Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-11-18
From the Chicago journal, November 9th.
UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE VENDGCA-
L'sIH.

The grandcst battle Of all the campaigns
of ali the wal was fought and won Yesterday,
and the strife and the triumph swept togcth,
er to our thresholds. Never were issues 80
tremendous never were the passion and
purpose Of men deeper and stronger. And
yet, in this crowded city, where York aud
Lancaster were packed in columns so dense
they could hear the bsat Of each others
hearts, there was not one more deed Of vic
lcnce than marks any other day in the ca!en
dar. All day long they marched in cloSo
order TO the polls and filed peacefully away.
Not blue jacket on duty not a bayonct
twnkIlug in the rain anywhere, and hardly
solitary poIiceman's stat in sight, to shed
feeble, wstcry ray Of admoniion.
And this Was the thing they scout across
the sea IS Universal Suffrage; thc people Of
widc,cOu;inrnt showing their written will,
every fake Of which is alike precious
whether it drop from prentice han or states:
mans fingers; noiscless and perishabio in
itself, yet wo. king changes far and near,
that in other lands would be called reyou
tons, and be wrought With 4" the pomp and
circumstance Of war." 1t ought to give a
man dignity who has VIII to make regard
ing an inheritance so magnificent az the Fed.
erd Union who has word to say, as good
rs any other word, in the affairs Of the New
World. And now, when war rocks the land
Ike cradle, aud puts the Old millennial
hopes to sleep: when the depths Of the lit
ter waters of Marah are stirred, and the voice
ot Raalah is lifted, meyer was there so peril
GUS test as yesterday. And Of universal
suffrage and humanity how splendid the win.
dicsl.on! Right here in this city, within
twenty four hours startled by disclosures to
which Guy Fawkes lurking in the old par.
lament vaults, two hundred and fifty nine
years ago this very month, was only a rat
in the wa!nscot' and dead for ducat,"
you might have thought "the prince of
peace was reigning with unbroken sway,
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
And this calm utterancc of the peoples
voice is the thing they SO deprecste in lordy
England, where contested election in times
Of profound peace, is the inevitable signal
for violence aud bloolshcd when Shak
speare's solid sermons take wings, and the
hustings are swept with storms Of boulders 4;
when aristocratic clubs" not made Of men,
but cut from blackthorn hedges, darken the
sky Of noon when the white robes Of candi-
dates are spashcd with blood, though the
gates Of Janus are fast Closed aud all England
is as merry as May morning. if any proof
were wanting that men are equal TO the right
of universal suffrage, the last missing sylIa
ble Of il was supplied on the eighth day Of
November, 1864. 1t is a decision OF wider
range than was ever pronounced by High
Chsncc'Iois, or uttered from any bench,
Kings, Queens or Peoples. II touches the
powers aud rights Of mankind. II is an clo.
quent yindicaton Of the doctrine that 4" a
mans a man for a that for all everything
but disloyaity and dishnnor.
We called yesterdays business battle,
and so il was, and so we are here to day
With barred brows aud glad hearts, thanking
God for The new gift Of the old Union. All,
there n, even within the clash Of stricken
fields, something migh,ier than the sword !;
that grander love we call patriotism, master.
ing all the meauer prides ano passions Of
men. We have not lost our old faith in the
divine reason and justice Of the human race.
II is brighter and stronger 10 day than when
Peace lay asleep in the sunshine Aban.
doned and desperate men laid the axe at the
root Of this glorious tree Of ours, whose roots
are feeling like living fingers among the
graves OF the fathers, and resting III benedic
ton upon the heads Of the sons, and impi
ously challenged The nation. Ea ua
i accepted the barbarous gage and went
down TO the harvest Of dtath in the name OF
God and mankind And 10, now, SCARED
and blackeDcd as il is by the blow and the
t.ast roughened a. is all the ground be-
meath il with the graves Of dead patriots, It
rolls up its great clouds Of leaves anew as if
Spring had touched it. Too gIand to die, it
lives right ON, and the song Of hope is heard
among the branches.
TO the living lines Of blue away there in
the Front we say" Forward - The great,
strong nation has failen into rank and the
lay is Your ownI" To the martyrs that
sleep in the laps Of a thousand valleys and
beside the streams that ran red, we whisper,
: Sweet be your siuinbers, for ye died not in
gsn."
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