations to the Consular
and diplomatic service, the saving
would have been about 8400,000; but,
os finally passed on conference, it saved
only about 830,000.
To the Legislative appropriation bill
the last Congress appropriated 818,932,-
23g. Government asked this year for
820,836,307; House appropriated 812,-
998,895; Senate recommended 816,635,-
338; bill, as finally passed on confer
ence between the Senate and House
815,373,960. About 85,000.000 saved
there.
Last year, Congress gave, by the usu
al appropriation bills, 8177,663,327.
Government asked for this year, on
same bills, 8203,099,025; House appro-
propriated 8137,233,135 ; Senate recom
mended for same purpose 8159,260,598;
bills, ns finally passed on conference
between the two Houses, 8147,719,674;
it will thus be seen that amount actu
ally, between that given by the last
Congress and what was given by the
present Congress, is 829,944,253. If the
Republican Senate had passed the ap
propriation bills as they passed the
Democratic House, the saving between
what was given lost year and what
would under Housebills have been given
this year, would have been 840,480,192,
And if they had not been there, a con
stant menace to the Republican rulers
in their extravagance, the appropria
tions would have heen what was asked
for by the Government, to-wit: 8203,-
099,025: the difference between that
any, except to say he has never stolen 1 asked by the government oflicsrs and
wlmt the House on conference with
the Senate, is $55,379,951. The last is
the actual amount saved to the people
of the United States by a Democratic
House. If the bills had passed the
Senate just as they did the JLuse, the
actual saving between what would have
been given and what the Government
officials asked for, would have been
865,865,890.
A Democratic House of Representa
tives has, in time of peace, saved more
money from the civil expenses of the
Government for one year than was
spent by President Polk in the same
time in carrying on.a war in a foreign
country, including all civil expenses at
home.
Is this not an earnest of the good
faith of the Democratic party, and of
the public virtue of the Confederate
House of Representatives, as some Re
publicans call it ?
In what I have said I have attempted
to establish these propositions—every
one of which can be established by the
record:
1. That the Southern people are not
the enemies of the black man.
2. That Southern people are the
friends of the black man.
3. That in the Southern States, espe
cially in Georgia, the colored people
enjoy all the political privileges of the
white people, and all the immunities of
the white people.
4. That in Georgia the percentage of
tho increase of the property of the col
ored people is greater under Democratic
rule, than it was beforo Gov. Bullock
fled from the State.
5. That the percentage of the increase
of the property of the colored people
is greater in Georgia which is ruled by
Democrats, than in South Carolina,
which is governed by carpet-baggers and
negroes. Provided, the office-holding
negroes who have stolen fortunes are
excluded from the estimate.
6. That the Republican party cannot
reform itself.
7. That Gen. Grant has more of the
qualities of a reformer than Gov. Hayes,
and if Gen. Grant can’t purify the party
it’s impossible for Gov. Hayes to do it.
8. That the Democracy has proven its
faith by its work; it has inaugurated
reform and economy in the administra
tion of the government.
9. That it has for its candidate, the
embodyment of the reform movement,
Gov. Tilden.
10. That the corruption day exists in
the Republican party.
If these propositions are true, then
the Republican party ought to be de
feated, and the Democratic party ought
to succeed.
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