Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-11-05


that suffered the most from the accident
every one Of them escaped unhurt.
THE MOTIVE AND rue WoRR OF rnE
REPUBLICAN PARTY. - Mr. ColfaS's
speech at the great Michigan Republican
gathering in Detroit, last Friday, was one
Of the most eloquent and inspiring he
ever uttered. lie found his text in, and
was lifted up to effort by Gov. Seymours
speech Of Monday attacking the integrity
and patriotism Of tho republican party
We give fine passage or two
| love the republican party, maligned
as il is. | love it, because from lts orth
and earliest years down 20 the present
time il has been written on Its banner as
il went forth to victory, the rights Of man
That is all we struck for. II Is the no.
blest inspiration that ever fred the heart
OF great political party. II lifts you
from the ordinary plane Of politics up 70
the nobler plane Of patriotism. We took
our cause down 10 the cabin of the humble
and the hopeless. We said TO the slave in
his ignorance 10 the slave in his degreda-
ton 10 the slave in his chains, we lift You
up, we will give you the attributes OF
manhood, we will make your cause ours
we will Danish this world acoursed insti-
tuition from this country. You remember
how we were denounced We We're bran
ded as negro worshipcrs; We had inyec-
tive heaped upon us We had yials OF
wrath poured out upon our heads. But
we know we were engaged in a noble
cause we knew God would bless us, for
we read in the sacred record that the
path that he has chosen is to break every
yoke, and let the oppressed 20 free We
went on winning victory after victory
we banished manacle and shackle, and
gave the blacks all over this land their
freedom we banished that stain from
our national escutoheon, SO that to-day,
from where the sun rises on roeky-born
Maine TO where il sets beneath the Pacific
waves there is not one man who dares to
call himself master, or call another man
slave.
No thanks to him Gov Seymour. for
this glorious contamination. No thanks
to his followers. We did it in spite OF
their most vigorous opposition. In Con-
gress, at the polls, before the people, ",
fought on, inspired by liberty, and We tri
umphed to winning that noble victory
that gave salvation to the Union as II
gave emancipation TO the slave. Where
are our defamers Where are the men
who denounced you a vilifed you for dar.
ing to strike at slavery Where are III,
men with mouths filled with curses foi
I e.. l., a., q lt
land Not one Of them dares, to lisp q
, word against what you did. You are IN
2 dorsed by all parties, by all men on this
continent for your noble work All, my
friends, there is something worth liyin!
= for in boing in party like this. There i
something worth dying for to be in |
: party like this There is something wort
e a heritage TO your children in beins in
I party like this. You and ! and all Of u
!, are passing away. 4 few more years a
most and we shall all be under the clod
1 OF the valley. Thank God, what we hav
e done shall live in history, as age after ag
. rolls away and your children and child
! ren,s, down 10 the latest generation, vii
2 rise up and call you blessed, because yo
: dared to meet this stormy invcctive an
i stand up against all the denunciations {
, this man and his followers, to destro
a slavery in the land, and make it, in fac
y hereafter, what it had been in poetry be
I fore, the land Of the free ard the home c
= the brave.
And again. Mr.. Colfax said -
! We are going TO make it in this countr
so that any man can go wherever b
) pleases and speak his thoughts, vote hi
q thoughts, act his thoughts, live such g lii
. as he sees fit to live, so that he is With
q the law and no man shall molcst, oppre,
;. or outrage any other man. And that
;. not all. We are going to make America
;. citizenship and we have already, 50 pow
erful that wherever the humblcst of ou
Z naturalized citizens may go, whether b
shall go to France or Prussia, whether h
4 shall go to Russia, or to the islands of tn
d sea, to Africa or Patagonia, he may /
n poor, he may be pennilesS, he may t
o friendless, but along with him, unsee
g but potential, shall go that noble flag
Q along with him shall go the power =,
: American citizenship. He shall wal
among his enemies, and he shall not /
weary he shall stand with a thousan
!. against him, and he shall not faint. II
i shall stand up in the full vigor Of Amer
}. ca citizenship, feeling that if oppressio
4 or outrage shall seek to harm him til
! whole power Of this country will proteC
d him against his enemies, if it were
n world in arms.