Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-09-18

THE CAMPAIGN.
Short but Pointed Speech by Uns-
ted States Senator Wilson,
OF Massachusetts. -
Hon. Henry 8. Wilson at q Re-
publican Mass meeting held at Wor-
cester Mass. spoke as follows: r@#
i do not come here tonight to apol-
ogixe for, or to defend, the position
you have taken or the Rebublican
party. That party numbers three
millions of voters, and 1t needs no
defence on any square mile of this
Republic, or on any portion Of Gods
green earth. Wherever there Is n
liberal, progressive statesman, he is
on the side of the Republican party
OF the United States. Go to Englandl
John Bright is with us. Go to France
every liberal Ii with us aud for us.
Go TO any portion of Europe! the
men who are living with their eyes
open, whose Judgments OF to-day
are to be the Judgments of hereafter,
are with us to-day rs they have been
with us I'm the bloody war of the Last
four years. 1t Is not for the republi-
can party to apologize, for there has
not been q great political question be-
fore the country In the last fourteen
years In which the republican party
has not been right, and the demo
cratic party has not been wrong
not single issue in which, measur.
ed by patriotism, love of country.
I'm fi,,I ~
measured by justice between the rich
In power aud the poor man out of
power, measured by such patriotism,
such liberty, such justice, such hu-
manity, the Republican party has
been right, and the Democratic par
ty has been wrong, and IL seemed de.
termined to be wrong. The chiefs
Of the Democratic party now say
hey propose to carry on an aggress-
I've warfare upon us. In 1t they will
be only as successful as In the war
fare SO many Of their chiefs waged
against the boys i'm blue. We have
no defence to make against them /;
that Is already recorded In the grand
cot, most glorious political orgnniza-
tion ever known OH earth. History
gives no such record of an organiza-
ton accepting so fully the truth of
Gods holy word aud humanity.
IL has no peer living, and has had
none. In the glorious struggle Of the
revolution our fathers fought for their
own liberties and their own rights
we have fought for four and half
millions of a despised and degraded
race I'VE have fought on a higher plain
than any other political organizatio
on the face of the glopc. The record
OF our party is made, and If IL were
possible would not blot out a single
line of It, Who IL IL that assailed us?
1t IL the Democratic party North and
South, Seymour and Wade Hampton!
Pendleton and Robert Toombs VAL
landingham and Howell Cobb |!
These are the gentlemen who propose
to assall US. You will RENE m .,cr
that fourteen years ago there was a
magnificent territory west of the Mis-
souri, consecrated to freedom. Who
abrogated that compact Of consecra-
ton The Democratic party! Who
defended and justified the conduct of
the ''border rufiians?'' The Demo-
cratic party! Who made this domain
slave territory, and when those who
attempted to save it for freedom were
robbed, burned, and murdered, who
app0logized and defended sucl, acts ?
The Democratic party! Who re-
moved Governor Reeder, made the
Lecompton constitution and indorsed
the Dred Scott decision ? The Dem
ocratic party! You will remember
that In 1861, when war was immi-
nent, the .Crittenden c0mpronise"
WAS proposed, asking that slavery
might be defended south of $3.50,
that slaves might be transported at
will through all the States, that cit
izenship should be tai en- away from
freemen in the free States, aud that
free negroes should be sent out OF
the slave States ut the national ex-
pense. Who was 1t that defended
these outrageous demands2 The
Democratic party Then the batter
les were opened upon Fort SunIpter--
by whom2 The Democratic party |!
Then followed four years of war, aud
countless grayes-flled by whom
BY the Democratic party! Not one
loyal soldier went to his rest but by
the hand OF the Democratic party [!
Who murdered $50, 600 men--who is
responsible The Democratic party
then, aud the Democratic party now!
There are 3O0, 900 besides who are
MANNED by wounds received in battle
Who did r. /? Men who were Demo-
Gratis then, and are Democrats
now! You will remember the time
when Congress, in order to reinforce
the Union army, was obliged to pass
an enrolment act. Who denounced
ity Who reddened the streets OF
New York with blood and its skies
with the Iurid flames from the homes
If the defenceless? The Democratic
friends of Horatio Seymour then and
now! When 1t was thought necessa-
ry to pass the Legal tender act"
WHO opposed il? The Democratic
party, who with Pendieton, said the
legal tender notes went out with the
mark Of Cain upon them, and would
carry bankruptcy and ruin In their
turn. But he has changed his
opinion Who was IL that OPP
posed the abolition of slavery,
tile making Of the national
capitol free? Who opposed putting
black men In the army and making
their wives and children free !?
Who opposed the constitutional
amendment securing freedom to the
whole Of our wide domain? The
Democratic party! When we got
through that war, and Andrew John
son had reconstructed the South with
traitors In every post Of honor and
bower, who applauded his policy !?
The Democratic party! Ispeak only
what believe when / say II that
priicv had succn0dAd ranudfutfnr