Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-10
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Speech of General Garfield.
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Speech of General Garfield.
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Below We give a full report, from, the Gin
cinnati Gosotte, Of the speech of Gen. JAMES
A. GARFIELD, delivered at Columbus, on the
23d instant. .z9,.sH .h,silaE .sleiis
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Fe'losc-citize,as17-7We have met here to.
night for the purpose of ratification; to
rejoice together over the work done to-
day to look forward little into the open
ing campaign; !; to inquire ainto some of
the issues that will soon be brought be-
fore the people for their action. And l
can not look upon these familiar places,
on this mass of people that stand upon
these steps and Oh these grounds, with
out remembering the scenes Of the past,
the lastdime / was here at State Com
ventlon. Eight years ago this month, |
believe, perhaps a month later, was the
last time had the pleasure OF attending
State Convention in this place. And /
have been all day busy with the memo
rles OF what has transpred since that
time. Eight years ago now YOU had
met to nominate David Tod for Governor.
Eight years ago now your streets were
filled with Union soldiers, and the camps
around your cities were crowded with
men marshaling for the great conflict
then opening. Eight years ago the city
was filled everywhere with, the, gather
lug, mastering forces preparing to pput
down the great rebellion. And how
many events have transpired since then !?
What history has this Union Rpubl-
can party had since eight years ago?I 4
A RETROSPECT.
Let us reflect for a moment upon that
history, my fellow-citizens. AS 1 have.
gone overt in my mind to-day, have
felt a satisfaction and pride in the history
of the Union party, that | have felt in /,
no other similar organization in the
range OF human history. Do you know
OF any organization, have you ever read
OF great party that has met and van
quished such obstacles and come ND ITO
so great triumphs as the Union party of
The rel'ublic has done since eight years
ago? Or, to go back step further. A !
little more than eight years ago, in this
very State House where are now stand |
lng-l remember the scene as it were |
but ycsterday-Abraham Lincoln came |
upthese steps to meet the Senate and !
House OF Representatives, and to receive |
their congratulations when he was on |
his way to take his seat in the Executive 1
chair at Washington. The Republican |
party had just begun its career of inAu- |
ence and honor. And now let us follow /
1t moment, and see what obstacles it |
has vanquished, and let me ask YOU to !
see with me whether it has not been a
brave party, II / were called upon to |
pick ont, among all its high qualities,
the one that shines most eminent. / would |
say It had been courageous party, that
dared TO look all sorts of disasters in the |
face-that dared to meet all sorts of enc.
mics, and stand up mantnlly to the issue. |
and come through triumphant at the
end. II Cheers. oio.. ..sl3 . bas
About eight years ago was the time
when the Republican party met it's first
great obstacle-and what was that? A
gigantic rebellion-eleven great States
OF the Union banded together by bleody
oaths, to see not only the Union Repub- /
lican party, but the Government itself.
destroyed and ruined beneath their feet.
And against this great and threatening
calamity the Republican party buckled
on It's arnor, and called upon the Amer
lean people to stand up and that the
Union be preserved. And the long array
of the history of the war, the disasters,
the heart-breakings, the blood and the
wasted treasure, all that followed in the
train OF that, could not damp this heroic
party until, under the Appomattox