The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-06-24
SPEECH OF GEN. II. D. SARGENT,

80 Fett0ac- Cat2senS In thanking you I0r THIS
high honor. and expressing my pleasure in
meeting you on this grand occasion, | feel
some distrust lest l may not equal your just
requirements of the chair. We have met to
receive the reports of your distinguished
delegates to the Chicago Convention, and to
determine the principles of the first civil
national campaign since the war, on basis
of peace, justice and popular power.
s III citizens are as true to the duties of
peace as they were to the duties OF war, the
United States will be prosperous brother
hood once more The nation has proved by
its bayonets the sincerity of its ballots. 1t
will now prove by its ballots the justice OF
its bayonets Our principles are as old as
that revolution when founded republican
State on the will of the intelligent majority.
Our men are the well-tried republican states
man ard the welltried republican peace
maker-Schuyler Colfax and Ulysses s.
Grant loud applause and cheers for Grant
and Colfax.) ..,,..rs5 ..e-v-.s Lt ~
Ave! Aye Let old Fanueil Hall cheer
him! Renewed appause.) The dear old
Cradle of Liberty has rocked freedom-but
never to sleep. Let the cheers of freemen
tonight rock the old schoolhouse of the
first martyrs in two wars to the foundation
stone.
With the grand republican principles that
brought the nation into life, and the men
who saved it from death, giving assurance
of that national peace, established credit
and esonal safety on which commerce and
industry depend. the voice of the people
will sweep tr oblivion the Democratic here
! sizes that engendered rebellion and prevent
repentance, as the whirlwind of God sweeps
chaf (Applause.) In four years from to-
day all honest conservative minds will be
| with us as the successful party of peace
For there can be no peace for this nation
without justice and power. few fossil
minds may remain in so-called conservative
opposition, and make their annual barren
programme of officers and ofice-holders till
they die out. at the dinner table; but they
will have no more influence in this State and
nation than the little kitchen cabinets of
silly girls, who look into the grounds of
tcacup to see who will marry lord ZAP
plause) Labor and capital are kings. The
| Northern merchant will find that he can in
vest his money, the mechanic will find that
| he can trust his life in every part of the
| South, which is more than he can do to day,
or could do if Democracy should hold the
| reins of power forever. '''"
Is not the country tired of being thwarted
| in its progress to peace by the constitution
al heresies of the Democratic party2 In
| spite of the lessons of the war, the theory
4 OF the Democratic President, Mr. Buchanan.
that the nation could not legally prevent the
secession of aState. continues its worthless
! life in the graver because more specious folly
4 that tells US we have no right to secure the
results of victory and make secession i'm
| possible again" because the war is ended"
/ The war is ended, but the cessation of war
and the cessation of the rights resulting
| from victorious war are two different things
| Ii we cannot secure ourselves against another
such war, the war of rebellion has not end
ed. Rights of victory remain after victory
| is achieved, or an army could not be disarmed.
And neither the rebels or the Democrats have
been victors in this struggle, which began
1 with the great Democratic measures Of pa
| cifcation-the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise-and ended, contrary to all Dem
ocratic prophecies and teachings, 1 had al
4 most said their hopes and prayers, with the
surrender of General Lee (Applause) We
ale entirely weary of that half rebel balder-
dash dignified with the name of conserva-
tism, which keeps the country in broil.
Hseccssinn isno whipped out of the nation,
we will elect a man who can whip it. And
| if it is, we want to shake hands, make up
and go to work as a nation.
The enlightened, far.seeing virtue of the
| loyal party OF the North has brought it's
own reward, and the immortal dead have
| left to us, as party, all the grand heritage
| of victorious war-all the traditions OF ma
tional glory, with its two martyrs, Abraham
Lincoln [applause) and John Albion Andrew
| (renewea applause)-and with that banner
| of light they have left us as our-our-oUR
standard-bearer, the victor chief who unlike
the war and peace candidates of all our
enemies, North and South, was never born
to organize defeat ,fH
The very names of Grant and Colfax have
fluttered the Volscians, as much as the &C
quittal of Johnson chagrined them. The
Democracy has no available candidate in
its whole legitimate party. 1t is swinging
round the circle of loyal Generals, radical
Chief Justices, and republican politicians.
In its despair it is writhing with the humil
iation of taking u Republican Magistrate to
lead it against the Republican party! He,
like an avenging Nemesis, holds the bitter
chalice of humble confession-negro suf.
frage-to the tortured lips of negro-spurn-
ing Democrats, and if he does not disgrace
the ermine of his pure life and faith, he will
make them drink it, as the price of his lead
erslup, to defeat l.s .4g u.tu ..s3
History shows that thus Almighty God ex-
torts agonizing confessions from national
parties that are false to humanity, and by
forcing them in their extremity to acts that
seem essential to their success convicts them
| of lie Thus the very men, who claimed
to be supporters,of the Union armies, when
| martial law made it unsafe to coincide with
the rebels are now, by the providential
finger of God, confronted squarely with the
sober minded leader of those armies who
supports the same principles in peace that
he did in war. And a hooking spirit of de-
rision shouts in Democratic ears, " Choose
.ye, choose ye this day whom We will serve
Vote as ye would have shot i" .......S
The broad principles of government and
morality, to which we renew our fealty to-
night, are simple and old. Our financial
policy to the national creditors everywhere
is founded on the eighth section of Decal-
ogue delivered to the original Moses, :" Thou
shalt not steal" and ought not, since man
stealing is over, to be grayely objected to by
Conservative Democrats who value their
character.
Our foreign policy plainly uttered is a
practical application of the Golden Rule, of
doing unto Others what we would that others
should do unto us. 1t proposes to protect
the American citizens of every nationality
against the usurpation of powers to which
he has renowned his allegiance 1t holds
the agis Of this great and powerful nation
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