The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-09-03
THE CAMPAIGN,
Short but Pointed Speech by United States
Senator Wilson, Of Massachusetts.

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Hon. Henry Wilson was one of tn,
speakers at Republican meeting in Wor
cester Mass, on Friday evening. Aftel
returning thanks for the cordial greeting
which was extended to him, he said:
| | do not come here tonight toapologize
for, or to defend, the position you have
taken, or the Republican party. Thai
party numbers three millions of voters
and it needs no defense on any square
mile of this Republic, or on any portion
| of Gods green earth. Wherever there i.
d liberal, progressive statesman, he is OF
the side of the Republican party of the
United States. Go to England !! Johr
Bright is with us. Go to France every
liberal is with us and for us
Go to any portion of Europe! the men
who RELIEVING with their eyes open, whose
Judgements to-day are to be the Judge
ments of hereafter, are with us to-day a:
they have been with US in the bloody wal
of the last four years. It is not for thc
Republican party to apologize, for there
has not been great political question be
fore the country in the last fourteen years
in which the Republican party has moi
been right, and the Democratic party has
not been wrong; not single instance in
which, measured by patriotism, love Of
country, liberty, impartial and universal
measured by justice between the rich man
in power and the poor man out of power
measured by such patriotism such liberty
such justice, such humanity, the Republi-
can party has been right, and the Demo.
cratic party has been wrong, and it seemed
determined to be wrong, The chiefs OF
the Democratic party now say they pro
pose to carry on an aggressive warfare up
on US. In it they will be only as success
full as in the warfare so many of theiI
chiefs waged against our boysin blue. We
have no defense to make against them
that is already recorded in the grandest
most glorious political organization ever
known on earth. History gives no such
record of an organization accepting sc
fully the truths of Gods holy words anc
humanity. 1t has no peer living, and has
had none, In the glorious struggle of the
Revolution our fathers fought for theil
own liberties and their own personal
rights-we have fought for the freedom
and rights Oh four and half millions of {
despised and degraded race we have
fought on higher plane than any other
political organization on the face of the
globe The record of our party is made
and If it were possible l would not blot
out single line of it. Who is it that as
sailed US? 1t is Democratic party, NORTH
and South, Seymour and Wade Hampton
Pendleton and Robert Toombs Vallan
digham and Howell Cobb These are the
gentlemen who propose to assail us. You
will remember that fourteen years age
there was magnificent territory west OF
! the Missouri, consecrated to freedom Who
abrogated that compact of conservation
| The Democratic party Who defended
and justified the conduct of the "bordel
rutfians?" The Democratic party Who
made this domain slave territory, and
when those who strove to save it for free
dom were robbed, burned and murdered
who apologized and defended such acts
The Democratic party! Who removed
Governor Reeder, made the Lecomptor
Constitution, and Endorsed the bred Scott
decision? The Democratic party Yor
will remember that in 1861, when wal
was iminent, the "Crittenden compromise
was proposed, asking that slavery might
| be defended south Of $780, that slave:
lQIQuG DC G1dllS DOilGNl dU W III Through dl
the States, that citizenship should be tax
en- away from freemen in the free States
and that the free negroes be sent out o
the slave States at the national expense
| Who was it that defended these outrage
Gus demands? The Democratic party
then the batteries were opened on For
ISumter-by whom? BY the Democratic
lparty! Then followed four years of wa
and countless graves-flled by whom
by the Democratic party Not one loya
soldier went to his long rest but by TIN
hand Of the Democratic party VIII
murdered $4,000 men-wh0 is response
bic? The Democratic party then, and tn
Democratic party now There are 10000
besides who are manned by wounds Re
Iceived in battle Who did il ? Men VIII
were Democrats then, and are Democrat
now You will remem Der the time whe
congress, in order to reinforce the Unio
army, was obliged to pass an enrollmen
act. Who denounced it Who reddene
the streets of New York with blood an
its skies with the lurid flames frol
ltbe homes of the defenseIess
The Democratic friends Of Horatio Sc,
mour then and now Whenit was though
necessary 10 pass tne Legal IenueI aCt
who opposed it =? The Democratic part
who, with Pendleton, said the legal TEL
der notes went out with the mark of Cal
upon them, and would carry bankrupt
land ruin intheir turn. But he has change
his opinion Who was it opposed the alb
Ilition Of slavery, the making of the n
tional capital free Who opposed puttlr
black men into the army, and makiI
their wives and children free? Who 0
posed the constitutional amendment sacu
inc freedom to the hole of our wida q