Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-09
sneech Of General Genry.

H~ARRIsBuRa, October 9.-When the
returns announced the fact Of Gen. John
". Geary's election as Governor Of Penn
s~ylvania, the "Boys in Blue" formed q
procession and proceeded to the Jones
House for the purpose Of s%erenading him.
When the band had ceased playing, Gen.
Geary, who was loudly called for, ap-
peared and responded to the compliment
in the following address:
FELLOW. CITIZENS As the candidate
and representative Of the triumphant
Union Republican party Of Pennsylvania,
l reciprocate your congratulation, and
return you my sincere thanks for this
greeting. 1t is indeed q noble victory we
have achieved. We cannot too fervently
and too repeatedly offer thanks to Al.
mighty God for this new evidence OF His
presence in the midst Of our national diff.
culties. The same hand that guided US
through the sufferings and death OF a
causeless rebellion has led US safely
through a new and even more tremen-
dous peril. The intelligence OF the terri
BILE overthrow of treason in Pennsylvania
the sublime civic sequel to the browning
victory Of Gettysburg-the second and
final surrender Of the rebel sympathizerf.
will forever and justly settle many dis
puted questions. 1t permanently estab-
fishes the fact that the Government OF the
United States 10 vested in the American
people, and in their representatives in
| Congress assembled, and not in q corrupt
| Executive. And upon this strong and
granite foundation we shall now proceed
10 fortify against the inroads of time and
the attacks of treason, tho following truth,
and covenants:
"Tbat the Government of the people, by
the people. and for the people, shall no,
perish from the earth.
"That cruel and reyengeful traitors, de-
feated in battle, shall not be restored to
ruin the country they attempted to de-
stroy.
"Tha, when our forefathsrs declared
man capable Of ELF -government, they re.
iected the heresy of human slavery, and
| pledged equal political rights to all their
successors.
"Th.t hereafter the citizen represented
in the State and National Legislature.
mus, be clothed with the rights Of citi-
zen,hip.
"Tha. all the agencies of the Govern
ment, civil and military, must be perse-
veringly and sternly exercised to protect,
vindicate, and, If needs be, ayenge our op-
| pressed brothers in the South, the savage
prosecutions Of rebels who are still 90 i'm.
l%.pertinent and defiant that even Andrew
johnson fears to pardon them
"Tha, this obligation 10 a. sacred Is
that which made the Roman citizen strong
and respected all over the world, and
which stimulates the British Government,
to-day to defend British subjects against
oppression and persecution, however re-
mote and remorselsss; that as we must
choose between those who will not yield
to the conauerors' terms in the recent in
surgent States, and those who havefought
,,ssdily for the Government, and pray for
n, nro,.ction. We GLADLY prefer the men
who offered their lives for the Gag to those
who continue to scorn and trample upon
IT,"
The defeat Of the sympathizsrs with
treason, and the overthrow of an aban-
doned and ungrateful Executive in Penn
sylvania, opens the whole Southern coun-
try to the progressive people Of the North,
with their ten thousand intellectual and
elevating agencies, and better thar this il
secures to the resident loyalists, white
and black, those natural and civil rights
pledged in the Declaration of Indspen.
dence and secured by the laws Of tn.
land. What Psnnsylvanian. who con.
tributed to the resplendent majority we
contemplate with such gratitude and Joy
tonight, will not feel proud that to hi
vote and to his energy mankind 10 indebt.
ed for these priceless b~lessingsi Having
fortified these great truths against oil fu.
ture dangers, it is for US Of Pennsylvaniu
to maintain the forward position we have
so proudly won. The result proves thai
an intelligent people cannot be driven
away from principle oy appeals to pre-.
more than Oil that pron'gacy ana pro-
seription in high places serve to arouse
the popular i~nd'gnaaon' ana also 20
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