Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-12-22
DELAWARE, OHIO, DECEMBER %, 1876
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY,

Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,,
made very able and eloquent speech at
Troy, New York. recently. His points
were telling and excellent. The following
is especially worthy of reading and re-
fection at the present time:
1t is sometimes said the Republican
party has done its work and had better
be resolved back into its original elements.
IF it were possible, is it desirable P
Whittier shall those brave and loyal OLD
Wings return? Shall we send back those
consort with Vallandighams, Woods and
Longs That vast host of intelligent
young men who have connected them
selves with liberty and justice, where else
do they belong but just where they are,
in the Republican ranks Let me rapid
ly sketch its achievements. 1t came into
being eleven years ago, to maintain the
cause of American and universal liberty,
to resist the encroachment of slavery.
which claimed more than five hundred
thousand square miles Of public lands
It denounced the Infamous declaration of
Judge fancy, that ''the negro had no
rights the white man was bound to re-
spect." In Kansas it repelled the bloody
rutfians intent on enslavement; in Con
gress it rebuked the Lecompten swindle.
It chose for its standard bearer the saint
ed Abraham Lincoln. Applause. It
received the Government from the hands
of the corrupt Democratic party, with its
army scattered and debaucbed, it's navy
crippled. With three little vessels and
few skeleton regiments of regulars to be-
gin with, it raised two millions of men,
six thousand ships of war, three thousand
millions of money, to meet the most CO.
lossal rebellion the world ever saw. Its
every individual was fred with love OF
liberty and love of Union. Cheers. II
No Republican was found firing at his
flag or shooting down its defenders. OF
all the swarms in rebel gray, most of them
were Democrats; their leaders were the
leaders of the Democratic party, and the
men who clung to the party were the ones
to demand a cessation of hostilities, and
proclaimed the war in behalf of the
Union failure. All the 325, 900 who
with their blood, are the victims of the
treachery, the dishonesty, and the folly of
Democrats, so called. Well the Republi-
can party has saved the Union, defeated
its enemies, and they are now crawling up
the steps of the White House for pardon.
1t has made the nation feared, respected
and admired as it never was before. 1t
has done for America what Cromwell did
for England. Is this record that it
should be ashamed of w hat has 1t
done that it should die? What has the
Democratic party done that itshould live
Cheers. No, gentlemen, it has a bright
and glorious future. It has wrought more
good to the world, and in less time, too,
than any other organization that ever ex-
isted. You have reason to be proud of it,
It will continue the work. It will pro-
tect all men, of whatever race, in their
lives, their labor, their homes and their
persons. It will care for the widows and
families of its fallen heroes It will Sc
cure the sacred fulfllment of that debt
incurred for the safety of the country as
religious obligation. Do you think you
can trust those men, who are in favor of
taxing the national bonds, to combine
with the late rebels, who are in favor of
repudiating the whole or else adding their
own to it? It will re-organize or recon
struct, or restore the States; but it should
be done on such basis that the peace
of the nation can never again be disturbed
by the same causes. Indemnity for the
past we cannot have. We cannot revive
the slain darlings of our fire-side, nor
bring back the lamented patriots. But
we can demand security for the future,
and this, after all we have passed through,
we ought to do"