Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-21

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LINCOLN.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN Five years ago I came
here by request to ask you to vote for
Abraham Lincoln for President of the
United States. The storm of denuncia-
.tion, ridicule and reproach rested upon
him, you and all of US. Our purposes
were misrepresented everywhere. Dema-
gogism swept over the land, and we were
told if we elected him President the
government of our fathers would be ruin
ed. Unawed bythese threats we went to
the ballot box and made Abraham Lin
coin President of the United States
Five years have passed, and I come
again to ask you men of Yonkers, if you
are sorry you voted as you did if you
are sorry you voted for Lincoln, the
noblest name that graces the nineteenth
century. Are you prepared to disown.
your WI principles, your own policy, to
let a party live who five years ago oppo-
sed Abraham Lincoln, and who for four
years has given a hating support to the
government of the country? One year
ago a bloody rebellion was pending, a
Presidential election was before us, and
trouble stared us in the face all over the
land. We asked you then to vote for
Abraham Lincoln, and wewere met with
the Chicago platform and the declaration
that the wal would result In a failure
They denounced the wal for the Union
as a failure, and demanded a cessation of
hostilities. Never was a people SO tried
az we. We were called upon to make
90 or1Hooc of q faction md Oooonc and IN
face of all, the people, firm and conf
dent, marched up to the ballot-box and
reelected our President. (Applause)
When the sun went down that day the
cause Of America was victorious. The
cheers of our soldiers, and their votes to-
gether rained down terrific blows upon
the head. of the rebellion. The peoples
Of the earth understood that we were de-
termined to put down the rebellion by
war. Sherman led his gallant army to
the sea Grant led the glorious Army Of
the Potomac to Petersburg /; the rebel
lion went down, wa trampled into
powder under the iron heel Of war, and
no men were ever s~ubjugated as were the
rebels. Last April you were startled
with the intelli gence that Abraham Lin
coin had been murdered. That intelEl-
gence drew tears from the eyes of man
hood. His body passed along this noble
river to its last resting-place, and the
world resounded with his fame. He has
left a name second to none but that-ot
our own Neutrality-suspicious. to none IN
the nineteenth century.
WHY Is He MoURNED
by the world? Because he stood be fore
it the exponent of the humanity Of Amer
lea. Because he was the trusted leader
of the Republican party of the United
States. | stand here proudly IN the con-
scious dignity that I belong to a party
that, measured by the standard OF JUS
tice and humanity, has never had a peer
on this planet. Never. 1t Is not yet IL
years old, and it has done more good
than any other political party that ever
lived. It embodies the great mlddllng
interests of this country. Its leading
men are not all wise nor good, but It's
ideas, principles, measures, aims and
ends, are as lofty as the sublime creed OF
the New Testament, and of the immortal
Declaration of Independence.
1t has lived up to it's faith. You find
it at every moment of time and on every
question standing for the higher and bet
ter sentiments of the American people,
and it was because Lincoln was the en-
bodiment of this party, that his memory
will be ever green in the hearts of the
of the world. What has this
party done that it should die, and what
the Democratic party, that it should live?
With it's work not yet completed, why
it die Its every act Isl in favor
of the Union and of its preservation. =
Every achievement for human liberty has
been it's in the last ten years. On every
question for ten years concerning
the rights of'man, the {
DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS BEEN REcREANT. {
Look at the record. It is necessary,
the Chicago Democracy is trying
to- get put of a bad position and into a {
one. In 1852 the Wing party, that t
1ad been led by Adams, Clay and Web t
'ter, went into the canvass, led by VIM !
ield Scott, but Franklin Pierce, .ofNew I
Hampshire, was elected President, and 9
lie declared that peace and concord and a
nifty prevailed, aud should not be dis {
urbed during his administration. This
made in the presence of the nation
nd before God. This party then con- O
the peace and prosperity of the S
onntry, and in eight years they left it "
nth seven States gone out, a Coufederacy b
.rganized with armies in the field, carry e
lg It's 900 stolen muskets in their n