The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-28
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
LFeR ADDITIoNAL LooAL IrnMs snn oura1pn rAar,.


sided and in apoogizing for the nOn-attendance of
Senators Yates and Kellogg, both of whom had
been been annonnced to address the meeting but who
pleasure to Introduce Hon. Henry Wilson, of Mas
sachusetts, who had courteously consented to sup
ply the place of his Senatorial colleagues.
Mr.. Wilson was received with vocferous cheer
ing. Quiet being restored he said
am grateful to you for this welcome and cordial
greeting, coming as it does from the Republicans
of Philadelphia, whose devotion to the country
during the dark days through which we have
passed is acknowledged all over this broad land. L
am glad to stand before you tonight, and address
few words to the heart conscience and reason of
the citzens of Philadelphia. We are to carry this
country If we carry It. at all not by telling stories
sentiments of the American people. We are
gagged, in one of the grandest struggles ever re-
corded in the annals of our race. We are fighting
to-day higher plane than occupied in
any other country on the globe.
to be developed for human power and happiness.
A glorious ancestry gave us the Republic founded
npon the grand idea of human equality, and our
Divine Master bade to do unto others as we
would that others should do un'o us. Our fore
fathers founded our government upon the great
that Christ died for all humanity. believe we are
to live together to lie down in death together, and
to rise, in the general resurrection as brothers.
The fathers recognized no caste, but they saw hui
manity, the children of common father, and they
founded our government upon the glorious idea
that all men are created equal.
That glorious thought underlies our Republic,
and to maintain that we are battling The nation
is to vote for the twenty-trst time for President.
1t is divided into two great political organizations.
We here tonight belong to new party twelve
years old, but 1t has name to live-it has ideas
that are as indestructible as the throne of Goa.
Immense cheers.) 1t has policies that embrace
the whole country and the people of the whole
country. (Applause) 1t has history bright and
glorious No brighter page exists in the history of
the human family than will be the pages that re-
cord the last twelve years struggle Of the Repubi-
can party of the United States
/ am not here tonight to apologize for the Re-
publican party 1t is not perfect, for it is human.
Nothing is perfect but God. But there is polti-
cal party that treads the planet that has right to
had. bow in admiration before the great organi-
zations Of & the past that have ave borne the nag Of
men have stood up for the cause of humanity and
Christianity and civilization, bow in reverence
before them. love to lnger around the memories
of the revolutionary fathers-of the men who pro-
claimed in the Declaration of independence that
basis of human liberty.
honor Washington, his generals and soldiers for
their sublime devotion to human rights, but during
the last eight years have fought higher,
grander battle than even Washingtons. (Applause.j
Our revolutionary fathers met oppression with
stern resolution that challenges the admiration of
mankind, and they grasped the grand fundamental
ideas of human rights and proclaimed them. They
fought through seven year war to found the North
American republic and establish free institutions
All honor to these men; but we have fought for all
they fought, and more too They fought for little
strip of land east of the Allegheny, and we have
struggled for the ~ unity y Of continental empire
anation of 35,OOO,OOO of human beings.
They fought for their own rights as the descend
ants of Englishmen fought to maintain their IDEAS
principles policies, their name and fame; we have
fought as they fought-for our own rights-and
have emancipated a hated and downtrodden race
(Appiause) We have conquered prejudices, risen
to the sublime heights of Christianity and broken
four millions and half of fetters, and stand be-
fore the nation and Almighty God with four and
half millions of riven fetters in our hands. We
to the heights of humanity and manhood. In lift,
ing them up from the depths we have lifted our
Political parties, as they turn to the great Re-
publican party that carries the flag OF the country,
nrip Christian civil N 10 xUa
world 1t came into being to save I'VE & the N0rth Amfs
own children; to establish eqaa universal and i'm
partial liberty; to lift up the loyal and the sin
weak and defenceless. In looking back through
these dozen years, might with telescope discover
some mistake, but would as soon hunt for spots
on the face of the sun itself upon this great po
litica organization that has taken this country
its arms and carried it forward and upward,
thousand leagues toward God.
This organization stands before the nation with
its ideas distinctly proclaimed to mankind and its
candidate is the first citizen of the nation (Ap-
and candidates will gloriously triumph in the
coming struggle. Who in the world supposes that
the men who eight years ago elected Abraham Lin
coin (great cheering) President of the United
.ballot-boxes on the 9th of November, 1S6O-the
hundreds of thousands from their bended knees,
and with love OF country and fear OF God before
plause), when they told that if we did it they
would redden the waters with civil war: that they
would shiver the foundation stones of this country
who is there that suppOses that we will surrender
to the rebels we conquered and their friends who
apologize for them? No, we are going to make
General Grant President and Schuyler Colfax Vice
President, and we are going to have majority Of
one hundred Representatives.
tell these rebellious men we are going to stamp
our ideas, principles and policies into the very soil
of the North American continent. We intend to
restore the Union broken by the Democratic party,
to make the humblest man in the land citizen,
equal in rights to them, to make peace that shall
come to stay, to encourage the education of all
people, develop our resources to carry our country
upward and forward. We intend to make it as safe
lNxrQ In fhn Hor TO faIya
his musket blanket or overcoat and 90 into any
portion of the United States and abide and be pro-
tected in his rights
advancing columns of Lee have right to live
where they please. They may take their knapsack
or their carpet-bag with them. (Applause.) They
shall have Alright to think their own thoughts and
speak their sentiments, and vote and do they
please so that they do not interfere with the rights
of other people. (Applause) If Wade Hampton
don't like their carpet-bag (laughterl, If South
Carolina is not large enough to hold Wade Hamp-
ton and their carpet bag, then Wade Hampton must
get out of South Carolina. (Immense applause) If
anybody has got to leave any of the States it must
be the unrepentant traitor. (Applause.)
These people must understand that we who have
spared their lives and lands are not going to be
dOmineered over ruled by them. They
spoiled chidren-spoiled by several ages of human
slavery They have been terribly punished, and
all wish is that they would have a little good sense
beaten into them. think IL 1t had not been for the
northern sympathzers they would have behaved
far better.
The speaker then dwelt for a long time on the
subject of taxation and reconstr tructiOn, and con-
cluded by calling on Pennsylvanians to do their
Speeches were made by Hon. Chas. O'Neill and
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, when the meeting adj
journed.
RIFLEMEN's FALL FEsTIvAL.--A number Of
ladies of this city have rendered to the members
OF the Philadelphia Rifle Club Prize Festival