The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-08

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country or humanity. Cheers Ans do yo
think they will do il? LCries OF No. "Ney
er," You can say "No, ,""Never." Genera
Grant will be elected President--mark it,
by the votes of nearly 30 States OF this Union
lCheers.l And be viii have a Senate Hong
continued appausel Senate with 4 RepubIi
can majority OF so at least Ihrarty cheers,
and the House Of representatives, with ma
lority lust as large as we want. Applause.
For the Democratic party is good Tor some
thing, and that is-t makes a very respecta
BILE minority to have in the House OF Repre-
sentatives, Laughter and cheersI
We must judge the Republican party and
the Democratic party by fixed standards. moi
by professions. don't think the mere mo-
LESSONS of any man, nor any aggregation of
men, amount to much. We are to take their
everyday acts, their lives, their words, their
deeds, their record. We must judge the Dem
ocrtlc party by the same test Measure the
two parties first by the test of PATRIOTISM
That is one OF the noblest aspirations that
breaths In the human soul Why. n man
who loves his country truly, loves every man
that loves the country; and every man that
loves the country he was born in. | homer
the lrishman whenever | hear him speak in
favor of old Ireland. Cheers | honor the
Enslishman who speakes well of his native
land, and the Scotchman who loves the hills
Swiss, who in a foreign land remembers his
mountain home. Aye, wherever you find a
man that breathes in his soul for his native
land, remember there is some good in him.
with all his faults. Cheels.l Well, meas
ure these two great coltending political or
! ganizations by tins standard OF patriotism.
How stands the Republican partyP TIE Re
publican party never furnished one single
traitor for the war. ApplauseI The Republi
mo- yUhn lNp A I..I
Lincoln in 1860, lgreat appausel in all the
| trials OF those bloody four years never fur
| nished man that stood arrayed against the
| old flag in those $40 engagements through
which it passed. No Republican ever fired
on the old flag, thank God! AppIause.l No
| Republican ever shot down or murdered one
Of the flags defenders. There are 100000
dead heroes beneath the sod OF America TO-
| night. They lie in the dark and bloody land
| where they tell, beneath the stars of our
| Northern skies, and there are vacant
| chairs 10 thousands OF these Northern homes.
All through that dark and bloody night the
| Republicans stood by their great leader.
Abraham Lincoln. Applause They re-
joiced over our victories. They wept bitter
| and scaldine tears over defeats. At all times
in sentiment, opinion, feeling, aspiration and
in prayer to God the Republicans upheld
their country. Applause. The history of
| Iuc uuli1du ldlllllJ no summer
deeds or words for patriotism than are re-
| corded in the history of our career during
the past eight years. Applause. And how
Is it with the Democratic party, measured by
| this same standard? There are 800 600 dead
heroes beneath the sod. Who sent them
| there? Democrats? Democrats then, Demo-
Gratis now, unless it be a lew of them who
have repented OF their wickedness. Ap-
plause There are 100000 wounded and
| L Al.
tor the old flag. What dId this? Why Dem
ocIatlc bullets. Remember that the loyal
blood in this war was poured out by men
who were Tor the Democratic party. There
may he some who have repented and en- ter
ed The Republican ranks. These we come
it they repent OF the sins the past and stand
by their country in the fdtu,e. ICheers
We have 100000 men at least in the Rebel
ious States who are simply sorry that they
faed-that is all; sorry that they did not de-
stroy the country.
Open the leading Democratic organs of the
party, and they tell you what their leaders
in Congress said tie other day in their protest
they do not disguise it.. that they mean to
undo all that has been done in favor of the
reconstruct on OF the Union on the basis of
right and liberty. And how do they propose
to do it? BY violence, by blood; for 1t can
only be undone by blood, that shall stein the
bright waters and the green sods of the Re-
public. Applause. They know it. They
are gong to undo the reconstruction policy
that has admitted several Rebel States back
to this Union States that have decided to es
tablish common schools for the education OF
the people, for the lifting up of the poor the
lowly, and dependent, and they propose to
overthrow this policy, and to deprive three
quarters OF million OF loyal, true men of the
right OF suffrage and to put the government
OF those States into the hands OF unIepentant
Rebels. They announce this in their press
and in their protest recorded in the House OF
Representatives. Perhaps they will propose
it in their Convention that is to meet in this
city. l tell those leaders here and now,
dare and defy them to. the contest. Great
applause We have whipped them once.
and we can and will do it again. Cheers.
Let them aSitate and distract the business
interests OF this country with the insane and
unpatriotic movement, if they dare. We
know them, and how much there is of them
Laughter and cheers We have met them
in many of the conflicts OF the past, and we
are satisfied with the results as they are
Cheers Let them throw North Carolina
and South Carolina, Florida. Alabama, Lou
islana and A. kansas out, and il old Virginia
and Texas, and Mississippi, as think very
likely they will, adopt their CONSTITUTIONS and
elect men who can take the test oath we
shall let them into Congress And let us see
this New York Convention turn them out
Laughter and cheers. States that have voted
that the black man should have home, but
should not rent one nor buy one laughter l.
that he should have regular employment or
be a vagrant; which provided that black men
and women should pay a poll tax; and if
even the women did not pay poll tax their
labor should be sold to make it out. / won
der it our friends would not like to have
L.AI- s,.kx IL. IT.~..
those laws stand. Laughter. l tell YOU, we
intend to elect Gen. Grant and a Congress
that will stand by this grand policy Jap
plause;l policy that has broken the power
OF the old slave-masteis forever l"good' and
cheersl that has DESTROY ed the domination OF
that aIistocratic class that quoted Gods holy
word against 100000 of his children, and
degraded millions OF poor white men down to
more abject condition than slavery itself
Applause. THIS policy has broken their
power, and just as soon as we have these
governments fairly inaugurated, and Just as
soon as the policy Of education, protection,
and development can be carried out. the
Door white men of the South, long oppressed
and degraded, will rise up in intelligence and
character, and that end OF the Union will be-
gin to bloom again with industry and intelh-
gence. Applause. The most unpatriotic
movement during the last seven years-more
| they went out in PASSIONS this wicked
movement to overthrow the policy of econ
structon that has brought back seven States,
| loyal now to the country. and true to the
cause oil liberty. Applause.
Well, let us measure these tT-o parties by
| another standard-the Standard OF liberty
| Now, all through the ages the noblest men oil
| all nations have deemed it struggle fit to
die tor-the cause OF human liberty. Ap
plausel We have had a great struggle, run
| ming through many years, in our own cOun-
| try for the cause of human liberty. The Re
publican party was brought into being to be
| the champion OF the cause Of liberty in
America. Ii proclalms as its living faith the
| sublime creed OF the Declaration of lndepen-
dence that "aIl men are created eqnaL" APP
| nlausel 1t is resolved and re-reSolved to
make that sublime truth living, practical
iaith of United America. Applause. 1t ac-
| cepted ali the noble utterances oil the RevOlu-
tionarv fathers, and through these years it
has sp0ken and voted Tor the cause OF liberty.
II made the Capital OF this nation forever Tee
by making flee over 5000 men and women
and children beneath the shadow Of the Cap
itol. Applause. 1t established freedom in
all the Territories OF the United States. 1t,
by Abraham Lincon's Proclamation ol
Emancipation struck the tetters rom 5O0,-
600 of human beings. 1t put arms IN the
hands of the black men and bid them fight
tor the cause OF their country. 1t made the
wives and children of black soldiers Tree. Ii
proposed the great constitutional amendment
that made free every slave in the repu C
and made slavery forever impossible under
the flag of the Union. Applause. 1t cloth
ed every emancipated black man with civl
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