The Findlay Jeffersonian, 1872-08-23

by their party, that thia party refuses to permit the colored child to enter a school which that child s lather is taxed equally with the white man to support, refuses him a seat in the cars on roads made in exercise of the com common - mon common domain of all the people, refuses him access to the hotels and places of public amusements, and turns him, as an inferior and.de spised race.from all these, and this ia defiance and defeat of the solid vote of the Republican party to secure them. And Mr. Sumner and his party go to the Amer American - ican American and colored citizen and demand that the Democratic party shall be made the guardians of the equal rights of all these people before the law, and that for their enstallment the Repub lican party 6hall be overthrown and destroyed forever ! lint did 1 pause here, this recital of things admonishing the colored mnnTdmimmi T '1 this i ucu 'auuruuiauiii-nnannnaaam avowal, by them at Baltimore, conversion to Republican principles in tavor of your equal rights, is simulation, a cheat, a wooden horse, by which they mean to allure you into intrusting to tnem tbe control of your liberties that they may destroy them, would be inexcusably incomplete. indeed tne most conclusive and appalling proof of the conspiracy and its designs would be left out allude to that political organization and its character upon which they rely, wno made this platform at Bal umore, ior success in tue coming election, tne nu-iuux. 1 reler to it with a feeling of re luctance and loathing which you can not realize who have not bj long or much been forced to listen to recitals of its deeds and proofs of its aims as I have in Congress. And were this horrid thing indeed a thing of the past, and did they who, to-day, give it existence and readiness tor its fell purposes, indeed assent that it and the objects for which they made and still keep it, should be by gones, then would 1 and every Republican cover it, if we could, with an oblivion as profound as the infamy with which it covers its authors and the American name. Bat since they will not since this "goblin damned" still glares upon us, us memoers, apologists and de fenders being part of the very body wmcn maae tui.s Baltimore (Jonven tion since at Memphis and in Georgia they have have smeared all over with tbe blood of their recent murders the platform they made at Baltimore,dare you forget its presence in your midst or the appalling dan gers it portends to your liberties ? Look at it, then, aa it thrusts its threatening presence upon you to-day, challenge them who best know the past to show me in any age or country political conspiracy like this one in its stupendous enormity. la its numbers it exceeds the best armies of the nations, and is estima ted by its chief officer, Forrest, at five hundred thousand. In military organizations it is complete, and armed from head to foot, trained and expert in war by tbe teachings or a hundred rebel battlefields, skilled in assassinajona by the learning ac quired under its chiei officer, Forest, at huadred ort 1'iilows and Ander sonvilles sworn to rescue each other when in danger, by perjuries and muidcr, extending throughout ten of our States, moving to tneir slaught slaughters - ers slaughters under cover ot mask and night, and upon selected victims, innocent, defenseless, and asleep, sparing neither age, infirmity, nor childhood, scattering over the South the dead or maimed bodies of their victims, until their numbers in but ninety-nine coun counties, - ties, counties, and which are disclosed by proofs filling thousands of pages, reached 3,335, and the entire aggre gate, disclosed and undisclosed, was year ago, estimated at bU.UUU, pro tracting this frightful work through throughout - out throughout a line of 3 ears and doing it now ; dominating the elections in State after State, election after election ; defying the power of your government to put them down and the acts of Congress ehuttmg up the courts so that, in thoseTj! States, perhaps not one of its crimes has ever met punisbment; banishing from their homes and into the swamps and fastnesses ot mountains whole communities of men, women, and children, and darkening the heavens with the smoke of the consuming homes, churches, and schools ot the unoffending and helpless poor ! This ia tbe very monster of history! But this is to-day the Democratic political organization, relisd on at the South to make sure, if need be, the election of Mr. Greeley as President of tho United States ! I point you to the testimony taken in Congress of more than a thousand witnesses, taken in the courts of more than ten thousand, and to the confession of its members and the declarations by its victims or eye witnesses of more than a hundred thousand, disclosing this fell organization. Thus are proved its deeds to which I have pointed, its present existence and readiness for work, its political character, and its sworn purpose to be the overthrow ot the Republican party, and of the civil and political rights of the color colored - ed colored race. And it was in part this organization along with the hundred mouths which defended :t in Congress and the ten thousand out of Congress, that resolv resolved - ed resolved at Baltimore that liberty and the colored race have in us their only defenders. Here I must leave thia picture and these proof, disclosing to the Amer American - ican American people admonitions as to whom they shall intrust with the defense of the equal political and civil rights of the people. If indeed, in the terrible presence and light ot these, this peo people - ple people shall now deliver the keeping of the equal political and civil liberties of this emancipated race, and of ns all, to those who met at Baltimore, and there executed this new act in the old conspiracy against us, then indeed will our incapacity to defend, by our suffrages, our common liberties, be disclosed, and then equal liberty will surely have passed away. Here I leave this contrast of the claims upon your confidence and votes, of these two parties as these claims relate to the especial interests of the colored race. By no stale and senseless prediction from the partisan politician uttered to yon at each com coming - ing coming election, but only in the voice and name of incontestable history, which the contrast shows, to which I have o poorly pointed you, I admonish yon not to surrender, colored men ot America, your equal liberties to the keeping of your implacable foe, or organized - ganized organized and organizing for your en enslavement - slavement enslavement or extermination. Again, in noticing the financial poli policy - cy policy of the administration Mr. S. makes the foilowing forcible and truthful contrast: But let us now turn to other ele elements - ments elements of this canvass. There are honest and patriotic Republicans, who deem it their duty to bring the Dem Democratic - ocratic Democratic party into power in order to secure economy, purity, official integ integrity, - rity, integrity, removal ot the burdens of taxa taxation, - tion, taxation, preservation of the national honor and public credit. Fidelity to exact truth requires me to say that but few intelligent and honest Repub Republicans - licans Republicans think thus ; but to such as do 1 in of

publican party consumated in deliv erance and securement or tbe grand est, holiest rights otman of every race events which John Bright, the foremost statesman and lover ot lib erty in Europe, said to me were events whose grandeur eclipsed the history of England, and crowned the glories of the nineteenth century when those events were finished, the Union saved and sanctified, and with the signet ring of eternity sealed, that all men and all nations stood around the completed work, and gave to it the benediction given of God to his new made earth, "Very good'' when it was "finished. then the au thors of that treason against liberty, which Republicans met and defeated the architects of that ruin which Republicans rebuilt, the foes of that gnusynnberty wbicn uepubiicans bVUl VU UBJ urninVlnVnBngL of this finished work of thellepTOTTE party, they pronounced the benedic tion of mankind, "very good," and resolved that we are the only safe custodians of tbe liberties could not destroy and the only trustworthy executors of the Iawa made despite us for defending them. Such again is the apparation or 1372. Nay, again 1 err, lor tne vision yet lacks its most direful spectacle. Bear with me while 1 add the rest. And I now implore the colored men of the land nay, all men who are not mad. to comprehend this residue to which I point. Look at the attitude to-day of the Democratic party toward these de fences provided by the Republican party for this "equality of all men be fore the law " and this "duty of gov ernment to mete out equal and exact ustice to all, of whatever color." What was it on the day they made this utterance at Baltimore? What was It on the day that Mr. Sumner wrote that the entire Democratic par ty was converted to Republicanism, and were more worthy or trust with the civil and political, rights of the poor of every race than are Kepub leans 7 Mr. Sumner is suthor of a supple mental civil rights bill by which it was provided that no citizen should on account of his color, be excluded from public schools, hotels, places of amusement, or from juries; and it provided means for enforcing this equality before the law ' by punisn ing in tho courts its violations. On the 12th of February, 1872, this most measure was introduced in the House by a Republican, and was met by tbe Democratic party by a motion never made except against such as are deemed monstrous, and unworthy even of reading and consideration. Mr. Eldridge moved that the bill be rejected, mni, for its rrjection.without even the compliment of being read, every Democrat in the House voting, being 89 in number ; but against its rejections every Republican (116 in number) voted. On the 26th of Feb ruary. and the 11th and 18th of March 1872, the same bill was reached, but even its consideration was defeated by the filibustering of tbe solid Democratic party, they de claring it should never be even con considered - sidered considered ! On tbe 25th of March, a colored member, Mr. Elliott, moved to sus suspend - pend suspend the rules and pass the bill ; and against that every Democrat (80 in number,) and for it every Republi Republican - can Republican voted, 93 in alL On April 1, a Democrat,Mr. Niblack, moved to kill the bill by tabling it, and every oting Democrat voted for, and every Republican against its death. On the 8th of April, 100 Republicans, all there were, voted to engross tbe bill. but not a Democrat, and it was en. grossed. On the 13th ot May, an another, - other, another, and final effort was made by the Republicans to pass the bill, on motion of Mr. Elliott to suspend the rules and report the bill ; and 112 Republicans voted for, and 76 Demo Democrats - crats Democrats against it, and, aa it required two thirds to suspend the rules, thus ncrats gave it its final defeat. SI Republican agsmsr this measure, whose simple and just object was to do that set at tbe bead of the Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic platform, namely: secure equality to the colored man before the law. And let it be remembered throughout all time and by all peo people - ple people it was ten days after they had at Cincinnati set at. the head of their principles the demand that men should "be equal before the law,'' that the entire Democratic party, acting upon official oaths, and by means little less than treasonable, de defeated - feated defeated in the nation's Congress the demand of a majority ot the people's representatives, that the rights ot the black man should be "equal before the law." On the 13th of March, 1871, in the House ot Representatives, and under oath, 76 Democrats voted "No," on the resolutions of Wilson, of Indiana, that the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were valid, and but three voted them valid. On the 5th of February, 1872, Mr. Peters introduced a resolution declaring these amendments duly ratified and binding, and that they and such leg islation as may be necessary to mase them in their letter and spirit most effectual should be acquieaed in. For this, lis Republicans voted and not one against it. For it, 6 Democrats voted ; against it, 58 Democrats voted, but no Republicans. On the 12th of February, 1872, 1U7 Republicans voted for the resolution of Mr. Stevens, which declared simply that "we recognize as valid and bind binding - ing binding all existing laws for the enforce enforcement - ment enforcement or the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution of tbe United States, and for the pro protection - tection protection of citizens in their rights un der tha Constitution as amended, but not a Democrat voted for it, and 65 voted against it. A bill came up for action in the last Congress, providing that, on pe petition - tition petition ot ten electors, the Judge ol the United States Circuit Court shall appoint one elector from each political party to be present at the registration and the election for members of Con Congress, - gress, Congress, simply to see that no wrongs were committed m tbe registration, in excluding voters or in the count of ballots, but they to be without pay and without any power except to re report - port report any wrongs they might see com committed. - mitted. committed. This act of most manifest justice was well and understood by all to be needed mainiy ior tne pro tection ot the colored vote in the South against Ku-Klux outrages then so frequent, flagrant, and overwhelm ing. This act was passed on the 10th of June, 1872, the very last day of the last Congress, by uie vote ol the Re Republican - publican Republican party, thirty-nine in the Senate, including Mr. Sumner, not a Democrat there voting for it ; and by the votes of 102 in the House, not s Democrat voting for it ; the "reform "reformers," - ers," "reformers," Trumbull, Tipton, and Fenton voting against it, and Schurz silent. I have now selected from innumer innumerable - able innumerable similar hostilities, shown by the solid and sworn public acts ot the entire representatives of tbe Demo cratic party, the Congress of the United States, and in the last days thereof, and since that party had made for it its platform, solemnly pledging that all men shall, without regard to color, be made equal before the law

ryot end was equivalent in right to our revolution in 1776. eauivalent in "justifying the secession of five mil lions of Southerners from the Fed eral Union in 1861." They took him because he demanded that Lee and Jackson should be honored for their achievements in thia wir, in this cause, with the same honors given to those whose valor deleated tne cause. Add. I aav. to their past this specta cle of their piesent attitude toward such war. In such a cause, and that people must be wholly incapable of the guardiansbip oi meir uoeniea wuu fails to see in this Baltimore affair a new device in their conspiracy against the eaualitr of man. But when yon are making inquest, as electors, as to wnetuer your ite - . ..... .lin rvartv is not. and IQ1S DBTty a I I it . . . - at Baltimore is to be trm business of making liberty and equal itv for all eternal in our government, it would be a crime to stop at this inadequate glimpse at what further they did to destroy liberty, who now demand to be made its sole custodians and defenders. It would be inade quate because the review stops too soon, and leaves out the acts of the North, half of these our adversaries. In aid and execution or tms war for making tha enslavement of the poor organic and eternal in government. . . i in . was sent to ine re Demon irom unio, the "greetings" of "two hundred thousand Ohio Democrats,'' on the 23d of January, 1861, the very day in which the armies ol the rebellion were seizing the forts of the nation, and organizing to march against the capital. Similar acts oi cneer were sent by the same party from all the North and from Congress. In aid of it thev organized throughout the North and armed and drilled armies for the rebellion. They gathered is your cities the stores and munitions of war. They put spies in au your houses and camps and public offices. In aid of it their chief men arranged conspiracies, and fixed days for uni versa! uprising at the North against the uovernment and lor liberating rebel prisoners, tor sacking and burn. ing your cities, tor marcaing tneir ar mies to join tnose oi tne re Demon, and for consuming the land in the flame ot war. In aid of it, just when Grant and Sherman were struggling with this huge conspiracy, approach- ing its last agonies, they met at Nisg ara in concert with the assassins, Clay, Sanders, Blackburn, and Thompson, and arranged to murder your men and women and children by the poison yellow fever, and to consume their homes witn "ureex nre." una men, our armies pressed the rebellion nearer to its falL they resolved in national convention that the war was failure, and must atop ; and, at last, when to your eagles at xsasnvme, at Sherman's march to the sea. and at rna3e free. by the whole Appomattox, this monster had sur rendered, they crowned the immense crime against Human liberty by put ting all its guilts into one sum ot vil- . . .i i a . t n 3 . . laimes. ana auiea ue x rcaiucnt oi the United States, and consigned to the first place in human annals the one compeer of Washington and mar tyr of liberty. This done, and by far the foulest crime in history against liberty, nay, against human nature itself, thus ended, the authors of the crime, some of the very same men who organize yellow fever Into epi demies, met at Baltimore rnd resolv resolved - ed resolved negro equality to be the chief good, and tney its best defenders I Such is anotner oi tue paradoxe 1872. No, it is not so much. The vision yet lacks its colors. When tne drama oi nsgrant war thus ended, tbe Republican party found the Union in fragments ; ten its mighty States in ruin, and four million of its people the helpless poor God. and wards of the nation. Ton Republicans began the work of their emancipation slowly. First, by law, yon ordered the slaves used against yon in war and cf-ptured, to llemocrauo pami Then yon ordered that slaves escap escaping - ing escaping to you ahould not be returned. This was denounced by the whole Democratic party. Then you abol abolished - ished abolished alavery in the District of Col Columbia. - umbia. Columbia. This was voted against and denounced by the whole Democratic party.. Then, by. your President, you proposed "compensated emanci pation." This was denounced by the whole Uemocrauo party and do do-feattd. - feattd. do-feattd. Then you issued a proclama proclamation - tion proclamation of partial emancipation. Thia was denounced by that entire party, as perhaps few measures ever were in any government. Then yon adopt adopted - ed adopted tbe 18th amendment, whereby slavery was abolished forever, and the crowning glory of the republic was forever assured. This was re sisted and denounced, and though years after Its adoption, Its validity was denied py uie jjemocrauc party. Then yon created the Freedmen's Bureau and took care of the nation's wards, and this act of God-like jus justice - tice justice and charity was denounced by every Democrat In the nation. Then you formed new provisional govern ments ror tne en rumea otaiee, and on my own motion (pardon this al allusion - lusion allusion to the proudest act of my poor lire,) you ordered tnat, in them, the black man should vote. This was denounced by every known Demo crat in the republic; and the Demo cratic party, in its very last national vote of 1868, gave 2,703,249 ballots to make second Magistrate of the na nation - tion nation Mr. Blair, in honor of his de demand - mand demand that their President elect should, by the army, overthrow the government and laws, just because they gave the black men the right to vote. Then yon made the 14th smendment, and thus put into the Constitution that "equal protection of the laws" whose very words are copied into the head lines of the Dem Democratic - ocratic Democratic faith of 1872; and that smendment was denounced, and af after - ter after its adoption its validity was de nied by nearly every Democrat in Congress and out, and by their con conventions - ventions conventions in moat of the States. Then yon passed a civil rights bilLenforce- ing tneae ngnts ot citizenship for the black man, and this measure was de nounced by every Democrat who had tbe use of speech. Then yon made the 15th amendment, securing to all men the right to vote, and this was voted against and resisted to the death by the entire party, and its validity denied by speech and resolu tion in Congress, in State conventions, snd in the press throughout the en tire land. Then yon passed, in obe dience tothe last section of the 15th amendment, a law enforcing in un willing States the white man's and black man's equal right to vote, and this law Was voted against, and carp carped - ed carped against, and defied by this entire party. Then In obedience to the 14th smendment, yon passed the K.n K.n-Elux - Elux K.n-Elux bill, protecting the black men sndall others in every right of this great American dtisenahip, against organized associations, and this measure was denounced, spit upon, and defied by thia entire party, with s violence such as none ara capable of the slaveholders; rebellion. And then, when this family events was consumated by the sub lime heroism, the cons ornate wisdom, and the matchless bkiu oi tbe xte

now beg to appeal: and again I go to history. air. Johnson a administration, irom that 22d of February, 1866, when he gave in his full adhesion to the Dem- ocratio party, until its " close, was wholly possessed, animated and con- trolled by that party. Theyindors- ed it in Congress and In the njsViMaljFre-'' convention of 1868, and througfcow, the country. They filled ItoSoffldes and gave to it its character', w. must, therefore, look to it as giving' us the very beat and most concia-r-' indication of what we are to gainc the restoration of that part power. r -- if From the day of his betray party his administration very carnival ot political y and debauch. He arr' self with the known pi'' public Treasury, theX bea torment of the Jofthar of this ciations became qui fruits such as I now point yon to : He appointed of internal revenue o tflcers reported as delinquent by tbe Secretary of the Treasury, in August, 1871, 83 and Grant appointed 8. The apparent defalcations or Johnson revenue appointees was 91,813,756 12 while that of Grant, appointees was $64,581 76. By the exposures made to Congress it wss proved abundant lythat he retained in office these thieves, after their stupendous lar cenies were disclosed, in written tes timony, in fall detail of time, place, circumstance, and name, and he pun' ished, by removal, government pros ecutors for their attempt to bring to punishment these public plunderers'. Some conception of the magnitude of the crimes of. that last Democratic administration may be derived from contrasts I now add from official reports. In 1868 the tax on spirits was two dollars per gallon, and in that year, the last of Johnson he collected 118, 118,-000.000. - 000.000. 118,-000.000. In the first fiscal year of Grant, this tax was reduced to fifty cents, and at that he collected foa, foa,-000,000. - 000,000. foa,-000,000. In Joan son's last year, tobacco taxed at forty cents, yielded $18,000,- 000. In Grant's first year, reduced 22 cents average, it produced $31,000,000. The expenses for col collecting - lecting collecting internal revenue under tha last year (1868) of Johnson's admin administration, - istration, administration, were $8,387,793 17, and the first year of Grant's these expenses for collecting this revenue were reduced to $5,919,410 22. The tari2 produced, during Johnson's last two years, $293,452,640 07. January 1, 1871, a reduction of 29 million dollars per year, from the tariff tax, went into effect, and yet Grant's first two years, ending March 1, 1871, produced ot custom revenues, $353, $353,-855,167 - 855,167 $353,-855,167 74, a gain of $55,402,227 67 ; and notwithstanding the amount of tax imposed by law exceeded that exist ing now nearly two to one, yet Johnson's administration reduced the public debt but $13,000,000 in his four years. Johnson's Democratic administra tion ended by a message from him recommending a repudiation of the public debt a recommendation stamping our name with the foulest blot ever fixsd by executive act the foulest except the one from Buchanan demanding that the Union should be permitted to dissolve. Grant's ad ministration began with the demand his inaugural that every dollar of the public debt should be paid, principal and interest, and in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipula stipulated." - ted." stipulated." Under Johnson's recommenda recommendation, - tion, recommendation, backed by the repudiation schemes ot his party, oof six per cent gold bonds sold for 14 per cent below par in March, 1869, and for 20 per cent below in July, lobs. Under Grant's administration they quickly went where they are to day, to a premium in all the markets of the world. Johnson left gold at a premium 32 per cent Under Grant it' quickly went down to 10 and 12, where . it stands to-day. Johnson's axes , assessed for adliiiUfll'l IIIIMHMI meeting and overthrowing cratic rebellion, upon all the indus tries, property, and imports of the people Grant's administration has repealed these taxes to the aggregate amount or i33,uuu,uuu per year; and yet,notwithstanding this reduction of taxes,. Grant's administration paid into tne Treasury the last year $S4. 994,049 74 more than in the last year of Johnson s administration ! John sou s administration paid of the public debt in his tour years $12,000,- 000; Grant's paid, np to July 1. 1872, $333,976,916 39; being nearly the thirteenth part of the entire public debt ia three years ! Grant found our faith so tarnished by threats of Democratic repudiation, that our six per cent bonds could no where be sold at rates of loss under thirteen per cent Grant so redeemed that credit that he has already sold of bonds bearing not 6 per cent interest, ba only 4 J or 5 per cent, three hun hundred - dred hundred millions of dollars, and sold them at par, and thus reduced our annual interest about three millions of dollars this, besides the reduction ot $20,000,000 per year upon the part of the debt he has paid. Grant's last year expended for permanent public buildings and work (most of which when done will endure for ages) $10,733,759 05. and notwithstanding this, his last year's expenses for administering the government were but$l 76 tor each person ofour population; while under Buchanan's it was, in 1860, $1 95 per head, although but $2,615,371 43 of public improvements were made that year. Grant's administration has cost, the last year, less per head than Wash ington'a, and (considering his public works) as low as any since the gov government's - ernment's government's organization. Granf a administration has seached out removed, and punished relent lessly every officer offending against the public laws. Johnson's never detected or removed a single one of the Democratic criminals with which his administration swarmed, and who plundered the Treasury of one fourth of our enormous revenues. Grant has reduced the public debt at the rate of $3,349,422 per month. Tam many, the very seat and embodiment ot Democratic power npon this con tinent and the power which, in connection with that of the South, as embodied in Ku-Klux conspiracy, will rule the republic should they gain tbe elections una i. am many increas ed the debt of the single city of New York lrom rJ,31'4,y4a 82, as it stood in December, 1869, np to $55,518,565 in May, 1871, which is $1,875,663 08 per month. Grant a administration has reduced the public debt 910 for each 01 our population. Tammany has increased the debt of New York $53 97 per head of her population. But time forbids the furtherpursuit of this contrast It is made up of facts taken from the official records of the nation, and are incontroverta incontroverta-ble - ble incontroverta-ble history. In these startling lights I demand of jou, Americans, con aider. I resort to no figures of rhetoric when I declare that in its excellence, in the amazing grandeur of its econ economic - omic economic and financial results this admin administration - istration administration yon arc demanded to over. at of I

I throw that land neiu in tffex The 4 maxima, Fraaosr" arj, l. ft jfjL, sppamng iiuraeu provements of the nation, tue of Its cities and general prosperity of the people advancing with un paral paralleled - leled paralleled rapidity, is confessed by the nation to be the very marvel of the century. And now to this contrast of these deeds oi the parties one other quality it has. Know that we were compelled to straggle for and attain these results despite the concerted, unanimous and protracted efforts ot the Democratic party that not one ahould be achieved. By their President's message to Con gress, cheered to the echo by tie party, they demanded repudiation outright By resolving in national convention and Congress in tavor of a virtual repudiation, by nearly unani unanimous - mous unanimous support of Johnson's pocket - veto of the bill affirming the purpose to pay our debt, and by prediction that the debt could never be paid or funded at lower rates, they inflicted on the nation all of shame they could, -and a loss ot millions in injury to our credit And when in defiance of these monstrous wrongs against their country's honor these results were achieved, this party meet in Baltimore - convention, and "denounce repudia repudiation - tion repudiation in every form;" and Tammany and Ko-Klux indict the Republican party for lack of economy, purity, and - --concern - concern --concern for the public faith and wel welfare, - fare, welfare, and ask themselves to be put into power because they are "Re "Reformers - formers "Reformers ! Such exactly and by the record - facts of your history, is the spectacle presented by this demand by tbe Democratic party that they shall be restored to power. It is a display of audacity of which men are Incapable who have not been trained In such. . schools as have been kept for so many years for the tuition of them who dis display - play display it kept at Tammany Hall, and lodges ot Southern conspirators. After alluding to the praise be stowed on Gen. Grant by the Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic press when they were courting him aa a Democratic candidate for the Presidency, Mr. S. closes by the ' following strong endorsement of him . a citizen and a statesman : But since his refusal to become , their candidate this organization, on -plan and persistently through years, by agreed suppression 01 vjjy- agreed pablication&f iafiw'h pods, j agreed distortion offsets, agreed sup sup-pression - pression sup-pression of testimony,agreed schemes investigation of Invented wrongs, -agreed slanders set as the preambles -for resolutions in Congress, agreed assaults npon him in Congress and . the public press tor things either ' wholly frivolous or wholly false, it is arranged to assassinate one other of the nation's best citizens and its greatest defender. I speak now , what I know and testify to what I have seen. And because I do, declare solemnly that I doubt whether, in this or any other modern government, such a wrong against any citizen, national benefactor or great magistrate, can be named as ta.t now directed against the Presi- T&ar-ni dent Thsy declare 1 of the very rudiments and yet he is possessed of all the learn ing of one or the most thorough col colleges - leges colleges of the continent, and bis ac quirements are both solid and large. They describe him as incapable of . either comprehending or of stating ny important affair of government ; and yet I invite an impartial contrast between the messsges of his prede predecessors - cessors predecessors and his, and I affirm tnat, in those first excellences of State pa pers, absence of pretension and mere - rhetoric, and the presence of clear compact comprehension and direct presentation of the subject; in the justness and practical wisdom they evince, and in the simple, unostenta tious spirit of the good magistrate and the patriotic citizen which char- , acterizss them, the messages of Grant already rank with the best of our own nation, and receive the admi admiration - ration admiration of the foremost statesmen ' of other nations. They accuse him of neglect of du ty, and ot absenteeism. I affirm, on . the contrary, his watchfulness over affairs and comprehension and dis charge of duty at all times when da- ties are npon him, is remarkable. ' Take as a mere specimen proof of this, his scrutiny of mere minor pri vate bills, sen! for his signature. And shonld that brief but admirable state-' ment of public law embodied in bis message of June 1st, 1872, vetoing a -; small private bill, paying fox proper property - ty property destroyed in the ravages of war, . be heeded by the Congress, then the nation will owe to the President's watchfulness and wisdom in matters of apparently the smallest moment its deliverance from the payment of all such property, estimated to amount to the sum ot ten hundreds of millions of dollars, , - , They say he, as President takes gifts as rewards for bestowment 01 office, and yet since President he has , not received of guts a single rartning, and those he did receive before were given by the people in token of hon honor - or honor and gratitude to the national de deliverer - liverer deliverer token as honorable to the ; giver as the receiver. " - ...... They say he violated neutral odu- -1 gations in the sale of arms ; and yet that no violation occurred is now so- -overwhelmingly proved that- even his traducers have nearly ceased to press the slander ; and, besides, the law authorizing the sale confined the matter so exclusively to the judg judg-ment - ment judg-ment direction, and control or tbe Secretary of War s to make the President no more responsible for the set than is the President of this meeting. Thev say he made war on ban Do-. minM). and endangered the liberties of 800,000 negroes I Bat it was a . war where no gun or pistoi, or oow .. and arrow, or sworn or xniie, was . ever used or heard of, and where the only military act was that oat some- ; where in the ocean, om sky rocket went np one nighvand 1 so far as is known, never cams oowa. xuey have made hideous the very land with aprearrangea noises about "nepotism."- Led by the gong of Mr. Sumner and tbe kettledrum . mipsW destitute (umtrcn5'!fdge. of knftTJ!

By considerations like these I have now appealed to. I am authorized and demanded, in selecting my party associationsand my rulers, to scan their history. When this scrutiny is done with "malice toward none, and charity for all" done not to exag gerate wrongs, to seep alive resent ments tnat ail good men let die, but only that American electors may. by men's and parties lives decide who worthiest to be intrusted with what involves the lives, liberties, and destinies of all the people and of their country, then the scrutiny becomes a supreme public duty, and its omis omission - sion omission is a guilt for which there Is no name. Let us then go in this spirit of charity and truth, and not for pur pose of crimination, into this scrutiny . i i . . . ... tue uvea oi parties, mat we may oy meir "iruiu Know tnem. At Baltimore, they gave tbe place nonor at tbe bead ortbeir platform inis resolution : "First We recognize the equal!- of all men before tbe law. and hold that it is the duty of the govern men, in its dealings with the people. meet out equal and exact justice all, of whatever party, race, color, persuasion, religious or political.'' tor its companion and place of second nonor tney set this : "second We pledge ourselves to maintain the Union of these States, emancipation, enfranchisement, and oppose any reopening of the ques questions - tions questions settled by the 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution." By this sign the seduction of the colored race thoy expect to conquer. Let us, therefore, scrutinize this first and by itself. Equality of all colors before the law to all colors equal civil and political rights, in voting and in every other right secured or regula regulated - ted regulated by law. "Equality of all men before the law." The grand truths Democracy sets this year, as the first other jewels, and by their beauty expects to win her the black man of the republic and his friends. Look, Americans, at the character of this pretension that to make these truths secure it Is needful to destroy tbe Republican party, and put the coo trol of the government in the power those who assembled at Baltimore For these very truths' enforce. ment the Republican party was born from the convulsions following the Democratic party's demand that slavery should go to our utmost North, by virtue of the repeal of the Missouri compromise. It was far these truths' enforcement our party received, in Kansas, its first baptism of blooi party, whose President rewarded with cmce the men known as most eminent in murder done to fasten slavery upon the unwilliing States. It was for the enforcement of these very .truths Republicans made Lin coin the author of the immortal words, "Tbe nation can only rest in the confidence that slavery is in process of gradual extinction" words which brought from the Democratic party, upon the author, a deluge of calumny, scarcely approached in its loathsomeness, unless by that now sweeping over Grant. It was for the defense of these truths our party de demanded - manded demanded that Mr. Lincoln should take his seat as first magistrate which the Democratic party arranged to prevent Dy assassination, xi was in tbe re resistance - sistance resistance of this, and to build upon the ruins of our government one whose corner stone should make slav slavery - ery slavery the proper condition ot the la laborers, - borers, laborers, that these men who made his platform at Baltimore, in 1872, made the war of the rebellion. In that war these same men organized a gov ernment which made slavery eternal in the Constitution rent the republic into fragments, slew sear a million of men, expended of the treasures of the North five thousand millions, and of their own near as much more, swept half the country with the destruction et universal war, crushed with the agonies of deadly sorrow and bereave ment nearly every surviving heart in our land, and filled it with the maim ed wrecks of battle or the worse wrecks of their Libbies and Andersonvilles. protracted ma. war tnrough four years, Jblack with the supreme crimes of human annals, and only ended it in sullen and n resistible defeat a defeat leaving ten States in a charred, mangled and universal ruin, and the whole cation staggering under debt such as but one in history ever felt, and no one ever p iid. bucb, liepublicans, in feeble out line, was the war made by the master half ot present Democracy against these essential rights of man, and against the very being of all free government. In the convulsions of this war, and in defense of these rights, our party was born, grew, and made deadly Dattie. were this ret rospect into the lives ot parties all we have to snow us which party is the tried friends of mans's "equity before the law," then the demonstra demonstrations - tions demonstrations would be completecomplete in showing this affair at Baltimore is part of a new conspiracy against the colored race and against the results of tbe war. But to the demonstrations derived from this recent past of the two par par-ties - ties par-ties add an inspection into their present attitude touching that war, and you find not a State, not a con con-vention.not - vention.not con-vention.not a great journal, and not a man of them, who executed this re recent - cent recent and immense havoc to tbe end, that they might embody the infernal dogma, that all labor is or right slave, into constitutional and eternal law, has ever confessed that either the either the war or the cause in which they made it, was wrong. Moreover, you find them select their leader because he, on the 9th ot November, 1860, declare that when for such ends they shall make rebellion, their "right to secede exists," and because, on tbe 17th of December, 1860, be declared such a rebellion for such an a ashed by .cS5ficrTHf be of of