The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-25
SENATOR WILSON.
His Speech az a Mass MOstIng In wor.
cesIer, Mas.


Hen. Henry Wilson was one of the speakers
at Republican meeting IN Worcester, Mass, on
Friday evening. After returning thanks for
The cordial greeting which was extended to him
he said:-
/ do not come here tonight TO apologize for
or TO defend the position you have taken, or
the Republican party. That 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
is liberal progressive statesman, he is on the
side OF the Republican, party of the United
States. Go to England John Bright is with
us. Go to France! Every liberal is with US and
for us. Go to any portion OF Europei The
men who are living with their eyes open,
whose Judgments to-day are to be the
judgments of hereafter are with us to-
day as they have been with us in the
bloody war of the last four years. 1t is
not for the Republican party to apologize
tor there has not been great political question
before the country IN The last fourteen years in
which the Republican party has not been right,
and the Democratic party has not been WRONG;
not single Issue IN which, measured by patriot
ism, love OF county, liberty, impartial and
universal, measured by justice between the rich
man in power aud the poor man out of power,
measured by such patriotism such liberty, such
justice, sucn humanity, the Republican parry
has been rgLt, and the Democratic party has
been wrong, and it seemed determined to be
wrong. The chiefs of the Democratic party now
say they propose TO carry on an aggressive warfare
upon us. In it they will be only as successful as
III The warfare so many OF their chiefs Waged
against our boys in blue. We nave no defense
TO make against them; that Is already recorded
in the success of the grandest most glorious
political organization ever known on earth.
History gives no such record of an organiZa-
tlon accepting fully the truths of Gods holy
words and humanity 1t 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 personal rights: we
have fought for the freedom and rights of four
and half millions of a dpspised and degraded
race; we nave 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 q single
line of IT,. Who is it that as ailed US Is it the
Democratic party, North and South, Seymour
and Wade Hampton! Pendleton and Robert
Toombs! Valandgham aud Howell Cobb?
These are the gentlemen wno propose to assal
us. You will remember hat fourteen years ago
there was q magnificent territory west of the
Missouri, consecrated to freedom. Who abro-
gated that compact of conservation? The
Democratic party Who defended and justified
the conduct o! the BORDER ruffians?n The
Bemoclauc party Who made this domain slave
territory, and when those who stroye to save
1T for freedom were robbed, burned aul mur-
dered, who apologized ana defended such actR
The Der oCracuc party! Who removed Gov
ernor Reeder, made The Lecompton Constltu-
tion and mdorsed the Drea Scott decision? Tue
Democratic party You viii remember that in
1861, when war was imminen', the ''Crittenden
compromise" was proposed, asking that slavery
might be defended south Of 36 80, that slaves
might be transported at will through ali the
States, that citizenship should be taken away
IRON frcemen in the Tree States, and that free
negroes be sent out of the slave States at the
national expense. Who was it defended these
Outrageous demands? The Democratic party
Then the batteries were opened on Fort Sumter
by whom? BY the Democratic party Then fol-
lowed four years of war, aud countless graves
filled by whom By the Democratic party Not
one loyal soldier went TO his long rest but by
The hand OF the Democratic party. Who mur-
dered $4,000 men-who is responsible ? The
Democratic party then, aud the Democratic
party now There are 100000 besides who are
manned by wounds received IN battle. Who did
1t? Men who were Democrats then, aud are
Democrats now! You Will remember the time
when Congress, in order 10 reinforce the Union
army, was obliged to pass an enrolment act.
Who denounced it? Who Redeemed the streets
of New York with blood and its skies with the
lurid flames from the homes of the defenseless?
The Democratic friends Of Horatio Seymour.