States." (Laughter.) (Laughter.) I saw a little while ago a place in the road where there had been a hotel. The hotel. had gone down over thirty years ago, and there was nothing standing but two desolate chimneys, up the flues of which the fires of hospitality had not roared for thirty years. The fence was gone, and the post holes even were obliterated, but there was a sign in the road, and on the sign were the words: "Entertainment for man and beast." The old sign swung and creaked in the winter wind, the snow fell upon it, the sleet clung to it, and in the summer the birds sung and twittered and made love upon it; nobody ever stopped there, but the sign swore to it, the sign certified to it: "Entertainment for man and beast." And I said to myself, "Such is the Demecratic party of the United States, and one chimney ought to be called Tilden, and the other chimney ought to be called Hendricks." I saw also, by a stream, a building that had once been a mill; all the clapboards nearly were gone, and the roof leaked like an average Democratic wool hat with the top burst; though there was a sign hanging by one nail: "Cash for wheat." Not a kernal had been ground there for thirty years; the old mill-wheel had fallen off its gudgeons into the street, and it was a dry as though it had been in the final home of the Democratic party for forty years. The dam was gone; nobody had built a new dam; the mill was not worth a dam! And I said to myself, "That is exactly the condition of the democratic party to-day."

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Fiat Money.

You can't make a dollar out of paper except by taking

a dollar's worth of paper to do it. Did you ever hear of a fiat load of corn, or a fiat load of wheat? (Laughter.) You can no more make a paper dollar a dollar than you can make a warehouse certificate a load of wheat. When resumption is an accomplished fact, confidence and credit take the place of gold and silver. I admit that the Democratic party raised their share of corn, and pork, and wheat, that enabled us to resume. They furnished their share of the money, and the Republicans furnished the honor to pay it over. The softmoney Democrats said that the greenback was the money for the poor man. Did any one ever hear before of money that sought out only the poor man, that was always hunting for fellows that were dead-broke, and that despised banks?

The Colored Race.

I have thought that human impudence reached its limit ages and ages ago. I had believed that some time in the history of the world impudence had reached its height, and so believed until I read the congratulatory address of Abram S. Hewit, chairman of the National Executive Democratic Committee, wherein he congratulates the negroes of the South on what he calls a Democratic victory in the State of Indiana. If human impudence can go beyond this, all I have to say, it never has. What does he say to the Southern people, the colored people? He says to them, in substance: "The reason the white people trample upon you is because the white people are weak. Give the white people more strength, put the white people in authority, and,

although they murder you now when they are weak, when they are strong they will let you alone. Yes; the only trouble with our Southern white brethren is that now they are in the minority, and they kill you now, and the only way to save your lives is to put your enemy in the majority." That is the doctrine of Abram S. Hewit, and he congratulates the colored people of the South upon the Democratic victory of Indiana. There is going to be a great crop of hawks next season-let us congratulate the doves. That is it. The burglars have whipped the police-let us congratulate the bank. That is it. The wolves have killed off almost all the shepherds-let us congratulate the sheep.

Sufferings of the Slaves.

In my judgment the black people have suffered enough. They have been slaves for 200 years, and, more than all, they have been compelled to keep the company of the men that owned them. (Laughter and applause.) Think of that. Think of being compelled to keep the society of the man who is stealing from you! Think of being compelled to live with the man who sold your wife! Think of being compelled to live with the man who sold your child from the cradle before your very eyes! Think of being compelled to live with the thief of your life, and spend your days with the white robber, and to be uuder his control! The black people have suffered enough. For 200 years they were owned and bought and sold and branded like cattle. For 200 years every hnman tie was rent and torn asunder by the bloody, brutal hands of

avarice and might. They have suffered enough. During the war the black people were our friends not only, but whenever they were entrusted with the family, with the wives and children of their masters, they were true to them. They stayed at home and protected the wife and child of the master while he went into the field and fought for the right to whip and steal the child of the very black man that was protecting him. (Applause.) The black people, I say, have suffered enough, and for that reason I am in favor of this Government protecting them in every Southern State, if it takes another war to do it. (Cheers,) We never can compromise with the South at the expense of our friends. (Voices, "Never!") We can never be friends with the men that starved and shot our brothers. (Voices, "Never!") We never can be friends with the men that waged the most cruel war in the world; not of liberty, but for the right to deprive other men of their liberty. We never can be their friends until they treat the black man justly; until they treat the white Union man respectfully; until Republicism ceases to be a crime; until to vote the Republican ticket ceases to make you a political and social outcast. We want no friendship with the enemies of our country. (Applause.)

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The Greenback Question.

The next question prominently before the people— though I think the great question is, whether citizens shall be protected at home-the next question I say, is the financial question. With that there is no trouble. We had to borrow money and we have got to pay it.