Speech Of Governor Walker

Wf invitu tii" special attention of readers, atid mor eipeoiaUy that portion of tiiitn wh.) beiiove, or affect to, Umi ir i Jhkki.kv isclected the rebel dobt is tt lm paid, tin: rebel soldiers pensiónèd, and the nnmtwipatei slavcs paid for.tothefo1lmving tpóooh by Gov, ai.kkk, of j giuia, ck'üvored atthegreat Democratie ' and Liberal denionjtration iu New York. lt weck : Fui.i.ow-C'i tízf.xs : I congratúlate you upou tlic ftiot that if in tho coming, two yeurs Divine Providenèe slioüld rutuovo frotó t;.i cöce t;i vrhioh jfow willeleot him your CiüVurHOr i"v will have a moatworïli.y Bucot'ssor ut Cliutou niid Jlaroy and uthor nuble men in the person. of your next ioutonruit-Oovcinor, tho gentleman v.-ho Um jüst nddrassed you. It affiords inc plotisuru, I assure you, to speak oneo uionj to the puuplo of my nutive State. (Applauso.) 1 eau no inoro forget that I born and reared upon tho soil of the Empire State than 1 can forgot the moth.r lïuit boro me auii the tender affections that wutchod over and gna.'rded my I it yciirs. And, while to tliis illue-trious OW Dominion, whoro my umturor yearB j beelí i M9ed( beloug of right iny j waraiest uffeotioa and nvy highest , táong, aevattholess, my Leurt warma with uew í:'t pride and witU uew lovo for my I nativé State when 1 bchold hor advanoing to greatness. I have a pride in the State of my adoptiotl ; and I feel well asurad that sho will, in proportion to }oj,iniition, roll up larger majorities in Iwvember r.cxt for the Liberal ticket and tí.?' Liberal causo than any other Stato in the Union. (Applause.) The substantial peoplo ot' Virginia, tho tax-paying pcoule, who havo an interest in the wolfü?3 lid prosperity of the State were nevor mnre united, nevor inoro harmonioua and determined in the support of any causo than they are in the support of Greeley .-ind Brown. Wint is true of Virginia ia truo in u very large raeasure of the piollu of the cutiré South, lt may seem relaiirlcable that there is such unanimity of wntiment in tho Bouth for Mr Greeley. Our adversaries evidontly think it reinarkable, and they enduavor, in various j ■wi'.ya to account tor it. I have hcard it stated, and I think l have soen it ín the nswepapen, that the South expect, at least hupe, in tin1 eleotion of Mr. Greeley to accomplid) what they f;iiled to acoomplish ly tho war. If you had bqen in the South, as I have, und if you had suen what 1 havo een, you would know liow utterly foolish sueh decltirations are. - Wben tho Southoru Cross went down upon the platea of Apponiattox, tho cause óf the war went dowu with it. If 1 1 BÍOH raiaea its front again, it will uot be on thu sunuy plains of tlie South. (Applaune.) Auotiier argument for tlie defoat of Mr. Greeley is, that hia cloction ■wijl be tho sigival for an i-lTort to obtain tke payment of the Confedérate dobt ; - peniione for Confedérate soldiers ; pay for lavos set free. Uut if gentlemen who indulge in such reiuarks would look at tho Oonstitution of the Unitod States and r.t tho constitution ot' each of the Southern States ho wouM find an absolute prohibition againat tho payment of or as8iini])tion by the United States, or the States thomsi'lvcs, of any of these claims. Again,. it is said that the South hopea, in the eleotion oí Mr. Greeley, to bo rid of their share of tho Federal debt and obligation, wiiich they had no hand in contractingï lint no sueh idea is eutertaiued by tho Southern poople. The reason of the support given by the whito people of tho South to tho Liberal ticket is, that they want peace. {Applause. ) They thought when thoy surrendered at Appoinattox, that peuce was te prevail all ovor the land, and that they would bo rooogaized as American citizens, and given the care of thoir own a'.i'airs. liut eavonyoars have elajised, and thcre is no poace iu the South to-day. I say there is no peaco, becauso the forco of tho reconstruction acts and tho iuÜucncc of this Administration is to spread over tha South a swarm of office-hoiders, as nuinerous as locuets, whose only purposo is to array raco against race, tho negro against the whito - ui other words, to pnt the bottom rail on top and reverso the order of nature as well as thu order of intulligence. (ApJ)1usl'.) When the war closod the South ■waa utterly exhausted, hor farms woro ilesolated, her homes were made waste, htr people -were erippled ; ragged soldiers und bare-footed eaildren and hungry Tuinen strollud the streets of onr citics. Undec such circumstancas a hu'iianc goveruiuent, a wÍ80 statestnanship, would at once havo restorod to those people pace nd tjuiut. Bu'., run over in your own ruiuds tiie history of reconstrucción, and answer ine wh'ther tho entire policy of this Administration has not been the radicalizing of tlio Bonth through the negro vote, and tlms lyiiijj; every Southern State tü its support 'i l-Titranchiaement was tho logical aud logitimate rusult of emanoipation ; but while they enfrauchised the negio, while he was eiidowed with the civil and political privileges with which the whito man had thoretofore been endowed, I saw no right, nojustice in trampling the white man under foot and disfranchising him. What was tho excuso for thisV Why, they enfranchised tho negro and distranchiscd enough whitu men, as they supposed, to givo a negro oarpet-bagger and seallawsig majority in oach Southern State. From tho tiruu reoenstruction begun there has not been a time when th& tH'urt'i of these peoplo havo uot been to antagonizo tho negro agninst kis fovraer. niaster. Jt was done for political purpoüos on!y ; patriotism had nothing to do with it. Tuis Administration prides itself upon its iinancial policy. They suy to you, " L)on't you observe the premiums on our bonds 't Don't you ybservo we ftrepaying off a largo ainount of tho principal of the mitioual dobti' - Uon't you seo at tho ssimo limo appanmt prosperity, Bt least in the Nort.hr" But, according to my idcus of sound financial jiolicy, the conise of the Adniinistration has been sueh as to sap the foundations of; public credit. When they commenced reeuiistruction iu tho South tho State dsbts were not $.";O,OfK),üUÜ. To-day they aru four or five times that ainount. However,. tlie debt of tho State of Virginia has not been iaoreaaed il during or sinco the war,, ssoept by thu accumultttiou oí interest during war timos. In 1809 the peoplo of Virginia reoonstrnoted themBülvi-s ; they olectod their own State government, in sjjite oí the Administration, and have administered their own aifairs evor sineo. (Applause.) Youhearof no disorders thero ; no robberies ; no eteuling of the school fond ; no unusual murders and othor cjimes. (Applauso.) But how is it in tho State next to Virginia ? Thoro aro no people, oxcept it ia tho poor population of Florida, titat aro so cursod vrith debt and outrage as the good people of North Curulina.. Yet they appodr to support the Administration and its reeoastructioii8 becauso thoy are forood to do it. Thore is nothiug to ehow for tho incroase of Hhj Southern dñbt, except the paper on which its bonds aro written. In many itwtancea bankruptcy stares at tho Southern States. I have ahown to you how tho "financial policy " of this Administration has piled up enormous debts in the South, which tho prosperity of tho uation. I havo seen it t;ited, and I beliovc it to be truo, that if all the real estato of Florida wero to bo put up at auetion to-day, it would not sellí'or enotlgh topayth.' principal of the public debt. I do not eee how Buch ii policy can bo boastcd of before an intelligent comnimiity. Hfl'erriiig again to the favorable posilion in whi-.iii the people of Virginia were plaoed, comgarwd vith tho peoplo of othar States, Gov. Walker repeated the words of tho Chairmnn of tho New York Democratie (onvention, that it was timo theso discords botween soctions and antagonisms between roce vtre wiped out. (Applause.) Thenfore tho Southern peoplo en so hcartily for Horac! Greeley, who appsared betere them tilmost liko an angvl of peace after their eurrender; who r.j,Tic:srit (iistranciis( nifT;t : who WB8 williug to gire a frater! ral g'ufp to the hands that weic outhireched across the bloody obaam. Grovernor Walker resumed his ceatumid greut applauw.