Tilden And Reform

Nover in tho wbole conrae of my liio lvavo I kuown such audienoes to gather togethor na aro now gathering to linten to public discussiOD, upon the brief noticeB tbat have been given. There is a philosophy and a reaBon for all things, if you look at them calmly and fairly. The reason why tho good county of Pntnam - and when I Rpeak to yoxi aa tlio pooplo of I'ntnam, I Bpeak not merely to my Democratie bretliren ; I spealt to them, it U trae, with a warm, embraciiiK affeotion ; bnt I likewiue npeak to my Eepublican frieudd, for wuoni i have nothüjg but kind words here trday ; I apeale to my Independent friends, if tiiey aro bcre, for whom I havo entire reapect and personal kindnoss - I say to you, ono and all, that tho reason why the peonle aro moviug ia that thoy have wakod up ïrom tho very foundations to the necessity of a chango in tho cítü adminiatration of yóur Government. A cliauge is domardod by evory interest that you hold doar, and from one occan to the other, thia hour, tho prevailing thonght in honest men's minds ia that thingB have gono far enough in the direction they have been going 80 long, and that there ought to be a change ; that a chauge cannot mako mattere worso, and ruay mako mattera fnr botter. Tliat is tho provailin" Añ'tiAnl of tüo puMic mind. Okttino to büsinkss. My fellow-countrymen, who is it that proinisos you a change? Does tho Ropublcan party"? Many au honeet Kepnbliean iu Vatnam" county has consoled himself for hie digappoiutment in Oront's adminiatration by whieperirig to hia owu heart, ■ Yes, but Hayos won't follow iu hia footstepa; thero will be a cbange from Grautisin by tho electionof Hayea." Wlio promiPPB you tht evont? Who aeserta that ? ï hold in my hand the Cinciunsti platform ; I havo it hero. My good Republican brother, ii you think you are going to get a chango in Sajes' administratiou, let me read you somethini; that will dieabuse vour mind. LMr. Voorheea liore read Lcom the last p'aDk iu the Repnbhoan platform the poriion iudorsing Gen. GranJ's adminiatration.] INDORSINO OEAIÍT. Let me aak, right here, a porsonal questiou, addressod to any individual Bepublic&n upou thia ground. Is thcro a Itopublican in the connty of Pntnam who unqualifiectly indorat Grant's adminiatration of your civil affaira, domestic and 'foroign ? The platform at Cincinnati does it. Itsays that "he ia worthy of commeadation for Iii3 administration of our civil govemment, both domestic aud foreign." I don't beliovo '.bat at this hour thcro is an intelligent and candid llepublican in the county of Putiiam who believes that reeolutiou etatos tho truth. For f thore is anv one thing more aud better understood than auother in thiB country, it ia that Grands administraron is tapering to a cloBe, an iitter and univereally-concedcd failuro. In ovory reapect the conüdonce of the pcoplo is brokon iu it. But it is indorsed by tlio platform on which Ilayes is nominated and must be elected, if ho is elected, and what promise even have you Eepublicans that y ou are to have a chauge under Gen. Ilayes? They indorae the backward flight cf eight yoars in (irant'a administration. They aay all is well, when you know that all ia not well. They say ho deeervee commendatiou, when you know that ho deacivoB condomnatiqu. thay say he m&uaged onr domestic affaira in a manner calcnlated for tho benefit of the people. Why, look for a moment back. I could stand hero 'imd occupy two houfa reoitlng thoso acta of bis administration wliich have met not merely with the condemnation of the Democratie party and the Democratie presa, but of the Kepublican preaa aa well. I ca: take the New York Tribune, the Cincinnati Commercial, the Springfiold Itepublican and the Bt. Louis Detnocral, aud in the last eight yeara I can drag f orth from their coïumns condemnation of eveiy featirre of Grant's adminiatration, personal and political ; aesaiUng hia üeraonal honeetlyin connection with the collection of tho rovonne, the San Domingo job, the sale of the French arms. Everything that was ever hurled at an administratiou can bo provod against his by the leading Kpubliran journals of tho Uuited States. Why, thén, fchoiild they say that Ihero ia to bo a chauge and a teformation if Hayes ia elected, when tlie very convention llmt nomiuated Hayes indoraod the admiuistration which they had condenmod ? There ia no change iu that direction. The cry in the land is for reform. There 1H I1U XtJlUllil 111 UI'.U UUCUUVUi DISCOUNT 1IAÏKK. My feUow-citizens, the influences which havo coiitrolled Grant would control a bundred men like Hayes. Grant has more iron forcé in bis little liiiger than there ia iii the whole body of Rutherford B. HayeB. I sorved in Congres with Gen. Hayes. I have no unkind wc to apeak of liim. Ile ia a man whose personal iuUgrity I do not question ; but I say with al respect to him and to bis f rienda, he is the tminilfcst raan that ever was thought of, much lees spoken of, in connectiou with the Prtsideucy of theUn tod States. [Laughter.] Tho Mortöns, th'ê Logans, the Conkliugs, and the other powerful men of tho party, who havo dictated and sbaped the courso pureued by this little square-jawed man who is now President, would have no more difficnlty in shaping the policy and conduct of Hayes1 adminislrLition than you would have in ahapiug the policv (: your youngest child at lióme. The same' oíd poiitioal leaders will surrouud him, tho same influences will prevail, the same men will be at the helm and at the front, and inatead of improvement by turuiDg Grant out and putting Haven in, it will bo only conaolidating, confirmiug and coutinuiug Graut's aduiiuistraliou íour years longer under a different name. A TUB TO THE WHAI.E. Then, gentlemen, if I have suflicioutly shown that the Republicau party do not even pretem to offer yon a chango, do not even pretend tha they aro going to reform the Governmeut, ! will pass on to aome other thinga. Whatelae do you soe ? Do you pretend to say that there is not much neod of change ? Ixok abroac throughout this oountry. Look at the labor out of exnpïoyment, hundrods of thouaauds o: men and women that are without wages with which to procuro bread, tho whole Governmeut in a etate requiring adminiatraiivö statcsuiau&hip to restore oonfidence, health and prospority. Why, a chango in itaolf is alwaya desirab!. What, then, do we promise ? If, mj friends, chauge is doairablo in every sonse o" tlio word, it beeomos mo, after showiuR yon that the llopublican party offers no chango; after showing you that they do not even condosceud to otïor a change ; after uhowing you that. it beeomes me to tako another stej) and show you something olse. Does the Bapub.ltcau party promise on solid grounds ard in a faithful wny, hucIi as to win your confidenco, a puiiíication of the civil servico of your (overnment ? I ani hore totalk candidly ith yon old men, and if uiy party promised nothïng better than theirs does I would sny there waa but little to gain in a change. ÏSB) there would be something still. A change, in itaolf, for tho sake of a change, ia a good thing. Whon au atmosphere becomea laden with poHonous vapore, and a storm rises in the West, and the thunder ïa board and the lightning Boen, you know that thore will bo a change in tho air, and that health will como in llic track of that change. It is sometimeá the eame in politics. Tho Kopublicans have bcc-n in power so long that the political atmoepliere ia iadou witli poison. Theft, pluuder, pcculation and fraud are in tly; air, a you well kuow. You cannot tap tho body politie without evidence of corrupfion coming to the surface and jjouriug out. heumon have beid oflice as long as tho Republican party lias - lor fiftoon years - liolding all the ofhees of tho Government, thoy become derolict in duty ; they bocome negligent. Thoy feol themselves set asido as a favorod clasa, to hold the oilicos and draw tho salarios, and that the peoplo havo nothing to do excopt to bcatow tbo ofïices upou tliem and pay taxoa to feed them and theirs. And if notiiingelue was to be accomplished this ycar except to drive out the old set and put in a now set, it wouid bo a purification to a certain extont ; and then, at tho ond of four yeara, if your party and mine does one-tenth part aa bad as tlieir par ty has done, I will befirstto join yon to turn thom out and put somebody elao in, and seo how they can do. Tho law of chango is a healthf nl law. A persou sick in oue chamber often fools a benefit by merely beiug changed into some othor room or aoino othor placo. You farmera kuow tho benefit of changiug crops in your liolds from corutowheat and wlioat to elover. This Uepublican party htis becu panturing too long in the fields at Washington. Thoy onght to bo turnod out and somo other kind of stock put in their placo. [iVvoico, "Tho land ia woru out."] THE DEMOüRATIO UOUSK. Voll, wc have had eur UcmotTatic convotition. We havo liköftise had omething olso, old DemocniUi of Patnam. Wo havo had a Democratie House oí líepic outatives for tho lirst tiuio in nixtoon yoars. l''or tlio lirdf time iu sixtoon yoars tho peoplo have trusted tlio popular branch of the American Congrosn to the Deuiocraoy. I admit to you that with that trnat repocd iu our hands carne hoavy tespQnHiliilitipH, and we havo got to moet them, and we luivo got to show tho pooplo how we hnvri met them, or wo will tand oondomnod, No party caa survive or uught U Hurvivo that c:tn'i uiako an honest showiug of tho trust reposoil I iu its hands. Tho Democratie party lias beou ( out of power for aixtccii ycare. Havo wo met our dnty since wo woro called to power? It in said that thero were many members of tliat i House who BOived in tho Confedérate army aud Kio Confedérate Congroas: that thoro were fifty or 6xty of tliem. Yes, that is bo. too. How eould it bo othorwieo, únicas you desirod to dostroy your Union of States? This Oovr-rnmont is a Government of btates. Each SUto i gnarsntoetl by tlio constitution certain repreBontativeB, and the peoplo qf thoso States are gnarantced tho right to chooie those representativos. Now, would you havo tliem chooao ligger, ecaüairaRS, and fiwpat-bag robbers dowíi there, or would you havo Uiciu ehoóso men of Jínowu and high cliaracter, Oven thougU thoy luwe been in ihe Confedérate army ? ISutlet ua oonioa little oloser. Let ns soo whother thoy havo been hiirt any by this Democratie Congress. I come to talk faeta and iU; uren to you. Sixtocn yoars of Ropnblican rulo havo piled up, step by Btep, your Oovernment expenses, until you have been thq heavient hurdenod people for your civil aerVice of any ]eoplo benoath tho suu. On tho adjournment of this Cougress a fowdays ago, aBolomu faot wont into hiatory. It went into liistory that tuo first reduction in tho appropriatioii of the peoplo'a niouey that has beon rotulo for aixtoou yoars has beon niade by this much abused, tmduced and malignad Democratie House of llepresentativcH. CongresB adjonmed after relioviug you and othor tax-payern of tho United States of $30,000,000 of táxes, as comnared with the last year. Go homo and teil that to your neighbors. Walk orect, look them in tho face and teil them what the Democratio party haa done to win the public oonüdence. It has dono what tho ltopublloan party hs never done. It has redneoeï tho burden of the peo pie in the support of their Government iu onO BC-ssion $30,000.000. Tblrty million dollar, my Kepublicnu ftlendfi. Show me whoio yoi havo reduced it ono dullar. If it had not boen for a liepublican Sonate and a Kepublican President the roduction would havo boon aixty miilioua iustead of tuirty millions. And there is not a singlo brauch of the Goverument that is going to suffer. All wUl g on as well or bettor than beforo. öomo uselees oftlce-holdera will bo put Out and loso thsir places. Some foreign Ministers and Consuls wili havo to come homo and earn an honost living lnstcad of loafing about foroign capital where tboyliave no mora to do than I would about vour farm if I didn't know. how to ploW, TH1KTY MILLION UEASONS. I don't o.ome here and aak you to trast the Democratie party, my Itepubhcau and Indepoadout friends, without giving you good roaaor.a for it. There aro tbirty millions of n:apons in tho tuoasure I hava epokon of to you- all solid roasons, overy one of thom a dollar in the maiket. ILaiightcr and applauae.] Nobody will disputo that. but when you stick that fact at a speaker of tho Morton stripo. he vill teil you that there has been a uiggor ulied down South, or somothiug of the kind. Ueuewed laughter.] I eau teil you of a good nany white men killed in Indiana, but a wliilo mau living hcre in tho intsriir of the State don't amount to auytlüng. It takes a black mau here on tho other side of tho iiver to raiso a firat-class muca when ho geta into rouble. It does seem to me that people had 3ttor look at home and reform ia quartors where they eau aave jnoney, 80 that, iuutead of giving your vifo.$5 to go ahopping, you vill have ílü noxt tima. It ia something remarkable that this Ropubican party, talking loud and long about it atriotiam, only HiiccO3ded in making the apropriationa every year a little highor until hit) mucU-abused old Democratie party got thuro with its rapreeeutatives, aud not very well organized either. Wo can do a great doal etter next time. They have juat been learnng how, this lest sessiou. Give the Democratie party a full chance ; give it a Presidout, as well as a House of Itepresent&tives, and, ifter a while, a Senate, and you will see oldfashioned times, and o!d fashioned economy. And romomber tho power ia in your hands. If :he Democratio party ahould betray you and aeoome faithlesa and corrupt as the Hopublicau paity is, you can juat give it a whipping and turn it out, too. Uut this vear is a í?ood year to givo thia Radical urchin a good lickiDg and turn liim out and put gome one else in. Bat, gentlemen, what elao has tbia Democratie House of Representativos done? Wo could stop and íeel right comfortable upbn tho record ruado in leducing Government exponaos. I havo alwaya thought that the legislator who saved a man a dollar that be had workod hard and swoated for was the man to vote íor uoxt time I may be mistaken. It may be that it is tho fellows that indoree (iiMnt'H admiuiatration, that put it up instead of down. whom wo nhould support. It may be that yon want to voto for theso fellows that have brought your debte back to yon every ycar. No, I guess uot. My oíd frieud here 'xhakcü bis head very cmph&tically. I havo heard from one precinct on that subject. No, you will vote in tho direotion of economy and for those Repreaentatives who have assisted in these measures. You will, all of you down here in Putnam, voto to send Frank Landers back. I shonld not think that anybody w'ould vote against hini aud voto for a party that indoraeu all tho fraud and liigh tuxou that have rosulted from Grant'a admlnistrauon. JSut let un go a littlo furtlior. Tlioro waa a good deal of donbt in tho public mimi whother this Democratie House of Representativos would stand up to the St. Louis platform on the resumption queation. ïhc-ro was a fer in tho public mind, and 1 aiiarea ït aomewhat, that we did not underatand ouraelvea well enough thoro at SYashington to produce harmonious action against tuis Besumption act. But our Democratie brethren- althouyh, as 1 told you, thoy were not veiy well tiaed to tho harnees of legislaron, having been out of office for Bomo time - at last got together and paaaed an act repealing the Rosuuiption act, which saya : "Onagivon day you have got to como to specie payment, whether yon aro ready for ii ornot." Pretty good. You may say that they only ropealed tlio day on which resumptiou is to tako place. That ia all tbero is of it, for when you rep?al tho time at which resumption ia to tako place, all the acaffolding by Tvhicl you may reach that resumption must fall down ïf you roeolvo not to finish your house tb ia year and rnake no preparation to fiuiah it any time, the seaffoldiiig around tho walla may jus as well be taken down. So that the Botnimp üon act ia todayadoad letter. There were aome aections in it providing for certain actioi ou the part of the Secretary of the Treaaury certain measuros of contraction in order to reacU reaumption on a given day. Wo havo eaid we are not going to resumo on that day, ao far as the Democratie party ia concerned, and we do not tix any day excopt whenever the poople'a true interest require it, and then we are for it. Let thero bo uo more coutractiou and no more inflation, but lot tho lawa of trade and business regúlate the matter. That is the St. Louis platform. That ia its ratification by a Democratie Honao of Representativos. Of courso the act ia not repealed, for tho reason that the Republicana have a majority in the Sonate, and they won't ropeal it or do anything eleo tliat hurta the bondholdera in Wall atreet, and the like. ïhny will nevor pass auy nioasure to help you. jly üepublicau frienü, don't vou wish they would repeal this moaanro 'f Siucerely and trnly, don't you wiah they would, willi all your heart, becauae I know thoro are aonio of you listening to me, aa you alwaya kindly do ? Don't yoa wish that the Senate would join in with what tho Houao !ia done and ropenl tliis Jïesumption act, which has been depreasing and dcatroyiug your busineBa ao long ? Bnt I have not told you all that tho Democratie House of Repreaontativea haa done. I know thero has been an idea disseminated iuduatriou&ly that tho Democratie Houso of Represcutativea waa a failurc. I welcomo nuch failurea. I thank Goil for jnt ancb failures aa they havo boen. Their heavy roduction of taxes, their i'opeal of the Resuaiption act, ia not quite all. By il vote of two to one that Democratie House aaid that the oíd, round, bright tsilver dollar Bhould again go back to its place as a legal teudor ; that it liad boon good enough for the peoplo Tor eighty yeara, aml it must bo good en&ugh for all cliieecs now. I noticed a good many Itiading Republican newapapers that iudorsed that. If the Republioana were for it, why didn't tho Senato piws tho samo mcaeure the Iloueo pasaed ? They wero thero ; they can read and write ; thoy knew what the House had done. They couïd hare dono tho samo thiug in thirty miuutoa if they had wanteá to. Thoy didn't want to. They didu't want to, for foar aomo public croditor, aomo holder of public aecurities vould have to take a dollar in silver that was worth a few cents leas in market tlian a dollar in gold. Tho Democratie Hoiwe, however, placed itaelf on tho sido of the p&oplo on that queation as on these other quostiona. Don't it begin to iook aa if it were well to bo here. Don't rt bogin. to look as if there waa life in the old party yet when it has a chance ? i My Republicau frieud, you must retnember i that we have not had aa nmch chance in tbo last tiixtccn yeara aa you have had. You have had all tho chanco that has been going and you havo mado a poor job of it. [Laughter.] You had all the opportunitioH. and you have pretty nearly ruiuod tlio country, and if you have auother opportunity, I thinlt tlicncxt Presidontml conveniion will be a vaat jury of inqueat upon tho deud body of tho people. You havo had Bixtecn yoara of an opportunity, and what "have you done? You say you put down tho robellion. You did!' Morton saya he did, I believo. ILsughter andapplause.] Tno wholo poopl6 put down the robcllion - Demócrata and Jïepubhcans, audHo[)ublicanaauil Democratrt - alld dthat, bothby üghtiuginthe íiold,byhirinií aubstitutes, and by paying taxos ; and if it had heou aimply a party mouauve, and a party mensuro alono, this Govcrnmont would nover havo been restorcd. 15ut let ufl juijje of II; publican lcgislatinn dming the hwt cloven jaHt, in poaoo. Are you aatinlicd witli what you have dono ihniug that time? Wc lütvu luid io opportanity to show jou what wo would do until lust winter. Wo have como to you now, telling you and ahowing you what we have dono in one aoinion of Coogreas, with only one houae of Cont;rHHH, under the most adverse oiroumataDcej, witli the Somite Bgainst 08, witli the l'roeidcut ngaiutt qb, with övory Oa binet otnec-r againat as, witli evory Bonrea of informiitiou lockod Up ;i:,.iii.- .. lig; wo show you what we havo done, and overj thlug wg have dono has boon for Wie peoplo and thoir intereeta. TURWNO OUT UNION SOLDIEBS. A word hore in regard ta anotuer chnrgo tbut ia constantly brougiit againat the Democratie IIouho of KopiownUtivcB. It was eaid tbrouliout tho land tuut wben tbis ao-callod Confeder ate Congrsaa met t turnodout all the Union Boldiers and replacod thom in tho subordínate positions of Congress with cx-Coufe3irat3 soldiera. Tlmt lio traveled wcll. It was an ablebodiod fellQw. ILaubter. ] Swift of foot, goodlunga, it didu't get tircil, and it fiUed the inoutbs of radical orators and fnruiahed Uniu for . rndica' n:TOpn,pére, nntil at laat a cardal statement bas bcon proiured, and it btw beun fottud that the Forly-fourlh Congreaa liaa twice as niany Iodcral Union eol'dièrs in ita employ as door-keepers, elorka, and ín all tho Bubordinato poaitions, aa tlie Forty-tliird Congres had, which was Republioan. No greater fulBohood was ever utterod than tliat Union aoluiera were discriminated against by Üüs Houho of Representativea. Tlio ter reverso In truo. riostile to Union soldiere, they say. l'"or wfaen you drive tlifem on the tjuostion of ocon pmy, wheu yoü drive tlem witli my thirty miliiorjs of roaaoua for turuing tbem out, wben you thóm with tbe repeal of the lleaumption act, wben you drive them with the reatoratio of thesilvor dollar, they aay, "Oh, well, they were disloyal, anyhow." Who is diloyal in tbi country ? Disloyal to what and dialoyal to whoni ? Do you thmk the public man"whofitanda faitbfnlly by tbo pooplo, reducoa thoir oxpenBOS, pasaeü lawa to protoct them frorn phiudor and robbery - do you tLink be oan be disloyal ? Is he tot necoasarilj faith ful to tho Government? He can not be dlsloyRl, und Why ? Bcoause he ia faithful to the aovefeifinty. The people are soverelgn, and he who ia faithful to the peoplo can not be false to tliia Government. If thia Congreaa haa been Í aitbf ui to the people, it can not be falso to ita Goveriiment, ior this ia a Government of tl ie people. Let mo stato to you anotber item. Owiug to the long contimmnco of the war, and tbe manner óf enlmting and volunteering recruits duriug tho war, there was great inequality in tbo amount of bountiea wliich tbe aokiiera roceived for their aervicoa. Sorne sóldiers going in at the last moment receivod three tiuiee aa much bounty aa otbora who were in at tho start and aerved until the laat gun was flred. There are men witbin the sound of my voice tbat pi'actically know that fact in their own cases. There haa been an idoa that that inequality onght to be remedied - that tho veteran ought to get aa much as tbo eleventh-hour man - and aome throo yoai'a ago Congrewa paased a bilí tbiough botli Houaea to equalizothebountioa. Soldiers of Putnam county, tho man whom your convention at Ciucirmati indorsed vetood thatbill. He said it Bhould never become a law. and it did not. You veterana who went in with tho firing upou Snuiter, whorovor you are, would have been largoly beuefited by tjiat meanure, except for Grant'a veto. The lat Congrees again agitated tho aubject, and the Democratie Houao of ItepreaentativeB, trao to right and justice, passed tbo bill again equalizing the bountiea. The bil] went into the House, and the ltepublican 8enato tuat had once beforo passod it were afraid to enconntor (Srant'a veto again. And ao the bill died tbis seaaion- died by Itepublican oppoaition in the Senate, and the oppoaition oí a Republican President. It died, although indoraed by the popular branch of Congreas died, aJtlïougli the Democratie House, callee disloyal, had paasod it and sent it to the Sonate, and yel you will have demagogues travoling over" thia couutry and saying that this House ia eminently dialoyal, and hoatile to tbo soldiera of the Onion. They know what they ay ia f alao when thev utter the word. mobton's patent. I am not here to alano anybody, to say nnlind worde of anybody. Tho truth is. that 3ov. Morton has got oxit a patent for that liiud of business, and I am willing he skould. Home of you msn here havo hoard mo iu formeryears Bayhard things. Aa years havo passed over my head, and age has brotight its exporience, I lave come to tho delibérate conclusión thr '; men are guided by principies, controlled by ïrgument, inducod tó act by the power of ogic, ratlier than by the power of coaine opiihets and personal abuse. I expect to speak in ;hia canvass throughont tho State. It ahall be my business to reason with tho pooplo on these questions, and leavo to othera whose intorosts incline them in that direetion a monopoly of invectives and of epitheta. Wbeii, however, thoso solid f acts are to be confrontad, they can not be succetsafully met by personal abuse and demmciation, nGr do I bolieve tho peopio want thom met in that way. 1 dou't believe the Kepublicaus want snch a canvas. I see there is a fellow by the name of Kilpatrick in this State, who wrote to Hayes yesterday or day before, in which lie Baya that a " bloody-shirt " camp&ign and "plenty of money " will enable thom to carry Indiana. Oh, where has reason fled to ? Tax-payers, votera, Christian men and women, do you want a canipaign of bate? For that is tho meanmg of "bloody shirt," and of corruption, for that is the meaning of " plonty of money." " A bloody-shirt campaign," says Kilpatrick, writing to the Presidential candidato himself, " aud plenty of money, and Indiana is safe." In other words. hè saya, " Make tbe Northern people hate their Southern brethren witb all their might, and supply thom with plenty of money, and we carry Indiana." I pray Almightv God, whoso eyo ia upon us all, to avert f rom the hear'.a of thi people, one and all, those elementa of poor, fallen human nature, that can be appealed to by such inducementa as these. Hate and f orioua revengo and lucro, and fihirt and corruption. STÍXE TUINGS. After eleven years of pèacs they have nothing bettcr to offer this people than tho old atale bitternoss of a by-gone war with one hand, and a corruption fuud with the otlier. The people ask for bread, and they offer you a stone. You aak for fish, and they give you worse than a serpent. A hiaaing serpent, hot from heil, in this doctrine of diabólica! hato in this land of onra. It comes not from the akies. It comea from pita of eternal darknesa below us. Let ns walk in the light ; let ua elévate ourselves where Christiau footatepB tend. They say thore ia bloodahed and strife in the South. Wo do not hear of it until an election ia approaching. Then they produce trouble thoniselvea between tho whites and tbe blacks, booause that gives thera votea up here, and don't givo us any. When a man ia out of comí, in your netghborhood, and has not any, and you find com inissing from your crib, and tho graina are sprinkled off toward his houae, and you go over there aud you see bia horae eatmg good, big ears of corn, big, yeHow ears, Jobi liko yours, those cirenmatances tend to convince you that ho htole the corn. In a State like South Carolina, whero every officer is Iïepuulican, from tbe Governor down, and the courta all Ropublican,and the Sheriff a all Repnblican, when you hoar of a negro riot down thore, and then have tho consequences traeec light up thia wav, like thecoru, that is droppei on the ground for Northern uao, and when it gets up tboro you tind Morton and these otliei - I was going to say horeea [laughter] - in the baxn eatiug this corn,' or in other worda, digestiug umi using these negro riots as political die and suBteuanco, living on it, fattouing on it gloryiug in it, it looks to me liko they had word in it from tho beginning. [Lavighter. It is their ai-gument They fatten on it. Wc do not. Wiiy is it theso temibles do not spring up in Democratio Statea in tho South ? Yon heai nothing of them iu good old Virginia, or in Tenneaseo, or in Georgia - States goveniod bj Demócrata. But you strike Miasissippi, wherc this son-in-law of Bon Butler's, Adelbert B. Ames, has been Military Govornor for a year past, and lie has Iota of trouble on his hands. Whonevor a griat is wanted bythe ltepublicana iu tho North he grinds it out for them. Whonever Ben Butler telegraphs him: "The hopper is about empty ; throw in tiomo more," it n dono without delay. The negrooa are not to blame. I respect the negroos a thousand tinies more than I do that kind of whites. Bad white men could at ny time induce thom to arm themaelves, put themselvea In a lawlesa attitmio and provoko trouble. IIEADY TO 1IANO WHITE MOllJKKKKS. Look at South Carolina. What in thero 0} prevent Eepublican officiala there from hanging ihcni! men if they have murdered negrota ? I would hang a man for murdonng a negro a little quicker tlian I wonld for murderiug a white man, and I will teil you why. The negro is a helplens being in this country. Ho ought to be protocted because he caunot protect himaelf aa well a tho white man can. I woukl make him a peculiar object of care. But when a Kepublican State, with Kepublican govem ment and Itepnblican conrts, comes to Washington and saya, through her Governor: "Tliese mon havo killed fivo or six negroes in my State, and although I h&ve got tlie courts and Judgcs, and I am the Govornor and won't pardon, but will sign a death warrant, yet I must have Mr. Graut seud an army down hore," then I know that there is forked tongno about the wholo story, and that it is gotten up for politica! purposes. Understand me, I am for law ; I am for order horo and everywhere, and if I ba 1 the time and inclinatiou I could stand here for an hour and poiut you to outrages hcro in Iudiana ut tho hauds of lawloss moba greater than havo taUen placj in auy of these Statea that they cotnplain so loudly about. In Illinois it is the same, aud in Obio tl ie same, and I believe in Boston and Now England crimo reara its ghastly bead in tho most frightful and malovolont ahapos. Human nature is an average tho world over. There is no perfoclion anywiioro. Men commit crimoiuthoNorth; tbey viólate law in the South. Whon men ooaso to viólate law Paradiae vill bo regauiod, tho Garden of Eden that. our forofathers lost will bo refitmed, and tho millonnium will dawu and Christ will roign aguin for his thonsand years. But whilo we are here in tliin awful llesh tbe workings of tho old man Adam are bout the same under tho Northern and under the Southern sky. anti overywhero. And the man who comea to you to blind your rcaaon and obneuro your intereata by telling you that you have anythiug to do down South, that thoy can not regúlate their owu niattors, I and that you munt voto with tho party that is i robbiug you of millions and hundroda of miilions on öomo qucstioim thst are pivoting down South - auch a man ia au inherent demagoguo and ia not honest. Let ua have a campaign for onrsclvos. Let us look at homo satd dotermin wliat it in for our interest to do, and do that thing. THE DEMOCBATIC CANDIDATES. A few wordb, my fellow-citizens, in regard ;o our caudiJates. I have shown yoit our platíorm. I liavo shown you their platform, not onlj indorsing Grant, but equarely indorsiug tho HeBliiuption Rct a well. I have ehown you what a Democratie KoitáO bM dono, and I have hIiowii you who has kept thom from ca'rying out thoir works. X havo como to you bearing fruits. My mere word hore would be uothing. I muat have somothiiig tó show. You remembor when tho ohildron of Israel liad wandered long in tho wilderuetts, t!ioy came and camped on the long-Bonght borders of Cauaan. Moaes had dicd on tile mountain in eight of the land, and the angola liad buried Iiini, And tho command had filien up'on Joahüs, and thero was dieconteni; and doubt. Tney did üot know whether it was worth while to go into the land of Canaan. Thoy doubted whether it would not bo bottor to stop in the wildernen. Thoy had been thero so long that the places were accustomed places to them, and thoy said among thoumolvon that, although their lot majr be hard where it was, tbey did not know that a chango would bonotit them auy at all. 8o Joshua sent liis spies into the land of Canaan to look itt the country and seo what it promised in the way of relief and deliverance to the tried and worn pecplo of Inraol escaping captivity. After a time these messengors of Joshua returned ; they rellrod with the ripe and purplo grapes of abundance in their hands ; they eïiowed Chat It was the land of corn and wine, of milk and houey, the land not merely nlled of a promiao. bnt tho land of promise fulfilled. 80 in this niuva.1i! tho Domocratü can turn to their Republican neighbor, and when aaked, " Wliat aasurance have we that the change you invite ub to will benefit uu at all i" yon can show them tho fntita of one singlo Congress, fruits more promising and pleasant to tho tried American tax-payer thau were the grape and pomegranitos with which tho meauengers of Joshna returned to tho camp of Israel. We can ohow to our Kepublican and Independent brethren the repeal of this odious Eesnmption act, the rostoration of the eilver dollar, tho reduction of the Government expenses t3O,OOO,C0O. We can show to the voteran soldier t'10 payment of his bonnty amonnting to LC.33,J per month for all the time that he was in tho Bcrvioo. These are our ovidonces of good faith. We are not making a promise hero to break it heroaf ter. Wo intond to fulfill it. TELDEii. "But," saya somo one, "we have heard that Mr. Tilden has 110 rigut tj the title of a reformcr." ïsince Mr. Tildón b nomination I have carefnlly examined hls record. Gov. Morton and Gen. Hairiaon say that he was a secessionitt during the war. My only answor to that istwothfngs: Firat, that ancha charge was nev6r rnado UU he bocame a candidato for tho l'rosideucy ; and, second, that two yoars ago he was elected Governor of the great and patriotic State of New York against Gen. John A. Dix, an oftioer of the war of 1812, und a diatinguiahed ofiicer of the late war, by more than 50,000 m&jority. Queer peoplo in New York ! They don't know that he was a secessioniüt down there. He has livod thero sixty-threo yeara - that is bis age. He was therö all during the war, and mado speeches during the war, bnt they don't know tliat ho is a secessionist there, oï elae he would not havo beaten Gou. John A. Dix for Governor of New York, would he ? Is New York "socesh" by 50,000 majority? Mortou ought to have gone thero two yeara 8go and toldthom not to olect this soeesüiouist over Gen. John A. Dix. If thov had onlv fotmd it out then, they would havo beaten him for Governor, of courso, and then we would not bo troubled with him as a candidato for tho Preaidency. 3ut tliej did not ftnd it out tlion, and I will tel] rou why they didu't - becauso it wasu't truo. t tako tho entire State, with an indorBement of 0,000 majority, as an auswer to all that Morn and Harrinon and their followors can say. When a man' neighbors at homo say ho is a good man, I caro bat little wnat anybody else int. Now, Morton Hveu out here in he State oi [ndiana, and I would not say that ho would state anything that he did not thiuk was true. Oh.no! [Xaughter.] Itisnot nccessary for me to say that to you. [Renowed laugater.' And then tho truth ia, that alway along in the month of August, jnst bofore a Presidentia election, politiciaua of the "bloody shirt' order get l'.ke rattlesnakes and mad dogs Thoy say and do things they do not underetand themselves. Morton, out bero in the State of Indiana, uays Tilden waa a seceasion ist, and tho poople of New York State, by a majority of 50,000, say it iu not so. I am willing to loavo to you whicn you will believe. Then let us go a Btep farther. What has Gov. Tildea done tbat entitles him to our confidence? I have his reoord here I .have the Now York Times here - a leading Republican newepapor - that six or eeven years ago announced to the world that the city and State of New York were more indebted to Samuel J. Tilden than to an; ono man in existence for tho destruction o Wn. M.. Tweed and hia great ring of robbers That was tho ostimation ho waa held in in Republican circlea bef ore he waa nominatcdbj the Democratie party. The truth is that Tilden did not merely go and hunt up somebody to charge Tweed witli fruud and gigantic plunder aud then come in as a lawyer and proseout him, as wo lawyers do. He took higher responaibility. Ho filed his own indi vidual aftidavit, aigiied Samuel J. Tilden anc aworn to by himself, charging Tweed with en ormoua pcculation, fraud and gigantic larce nies. On that alüdavit he was arreatod,and th ball was sot in motion tbat never stopped unti Tweed and his followers oithor languiehed ii prieona under couviction, or pincel in foreign lauda, not dariug to come home. Thoae aro the solemn facts before God. H buint that ring into a thouaand fragmenta. A man of iron nerve and gi eat capacity is Samue J. Tilden ; a man whose heart will never se duco hia bram from the path of ateruoat recli tude in administoring this Government. Ther will be no pewonal GovernmoLt, as there bas boen under Grant. It will be a bard, uureleut ing Government on the side of ref ormation an againat rascáis. He liever Btayed his hanc nntil he pnrified and reformed theGovernmen of the State of New York, and with that groa record behind him, the people of Now York deairing other reforme, made him their Go emor by thia onormous majority of which have spoken, and in loas than two years afee ho waa inaugurated Governor wbat do you be hold ? He took New York from República hands with a burdon of $16,000.000 of aunua taxation. In leas than two years he roducei thnt taxation $8,000,000, in ronnd terms. Ha he not a right to the title of reformer ? Th man who. upon his own personul fflidavit, broke tho Tweed ring and made succeaaful wa npon the canal ring of New York, until it plunderere are likewiae in priaon or fugitive from justice. I can trant him, and bo can you. I can vot for lüm. and so can yon. Mr. Tildón was no my original choice. I louged to see a eitizo of thiü 8tte nominatod for the PreBidency bnt he manner in which Indiana was troatëd at St. Louis leaves no sting behmd, no sens of personal dofeat, and if Samuel J. Tildoi ahall be inangurated President of tho Uuitei States, the term "Roform" will not be an id! wjrd. The man who reformed the city of Ne York, and reformod taxation from sixteen mi liona to oight millions in tho State of No York, and reformed the canal riug nutil tu predatory bands are acattered to the f our wiuds ia the very man whoao iron hand we want t hammer at the cloaed door of corraption i those departments at Waahington and mak them give up their secret, and drive out from their dens and hiding-placea tho plundorers o tho poople. I havo hopo that this wilt 1)0. ! see the dawn of a better day.