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 THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS

black, shall encourage industry and thrift and discourage rapacity and villainy. They cherish a joyful hope, in which I fully concur, that between the fifth of November and the fourth of March next, a number of the governors and other dig- nitaries who in the absurd name of republican- ism and loyalty have for years been piling debts and taxes upon their war-wasted States, will fol- low the wholesome example of Bullock of Georgia and seek the shades of private life. The darker and deeper those shades, the better for them- selves and for mankind; and the hope that my election may hasten the much desired hegira of thieving carpetbaggers has reconciled to the necessity of supporting me many who would otherwise have hesitated and probably refused.

Fellow citizens, the deposed and partially ex- iled Tammany ring has stolen about $30,000,000 from the City of New York; that was a most gigantic robbery and hurled its contrivers and abettors from power and splendor to impotency and infamy; but the thieving carpetbaggers have stolen at least three times that amount — stolen it from the impoverished and needy — and they still flaunt their prosperous villainy in the highest places in the land, and are addressed as "Honorable" and "Excellency."

I think I hear a voice from the honest peo- ple of all the States declaring their infamy shall be gainful and insolent no longer — at the fur- thest, until the fourth of IMarch next. By that time those criminals will have heard a national 56

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