Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-11-25
Serenasse to Hon. B. Grafz Brown
His Speech

AhAS ESS1CtCa1
Hon. B. Gratz Brown, Governor elect of
Missouri, was serenaded last Monday night.
The serenade was given under the auspices
OF a number OF prominent Democrats On
being introduced, Mr.. Brown sroke as fol-
lows:
RESPONSE OF HON. b. GRAFT BROWN.
Fellow-citizens, Democrats of the State of
Missouri-for | presume can include rep
resentatives Of all your number in nv ad-
dress-I wish to say to you that I thank
you from the bottom of my heart for the
support which you have given me in this
canvass that has ended in such maynii-
cent triumph. [Cheers. assure you, more.
over, that | do not take that triumph to my
self, personally, but only to the principles
that have been so emphatically endorsed
those of equal freedom for every man in this
nation by right of his birth-right We
have gone through this contest, we have
made no appeal to party, we have made no
discrimination against men, and yet we have
made distinctive appeal to ths common
sentiment Of the common country in behalf
of the right of every man to exercise the
franchise of free man, and We have won
upon that principle. Cheers. Now-I have
to say to you, without any hesitation, that
have to thank the Democratic party of the
State of Missouri cheers for the cordial
support + at they have given me in that DO
sition, and I say furthermore that no party
has ever shown more perfect command of
self, more perfect disregard of past traditions,
more perfect devotion to the patriotic wei
fare of the common country, than has the
Democratic party in the last election in this
State of Missouri. Cheers [ can say to
you frankly, nay fellow citizens, that I am
the last man in this nation to disregard the
obligations under which I stand, and that in
this election recognize that my obligations
are In the largest measure duo to the Demo-
cratic party of the State Of Missouri
Cheers. Now, my friends, lot mo tell you
another thing. | recognize the fact that the
Democratic party of the State of Missouri
has done this thing-it has elevated itself
upon higher platform than it ever occupied
before it has gone for the lights of all men,
and in so doing, it has made an initiative of
the future that will 60 through all the State.
OF this Union. 1t has cut itself loose from
the formulas and the distractions of the
past, and it has made platform upon which
the young men Of this nation can stand
cheers a platform whers they can stand
disembarrassed of all the antscedents that
have gone before m-iisembarrassed of
all that retinue Of party machinery that has
Kept them down heretofore, and whore they
can move forward in the spirit and in the
light of q pure Democracy, advancing to the
conquest of the future. [CAeers. Fellow.
citizens, 80 far as this question concerns our
own State, [ desire to say to you that re-
cognizc this as the triumph Of new ideas:
that | recognize this as the initiation of a
reconstruction of our State from its bottom
upwards, Cheers. That I recognize it as
the initiative of new convention to 1eor-
ganlze our fundamental law Prolonged
cheering. And accepting it in that light,
fish you,all good cheer ia the future, hoping
and trusting only, in addition to that, that
the lesson which has been taught by tbi,
election to the nation at large will be receiv-
ed and accepted, and that the national Rep
resentatives who have been sent from the
Western country, when they understand the
force and significance of all of your votes,
Will understand that it is proper for them to
coalesce, and combine and consort with any
BODY and everybody that will reduce to the
nearer approximation of justcc and truth
that immense tax which is now levied upon
US under the false and fraudulent guise Of
revenue tariff. Cries of that's Democra-
cy, and ''that is what we want, and
cheers Now, my feIlow-citizcns, | have
only to say to you in conclusion that have
the honor to be your Governor elect for the
State OF Missouri. l will promise you an
honest and a faithful administration of that
ofhcc: will promise you, furthermore,
that tina L will permit no rings around the State
House or cut Of it, so far as can help it, to
sap e life and the wealth out of the COM
and l will say furthermore, gentle
men, that in making that administration
will euieavor to predicate it upon live issues,
and will endeayor to call young mea to
the support oft. Great cheering
The assembly were then HOSPITALITY en-.
by Mr.. Brown in his residence.