Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1877, Page 2

e “8 00 7.7 The Chosen Subject of Col. " Ingersoll's Lecture of * Last Evening,. Taking Which. as, His Text, He Imparted Much Val. uable Information, Interjecting the Same with Wity Sarcasm, Invect- ive and Excellent Advice. All of Which Was Received with Approval by a De- lighted Audionce. The Erifliant Orator Deserihes 1ho Per- plexity of {he American Peoplo After the Election, And Tells How the Democratic Statesmen Invented the 8« to-7 Commission, ‘Whoso Rulings They Would Jiave Ltepudiated but for the Con- federate Brigadicrs, President Hayes' Southern Policy Approved and Defended. Ho Belicves Tt Will Lead to an Era of Peace snd Prosperity to All the Country, An Eloquent Peroration hy {he Most Eloquent Orator of the Pros« ent Time. TARWELT HAT, A ORAXS AUDIENCE, The an, Ttobert @, Ingersoll lectured fn VFare well Hall last evening upon the political sltastion of to-day, Not anly was ovary scat on the main finar and In the gallery occupled, bat nanrly 200 standing-roon tickets were sold. The nndfence it 18 perhaps neeiloss to aay was made npof the beat citizens, innny belng necompanied by thelr wives nud daughters. Upon the platform were among others Judge Blodgett, the llen, Willlam Aldrlch, b, cx-Marshal Carapbell, A. € Hes- Iy, L. L. buen, Abwer "Faylor, the Non. Johs . Dore, William 11, Bradiey, Il 'W. Hishop, the Hon, Lorenz Bienlano, Ald. Glibert, A, B, Pulle wan, Col. A, Rabcork, Gen. Chetlnln, and John 11, sngh, Neing tnl ced by the Hon, Willlsm Allrich, tho great arator was recelved with applanse, Alter gulet was testored Lo spoke as fulloas: RETROSPEOTIVE. ' TUE PREMDESTAL CANPAION, Latnms ann Grxvieaiss §itko this country, 1 1ike 3t for one reavons 1L is tha only free country In the worlil, L1lkg It beranso wo nll have nn dqual chance, 1)fke {t becauss nobody s born, as it were, by Inw.atmve me, 1 [1ko 1t becausa thero (n airvnongh for ua ull, and the Guveenmens snys tueathe.” And 1 ko the Bepnblican purty— (upplauve]—hecause that party has begueathed (o the heavens of the futura the bannee of thie Ree public. {Lond applavse.] Aud 3t 1 thowght the Tresitent of tho Unlted States was golng to aban- don ene vital principle of th fepublican party, I would nbawlon him. [Lotd chesra, ] Wa have joat passed theough an excocdingly ox- clting campnin g nnd I mot cheerfully adinit that J udded somewhut to the excitement of that came- patin, [Laughier. | It was rolentlens, deuperato, und Litter; and o doubt 1 was nearly aa bitter as unybody clee, I raid what 1 thought, and i (hogzht exactly what I ma.d, 1 beloved at that thne that the Democratie party was roady ke o tizer in nmbash o Jeup apon Hberty n the United Ktaten of America nud teae U Into a thousund wtoms, I felt that §t waa necessary to aranse the Nurth, 1feit'that ft won neceseary to tell agam the story of the Hebelllon from Liull ltun to Ap- vomattox. I feit that It was necessary to describo what the Southemn people wera doing with Unlon mien, and with cotored men § aud 1 felt It neceanae ry 60 to dencriba it thut tho people of tho North could hieat the whips, and conld hear the deops of bloud aa they fell upon the withored Jeaves, [ dld All Lcould to srouse the peopls of the North, 1 didt all 1 could to prevent the Détaocratic parly {rom getting into power, And it has not get into power e far as I have heard. (Applause.) During that campaign each party did all that 1t could do, Each party said o} that could be wald. Jf any/hing was left nndone, T have never heard of it. {Laugnter.] Husine 0 speak, was suspended, We had processions, and dreworks, and rusolutlons withoat nnmber, and docaments by the million, and everybody, ne it ware, nttcuded 1o politics, and wo worked with all our might, and yet, ufter hatelectlon was aver, we did not know who bad been elected, [Lauph- ter.] Tho Demacrats ast down tu s feast, and whila they were eating thoy began to sco the dim outlines of tho shelelon of Defeal sitting st tho head of the table. [Applamse.] [ folt toteralily Lad myself, [Laughter.] And after that Jittle onc star arose in the polillcal horlzan of hope 1 Lell you (laughing] that T enjoyad mysclf 88 one who expected to bu plauged Into the deepeat grielin the next mwonent. [Laughter,] 1 Loptmy face In that particular condition aud wny that I could chango it ot & moment's notice {laughtor) from gratificatlon to remorse, |Henewed iangle ter.) “Tho luat acene in that strange, oveutful his- tory was Cronli, —|laughter], — o, & nijorlly and quorum of one,—({lsughter), ~Cronin, wha clucted two othera by 8 plurality of Tl owi vote, — (aughtee], —Cronin, who collected hineelf togethe erond declared two vacancley, —{lauglier), —Cro- iu, the lart xurviving vetoran of the GUAND AWMY OF MONBSTY and reform, [Laughter.] 1 sce him now as he Jeaves the Janid whore rolls the Oregon, pnd Yiearn nv sonnd save his own dashing, ansed with Hoad. ley's opinion and Gro ertlficate, with a fickes An his pocket, marked do 1N 15 G 1Y Taeo him as ba trudges wearily and droarily over (ho saleratus deseris of the West: Cronla, 1 sy, the Tast veteran of thut grandarmy, And (hon we by- ¥an to heat ahout Returnlvg Boards, and an houcet connt, sud how Lo ket behind & Governor's cert)- fizate, and low to get behloda Returning Board snd wo begun to hear wbout Infunctions and all ¥inds of luw-enite, aud false retarns and ballote boxes that hud becn wtutfed ; wud Intimidytion at the polle; wuc last, the octoroon bally, [Laughter. } i wirtch tho tate of Tilinols was nobly represouted —ilaughter] -balls, whure Govornore and rovercud Beustors whirled 10 love's volupluous wallz, {Laugbter and cheers,] Aud notwithstandicy ait that, we really did not kuow who had been ¢lected Tresident of the United States, Lut there was ona thing that wa did ascortain duritg o Jast electlon, We did sscertain that souio meuns must be taken to protect the purlty'of thu ballut-bos, ur that the great Heoublic, fu tho ulght of anarchy, would go pou the rocks of eivil war. We did avcertaln that, unlees some wicans siere Liken to Bud out the real, Lonest will of the Amerlcan peovle, that vur Governisent Is o fallure. We fouud thay oat guring the last slec- on: but for the firet Uy dn the world the Labits, the arte, the tsiels, and the subterfuyes of the iy werospread ay (8 were aliaost uver our catlre country, ur Governwont Is supposed (o be based upon the legally-cxpressed will of tho people. 1 Lnow of Lut one way o ascertatn what the will of ke peoplo 14, aud (hat fs by the Lallot- Lox; sad the only way t2 ascertain it there 11 torce that ho tnun not entitled to vote Is allowed 1w cast 8 balloL. - But vomo weans have to b taken, or var (loverament dv e fallure. Somcthluy must be done by the zvod and patriatic uien of hotk partics ro Suat th castlug of su flicgal voto will bo regarded amderime. And [ eay toyol to-night that it {s treaeon to the great principlesnpon which one Gove ernmcent Ia founded to cast an lliegal or n fraodalent vote. [Applanse.] We ought to undersand now that thatthingmust ftop, There ean he no respect fur Jaw—there ean be fin reapect for one farm of verniment—nnlessthe baliot-hox Ia encrediy vro- Il Lesialators ary olectad by frand, the will have no respeet wlhiataver for the Iaws, 1 Judzen are elecled by frand, the neople will have 1o reenet for the decixone of ruch conrts. and all the fnetitations of our eonntry will he hrouzht into cuntempt, and the moment the institntions af our country are biought Inlo contempt the next st ‘Lfll be every liborty of the American citlcen will IRAMPLED UNDERFOOT hythe vambond mbble of ihis cunnlr{; iAp- ! Auno.] Andl of all places in the world where this reform Is nevded fa right fu ruch cities as thiss in the City of New York. in the City of Roston, Inthe Clty of Philadelphia, and hers in ths great City of Chienga, thix miracle of pluck. Somethmg onat ba dane here to keenthiscity from being controlled Dy the hanwan seanand mbble of thiacity, Yon hinve ot (o neotect this town from the mob: and I don’t mean rlmplrnm peoe mob, the rich mobs aml swhat { mean by the rlch mobare those rich Tlpl at will buy theso vagnbonds who vote. nee. | VouTinse ot to do eomethings and 1 have cot & Jan: wheiher §t 1s 0 pood or not, [don't kniow, Nomnan shionkd be allowed to vote In any ward of recinct In thls eity or in any other until he han Hyed there ono solld year. ‘Thess men that are ahifted from ona _prechnet to another like Hledouine of the desert, nobady leinz able to eatl themn by name, thels fuces bolng known only in po- Heocourts, | fell you that the 1aws of this city shonld not bo made by sach men; they shoukl re tnain long enough in one locality at least (o have romebody kuow them. And iwhile they aro that yenr in that wardor that precinct, all that thne they atould be registeeed; and there should be o law that no man should vote nntil he has been ropiatered at Teast one year fn tlint waird or precinct where ho lives, ' Mnke 10 fis duty 10 0 and Frgister fmeclf; have an oflica for that pricpose, ot several oftves; and make it the duty of an Amers fcan cltlzen he nust have to co and secto it that ha i rezietered; and the man that duos not think enangh of the prlvllc‘:u of having,an jt were, a il in hefpus ta control the destinles of this great l!c[;nhl c—the mati thatdoesnot thinkcnough of the privifege to o awd have himeell rogistored whenover lio cliangen hig piace of reslicncu—la not fitlocaala volo fn this Itepubli Applause, } ‘Then let them go and be registered s and 1et Hats be publighed 8 long onauwh tinte before the election, and allo overy man to muke an vbjoction xgninst every man upon that list: ad ko many days befora the eleetion that list shal] be closed:” und then 1t rhall be put itp ln public nlaces; and nu man whose name 14 nok upon that list ehall be allvwed to caat uyoteatall, Wa have got roveral laws now ahout registration of voters, and what do they do? If aman hos not reginiored, If thero fs any’ fault, any negligence, hecan mend all that by making an anidavit on ine day of clection, ceriifiesd to by two repatablo houarholdors, men never held even by a houss in the world. [Langhter,] The moment yon sllow them to recnre and defend in ‘this countey with an Attidavit, cvery door of frand le not only thrown apen, but jerked from fts hingen ard thrown into the mire, “Yon haven't uy election here whore an affidavit fareceived that you don't have hundreds of them in blunk all oude vutand Slled up, und after the electlon you wmay find: them scattercd nmong the walks ‘and thie saloons, with two repntalo honscholders on each one. {Laughter. | Naw Iet tha men of both parties nnito and make A Hezistry law in this cnnn[r(. €0 thatno one not en- titfial (0 vote simll vote, And Itell you the peo plo have, of ought to hnve, u little Interust in tis counteys thol they Qught at leart 1o hava the habit of living in oo place for o years that they ht at leastto ho known by thele fellow-men; they ought at least, 1 ey, to haven LITTLE INTEGEST IN TILS COUNTRY, And while [ helleve a3 niach a¢ sny one In the world that the_right to yote shonld dipend on bu- manity, Jot it bo ‘A humanity that hax a nume, lot 1t be n huwnnity that has an’ lllildlnil Pluce, jet it o a humanity ‘that doesn't shift from ono ward n precinet 4o unother, nhnrly toumist in the uovernuicnt of Ls couutey by fraud, vibatny, and rarcalty, [‘\mvhum‘], And 1w’ not blamlug the mun who are “hought any more than I blamo the men wio lmy. [Applanse. ] Nutone bit: uot ane bit. Neltherdo 1 ray that a sun shonld not by atlowed to voto becauzo ho s fzuorant, - 1t i« the duty of the tovernment to ed- ticato all the ehthdren I the natton. [Applanee, ] And whengrer s tiovernment does that duty, lzno- rance, at least {0 the extent that vnonld deprive a 1 of the rizht to vote—If It could go to that ex- tent—wlll have disappeared from vur country. Bnt Laorant or not, ' rather trast Whle country 10 the vates of honest {znoranco than to the votes uf elaeated raveality. “TApplanso, | New, Jot (he good men of hoth pertics wuite, M, Democtat, whut do youenre for Demnoceacy? 3Mr. Itepablican, whnt o you care for” what. txny call Republiennlsm oxcopt for certaln principlos, that every wan - shall have JIB Hame right that you clabin for yoursolf? Lot us unlte, no mattor why ia pat in ot the next olection, 1ray that o stry law shall oe parsod o that, after the electlon’ §a over and the ballote ire connted, everybody shall knuw exnctly how that elention did o, TAppiance.] Lot It ho undoe- #toad, nnd -nufosm, | tell you, something of the kind in dune, my friends, the cxperiment of frea governmicut ta a’ failire, THERMS OF OFFICE, MARE TULM LONGER AND HAVE PEWEL ELEC- TIONS, Now, thera Is sumething clse you have got to do. Twonldlike to nee e torms of oiico lengi! in this conntry to a respectalle, decent feng thut & man who bos Just stepped Into office won't turn his entlro attentlon o bLulng re-olected, (Applause.] I would like it wo that a mon could £0 1o Congrase, and, In tho two years ihat hio etays there, could givont least one day In each your to the honcet hualneewof the Tuantry, - {Applaneo aud faughter.] 1 do not blame them for louklng ont for themselves, [ wonld do 1t, Dut tho wuy it 1s now yon ulect @ man for two years who v no rooner there than thoro aro five or wix gentlemen plotting to put him out. 1tel] you that ke has to attend to his uwn private kulttinz trom tho first day cevioat to the last. [Laughter,] And, after running u few crranda foe peoplo in s dlatrict, und quarseling ovurn fow 375 poxt-oflices, the balanta of his time has to ho glven ap to wceneing auother mominatton, 1 don't Jke e 1 say longthon the torms of oMce, And there will e anothor ‘good thing growing ont of that. Do you know that ncarly every man In the world has uzoslmm cnough abont hls ewn opinfon to say that it would certalnly be ratificd by the people, if they only bad tha tme to under- wiand 12 Don't you know that a man eloctail for alx yoars will do \he first yenr uxactly what ho thinks Is right, becanso ho knowa that ot the end of fiva years the peuplo will have senso enough ta soothat he furight. But If he havto do what he dovs In July, August, and September for a re-clece tlonIn Novembor, ho thiuks that thero fs hardly thne forthe prople W sce It [Laughter,] And, conecyuently, he trivs to seo it, o3 the ueople then wea Ity not as iu hia Judgmout, thoy ought to seot, Another. good thing: 11 you will lengthen the ternd of offico wo won't have elections moro than once in v or wlx weeks, [Laughter.] Tho busl- mess of this country Is absalatoly abeteieted by tha crof cloctlons held, Olatrueted ] Yo tions hero In Chicago overy ¢ Ihmg ] Uaritly a paper ] plek “up that somue body has not © been numinuted for A pluce, and M tbul somebaly fs not clecte tho probabliity. iy Cthat Lhe criet of tha eurth Wi hreald shrawgl, bud eteriel ruly overisko (ils peoplo. [Langhter. | Whero you huva thes elections 8o froyuutly nien cannot aive up their huslne £y Inan cuantot attend 10 Lhesn ward weetl; ey man cannot stand every day at thepolle, "herd Is somo other biste nees that haw 1o ba done in this world, oa ac. count of THE FALL OP SMAN ar wowo othor reuvin, benkies hold olectiona, laushter.] Now, then, my friends, |say, makae N torma longee, Then mnother gond eBects When you hove'clectlonn we frequintly thero % u cortain class of prople who_atteud to nothing ele. )0 they fail 1o fet ona ufeethey run for auother; and il tbey fal} aguin t ask for an appolnts ament; und if they o et an appulnimient fn this country they would Jtio o have o fureren mivslon, Now, {tel] yon shat (hat class thint veek oflice, bot bueause the ufiice aecks thei, not becauxe oy g wekl qualited to B —that ‘cluss {u thie cadutr: ought (o e, you have che elections a httlo fyritier ayort, i wlitbo so fac hetween wiealy thiat thuy will have to ga Lo waine other employment to fu # luuch fa the meantioe, [Anplinss and udghicr, | Now, | bolieve really and truly that it 1o unt Lonorable amtion fi 1o hold, » disthnzulaby ap 011 unn wants tuli he duew he vughi to ey anik quallty himsoll o hold that oflce,” (Clecra.] There was & tine :l:v:n u" Sy ay Ihunurl to to elycted: thera au when gt was an lionor to hald an avice: Lut § tel) ?ou. wuch 18 the lIAlu‘ul’ Auerican politics ti-day that 0Mee coufers hunor o nebady. Tho wan Is compelied to couter buuor on tkw obic i thly country to-day, aud it is no lupger sutiiclent 1 Lold i oilve, ~you have gutta Ll ‘Fhiere wae a bme when everyhody Just got rignt 2 s when overy« down on their kneca to u King, clves hefore a Lresideiit, 'ou & man tnhold, or wivh e, That 1% Fight; that an oltics, the frst body prostrated thy Tt day e past, and Lam gtad of it lect, only a fow 'years #20, Louis Nupoteon w wativied ‘with botngy Emperor of tne Freuch; ho MWauted to boa wamber of the Peeuch Academy. Hlnk of 18! What would yyu bave thought of o Ring a few hundred years bef had vead 1t b bietory? And by p world to-day thit coninand the respe wmiralion of theie fellow-uen aro nut b In o2ice, but th: hiuz tn the ofiicé, and dolug somethingcven sutof otfie to mako naukind happier and bettor thuan they sre. [Applause.} We wry luproving ti ihat, $overad of the richest wei i the Enitud States bave recently died; and from thelr teatlcs, lunerale you can draw this lusous that in the Ugited Slates of America soun- tiog ¢ thuu gotd {a needed to make resl mane boou, {Avpiause, J,cleula used 1o wor-bip thu R caif: now, (he viorat that can he eaid of us {e tuat we worehip tiw oid of the €alf {1sushivrl, Auid eveu the caived ure Levinning o sce (ila diy. tuctlon. (Lauxbies, ) a sjuply eru ey who are doing wounie- s A WOLD TO YOUNG MEN. Now, then, puothes thiui; you bave heard a grut oald whuut evli-eerting retocm. | o Lot believy o carrying that o the eatent luat you THE CHICAGO won't allow an_oficer to reshen. [Lasghier.) 1do nat belleve that that Yrinrlnlc thould Le In- alrted npon o that d hat there wonld aniy ho two ways Joft togetoutogh lice, ~death or sufeiile, {Lanalter. ] ¥ belie her things beint equal, iy party having any aitite within 1ts glit will ghe that oilice (o the man that really belleves in the principles of that party, and wiho lias worked to tive those principles ultimate vietory. That in Fman natitee, The man that piowe, the map that 0w, and the man_ that cultivates, ongut to be the man who reapa. Butwe have In this counirya mnititnde of little places, a multitade of clerks thipain Washington; and the queation In whether, on_the incomingof a néw Administiation, theee on il be 8l turned out. In the first they nre an mtarvation cnough to keep soul ody togethor, and respectability on the outside: and if thare 1« a young man In this audisuco, I bog of him, **Never taka s clerkabip in the City of Washing- ton.” Don't you do it Never du_ you put your. scif whote yon bavato duck your tiead “aud take oft your hat o everyhody elso, Don't you tla it Ton't put your happinens— 't put yonr fortine —in the pawer of anothee man's breatl, Don't you doit! You never will have sny manhood: you never will have any verlebra; you never will have any real, square spunk; you caonot hare it and L?n will loso confidence In yonreelf, and you will gin to think, |l‘y'uu cannot have a regular pay- ment cach tnonth of $04,75, that you cannot powsibly make a living In’ tnia world, [t will take oll the plick ont of you. You will have to live ro pinched, so narrow, and ro contracted, that ot will smoke o pipa all the wouk with the expucs ation of & five-cent ¢igar on Sunday, [Lauwhter, 1 bezr of you ot to diacount your tutnre; 1ing of every young man, have the conrage to take what comes, let it be feast o let it be Mmine, but don't well the gift thait Fortuna iday have for you for 8 ctiy ralary of 200, or 870, or S100 per monin. Dot do e, Go Weakt® {Laustitar and cheome.} T would rather have forly ncees of land and a log house with one room, yes, and Lhu woman I love, 8nd some Iatlico-work over the sindow, so that the annlight would all checkered on the buby in the cradle, and a few hollyhocka at the corner of the house; 1 would rathee have that, nod a nice path leading down to the mpring, where 1 conll go and hear tho waler gurgling: wodld rather live there . and” dle = there than be a clerk of any Government on earth, [Ap- piause.] Naw, all [ 1ncan by tnis Cisil-Sarvico ro- orm Is, that, if any poor devil has hoen 8o unfor- tunate nato get fato that place, leave him there atlicr than to destroy somebody else 'evury year, {Laugbtor.] COUNTING THE VOTI. THE ELECTONAL COMMISSION, Now, my frlends, afler we got throngh what they were plensod to call a campalgn when, as [ satd, we did not know who bad been elected, one party aaid that Mr. Tilden had undoabtedly been elected. The other party sald that Mre. Uayes had ns un- doubtedly been clected. Somebody rald they were going to bring 100,000 men to the City of Wush- Ington, and, at the sword's polnt, decide who had been elected, Well, the mendld not conme, and thereupon the Democratlo party, and 1 belleve, withall due respect for that orzanization—1 sakl all 1 wanted to ey about it long sgo, and It T have ‘ever eald a solitary word nzainat that party, it 1have beon In thio slightest degreo bitter or relentless, 1say now 1forgive that party for everything 1 have sald apgslnst it. [Loud langhtor.] Thers s nothing mean abont me. [Ruenewod faughter.) All at once, Iany, that party had theingenuity to In- vent a planto find out who was President of the Unlted States, \Well, some peoplo sald the Vice. TPresident ought to count this vote, and I sald w0, tov. Ithought that anybody that cofld count it right had the right to rount It. [Lauchtee,] That sacred document called the Constitution of the Unlted States did not exactly state who had the right to count that vote. It simply wont on to eay that these Electors should meet In thelr respective Btates, cast thelr votes for President and Vieo-Presldent, real them up, send them to tha Presldent of tho Sen- ate, or the Vice-President; and that, on n certaln duy, Inthe prescnce of Loth Honscs, ho should open those votes—thosa envelopes; and then it * and tha votes shull then be connted.” 1t not say (hat the Vice-Presldent should connt thomi; but I thought, as he had them right there In his hand, he might just as well go on [lanchtor), expecially un 1 knew that he was 8 man of discelini- nation [lauzhter] and could tell which enyelopa held thy {roer voter. {Laughter,] It 4 uot #av that thoe Senato should count, or that tho Honse ehould count, or that both umted shosld count, I admit that Jt was blind, snd whens ovor anythinz Is bhnd I eea I m{ way, [Laughter.] 1 that the Vico-Presldons had the right 1ty count that yuta, Ihad boen a Domocrat 1 haven't the rlighteat doubt but what I would havo iusisted that hie hiid no right to count that vote, 1 will be lion- eatatont [t. I belluvy to o certaln extont we ara influcncud by our politlesl opinfons and natlons. Tun, Jlaughter, | lz‘\'ur:lmu{ in the world, uue Ieas he {a 8 Supremo Judita of The United States, i nlccted moro of lesd by Tls political opinlons. 'hfllgh(ur.j JTioy are the only men who ave ut- erly anel entleely withdrawn from tha publie, and who tako no {art In tha puity disputes of tho peus ple. 'Fhe Deiocrats then, 1 say, hatched up a scliomne Lo ettlo thin guentton, and_they pasaed bill for the geloctlon of ths High Joint Commls. rlon, or whatovee they called It [Laughtcr,] ‘They chose ten inen vn accotnl of their potltics— flve” from the Senate and e from the Iiouse, And they choso four Judges from purely cographical considerations, [Laughter.) ‘Thosu yourmcunum pieked with a map of the Unltea States In frout of the pickers, [Laughtor.] Thu Democrats choee Mr, Fleld not becanse he ‘was o Dewocrat, but beeanse Lie lived on the Pacific slode, }huxhler. ] ‘They chose Mr. Clitturd nut becauso io wad 8 Democrat, but bocause he lived on the Kustern slope. |Laughter,) That was fale, [Ite- newed langhter.] Therenpon the epublicans chu<e Justice Brudley, not because ha was o Be- publican, bnt becauss he Mved also on the Esatern alopo, You can sco the pomnt. {Laug Tha Hepablicans chove Jnstics Millor not hu tus a Republican, bnt beeause: ho reprosented tho urgnl West, |Longlter.] They thea allowed '~y th FOUIL TO SELECT A PIFTIL MAR, Well, it was fmposeille tu relect the Ofth man from goographical conslderations. [Laughter, You can seo that yourecives. {lienewed lnughtor, ‘There was nothiug loft to chooso between, you know, ns far as gougraphy woa concerned. [ Laugh. [t They then ugreed that thiey woulifn't tako a co fiom any State in which the candidato for aldent lived, * Thay lelt oul Justice Nunt, from Y Justics Swayne, from Obio, ' Chey that woulda's inftucnco them, 4 Shuply—well, they dido't want thhom thates that,was all {iaughterl, o 1t wouhl Le unhandy to plck ono inan vut of four. [UGreat laughior,]" S0 fliey luft Swayne snd Ilunt out. And thon (hur wulld plek ouo man as botween Juntica Bradley and ‘Justico Davis, Just at that tlme tha ‘paople of tns State of Illinols happoucd to bo mhyul 2 Scnator n(u(hlor‘ and Judige Davie wis thoro sl expre a willng. new toga to the Senule. [Laughter,] And the peupleot tho Ktatoo Hiilugte clected nt and thyry- ute there was nobody to chouse from escept Mr, Uradicy, and M, lndley was ucruhtlun. Now, you know this runa fu famill Langhier, | 11ia recurd was kood-Dby warriato, (Keuswud fanghe ter, ] Ie maraed o daughter of Chlef Juatles lomblower, of New derecy. Now, [lornblower wus what you might call a partlasn. Do you know tney went'to him—It i the old tiucs, and ho was ukind of Wnig,—they went to him' with pelitian, in the Btu New Jersoy, 8 petitiun addressed 10 the Leglsiature for the awolition of capital puntshwent, aud Hoeublower wald, * 111 be danued I 1 whilu there's a Dowacrat in tho Btate of New Jereoy.™ (Greas Iaughter. | As a maiter of facl, however, | bellove that dusticu Dradley and il tho other Justiecs, and ail {lo ottier patnone v that tribuns duchled as thuy honestly thought wad ri Jbwaa w question which a 1an wuuld declite rding Lo Lile politics, hcl[{ it You Lnow the ething wonderful, 8o even Demacrats on that nifeslon that they could not vote the Repub lean way atotl, [Laugliter.} Just thiuk af i1 And thele ull voting onu way compulled foe Repub- licans A0 YOTE THE OTHKI WAY or lose thelr case. [Laughter, | [ helleve, how- wree, that they ull scled Boncstlgand honorably, Lhave no doubt i s, 1 aaid the dthier uuy (1 loas tun that, bad Justice Davis sul upon that trbuna), the pudgment woule - have Cbeen prociely to same. [Applausc, ] 1 will tell you whit makes mu Gk g0, Jiatics Duvis fua man e vrusd Iuteheetuully ‘as L {8 physically, and you caw't vmy wuch uwro than thate |Laoghtur,] 1 belicvo that bu would buve decided preciacly tho subiie Woy, but whether ho would or not, whichever \\‘ayfm world bvse decided woold have been age cording Lo his honest judgment. [Applaay, | Now, my fricnde, wo ciuuot depeni on 8 smako- el ol thw kind cvery four year, 0 uut by- Tove that Cougeoes hud 1he Power 10 pass that law avuil, 1 do uot belicve that Cougresa had tho pow= er (o cluthe & Coumissiun with greator power thay is poascasod Ly eitnes House of Congres. lo not belicve that Congrese Lad the power ta pick Ghoenmen, und say o tiess men, ** You way de o certaln “thinyg, “sud that sball stand uiluss i wyerturied by - vath Kouscs bl Cougrees. t ‘Chnt wakes It (whatever the Bficen may do) the sau & Jaw, 0L tukes poth Lrauches of (u pass a law, Acd [ don's Lulivve they m‘é" delvguto Lo Slteen porsons thy puwer 0do sosmcthlug that cunnot bo overturued cupt by the concurrent action of buth Houws, Lt anuter matter! Whether they had the rght oe ot they did i1, und suttled (his question, But we cunnot atiord to lvave the (utura (0 bu avttlod In that way, wy frioids, sy that Lhis vluction bas shown auother defect inoue law and in our conatitution. While | Luvy K"M roupLct fur our fulliors, 3ud great reapect for the coustitution ufvur Lituere, | duuot'delivie it s the duly of uvery wan uinn o read tue Constitutlon siwply for the pur- bure of Lhind obedience, But 1 do belleve tha’ Auierich asks hor citizens to read tha Coustiviation, and undestand ity for, wwouy Gtz (hiugd, the [lurpeus uf wugorinig “whera Tt cau bo amwulded. pluse, :\Vun. this Constitution provides that theve Blecte vre wldll sect fn thele aeveral Statvs sud cast s Vole. Evidently our fathers LID KOT ANFEXD that these Electore, uftce they Lad been clected, whould have an oxlpununll? W col —should bave tao #lightost opportanlly o 3:tres upon auy whity af wetou wialuier. A1 tho Jime they wade that Cupstitution there was uot s el uf 1silroad 10 the United Skites; there wad not an dnch of tel- c3raph wire in the world; aud when tbey wadetuat JEoiishon i s uti e Laposas, D1ty Bt U tlectore frow Alaine should uect Taud cous TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 salt with tho Eleclors DAt A0 tter - Smaoeaitility:” and, - the niade [t eo that the Tleclora shoutd meet in thelr respectiva Rintes and vata for wiiom they, plessad, nnd then senl thelr Yotes to the Viee-President and when he openci them a; it turned ont that Al the votes, he w of Loulslusta, 1t ndcoanted tham, aml ma one man had A majority of to bo declared Proslient of the United Sintes. Kince that thne we have formed pasties, Sinco that tiine we lmve nan.lc platforina, Since that time we havo had it nndoratood at the coimencement whom an Elector was fo voto for I he was elected by thia or that parir. Now, ropose an amendnient to this, fo that the Eleclorn natend of mecting In thefe_respective States anl sending their votea to the Presldent, that all the Klectors from every State {n the Unfon meet ina general Electoral College at the ity of Waahing. fon on a certaln day, and (hat tha Electoral Ool. Irge be the {umm of tho qualifeations of every mian pratending to he an Ricetor; sod that goneral College can fny wio has been elected: that that general Collega can aay who has a right to vote, and seitle every question thut may arixe, and aftee they have this mettled who has the right to vote, they then shall vote, and the President or Chialr- manof that Electoral College shall glve n certifie cAteto the man elected D'eeafdent and to the man elerted Vice-Preaident of the United States, [Ap- lanse, | 'The renson I am in favor of this docttine s this: It takes the clectiun yuestion of A Proais lent out of thd lauss of Reoreeuntatives, The louea of Represcntatives oucht not to have thy right to create a vacancy, and alsa tho power to Al ftho vacancy. 1 belleve tho Execntive should ba lnllepemlem. of all vther branclics of the (lovorn- ment, Jtisnotof xo much linportance trho s Tresidentan thattherofsn 'resident, 1t {anot of 20 much Intportance that this or that erly\rln tha dlay, ne It is impurtaut that there shall "bo con- lantly an Exccutlve head of thia nation. T want tho Preaident, the Execntivey ludependent of tho legislative and Jndicial acpartments; and 1 want the miatter 80 arrangea that Congross whall not In- teefere, and so that the Snpremo’ Court cannot in- terfere, 1t I8 an nnfortunate day for us when the ermine of that augnst tribunal [a tonched, or taint+ e, or smirched with a political suspicion or nfl‘n- lon. *[Applause.] 1 euggest this,—thero will bu thonsand uther !nmiell[nhs madé, —but my opinion in, that whon you cfinngo a thing, change it whera It onzht to be changed, and then, i€ ydu find still further ehnnzo neceesary, change It It fu easlor to mend than it Is to make entirely new. sy TITE 8OUTII. WIAT TIE REPUDLICANS LOST. Now, then, my frieudn, the campnizn told me something elre, and I think Jt told you the #ame. We had had a long perfod of war,—~ four or flve years of war,—a war coused by that old queston of slavory,—a war growlog out of Jegallzed raacality and theft,— a war growing out of bullding snd fonoding a Uovernmont upon a lie,—a war growing ont of legalized hypocelsy. e had ity and I found ont afteroll war sottles only ove thing, and that {s, sho In the atronger, That Lsall 1t settles. Mr., Swmith and Mr. Drown may have an altercation, Brown may mako one atatement and Smith may deny ity and then they may fight alt day, i yon pleasc, and after It 1 atl ovor and Smith Is whipped, that does not pidvo that what Jirown sald was true, nolther doen it show that what 8mith eald was falre, War #cttles nothing oxcept who s the stronger. Yon cannol shoot idvas into a man with a musket: If yoa could, the Houthern penple woald have hod many more ideas than they thave got tosduy. [Langhter,] You caunot drive projudices ont of 8 man with & aword or bayonet; If you conld there would not have been aswany projudices in thiscountry now, Yon cannot doft. Artillery does not reason; it asserta, Thero Is point enongh abont a bayonot, but thero s no logic In a bayonet. When thesword Is drawn from tho scabbard rcason remalna; and nothing 14 settled, nothing ever war really scttled, except the question of strongth, by brato force. In thu roar of cannon the valce of reason and the plendings of entreaty cannot bo heard, Isay that It ia time to scttle something by reason; that 1t is time to sottla #omething by sensej that it Is time to acttle some- thing by persunelons that it Is thae to settle somo- thing by n reasonatle compromise; thatthe Amerls can poople, in this the nincteenth century, ought to haye menso enough to coma together and say, ‘‘Let us talk this matter overj 1ct us appeal from forco 1o reason and to right, " Now, It dues eeemn to me as §f wo unglit to havo that sensc, Bt wo pnrmited a certaln policy. Tha Itepublican party {mr!nml a certaln pollcy afier the War; we pursucd [t while Gen, Urant was Prosidont af tho United States, and wo prrsucd it dlfigently; and day afier day, day after day, wo grow weaker, and wenkor, and_weaker {n the Houth, and wa los State nfter Stata fn the Bonth, While' (fen, Grant was President of the United Statew, we naw a Goy- ernor deiven, for Instance, from tho Statu of Mise snippl, and tho Stato taken possession of by the Damocratle party, —taken possession of by force, and not one sotitary word was rafds and thero wu rat, mud thers wo porsaed that policy, as they called it, until overy Ktato of tho Sauth went out, aund, a3 it were, jolned the Demoemcy, cxcept Houth Carolma and Loulslapa, aud I bo- HNave thero in sume doubt about them, [Lnunhur.l Now, that was the poliey; and i€ that poiley nad heencarried on o little "longer, what would have been the reanit? - What waa the rosuit In thy North, my fricnds? Lot s ba honeat about this thing. Under that olid policy of trylng to grovern by tha bayonet, and not having much bayonet at that=—tho vkl [\0"0)’ of taking down !0]!!"{'" Into the South, Jnsi nnunkvh \n irritatothe whols peophy wnlmluprumctln‘{l 0 hluck people—that is wfl;n wan ton dor fhat policy we foat, 1say, ovory State tn the Sunth Lut two, and wo loat Colinectis cuty, New dersey, nod Indlana in the North, and WU ctmno very near losing the Stats of Wiscon. #in, und wo cama withiu an ace uf losiug the State of Ollo, nnd we cane within an ace of loaing tlio entlire Paciic wlopes and, if that’ poliey conld hv enrried on. foir years niore, {n my judi ment there wonld not be a Hepublican £tata left In this Union. [Langhter.] People get tired of jt, Somcthing ol1o iws yot to be done. Now ws como nghl to thu quertion aa to the atatin of this tovernuient tow: Ita catizons, [ sdmit, I adinle freely, that undee tho last Adniin. intration Amorican ciitzens havy not been protoctod in thole eighes. I'do not pretend to say that Gow, (irant conld have protected them, 1 do ot pretend 10 sy that there was a sontiment In tho Notth that woulil have Justified hitn it doing I: bat L do pro- tend to suy 1€ there wan not such & aentiment In the Nosth, It onilit to Lring 'TUY NLUSIL OF sHAME to every choek In the North, J“""’"“”" Now, 1 helleve it {a the duty of tils Quyernament to pro- tect uvery cillzen beneath its slag, —svery one, whether hu fs Uack or whits, o fieh of 1aor L helfove that, Diut, aay the Demotratic party toe day, wud some_Kepubiicans, It fs thy businoas of & Htilw to prutect its owa citizens, Who disputea it Lut anpuusy the State does not profect its owi clt- 1zens, then muat thy citlzen Ay to another Stato? Oh, no; they lnl the tienoral Qovernment han & vhsht to protcet thal citlzen If the Uavarnor of that Stata wilh calt for hedp, Bt suppose the Goversor af that State 1s the very whelp tint s trampling upoi the rights of that citizen, you can't got lum :‘1‘ o much cailing, (Lavubter, ) But they say Aud nurpuw 1hu L Iumrulummpllnfi'upuu thert Wlavery eitizen; then uf cotires they sy thera fo n dofect In our Consiitution, and tha poor follow Lus tu atund A 't beliove that, { don't bee n of tnls vernment melta ata Btate llue like o sword of wax in a flame of Hre, 1 dun't beltovo it, 1u tho good vld times you nd u tliht Lo cross s State lne’ If yun wero puesiing a nepro, and had u lopseared hound at your heclss thero wau no State line then; no late line when ho waa endoavorlng to steal auuther mang when fw wunted to grasp tho child und snatch It from the bosom uf lie mutber; there was nu Stato line to protect her, not s paridelo. But- uow when you want 10 cruss a Staty lue, not to steul a child, ‘not for the divine privilege of whipping some poor nnfortunato wretch. bug slmply to protect an Amors can citizens, np rlecs every Slate hno llke a Chlncse wall without & gute, & wall luiposalble to bu leaped, and vno too thick to peactrato; and thers atands the Democratic party on cach side, a1id ¥ays you cannot cross that line whenovor you want to do rights but whenever you waated to steal womethin thera was no wall thero, (Ap: lllll"w- | ‘This doctrine thut the Stato must protect s cltizenn. and, {f @ State docs not, that Unlied States is not bound to, 1 the last propusition in tho doctelne of secesalon, ullegiance to tius Goverutwent? Yes, What does hin Governuient owo e n conaideration of that alleghancet Prolection! [Applause, | That by th only thinz, 1 owe nileglaiice 10 the Btate uf 11- Do llnoks owe protection; but If thls doctrine of the Democratic party b right, It & man uiust fook alone to liduois (ur protection, then | propuse to stand by the Governwiout that protects med and whenever Slinols draws the aword of Vil war, wheuever Hhnols triee to destroy this nation, 12w on the vlde of Jlnols, If the Gonoral doverument will not protect me, 1 dunounce thut doctsine, | uwe allegiauce to the Genwral Goverument. 'Fhe General Uovernuent owus nie protectlon, auld us luug ae the Uenersl Government elafus to have “tho rizht to put we in tho hue of vaitle; long e 1t clalwe the right to last dullar | have on sarth for the c;and s« longss that duvernment it o tako me wnd use iy body us food fur powder, 9o loug that Govomment owes inv progection 1 time of pouce, wheibor ty are atiacked by an individual of by a blate, pinuse.| Teil nio thal the tioverumont |4 so deaf 1hat it caunol Lese anybody but & tovernort ‘Culs Governmient sa desl that 16 CANNOT UEAR ANYBODY but a Legislaturoy 11 this is w0, Lhen uvery citisen wuzht to be stouu desf whou the Guvernment calls tof volumtects to dofeud [t g, [Applanto. ‘The Gurernmient that cauoot hear the weakust wal of fla meanest and pmorest citizen I3 a disgrance toinunauity, [Teewewtous avpliuee.] Why, fs (b posstble that you havo to g0 away frum home to be protected by the Luliud statvar 1s it possivle that be teuvrul Uavernmoeut can l".“'““ menin Bue Elal\d. lu Germany, 1o Frauce, but oot when Law euedth the starry folds of Lordagr le that buu doctrine? 12 Goverawment, all-powerful Lo pro- tecd bier cittzend roni Bone, nl} wea'i- nant of the hercay called scceselon, applause, Now, 1l'I thought that Preaident Hayes was go- fug W desers oue colorud man W the outl, I s3y that the whols runy ought todesert hiu. [Ape Ldon't belfove that ho will du such's luusa. ot We have bad, s eald. tae War, Wo tricd 10 whvot theaa lutw pevple We frled 1o Jct wl theae ot of fhowm. We scttlod the main question, @y 1 told you bolora—ibat we wers tho sironger. Preslicut Hayce was clectod. ilo hadu's ity 1o snaze, (Lanshlur, | U Juab gob L~ug more, 1y vias bt 3. flaughtor.] ” Ho waas not, and in not, an e I toacertain opinton. 11a lias not got peror, extent. bonnd hy public a great mlanding ‘ariny at liixcommand. e ean spare tho Indiank abont 2, J00 or i, COO saldicrm. [laawghiter, ] That Ival—2, 500 of them down Bonth notw, acattored theoizh three Staten, fellows that har, trampling upon the Son crn peopie. They have trampled wpan 8,000, of white people. - |Langbies, ) Ahey have depris them of neariy all thit makes ‘Jifo a blersing They are the men ate duing ILanghter.] Butwe can't got I“{ more to help them, for the reason that the lower Honee of Cons Rress won't even puy theae 2, L00 unloss they will azgreo toleave thatcanntey, [(nullmmmcr.l What Ietho Vresdent to do? “WHI the public ecntiment of the North stand by him If ho eays, *‘Iwant 10,000, 20,000, 100,000 men to protect the liner- ties of tho Sonthern Jcople, ta protect the binck men, Lo protect the Hidert f the Union ment" 10w one that would say, 01 may have thems & million, if you need th Applanse. ) Bug the Imb!lc sentiment of tho Northeill not do it, TLwill aay, *iNo, we do not want snother War," Now, what wad the thing for him to do—~ what he shetld do? —IMe was President. And he found out another thine, that, in all probllity, he would it have been Prealdent if It lind not been for theSouthern Demoeracy. e fornd ont that TIE BOLTHENN DRMOCRACY absolately cama In and took the Norlhern Do They afo Lthe nocracy, as it were, b'( tho collar, and eaid, “'You ahail not dlilbnster, Whoever i elected shall be peacenbly elected: amt whoover Js peaceably elected shiall he peaceabl: Tumtgmrated,* They safd that, Thisman Ben 1l Atond up o the Democratic cauens (I belicre he il its hie told mo hudid) sud wnld: **\Ve have had war enongh. lenty! If yon had had as mnch ag we, {on would be opposed to war, [lLanghter.] Wa bave had_enongh. Thin bill was passeil In !nml Taith, We must abitlo Ite results in good aith [anpplanac], and whoover that Comminsion doelnres elected, | sy we muat aco to it that ho Ia inangurated.™ Now, Ireay hodld a decent thing. It was right, Itwas the vmvcl’lhlug todo; and [ feel under a llttle obifgation to siteh a mnn for having prevented this eountry from bijng dushed intd the abyss of clvil war, Thero w¥a donger, Wa were standing, na it were, tpon the eduwyd of this “abyss; and all 16 peed In the world wan o spark at - New Orleans, a #park 1 South Carolina, o spatk In the City of New York, a epark in the City of Washington, and this country wonld luave oen enveloped i the Rames of civll wat. By the action af tho Suathern Denocracy that clvll war, in "‘f Judgment, was averted, “Whether they were acting in goud falth ornot, 1 do not know, ° We will have ta try them, Now, ihen, the Preslident, n that eltnation, was Inangurated. Tl was inaigurated nta thine when 1lic Jlemocrats in the Tause eald that the Judios npon the Joint Commirsion fiad perjured thein- eolves; when Donioorntio Senatars rova in their luces and denounced thuse Justi of the upreme Court nw vilialue; when the Demoeratic purtion of the Lezieaturn of the Binte of Ohio passcd 8 resviation viving np all conddence in Alnighty Qod. [Laughter.] ‘Tilnk of that! And they ara the very fellows that objected to meo on account of my relimon. {Applanse onid laughter.] Ife wnn fnomgurated at'n timo when the Democratic portion of the Convgresa of the United Staton resalved that ha waa not efected, —resvlved that Tilden had hoon elected: and when tho Democratie party of the North asked Mr, Tile den to tnke the oath of oilico at Gramercy Tark and desw the bolsterain swrord of clivil war,” I uay ot that time the Prosident was Inaugurated, and ho roso above nll the party prejudices, and all the hatreds of tho hour, and #ll the personalities of the eampalen: and he turned to the people of the South and sald, “LRT US BE PRIENDS, [Applause.} Inmy Judgment it was n grand act grundly dono, 1o satd to those {anle uf the Honth,” **We have had war enough. We parted at the cannon’s smanth, divided Ly the dripping edro of the sword of war, t na become ucqualnted. Adebt of millfons and milllons pifed upon the shoulders of Amerlean jndusiry!” Let ua go lo wark and pay It Wa want prosperity, The wheels af tho factorles aro atill, We want'a rovival of business, Money llea idle, and the vafo of pradenca i tnckod by tha koy of fedr, Energy has ompty hande, licnesty hus empty pockets, Induntry begs. We have had troublo enbugh, We huve had hinrd Umes enough. Lot us be friends, and Job us clotho this country onco more in pros. perity us with a gacent.” My friends, we have told the aid story often cnough; we have fonght tho battles oveér often enongh. Let us forret tients let us forget every- thing, except the debt we owe to the hrave men thut saved the natlon. [Applaure,] Let ua forget onr hatreit: Tetus rorzet our projudicent ot un fore Ret everything that hos been sald and everything that has” heon done, excapt whal wus done, ns #aid bofore, by tho hierolo men that kept the flag of thio Republic bright in the wky, (Anplause, | Now, It scems to me under the circumatances the President actesl wisely. It was the liest thing he conlddo. 1 will notsay that I wonld have dono 15 1 nlght bave had a HIIF too much feeling ahout ite I donot know what @ would have done had L been Prestdent; bat, if tifh Presldent has don as [ wanld havo done, not bhing Prestdent, I do not think T would have doneds he did. Thut, ax ho did it, 1 eay give blma falr trlal: I say, give that paliey a” chance. Iam nouinlnz(a prophiesy its defeat elthier, or ite fallure, hocause na man “ever prophiesies the fallure of n thing that ho dan't go To™oric withh il his “mighi o Tuin h prophesy. 1 bolleve it will succoed. It witl ancceod if the Suuthern heoplo will accept it 1o zood faith, What do [ mean by tho Suather peopla accepting 1t Kimply thix: If thexo Southorn pea- plo will stap shoatiug nugroes, it thoy will say to nvm"{l nugro, ** Thera I8 the loud, yom mn{ plow it: thorals the water, you may drink itz there i thealr, yon may breatlia i3 thero §s the ballot-bos, yon can vote for the Uovermnent of yonr clofco’ thero ba the land, " as 1 waiid before, **nlow It o, anil you ahall reap, and you shail cat In your lttle hut or your little cabin In_peace, and profection, broad os tho gencral air, shalt cover yon all," Lot them eay that? that is what I eall accepting thiain good fafth. [Checrs.] 1 want to say the kama thing to the Union men. It don't take any pluck to Le a4 Unlon man in 1111- nols, —not a bit; bnt tv bo a Union tnan fn the southorn part of Arkansae, to ben Unlon man in Loutstana, to bo a Unlon man In thess Riatos,ro- quires n munclo of tron uni a nerve of atoel, and [ honur evory man that hits stoord np for tho CGovern- mient In thesa Ftates fcheeral, and I am opposed to auy policy that will mot protwct every ono of these mien In ovory right Lo has. Now, 1do nut expect that ererybody Is going to accept this policy of the Fresident,” Theno ol Bourbon< up hera {n_ the North wili not, Thees old, bitter, floallesa tmplacailes of tho Houth, they nover will do It either, 'These Implacatios of tho Bouth they dine on hatrod. they sup on regeet, they keap their bosoma full of thi sunkes of res vonge, " and- they got tojgotlior 10 purtake of the -~ commumon - of mosnness, [Laughter, | Yon canmot plena h ovo them, whh u - forglviuz solelt, to the death, [Laughter softening Influenced of tuio an swdappinuze, | Flicee men have done’ the cotntre all tho hurm they ean, ‘They ara the men that will not allow the foot of immiyration to touch their woll, Thoy aro the men that thin they own the tontharn Stntor, 1 want to tell them now, 1 own tho Santh Just 88 moch as they g L will sell ont tolerably cheap, bt 1 own §r, [Luughter and I ‘Chis pollcy 5 WiLh NOT ILEABE TIR NOURNONS of the Nozth,—those aid, hard-headed Democrats liey never will bo ateficd, 'The fplsce anles nover ‘will ba eatlited tl they nwn aad whil nnrfim'llhu Hourbons wil never bo satisfled 11 Ehey Relp'the fmplacables to catch a negro, “Phey want ti seo the pond old thues bick svuin, when the taylng of aLlaodbonnd was conatdord tha innnle of this Unfon, azd whea the groat object (o ba attalned was to people the fron Tormiaries of the United Stalos with slaves and slave- holdere, Thoy vaut to ses that thue nzaly, You will never ¢ca”lt, Mr. Donrkon; Mr, Implacablo, our withered eyes will never gn=o uron it, never? {¥o cannot pleasa overybody, bul we are fuing to pleare sume. . Woaro goint to plessa 10 of 1h per cept vt tho white ‘won'in tha Bouth, sl that ls envugh to protoct the colared voto of the South, L8oplasc, | And lot mig voy to-nigls that thier never will be, thero ugver cau be, amy progrees in E\a tlimllhlllnlll they join tho party of. progrees. platne, l-"«lllnwmllltenl of the Houth, you jolnwl the yrromiz pocty you Juined a reminisconce of dofeat, a recollection of diraster; you Joined the dead; you, as it wero, gavo yOur furtine into the hands uf 'a ruuucul cometory, Whit you want to do Ia to join tho great party of growth aud eflorcaccnce: and wntll you do it theee will be no prosperily in that conntey, You bave gota prow Inta iL; you cannat abiink into i, ou never will ket handsome growing wrinklew, [Laugbtor. ) Laaid thero were but 10or 13 per cent of fio white vote of the Bouth, and that {s enough ta pro- 1uct the colored vote; nnl whencver wo gt that (er cent wa ara throwd, snd this problem Iesolred. ntha North whon uro e gaing (o picase? Weo are going Lo pleana tho Nepublicat party. In the iirst place, they aro wililhy thls should bu telod; they do not ali think llhxu!n“ 10 Lo & suce cuns Ly any magu-i but they are wiiling It sbould 4 be trled) Wh ' great 0 o i Domocrats. of - the urth 1] the are g thls nhould (1] tricd; and all who are willing It sbuuld be tried aro anx- fous it should saccevd.” [Applause,] And if an ulection weze ta cona off thls very day tu the Stata of 1linols between llnYun und Tililen, ilayes would, carey tho State of lilinols’ by 100,000 mojority. (Loud urplmu Now, 1 bellove the countey Is abave party. Mr. Démucrat, dan't you o nilust this Becadso yoi think it will burt th Deasocrutic party ; dou't you dalt. Do ezactly whut you beliove will bring prosperity to this country, \We have had wwae cne ouz have had tronblo enunzhi there have boen heart-baraiugs cnoushi aud wow et us soe if We can have vase real peaco. | hope 10 the to e the timeswhen § can go tnfo any Suutbern Stata and exprons my vptnlon.” 17 1 svee du go lato eve 1owill exprees it [Loud uppluiwe.) Dut fu all probability L will kecp out until 1 think it entirely saf [Lou 1 want 1o lve o sca the 1 can bo furzolten, when s Ly uvery other tuan hae the sawe right that ho Las, whea the old ‘uanllun of slavery will bave bacn S‘r‘m“ fotever, when the qucation of color will bave cen wiped, &3 It were, from Ancrican politics. aii tired of 16, Lot ua’ siart somothing oloc.. - Let us divldo ou frec trade and protection, let us divlie oo edacation, let us divide, It ou nothinz clie, about Chrletianity or somcthing In the Church—1 mean In the schools. Well thero alnt wmuch in tho Church eliher. [Laoghter. | Lot us divido on incso questions, somciuing waldes wor, sowme- thing busides ugliting Lheas buttles over snd over and over agdla. . Lwant 1o vco somwthing mew. Wehave gotto hayo growth, but thoruls no xrowih in kecping your hack everfasil o sunrise, aud dis- Cunslug the questt X muat uut do it biss gob 0 have new fdews, nes thougif, rutiou; and I waut to sce thls countr; duy: Iwantto sco It espsud, to; 1wa 0,10 ore LeTritory U NoAU nuder o Lsbgnt spplause. | L waat b sce the thmo v szepat Repubtic shall control thils hemiephere. As T 1, and ns Lnow eay, there I8 only alr enoagh on this continent TO PLOAT ONE FLA ana that flag fs oure. |Applanse. | Tiwant Lo res the thne when we will control this hemisphere, and tho market« of {hin hemispheres aml when we can mitke and sedl to the people of this hemisphere. L wanl to rea the time when we are great anongh, and graud enonch, and seanible enongh to ray to the other powers of the world: *‘Yon Keep aways we will attend o ono hall of this world,' {Laughter.] We wanht A& natlanal nepiration, -~ and “we - ant ono: that witl Eo ovor the enilr tauniryy that you can talk nbout 1A the South, that yon éan talk abont on the I'acific atope, that you can tatk nbont in the vranite Inlla In New Enefand, that yon can talk adont all over tho country sherever oar banncr floats, LAgpinuae. ) v : ; Now lct 1ts {ry ta foget tho past, 1am wiiling to, nod, If T am willing to, anyboily oucht to, [Langlter.}] 1 willing to Jet itall go, and start anew; all, all except, and Iwant to escept it al- ways, except the debt we awe to the men that eayed thin nation. [Appiause. | Now, I appenl to yon Democrats, to accent thia ritnation. “tilve it falr chance, I req already they” are heginning to eny, S*flayen feii't kuer Ing” good faith with the Bouth,” \What has ho douer” Did you expect him 1o ll{- e next day, **Niéholls 18 Governor of Loulsianar™ Ile vevereanmay It [Avplanse,] He can't say it, 17 It {8 lefi to rome tribunal, 1 lhe{ aettlo it In some wu{ that does nat involve him, that tribnat may eay it, but Presldent Hayes cannot stand np and say Nicholls Is Governor withoutraying Thden oughtio have ln.-cr‘ Presudent. [Applanre, | llo canw’t da it, Tn Sonth Carolina the matter 12 somo. what different, Dut what is the Preaident doime? He is waiting, Ha wants Lo see If those peoplo haven't got euse enough to aettla thoie own diill- cultied, “snd -1t weems to mo, In this ninetcenth century, that they ought to have, It eeems to e there ‘onght fo he rome tvay in the Stato of Louislana that would sottlo who Is the Uov- ernor of the State, and which is tha Legsla- ture, and, In my Judgment, tho Senato of "tha United ° States ought nover to bave ndjdurned nathl they settled that question, Alr. Kelloge was there, asking to be admnitted nen Senator from Loulsfana, They ahnuld have pussed u{mnum guestion whether the Legisluturo that elected him was the real, the legal leglslature or Applaise, ] But Preslilent ‘may bo not before they adjournctl, they didn’t do” it, “Now tha seaiting uitd the eailed aession of Congress conte, That 1 a yuestion that really onght to bo settled by thn Lepislative Depurtment, or Judiclal De- pnrlmlulnl, of this Government, Dut I rsy to Yyou all, ¢ - LET US OIVE THIS A CHANCE. Woncedit. Weneged It In the Noith, Too much bankruptey here—too many houscs for rent; too many etorles with nothe Ing In ° thom = hut the cliosts — of old_speculalons and anticipations. {Applauec.] 1tell you that carner Jota are too low, Ontskdo -| property is too tiat. Yes, oud the men that hiave ought property und pald ene-third or one-haif on it, that yroperty has been rudeeming the natlona] debt anil sirinking nntil a mortzogo” covers it all and tho edges stlcking over, | Latghter and. ap- »h\n!\‘-'] Now, §ivant vomething thnt will begin 0 mwell things, Yes, I want something that will make the ot grow better than a morigaze, that therp iy bo koo cliungo lofl. [Laughter,] T want soinu work to take thoso noticea off: *“To rent," [Appliuse.] 1w L tromotling, o that storo will nat be lunésomo, (A volce, ** How wiil youdo 1t2"] low will T'do 1t? By confidence. Caplial Is thinkd, Copital i frightoned. If thore Isu i]wt‘l:k in the aky the hnnds of the miscrs clitch nnd clinch tho Iaat doliar they can jret hold of, and they won't fetout & dollar ‘unless you can glve thein Lwo dollars s collateral uocnrltly. Now, what we want is confidenco—confidence in_our In- stitutions, confldence In each other, confidente In tho destiuy of the Ureat Hepablic. Thu key of confidence will unlnck every sate, Confidenco will hrlm{nnt every dollar, and the moment lnn hava gt that confidence you will go to bnilding, yon will go to creating, ‘and I belleve prosperity will Fun aver onecoaniry onco agaln, What do I mean by nrn-}»nruyv 1 mean fand honsca; I mean hnppy Wived; [ mean smdling elildren golnz to and com- fug from school; | mean houros with llbraries In them; Dmean louses with pictures on the walls: I mean everything that makea lifo o bleasing. |I‘\p~ planse, 1 And by hard times [ moan everything hat makes lifo & curse, | want soma good timos, T eay to the people of the South: **Tho Presl- dent fns offered you this olive branch, ~ Accept it. Acceptit. I besvech you to accopt it, And, by tha memory of all who died for nauzht, by tho arlies of yaur slateanien dead, for the rake of yonr rons and daughters, and xllslr falr childron, Tbeg, 1hinplore you to aceept 1§ with loyal and with loving icsrts, }Ap plagse,] It will® clotho your warted fields, 1t will 11l your coffors with gold, 1t will edueate your children, It wit] 011 the salls of your comnmerce. It will i1l with 1ight the hut of the freedinan, 1t will clothe the weak in mora “ot mall; the poor and mcnaurcices tako it roses of climb and over tho broken connon of .war ‘Take 1t: 1t will uniteonr nationt it will make na brothiors once agsin. Take it; and the nozro wil) wipe from the tablot of memory the strokos and zcard of two hundred yoars, and blur with happ, tears the record of his wrongs, Take It: the Nurth will forgive if the Bouth will forget. Take its and Jnstice will »it In your conrta vuce mare under the widae outsaread Wings of peace, Take it; and tho bratn nud fips of the futnre will be free. Tako it; and the destiny of tho great Nopublie will b neaiteed, Toko 185 1t will bud and blesrom in your hands, Alling yourfand, and #illinz your hoines, with frazrance and with oy, Taks it; and we wiil havo prssed nldnizit {1 the hl-ws_v of our country, ho star of hopa will herald agaln tho rleing AT PATERSON, N. J, > Parensox, N. J,, March 27.—Tho 8t. Charles Hotel wus burued this morning. Tho gucsts hud a narrow escape, and a few had to jump from tho windows. T'wo hud thelr legs broken Ly tho fall. AT EAST ST, LOUIS, Br, Lou, March 27.—Bovon frame houses on Missourl avenue, in East 8t Louls, burned this morming. Loss about 870,000, {nsurnuce not known, AT CREDITON, CAN, Crrpitoy, Ont., March 27,.—Honry Cilly's restdenco burned last uight, sud children pere 1shied in tho ftamen. AT VAN BUNEN, ARK. Tarree Rock, Ark., March 27.~The Conrte louse and records of Grawford Couuty wers Lurned at Van Buron on Baturday night. et LATE LOCAL ITEMS, To-day Justico Pollak moves from lla presont quarters at the corner of Clark and Van Buren alreets, 1o nowly furilvhod and spaclous sparts ments ut No. 111 Clark strect, thoreby getting tid of the troublesome changes of venue from the Fouth Divislon Pollce Court. Asa wind-up o hls Lnalness he yesterday helil the notorlous Thomas Curley In $3,000 ball fto the Crimina) Conrt .~ for tho hold robhery of Joale I'utnuin's residenco, No, 500 Wabash avenue,some two weeks ago, Putnam and another womnan, **rapped dead to him, " as the police slang runs, for & thurongh and positive 1dentldcation. The Heoley robhors recelved a continuance until Thurs- day, 3r. Seeley manifusting s mysterious and une accountable dexirs to avold prosecntiug thewm. ‘Twa - straw-peddicrs named dohn Smiitle and Jacob Fisher, reslding upon the soufhwestern oute skirts of tho city, whilu dumpingnature on the vrairfo sbout " threv-fourths - of "8 inile west of the city, at 0 o'clock Jast evoning, came upun 'the body " of. & mun lying on tho ruadeide on Twilfth str Aomo ‘dle- . tanco wust of Contral Park avenue, The Hinman #treot police woro notided, and the body wan taken to tha Morgue, liealde the body, and partlally lne closed in the dead maw's hand, was a mealune plzed revolver of the Smith {fltlnm, only one bats rebof which was eipty, The veel wuw stalned rlth the blood und Lurnod with tho powder directs Iv over the heart, filvhu overy indication : of deliberate snicide, cceased wos af swarthy :.m.rmluu. eriduntly a forelgner, about dve feut six iuchiew in heigbt, had Hghs brown hair, small suoustachy, and was clod ina naw suit of dark woolen: materlal, Tllfln and whita atriped sbist, Hishs 4 und Kld gloves, bearing _evi- dence of having beon s dreavy unap, Nothe 10 wae found wpon his person by which he coul ba tdontided, and owing to the latenesd of the hour when -tho news reached liendguarters the description conld not b coin. pared wit Jolice: roporty of missiug men. The sulclde must have bren quite recont ae the buly was 1§uw Irosh, andd the waiio men passcd over the road Buwday afteruoon and saw nothing to alarm thems, The revolver waa unly stightly rusted, - e SUNDAY-SCHOOL. dpecial Dispatca to The Triduns. Inprawarous, luds, March 27.—Dr, John Haull and Dr, J, I, Vincent, of New York, and other members of a comlites to arrango u scrics of futcrnational Sunday-schoul lessuns, are In Lhis clty, and will remain for scvors] duys on that work, The Natlonal Methodist Bundoy- Sebool Couvention micets hero ‘Thursdsy, and will continue {u seasion two days. A numberof promincot Sunday-sehool men ' will be fu attead- ance. 1d ——ee—— TOTAL ABSTINENCE, Bpecial Dispaich to The Trivine CoLunuus, O., Murch 27,—Thu femperance movement, which bas been succesafully carried on gt Pittsburyg and other Eastern polnts, hus comnienced to bu felt In this section durinz the past week. Meetings haye been hield nightly at Nowark, Crestline, und other poluts. At New- ark tho Opera-House bas been densely packed, and vyer 5,000 have slgued the pledge. Baloons arg being vlosed, and the forner proprictors are workiug in tho temperunce movemeut. The pledie Ts somewhat dillcrent frouy 1be usual oug, and b us followa: ** With wallee towurd none aud charity for all, 1, the _undersigued, do - pledze my word and honor, God helplog me, 10 avstain Lrom all futoxicating lyuors as & heverage, and that 1 will hy all honorahle meang cheourago others to abstain,” The meetings are carried on under tha nmne of the “Murply Temperance Soclety,' A meetinig waa held jy thia city Jast night, and arrancements are Lelng perfected to proseente tho w CASUALTIES: DROWNED, Bpecial Dispateh {a The Tribune. ¢ DanviLre, 1, March 27.—Charles Woodman. sce, son of J, Hy Woodmanace, Bocrotary of the Dinols Printing Company, waa, drowhed to-day near Eugene, Indinna, while duck-hunllnfi My Jeft hero this morning, and this evoulng the sad newa of his death was recelved. No partlculars haye yet come to hand. 7= % BAN Francisco, March 27,—~Willlam H. Poll, third ofticer of the ship Adam ST, Slmpson, fu overhoard In the SBouth Paciiic and yns drowned before a boat could reach hiin. Corusnus, 0., March 27.—8amucel Covers, while |mnlmfi on the Scibto River this eveniag, was drowned, The body hus not yet been re- covered 8 —_— EASTERN IFLOODS. Fpectal Dispatch to The Tribune. WiLkEsnARRE, Pa., Mnrch 27.=The Busque. hanna River 1s rapldly rising at this polnt, and ' to-night fs sixtéen feet above low-water mark, Communieation with Kingston 1s cut off, and tho atreot-cars stopped running this ovening. A ° heavy storm i In progress, with every inilieas tion of n serious freshiet the snow belilg three feet deep up the rivor. WONSTY, TILAN TITE DIREASE, Speclal Diwpalch to Tha Tridune, Dunuqus, Ia., March 27.—Last " cvenlng Mrs, Btiofbold died frorh the effects atrychinine, takens ns aremedy for ficumatlsm. 8he had suffered {from this discaso for somo time, and somg nelghbors bad suggested that strychinine woul] relicve it 1t Is sitopozed she tovk tuo largeq tlose. 8he has ona daughter, marrled, and liy. fug near Lansing, Ia. NUN OVER,. Special Dispaleh to The Tyidune, East BAmi¥Aw, March 27,—A man supposed to have been: Chester, Plerce was run over by passenger traln on tho Jackson, Lansing & Sugt- nnw Rond opposite this ‘clllalthls evening and fatally injurcd, Il was walking barchended vn the travk, ———— RUBBED OUT. The Faugs Takon Out of Anothor Doneficent Mob of Philanthropints, 3 Spectal Dispalch to The Tribune. Coruostnus, O., March '97,—The . Buprems Court. of Ohlo has rovoked tho charter ana withe drawn all the corporate rights of the Ohlo Mu. tual Rollef Assoclntion at North Lowlsburg, Champalgn County, In consequenco of tho ofil- cers of tha Assoclation “having, {t is belleved, knowingly allowed the ngont at Colutnbus, Jacob 8. Rizor, to Issuo sixty-four policies te 'ono porson upon- tho lives of other persons whe were 1), nged, or Infirm, and who hud no knowl. edge of or conpection with the afalr n any way whatever. Tho pollclos wera tasuéd to a ldy, who pald for' thom $1,200 or. mnore, and whe recovered her money through her attorney. Tho lady atutcs that shc_waa induced to ko thy Investment by Mrs, J. Rizor, a splritual medi. um, who, togothor with her hushand, gave nse suranco that the trausactlon wua [n accontanco with tho rules of tha offivials. Bl stated that Tizor hnd no anthotity to do this, but the fact the polleies passed through the usual forms at the homo ofllee, and the Turther fact that somo of the-homa officers held personal and written communication with Rizor during tho thirty days {n which the policles were being handled, madoe’ an fmpresslon upon the Court and the commuuity very-unfavorahleto the Company. e ——— A " MUTUAL AID” SOCIETY, * Kpecial Corvespondence of Tha Tribune, Des Moings, Ja.,, March 24—l replyto & statement zent Tis TrIBUNE, & short time ago, that the U. B. Mutual Atd Soclety, of Pennsyl- vanla, was dalng lifo-insurance business {n this Btate without authotity of Iaw, L. W. Cranmer, Geueral Agent for this State, publlshes tho fol lowing notive in o Marshnittown paper: The U, B, Mutua] Ald Sacloty, of Pennsylvanis, 11 not recognized by the Audltur'ef Stato nsa lifes insurance company, sfinply hecanse it Is not, aml novor hinn been, ‘a llfe-insumnco company, It is shnply an Al socloty, and os @ such It has been dolug businees In Towa for mors thaw six yeate, and the Audifor of State bua not refuded toallow it todo tusiness in tho State. 1t applled to the Auditor of ‘State to arcer- tnin If theee wus any laws of the State to which it wau nmennblc ow an Ald . Soclaty; and thore belng none, ind tho 1ifo-insurance inws of the State no being applicablo o it, 1t has not complled with tham? but it no rare followa that it s dolnz an )+ Jequl business (o the Stato than It does that (o Odd-Fellows, Freo-Masone, and other beneficlal as- naolat! ho nld”thetr memers, aro violating the ) In 1873 ono of otr agonts {n the State Avas, at tho Inetigation of an old-line life-insurance agent, arreated. Wao at once gave ball, employed a connacl, and repurad to mect ihe casu In cuurt. When the timo for trial camo the prosecutora with. drow tho suit and pold the coats, Sluca then our agents have not boen molomed, Just now hizhe rate lifo-fnanrance companios are exerting thens relves b sliuke the confidenco of the publla In the Ald Hoclaty, bat thelr efforts ara s taifure, Tho fucts upun which your corrcspondent ‘lased his statemont aro theso: . Saveral months 0go, the Gonoral Agent of this Company called upon tho Btate Auditor to ascertalu If it was necessary to obtain o pormit to do business In this Btato, After hcnrlnE the Agent's urgue ments and explanations, the Aunditor ufornied thogentieman that, in his opinion, a depoalt of $100,000 it Penuaylvnn!n wus decldedly neces sury. and he did not think it advisablo for such copipanies to zet so far away fom home. The papers und documents prescated by the Agent wore transmitted to tbe Attorney-(eneral, who replied (o a lunfith y und curcfully-preparcd opine fun, fu which ho beld that,” according to the company's own showine, It . was o lifes Insurunce company, aml within th rule of tho Atntutes governing fife-Insurance companles n this State, and, therefore, conld not trausact lusiness in lows without authority from the Btate Anditor, Tho Company haa inaide no formal appllcation to the Slate Auditor for o pesmit, and, under tho decislon of tho Attorpey-tiencr al, whichis biudiug_and the law until reversud or sct ahde by Lhe Supreme Court, the Coms L-:m‘y s dolog busiucss coutrary to law fn this ate. —_——— *DRY GOODS SALE, NBw Yonx, March 27,—David 8. firown & Cu,, of Philadelphia aold thels entfre stock of Gloucester und Auema priuts to-day by auctlons Merchanta were present. from all parts of the United States, and tho bidding wasvery apirited. Ono thousand five hundred caies Ancma prints brought {rom 5¢_to 53gc per yard, Theso wers {followed by swall lois of fancy priuts In pouml pleces, and were sold at 18igc per pound. A fow cases . of seconds - brought B3I conts, About 1,000 cuscs of Qloticester prints started at 8 cents, lowered to- 53, 5%, and b}fl. whille furge lovs wers knocked down st B). Moarnlug priuts, of which therc wasa lurgo assortmcnt, sold at [rom 8 to 5)3 tho' avernge prico being B3, Une hunds and fifty cases of , solid blacks brought B3¢ cents, Somo thirty cases of jmourning prints in pound pleses brougut ll}i e lmuml. and ussorted prints in cascs BY( to .J?. huring the auction {t was rumored ‘that tho Messrs. Garner were to follow this salo with a lurse sale of their zoods, but the auctioncer denfuil It, sayhug this waa tho Jast sala of prints this Eas0ll, , Awmaonu the firms represented were J, V. Far- 1l & Ce uld, Leiter & Co., Btettauer Bros 0, Pliio, Scott & Co., Chikazo; Al Co., Clevelaud; Lonls Etlx & Co., Cinclnnatl; L 8. W, Bam Wo Vi 9 berger, Blum & Co., Louisville; Chase & Cabut snd Dodd, Brown & Co., St. Louls, 1t was stated that Brown & Co., mavufsctur crs, lust at least 10 per cent upon' the cust 10 manufacture, sod aunounce tbat tbev will nob scll any more goods at uuction this scuson, et — — WATER AT SANK FRANCISCO. Baw Puaxcisco, March 9.—For a long timo lltigation hus been fn progress bLetweou the 8pring Valley Water Compuny and the city rel* atiye to the payment of the Company’s chargcé for water furvished for muuldpal purpocct The bills' roferred 1o amount ‘to §106,00 coverlug the timu from{R early i 872 up to the list month. Thu lower courts have rendered declsions in favor of llnz Cumpany. r’l'm:lnmml ul‘SuneElwr; nGhn. l;]ll&lfll'd muctleg Tefusc ment pewding the ru itization . the. Supreme. Court. To-day the Vicsident of the Spring Vallgy Company traus: mitied 8 communication to the loard statig that unless hwmediate steps be' taken towar: : settlement yucnt for + the nhh u3ad fu the past, aul the paking of propes coi tract tor the future, and such steps be pro:o catul Lo o wpeedy Con:ludlon 9 mar i dune utder thu law, the corporation will viit off supoly of water from §ts mauing for all vrdinuy muntclpal nacs of the dty, except tho cxtio- Busbment o lrcs. cot, Hortou, Co. aund Juhn Bhillits & Delaplalne & Bon, Wheelly