Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-10-02
SENATOR WILSON'S SPEECH

One oi the greatest speeches which the
campaign has yet produced was made by
Senator Wilson at a large Republican meet
ing held in Bangor, Maine, on Wednesday,
/ August 26th. Since the whole speech is so
4 excellent, anu 80 -rov.h., "a he read, VIC are
at loss to determine where to make an ex-
tract. However, as We cannot give the en-
tire speech, that occupied two hours in its
delivery. We ask the attention of our read
ers to the following passage:
Il need dwell but briefly on what the
Republican party proposed to do. Its his
tory, Its platform and It's candidates speak
to the full comprehension Of the American
people To that history, to that platform
and to those candidates it points with CON
f1ence and pride 1t appeals, as ever, to
the higher and better sentiments and i'm
pulses of the Nation 1t appeals to that
comprehensive patriotism which embraces
the whole country and the people Of the
/ whole country, to that love of liberty which
aecOrds equal rights to all men, to that
sense of justice that gives equal protection
I to the poor man cabin and the rich man S
mansion, and to that humanity that lifts up
the lowly and the weak. If success crowns
/ its efforts, If the administration shall be in
/ structed to General Grant, with House Of
Representatives to sustain that administra-
ton, the policy of reconstruction viii be
/ perfected, the States will all be speedily res
I tOred to their practical relation to the
general Government, equal rights will be
assured and disabilities removed, the ma
mons faith viii be unlarnished, its currency
and credit improved, and Peace, in the
language of Mr. Lincoln, will come to
stay" Then the blood poured out ike au-
tumnal rains, will not have been she'd in
vain; for then united and free America, with
liberty for all and justice to all, will enter
upon career Of development, culture and
progress that shall ensure future grand
and great !" No less significant and no less
pronounced are the history, the platform
and the candidates of the Democratic par
ty. It's history recalls no inspiring ideas,
no ennobling deeds for patriotism, for hber-
iy for justice and for humanity. But it
does recall images Of slavery-its shaekles,
its whips, its uurequited tolls and its all.
peTyading impurities-the slave power, its
arrogant nominations and aggressive de-
mands, associated with humiiiatina coaoaa
sions, compromises and apostacies to free.
dom; eonspiracies, lawless rebellion, fields Of
blood, taxation, debts, and graves of the
nation dead. It's platform speaks of the
reconstruction acts as revolutionary, un-
constitutional and void '-benefceut acts BY
which seven disorganized commonwealth
We re-organized on the basis Of loyalty
and liberty, and restored 10 representation in
Congress and to the blessings and benefits
Of the Union. Its candidates are pledged
to ''tramplc in the dust those re organi-
zed and restored commonwealths, their con
stitutions and laws, by which equal rights
and privileges are accorded and secured to
all. Those candidates are also pledged for
that unconstitutional, uu-American and
wicked monstrosity, so alien IN spirit and
tone to the Declaration Of Independence
and the utteraDce Of the fsther's, A White
Mans Government in place of the con
stitutional and American idea-a good gov
eminent ''of al, By ALL for ALL :" This rec
ord of fourteen years, this platform and
these candidates, the wild revolutionary
and disorganizing utterauces Of Blair,
Tombs, Cobb, aud other Southern Demo
cratic leaders, speak. in language not to be
misunderstood by the country the purposes
Of the Democratic party, aud what it pro
/ poses to do. The currency is to be further
depreciated the public faith broken, and
the national honor tainted; state constitu-
tons are to be abrcgated; the civil rights of
millions impaired; the right to vote, now
/ possession, taken from three fourths of a
million Of workingmen; the education Of the
people, so longed for by the poor of both
races, is to be postponed; hatreds, insults.
and outrsges to the loyal are to be intensi-
/ fed; the soldier who fought for the restora-
/ ton Of seeding States, and who DOW hopes.
/ by his skilled industry, to make the war.
wasted fields of the South bloom once more
/ is to be forced to leave his new home and
the malignant spirit Of slavery and caste is
/ to rule again. Then this murderous advice
Of Albert Pike, the friend and champion of
Blair and Seymour, addressed to the men
I Of Mississippi, may be accepted and follow
ed to the bitter end; Young men. 1t is
for you to bring back to the country its qol-
den days. The South is our land. The
North is q foreign and hostile realm. Stand
at the altar of your country. Swear eternal
hated to its oppressors. Swear that the
I day shall come when the Susquehanua and
Ohio shall be like rivers of fire, as they are
now rivers of blood, between your native
land and that of the Northern Huns, which
no man shall attempt to cross and live. -
4 With one or the other Of these two great
I parties, fellow citizens. you are constrained
to act in the coming election of President
of the United States Consider well, l
pray you, the histories, the platforms and
| candidates of these parties now asking your
/ suffrage. Remember that By its fruits the
tree is known, and by his deeds man is iudg-
ed. Apply to these political organizations
those words Of Holy Writ Test them By
the high standards Of love of country and
love of man, and vote as they prompt and
4 approve. So voting you shall do something
to heal the wounds of war, rebuke and re-
/ press lawlessness and violence, develop the
material and moral forces of the land, Sc
cure equality of rights and privileges, and
thus lift our country to its predestined rank
among the nations.
/ WAs thara a tlNnur,,r,l In The Nnrr YnrL