All this was opposed by the Democratic party; opposed with a bitterness, compared to which ordinary malice is sweet. I say the Democratic party, because I consider those who fought against the Government, in the fields of the South, and those who opposed in the North, as Democrats--one and all. The Democratic party has been, during all these years, the enemy of civilization, the hater of liberty, the despiser of justice. When I say the Democratic party sympathized with the Rebellion, I mean a majority of that party. I know there are in the Democratic party, soldiers who fought for the Union. I do not know why they are there, but I have nothing to say against them. I will never utter a word against any man who bared his breast to a storm of shot and shell, for the preservation of the Republic. When I use the term Democratic party, I do not mean those soldiers. There are others in the Democratic party who are there just because their fathers were Democrats. They do not mean any particular harm. Others are there because they could not amount to anything in the Republican party. A man only fit for a corporal in the Republican ranks, will make a leader in the Democratic party. By the Democratic party, I mean that party that sided with the South--that believed in secession--that loved slavery--that hated liberty--that denounced Lincoln as a tyrant--that burned orphan asylums--that gloried in our disasters--that denounced every effort to save the nation--they are the gentlemen I mean, and they constitute a large majority of the Democratic party. The Democrats hate the negro to-day, with a hatred begotten of a well-grounded fear that the colored people are rapidly becoming their superiors in industry, intellect and character. The colored people have suffered enough. They were and are our friends. They are the friends of this country, and cost what it may they must be protected. The white loyal man must be protected. They have been ostracized, slandered, mobbed, and murdered. Their very blood cries from the ground. These two things--payment of the debt and protection of loyal citizens, are the things to be done. Which party can be trusted? Which will be the more apt to pay the debt? Which will be the more apt to protect the colored and white loyalist at the South? Who is Samuel J. Tilden?