The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-09-04
uoN. GEORGE H. PENDLETON
ON THE
ISSUES THE DAY.


vas delivered by Hon George H. fenole-
an at St. Paul, MINI, on the 18th OF July:
T thank you for this friendly greeting
~, , for q long time desired to- visit these
n 20 Northwestern States. | mad heard.
new hos not ?-of the fertility of their soil,
WY abn beauty of their scenery, of t.ae health
OF , snO Of their climate, of the wonderful
l,a.lrnsSlopsment which has, as if by the mag
a ~ ~ fairy's wand, converted their forests
ie % farms and cities. had read from one
nv wrote with masters power of these
WLO Nv. central plains, where the ST. Law
gleao and the Mississippi kiss each other
Ie ar.ro they separate for their long jour-
pelo,O 70 The ocean, above which the sun
neso senith seems to lihger in admiration
a. 's' moment in it's ceaseless course to the
n 1ol 4 where the icy blasts of the North
..a melted to cool breezes Ia the warm en-
S s,o OF the sultry winds of the South, and
ui Sora .nnder the influence Of all that is
hH'nant;fil in nature and all that is impress
:ra in tbe character of a people made up
Sl " al the families of our Caucasian race,
.aa Soul of an American citizen rises to the
FIJI FIJI measure of his Cohntry's opportunities
inndbis own duties. But / wished to see
. .hau with INV own eyes, to know them by
w., snv' own experience, that ] might, by the
intimacy of personal association, warm up
s more, if that is possible, the fervor of
INV patriotism, and add one more to the
r, uy ties of affection and admira-
t;on and interest which bind my heart to
Wv Wv. country. | desired especially to visit
Minnesota, for, like him to whom have
oIluded. / was one of those who aided in
emitting her to the Unioh--[ applause J.
and welcoming her to the full possession
can the powers and rights and dignities
."ftbe original States. When your COM
,mittee invited me to meet here to-day vast
numbers not only of my countrymen, but
,nftbat portion of them who are one with
me in q common political faith, one with
me in opinion as to the true administra-
tion Of the Government, with the assur-
ance they would give me hearty well
come, ] determined at once to crafty my
wish. And so I came, threading the vaE
lev of the Miami, traversing the fertile
farms of Indiana, the vast prairies of Hi
nois, the teeming grain fields and pictu-
rescue lakes of Wisconsin, across the Mis-
sisSippi with its castellated bluffs, across
the upland plains of your river counties,
sarpetted with the most brilliant wild
flowers and laden with the weight Of the
coming harvest, to find in your attractive
CITY, in this unequalled scene, at the very
threshold of your peerless State, every
promise of grandeur and beauty fulfilled
and every anticipation more than realized
ECheers.
In Ohio they are fond Of telling us that
the Democratic party is dead. The news
papers assert it, the stump speakers an
nounce it, the State Convention annually
breaches its funeral sermon and writes it'
epitaph. If their wishes were consulted
1T would not only be dead, but damned al
80. Loud cheers, Let them look upoI
this scene. Let them hear the shouts will
which have been welcomed, merely be
cause am an Ohio Democrat, [cheers,
and although they may assert again tina
the old party is dead, they will do it wit
the cheerful air with which the boy wits
ties as he goes through the graveyard
looking with fearful glance behind, around
over either shoulder, lest the dead ma
come to life again, or his ghost may be sit
ting above his grave. [Cheers.1 Th
Democratic party dead! Within q mont
have been to the far East have see
the brave and constant and unflinchin
Democrats of Massachusetts,; have see
the Democrats of Connecticut iubilant owe
the result of their late conflict Cheers
I have seen the Democrats of New for
aud Pennsylvania and Ohio marshallin
their powers for the contest in October
| have seen the Democrats of Kentuck
vigorous, unfaltering in the very midst
their fight, and everywhere, whether
the East or the South, CT the great centr;
States--in every condition, whether enjo.
ing the fruits of victory Or gathering u
their forces after the pressure of defeat, {
putting on the armor for another ,struggl
/ find it q living, vigorous, active, emerge
ic party, and here, a thousand miles ava,
in the great Northwest find the san
party, sustained by the same courage, an
mated by the same hope, and yitalized b
the same devotion to the principles an
= form of government which have for sever
ty years permitted Development Of ind
yidual liberty and collective prosperit
without parallel in the history of tf
world. More truthfully now, perhaps, tina
ever before, may we say that our party
neither sectional nor local, but that in a
the Union, from the Atlantic to the Pacifi
from the lakes to the Gulf, there is not
State or county, nor township, nor tow
nor neighborhood, nor family, nor hons,
hold in which it has not an adherent an
member
The Democratic party dead J! 1t ca
never die so long as free government cha
exist. The active, vigorous being OF til
one is the essential condition of the othe
So long as the human heart aspires to anu
liorate the ills of life; SO long as the HI
man intellect can trace cause and effec'
so loug as government is confided to tn
collective wisdom and will of the peopl
rather than to the unlimited discretiO
and irresistible power of one man, so Ion
will there be party which seeks to il
crease the liberty of the citizen and to q
minish the power of the Government;
enlarge the sphere of his active develop
ment and TO reduce the restraints whiC
are imposed upon him; to crafty his hoI
ofliberty, and to make effective his hatre
softyraany. There is such party in En-!
land to-day, and it wrests from Cover
ment o large reform in the matter OF
Presentation. There is such a party
France to-day, and the thunders of I'll
Tribune cause sleepless nights at the TUT
cries, There is such u party even in Ru
sla to-day, and the Gar grants amnesty
Polish patriots. [Cheers, There is sue
aparty in Austria to-day, and its lead'
exchanges every recognition of the right
the House of Hapsburg to the throne of s
stephen for concession to the rights
the people of Hungary. There is such
party in America to-day, and it insists II
ona rigid adherence to the provisions
our written Constitution, and to the pr
mary elemental principle of the cqualit
oltne States. Laud applause.] And ne
e 81 IN all our history has the exigency
the country demanded from that par
sucn an exhibition of all its strength, a
1s intelligence, all its virtues as now. f
never, not in the oorruptions of slOthf
ease not in the mad excitement Of diff
cult and doubtful war, haveits institution
=. seen SO ruthlessly attacked, and it's libe
ses 50 greatly imperilled. Its enemi
nave obtained possession of the powers
sae government, and WELD them for its
sauction, Applause and dissent Il
aos speak anadvisedly. l mean what
m:. measure my words. l do not IL